The Republic even in their time had become too rotten to be saved; but the world has not the less given them the credit for a desire to do good; and the names of the two brothers, rebels as they were, have come down to us with a sweet savor about them.

Caesar, on the other hand, was no doubt of the same political party.

He too was opposed to the oligarchs, but it never occurred to him that he could save the Republic by any struggles after freedom.

His mind was not given to patriotism of that sort--not to memories, not to associations.

Even laws were nothing to him but as they might be useful.