He was placed in a special tomb after the battle.
(21) See on line 203.
(22) That is, lashes on his team terrified by the Gorgon shield in the ranks of the enemy.
(23) Plutarch states that Brutus after the battle escaped and made his way to Larissa, whence he wrote to Caesar.

Caesar, pleased that he was alive, asked him to come to him; and it was on Brutus' opinion that Caesar determined to hurry to Egypt as the most probable refuge of Pompeius.

Caesar entrusted Brutus with the command of Cisalpine Gaul when he was in Africa.
(24) "He perished, after a career of furious partisanship, disgraced with cruelty and treachery, on the field of Pharsalia" (Merivale, "Hist.

Romans under the Empire", chapter lii.).

Unless this man had been an ancestor of Nero it is impossible to suppose that Lucan would have thus singled him out.