14/165 488.] [Footnote 68: _Animo patris_, the strength of his mind, though that of a father, being even more conspicuous, &c. So Drakenborch understands the passage,--this sternness of mind, he says, though he was their father, was a more remarkable spectacle than his stern countenance. This character of Brutus, as inferrible from the words thus interpreted, coincides with that given of him by Dionysius and others. I prefer understanding the passage with Crevier, scil. |