§8.1Secutum est illud.
The following event occurred.
occiso Caesare cum res publica penes Brutos videretur esse et Cassium ac tota civitas se ad eos convertisset, §8.2sic M. Bruto usus est, ut nullo ille adulescens aequali familiarius quam hoc sene, neque solum eum principem consilii haberet, sed etiam in convictu.
When, after Caesar was killed, the republic seemed to be in the hands of the Brutuses and Cassius, and the entire state had turned themselves to them, he associated with Marcus Brutus in such a way that that young man was more intimate with no contemporary of his than with this old man, and held him not only as the chief of his counsel, but also in his daily social life.
§8.3excogitatum est a quibusdam, ut privatum aerarium Caesaris interfectoribus ab equitibus Romanis constitueretur.
It was devised by certain individuals that a private treasury for the assassins of Caesar should be established by the Roman knights.
id facile effici posse arbitrati sunt, si principes eius ordinis pecunias contulissent.
They thought that this could easily be accomplished if the leading men of that order should contribute money.
itaque appellatus est a C. Flavio, Bruti familiari, Atticus, ut eius rei princeps esse vellet.
Therefore, Atticus was called upon by Gaius Flavius, an intimate friend of Brutus, to be willing to be the leader of this undertaking.
§8.4at ille, qui officia amicis praestanda sine factione existimaret semperque a talibus se consiliis removisset, respondit: si quid Brutus de suis facultatibus uti voluisset, usurum, quantum eae paterentur, se neque cum quoquam de ea re collocuturum neque coiturum.
But he, since he thought that duties ought to be performed for friends without party spirit and had always removed himself from such designs, replied: if Brutus wished to use anything of his resources, he would use it as far as they allowed, but he himself would neither speak with anyone concerning that matter nor join with them.
sic ille consensionis globus huius unius dissensione disiectus est.
Thus that clique of conspiracy was broken up by the disagreement of this one man.
§8.5neque multo post superior esse coepit Antonius, ita ut Brutus et Cassius omissa cura provinciarum, quae iis dicis causa datae erant a consule, desperatis rebus in exilium proficiscerentur.
Not much later Antony began to be superior, so that Brutus and Cassius, having abandoned the care of the provinces which had been given to them by the consul for form's sake, set out into exile, having despaired of their affairs.
§8.6Atticus, qui pecuniam simul cum ceteris conferre noluerat florenti illi parti, abiecto Bruto Italiaque cedenti sestertium centum milia muneri misit.
Atticus, who had been unwilling to contribute money together with the others to that flourishing party, sent one hundred thousand sesterces as a gift to Brutus when he was ruined and departing from Italy.
eidem in Epiro absens trecenta iussit dari, neque eo magis potenti adulatus est Antonio neque desperatos reliquit.
He also ordered three hundred thousand to be given to the same man in Epirus in his absence, and he did not flatter Antony any the more because he was powerful, nor did he abandon the desperate.