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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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of a great crime. At the time of the assassination the Romanaiiu\ under commiud of Lepidus, was outsidetin cit\ ^ ites w iitinsr for the announcementtf flu Piithiin e\pedition. The chief friendof tlu de id Impel iti i was IMaecu.s Antonius,and to him the conspirators—though they hadleceuth discussed the question of killing himals —wen n iw obliged to look for aid in the1 11 11 lit ling the Republic. Antonius, f 111 i 1 h life liad escajied to his own1 I 1 lit he s (HI leirned that the assassins1 1 t 1 1 ul with the murder of Csesar, andtl t 1 liiinself w is s )ught for by Brutus. He1 t 1 111 It mil the most of what remainedt tl w ill III 1 h iild opportunity offer tomil e 1 tLiiible settle ment with the murderersof C isai He aeeiudmgly gave in his adher-eiiie to the scheme of the restoration and^Thou t-)5 Bintns ROME.—THE IMPERIAL REPUBLIC.
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250 UNIVERSAL HISTORY. —THE AXCIEXT WORLD. take i«4 those ^vho had began ti struck clown tht iini» i^on ilmu uf the state. A^ ^oon .1- It \\a- known that Ctesar wasslain theie wtie -toinn scene- ui the capital.^___^^_^^ The populace lolled in un-steady massesfiom side to side.The sea-beds ofIi o m e w ereshaken as liy aue a r t h q u a k e.There was nouprising in favorof the couspira-t irs. Here andtiiere thcsolitarycries of the oldaristocrats couldlie heard incheerless ap-)ilause like thenotes of ill-voiced birds cry-ing out of the shado>TS of the past. The assas-sins of Cffisar had to seek refuge in the Capitol;but through the agency of Cicero a conferencewas presently held and a rc-coiiciliation effected.

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