whoopposed whatever the former recommended; and while one tried tocarry his measures by brute force, the other endeavoured to defeat themby armed violence. Cinna appealed to the mob, and Octavius trustedto the army, both forces being the principal movers under a republicanrule or misrule, and both… … Mariiis in the Ruins of Carthage. battered and bleeding, slashed and sabred, gagged and fettered, in themiddle. Octavius and the sword had, on this occasion, got the upper »hand ; and Cinna, the clubbist, was glad to break his bludgeon or cuthis stick, in flying from the city.The Senate decreed…
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