Dio 46.19.5

Roman History 46.19.5

Author
Cassius Dio
Translator
Earnest Cary

Roman History

46.19.5

Cassius Dio

translated by Earnest Cary

5And he fabricated the commands from the populace, in order that Caesar, hearing them, might reflect, not on all that Antony was saying at the time, but on all that the Roman people would order a man to say. For how could he have believed that this injunction had been laid upon any one, when he neither knew of the people’s having voted anything of the kind nor heard them shouting their applause?