Note 346 — BRUTUS
Adnah David Jones translation
Those who employed these manœuvres well knew that they were taking Brutus on his weak side. His descent from him who expelled the kings was much contested. The more it was regarded as doubtful the more anxious he was to prove it. To say to him: “No, you are not Brutus,” was to put on him the necessity or the temptation of proving his origin by his actions.