Note DO — PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1814 (continued 2)
Reading edition
It is recorded by Dion Cassius (see Dionis Cassii Cocceiani Historiarum Romanarum quae supersunt, lib. xlvii. § 49) that Brutus before his death repeated this saying of Hercules,
O misera virtus, nomen inane. Te quidem ED. Ceu rem colebam; at serva tu Fortunae eras.