The Rise and Fall of Brutus
The Ancients
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Brutus's Role in the Battle of Philippi
Antony is the superior general and so he sort of forces an agement at philippi. Brutus makes a strategic error right from the beginning, abandons an important hillock that Antony and octavian are able to gain. Cassius loses sight of brutus, misunderstands what's happened in the battlefield, sees that it's his birthday,. decides that he's going to commit suicide and end his life. He can't handle his own failure. If he'd known that brutus had been successful, if he'd been cautious, this wouldn't have happened. But instead, he gives in to bad emotions.
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