What if Brutus and Cassius won the Battle of Phillipi?
Quite a few – – – the Battle (s) of Philipi were well recorded and it was Cassius who contributed the phrase ‘falling on his sword.’ I would tend to see Brutus deferring to Cassius, the two generally liked one another which was why theu agreed to ‘bring down the tyrant,’ it is not hard to imagine the two trying restiore The Republic. http://www.livius.org/phi-php/philippi/b… “””Appian of Alexandria (c.95-c.165) is the author of a Roman History and one of the most underestimated of all Greek historians. His history of the Roman Civil Wars survives in its entirety. The fourth book contains an excellent account of the double battle of Philippi. The translation was made by Horace White; notes and additions in green by Jona Lendering. A satellite photo of the town and its plain can be seen”” “””In October 42 BCE, two Roman armies approached each other near Philippi: Brutus and Cassius, the assassins of Julius C
