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should pay a tax for each one, equal to one-half of the twenty-five drachmas that had been ordained for the war against Brutus and Cassius, and that those who acquired property by legacies should contribute a share thereof.The people tore down the edict with fury.They were exasperated that,after exhausting the public treasury,stripping the provinces,burdening Italy itself with contributions, taxes,and confiscations,not for foreign war,not for extending the empire,but for private enmities and to add to their own power (for which reason the proscriptions and murders and this terrible famine had come about), the triumvirs should deprive them of the remainder of their property.They banded together, with loud cries,