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Cicero was all too often deluded in his political judgements. No easy optimism this time, however, but an accurate forecast of the hazards of supporting the Caesarian revolutionary. Octavianus professed the utmost devotion for Cicero and called him 'father'-an appellation which the sombre Brutus was later to recall with bitter rebuke. Octavianus has sometimes been condemned for cold and brutal treachery towards a parent and a benefactor. That facile interpretation will be repulsed in the interests, not of Octavianus, but of the truth. The political alliance between Octavianus and Cicero was not merely the plot of a crafty and unscrupulous youth.Cicero was possessed by an overweening opinion of his own sagacity.