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Winter held up warfare in the north, with leisure for grim reflections.When Hirtius brought to completion the commentaries of Caesar, he confessed that he could see no end to civil strife.Men recalled not Caesar only but Lepidus and armies raised in the name of liberty, the deeds of Pompeius.At Rome the struggle was prosecuted, in open debate, veiled under the name of legality.There were more damaging charges than mere vice in public life--the lack of ancestors, the taint of trade or the stage, the shame of municipal origin.On the paternal side, the greatgrandfather of Octavianus was a freedman, a rope-maker; on the maternal, a sordid person of native African extraction, a baker or seller of perfumes at Aricia.