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The Senate was packed with ruffians, the consulate, once the reward of civic virtue, now became the recompense of craft or crime.So might the period be described.But the Caesarians claimed a right and a duty that transcended all else,the avenging of Caesar. Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born.When Brutus heard of the end of Cicero, it was not so much sorrow as shame that he felt for Rome.Out-manoeuvring and throwing back the advance guards of the Caesarians, they arrived in the vicinity of Philippi,where they took up a strong position astride the Via Egnatia, invulnerable on the flanks, which rested to the north against mountains, to the south on a marsh.Then Antonius arrived. Working his way through the marsh to the south around the flank of Cassius, he at last forced on a battle.Octavianus had now come up--though shattered in health and never a soldier, he could not afford to resign to Antonius the sole credit of victory. The battle was indecisive. Brutus flank swept over the Caesarian lines and captured the camp of Octavianus. A certain mystery envelops his movements: on his own account he obeyed a warning dream which had visited his favourite doctor. The other wing of the Caesarians, led by Antonius, broke through the front of Cassius. Both sides drew back, damaged.There followed three weeks of inaction or slow manoeuvres in which the advantage gradually passed to the Caesarians.