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>From: Lesley Grant <lgrant@maths.tcd.ie>
>Subject: cherryhlist -- Marcus Junius Brutus
>Date: Wed, 31 Mar 93 9:39:15 BST

It occurs to me that perhaps I should follow up my last post, to
alleviate all the classical scholars out there who are crying 
"Brutus wasn't Caesar's son!" Cherryh is using the _Lives_ of
Plutarch, which notes a rumour  that Caesar advanced Brutus in political
power, because he thought he could be his son. (This is thought
unlikely, as Caesar would have had to have an affair with Brutus'
mother when he was about 14. Unlikely, but not impossible). Cherryh
uses this rumour as fact, making Brutus have a miserable childhood
as a bastard in a patrician family.

			Lesley