Plutarch's nearly contemporaneous account cites republican virtues as Brutus' motive, and Cassius' more personal [0]. It's quite hard to psychoanalyze figures

Plutarch's nearly contemporaneous account cites republican virtues as Brutus' motive, and Cassius' more personal [0]. It's quite hard to psychoanalyze figures that lived and died two millennia ago, but the political-ethical explanation of the event isn't an enlightenment invention. [0] https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/lives/brutus*.html https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/...