Cassius

In eo solo dissentiunt prudentes, quod Sabinus quidem et Cassius ceterique nostri praeceptores quod ita legatum sit statim post aditam hereditatem putant fieri legatarii, etiamsi ignoret sibi legatum | esse [dimissum], sed posteaquam scierit et — lega|tum, proinde esse atque si legatum non esset;

Sabinus et Cassius sub condicione recte legari, pure non recte, putant;

So far the two schools are agreed, the only point in dispute between them is this, that according to Sabinus and Cassius and the other authorities of my school, what is thus left becomes the property of the legatee immediately on the acceptance of the inheritance, even before he has notice of the legacy, and on notice and repundiation by the legatee, the legacy is cancelled.

Ulpian observes that Cassius says, it is lawful to repel force by force, and it is a right apparently provided by nature to repel arms with arms, with whom Ovid agrees, observing that the laws permit us to take up arms against those that bear them.

Thus when Cassius demanded assistance of the Rhodians, according to treaty, they answered they would send it, if the senate thought proper.

Cicero in his eleventh Philippic, says, that Cassius went into Syria, which might be considered as another’s province, if men adhered to written laws, but if these were abolished, it would be considered as his own by the law of nature.

as when Caesar, otherwise ill, in the battle of his enemies Brutus and Cassius at Philippi, yet thinking he would bring back a greater danger from the foe, escaped, by a vision shown to Artorius, leaving the tent;