Antony sent Furnius to Africa to bring four legions, that were under the command of Sextius, for service against the Parthians. He did not know as yet that Lepidus had deprived Sextius of the command of these troops.There was straightway a crowd around Antony's doors composed of guards, and all things that inspire terror and awe.While Antony was thus occupied the treaty existing between Octavian and Pompeius was broken for other reasons, as was suspected, than those avowed by Octavian, which were the following: Antony had ceded the Peloponnesus to Pompeius on condition that the tribute then due from the Peloponnesians should either be given over at once, or that it should be guaranteed by Pompeius to Antony,or
Antonyは、当時Peloponnesusの住民に課していた年貢が直ちに引き渡されるか、PompeiusからAntonyにそれが保証されるか、或いはPompeiusが収穫が終わるまで待つという条件でPeloponnesusをPompeiusに譲った。
that Pompeius should wait till the collection had been made. But Pompeius had not accepted it on these conditions. He thought that it had been given him with the amount of tribute then due. Vexed, as Octavian said, whether at this state of things, or from his general faithlessness, or his jealousy because the others had large armies, or because Menodorus had prompted him to consider the agreement as a truce rather than a lasting peace, he began to build ships and recruit crews, and once harangued his soldiers, telling them they must be prepared for everything. Mysterious robbery again infested the sea; and there was little or no relief from the famine among the Romans.Octavian having caught certain pirates
and put them to torture, they said that Pompeius had sent them out, and Octavian proclaimed this to the people and wrote it to Pompeius himself, who disavowed it and made a counter complaint respecting the Peloponnesus.Those of the nobility who were still with Pompeius, seeing him always under the influence of his freedmen, bribed some of them, either for their own purposes or to gratify Octavian, to incite their master against Menodorus, who was still governing Corsica and Sardinia. The freedmen, for their part, did this gladly, because they were envious of the power of Menodorus. In this way Pompeius was brought to an estrangement with Menodorus, and about the same time Philadelphus, a freedman of Octavian,
made a voyage to Menodorus to procure corn, and Micylio visited Octavian to arrange for the desertion of Menodorus.The latter promised to hand over to him Sardinia, Corsica.Whether this was the work of Philadelphus, or was a consequence of the calumnies against Menodorus, which Pompeius had listened to, Octavian accepted the offer. He invited Antony to come from Athens and meet him at Brundusium on an appointed day. At the same time he brought war-ships from Ravenna and an army from Gaul, and the remainder of his apparatus, rapidly to Puteoli, intending to sail from both sides of Italy to Sicily if Antony should agree in opinion with him.Antony came at the appointed day, but not finding Octavian there