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It was announced to Octavian that Caesar had been killed in the senate-house.As the rest of the story was untold he was overcome by fear, not knowing whether the deed had been committed by the Senate as a whole or was confined to the immediate actors; nor whether the majority of the Senate had already punished them, or were actually accomplices, or whether the people were pleased with what had been done.
Antony put Amatius to death.The followers of Amatius determined that they would not be scorned in that way.Some of them showed places where Caesar's statues had been torn from their pedestals. One man told them that he could show the shop where the statues were being broken up.The others followed, and having witnessed the fact, they set fire to the place.Antony moved that Pompeius should be appointed commander of the sea with charge of all the Roman ships, wherever situated, which were needed for immediate service. Antony enlisted his guard and kept adding to it.He thought that he should easily get the latter when he needed them otherwise.He appointed tribunes over them, and these he held in honor andmade sharers of such of his plans as he made known.Caesar's secretary was obedient to him in every way since Caesar himself, on the point of his departure, had placed all petitions of this kind in Antony's discretion. Antony saw that the republic, too, was not confirmed by deeds, they suspected Antony for that reason also. Antony ordered centurions as well as others to be slain.From the soldiers he chose by lot a certain number according to military law, and he put to death not every tenth man.One of the Indians, Zarmarus, for some reason wished to die,— either because, being of the caste of sages, he was on this account moved by ambition, or, in accordance with the traditional custom of the Indians,because of old age, or because he wished to make a display for the benefit of Augustus and the Athenians;— he was therefore initiated into the mysteries of the two goddesses, which were held out of season on account, they say, of Augustus, who also was an initiate, and he then threw himself alive into the fire.