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His admiral was Ahenobarbus, Cato's nephew, under sentence of death for alleged complicity in the murder of Caesar; his open ally was Pompeius, in whose company stood a host of noble Romans and respectable knights, the survivors of the proscriptions, of Philippi, of Perusia. With this moral support Antonius confronted his Caesarian rival. For war, his prospects were better than he could have. hoped; and he at once demonstrated his old generalship by the sudden and complete rout of a body of hostile cavalry. His brother had tried to defend the landed class in Italy from the soldiery; and Antonius himself had been inactive during the War of Perusia.