While this hasty action made manifest Antony's enmity toward him,and the Senate voted an immediate investigation of the public accounts,most people grew apprehensive of the young Caesar on account of the favour in which his father was held by the soldiers and the plebeians,and on account of his own present popularity based on the expected distribution of the money,and by reason of the wealth which had fallen to him in such vast measure that in the opinion of many he would not restrict himself to the rank of a private citizen.But they were most apprehensive of Antony,lest he should bring the young Caesar, distinguished and rich as he was, under his own control, and grasp the sovereignty held by the elder Caesar.
しかし人々が最も気にかけていたのはAntonyだった。有名で金持ちであった小Caesarを招聘した挙句に支配下に置かれ、大カエサルの統治権を把握するのではないかと恐れたのだ。
Others were delighted with the present state of affairs, believing that the two men would come into conflict with each other; and that the investigation concerning the public money would presently put an end to the wealth of Octavian, and that the treasury would be filled thereby, because the greater part of the public property would be found in Caesar's estate.In the meantime many persons brought lawsuits against Octavian for the recovery of landed property, some making one claim and some another, differing in other respects, but for the most part having this in common, that it had been confiscated from persons who had been banished or put to death owing to the proscription.
These suits were brought before Antonius himself or the other consul, Dolabella. If any were brought before other magistrates, Octavian was everywhere worsted for the most part through Antony's influence, although he showed by the public records that the purchases8 had been made by his father, and that the last decree of the Senate had confirmed all of Caesar's acts. Great wrongs were done him in these judgments, and the losses in consequence thereof were going on without end, until Pedius and Pinarius, who had a certain portion of the inheritance under Caesar's will, complained to Antony, both for himself and for Octavian, that they were suffering injustice in violation of the Senate's decree.
もし他の判事が訴訟を受け取れば、Antonyの圧力によって大部分の訴訟にOctavianはあちこちで敗訴した。
Octavianは公文書を通して父がそれらの不動産を購入したことを示し、元老院の最後の判決はすべてCaesarの行為だと確認していたにもかかわらずである。
これらの裁判では大きな間違いが行なわれ、その結果の損失は限りなく続いた。ついにCaesarの意志によって一定に相続を受けていたPediusとPinariusは自分自身とOctavianのために、元老院の判決に違反する不公正をこうむっているとAntonyに訴えた。