On the following morning he sat as usual with his friends and gave orders that the doors be opened to those of his townsmen, guests, and soldiers who were accustomed to visit him and greet him, and he conversed with them all in his usual way, in no wise changing his daily routine.But Antonius called an assembly of his friends and said in their presence that the was aware that Octavian had even earlier been plotting against him,and that when he was to leave the city to go to the army that had come for him,he had provided Octavian with this opportunity against him.that one of the men sent to accomplish the crime had, by means of substantial bribes, turned informer in the matter;and hence he had seized the others;
and he had now called his friends together to hear their opinions as to what should be done in the light of the recent events.When Antonius had spoken the members of his council asked to be shown where the men were who had been seized,so that the might find out something from them.Then Antonius pretended that this had nothing to do with the present business, since, forsooth, it had already been confessed to;and he turned the discourse into other channels,watching eagerly for someone to propose that they ought to take vengeance on Octavian and not quietly submit.However,they all sat in silent thought, since no apparent proof lay before them, until someone said that Antonius would do well to dismiss the assembly.
Antonius dismissed the assembly. Two days afterward, he set out for Brundisium to take over the army. There was no further discussion about the plot, and when he left, his friends who remained behind dismissed the whole matter, and no one ever saw any of the conspirators who were alleged to have been taken.Octavian, although now exonerated from the charge, was nonetheless chagrined at the talk about him, interpreting it as evidence of a great conspiracy against him. He thought that if Antonius had happened toget the army on his side by means of briges he would not have delayed in attacking him, not because he had been wronged in any respect, but simply led on to that course as an outcome of his former hopes.
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