As he received all with kindness, an acquaintance and good feeling grew up by means of them between himself and the army. At the end of a six months' sojourn in Apollonia, it was announced to him one evening that Caesar had been killed in the senate-house by those who were dearest to him, and were then his most powerful subordinates. 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.
Thereupon his friends in Rome advised as follows:some urged him to take refuge with the p535army in Macedonia to ensure his personal safety, and when he should learn that the murder was only a private transaction to take courage against his enemies and avenge Caesar; and there were high officers who promised to protect him if he would come. But his mother and his stepfather, Philippus, wrote to him from Rome not to be too confident and not to attempt anything rash, but to bear in mind what Caesar, after conquering every enemy, had suffered at the hands of his closest friends; that it would be safer under present circumstances to choose a private life and hasten to them at Rome, but with caution.
しかし彼の母と義父PhilippusはRomeから自信を持ちすぎず、急ぎすぎずいるように手紙を書きました。しかし、すべての敵たちを征服した後にはCaesarはもっとも親しい友達の腕の中で苦しんだということを心に刻んで置くようにとも書きました。私生活を選ぶということは現在の状態においては安全でRomeでは彼らを急がせることでしょう。とはいえ、用心しなければいけません。
Octavian yielded to them because he did not know what had happened after Caesar's death.He took leave of the army officers and crossed the Adriatic,not to Brundusium (for as he had made no test of the army at that place he avoided all risk),but to another town not far from it and out of the direct route, named Lupiae.There he took lodgings and remained for a while.When more accurate information about the murder and the public grief had reached him, together with copies of Caesar's will and the decrees of the Senate, his relatives still more cautioned him to beware of the enemies of Caesar, as he was the latter's adopted son and heir. They even advised him to renounce the adoption, together with the inheritance.
