Octavian, attacked so suddenly, sent Agrippa into Ausonia to succour the distressed inhabitants.While marching to Brundusium with another army he again fell in with the colonized veterans,and interceded with them, and prevailed upon those who had been colonized by himself to follow him.They were ashamed to refuse,but they had the secret intention to bring Antony and Octavian into harmony with each other,and if Antony should refuse and go to war,then to defend Octavian.The latter was detained some days at Canusium by sickness.Although his forces considerably outnumbered those of Antony,he found Brundusium walled in,and he could do nothing but encamp alongside of it and await events.Antony was about to attack the
のそれを大幅に超えていたが、Bundusiumは閉ざされた場所だったので、彼にできることと言えば、そのそばに野営して何かが起きるのを待つことだけだった。Ocatavianを悔しがらせた事に、すぐにAntonyは攻撃をしかけ、OctavianはBrundusianを防衛する事ができなかった。
Brundusians, to the great chagrin of Octavian, since he was not able to defend them. When it was announced that Servilius was coming to the assistance of Octavian,Antony could not restrain his rage, but sprang up from supper, and, with such friends as he could find ready and with 400 horse,he pressed forward with the utmost intrepidity, and fell upon the 1500, who were still asleep near the town of Hyria, captured them without a fight, and returned to Brundusium.Thus did the reputation that Antony had gained at Philippi as invincible still inspire terror.Antony's praetorian cohorts, proud of his prestige, approached the camp of Octavian and reproached their former comrades for coming hither to fight Antony.When
the latter replied that the others had come making war against themselves,they fell to arguing and brought charges against each other.Antony's men said that Calenus' troops had been taken from him,the others spoke of the investment and siege of Brundusium,the invasion of Southern Italy,the agreement with Ahenobarbus,and the treaty with Pompeius, their common enemy.Octavian's men revealed their purpose to the others, saying that they had come with Octavian, not because they were forgetful of Antony's merits, but with the intention of bringing them to an agreement, or, if Antony refused and continued the war, of defending Octavian against him.These things they openly said also when they approached Antony's works.