The statement was reported to the other, they held a conference, and some thought they had become reconciled. For they understood each other's feeling accurately, and, thinking it inopportune at that time to put them to the test, they tried to come to terms by making a few mutual concessions.And for some days they kept quiet; then they began to suspect each other afresh, as a result either of some actual treachery or some false calumny, as regularly happens under such conditions, and fell out again. For when men become reconciled after some great enmity they are suspicious of acts that have no significance and of many chance occurrences; in brief, they regard everything, as done on purpose and for an evil end.
Those who are neutral aggravate the trouble between them by bearing reports back and forth under the pretence of good-will and thus exasperating them still further. For there is a element which is anxious to see all those who have power at variance with one another, an element which takes delight in their enmity and joins in plots against them. And the one who has suffered from calumny is easy to deceive with words adapted to the purpose by friends whose attachment is free from suspicion. Thus it was that these men, who even before this had not trusted each other, became more estranged than ever.So Antony attempted to attract the populace to see if he could detach them from his rival and win them to himself.
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