so, because he felt a contempt for the man, inspired by his recent disasters, and because he immediately set off for Egypt.  Hence he held to his previous design and entered into negotiations with the Parthians.  Antony ascertained this, but without turning back sent against him the fleet and Marcus Titius, who had formerly come to him from Sextus and was still with him.  Sextus received information of this move in advance, and in alarm, since his preparations were not yet complete, abandoned his anchorage.  He went forward then, taking the course which seemed most likely to afford escape, and reached Nicomedea, where he was overtaken.  At this he opened negotiations with Antony, placing some hope in him because of the kindness which had been shown him.  When the chieftain, however, refused to enter into a truce with him without first taking possession of the ships and the rest of his force, Sextus despaired of safety by sea, put all of his heavier baggage into the ships (which he thereupon burned) and proceeded inland.  Titius and Furnius pursued him, and overtaking him at Midaeium in Phrygia surrounded him and captured him alive.  When Antony learned this he at first under the influence of anger sent a despatch that the captive should be put to death, but again not long after repenting[51] ... that his life should be spared....[51] Now the bearer of the second letter came in before the first, and later Titius received the epistle in regard to killing him.  Thinking, therefore, that it was really the second, or else knowing the truth but not caring to heed it, he followed the order of the arrival of the two, but not their manifest intention.  So Sextus was executed in the consulship of Lucius Cornificius and one Sextus Pompeius.

[B.C. 35 (a. u. 719)]

Caesar held a horse-race in honor of the event, and set up for Antony a chariot in front of the rostra and images in the temple of Concord, giving him also authority to hold banquets there with his wife and children, this being similar to the decree that had once been passed in his own honor.  He pretended to be still Antony’s friend and was endeavoring to console him for the disasters inflicted by the Parthians and in that way to cure any jealousy that might be felt at his own victory and the decrees which followed it.

[B.C. 38 (a. u. 716)]

[-19-]This was what Caesar did:  Antony’s experience with the barbarians was as follows.  Publius Ventidius heard that Pacorus was gathering an army and was invading Syria, and became afraid, since the cities had not grown quiet and the legions were still scattered in winter-quarters, and so he acted as follows to delay him and make the assembling of an army a slow process.  He knew that a certain prince Channaeus, with whom he enjoyed an acquaintance, was rather disposed to favor the Parthian cause.  Ventidius, then, honored him as if he had his entire confidence and took him as an adviser in some matters