the remnant of authority over their citizens that they possessed in their assemblies.  From all the potentates and kings, save Amyntas and Archelaus, he took all the lands that they had received from Antony.  Philopator son of Tarcondimotus, Lycomedes ruler in a portion of Cappadocian Pontus, and Alexander the brother of Iamblichus he even removed from their principalities.  The last named, because he had secured his appointment as a reward for accusing the conqueror, he placed in his triumphal procession and afterward killed.  The kingdom of Lycomedes he gave to one Medeus, because the latter had previous to the naval engagement detached the Mysians in Asia from Antony and with them had waged war upon such as followed Antony’s fortunes.  The people of Cydonea and Lampea he set free, because they had rendered him some assistance, and he helped the Lampeans found anew their city, from which they had been uprooted.  As for the senators and knights and other prominent men who had been active in Antony’s cause, he imposed fines upon many of them, executed many of them, and some he spared entirely.  Among the last Sosius was a distinguished example:  for though he had often fought against Caesar and now fled and hid himself, but was subsequently discovered, his life was nevertheless preserved.  Likewise one Marcus Scaurus, a half-brother of Sextus on the mother’s side, had been condemned to death, but was later released for the sake of his mother Mucia.  Of those who underwent the extreme punishment the Aquilii Flori and Curio were the most noted.  The latter met death because he was a son of the former Curio who had once been of great assistance to the former Caesar.  And the Flori both perished because Octavius commanded that one of them should draw the lot to be slain.  They were father and son, and when the latter, before any drawing took place, voluntarily surrendered himself to the executioner the former felt such great grief that he died also by his own hand.

[-3-] This, then, was the end of these persons.  The mass of Antony’s soldiers was included in the ranks of Caesar’s legions and later he sent back to Italy the citizens over age of both forces, without giving any of them anything, and the remainder he disbanded.  They had shown an ugly temper toward him in Sicily after the victory, and he feared they might create a disturbance again.  Hence he hastened before the least signs of an uprising were manifested to discharge some entirely from the service under arms and to scatter the great majority of the rest.  As he was even at this time suspicious of the freedmen, he remitted their one-quarter contribution[68] which they were still owing of the money assessed upon them.  And they no longer bore him any malice for deprivations they had endured, but rejoiced as if they had received as a gift what they had not been obliged to contribute.  The men still left in the rank and file showed no disposition to rebel, partly because they were held