[-7-] Most of this was done by Lepidus and Antony.  They had been honored by the former Caesar for a very long time and as they had been in office and holding governorships most of the period they had many enemies.  It appeared as if Caesar had a part in the business merely because of his sharing the authority, for he himself was not at all anxious to kill any large number.  He was not naturally cruel and had been brought up in his father’s ways.  Moreover, as he was young and had just entered the political arena, there was no inevitable necessity for his bitterly hating many persons, and he wished to have people’s affection.  This is indicated by the fact that from the time he broke off his joint rulership with his colleagues and held the power alone he did nothing of the sort.  And at this time he not only refrained from destroying many but preserved a large number.  Those also who betrayed their masters or friends he treated most harshly and those who helped anybody most leniently.  An instance of it occurs in the case of Tanusia, a woman of note.  She concealed her husband Titus Vinius, who was proscribed, at first in a chest at the house of a freedman named Philopoemen[27] and so made it appear that he had been killed.  Later she waited for a national festival, which a relative of hers was to direct, and through the influence of his sister Octavia brought it about that Caesar alone of the three entered the theatre.  Then she sprang up and informed him of the deception, of which he was still ignorant, brought in the very chest and led from it her husband.  Caesar, astonished, released all of them (death being the penalty also for such as concealed any one) and enrolled Philopoemen among the knights.

[-8-] He, then, saved the lives of as many as he could.  Lepidus allowed his brother Paulus to escape to Miletus and toward others was not inexorable.  But Antony killed savagely and relentlessly not only those whose names had been posted, but likewise those who had attempted to assist any of them.  He had their heads in view when he happened to be eating and sated himself to the fullest extent on this most unholy and pitiable sight.  Fulvia also put to death many herself both by reason of enmity and on account of their money, and some with whom her husband was not acquainted.  When he saw the head of one man, he exclaimed:  “I didn’t know about him!” Cicero’s head also being brought to them (he had been overtaken and slain while trying to flee), Antony uttered many bitter reproaches against him and then ordered it to be exposed on the rostra more prominently than the rest, in order that he might be seen in the place from which he used to be heard inveighing against him,—­together with his right hand, just as it had been cut off.  Before it was taken away Fulvia took it in her hands and after abusing it spitefully and spitting upon it, set it on her knees, opened the mouth, and pulled out the tongue, which she pierced with the brooches