[-12-] While they were maintaining the above attitude toward Caesar and Antony, the war began as follows.  Antony had set out for Brundusium to meet the soldiers who had crossed over from Macedonia.  Caesar sent some persons to that city with money, who were to arrive there before Antony and win over the men, and himself went to Campania, where he collected a large crowd of men, chiefly from Capua because the people there had received their land and city from his father, whom he said he was avenging.  He made them many promises and gave them on the spot five hundred denarii apiece.  These men usually constituted the corps of evocati, whom one might term in Greek “the recalled”, because having ended their service they have been recalled to it again.  Caesar took charge of them, hastened to Rome before Antony could make his way back, and came before the people, who had been made ready for him by Cannutius.  There he called to their minds in detail all the excellent works his father had done, made a considerable, though moderate, defence of himself, and brought accusations against Antony.  He also praised the soldiers who had accompanied him, saying that they were present voluntarily to lend aid to the city, that they had elected him to preside over the State and that through his mouth they made known these facts to all.  For this speech he received the approbation of his following and of the throng that stood by, after which he departed for Etruria with a view to obtaining an accession to his forces from that country.

[-13-] While he was doing this Antony had been at first kindly received in Brundusium by the soldiers, because they expected they would secure more from him than was offered them by Caesar.  This belief was based on the idea that he had possession of much more than his rival.  When, however, he promised to give each of them a hundred denarii, they raised an outcry, but he reduced them to submission by ordering centurions as well as others to be slain before the eyes of himself and his wife.  For the time being the soldiers were quiet, but on the way toward Gaul when they arrived opposite the capital they revolted, and many of them, despising the lieutenants that had been set over them, arrayed themselves on Caesar’s side.  The so-called Martian and the fourth legion went over to him in a body.  He took charge of them and won their attachment by giving money to all alike,—­an act which added many more to his troops.  He also captured all the elephants of Antony, by confronting the train suddenly as they were being conducted along.  Antony stopped in Rome only long enough to arrange a few affairs and to bind by oath all the rest of the soldiers and the senators who were in their company; then he set out for Gaul, fearing that that country too might indulge in an uprising.  Caesar without delay followed behind him.