Then he called one of the bystanders to kill him.  His body received burial by Antony,—­all but his head, which was sent to Rome:  but as the ships encountered a storm during the voyage across from Dyrrachium that was thrown into the sea.  At his death the mass of his soldiers, on amnesty being proclaimed for them, immediately transferred their allegiance.  Portia perished by swallowing red-hot charcoal.  Most of the prominent men who had held any offices or belonged to the assassins or the proscribed, straightway killed themselves, or, like Favonius, were captured and destroyed:  the remainder at this time escaped to the sea and thereafter joined Sextus.

DIO’S ROMAN HISTORY

48

The following is contained in the Forty-eighth of Dio’s Rome: 

How Caesar contended with Fulvia and Lucius Antonius (chapters 1-16).

How Sextus Pompey occupied Sicily (chapters 17-23).

How the Parthians occupied the country to the edge of the Hellespont (chapters 24-26).

How Caesar and Antony reached an agreement with Sextus (chapters 27-38).

How Publius Ventidius conquered the Parthians and recovered Asia (chapters 39-42).

How Caesar began to make war upon Sextus (chapters 43-48).

About Baiae (chapters 49-54).

Duration of time five years, in which there were the following magistrates here enumerated: 

L. Antonius M. F. Pietas, P. Servilius P. F. Isauricus consul (II).(B.C. 41 = a. u. 713.)

Cn.  Domitius M. F Calvinus [consul] (II), C. Asinius|| Cn.  F. Pollio.  (B.C. 40 = a. u. 714.)

L. Marcius L. F. Censorinus, C. Calvisius||[39] C. F. Sabinus. (B.C. 39 = a. u. 715.)

Appius Claudius C. F. Pulcher, C. Norbanus C. F. Flaccus. (B.C. 38 = a. u. 716.)

M. Vipsanius L. F. Agrippa, L. Caninius L. F. Gallus. (B.C. 37 = a. u. 717.)

(BOOK 48, BOISSEVAIN.)

[B.C. 42(a. u.712)]

[-1-] So perished Brutus and Cassius, slain by the swords with which they had despatched Caesar.  The rest also who had shared in the plot against him were all except a very few destroyed, some previously, some at this time, and some subsequently.  Justice and the Divine Will seemed to sweep onward and lead forward to such a fate the men who had killed their benefactor, one who had attained such eminence in both excellence and good fortune.  Caesar and Antony for the moment secured an advantage over Lepidus, because he had not shared the victory with them; yet they were destined ere long to turn their arms against each other.  It is a difficult matter for three men or two that are equal in rank and have come into power over such vast interests as a result of war to be of one accord.  Hence, whatever they had gained for a time while in harmony for the purpose of the overthrow of their adversaries they now began to set up as prizes in their rivalry with each other.