had perished and thought they were alive and present sought for them and went about asking every one they met regarding them.  As long as they could learn nothing they were like maniacs and were torn different ways, both hoping to find them and fearing that they were dead,—­not able to despair in view of their desire nor to indulge in grief in view of their hope.  On learning at last the truth they would tear their hair and rend their clothing, calling upon the lost by name as if they could hear anything and giving way to grief as if their friends were just dead and lying there somewhere.  And if any of them were affected in no such way, they were at least disturbed by the experiences of the rest.  They either rejoiced with somebody in joy or grieved with somebody in pain, and so, even if they were free from personal interest, yet they could not remain indifferent on account of their connection with the rest.  As a result there was no possibility of their being either sated or ashamed, because they were all affected in the same way, and they spent the entire day as well as the greater part of the night in this behavior.

[-38-] After this the parties chiefly concerned as well as the rest received one another and inaugurated entertainments in turn, first Sextus on the ship and then Caesar and Antony on the shore.  Sextus so far surpassed them in power that he would not disembark to meet them on the mainland until they had gone aboard his boat.  In the course of this proceeding, however, he refused to murder them both in the small boat with only a few followers, though he might easily have done so and Menas advised it[47].  To Antony, who had possession of his ancestral home at Carinae (the spot so named is in the city of Rome), he uttered a jest in the happiest manner, saying that he was entertaining them at Carinae,—­that is, on the “keels of ships,” which is the meaning of the word in Latin.  Nevertheless he did not act in any way as if he bore malice toward them, and on the following day he was feasted in turn and betrothed his daughter to Marcus Marcellus, the nephew of Caesar.

[-39-] This war, then, had been deferred:  that of Labienus and the Parthians came to an end in the following way.  Antony himself returned from Italy to Greece and delayed there a very long time, satisfying his desires and harming the cities, to the end that they should be delivered to Sextus in the weakest possible condition.  He lived during this time in many ways contrary to the customs of his country.  He called himself the younger Dionysus and insisted on being called so by others.  When the Athenians in view of this and his other behavior betrothed Athena to him, he declared he accepted the marriage and he exacted from them a dowry of one hundred myriads.  While he was occupied in this way he sent Publius Ventidius before him into Asia.  The latter came upon Labienus before his presence was announced and terrified him by the suddenness of his approach and