[-50-] At this deliverance of Antony’s the throng was at first excited, then enraged, and finally so inflamed with passion that they sought his murderers and reproached the senators besides, because the former had killed and the latter had beheld without protest the death of a man in whose behalf they had voted to offer yearly prayers, by whose Health and Fortune they took oaths, and whom they had made sacrosanct equally with the tribunes.  Then, seizing his body, some wished to convey it to the room in which he had been slaughtered, and others to the Capitol and to burn it there:  but being prevented by the soldiers, who feared that the theatres and temples would be burned to the ground at the same time, they placed it upon a pyre there in the Forum, just as they were.  Even under these circumstances many of the surrounding buildings would have been destroyed, had not the soldiers presented an obstacle, and some of the bolder spirits the consuls forced over the cliffs of the Capitol.  For all that the remainder did not cease their disturbance, but rushed to the houses of the murderers, and during the excitement they killed without reason Helvius Cinna, a tribune, and some others; this man had not only not plotted against Caesar, but was one of his most devoted friends.  Their error was due to the fact that Cornelius Cinna the praetor had a share in the attack. [-51-] After this the consuls forbade any one outside the ranks of soldiers to carry arms.  They accordingly refrained from assassinations, but set up a kind of altar on the site of the pyre—­his bones the freedmen had previously taken up and deposited in the ancestral tomb—­and undertook to sacrifice upon it and offer victims to Caesar, as to a god.  This the consuls overturned and punished some who showed displeasure at the act, also publishing a law that no one should ever again be dictator.  In fact they invoked curses and proclaimed death as the penalty upon any man who should propose or support such a measure, and furthermore they fined the present malcontents directly.  In making this provision for the future they seemed to assume that the shamefulness of the deeds consisted in the names, whereas these occurrences really arose from the supremacy of arms and the character of each individual, and degraded the titles of authority in whatever capacity exercised.  For the time being they despatched immediately to the colonies such as held allotments of land previously assigned by Caesar; this was from fear that they might cause some disturbance.  Of Caesar’s slayers they sent out some, who had obtained governorships, to the provinces, and the rest to various different places on one pretext or another:  and these persons were honored by many persons as benefactors.