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ANTONY. 209 Coesar, relatLog these things in the senate, and often complaining to the people, excited men's minds against Antony. And Antony also sent messages of accusation against Caesar. The principal of his charges were these : first, that he had not made any division with him of Sicily, which was lately taken from Pompey ; secondly, that he had retained the ships he had lent him for the war ; thirdly, that after deposing Lepidus, their colleague, he had taken for himself the army, governments, and revenues formerly appropriated to him ; and, lastly, that he had parcelled out almost all Italy amongst his own soldiers, and left nothing for his. Cajsar's answer was as follows : that he had put Lepidus out of government be- cause of his own misconduct ; that what he had got in war he would divide with Anton}^, so soon as Antony gave him a share of Armenia ; that Antony's soldiers had no claims in Italy, being in possession of Media and Par- thia, the acquisitions which their brave actions under their general had added to the Eoman empire. Antony was in Armenia when this answer came to him, and immediately sent Canidius Avith sixteen legions to- wards the sea ; but he, in the company of Cleopatra, went to Ephesus, whither ships were coming in from all quar- ters to fonn the navy, consisting, vessels of burden in- cluded, of eight hundred vessels, of which Cleopatra fur- nished two hundred, together mth twenty thousand talents, and provision for the whole army during the war. Antony, on the advice of Domitius and some others, bade Cleopatra return into Egypt, there to expect the event of the war ; but she, dreading some new reconciliation by Octavia's means, prevailed with Canidius, by a large sum of money, to speak in her favor with Antony, pointing out to him that it was not just that one that bore so great a part in the charge of the war should be robbed of her share of glory in the carrying it on ; nor would it VOL. V. 14