So that one* wlio Could not look through the outside oftfidir Conduct, into their internal Motives would na-turally. have expected to fee them unite together, the bet-ter to accomplish she same End. But they were inward-ly'actuated by quite different Views of a more interestingNature. M. Anthony aspired at no less than absolute Power* as well as Augustus^ and being able to see through oneanother, they soon became hearty Enemies fi.

Cæsar % Friends strove to no purpose to bring about aReconciliation. They embrac’d, but their mutual Dif-fidence still remairi’d; and while they were continuallytraversing one another’s Plots, as their seign’d Friendshipcould not hold out long, so all Appearance of it was soonat an End.

M. Anthony satisfied himself to put Marks of Con-tempt t upon O&aviusy and to treat him like a School-boy while the young Scholar, absolutely Master of hisResentment in outward Appearance, was laying, quiteout of the reach of Sight, a sure Foundation for workinghis Rival’s Destruction.

Mean Time M. Anthony went to lay Siege before Mo-dem, in hopes that the young Cæsar would come to hisCamp, and put himself under his Command as his Ge-neral.

* Aperte deinde Antonii ac Dolabellæ consulum ad nefandam domina-tionem erupit furor. Velleius. Scc Appian. ]. 3.

•f- Interque naturaliter disiimillimos ac diverfa volentes crcfcebat odium, eo-que ,C. Cæsar juvenis quotidianis Antonii petebatur insidiis. Veil. ibidem.

j Velleius 1 . 2. pq. fays Hunc protinus Antonius Cos. fuperbe excepit;fneque is erat contemtus fed metus) vixque admislo in pompeianos hortos,ioquendi fccum tempus dedit. See Appian. ]. 3.

|| Plutarch tells us he defpis’d him because he was very young, &c. He *was commonly called at Rome , Puer. See Dion de Oft. Atticus to Cicerofays, in presentia belle isle puer retundit Antonium. See Servius ad Virg. Eel.

1 . 46. [ Hie ilium vide Juvenem .] C afar em dicit Oftavianum August um. decre-verat enim fenatus nequis £um puerum diceret , r,e majestas tanti imperil rinnue-retur. See Caufaubon <?d Suetonium ,