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 ANTONY. 189 armament to the other. Anton}- first entertained Cjesar this aJso being a concession on CiBsar-'s part to his sister ; and when at length an agreement was made between them, that Csesar should give Antony two of his legions to serve him in the Parthian waf, and that Antony should in return leave with him a hundred armed galleys, Octavia further obtained of her husband, besides this, twenty light ships for her brother, and of her brother, a thousand foot for her husband. So, having parted good friends, Ctesar went immediately to make war with Pompey to conquer Sicily. And Antony, leaving in Csesar's charge his wife and children, and his children by his former wife Fulvia, set sail for Asia. But the mischief that thus long had lain still, the passion for Cleopatra, which better thoughts had seemed to have lulled and charmed into oblivion, upon his approach to Syria, gathered strength again, and broke out into a flame. And, in fine, like Plato's restive and rebellious horse of the human soid,* flingiug oif all good and wholesome counsel, and breaking fairly loose, he sends Fonteius Capito to bring Cleopatra into Syria. To whom at her arrival he made no small or ti'ifling present, Phoenicia, Coele-Syria, Cyprus, great part of Cilicia, that side of Judaea which produces balm, that part of Arabia where the Nabathteans extend to the outer sea; profuse gifts, which much dis- pleased the Romans. For, although he had invested sev- eral private persons in great governments and kingdoms, and bereaved many kings of theirs, as Antigonus of Judcea, whose head he caused to be struck off (the first example driver and two horses, the one within us will, our better horse may strong and willing, quick to obey, be seduced at times from his duty, and eager for applause and ibr hon- his evil yoke-fellow may obtain the orable praise ; the other unruly and mastery, and bear away all to de- ill-conditioned, greedy and violent, struction. whom only flogging and the goad
 * The soul of man has in it a can control. Do what the driver