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Meets Caesar on the latter’s return from Spain, and travels with him in his carriage.
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Antony’s tactics and manner offend the senate. He tries to disperse a protest in the forum by debtors, which ends in deaths. Divorces Antonia. Marries Fulvia, widow of Clodius and subsequently of Curio. Antony holds no posts in 46 or 45.
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Antony sails for Greece with four legions and the rest of the cavalry (April), and plays a role in the engagement at Dyrrachium, and in the naval battles which precede it. He commands the army’s left wing at Pharsalus. Afterwards, Caesar sends him back to Rome with the legions he does not immediately need, to look after his interests. When Caesar is appointed dictator, Antony is his magister equitum.
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Antony and a fellow tribune veto the senate’s proposal that Caesar should disband his army, and are ejected (January). Disguised as slaves, they escape to Caesar in his camp in Cisalpine Gaul, where he does not allow them to wash or change before exhibiting them to his troops as examples of how the republic treats honourable men who have stood up for the men’s rights. When Caesar advances down the east coast of Italy, Antony holds Arretium. While Caesar is in Spain (July/August), and when he sub
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cohorts.
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Elected quaestor for 51, in which capacity he acts as one of Caesar’s quartermaster generals, with command over legions in the field.
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he meets Aulus Gabinius, the new governor of Syria. He accompanies Gabinius as a cavalry commander.
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Among Antony’s intimate friends in riotous living are Scribonius Curio and Publius Clodius.
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