I will not choose what many men desire,
Because I will not jump with common spirits
And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.
(M. of V. II. ix. 3.)
It is because Antony’s vices are those of the common spirits and the barbarous multitudes that Octavius despises him:
You shall find there
A man who is the abstract of all faults
That all men follow.
(I. iv. 8.)
His own failings do not lie in the direction of vulgar indulgence. He is a foe to all excess. When the feasters pledge him, he objects to the compulsory carouse: