Answer his emptiness! Caesar, thou hast subdued
His judgement too.
(III. xiii. 29.)
Octavius has by this time the ball at his feet, and can even cast the contemptuous alms of his pity on “poor Antony,” as he calls him (iv. i. 16). Nor are his expectations deceived, for he reckons out everything:
Go, charge Agrippa.
Plant those that have revolted in the van,
That Antony may seem to spend his fury
Upon himself.
(IV. vi. 8.)
And though he suffers a momentary check, he presently achieves the final triumph through the treason and baseness of Antony’s Egyptian followers, on which he rightly felt he might rely.