With these and similar excuses as his justification, Antony seemed inclined to pay no regard whatever to Octavius's claims.
Octavius, young as he was, possessed a character that was marked with great intelligence, spirit, and resolution.

He soon made many powerful friends in the city of Rome and among the Roman Senate.

It became a serious question whether he or Antony would gain the greatest ascendency in the party of Caesar's friends.

The contest for this ascendency was, in fact, protracted for two or three years, and led to a vast complication of intrigues, and maneuvers, and civil wars, which can not, however, be here particularly detailed.
The other competitor which Antony had to contend with was a distinguished Roman general named Lepidus.

Lepidus was an officer of the army, in very high command at the time of Caesar's death.