Being possessed of Caesar's books of accounts, he so far gained over his secretary as to make him insert whatever he thought proper.

By these means, great sums of money, which Caesar would never have bestowed, were distributed among the people; and every man who had any seditious designs against the government was there sure to find a gratuity.

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Things being in this situation, Antony demanded of the senate that Caesar's funeral obsequies should be performed.

This they could not decently forbid, as they had never declared him a tyrant: accordingly, the body was brought forth into the Forum with the utmost solemnity; and Antony, who charged himself with these last duties of friendship, began his operations upon the passions of the people by the prevailing motives of private interest.24.He first read to them Caesar's will, in which he made Octavius, his sister's grandson, his heir, permitting him to take the name of Caesar, and bequeathed him three parts of his private fortune; which, in case of his death, Brutus was to have inherited.

To the Roman people were left the gardens which he possessed on the other side of the Tiber; and to every citizen three hundred sesterces.