5 Philippus steeled the Senate to take action against Lepidus (Sallust, Hist. […] His private letters tell another story: he derided them as torpid and bibulous. 2 Hirtius and Pansa might yet save the Republic, not, as some hoped, by action, but by preventing the actions of others. […] Servilius may not have been a man of action yet he governed the province of Asia for Caesar with some credit in 46-44 B.C. […] Cicero appeared on September 2nd and protested against the actions of the consul. […] But Cicero as yet had not committed himself to any irreparable feud with Antonius or to any definite line of action.