Emphasis is laid, however, not upon the personality and acts of Augustus, but upon his adherents and partisans. […] Moreover, Antonius and other adherents of Caesar, elected tribunes for the next year, promised to continue the tactics of Curio. […] For that there was sore need, as both his adherents and his former adversaries pointed out. […] For this reason, certain of the most prominent of his adherents combined with Republicans and Pompeians to remove their leader. […] Whence came his adherents and his political funds?