On January 1st a proposal of Caesar was rejected and he was declared contumacious: six days later his province was taken from him. […] In earlier days the Roman noble augmented his power and influence through attaching the aristocracy of Italy to his friendship, the poor to his clientela. […] Nor, as the days passed, did it become safe for them to be seen in public. […] In these April days fortune seemed to smile upon the Roman State and upon Antonius. […] Three or four days NotesPage=>123 1 Cicero, Phil, 1; Ad Jam. 12, 2, 1.