The period witnessed a violent transference of power and of property; and the Principate of Augustus should be regarded as the consolidation of the revolutionary process. […] Crassus was in the habit of observing that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income. 2 Crassus should have known. […] Curtius, is designated as a leader of the equestrian order: not only that Curtius was ‘fortissimus et maximus publicanus’, which should suffice. […] They should not have left the consul Antonius alive. […] Further, alarmed by the intrigues current during his absence in Campania, he now made up his mind that Brutus and Cassius should leave Italy.