found no need of arms to oppose them.  They really hated one another bitterly, but because they had just about equal forces and desired one another’s assistance to take vengeance first on the rest of their enemies, they entered upon a simulated agreement. [-55-] They came together to confer, not alone but bringing an equal number of soldiers, on a little island in the river that flows past Bononia, with the understanding that no one else should be present on either side.  First they withdrew to a distance from the various followers and searched one another carefully to make sure that no one had a dagger hidden under his arm.  Then they considered at leisure different points and in general made a solemn compact for securing sovereignty and overthrowing enemies.  But to prevent its appearing that they were headed straight toward an oligarchy and so envy and opposition arise on the part of the people at large, the three were to be chosen in common as a kind of commissioners and correctors for the administration and settlement of affairs.  This office was not to be perpetual, but for five years, under the general proviso that they should manage all questions, whether they made any communication about them to the people and the senate or not, and give the offices and other honors to whomsoever they pleased.  The private arrangement, however, in order that they should not be thought to be appropriating the entire sovereignty, was that both Libyas, Sardinia, and Sicily should be given to Caesar, all of Spain and Gallia Narbonensis to Lepidus, and the rest of Gaul south and north of the Alps to Antony to rule.  The former was called Gallia Togata, as I have said, because it seemed to be more peaceful than the other divisions, and because the dwellers there already employed Roman citizen-garb:  the other was termed Gallia Comata because the Gauls there mostly let their hair grow long, and were in this way distinguished from the others. [-56-] So they made these allotments, for the purpose of securing the strongest provinces themselves and giving others the impression that they were not striving for the whole.  A further agreement was that they should cause assassinations of their enemies, that Lepidus after being appointed consul in Decimus’s stead should keep guard over Rome and the remainder of Italy, and that the others should make an expedition against Brutus and Cassius.  They also pledged themselves to this course by oath.  After this, in order to let the soldiers hear and be witnesses of the terms they had made, they called them together and made known to them in advance all that it was proper and safe to tell them.  Meanwhile the soldiers of Antony, of course at the latter’s direction, committed to Caesar’s charge the daughter of Fulvia (Antony’s wife), whom she had by Clodius,—­and this in spite of Caesar’s being already betrothed to another.  He, however, did not refuse her; for he did not think this inter-marriage would hinder him at all in the designs which he had against Antony.  Among other points for his reflection was his knowledge that his father Caesar had not failed to carry out all of his plans against Pompey, in spite of the relationship between the two.