You might remember Mark Antony from the previous video, one of Julius Caesar's generals in Gaul. He was also put in charge of the Italian peninsula when Julius Caesar went to go and take on his opponents, take on Pompey in Greece. And so Mark Antony is the remaining consul, and he says, well, what do I do? Do I immediately try to punish these conspirators? In particular, you have Brutus, Brutus and Cassius, who are considered two of the leaders of the conspiracy. And he decides, instead of putting the Senate into further turmoil, he tries to have a little bit of a compromise and doesn't immediately punish them. And they're able to go from Rome and then go to the east, where they are the de facto leaders of the eastern provinces.