These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero; Marcus Agrippa has come to Rome on Octavius's behalf to negotiate with Cicero and Vorenus continues his dark reign over the Aventine. Antony tries to bully Cicero in to handing over Gaul to him, but Cicero baulks and flees to join Octavian. Testudo et Lepus; Octavian's forces defeat, but do not wipe out, Antony's. Vorenus and Pullo rescue the former's children and Brutus and Cassius's forces in Asia Minor grow stronger.