Antony had the Army - the Liberators didn't. After the murder, Lepidus was stationed on that lovely little island on the Tiber with a good chunk of a legion (as Caesar's Master of the Horse), with immediate access to several nearby legions. Remember, Caesar had sent on several legions but planned to travel north to Apollonia with several more, and they were all massed just outside of Rome. Whereas the Liberators had utterly NO contact with the legions at all. Antony was not only the legal consul, but his colleague had his fingers on thousands of armed men. This kills the idea, for me, that Antony would have been that scared of his life. In fact, once he got out of Pompey's Theatre, he would have been one of the safest men in Rome - it was far more likely that Cassius and Brutus, et al., were scared to death, as their skulking in the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus for nearly two days clearly displays. THEY were scared of HIM.

er....Caesar had all that and more......and look where it got him.

No, I think things were a bit too much up in the air for ANYONE to feel safe. I think both sides moved slowly at first until they could adequately gauge the reaction of the public to Caesar's death.

I wish we had more multi faceted portraits of these characters. Don't you find that all too often, they seem to be one dimensional? If you like one - such as Caesar - then the other - such as Cicero/Antony, etc. - must be bad or vice versa.