4Some people, to be sure, even spread the report abroad that these acts of magnanimity on Caesar’s part on that occasion were designed to bring reproach upon Antony and Lepidus and to enable him to shift the blame upon them alone for the acts of injustice formerly committed; and others alleged that, since he was unable in any way to collect the debts due to the state, he turned the people’s inability to pay into a favour from himself that cost him nothing.