Appian, Civil Wars  5.15-16  (ca. A.D. 145-165): 15. Octavian was aware that injustice had been done, but there was no way of solving the problem. There was no money to pay the farmers the value of their land, and it was impossible to put off granting the soldiers their rewards because there were still wars going on: Pompeius was master of the sea and was reducing Rome to famine by blockade, Ahenobarbus and Murcus were collecting an army and more ships, and the soldiers would be less willing to fight in the future unless they received the rewards of their previous victory. Also, an important factor was that the triumvirs' five-year term was already going by and they again needed the goodwill of an army. Octavian was therefore willing at the time to ignore the violence and disrespect shown by the soldiers. Certainly, once when he was present in the theater a soldier who could not find an appropiate seat came and sat in the rows reserved for equestrians; the crowd pointed him out, and when Octavian had him removed the soldiery became angry and surrounded him as he was leaving the theater, asking him to produce the man because he was nowhere to be seen and they thought he had been killed. When the soldier appeared, they thought he had at that moment been brought out of the prison, and although he denied this, and explained what had happened, they accused him of telling lies to order and heaped abuse on him as a traitor to the common cause. Such was the episode in the theater, (16) when they were summoned to the Campus Martius for the current allocations of land, their eagerness made them gather while it was still dark and they were angry with Octavian because he was late in arriving. (H. White, trans.)