The men forced their way into Octavius's tent, and pierced the litter in which they supposed that the sick general was lying through and through with their spears.

But the object of their desperate hostility was not there.

He had been borne away by his guards a few minutes before, and no one knew what had become of him.
The result of the battle was, however, unfortunately for those whose adventures we are now more particularly following, very different in Cassius's part of the field.

When Brutus, after completing the conquest of his own immediate foes, returned to his elevated camp, he looked toward the camp of Cassius, and was surprised to find that the tents had disappeared.

Some of the officers around perceived weapons glancing and glittering in the sun in the place where Cassius's tents ought to appear.