 Complete the following phrase:  An angry, grief-stricken crowd gathered in the Roman Forum to see his corpse and hear Mark Antonys funeral oration. Antony appealed to Caesars divinity and vowed vengeance on his killers. A fervent popular cult to divus Julius followed. It was forcefully suppressed but the Senate soon succumbed to Caesarian pressure and confirmed Caesar as a divus of the Roman state. A comet interpreted as Caesars soul in heaven was named the Julian star sidus Iulium and in 42 BC, with the full consent of the Senate and people of Rome, Caesars young heir, his great-nephew Octavian, held ceremonial apotheosis for his adoptive father. In 40 BC Antony took up his appointment as flamen of the divus Julius. Provincial cult centres caesarea to the divus Julius were founded in Caesarian colonies such as Corinth. Antonys loyalty to his late patron did not extend to Caesars heir: but in the last significant act of the long-drawn civil war, on 1 August 31 BC, Octavian defeated Antony at 