Why did Marc Antony flee to Egypt?

After a largely misspent youth, he was sent east as a cavalry officer, where he won important victories in Palestine and Egypt. In 54 B.C. he went to Gaul to join his mother's cousin Julius Caesar as a staff officer. ... During Caesar's first yearlong dictatorship, Antony was his second-in-command.

Explanation:

it took two men to wrestle rome back from chaos and turn a republic into an empire. in the first century bc, rome was a republic. power lay in the hands of the senate, elected by roman citizens. but the senators were fighting for power between themselves.