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HISTORY MEME | seven relationships: the second triumvirate

Invested with new powers [as consul], the young Caesar canceled the dispositions that had declared Antony and Lepidus public enemies and continued on the path of unity of the Caesarian party. The strategy he had set up immediately after the events in Modena gave excellent results. Already in the spring of 43, he had made use of Antonian soldiers dispersed in the battle of Modena and of officers of his adversary such as Publius Ventidius to send to Antony veiled proposals for reconciliation. The dictator’s heir had then written to both Asinius Pollio and Lepidus and the governor of Gallia Narbonensis had played an effective role of mediation with Antony. Between June and July Antony and Lepidus undertook to guarantee the young Caesar their willingness to make an agreement. In the autumn of 43 the pact was formalized. In September Octavian left Rome to meet his future colleagues on a peninsula at the confluence of the Reno and Lavinio rivers, between Modena and Bologna. The discussion, which lasted for two days, led to important decisions. It was decided that a new five-year institution would be established, which would appoint magistrates and reorganize the State devastated by long civil wars: the three would become triumviri rei publicae constituendae. The provinces were subject to a redistribution: Antony received Cisalpine and Comata Gaul, with sixteen legions; Lepidus Narbonensis Gaul and Hispania, with ten legions; the young Caesar Africa, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, with seventeen legions; Italy would remain common territory. […] Octavian and Antony with part of Lepidus’ army would then wage war in the East against the Caesaricides. — Cristofoli, Galimberti, Rohr Vio, Dalla repubblica al principato: politica e potere in Roma antica

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Triumvirs: This Won’t Last

Debut album with such hits as:

Unstable Power Balance

Here, Marry My Daughter

Spartacus Sucks, But Parthians Suck More

‘Caesing’ Your Heart

Even the Rubicon Can’t Stop Me

and

Who Needs a Triumvirate

Triumvirs II: I Don’t Think I Can Trust You

Second album (with new band membership):

My Legions are Your Legions

Why is Lepidus Even Here

2 Heads are Better Than 3

Just Because Somebody is Julius Caesar’s Heir doesn’t Mean They Can’t Still Be a Manky Little Tosspot

Dating Romans is Really Bad for Your Health feat. Cleopatra VII

and

Empire Ho!

© 2014 Antonia Alksnis

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^{history meme: 01/04 presidents rulers | The Two Triumvirates of Rome}

^{a  T R I U M V I R A T E  (from Latin, “triumvirātus”, a group of three men) is a political regime dominated by three powerful individuals, each a triumvir. In the late Roman Republic, two three-man political alliances existed, two groups who took over the Roman government when they became powerful enough. Jealousy, ambition, and rivalry ultimately caused the end of both of them.}

^{The First Triumvirate (from 60-54 B.C.) was an informal political alliance of Julius Caesar, Pompeius Magnus (“Pompey the Great”) and Marcus Crassus. The arrangement had no legal status, and its purpose was to consolidate the political power of the three and their supporters against the senatorial elite. After the death of Crassus in 53 BC, the two survivors fought a civil war, during which Pompey was killed and Caesar established his sole rule as perpetual dictator.}

^{The Second Triumvirate (created in 43 B.C.) was recognized as a triumvirate at the time. A Lex Titia formalized the rule of Augustus (Gaius Octavian), Mark Antony, and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. The legal language makes reference to the traditional tresviri. This “three-man commission for restoring the constitution of the republic” in fact was given the power to make or annul law without approval from either the Senate or the people; their judicial decisions were not subject to appeal, and they named magistrates at will. Although the constitutional machinery of the Republic was not irrevocably dismantled by the Lex Titia, in the event it never recovered. Lepidus was sidelined early in the triumvirate, and Antony was eliminated in civil war, leaving Octavian the sole leader.}