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              1-Marcus Antonius.

              2-Octavian-nepotul sau adoptat ca fiu!

             3-Senatul care era aliat cu Brutus si Cassius .

“In the thick of the fight, when the eagle-bearer of his legion was sorely wounded, he shouldered the eagle and carried it for some time.”

Caesar’s adoption of Octavian immediately made him one of the richest men in the republic, in theory. He still had to access his vast fortune though, which meant the Senate had to release the funds from Caesar’s will to allow it to be honoured. Against the advice of Cassius Longinus and Cicero, Brutus agreed for Caesar to receive a full state funeral. The Liberatores looked forward to Rome resuming operating as a functional republic.

Antony was allowed to preside over the funeral, and was soon reminding the people of all Caesar had bequeathed to them. He held aloft the blood-stained toga, and then proceeded to produce an effigy of Caesar, explaining the blows he took from the various Liberatores in front of the funeral pyre. Worked into a frenzy, the mob soon began pelting the Optimate senators with missiles, and hurling debris onto the funeral pyre, which soon blazed out of control and burnt down the Forum. Panicked, the Liberatores began fleeing the city and the fury of the mob. Antony offered Cassius and Brutus roles procuring grain from Sicily and Asia, but they refused and fled for Greece instead. Cleopatra, who had been portrayed by the Liberatores as a corrupting eastern witch, took the opportunity to return to Alexandria.

Antony abolished the dictatorship, earning his rule the legitimacy of the Senate, while appropriating much of Caesar’s estate that had been bequeathed to Octavian. Antony married his daughter to the son of Lepidus, affirming the alliance betwixt them. Octavian landed in Brundisium and was hailed as the new Caesar, and immediately commanded the war chest present with the legions there as he headed for Rome. On his march to Rome more of Caesar’s veterans came over to him, and he had raised a legion by the time he reached the city.

Octavian found himself blocked by Antony in looking to claim his portion of Caesar’s estate. Antony had lost much public support though for blocking the deification of Caesar, while Octavian soon found the Optimates supporting him as they, and Cicero in particular, saw him as a boy who would be easy to manipulate against Antony. Octavian began to borrow heavily so he could honour the will of Caesar in apportioning the monies he had promise to the population, gaining him huge public support. He also enlisted the support of Cicero, who began using his speeches in the Senate to attack Antony, arguing for the funds to be released for Caesar’s will to be honoured.

Despite lacking any legal authority, Octavian saw increasing numbers of Caesar’s veterans declare their loyalty to him. With public opinion turning against him, Antony attempted to secure a prominent governorship for when his consulship ended. He and Dolabella were elected as Proconsuls for Macedon and Syria respectively, though Antony insisted on being closer to Rome and thus having Cisalpine Gaul, currently under the leadership of Decimus Brutus, one of the Liberatores. When Decimus refused to abandon his position, Antony marched five legions north and besieged him at Mutina. The Senate had the pretext they needed for war, though they did not have the legions they needed without Octavian. Ratifying Octavian’s extraordinary command as Propraetor, they marched north to confront Antony.

Antony was reluctant to lift the siege, believing he could emulate Caesar with a numerically superior army approaching. Antony’s legions ambushed those under the Consul Pansa at the Battle of Forum Gallorum, mortally wounding their leader, though he was then attacked by the co-consul Hirtius before they could complete the rout, and were forced to fall back. After his losses, Antony now aimed to avoid pitched battled and just maintain his siege. Hirtius led a bold attack into Antony’s camp, but when Antony’s legionaries counter-attacked, the Consul was killed in the fighting. Octavian fought with his men to recover the body, including carrying back the legionary eagle (aquila) himself, though he could not keep hold of the camp.

Being the ranking officer now on the field, Octavian was in control of all of the Senate’s eight legions. When the Senate ordered that command be given to Brutus, he refused on the grounds they would not fight for a Liberatore. Though neither side had been decisively beaten, Antony concluded there was little point in maintaining the siege, and thus ordered a night march north so he could flee to Transalpine Gaul with his legions, reuniting with the forces under Lepidus.

The Senate was delighted, despite the death of both Consuls, and immediately planned to pursue Antony into war, ending the threat from Caesar’s lapdog. Mutina marked Octavian’s promotion from being an inexperienced teenager relying on an adopted name, to being a match for Mark Antony. The Senate’s belief that Octavian could be easily manipulated was about to be proved disastrously wrong, as the young Caesar’s priority was not in supporting the Senate, but in delivering a reckoning against the Liberatores – something in which he and Antony shared common ground.