| Octavius, nephew of Julius Caesar, Antony, and Lepidus, united as triumvirs, oppose the forces raised by Brutus and Cassius. |
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| Political anarchy reigned in Rome at the hands of the triumvirs. |
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| But there had been no constitutional safeguards in the republic, under Sulla, Pompey, the triumvirs, or even Julius Caesar. |
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| Hortensia delivered an oration in the Roman Forum, rebuking the triumvirs for proposing to tax women to support wars that they had no part in initiating or conducting. |
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| According to the balance-of-power theory, any two of the triumvirs could defeat the third. |
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| Suetonius said that Octavian was reluctant to proscribe officials, but did pursue his enemies with more rigor than the other triumvirs. |
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| The year 56 was a critical one for the triumvirs. |
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| Fulvia's death and the mutiny of their centurions allowed the two remaining triumvirs to effect a reconciliation. |
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| Actually, his real intention is to persuade Pompey to let him kill the triumvirs of Rome. |
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| It fell apart after Crassus died and the other two triumvirs fought a civil war, during which Pompey was killed and Caesar established his famous sole rule. |
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| Rewards for their arrest gave incentive for Romans to capture those proscribed, while the assets and properties of those arrested were seized by the triumvirs. |
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| Octavian was left to decide where in Italy to settle the tens of thousands of veterans of the Macedonian campaign, whom the triumvirs had promised to discharge. |
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| Lucius and Fulvia took a political and martial gamble in opposing Octavian, however, since the Roman army still depended on the triumvirs for their salaries. |
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