The God Abandons Antony

A History of Mankind (218)

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Octavian spent the following decade securing his power base in Italy and Western Europe, while Lepidus held North Africa and Antony romanced and campaigned in the East.

Disputes and some fighting between Octavian and Antony’s followers in 41 and 40 BC came close to derailing the Triumvirate, but army officials mediated so that the two made peace, and Antony married Octavian’s sister Octavia Minor, already a mother of three who gave Antony two other children before she was sent back to Rome in 36 BC: two girls who would become ancestors to several Julio-Claudian emperors.