User:Ifly6/War of Philippi

{{Short description|Roman civil war between the Second Triumvirate and Caesar's assassins (43–42 BC)}}

{{Infobox military conflict

| conflict = War of Philippi

| width =

| partof = the Crisis of the Roman Republic

| image = Map Philippi campaign 42 BC-en.svg

| image_size = 300

| alt =

| caption =

| date = 43–42 BC

| place = Mostly Macedonia

| territory =

| result = Triumvir victory

| combatant1 = Second Triumvirate

| combatant2 = Liberatores

| commander1 = Mark Antony
Octavian

| commander2 = Brutus{{Executed|Suicide}}
Cassius{{Executed|Suicide}}

| strength1 = 53,000–108,000

| strength2 = 60,000–105,000 Romans, 20,000 Parthian cavalry

| casualties1 = 16,000 killed

| casualties2 = 8,000 killed

}}

{{Campaignbox Roman Republican Civil Wars}}

The War of Philippi (43–42 BC) was a civil war in the late Roman republic between the {{lang|la|liberatores}} and the triumvirate. The {{lang|la|liberatores}} were led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, the two principal assassins of Julius Caesar. The triumvirate had been formed in the aftermath of Caesarian victory in a short civil war in Italy with three members: Mark Antony, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Octavian. The triumvirate's main publicly-stated war goal was to punish the assassins.

Both sides prepared and armed themselves for the conflict to come. To secure plunder needed to sustain their armies, the {{lang|la|liberatores}} waged war in Asia minor; the triumvirs, for similar reasons and to purge their political opponents, engaged in the mass murder and confiscations against Roman citizens in a series of proscriptions. By 42 BC, both sides had amassed enormous armies which converged on Philippi in eastern Macedonia. After two battles, separated by a few weeks, the triumviral armies led by Mark Antony and Octavian emerged victorious over Brutus and Cassius, who both took their own lives.