Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan kisan gillar Julius Kaisar a 44 BC, akwai yakin basasa tsakanin Caesarians, magoya bayan Kaisar, da Pompeians, magoya bayan Pompey, wanda ya jagoranci sojojin majalisar dattijai na Roma a kan Kaisar a lokacin yakin basasa na Kaisar (49-45 BC). A cikin wannan yakin basasa, yakin basasa na Liberators
(43-42 BC), Gaius Cassius Longinus da Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger ne suka jagoranci Pompeians, shugabannin makircin kisan Kaisar. Sun yi yaƙi da Octavian da Mark Antony, mambobi biyu na Triumvirate na Biyu, kawance tsakanin shugabannin uku na Caesarians. An ci Cassius da Brutus a yakin Phillipi a watan Oktoba na shekara ta 42 kafin haihuwar Yesu. Labienus ya yi ƙoƙarin tayar da Pompeian da taimakon Parthians.