Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan kisan gillar Julius Kaisar a 44 BC, masu kisan kai, jagorancin Brutus da Cassius, sun gudu zuwa gabas. Tsohon mataimakin Kaisar, Mark Antony ya zartar da doka da ke buƙatar gwamna, Quintus Hortensius Hortalus ya ba da lardin ga Antony. Maimakon haka, ya zaɓi sanya lardin a ƙarƙashin ikon Brutus - matakin da Majalisar Dattawa ta amince da shi a shekara ta 43 kafin haihuwar Yesu. Wannan ya sa Mark Antony ya haɗu da Octavian a cikin Triumvirate na Biyu kuma ya mamaye Makidoniya
, ya kayar da Brutus da sojojinsa a yakin Philippi a 42 BC.