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Liberators' civil war

44–42 BCE · 1st century BCE

The Liberators' civil war was the Roman civil war that followed the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE. The Second Triumvirate of Mark Antony, Octavian and Lepidus fought the assassins, led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, who styled themselves liberators. It ended with the triumvirs' victory at Philippi in Macedonia in October 42 BCE, where Brutus and Cassius killed themselves.

Liberators' civil war
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