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 | | Antony, Mark (Latin Marcus Antonius) (83?-30BC), Roman statesman andgeneral, who defeated the assassins of Julius Caesar and, with GaiusOctavius and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, formed the Second Triumvirate,which ultimately secured the end of the Roman Republic. |
 | | Aftershe was abandoned by *Mark Antony, Octavia bore her rejection silently,lived quietly in Antony's house at Rome, and brought up faithfully hischildren by Fulvia and the two daughters that she herself had given him.Later, Octavia, after the death of Antony and Cleopatra, reared thechildren of Antony and Cleopatra as if they were her own. |
 | | He was tribune in 91BC, and as spokesman for thearistocrats he attempted to restore to members of the Senate the right tosit as judices (jurors) in the law courts; this right had beentransferred to the equites (knights, actually the propertied group inRome) by the legislation of Gaius Sempronius Gracchus. |
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