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[3] [4] His father and namesake was Marcus Antonius Creticus, son of the noted orator Marcus Antonius who had been murdered during the purges of Gaius Marius in the winter of 87–86 BC. [5] His mother was Julia, a third cousin of Julius Caesar. Antony was an infant at the time of Lucius Cornelius Sulla's march on Rome in 82 BC. [6] [note 2]
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Marcus Antonius Creticus was the father of the triumvir Mark Antony. In 100 Antonius obtained a triumph , because he had fought successfully against the Cilician pirates . Some time later his daughter Antonia was kidnapped by pirates from his villa near Misenum and was only released after the payment of a large ransom.
The decree was a statement of the senate advising the magistrates (usually the consuls and praetors) to defend the state. [2]The senatus consultum ultimum was related to a series of other emergency decrees that the republic could resort to in a crisis, such as decrees to levy soldiers, shut down public business, or declare people to be public enemies.
Marcus Antonius, one of the most well known members of the gens.. The gens Antonia was a Roman family of great antiquity, with both patrician and plebeian branches. The first of the gens to achieve prominence was Titus Antonius Merenda, one of the second group of Decemviri called, in 450 BC, to help draft what became the Law of the Twelve Tables.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday morning was set to probe President-elect Trump’s plan to execute the largest deportation of migrants in U.S. history when he returns to office. The ...
The Philippics convinced the Senate to declare Antony an enemy of the state and send an army against him. However, the commanders were killed in battle, so the Senate's army came under the control of Octavian. When Octavian, Antony and Marcus Lepidus formed the Second Triumvirate, Antony insisted that they proscribe Cicero in revenge for the ...
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who was tapped by President-elect Trump for Secretary of State, will testify Wednesday morning before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a confirmation hearing.