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The War of Perugia , also known as War Perusinum , (41-40 BC) is the outcome of the heated rivalry between Ottaviano and Lucio Antonio (brother of the triumvir Marco Antonio) ^[first] which, flanked by the sister-in-law Fulvia, in the two-year period 42-40 BC. He represented a valid antagonist of Ottaviano in terms of prestige and power in Italy.

After the defeat of the Cesaricidi Marco Giunio Bruto and Gaio Cassio Longino in Filippi for Antonio and Ottaviano, the latter had had the ungrateful task of finding the necessary funds to fix about 170,000 with a plot of land ^[2] veterans, of which 100,000 had fought in the battle of Filippi. The territorial confiscations made in Italy in 41 BC, mainly implemented in Etruria, created further enmities in Ottaviano, and precisely on this growing discontent they led Fulvia and Lucio Antonio. However, acting too quickly, the two provided Ottaviano the pretexts to move in full legality. The triumvir Marco Antonio, for his part, remained absolutely neutral in the clash, and only with a lot of delay his generals Ventidio Basso and Asinio Pollione intervened in the fight, without however affecting the fate of the conflict. Ventidio retired to Rimini Mentre Asinio a Ravenna. ^[3]

Case of war [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Lucio Antonio crowded troops in Preneste and then went to Rome, where he promised that his brother (who was now in the East) would restore the Republic. The Senate then conferred to Lucio the imperium To move in arms against Ottaviano, who was not abandoned by his troops.

Lucio Antonio, consul for 41 BC, had managed to coagulate around him the senatorial opposition against Ottaviano, while his brother was engaged in the East, as decided in the partition of the spheres of Roman influence among the triumviri. Despite the support obtained, even by some friends of Ottaviano’s family, it was not possible for Lucio to achieve the goal he had proposed, that is, to make the second triumvirate illegal, as veterans and armies were faithful to triumviri, from which They expected the granting of lands.

Lucio Antonio, also supported by Fulvia, was therefore forced to retire with his followers in Perugia, where he was reached by Ottaviano. In the end, Lucio Antonio and Fulvia were besieged in the city of Perugia and, left alone by their relative, arrested themselves in winter 41-40 BC, after a long resistance, due to lack of food. ^[first] After the end of the war, Ottaviano punished the Etruscan city hard, exterminating his aristocracy. In fact, although Ottaviano saved his life to Lucio Antonio, he did not show the same pity for Perugia, who was sacked and burned, nor for his citizens of senatorial rank, which were killed as a sacrifice, in 300 at the Ides of March, in the anniversary of the death of Gaius Julius Caesar ^[4] .

Fulvia was exiled to Sicione (East, Greece), where she died of illness, while Lucio had the governor of Spain from Ottaviano: Ottaviano thus wanted to avoid an unexpected of the relationships already tense with rival Antonio.

Classic sources [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

• Appiano, The civil wars, 5, 32-49 .
• Gaius Svetonio quiet, The life of Caesars Pp. Books 1-2-3.
• Properzio, ELGIE, I, 21 and 22 .
• Seneca: The clemency, 1, 11, 1 .
• Cassio Dione: Roman history . 44-50.
  • Roman history , XXXXVIII, 1-15.

Modern historiography [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

• Cantarella Eva, Giulio Guidorizzi, Ancient and medieval history , Milan, Einaudi, 2002.
• Eck, Werner, The Age of Augustus , Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 0631229582, pp. 19–20.
• Nicolas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond, Howard Hayes Scullard, Dictionary of classical antiquities of Oxford , Rome, Edizioni Paoline, 1981, ISBN 88-215-0374-7.
• Briquel, Dominique, The human sacrifice attributed in Octave during the seat of Perouse , in Augusta basic , edited by the University of Studies of Perugia and Giorgio Bonmente, “Pliniana” publisher, Perugia, 2012.