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The War of Philippi (43–42 BC) was a civil war in the late Roman republic between the liberatores and the triumvirate. The liberatores were led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, the two principal assassins of Julius Caesar. The triumvirate had been formed in the aftermath of Caesarian victory in a short civil war in Italy with three members: Mark Antony, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Octavian. The triumvirate's main publicly-stated war goal was to punish the assassins.

Both sides prepared and armed themselves for the conflict to come. To secure plunder needed to sustain their armies, the liberatores waged war in Asia minor; the triumvirs, for similar reasons and to purge their political opponents, engaged in the mass murder and confiscations against Roman citizens in a series of proscriptions. By 42 BC, both sides had amassed enormous armies which converged on Philippi in eastern Macedonia. After two battles, separated by a few weeks, the triumviral armies led by Mark Antony and Octavian emerged victorious over Brutus and Cassius, who both took their own lives.

In the west
After the formation of the triumvirate, the triumvirs engaged in a series of proscriptions.