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Why did Augustus (then known as Octavian) betray Cicero?

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Boiling down the conflict to its most basic level - Cicero wanted to divide the heirs of Caesar (Octavian + Mark Antony), but Antony was the bigger threat. As long as Octavian was anti-Antony, Cicero would back him. read more

Today, however, he is habitually described as Octavian (until the date when he assumed the designation Augustus). Octavian soon reached an agreement with Antony and with another of Caesar’s principal supporters, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, who had succeeded him as chief priest. read more

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