Topic summary
War between Sextus Pompey and the Second Triumvirate
Remnants of Optimates
Marcus Agrippa
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
Lucius Cornificius
Titus Statilius Taurus
Gaius Calvisius Sabinus
Mark Antony
Marcus Titius
Gaius Furnius
Amyntas of Galatia
Menas
Menecratus †
Demochares
Apollophanes
Papias
1,000 warships destroyed
The forces of the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey, the last surviving son of Pompey the Great and the last leader of the Optimate faction, waged a civil war between 42 BC and 36 BC. The war consisted of mostly a number of naval engagements throughout the Mediterranean Sea and a land campaign primarily in Sicily that eventually ended in a victory for the Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey's death. The conflict is notable as the last stand of any organised opposition to the Triumvirate.
The result of the war settled the question whether the political ascendancy of the autocratic Triumvirs could be reversed, ending all hopes for the restoration of the constitutional government of the Roman Republic. The war however also led to the breakdown of the Triumvirate itself since Octavian was able to take advantage of discontent in Lepidus' camp to sideline his partner, leaving Octavian and Mark Antony as only rulers of the Roman world and setting the stage for the War of Actium.