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Perusine War
Part of the Crisis of the Roman Republic
Date
41–40 BC
Location
Rome, Perusia
Result
Victory for Octavian, renewed alliance between Octavian and Antony
Territorial changes
Octavian briefly loses, then regains, control of Rome
Belligerents
Roman forces of Octavian
Roman forces of Fulvia and Lucius Antonius
Commanders and leaders
Octavian Agrippa Salvidienus
Fulvia Lucius Antonius Plancus Ventidius Asinius
Strength
65,000
43,000 (8 Legions)
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t
e
Roman Republican civil wars
1st Servile
2nd Servile
Social
Bellum Octavianum
Sulla's
Sertorian
3rd Servile
Caesar's
Mutina
Liberators'
Bellum Siculum
Perusine
Pompeian–Parthian invasion
Actium
The Perusine War (also Perusian or Perusinian War, or the War of Perusia) was a civil war of the Roman Republic, which lasted from 41 to 40 BC. It was fought by Lucius Antonius (the younger brother of Mark Antony), Fulvia (Mark Antony's wife), and the Umbrians of Perusia to support Mark Antony against his political enemy Octavian (the future Emperor Augustus).
Fulvia felt strongly that her husband should be the sole ruler of Rome instead of sharing power with the Second Triumvirate, especially Octavian. Her prominence in the ensuing conflict was unusual for Roman society, where women were excluded from power and their political contributions rarely documented.
Fulvia and Lucius Antonius raised eight legions in Italy.[1] The army held Rome for a brief time, but was then forced to retreat to the city of Perusia (modern Perugia, Italy). The Umbrians were sympathetic since some of their towns and surrounding land had been confiscated by Octavian for colonisation by his veterans after the defeat of Brutus and Cassius at Philippi in 42 BC.[2]
During the winter of 41–40 BC, Octavian's army laid siege to the city, finally causing it to surrender due to starvation when the besieged realized reinforcements from Italy or the East were not coming. The lives of Fulvia and Lucius Antonius were spared, and Antonius was sent to govern a Spanish province as a gesture to his brother. Antony exiled Fulvia to Sicyon, where she died of an unknown illness in 40 BC. She was declared posthumously to have been the sole cause of dispute between Antony and Octavian, whose repaired alliance was symbolized by Antony's new marriage to Octavian's sister Octavia. This arrangement collapsed eight years later, and Antony and Octavian resumed their civil war.
^Brice, Lee L. (2014). Warfare in the Roman Republic: From the Etruscan Wars to the Battle of Actium. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. p. 45. ISBN 9781610692991.
^Lawrence Keppie, Colonisation and Veteran Settlement in Italy in the First Century A.D. Papers of the British School at Rome Vol. 52 (1984), pp. 77-114
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