Antony is an agent in the received 43 BCE killing of Cicero
Dated 43 BCE: Antony is an agent in the received 43 BCE killing of Cicero. In the causal graph this event weakens Judicial independence erosion (court capture), a driver that strengthens Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score — an improving welfare path.
Read the full account
Shared triumviral list. Medium confidence on unique roadside details; high that the printed story names him. Mark Antony did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.
Context
Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading.
Mark Antony Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.
Mark Antony’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.
Conventional 83–30 BCE. Proscriptions, Philippi, Actium, and Alexandrian death are later Plutarch/Appian/Dio.
Why it matters
Shared triumviral list.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Mark Antony
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.4 · verified
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactAntony is an agent in the received 43 BCE killing of Cicero
- weakensDriverJudicial independence erosion (court capture)
- strengthensIndicators (4)Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score
impact weight 0.55 · Effect from 43 BCE · verified
Shared triumviral list. Medium confidence on unique roadside details; high that the printed story names him.
- Better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.4 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.72)
Observed
43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.
Normal is zero · any amount = worse
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.39 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.7)
Observed
0.55 index score (0-1) · 0.26 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.38 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.69)
Observed
0.62 score from 0 to 1 · 0.25 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.37 score from 0 to 1 to 0.62 score from 0 to 1.
Above normal = better
All indicators on this path (4)
- Better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.17 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.3)
Observed
42.5 index score (0-100) · 7.53 below the normal line (2025)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Britannica — Mark AntonyEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
- 2.Perseus — Cicero, PhilippicsPerseus Digital Library / Tufts · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Mark Antony did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorMark Antony
- contributed toFactAntony is an agent in the received 43 BCE killing of Cicero
- weakensDriverJudicial independence erosion (court capture)
- strengthensIndicatorRule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score
Cite this page
Factrail. (2026). Antony is an agent in the received 43 BCE killing of Cicero. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ant-cicero-death-adjacent
https://factrail.ai/facts/ant-cicero-death-adjacent
Accessed 16 October 2026.
By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed
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