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Antony serves as magister equitum while Caesar is in the east

In 48/47 Antony served as magister equitum, Caesar’s deputy in Italy, a year later remembered for debt, seizure, and disorder. In the causal graph this event strengthens Institutional Corruption, a driver that strengthens Political corruption index — a worsening welfare path.

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In 48/47 Antony served as magister equitum, Caesar’s deputy in Italy, a year later remembered for debt, seizure, and disorder. The dated deputy office is not the 44 consulship and not the 43 proscriptions. Mark Antony’s documented role is: He held the dictatorship’s deputy office in Italy, a year later criticised for disorder and debt. Caesar was in Egypt and Asia; Antony did not uniquely invent the office. Deputy of 47 is not consul of 44. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear.

Context

Caesar’s Alexandrian war, Italian land hunger, and later Ciceronian invective already structure the file. Invective is not a unique embezzlement ledger. Sharing Italy with unnamed officers is required. Named others on the file: Julius Caesar as dictator, Italian debtors and veterans, and later Ciceronian critics share the year. The public setting is the file around -0047-01-01. The instrument stays Antony serves as magister equitum while Caesar is in the east. The setting of Antony serves as magister equitum while Caesar is in the east is the public file around -0047-01-01. Driver institutional-corruption is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Why it matters

Medium confidence on unique sums. Welfare reading worsening. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Mark Antony

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    He held the dictatorship’s deputy office in Italy, a year later criticised for disorder and debt. Caesar was in Egypt and Asia; Antony did not uniquely invent the office.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Mark AntonyEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Perseus — Plutarch, AntonyPerseus Digital Library / Tufts · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica and Plutarch independently mark the magister equitum year as a disorder heading. Official: Britannica — Mark Antony, master of the horse (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Antony-Roman-triumvir (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Perseus — Plutarch, Antony as magister equitum (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0007 (opens in a new tab); Perseus Digital Library). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Mark Antony, master of the horse (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Antony-Roman-triumvir (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Perseus — Plutarch, Antony as magister equitum (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0007 (opens in a new tab); Perseus Digital Library).

Established: Antony as magister equitum in Caesar’s absence. Not established: a unique recovered cashbook. Established: a sourced public record of Antony serves as magister equitum while Caesar is in the east under -0047-01-01.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Deputy of 47 is not consul of 44. Mixed effects of Antony serves as magister equitum while Caesar is in the east are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Antony serves as magister equitum while Caesar is in the east. Naming Mark Antony does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0047-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorMark Antony
  2. contributed toFactAntony serves as magister equitum while Caesar is in the east
  3. strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
  4. strengthensIndicatorPolitical corruption index

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Factrail. (2026). Antony serves as magister equitum while Caesar is in the east. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ant-magister-equitum-47

https://factrail.ai/facts/ant-magister-equitum-47

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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