# Antony serves as magister equitum while Caesar is in the east

Date: 47 BC

## The fact

In 48/47 [Antony](/people/mark-antony) served as magister equitum, [Caesar](/people/julius-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. Do not twin this with the 44 consulship. Deputy of 47 is not consul of 44. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. 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.

## 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. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. 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. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [institutional-corruption](/drivers/institutional-corruption) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica and [Plutarch](/people/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; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Perseus — Plutarch, Antony as magister equitum (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0007; 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; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Perseus — Plutarch, Antony as magister equitum (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0007; Perseus Digital Library).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Mark Antony, master of the horse (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Antony-Roman-triumvir; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Worsening institutional-corruption path: a deputy-dictatorship remembered for seizure and debt. Medium confidence on unique sums. Welfare reading worsening. The attached mechanism is A dated deputy-dictatorship in Italy is a completed extraction-and-disorder heading of 47–46. 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.

## What is established and what is not

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. 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. Do not twin this with the 44 consulship. 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.

The attached driver is institutional-corruption. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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.

## People

- Mark Antony: https://factrail.ai/people/mark-antony

## Drivers

- Institutional Corruption: https://factrail.ai/drivers/institutional-corruption

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Antony-Roman-triumvir
- https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0007

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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