# Antony fights the War of Mutina against the Senate’s consuls

Date: 43 BC

## The fact

In spring 43 BCE Antony waged the War of Mutina, besieging Decimus Brutus and fighting the consuls Hirtius and Pansa. The dated campaign is not the November 43 proscriptions and not Philippi. [Mark Antony](/people/mark-antony)’s documented role is: He besieged Decimus Brutus at Mutina and fought Hirtius and Pansa. Both consuls died; Octavian took the survivors; Antony retreated to Gaul. Do not twin this with the November 43 proscriptions. A spring war is not the later list. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Mark Antony's documented role is: He besieged Decimus Brutus at Mutina and fought Hirtius and Pansa. Both consuls died; Octavian took the survivors; Antony retreated to Gaul.

## Context

The Senate’s last republican levy, Octavian’s private army, and Ciceronian Philippics already structure the file. Later triumviral deal is a different instrument. Named others on the file: Decimus Brutus, Hirtius, Pansa, and Octavian share the campaign. The public setting is the file around -0043-04-21. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays Antony fights the War of Mutina against the Senate’s consuls. The setting of Antony fights the War of Mutina against the Senate’s consuls is the public file around -0043-04-21. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

The attached driver is humanitarian-access. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica and [Cicero](/people/cicero)’s Philippics independently locate Mutina as Antony’s 43 Italian war. Official: Britannica — Mark Antony, Mutina 43 BCE (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Antony-Roman-triumvir; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Perseus — Cicero, Philippics, Mutina context (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0076; 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, Mutina 43 BCE (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Antony-Roman-triumvir; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Perseus — Cicero, Philippics, Mutina context (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0076; Perseus Digital Library).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Mark Antony, Mutina 43 BCE (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Antony-Roman-triumvir; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Worsening humanitarian-access path: an Italian civil-war siege-and-battle. Complex shared killing. Welfare reading worsening. The attached mechanism is A dated 43 civil-war campaign is a completed Italian killing heading before the triumviral list. 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.

Shared responsibility is part of Antony fights the War of Mutina against the Senate’s consuls. Naming Mark Antony does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0043-04-21 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.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Antony’s Mutina campaign of 43. Not established: that the later proscription list is this same battle. Established: a sourced public record of Antony fights the War of Mutina against the Senate’s consuls under -0043-04-21. Established: a sourced public record of Antony fights the War of Mutina against the Senate’s consuls under -0043-04-21.

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

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

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin this with the November 43 proscriptions. A spring war is not the later list. Mixed effects of Antony fights the War of Mutina against the Senate’s consuls are separate paths.

## People

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

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0076
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Antony-Roman-triumvir

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ant-mutina-43