#triumvir

March 16, 44 BCE:

Caesar’s Magister equitum, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus,  brings his army into Rome

Caesar’s deputy  acted swiftly and marched  6000 soldiers into Rome and their presence on Campus Martius must have made  Brutus & co worried . Actually the conspirators had already fled to Capitoline hill and Lepidus was ready to assault and wipe them out. The sole remaining consul Marcus Antonius and Aulus Hirtius who preferred negotiations dissuaded him from this attack. .

( Triumvir Lepidus is depicted in this gold coin; issued in 42 BCE by Publius Clodius)

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Portrait of Dirck Jansz. Pesser by Rembrandt & Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (Musei Vaticani) replica in Pushkin Museum

Two years previously, when Livia was six, a man who would later loom large in the early years of her marriage had found himself the victim of popular fury. That man was Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. The future Triumvir was named as interrex in the tense days following the murder of that vexatious Claudian, Livias kinsman Clodius. The nomination was not without its dangers—in this case the storming of Lepidus’s house by incensed pro-Clodian plebs. Asconius recalled the scene. ‘Then [the mob] broke through the gateway with all manner of violence and pulled down his ancestral portraits [the imagines maiorum], broke up the symbolic marital couch of his wife Cornelia, a woman whose chastity was considered an example to all, and also vandalized the weaving operations which, in accord with ancient custom, were in progress in the entrance hall.’ ... The mob that threatened Lepidus, while sparing the senator himself, destroyed every cherished building block of patrician domesticity. Trampled underfoot was the sanctity of past, present and future.

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Triumvir Foul - The Vacuum of Knots