Is reconciled with them 256 SECOND TRIUMVIRATE 256 The Triumvirs enter Rome 256 Dreadful Scenes 256 Death of Cicero 257 Sextus Pompey master of Sicily and the Mediterranean 257 He defeats the fleet of the Triumvirs 257 Brutus obtains possession of Macedonia 258 Cassius, of Syria 258 Their proceedings in the East 258 They plunder Asia Minor 258 42. They return to Europe to meet the Triumvirs 258 Battle of Philippi 261 Death of Brutus and Cassius 261 CHAPTER XXXVII. FROM THE BATTLE OF PHILIPPI TO THE BATTLE OF ACTIUM. B.C. 41-30. 41. Antony remains in the East 262 He meets Cleopatra at Tarsus 262 He accompanies her to Alexandria 263 Octavian returns to Rome 263 Confusion in Italy 263 Confiscation of lands 263 Fulvia, the wife of Antony, and L. Antonius, his brother, rise against Antony 263 They take refuge in Perusia 263 40. Capture of Perusia, and end of the war 263 The Parthians invade Syria 264 Antony joins Sextus Pompey and lays siege to Brundusium 264 Reconciliation between Antony and Octavian 264 Fresh division of the Roman world 264 Antony marries Octavia 264 39. Peace with Sextus Pompey at Misenum 264 Ventidius, the Legate of Antony, defeats the Parthians 265 38. He again defeats the Parthians 265 Death of Pacorus 265 War with Sextus Pompey 265 He destroys the fleet of Octavian 265 37. Antony comes to Tarentum 266 Triumvirate renewed for another period of five years 266 36. Renewal of the war with Sextus Pompey 266 His defeat 266