Lucius Antonius (brother of Mark Antony)

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Lucius Antonius (fl. c. 50 – 41 BC) was a Roman republican politician. He was the younger brother of Mark Antony (known in Latin as Marcus Antonius). Lucius first appears as a quaestor in Asia in 50 BC and served under the Pompeian-aligned governor of the province through 49. He next appears as plebeian tribune in 44 BC, the year Julius Caesar was assassinated and his brother Marcus was consul. He then held the consulship under the triumvirate in 41 BC during which he fought a short war against the triumvir Octavian, ostensibly to end the triumvirate and its mass seizures of lands from Italian towns. Defeated early the next year, he was then sent to govern Spain as proconsul; nothing concrete is then recorded about him.

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