The Donations of Marcvs Antonivs

Following the defeat of Octavian at the battle of Herculaneum, Marcus Antonius entered Rome in a triumphal parade. In the fifth possition, traditionally reserved for the arms and insignia if the conquered was the standards of those legions that had served under Octavian. In the sixth possition, traditionally reserved for the conquered kings and generals, the city was shocked to see Octavian himself in chains. In the Eighth possition, traditionally reserved for the victorious general, rode Marcus Antonius himself, along side Cleopatra and Ptolemy Ceaser, better know to the Romans of the time as Caesarion, in the ninth possition, traditionally reserved for the Sons of the victorious general where Alexander Helios, his sister Cleopatra Selene, and young Ptolemy Philadelphus. The very children who would soon became kings and queens of the East. At the rear, Marcus Antonius' own legions and Aegyptian soilders marched side by side. Marcus Antonius marched this grand procession to the very steps of the senete itself. Thus began five days of debate and intrigue until finally an agreement was reached. And this agreement would shape the course of the civilized world for 1000 years and more.

-From A history of the Latin and Hellenic Peoples, by Sidonius of Olissipo
 
Probably the only difference between Antony as Emperor and Octavian in the same post would be Egypt would have been a client state and not a province of the Empire, at least at the start. Eventually though it would have been incorporated as happened to the others.

Just because the Emperor has a foreign wife it not going to detract that he is the first citizen of the Republic and has an awful lot of legions with which to enforce his command. And that includes any client states that step out of line. It might take a bloody war a generation or so later to occupy Egypt it is going to happen. Just ask the Sicarrii on OTL what happens when you piss off Rome.
 
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