WI:Both Antony And Caesar Are Killed

I had a discussion about the Liberatores taking over theRepublic and so I have chosen this POD. What would happen afterwards? I think that the Liberatores would be virtually unchallenged because Octavius won't be able to resist and could be exterminated soon after. What next?
 
With Liberatores you mean Brutus and Cassius? It seems that these guys had no plan, but simply to proceed with the old republic. But that was impossible! Not with the given, corrupted constitution, increasing social issues and overall situation of the roman empire. Even if they manage to neutralize Octavian and the caesarean party, the next civil war will be one generation later, no doubt! The republic was stonedead since decades and the senatorial class unable to change the republic dramatically. The rest is consecutive history.
 
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But I think they key thing is, having the next civil war a generation later has huge butterflies itself. And who's to say that civil war would result in the end of the republic itself? The republic might limp on, constantly plagued by civil war and terribly unstable.
 
With Antony dead you do not have the rebellion of the Roman people against the Liberatores and the senior and most influential member of the Caesarean party will is Lepidus, brother-in-law of Brutus and Cassius and thus likely favourable to maintain the peace and young Octavius in this situation will not have support from the people or Antony's enemies in the Senate and likely he will have also small support from the army and none recognition from the Senate.
 
The key here is the army though. The army seemed to have strong support for Octavian.
Yes, but for me Octavian was too young and arrive in Rome too late for make anything if Antony die with Caesar.
After all was Antony's strategy of false condescension towards the Liberators in the Senate to obtain approval for and clearly recognize their acts and by implication the authority of Caesar from which they Liberators would greatly benefited in terms of assignments and then the denunciation of the Liberators and the reading of Caesar's will to the crowd made ​​by Antony in his eulogy at the funeral of Caesar to unleash people and also army against the murderers. Without that the eighteen year old Octavian alone can do little or nothing to his arrival because the city and the Senate will be already in the hands of the Liberators.
 
Yes, but for me Octavian was too young and arrive in Rome too late for make anything if Antony die with Caesar.
After all was Antony's strategy of false condescension towards the Liberators in the Senate to obtain approval for and clearly recognize their acts and by implication the authority of Caesar from which they Liberators would greatly benefited in terms of assignments and then the denunciation of the Liberators and the reading of Caesar's will to the crowd made ​​by Antony in his eulogy at the funeral of Caesar to unleash people and also army against the murderers. Without that the eighteen year old Octavian alone can do little or nothing to his arrival because the city and the Senate will be already in the hands of the Liberators.

That is true. Caesar's will isn't gonna be read (and if the Liberatores look at it for themselves, Octavian's life might be in danger.)
 
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