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What if Brutus and Cassius defeated Octavian and the second triumvirate in the roman civil war? I think the republic would have stayed as it was in the short term. The republican form of government the romans had then was(IMO)less suited to running a vast empire than that of an absolute Monarchy. I think sooner or later somebody else would crown themselves emperor of the roman Empire.