WI: Caesar dies on the 14th

It's been a while since I've had Latin class (with a large side order of Roman history), but didn't Marc Antony find out about the plot the night before from one of the Liberatores? Depending on exactly when Caesar dies the 14th, Marc Antony either knows everything that would have gone down the day after or the conspirators get away thinking divine will was on their side.

If Marc Antony never hears of the plot, that means no bloody civil wars and no attacking Brutus for refusing to give up Cisalpine Gaul and giving Octavian the opportunity to consolidate his power. Rome would be a lot stabler, Marc Antony still in control as consul, and Octavian without the advantages he had IOTL.

If Marc Antony knows of the plot? I couldn't say. I think was pretty willing to make a treaty with the assassins in order to stabilize Rome, so maybe he'd be even more reasonable if the conspiracy came out after Caesar had already died of other causes.
 
Ceasar perhaps dies as the result of an epileptic fit. There might still be some form of struggle for power and maybe some bloodshed Perhaps not the civil war that took place which means the Republic probably staggers on for a while longer. Whether it could continue in the long term instead of being replaced by an Emperor might be another matter.
 
Might anybody claim that he'd been poisoned?

Since Mark Antony is really the leading Caesarian just by the luck of being consul at the time, I doubt it. He was more interested in stabilizing everything and restoring a sense of calm and it wasn't until Octavian started screwing everything up that shit hit the fan fast.

Without the assassination, the republic has been saved for arguably another generation. You basically have the same thing as the post-Sulla Republic. Octavian isn't completely screwed because he does get a lot of Caesar's inheritance, but he doesn't have the basis to stir things up into a frenzy. More importantly, he won't have the support of the soldiers to do such a thing since Caesar died a natural death, and say what you want about the soldiers, they were loyal to the republic first, an individual second (as evidenced by some legions who served with Caesar defecting to Brutus and Cassius). Octavian can probably expect a praetorship in time, and possibly a consulship.
 
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