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How did Mark Antony escape after the fighting at Mutina?
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Mark Antony
Mark Antony, detail of a marble bust; in the Vatican Museum.
After being defeated twice by the combined forces of Octavian and the consuls while besieging Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus at Mutina, Mark Antony managed to withdraw into southern Gaul. Following the deaths of the opposing consuls, the armies of the Senate broke up, allowing Antony to be joined by Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and Lucius Munatius Plancus, which ultimately paved the way for the formation of the Second Triumvirate.12