Pact of Misenum (39 BC)

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The Pact of Misenum (39 BC) was a political agreement during the late Roman Republic that temporarily ended hostilities between Sextus Pompeius and the Second Triumvirate by granting him control over key territories and grain supplies in exchange for lifting his naval blockade of Italy.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf political agreement
treaty
aimedTo secure grain supply for Rome
stabilize Italy
alternativeName Treaty of Misenum
associatedWith Second Triumvirate power consolidation
brokenBy renewed conflict between Sextus Pompeius and Octavian
concernedTerritory Italian grain supply routes
western Mediterranean
documentedBy Appian
Cassius Dio
followedBy Treaty of Tarentum
grantedControlOver Corsica
Peloponnesus
linked to: Peloponnese

Sardinia
Sicily
grain supplies for Rome
grantedTo Sextus Pompeius
hasCause naval blockade of Italy by Sextus Pompeius
hasContext late Roman Republic
linked to: Late Roman Republic
hasDate 39 BC
hasEffect temporary end of hostilities between Sextus Pompeius and the Second Triumvirate
hasPlace Misenum
historicalPeriod Roman civil wars
involvedParty Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
Mark Antony
Octavian
linked to: Augustus

Second Triumvirate
Sextus Pompeius
language Latin
longTermOutcome did not prevent later defeat of Sextus Pompeius
negotiatedBy envoys of Sextus Pompeius
envoys of the Second Triumvirate
partOf power struggle after Julius Caesar's assassination
politicalNature power-sharing arrangement
precededBy naval victories of Sextus Pompeius
relatedEvent Battle of Naulochus
relatedToConflict Sicilian revolt of Sextus Pompeius
civil wars of the late Roman Republic
requiredAction lifting of naval blockade of Italy
requiredActionFrom Sextus Pompeius
shortTermOutcome resumption of grain shipments to Rome
temporary maritime peace in Tyrrhenian Sea
status eventually broken

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Sextus Pompeius significantEvent Pact of Misenum (39 BC)