 | This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. (September 2018) |
| Bellum Siculum | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Roman civil wars | |||||||||
 Coin of Sextus Pompey, minted in Sicily in 37 or 36 BC. | |||||||||
| |||||||||
| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Second Triumvirate |
Pompeians Remnants of Optimates | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
|
Octavian Marcus Agrippa Marcus Aemilius Lepidus Lucius Cornificius Titus Statilius Taurus Gaius Calvisius Sabinus Mark Antony Marcus Titius Gaius Furnius Amyntas of Galatia |
Sextus Pompeius  Menas Menecratus † Demochares Apollophanes Papias | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
|
Total dead: 200,000 1,000 warships destroyed | |||||||||
The Bellum Siculum[1][2][3] (Latin for "Sicilian War") was an Ancient Roman civil war waged between 42 BC and 36 BC by the forces of the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey, the last surviving son of Pompey the Great and the last leader of the Optimate faction. The war consisted of mostly a number of naval engagements throughout the Mediterranean Sea and a land campaign primarily in Sicily that eventually ended in a victory for the Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey's death. The conflict is notable as the last stand of any organised opposition to the Triumvirate.
The result of the war settled the question whether the political ascendancy of the autocratic Triumvirs could be reversed, ending all hopes for the restoration of the constitutional government of the Roman Republic. The war however also led to the breakdown of the Triumvirate itself since Octavian was able to take advantage of discontent in Lepidus' camp to sideline his partner, leaving Octavian and Mark Antony as only rulers of the Roman world and setting the stage for the War of Actium.
- ^ Suetonius (1896) [c. 69–122]. Divus Augustus. Cambridge : University Press. p. 9.
- ^ Gowing, Alain M. (2002). Powell, Anton; Welch, Kathryn; Gowing, Alain M. (eds.). Sextus Pompeius (1. ed.). Swansea: Classical Press of Wales [u.a.] p. 205. ISBN 978-0-7156-3127-0. Retrieved September 3, 2023.
- ^ Lange, Carsten Hjort (2016). Triumphs in the Age of Civil War: The Late Republic and the Adaptability of Triumphal Tradition. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. pp. 118–119. ISBN 978-1-4742-6787-8. Retrieved September 4, 2023.