id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8263 Sextus Pompey - Wikipedia .html text/html 1973 212 65 Caesar won the first battle at Thapsus in 46 BC against Metellus Scipio and Cato, who committed suicide.[3] In 45 BC, Caesar managed to defeat the Pompeius brothers in the Battle of Munda, in Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, comprising modern Spain and Portugal), after what he himself described as his hardest fought victory ever.[4] Gnaeus Pompeius was executed, but young Sextus escaped once more, this time to Sicily, and thereafter raised another dissident army in Spain.[5] The reason for the peace treaty was to secure the West before the anticipated campaign against the Parthian Empire: Tacitus reports the view that "he [Octavian] had cheated Sextus Pompeius by a spurious peace treaty"[9] Antony, the leader of Rome's eastern provinces, needed a large number of legions for the coming campaign, which would take his army (ostensibly) through Mesopotamia, Armenia and Parthia. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8263.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8263.txt