Proscriptions of the Triumvirs (43 BC)

At the end of 43 BC the three triumvirs met on an island in a river near Bononia and drew up lists of the condemned. According to Appian about three hundred senators and about two thousand equestrians were entered, some of them for their rich villas (Civil Wars 4). For the head of a free man 25,000 drachmas were paid, and a slave received his freedom.

Plutarch calls the exchange of victims among the triumvirs the most savage thing one could imagine (Antony 19). Suetonius writes that Octavian at first opposed the proscriptions, but once they began he was harsher than his colleagues (Augustus 27).