Division of Rome and Its Eventual Decline

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The division of Rome by the second triumvirate was into more than the three parts assigned to Octavian, Antony and Lepidus. For example, all of Italy was assigned to the Senate as you can see in the following map:

Division of territory by the second triumvirate

There was no specific results of this tending towards the "fall" of the empire. In fact, the empire grew for another 200 years after this. The main change it presaged was turning the empire into the personal fiefdom of dictators, as opposed to being composed of praefectures controlled by governors appointed by the senate, which it had been under the republic.

The division of the triumvirs also set the pattern for the division of the empire under the emperors starting with Octavian, which was to divide it into four parts: Gaul, Italy, Illyricum (Dacia, Macedonia and Greece), and the East.

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