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Both the patience of Antonius and the diplomacy of Maecenas were exhausted. At last the mediation of Octavia was invoked to secure an accommodation between her brother and her husband --or so at least it was alleged, in order to represent Antonius in an aggressive mood and in an invidious light. The powers of the Triumvirs had already run out with the close of the previous year. Nobody had bothered about that. The Triumvirate was now prolonged for another five years until the end of 33 B.C. By then, it was presumed, the State would have been set in order and the organs of government repaired-or the position of the Caesarian leaders so far consolidated that they could dispense with the powers of the Triumvirate.