Cicero proposes that the Senate honour Decimus Junius Brutus, Octavian and his troops, and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. Cicero's proposals are declined; the Senate sends the three ex-consuls Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, Lucius Marcius Philippus and Servius Sulpicius Rufus to Mark Antony. 6th Philippic (speech in the public assembly, 4 January 43): Cicero considers the embassy carried out by the Senate as a delayed declaration of war on Mark Antony; he believes that it will come after the return of the ambassadors.