Pompey's son held the sea, feasted Antony aboard his flagship, called it the only family house Antony had left him, and refused to cut the cables

After Pompey the Great's death his house in Rome was sold. Plutarch says Mark Antony bought it and was angry when asked to pay. Pompey's younger son Sextus held Sicily and raided Italy with fleets under Menas and Menecrates until Rome went hungry. In 39 BC Octavian and Antony met him at Misenum. Cassius Dio says the treaty gave Sextus Sicily, Sardinia and Achaia for five years, a consulship, an augurate and seventy million sesterces from his father's estate. Appian says exiles who had fled from fear got their property back except movables, and the proscribed got a fourth of theirs. Sextus hosted first, on his flagship. Plutarch says he called it "the ancestral house that is left to Pompey." Dio says he joked that he was feasting them "in the Carinae," the Roman district of his father's house and the word for a ship's keels. During the meal Menas offered to cut the cables and make him master of the Roman world. Plutarch has Sextus answer that "perjury is not my way." The peace failed. Octavian drove him out of Sicily, and he fled east. Antony's general Titius, whose life Sextus had once spared, killed him at Miletus in his fortieth year. Appian says some blamed the order on Plancus, who could use Antony's seal.