Octavian must make a deal with Marc Antony to get food shipments from Egypt as Rome faces a shortage of grain. Marc Antony refuses so Octavian sends Atia and Ovtavia to Alexandria. At the Collegium Pullo rations out grain and Gaia saves her master from a caged animal. Posca helps Octavian to turn the people against Marc Antony and set a war in motion.