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"Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus (No God Can Stop A Hungry Man)"
Antony embraces Cleopatra
Season	2 (2007)
Episode	"21"
Air date(s)	March 18, 2007 (HBO) 18 July 2007 (BBC)
Writer(s)	Mere Smith
Director	Steve Shill
Setting	Rome/Alexandria
Time frame	c. 32 BC See also: Chronology of Rome
Link	HBO Summary
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Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus (translation No God Can Stop a Hungry Man) is the ninth episode of the second season of the television series Rome. The air date is March 18, 2007.

Rome is facing a dire shortage of grain, forcing Octavian to barter with Mark Antony to get new shipments sent from Egypt. Mark Antony and Cleopatra continually increase their demands in exchange for grain, eventually driving away Octavian's negotiator. In so doing, he hopes to push Octavian into declaring war, which Antony believes he can win due to his support among the Roman people. As a last resort, Octavian sends Atia and Octavia to Alexandria, knowing their reception will most likely be a chilly one. At the Collegium, where Pullo is rationing out grain to increasingly restless Romans, Gaia saves her master from Memmio's vengeful hand, but cannot save herself. As she is dying, Gaia confesses to Pullo that she was responsible for Eirene's death, causing Pullo to strangle her. After fleeing a deteriorating situation in Egypt, Posca gives Octavian the ammunition he needs to turn the people against Mark Antony, setting in motion the wheels of war.

• Bibulus is sent to Alexandria at the start of the episode, despite having died in 48 BC and having been an enemy of the Caesarian faction.
• Historically, by the time Octavian and Mark Antony headed for war, Lepidus had been forced by Octavian to retire (in 36 BC) and give up his provinces after Octavian defeated an attempted coup led by Lepidus. However, despite the episode saying that Lepidus still is in control of Africa, Carthage is still stated as being Octavian's territory.
• Of Antony's children, only Alexander Helios, Cleopatra Selene, and Antonia Major are depicted. Missing are his children by Fulvia: Marcus Antonius Antyllus and Iullus Antonius Creticus; his other daughter with Octavia Minor, Antonia Minor; and his youngest child with Cleopatra VII, Ptolemy Philadelphus.
• There was no need for Posca to steal Antony's last will and testament. Antony made public his intentions about the future of Selene and Helios, his daughter and son with Cleopatra, as rulers of Egypt and about Caesarion as "king of Rome" in the so-called Donations of Alexandria.
• This episode gives the impression that Octavian had the entire support of the Senate, however in reality over half the Senators left Rome to go East and join Antony.

• HBO summary