 While Antony and the other Triumvirs ratified the Treaty of Brundisium to redivide the Roman world among themselves, the rebel general Sextus Pompey, the son of Caesar's rival Pompey the Great, was largely ignored.From his stronghold on Sicily, he continued his piratical activities across Italy and blocked the shipment of grain to Rome.The lack of food in Rome caused the public to blame the Triumvirate and shift its sympathies towards Pompey.