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How to use Actium in a sentence

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It is largely devoted to an account of the battle of Actium, but tells it all in the manner of Callimachus, a style wholly unsuited to the subject-matter.
Shortly after the war between Herod and the Nabateans, Julius Caesar's adopted son Octavian soundly defeated Cleopatra at the battle of Actium.
The port of Actium, in the Gulf of Ambracia, is on the coast of Epirus, north of Ithaca, directly across the Adriatic Sea from Brundisium.
Actium marks the end of a long competition between two antagonistic visions.
Antony's fleet sailed through the bay of Actium on the western coast of Greece in a desperate attempt to break free of the naval blockade.
At the naval Battle of Actium in 31 BC off the coast of Greece, Octavian decisively defeated Antony and Cleopatra.
A period of reform occurred between 49 BC, when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, and 29 BC, when Octavian returned to Rome after Actium.
The Ninth remained with Octavian in his war of 31 BC against Mark Antony and fought by his side in the battle of Actium.
Antony was defeated in the naval Battle of Actium in 31 BC, and he committed suicide with his lover, Cleopatra.
The last Pharaoh was a Greek princess, Cleopatra VII, who took her own life in 30 BC, a year after the battle of Actium.
I would also like to talk about what would be my favourite Roman emperor, Octavian, after the battle of Actium known as Augustus, and the Roman Empire, had Augustus Caesar not been around in his roughly 50 year reign.
Examples from Classical Literature
But it came to a sudden end with the fall of Antony in the battle of Actium.
He went to Nicopolis, across Actium in Epirus, where he conducted his own school.
But in the midst was wrought a great battle of ships at the cape of Actium.
Its name, Latinized into Actium, became famous as that of the naval battle.
The modern town, Azio, which is not the ancient Actium, is near these ruins.
He was present with her at the battle of Actium, and accompanied her in her flight.
But in Shakespeare's play Actium is just the first in a series of battles, most of which Antony loses.
Next is the river Evenus, which is distant from Actium 670 stadia.
Pompey cut his stick at Pharsalia, and so did Antony at Actium.
Set on the eve of the Battle of Actium, the poem dramatizes Antony's and Cleopatra's Bacchic outburst preceding their ultimate doom.
The evidence of the Hellenistic era between Alexander and Actium shows that this kind of political order is actually associated with high levels of innovation.
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