Antony
['æntəni]
Definition
(noun.) Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars; repudiated his wife for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra; they were defeated by Octavian at Actium (83-30 BC).
Checked by Hillel--From WordNet
Examples
- But the haughty Ex-Queen thought as Octavius Caesar and Mark Antony, We could not stall together In the whole world. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Octavian took the hardier west, and consolidated his power; Antony had the more gorgeous east--and Cleopatra. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Think you Cleopatra would have kept Antony so long her slave, had she not stimulated his love occasionally by giving him cause for jealousy? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Antony gave way to much mournful posturing, varied by love scenes, during this last stage of his little drama. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- What he did on those occasions was to turn up his cuffs, stick up his hair, and give us Mark Antony's oration over the body of Caesar. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In short I, like Mark Antony, being no scholar, can only speak right on, and know not how to praise the poet as he merits. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Antony wore a crown in Egypt, and the Roman emperors also wore crowns of various forms, from the plain golden fillet to the radiated or rayed crown. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In 32 B.C. Octavian induced the Senate to depose Antony from the command of the east, and proceeded to attack him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Octavian seems to have been almost entirely free from the divine aspirations of Julius C?sar and Antony. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Plutarch's account of Antony, which was derived very largely from witnesses who had seen and known him, describes him as of heroic mould. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There were some sallies and minor successes, and Antony was loud with challenges to Octavian to decide the matter by personal combat. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Editor: Warren