Octavian

Examples

• Here we cannot trace out the tangle of alliances and betrayals that ended in the ascendancy of this Octavian, the adopted heir of Julius C?sar. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Octavian's net closed slowly round his rival. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• 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.
• She had an interview with Octavian, in which she presented herself as beauty in distress and very lightly clad. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Octavian, who became at last the monarch of Rome, seems to have made an effort to save Cicero; that murder was certainly not his crime. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• 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.
• Finally he found himself and Cleopatra besieged by Octavian in Alexandria. 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.
• Any revival of the kingly title was out of the question, and Octavian himself expressly refused the dictatorship. 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.

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