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Definition of Antonius
1. 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).
Generic synonyms: Full General, General
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antonius
Literary usage of Antonius
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Rome by Robert Fowler Leighton (1883)
"Antonius saw her flight, and immediately sprang into a five-oared galley and
followed her.1 The battle still raged furiously, but before evening the fleet ..."
2. A General History of Rome from the Foundation of the City to the Fall of by Charles Merivale (1886)
"Within a week after his death Antonius had set himself up as a second tyrant,
hardly less powerful, hardly more disguised, than the first. ..."
3. The World's Orators: Comprising the Great Orations of the World's History by Guy Carleton Lee (1901)
"Caesar's death gave Antonius the opportunity to make himself the virtual ...
Antonius might have controlled and eventually conquered this opposition to his ..."
4. History of the Romans Under the Empire: With a Copious Analytical Index by Charles Merivale (1866)
"CHARACTER OP Antonius. (AU 718-724, B. c. 86-30.) triumph of Ventidius, the only
Roman, as Plutarch reminds us, who up to this time had gained such a ..."
5. A History of Latin Literature from Ennius to Boethius by George Augustus Simcox (1883)
"He still shrank from defying Antonius in his presence, and even when he spoke he
said ... Antonius, however, was resolved upon subduing or crushing the one ..."
6. History of the Romans Under the Empire by Charles Merivale (1865)
"Antonius reassures the nobles by his patriotic policy—He abolishes the dictatorship
for ... Antonius induces the senate to take Syria and Macedonia from, ..."
7. A History of the New Testament Times by Adolf Hausrath (1878)
"The ancients called this intrigue Antonius' great overthrow, ... Antonius' was
one of those undisciplined natures produced by times of revolution; ..."
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