Battle of Actium
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
the naval battle · the sea-fight · the war
spoken of as
1 expressionthe Battle of Actium1 mention
Antony (Greek)
The centre falling into confusion and engaging with Arruntius, although the sea-fight was still undecided and equally favourable to both sides, suddenly the sixty ships of Cleopatra were seen hoisting their sails for flight and making off through the midst of the combatants;
in the texts
Antony
The decisive naval battle between Antony and Caesar's fleets at the mouth of the Ambracian Gulf, ending in Cleopatra's flight, Antony's abandonment of the fight, and the fleet's surrender.
The centre falling into confusion and engaging with Arruntius, although the sea-fight was still undecided and equally favourable to both sides, suddenly the sixty ships of Cleopatra were seen hoisting their sails for flight and making off through the midst of the combatants;
When it had been decided to deliver a sea battle, Antony burned all the Egyptian ships except sixty;
During that day, then, and the three following days the sea was tossed up by a strong wind and prevented the battle;
Aeneid
The naval battle in which Roman and allied Egyptian/eastern forces and their patron gods clash, ending in Cleopatra's defeat.
her white brow the Lord of Fire had cunningly portrayed blanched with approaching doom.
Swift, arrowy steel and balls of blazing tow rain o'er the waters, till the sea-god's world flows red with slaughter.
There Actian Apollo watched the war, and o'er it stretched his bow;