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. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Octavian's net closed slowly round his rival. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Octavian took the hardier west, and consolidated his power; Antony had the more gorgeous east--and Cleopatra. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
She had an interview with Octavian, in which she presented herself as beauty in distress and very lightly clad. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
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. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
In 32 B.C. Octavian induced the Senate to depose Antony from the command of the east, and proceeded to attack him. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Finally he found himself and Cleopatra besieged by Octavian in Alexandria. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Octavian seems to have been almost entirely free from the divine aspirations of Julius C?sar and Antony. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Any revival of the kingly title was out of the question, and Octavian himself expressly refused the dictatorship. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
There were some sallies and minor successes, and Antony was loud with challenges to Octavian to decide the matter by personal combat. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.