The Decisive Battle of Philippi, B. C. 42; Antony and Octavius
Divide the Empire of the World Between Them; Trouble between
Antony and Octavius; Antony’s Dissipations; His Passion for
Egypt’s Queen; Octavius (the Future Augustus) Raises Fresh
Legions to Oppose Antony; The Latter Proclaims Cleopatra Queen
of Cyprus and Cilicia; The Republic Suspicious of Antony;
Octavius Declares War Against Cleopatra; Crosses the Ionian Sea
with his Fleet and Army, and Anchors at Actium, in Epirus;
Meeting of the Roman and Antony’s Fleets; Preparation for Battle;
A Grand Scene; Cleopatra’s Magnificent Galley; Discomfiture of
Antony’s Centre; Cleopatra Panic-stricken; Flight of the Egyptian
Contingent; Antony Follows Cleopatra; His Fleet Surrenders to
Octavius; The Land Forces Refuse to Believe in Antony’s
Defection; Despairing of His Return, they Accept Octavius’
Overtures and Pass Under his Banner; Octavius Master of the
World; Suicide of Antony and Cleopatra. I-48