Actium
//ˈæk.ti.əm// name
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Proper Noun
- 1 A promontory in Acarnania in Ancient Greece where Mark Antony and Cleopatra were defeated by Octavian in a naval battle in 31 B.C.
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More examples"Saved beyond hope and glad the land is won, / and lustral rites, with blazing altars, pay / to Jove, and make the shores of Actium gay / with Ilian games, as, like our sires, we strip / and oil our sinews for the wrestler's play. / Proud, thus escaping from the foemen's grip, / past all the Argive towns, through swarming Greeks, to slip."
Etymology
From Latin Actium, from Ancient Greek Ἄκτιον (Áktion).
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