Actium

Thanks.

And they go past the land of Actium.

I just have to bring up this one quote, but we'll get into the topic later.

It says, cursing the land that spawned the vicious Ulysses.

such were the secret torchlight orgies with which the bugthea wearied the cecopian one prolongs his eyebrows with some damp soot on the edge of the needle and lifts up his blinking eyes to be painted another drinks out of an obscenely shaped glass and ties up his long locks in a gilded net he is clothed in blue checks or smooth-faced green the attendant swears by juno like his master another holds in his hand a mirror like that carried by the effeminate otho a trophy of the aruncan actor in which he gazed at his own image in full armour when he was just ready to give the order to advance a thing notable and novel in the annals of our time a mirror among the kit of civil war it needed in truth a mighty general to slay galba and keep his own skin shaved It needed a citizen of highest courage to ape the splendors of the palace on the field of Bibriachon, and plaster his face with dough.

Never did the quiver-bearing Semiramis the like in her Assyrian realm, nor the despairing Cleopatra on board her ship at Actium.

No decency of language is there here, no regard for the manners of the table.

you will hear all the fool talk and squeaking tones of cybele a gray-haired frenzied old man presides over the rites he is a rare and notable master of the art of gluttony and should be hired to teach it but why wait any longer when it were time in fragile fashion to lop off the superfluous flesh Cracus has presented to a cornered player, or perhaps it was a player on the straight horn, a dowry of four hundred thousand sesterces.

Then they set sail, and the south wind blowing passed by Zacynthus and Dulichium, and also Ithaca, which they cursed as they passed, because it was the land of the hateful Ulysses.

And so came to Actium, where they landed.

There also they did sacrifice to the gods, and had games of wrestling and others, rejoicing that they had passed safely through so many cities of their enemies.

And there they wintered, and Aeneas fixed on the doors of the temple of Apollo a shield of bronze, which he had won in battle from the valiant Abas, writing thereon these words, Aeneas dedicates these arms won from the victorious Greeks.

Here Catiline hung from the rock while the Furies pursued him.

There Cato gave the people laws and all about was the sea wrought in gold, but the waves were blue and white the foam and therein sported dolphins of silver.

But in the midst was wrought a great battle of ships at the Cape of Actium.

On the one side Augustus led the men of Italy to battle standing very high on the stern of the ship.

Tiberius also rapidly enumerated the legions and the provinces which they had to garrison.

i too ought i think to go through these details and thus show what forces rome then had under arms what kings were our allies and how much narrower then were the limits of our empire Italy on both seas was guarded by fleets, at Misenum and at Ravenna, and the contiguous coast of Gaul by ships of war captured in the victory of Actium, and sent by Augustus powerfully manned to the town of Foro Julium.

But chief strength was on the Rhine, as a defence alike against Germans and Gauls, and numbered eight legions.

spain lately subjugated was held by three mauritania was king juba's who had received it as a gift from the roman people The rest of Africa was garrisoned by two legions, and Egypt by the same number.

such were the secret torchlight orgies with which the bugthea wearied the cecopian one prolongs his eyebrows with some damp soot on the edge of the needle and lifts up his blinking eyes to be painted another drinks out of an obscenely shaped glass and ties up his long locks in a gilded net he is clothed in blue checks or smooth-faced green the attendant swears by juno like his master another holds in his hand a mirror like that carried by the effeminate otho a trophy of the aruncan actor in which he gazed at his own image in full armour when he was just ready to give the order to advance a thing notable and novel in the annals of our time a mirror among the kit of civil war it needed in truth a mighty general to slay galba and keep his own skin shaved It needed a citizen of highest courage to ape the splendors of the palace on the field of Bibriachon, and plaster his face with dough.

Never did the quiver-bearing Semiramis the like in her Assyrian realm, nor the despairing Cleopatra on board her ship at Actium.

No decency of language is there here, no regard for the manners of the table.

you will hear all the fool talk and squeaking tones of cybele a gray-haired frenzied old man presides over the rites he is a rare and notable master of the art of gluttony and should be hired to teach it but why wait any longer when it were time in frigid fashion to lop off the superfluous flesh Krakus has presented to a cornered player, or perhaps it was a player on the straight horn, a dowry of four hundred thousand sesterces.

We know an enormous amount about his career, battles he fought, where he commanded the army.

We know about the Battle of Actium, obviously.

We know the buildings he put up.

You mentioned the Pantheon and the aqueducts and so on.

There were lots of other big characters like Mark Antony and Cleopatra and Julius Caesar.

And, you know, it was – several of them enjoyed writing a book as much as I did this one.

Is Actium the big naval showdown between Cleopatra, Mark Antony versus the other side? Is that kind of your favorite battle?

That is my favorite battle, yes.