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| John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2 | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Appian, The Civil Wars (ed. Horace White) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. Theodore C. Williams) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. John Dryden) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. John Dryden). You can also browse the collection for Actium or search for Actium in all documents.
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Betwixt the quarters flows a golden sea;
But foaming surges there in silver play.
The dancing dolphins with their tails divide
The glitt'ring waves, and cut the precious tide.
Amid the main, two mighty fleets engage
Their brazen beaks, oppos'd with equal rage.
Actium surveys the well-disputed prize;
Leucate's wat'ry plain with foamy billows fries.
Young Caesar, on the stern, in armor bright,
Here leads the Romans and their gods to fight:
His beamy temples shoot their flames afar,
And o'er his head is hung the Julian star.
Agrippa seconds him, with prosp'rous gales,
And, with propitious gods, his foes assails:
A naval crown, that binds his manly brows,
The happy fortune of the fight foreshows.
Rang'd on the line oppos'd, Antonius brings
Barbarian aids, and troops of Eastern kings;
Th' Arabians near, and Bactrians from afar,
Of tongues discordant, and a mingled war:
And, rich in gaudy robes, amidst the strife,
His ill fate follows him—th' Egyptian wife.
Moving they fight; with oars and f