Quotes About Everitt

From his childhood on he had had an obstinate nature and his name became a byword for virtue and truthfulness. "That's incredible, even if Cato says so," was a common expression.

and he had been discreetly invaluable in Illyricum.

the boy was given the signal honor of delivering a eulogy at her funeral.

It commanded an empire stretching from Spain (which it had inherited from the Carthaginians nearly a century before)

Caesarion was the murdered god's real, not adoptive, offspring;

Antony showed little interest in Sextus, but was irritated to find that he had offered his services to the Parthian king.

he went out of his way to shower Octavian with praise.

However, a coin of Antony's, issued at Tarentum, shows Antony's and Octavia's heads facing each other:

He had become a well-loved figure in Apollonia and many of its citizens came to his house begging him to stay.

Caesar had written a new will during the brief Italian holiday on his return from Spain in 45 B.C.

The remaining units of the republican army surrendered.

presently occupied by Cleopatra, who was busy packing her bags for a rapid exit to Egypt.

Octavian was less generous with the remains:

Officially, a legion had a strength of between four thousand and six thousand men

Eighteen cities in Italy were marked down for land confiscation and freeholders were summarily dispossessed.

they missed the opportunity not only to win a decisive victory but also to capture the triumvir.

Antony, who had spent the winter at Athens, agreed to return to Italy in the spring or early

This was a massive blow to Rome's pride that would demand revenge

ILLYRICUM WAS A WILD AND savage place. It lay along much of the length of the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea

the writing of a monumental history of Rome, from the foundation to 9 B.C.

The only eventuality Octavian wanted to avoid was Antony joining him in the war against Sextus.

Varus saw it, the army was there on a policing rather than a military mission.

Octavius was already married to a woman of whom history has recorded nothing except for her name, Ancharia.

He also made the technical point that the adoption was not yet official