Quotes About Octavian

My bones were buried by Octavian. I am Virgilius; and for no crime else Did I lose heaven, than for not having faith;

Reyna sent me to get Percy, Frank said. Did Octavian accept you? Yeah, Percy said. He slaughtered my panda.

Down in the water, Octavian yelled, "Get me out of here! I'll kill you!" "Tempting," Percy called down.

As Hazel marched down the hill, she cursed in Latin. Percy didn't understand all of it, but he got son of a gorgon , power-hungry snake , and a few choice suggestions about where Octavian could stick his knife.

I am praetor of the legion, Reyna said. I judge this to be in the best interest of Rome. To get yourself killed? To break our oldest laws and travel to the Ancient Lands? How will you even find their ship, assuming you survive the journey? [Octavian] I will find them, Reyna said.

Significantly, too, the triumvirs Octavian, Antony and Lepidus, promised to build a temple to Isis and Serapis to win favour with the populace (DC, 47, 15, 4). But the promise was not kept, and the war setting Octavian against Cleopatra's lover would become a war of the gods, between Apollo and 'barking Anubis

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

There was no hesitation now to address Octavian as Caesar;

of both Hirtius and Pansa—had placed Octavian in an extraordinarily powerful position.

Octavian was less generous with the remains:

Octavian made landfall on Sicily south of Tauromenium and disembarked his troops.

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

Menodorus delivered to Octavian Sardinia and Corsica, three legions, and some light-armed troops.

Although sleeping with men was apparently not to his taste, Octavian had no objection to multifarious lifestyles among members of his circle.

It is possible that Octavian arranged for Cleopatra's murder and put about the fiction that she killed herself.

Octavian's request was awkward, and Antony angrily refused it.

this was the worst crisis of Octavian's career.

even without access to Caesar's estate, Octavian had large sums of money at his disposal.

The legion was raised by Mark Antony. He filled the ranks with men from Cleopatra's army. When Antony was defeated by Octavian, the Twenty-Second was integrated into the rest of the army and has been stationed on the Nile since then. They're a mix of Greeks and Egyptians from the Nile cities.

What was said of an earlier tribune was more true of Antony: "He was a spendthrift of money and chastity—his own and other people's." The brilliant cavalry officer had all of Caesar's charm and none of his self-control. In 44 the conspirators had deemed him too inconsistent to be dangerous. After the Ides Mark Antony was in his glory, entirely the man of the hour—at least until Octavian arrived. Cleopatra

Octavian died at age seventy-six, at home in his bed, one of the few Roman emperors not murdered by close kin, another Hellenistic legacy. Having ruled for forty-four years—twice as long as Cleopatra—he had plenty of time in which to refashion the events that had brought him to power.

Offering his own scalding stream of accusations, he terrified the opposition into silence. "By certain documents," Octavian promised to demonstrate that Antony constituted a threat to Rome. He fixed a date on which he would present his evidence. The opposing consuls had seen the daggers; they knew better than to await that session, and secretly fled the city. Nearly four hundred senators followed, sailing to Ephesus

And then, this she offered to me, my one truth: "Our language," she said, "is not spoken, but sung.... Not simply words... and grammar... but melody. It was hard... thus... to learn English... this language of wood. For the people of your nation, Octavian, all speech is song.

Whether people liked or loathed him, he [Octavian] was in many ways a puzzling and contradictory revolutionary. He was once of the most radical innovators Rome ever saw.