Get to know Actium better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like town.
Actium in a sentence
Actium meaning
A promontory in Acarnania in Ancient Greece where Mark Antony and Cleopatra were defeated by Octavian in a naval battle in 31 B.C.
Synonyms of Actium
Using Actium
- The main meaning on this page is: A promontory in Acarnania in Ancient Greece where Mark Antony and Cleopatra were defeated by Octavian in a naval battle in 31 B.C.
- Useful related words include: town, naval battle.
- In the example corpus, actium often appears in combinations such as: of actium.
Context around Actium
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 7 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Actium
- In this selection, "actium" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, near, agrippa and today stand out and add context to how "actium" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include alexander to actium first as and battle of actium agrippa built. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "actium" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with actium
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In commemoration of the Battle of Actium, Agrippa built and dedicated the building that served as the Roman Pantheon before its destruction in 80AD. (24 words)
Order of battle Order of battle The two fleets met outside the Gulf of Actium (today Preveza ), on the morning of 2 September 31 BC. (25 words)
J.M. Carter argues in The Battle of Actium: The Rise and Triumph of Augustus Caesar that Antony knew he was surrounded and had nowhere to run. (27 words)
Peter Green, Alexander to Actium First as a hostage in Rome, then as client to the Scipios, and finally as a collaborator with Roman rule after 146 BC, Polybius was not in a position to freely express any negative opinions of Rome. (42 words)
It was there that Antony's fleet faced the much larger fleet of smaller, more maneuverable ships under commanders Agrippa and Gaius Sosius in the battle of Actium on 2 September 31 BC. (33 words)
Three years after Pompey's defeat at the battle of Actium, Caesar dedicated his new Roman Forum, complete with a temple to his ancestor Venus Genetrix, "apparently in fulfillment of the vow". (32 words)
Example sentences (10)
Archaeology In 1980 the Greek Ministry of Transport and Communications reported that shipwrecks from the Battle of Actium had been located at Actium near the entrance to the Ambracian Gulf.
Dio Cassius, Roman history, 51.1.3 Octavian instituted or renewed the games known as Actia or Ludi Actiaci, named after Actium in Nicopolis (the new city) to memorialise the battle.
In commemoration of the Battle of Actium, Agrippa built and dedicated the building that served as the Roman Pantheon before its destruction in 80AD.
It was there that Antony's fleet faced the much larger fleet of smaller, more maneuverable ships under commanders Agrippa and Gaius Sosius in the battle of Actium on 2 September 31 BC.
J.M. Carter argues in The Battle of Actium: The Rise and Triumph of Augustus Caesar that Antony knew he was surrounded and had nowhere to run.
Lepidus was driven into exile and stripped of his position, and Antony committed suicide following his defeat at the Battle of Actium by Octavian in 31 BC.
Order of battle Order of battle The two fleets met outside the Gulf of Actium (today Preveza ), on the morning of 2 September 31 BC.
Peter Green, Alexander to Actium First as a hostage in Rome, then as client to the Scipios, and finally as a collaborator with Roman rule after 146 BC, Polybius was not in a position to freely express any negative opinions of Rome.
Three years after Pompey's defeat at the battle of Actium, Caesar dedicated his new Roman Forum, complete with a temple to his ancestor Venus Genetrix, "apparently in fulfillment of the vow".
When the Roman Republic ultimately fell in the years following the Battle of Actium and Mark Antony 's suicide, what was left of the Roman constitution died along with the Republic.
Common combinations with actium
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of actium 8×