He helped Octavian (later Augustus) take power after Julius Caesar's murder (44), defeating Sextus Pompeius in 36 and Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium in 31. 在凯撒(Caesar)被刺(西元前44年)后,他协助屋大维(后来的奥古斯都)于西元前36年击败庞培(Sextus Pompeius),又在西元前31年亚克兴角战役(Battle of Actium)中击败安东尼。
Actium (Greek: Ἄκτιον) was the ancient name of a promontory of western Greece in northwestern Acarnania, at the mouth of the Ambracian Gulf). Actium is chiefly famous as the site of the naval Battle of Actium, in which Octavian won a decisive victory over Mark Antony on September 2, 31 BC.
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近义词
n.
town, naval battle
英英词典
actium n.
an ancient town on a promontory in western Greece
the naval battle in which Antony and Cleopatra were defeated by Octavian's fleet under Agrippa in 31 BC