Definition of Antonius

1. Noun. Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars; repudiated his wife for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra; they were defeated by Octavian at Actium (83-30 BC).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Antonius

Antonin Dvorak
Antonina
Antonine
Antonine Wall
Antoninus
Antonio
Antonio Allegri da Correggio
Antonio Gaudi
Antonio Gaudi i Cornet
Antonio Ghislieri
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi
Antonio Stradivari
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonius (current term)
Antonius Pius
Antonius Stradivarius
Antonov
Antony
Antony Tudor
Antp
Antrozous
Antrozous pallidus
Antum
Antwerp
Antwerpen
Antwerpian
Antyllus
Antyllus' method

Literary usage of Antonius

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Rome by Robert Fowler Leighton (1883)
"Antonius saw her flight, and immediately sprang into a five-oared galley and followed her.1 The battle still raged furiously, but before evening the fleet ..."

2. A General History of Rome from the Foundation of the City to the Fall of by Charles Merivale (1886)
"Within a week after his death Antonius had set himself up as a second tyrant, hardly less powerful, hardly more disguised, than the first. ..."

3. The World's Orators: Comprising the Great Orations of the World's History by Guy Carleton Lee (1901)
"Caesar's death gave Antonius the opportunity to make himself the virtual ... Antonius might have controlled and eventually conquered this opposition to his ..."

4. History of the Romans Under the Empire: With a Copious Analytical Index by Charles Merivale (1866)
"CHARACTER OP Antonius. (AU 718-724, B. c. 86-30.) triumph of Ventidius, the only Roman, as Plutarch reminds us, who up to this time had gained such a ..."

5. A History of Latin Literature from Ennius to Boethius by George Augustus Simcox (1883)
"He still shrank from defying Antonius in his presence, and even when he spoke he said ... Antonius, however, was resolved upon subduing or crushing the one ..."

6. History of the Romans Under the Empire by Charles Merivale (1865)
"Antonius reassures the nobles by his patriotic policy—He abolishes the dictatorship for ... Antonius induces the senate to take Syria and Macedonia from, ..."

7. A History of the New Testament Times by Adolf Hausrath (1878)
"The ancients called this intrigue Antonius' great overthrow, ... Antonius' was one of those undisciplined natures produced by times of revolution; ..."

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