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Often appears with: siege and fortification · pompey · naval warfare and sea power · conquest, plunder, and captives · baiae julian harbour · actium and alexandria
Usually: narrative (1) · confronting death (1) · sudden reversal of fortune (1) · detachment (1)
Suetonius narrates Augustus’s Sicilian war delays, his defeat of Pompey, disputes over his sleep and storm-losses, and later the final conflict with Antony culminating in the siege of Alexandria and Antony’s suicide.
The children which Antony had by Cleopatra he saved, and brought up and cherished in a manner suitable to their rank, just as if they had been his own relations. XVIII. At this time he had a desire to see the sarcophagus and body of Alexander the Great, which, for that purpose, were taken out of the cell in which they rested [128]; and after viewing them for some time, he paid honours to the memory of that prince, …