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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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te. Latein the day, while the issue was still undecided,Cleopatra, who Avith her sixty galleys was inthe rear of the line of Antonius, believing,perhaps, that victory was incliuiug to the sideof Octavianus, caught a favoring breeze andfled from the scene. Antonius, thereupon,choosing the society of a woman to the domin-ion of the world, flung himself into a swift-sailing galley and followed in the wake of herflight. For a while the conflict was continuedby his lieutenants, but they were presentlyborne down by the vessels of Agrippa anddriven from the sea. The victory was decisiveand final. The land forces of Antonius madea voluntary surrender and were incorporatedwith the army of the conqueror. Octavianus made haste to settle the afl^airsof Greece, long groaning under the exactionsof Antonius, and then pursued that illustriousfugitive to Egypt. There he and Cleopatrahad resumed their old life of luxury and abandonment. They fi-asted and reveled to satiety ROME.—THE IMPERIAL REPUBLIC
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