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Actium


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ACTIUM A city of Epirus, on the coast of Acarnania (now Prevenza) in the Ambracian gulf. In the earliest period not a large town, it was celebrated for a temple of Apollo, also as a safe harbour, and for an adjacent promontory of the same name - afterwards rendered more splendid, on account of the decisive naval victory gained near it by Augustus over Antony.

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Actium


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ACTIUM A city of Epirus, on the coast of Acarnania (now Prevenza) in the Ambracian gulf. In the earliest period not a large town, it was celebrated for a temple of Apollo, also as a safe harbour, and for an adjacent promontory of the same name - afterwards rendered more splendid, on account of the decisive naval victory gained near it by Augustus over Antony.

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