Marcus Antonius


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Noun1.Marcus Antonius - Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic warsMarcus Antonius - 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)
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You must except, nevertheless, Marcus Antonius, the half partner of the empire of Rome, and Appius Claudius, the decemvir and lawgiver; whereof the former was indeed a voluptuous man, and inordinate; but the latter was an austere and wise man: and therefore it seems (though rarely) that love can find entrance, not only into an open heart, but also into a heart well fortified, if watch be not well kept.
In 41 BC, the Palmyrenes decided to build a wall "customs wall" around their city to protect it from marauders and invaders after Roman Leader Marcus Antonius invaded Palmyra city due to its richness in treasures as it was an international trading center on the Silk Road, Secretary of Palmyra Museum told SANA reporter.
However, the Roman legions were under the command of one Gaius Julius Caesar, and one of his principal lieutenants was Marcus Antonius. History calls him Marc Antony.
They cover Mithradates I and the Parthian archer, the Seleucids imprisoned: Arsacid-Roman hostage submission and its Hellenistic precedents, Marcus Antonius' Median war and the dynastic politics of the Near East, finding common ground: Roman-Parthian embassies in the Julio-Claudian period, Herod the Great: a Near Eastern case study of Roman-Parthian politics, Osrhoene and Mesopotamia between Rome and Arsacid Parthia, and beyond Rome/Parthia: intersections of local and imperial traditions in the visual record of Hatra.
They provide useful historical background on the careers of Cato the Elder, Marcus Antonius, and Lucius Licinius Crassus, indicating their contributions to early oratorical practice.
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"Die Monodia des Marcus Antonius Muretus zum Tod des Pariser Parlamentsprasidenten Christophe de Thou (1583)--Idealbilder von Humanismus und Gerechtigkeit"; 3.
In the period 37-34 BC, two series of coins (one with Latin legends, the other Greek) were issued in Crete and Cyrenaica to mark the Roman triumvir Marcus Antonius' assignment of these territories to Cleopatra Selene, his daughter by Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt.
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Mark Antony (or Marcus Antonius): A Roman general and one of the three men who rule Rome after the assassination of Julius Caesar (the title of another play in which the character of Mark Antony also appears).
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