Were the two armies of nearly equal strength?
26.

What was the consequence?
27.

What further measures were adopted?
SECTION VII.
_Octavia_.

--You have been his ruin.
Who made him cheap at Rome, but Cleopatra?
Who made him scorned abroad, but Cleopatra?
At Actium who betrayed him?
Cleopatra .-- _Dryden_.
1.

The only obstacle to the ambition of Augustus was Antony, whom he resolved to remove; and for that purpose rendered his character at Rome as contemptible as he possibly could.