Actium Sæfēoht
Þæt Actium Sæfēoht wæs gefeaht on brime be Epirus on 2 Hāligmōnaþ in þæm geare 31 beforan Cristes tōcyme and wæs micel onsæcc þæs Rēmiscan ingewinnes. Þes garmitting wæs geaf þone dōm in þæm Endmestan Gewinne þære Rōmānisce Cynewīse þærin feahtede Octauianus wiþ Marcus Antonius for rīce. Æt Actie mēt Octauies līþhere geānlǣhted þrēat of Marce Antonie and Cleopatran VII Ægyptus Cwēne, on þæm Ioniscan Sǣ nēar Actium sēo burh, se wæs in Epirus Vetus Rōmāniscan underrīce on Crēacum.
Octauianes scipheres heretoga wæs Marcus Uipsanius Agrippa, and Antonies sciphere hæfde fultum of Ǣgyptes scipu gesended be Cleopatran Cwēne.
Octauian's sige geaf him þone cræft to bringenne in his handum weald ofer Rōme and his rīce. He nām þone binaman Princeps, se is 'Forma mann' and eft geaf him se Senatus ēac titul sēo is 'Augustus'. Be þissum naman wæs Octauinus gecenned in folgendum iedum. Þȳ weard Octauianus Augustus Rōmes brego se endode þā Rōmānisce Cynewīse and begann þæt Rōmānisc Rīce.[1]
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- Paul K. Davis, 100 Decisive Battles from Ancient Times to the Present: The World's Major Battles and How They Shaped History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 63.