ABSTRACT
The story of the battle of Actium has troubled historians of all periods, and no one has been able to offer a satisfactory explanation of the startling incidents which occurred in it or of the events which led up to them. Antony at once shipped a part of his army across from Actium to the north side of the great harbour's mouth, and thus placed himself in command of the passage into the inland water. The battle was opened by the advance of Antony's left wing, and Agrippa's attempt to outflank it with his right. Antony's other divisions then moved forward, and the fight became general. After his flight the battered remnant of his fleet, having continued the fight until sunset, sailed back into the Gulf of Ambracia; and next day Octavian invited them and the army to surrender on easy terms.
