Crossword clues for octavian
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, from Latin, from Octavius, from octavus "eighth," from octo (see eight).\n\nBut although we find so marked differences in the use of the numerals as names, it is impossible to believe that this use did not arise in the same way for all; that is, that they were at first used to distinguish children by the order of birth. But when we find them as praenomina in historical times it is evident that they no longer referred to order of birth.
[George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina," "Harvard Studies in Classical Philology," 1897]
Wikipedia
Octavian may refer to:
People- Octavian Abrudan (b.1984), Romanian footballer
- Octavian Belu (b.1951), Romanian gymnastics coach
- Octavian Bodișteanu (b.1977), Moldovan politician
- Octavian Chihaia (b.1981), Romanian footballer
- Octavian Drăghici (b.1985), Romanian footballer
- Octavian Goga (1881-1938), Romanian politician, poet and playwright
- Octavian Grigore (b.1964), Romanian footballer
- Octavian Guţu (b.1982), Moldovan swimmer
- Octavian Ionescu (b.1990), Romanian footballer
- Ștefan Octavian Iosif (1875-1913), Romanian poet and translator
- Octavian Nemescu (b.1940), Romanian composer
- Octavian Ormenișan (b.1992), Romanian footballer
- Octavian Paler (1926-2007), Romanian writer and activist
- Octavian Popescu (b.1938), Romanian footballer
- Octavian Popescu (footballer born 1985)
- Octavian Smigelschi (1866-1912), Austro-Hungarian Romanian painter
- Octavian Codru Tăslăuanu (1876-1942), Romanian magazine editor and politician
- Octavian Țîcu (b.1972), Moldovan politician
- Octavian Utalea (1868-?), Romanian politician
- Octavian Vintilă (b.1938), Romanian fencer
- Octavian Zidaru (b.1953), Romanian fencer
- Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ( anglicized Octavian), the name of Augustus (63 BC – 14 AD) before he became Emperor of Rome
- Octavian, the Antipope Victor IV (1159–1164)
- Octavian, the title character in the 1911 opera Der Rosenkavalier
- Octavian, the real name of Gus, a mouse in the 1950 Disney movie Cinderella
- Octavian, a legacy of Apollo from The Heroes of Olympus novels
- Octavian (romance), 14th century Middle English poem
- Octavians, financial commissioners in 16th century Scotland
Octavian is a 14th-century Middle English verse translation and abridgement of a mid-13th century Old French romance of the same name. This Middle English version exists in three manuscript copies and in two separate compositions, one of which may have been written by the 14th-century poet Thomas Chestre who also composed Libeaus Desconus and Sir Launfal. The other two copies are not by Chestre and preserve a version of the poem in regular twelve-line tail rhyme stanzas, a verse structure that was popular in the 14th century in England. Both poetic compositions condense the Old French romance to about 1800 lines, a third of its original length, and relate “incidents and motifs common in legend, romance and chanson de geste.” The story describes a trauma that unfolds in the household of Octavian, later the Roman Emperor Augustus, whose own mother deceives him into sending his wife and his two newborn sons into exile and likely death. After many adventures, the family are at last reunited and the guilty mother-in-law appropriately punished.
Octavian (1807–1833) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire best known for winning the classic St Leger Stakes in 1810. Despite suffering from hoof problems he was beaten only twice in a nine race career which lasted from April 1810 until September 1812, and which was conducted entirely in Yorkshire. Apart from his classic success, his most important win came in 1812, when he won a division of the Great Subscription Purse at York. He was retired to stud, where he had an early success by siring the St Leger winner Antonio, but his subsequent record was disappointing. Octavian died in 1833 at the age of twenty-six.
Usage examples of "octavian".
Did Octavian have asthma, it makes everything that happened to him during that campaign in Macedonia logical, including his fleeing to the sea breezes and cleaner air of the salt marshes while dry ground was fogged by a suffocating pall of chaffy dust.
As soon as they had entered upon their office, Hirtius, accompanied by Octavian, marched into Cisalpine Gaul, while Pansa remained in the city to levy troops.
Through the advice of Asinius Pollio, who was then governor of Cisalpine Gaul, and was himself a poet, Virgil applied to Octavian at Rome for the restitution of his land, and obtained his request.
Pling asked him what happened and Zik recounted the trick in Octavian.
Convinced that Nonius would, Octavian backtracked to the junction of the Via Minucia and the Via Appia at Beneventum, picked up the Via Appia there and resumed his journey to Neapolis, where he arrived toward the end of April to find Philippus and his mother in a fever of worry.
Lepidus had proscribed his brother Paullus, Antony his uncle Lucius Caesar and Octavian cousins, though none was executed.
But something like this transformation was seen when Octavian, the crafty and selfish intriguer, ripened into the wise and statesmanlike Augustus.
Octavian, battling with the quagmire, which seemed to have learned the rare art of giving way at all points without yielding an inch, saw his daughter slowly disappearing in the engulfing slush, her smeared face further distorted with the contortions of whimpering wonder, while from their perch on the pigsty roof the three children looked down with the cold unpitying detachment of the Parcae Sisters.
Octavian learned that Antony had changed his mind about driving for Rome through Campania and turned to follow his first three legions up the Adriatic coast to Italian Gaul and Decimus Brutus, he decided to march on Rome.
The Legio Martia had declared for Octavian, had turned off the Adriatic road and was heading for Rome on the Via Valeria, thinking that Octavian was still in Rome.
Octavian took Maecenas, Salvidienus and the Apennine-hopping Marcus Agrippa, recently returned with two wagons full of wooden planks.
Octavian, who was surprised by the storm off the Lucanian promontory of Palinurus, lost a great number of his ships, and was obliged to remain in Italy to repair his shattered fleet.
Octavian and Quintus Pedius were the new consuls, and wrote frantically to Cassius, urging him to abandon any campaigns against Egypt or the Parthians.
Though Quintus Pedius thus learned publicly that his consulship was about to end, Octavian saved the news of the proscriptions to tell him afterward.
If Juliet was married off and Octavian was threatened with being cast out, how would the earl fix Geoff himself?