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Octavius

[ ok-tey-vee-uhs ]

noun

  1. a male given name.


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A chip that allowed Octavius to control the arms with his mind was destroyed, and the arms began to control Octavius.

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Octavius, surnamed Augustus, really caused himself to be adored in the strictest sense of the word.

A more deep-dyed treachery than that to which Marcus Octavius at length consented is, fortunately, but seldom met with in history.

Before the vote of the eighteenth tribe was taken, Gracchus made a final appeal to Octavius to withdraw his opposition.

After some hesitation Octavius refused, and the vote of the next tribe furnished the required majority for his deposition.

Upon the deposition of Octavius the agrarian law of Gracchus was immediately passed by acclamation.

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