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Antony

[ an-tuh-nee ]

noun

  1. Mark Marcus Antonius, 83?–30 b.c., Roman general: friend of Caesar; member of the second triumvirate and rival of Octavian.
  2. a male given name.


Antony

/ ˈæntənɪ /

noun

  1. AntonyMark?83 bc30 bcMRomanMILITARY: generalPOLITICS: statesman Mark. Latin name Marcus Antonius. ?83–30 bc , Roman general who served under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars and became a member of the second triumvirate (43). He defeated Brutus and Cassius at Philippi (42) but having repudiated his wife for Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, he was defeated by his brother-in-law Octavian (Augustus) at Actium (31)


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Mark Antony supposedly gave the island to Cleopatra as a gift, and King Richard the Lionheart wed Queen Joanna there in 1191.

Antony Polonsky's The Jews in Poland and Russia is a stupendous - almost crushing - work of scholarship.

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The two had adopted two children, Isabella Jane, born in December 1992, and Connor Antony, born in January 1995.

I understood, Mr. Clifton, that you were the solicitor employed to wind up the affairs of the late Mr. Antony Clifton.

I can see now the happy ruminating smile which came so often on my Uncle Antony's face in those latter months.

He contrived, it was said, to be at once as rich as Croesus and as riotous as Mark Antony.

Antony and Cleopatra had been captured and brought into the dining-room, where they were to spend the winter in a glass bowl.

In less than two minutes the cranium of Mark Antony Figgins was as smooth and destitute of hair as a bladder of lard.

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