C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Augustus (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 17 (search)
late an hour, that, after the victory, he was
obliged to sleep on board his ship. From Actium he went
to the isle of Samos to winter; but being alarmed with
the accounts of a mutiny amongst the soldiers he had
selected from the main body of his army sent to Brundisium after the victory, who insisted on their being rewarded for their service and discharged, he returned to
Italy. In his passage thither, he encountered two violent
storms, the first between the promontories of Peloponnesus and AEtolia, and the other about the Ceraunian
mountains; in both of which a part of his Liburnian
squadron was sunk, the spars and rigging of his own
ship carried away, and the rudder broken in pieces. He
remained only twenty-seven days at Brundisium, until
the demands of the soldiers were settled, and then went,
by way of Asia and Syria, to Egypt, where laying siege
to Alexandria, whither Antony had fled with Cleopatra,
he made himself master of it in a short time. He drove
Antony to kill himself, af
