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Octavian

American  
[ok-tey-vee-uhn] / ɒkˈteɪ vi ən /
Octavian British  
/ ɒkˈteɪvɪən /

noun

  1. the name of Augustus before he became emperor (27 bc ) See Augustus

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“We feel pretty good, because we know that there’s a lot more that we can achieve,” receiver Octavian Smith Jr. said.

From Washington Times Sep. 26, 2023

The assassination took place in the Curia Pompeia meeting hall, which was then walled up by Caesar’s heir Octavian, who would go on to name himself the first Roman emperor, Augustus.

From Washington Times Jun. 20, 2023

Rolling Stones frontman Sir Mick Jagger - who Alfallah previously dated in 2017 - had his eighth child, son Deveraux Octavian Basil, with Melanie Hamrick in 2016 when he was 73.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2023

Another was the mezzo Samantha Hankey’s alert, youthful Octavian in Strauss’s “Der Rosenkavalier.”

From New York Times Jun. 8, 2023

Octavian muttered as he read: “Rome, Arachne, Athena—Athena Parthenos?”

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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