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  • proper noun A male given name, in occasional use.

Etymologies

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From Latin Octāvius, name of a Roman gens.

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Examples

  • Octavius is "all business, a prig" so we have been some-more sympathetic to Antony than we would otherwise be, notwithstanding his peevishness as good as his youth romantic impetuosity.

    Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009

  • Octavius is tricked into giving over the arms by being offered a job as a consultant to a cybernetic research company or some such.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009

  • III. vi --- Octavia pleads with her hermit to have up a quarrel with her husband, nonetheless Octavius is as sour opposite Antony as a latter is opposite him.

    Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009

  • III. vi --- Octavia pleads with her hermit to have up a quarrel with her husband, nonetheless Octavius is as sour opposite Antony as a latter is opposite him.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • Octavius is "all business, a prig" so we have been some-more sympathetic to Antony than we would otherwise be, notwithstanding his peevishness as good as his youth romantic impetuosity.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • Octavius is a Latin-speaking Luke Skywalker who is taught by a Han Solo-like gladiator, Tyrannus (Jonathan Cake), to fight with swords to gain his throne.

    Archive 2005-06-01 JDsg 2005

  • Octavius is a Latin-speaking Luke Skywalker who is taught by a Han Solo-like gladiator, Tyrannus (Jonathan Cake), to fight with swords to gain his throne.

    Awaken or die! JDsg 2005

  • Octavius is being funded by Harry Osborn to conduct cutting-edge experiments.

    Spider-Man 2 Review « Michael in Nashville 2004

  • Octavius is being funded by Harry Osborn to conduct cutting-edge experiments.

    Spider-Man 2 Review « Michael in Nashville 2004

  • Felix, xiv., where Cæcilius calls Octavius “pistorum praecipuus et postremus philosophus” (“chief of believers and lowest of philosophers”).

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

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