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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
hazard a battle by sea with his

inexperienced mariners, but to send Cleopatra

back to Egypt, and hasten at once into Thrace

or Macedonia, and trust the issue to his land

forces, who were composed of veteran troops.

But he, illustrating the old adage, Quem Deus

vult perdere, prius dementat (whom God

wishes to destroy, he first makes mad),

infatuated by Cleopatra, seemed only desirous

of pleasing her; and she, trusting to

appearances only, deemed her fleet invincible,

and advised immediate action.

The battle was fought Sept. 2, B. C. 31, at the

mouth of the gulf of Ambracia, near the city of

Actium. The world was the stake for which

these stern warriors, Antony and Caesar, now

played. The contest, long doubtful, was at

length decided by the course which Cleopatra