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OW that the reader has become familiar with the greater epochs and eras, it will be suitable to introduce to his notice a series of lesser cycles; and for more convenient reference these are arranged in alphabetical order.

,—This era (deriving its title from the great sea-fight) dates from 31 B.C. Octavian thereafter became Emperor of the then known wordworld [sic] as the result of that battle. After the epoch of Augustus (otherwise Octavian) that is from 27 B.C., there were thirty-three imperial reigns till the partition of the Empire in 364 A.D. It will suffice to give these in order of time so far as Constantine the Great, when Rome became nominally a Christian empire. The successor of Augustus was