🔘 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OCTAVIAN AND ALEXANDER THE GREAT “He learned that Alexander, having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was at an utter loss to know what he should do during the rest of his life, whereat Augustus expressed his surprise that Alexander did not regard it as a greater risk to set in order the empire which he had won than to win it.” Plutarch, Sayings Of The Romans