Octavius

Family: Julio-Claudian · Role: father of Augustus · First appears: Augustus 7

Life events

• Octavius was chosen general and returned victorious after the enemy’s sudden attack.(Augustus 1 · 📍 Velitrae)
  • “who being chosen general in a war with some neighbouring people, the enemy making a sudden attack, while he was sacrificing to Mars, he immediately snatched the entrails of the victim from off the fire, and offered them half raw upon the altar; after which, marching out to battle, he returned victorious.”
• A law required half-raw entrails to be offered to Mars, with the remaining victim given to the Octavii.(Augustus 1 · 📍 Velitrae)
  • With: Mars Octavii
  • “This incident gave rise to a law, by which it was enacted, that in all future times the entrails should be offered to Mars in the same manner; and the rest of the victim be carried to the Octavii.”

Augustus 7

• child: Augustus “his father Octavius had been successful against the fugitive slaves, in the country near Thurium.”

Augustus 27

• child: Augustus “even proscribed Caius Toranius, his guardian; who had been formerly the colleague of his father Octavius in the aedileship.”

Augustus 94

• child: Augustus “His father Octavius, likewise, dreamt that a sun-beam issued from his wife’s womb.”
• married with Atia “Atia, upon attending at midnight a religious solemnity in honour of Apollo, when the rest of the matrons retired home, fell asleep on her couch in the temple, and that a serpent immediately crept to her, and soon after withdrew. She awaking upon it, purified herself, as usual after the embraces of her husband; and instantly there appeared upon her body a mark in the form of a serpent, which she never after could efface, and which obliged her, during the subsequent part of her life, to decline the use of the public baths. Augustus, it was added, was born in the tenth month after, and for that reason was thought to be the son of Apollo. The same Atia, before her delivery, dreamed that her bowels stretched to the stars, and expanded through the whole circuit of heaven and earth. His father Octavius, likewise, dreamt that a sun-beam issued from his wife’s womb.”

Augustus 100

• child: Augustus “He expired in the same room in which his father Octavius had died”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.