Caius Octavius

Role: father of Augustus · First appears: Julius Caesar 83

In Julius Caesar’s last will, Julius Caesar named Caius Octavius as heir to three fourths of his estate, while his cousins Lucius Pinarius and Quintus Pedius received the remaining fourth. Julius Caesar also adopted Caius Octavius into his family, requiring him to assume Caesar’s name.

After his praetorship, Caius Octavius obtained Macedonia by lot. On his way there, he cut off bandits occupying the territory of Thurium, then, in governing the province, defeated the Bessians and Thracians in a great battle. He was “from his earliest years, a person both of opulence and distinction,” and Quintus was to imitate the example of his neighbour Octavius.

Relationship record

Life events

• Julius Caesar named Caius Octavius, Lucius Pinarius, and Quintus Pedius as heirs.(Julius Caesar 83)
  • With: Julius Caesar Lucius Pinarius Quintus Pedius
  • “But in his last will, he named three heirs, the grandsons of his sisters; namely, Caius Octavius for three fourths of his estate, and Lucius Pinarius and Quintus Pedius for the remaining fourth.”
• Julius Caesar adopted Caius Octavius into his family, requiring him to assume Caesar’s name.(Julius Caesar 83)
  • With: Julius Caesar
  • “in which he also adopted Caius Octavius, who was to assume his name, into his family;”
• Caius Octavius obtained by lot the province of Macedonia.(Augustus 3 · 📍 Macedonia)
  • “After his praetorship, he obtained by lot the province of Macedonia;”
• Caius Octavius cut off bandits occupying the territory of Thurium.(Augustus 3 · 📍 Thurium)
  • “in his way to which he cut off some banditti, the relics of the armies of Spartacus and Catiline, who had possessed themselves of the territory of Thurium;”
• Caius Octavius defeated the Bessians and Thracians in a great battle.(Augustus 3 · 📍 Macedonia)
  • “for he defeated the Bessians and Thracians in a great battle,”

Julius Caesar 83

• elder kin: Julius Caesar (grand-nephew) “But in his last will, he named three heirs, the grandsons of his sisters; namely, Caius Octavius for three fourths of his estate, and Lucius Pinarius and Quintus Pedius for the remaining fourth.”
• cousins with Lucius Pinarius “But in his last will, he named three heirs, the grandsons of his sisters; namely, Caius Octavius for three fourths of his estate, and Lucius Pinarius and Quintus Pedius for the remaining fourth.”
• cousins with Quintus Pedius “But in his last will, he named three heirs, the grandsons of his sisters; namely, Caius Octavius for three fourths of his estate, and Lucius Pinarius and Quintus Pedius for the remaining fourth.”
• parent: Julius Caesar (adoptive parent) “in which he also adopted Caius Octavius, who was to assume his name, into his family;”
• with Julius Caesar (heir) “But in his last will, he named three heirs, the grandsons of his sisters; namely, Caius Octavius for three fourths of his estate, and Lucius Pinarius and Quintus Pedius for the remaining fourth.”

Augustus 3

• child: Augustus “His father Caius Octavius was, from his earliest years, a person both of opulence and distinction”
• with Quintus (neighbours) “to imitate the example of his neighbour Octavius”

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