Marcus Octavius

Also known as: Octavius · Family: Roman · Role: general · First appears: Cato the Younger

Life events

• The people deposed Marcus Octavius from his tribuneship after he refused to permit the land law's vote.(Tiberius Gracchus)
  • With: Tiberius Gracchus
  • “The law for his deprivation being thus voted, Tiberius ordered one of his servants, whom he had made a freeman, to remove Octavius from the rostra”

Cato the Younger

• rivals with Cato the Younger “Marcus Octavius, coming with two legions, now encamped near Utica, and sent to Cato, to arrange about the chief command.”

Tiberius Gracchus

• friends with Tiberius Gracchus “his fellow-tribune, who, being a young man of a steady, orderly character, and an intimate friend of Tiberius”
• rivals with Tiberius Gracchus “Hence there arose daily contentions between him and Octavius in their orations”

Caius Gracchus

• with Caius Gracchus (interaction) “One of these laws was manifestly leveled at Marcus Octavius”
• with Tiberius Gracchus (interaction) “Marcus Octavius, who, at the instigation of Tiberius, had been deprived of his tribuneship”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.