Octavia (gens)
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The gens Octavia was a plebeian family at Rome, which was raised to patrician status by Caesar during the first century B.C. The first member of the gens to achieve prominence was Gnaeus Octavius Rufus, quaestor circa 230 B.C. Over the following two centuries, the Octavii held many of the highest offices of the state; but the most celebrated of the family was Gaius Octavius, the nephew of Caesar, who was proclaimed Augustus by the senate in 27 B.C. The Octavii origina...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The gens Octavia was a plebeian family at Rome, which was raised to patrician status by Caesar during the first century B.C. The first member of the gens to achieve prominence was Gnaeus Octavius Rufus, quaestor circa 230 B.C. Over the following two centuries, the Octavii held many of the highest offices of the state; but the most celebrated of the family was Gaius Octavius, the nephew of Caesar, who was proclaimed Augustus by the senate in 27 B.C. The Octavii originally came from the Volscian town of Velitrae, in the Alban Hills. The historian Suetonius writes, There are many indications that the Octavian family was in days of old a distinguished one at Velitrae; for not only was a street in the most frequented part of town long ago called Octavian, but an altar was shown there besides, consecrated by an Octavius. This man was leader in a war with a neighbouring town, and when news of a sudden onset of the enemy was brought to him just as he chanced to be sacrificing to Mars, he snatched the entrails of the victim from the fire and offered them up half raw; and thus he went forth to battle, and returned victorious.
