Gaius Octavius

Gaius Octavius ​​(* probably 101 BC or a little earlier; † 59 or 58 BC in Nola) was a Roman politician and father of Emperor Augustus.

Octavius ​​came from a resident of Velitrae Knight family, the gens Octavia. He held unusually twice a Militärtribunat. The Bursary around the year 70 BC, Octavius ​​was the first to his family after a long time (a distant ancestor, Gnaeus Octavius ​​Rufus, was BC already been quaestor in the 3rd century ), a senatorial career in office ( cursus honorum ) when he (probably BC the following year 63 ) reached by the office of aedilis plebis (probably no later than 64 BC, together with Gaius Toranius ) and the function of a judge, the praetorship, he 61 BC held after he had been elected with the highest number of votes of all candidates.

In the two years after that was Octavius ​​governor of Macedonia. On the way to the province he struck at Thurii in southern Italy a small uprising of survivors of the rebellion of Spartacus and Catiline down. His son, he then gave the Siegesbeinamen Thurinus. In Macedonia Octavius ​​led successful war against the Thracian better and was proclaimed by his army to imperator. After his return to Octavius ​​wanted to apply to the consulate, but he died later on the way back 59 or 58 BC in Nola in the same room as his son later.

The in the sources described as capable and ambitious Octavius ​​was married in first marriage with Ancharia, with whom he had the daughter Octavia Maior. From his second marriage ( no later than 65 BC) with Atia, niece of Gaius Julius Caesar, came the younger daughter of Octavia Minor and was born in 63 BC Gaius Octavius ​​son, who later became Augustus.

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• CIL 6, 41023 = Dessau, ILS 47, line 5-10 ( Elogium on the Forum of Augustus ):

• Velleius Paterculus 2, 59, 1-2
• Suetonius, Augustus 3-4