Quotes About Octavius

Presumably a storm did overtake Octavius, for he apparently suffered a shipwreck before reaching his destination.

the cautious Octavius felt that he was too inexperienced to carry off a bold action of this kind.

Octavius was already married to a woman of whom history has recorded nothing except for her name, Ancharia.

In late 45 B.C., the eighteen-year-old Gaius Octavius settled into lodgings at Apollonia.

a messenger arrived with an urgent letter for Octavius, just as he and his companions were going into dinner.

Success is a relative thing?and the victory of a boy at marbles is equal to the victory of an Octavius at Actium when measured by the scale of cosmic infinity.

The divine origins of Jesus are, to be sure, just as fictional or mythological as those of Octavius. But to claim them for Octavius surprised nobody in that first century. What was incredible was that anyone at all claimed them for Jesus.