Gnaeus Octavius
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Gnaeus Octavius, son of Marcus
in the texts
On Moral Ends
Roman consul who served alongside Titus Torquatus.
Again — when Titus Torquatus, who was consul with Gnaeus Octavius, used that severity toward the son whom he had given in adoption to Decimus Silanus, ordering him, when the envoys of the Macedonians accused him of having taken money as praetor in the province, to plead his cause before himself, and, after hearing both sides, pronounced that he did not seem to have shown himself in his command suc …
I would rather you relieved the pain by which I saw a most excellent and humane man, Gnaeus Octavius, son of Marcus, my friend, worn down — and that not once, nor for a short time, but both often and plainly long.
Tusculan Disputations
Consul and colleague of Cinna, killed on Cinna's orders
but Cinna ordered the head of his colleague the consul Gnaeus Octavius to be cut off, and of Publius Crassus, Lucius Caesar, most noble men, whose virtue had been known at home and in war, of Marcus Antonius, the most eloquent of all whom I have heard, of Gaius Caesar, in whom there seems to me to have been a pattern of humanity, of wit, of charm, of grace.