Octavia
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
his dearest sister
in the texts
Consolation to Marcia
Sister of Augustus, mother of Marcellus, presented as the example of a woman who surrendered wholly to grief.
If you wish to follow the former, you will remove yourself from the number of the living:
Octavia set no end, through her whole life, to her weeping and lamenting, nor admitted any words that brought some healing;
Octavia and Livia, the one the sister, the other the wife of Augustus, had lost their sons in youth, each with sure hope of the prince to come.
Consolation to Polybius
Sister of Augustus, whose death is cited among his bereavements.
The deified Augustus lost Octavia, his dearest sister, and not even from him, for whom she had destined heaven, did Nature take away the necessity of mourning;