The Second Triumvirate & Cicero's Murder
A History of Mankind (217)
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Octavian was a sickly youth of great intelligence, who impressed Caesar. His famous relative (an uncle to his mother Atia) intended to take him to the Hispanic campaign that ended with the Battle of Munda; this would have been a unique chance to learn next to the master, but Octavian was indisposed.
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