The teenage Octavian claims Caesar's name
44 BCE · Event
Caesar's will adopts his sickly nineteen-year-old great-nephew, and against all advice the boy sails to Italy and takes the name: Gaius Julius Caesar. Antony scoffs at 'a boy who owes everything to a name' — and spends the next fourteen years being destroyed by exactly that arithmetic.
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