the submission of the Cretan towns. Lucius Octavius Naso, left his estate to Lucius Flavius, praetor designatus in 59 BC. Octavius, a legate in the army of Marcus Licinius Crassus, killed at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC. Lucius Octavius, detected in adultery by Gaius Memmius, and punished by him. Octavius Marsus, legate of Publius Cornelius Dolabella, who sent him into Syria with one legion in 43 BC. After the town of Laodiceia was betrayed into the hands of Gaius Cassius Longinus, Dolabella and Octavius put an end to their own lives. Marcus Octavius, commanded the center of Marc Antony's fleet at the Battle of Actium. Possibly identical with the aedile of 50 BC, or with Ligur, or Marsus. Lucius Octavius L. f. Rufus, a contemporary of Augustus, was military tribune in the Legio IV Scythica, became one of the municipal duumvirs, decurion, and augur at Suasa in Umbria. Marcus Octavius Herennius, originally a flute player, he became engaged in trade, and built a chapel to Hercules near the Porta Trigemina, at the foot of the Aventine Hill, supposedly in gratitude for having been delivered from pirates. Gaius Octavius Lampadio, a grammarian, who divided the poem of Naevius on the First Punic War into seven books. Octavius C. f. Fronto, a contemporary of Tiberius, he had been praetor, and in AD 16 spoke in the senate against the great luxury then prevailing. Publius Octavius, a noted epicurean during the reign of Tiberius. Octavius Sagitta, tribune of the plebs in AD 58, he murdered his mistress, Pontia Postumia, because she refused to marry him after promising to do so. He was condemned and exiled to an island, but returned to Rome following the death of Nero. In AD 70 the senate again condemned him and reinstated his punishment. Decimus Octavius Quartio, a citizen of Pompeii, whose house was discovered amongst the ruins. Sextus Octavius Fronto, consul suffectus in AD 86. Gaius Octavius Tidius Tossianus Lucius Javolenus Priscus, consul suffectus in AD 86. Octavius Rufus, a friend of the younger Pliny. Gaius Octavius Vindex, consul suffectus in AD 184. Gaius Octavius Appius Suetrius Sabinus, senator, twice consul in AD 214 and 240. Octavius Horatianus, a name sometimes assigned to the author of the Rerum Medicarum Libri Quatuor, usually attributed to the physician Theodorus Priscianus, who lived at Constantinople during the 4th century. See also List of Roman gentes References Citations Bibliography