 Highly intelligent and well read, Octavian is a young man whose formidable mind marks him out even among the upper classes of Rome.His astute understanding of those around him makes him observant and lethally sharp in guessing the motives and intent of others.He is, however, cold, distant, and cynical, even more so than Julius Caesar; in one of the latter episodes of the series, he describes himself as perceived by others as "cold and heartless."