 Nonetheless, he later confides in Octavia (knowing Atia is listening) that he finds himself wretched without Atia and they quickly and passionately reconcile.When Atia learns her daughter Octavia has seduced her brother Octavian into committing incest (under Servilia's influence) in "Utica", Atia loses control and furiously confronts Octavia with a whip.When Octavian intervenes, snatching the whip from her and declaring, "I am your son, not your child.