 In fact, the historical Caesar Augustus avoided the use of the name "Octavian" as it pointed to him having been born a plebeian rather than a Patrician, and it is for this reason that Cicero amused himself by continually addressing him as such.Little is recorded of his childhood, so his trip to Gaul in "The Stolen Eagle" is entirely fictional.His appointment to the College of Pontiffs at the age of 15, however, is accurate.