[Footnote 25: Cnaeus Octavius, the real father of Octavius Caesar, had been praetor and governor of Macedonia, and was intending to stand for the consulship when he died.]

Octavius, who was the nephew of Caesar, already alluded to, was a very accomplished and elegant young man, now about nineteen years of age.

The brief biography of Vergil contained in the Berne MS.a document of doubtful valuementions Epidius as Vergil's teacher in rhetoric, and adds that Octavius, the future emperor, was a fellow pupil.