![]() There was, besides, a decree of the people on record, providing that for the future too the inwards should be offered to Mars in the same way, and the rest of the victims be handed over to the Octavii.Ģ 1 The family was admitted to the senate by king Tarquinius Priscus among the lesser clans 1 was later enrolled by Servius Tullius among the patricians in course of time returned to the ranks of the plebeians and after a long interval was restored to patrician rank by the Deified Julius. ![]() This man was leader in a war with a neighbouring town, and when news of a sudden onset of the enemy was brought to him just as he chanced to be sacrificing to Mars, he snatched the inwards of the victim from the fire and offered them up half raw and thus he went forth to battle, and returned victorious. 1 1 There are many indications that the Octavian family was in days of old a distinguished one at Velitrae for not only was a street in the most frequented part of town long ago called Octavian, but an altar was shown there besides, consecrated by an Octavius.
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