Note 36 — TRANSLATION

Octavius was, through his mother, grandson of Caesar’s sister Julia. Suetonius (Caes. 83, 1) is explicit in stating that Caesar’s will whereby Octavius was adopted as Caesar’s son, was made on September 13, 45 B.C. Nicolaus has here either anticipated this accepted date by something more than a year, or else he had access to a statement in Augustus’ memoirs to the effect that Octavius knew of the existence of an earlier will in which he had been made Caesar’s adopted son.