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Excerpt from Female Biography, Vol. 6 of 6: Or Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries; Alphabetically Arranged
Wishes of a virtuous and tender heart. Marcellus loved his wife with entire affection, and confided in' her as a friend: they seemed animated but by one' soul; while their affections, their pursuits, theirl taste, and their judgment, were in perfect unison.
This harmony received no other interruption'than' from the calamities with which the state was torn, when the proscription of the triumvirs deluged Home with blood. Octavia exerted on this occasion her in¿uence with her brother to humanise his heart, and put a stop to the effusion of Roman blood: she refused her protection and good offices to no one, while her house was the refuge of the unfortunate. When these troubles were in some degree allayed, Octaviva requested permission to retire, with her husband, from the tumults of the city, to devote themselves to the leisure of a tranquil and studious life: but the pleasure which Octavius experienced in their society frustrated the execution of this plan, and still detained them in the capital. Octavia took no share in the dissipations of the court, or the' amusements common to her sex and rank: secluded in her house, and devoted to her husband, she as sisted him in his serious occupations, shared his pleasures, and passed in his society her most de lightful hours.
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