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At the time when the Civil War had laid hold on the city, Philippus quietly sent Octavius off to one of his father's country places.He entered the Forum, aged about fourteen, to put off the toga praetextata and assume the toga virilis, this being a token of his becoming registered as a man.Then while all the citizens looked upon him, because of his comeliness and very evidently noble descent, he sacrificed to the gods and was registered in the sacred college in place of Lucius Domitius, who had died.The people indeed had very eagerly elected him to this position.Accordingly, he performed the sacrifice, adorned with the toga virilis and at the same time the honors of a very high priestly office. Nevertheless, though he was registered as of age according to law, his mother would not let him leave the house other than as he did before, when he was a child, and she made him keep to the same mode of life and sleep in the same apartment as before. FOr he was of age only by law, and in other respects was taken care of as a child. He did not change the fashion of his clothes, but continued to use the Roman garb.He went to the temples on the regular days, but after dark on account of his youthful charm, seeing that he attracted many women by his comeliness and high lineage; though often tempted by them he seems never to have been enticed. During the Latin festival when the consuls had to ascend the Alban Mount to perform the customary sacrifices,the priests succeeding to the jurisdiction of the consuls,Octavius sat on the Tribunal.There came many people on legal business and many on no business at all except for a sight of the boy;for he was well worth beholding,especially when he assumed the dignity and honorable aspect of office.Caesar had by this time completed the wars in Europe, had conquered Pompey, had taken Egypt, had returned from Syria,and was intending to advance in to Libya in order to put down what was left of war over there;and Octavius wanted to take the field with him in order that he night gain experience in the practice of war.