When he found that his mother was opposed he said nothing by way of argument but remained at home. It was plain that Caesar, out of solicitude for them, did not wish him to take the field yet, lest he might bring on illness to a weak body through changing his mode of life and thus permanently injure his health. For this cause he took no part in the expedition. After finishing that war also, Caesar returned to Rome, having granted pardon to a very few of the captives who fell to him because they had not learned wisdom in the earlier wars. Then the following incident occurred: there was a particular associate and friend of Octavius, who had been educated at the same place and who was a very special friend of his.
シーザーは、彼らのための気づかいから彼彼を通して彼の人生のモードを変更する弱い体に病気をもたらすかもしれないし、こうして永久に彼の健康を傷つけるしないようにフィールドをまだ取るため希望しなかったこと明白だった。これが原因で、彼は遠征には参加しません。また、あの戦争を終えた後、カエサルは、彼らが以前の戦争で知恵を学んでいたので、彼に落ちた捕虜の非常に少数に恩赦を与えられた、ローマに戻った。その後、次の事件が発生しました:同じ場所で教育を受け、誰が彼の非常に特別な友人だったされていたオクタウィウス、特定の助教授と友人があった。
His brother was with Cato and treated with much respect; he had participated in the Libyan War, but was at this time taken captive. Although Octavius had never yet asked anything of Caesar he wanted to beg the prisoner off, but he hesitated because of modesty and at the same time because he saw how Caesar was disposed toward those who had been captured in that war. However, he made bold to ask it, and had his request granted. Thereupon he was very glad at having rescued a brother for his friend and he was praised by others for employing his zeal and right of intercession first of all for a friend's safety.After this Caesar celebrated his triumphs for the Libyan War and the others which he had fought;
and he ordered the young Caesar, whom he had now adopted, and who was in a way a son even by nature, on account of the closeness of their relationship, to follow his chariot, having bestowed upon him military decorations, as if he had been his aide (syskenon) the war. Likewise, at the sacrifices and when entering the temples he stationed him at his side and he ordered the others to yield precedence to him. Caesar already bore the rank of Imperator, which was the highest according to the Roman usage, and he was highly esteemed in the state.