Caesar attempted to re-establish the ties of affinity which fate had severed ; he asked for himself the hand of the only
of Pompeius, and offered Octavia, his sister's grand-daughter, who was now his nearest relative, in marriage to his fellow- regent; but Pompeius left his daughter to her existing husband Faustus Sulla the son of the regent, and he him self married the daughter of Quintus Metellus Scipio.
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903
