OR,

MEMOIRS

OF

ILLUSTRIOUS AND CELEBRATED

WOME N,

OF ALL AGES AND COUNTRIES.

Alphabetically arranged.

BY MARY HAYS.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOL. VI.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR RICHARD PHILLIPS, 71, ST. PAUL'S

CHURCH-YARD.

By Thomas Davison, White-Friars

MEMOIRS

OF

DISTINGUISHED WOMEN.

OCTAVIA,

WIFE TO ANTONY,

OCTAVIA, grand-niece of Julius Cæsar, and sister to Augustus, was the daughter of Caius Octavius and Atia, Romans of distinguished birth and virtue. She received in the house of her parents a strict and exemplary education; she was early accustomed to control her feelings, to discipline her imagination, to sacrifice her inclinations to others, and to impart the benefits she received. The modesty of her deportment, her unaffected and simple manners, the beauty of her person, her virtues and fine qualities, rendered her the boast and ornament of the court; while her splendid connections, and affinity to the adopted son of Cæsar, procured her the devotion of