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We start with a well-documented case: Augustus Caesar (63 BCE to 14 CE). Augustus – Gaius Julius Augustus Caesar – was the first of the Roman emperors. His biological parents were Gaius Octavius and Atia Balba Caesonia, and his original name was Gaius Octavius Thurnius. But his great-uncle, Gaius Julius Caesar, adopted the young man in his will. Now, in Rome of that time, adoptions were taken very seriously. An adoption – even a posthumous one – was generally considered as good as one’s natural ancestry.
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