re: Octavius (Augustus) Caesar: Cruel sniveling coward or great Roman (or both)?

His daughter and his granddaughter.....both Julia's .....were exiled. The first for performing lewd sex acts and talking shite about him in the public baths. The granddaughter for sex acts and opening her mouth about his succession plan with Tiberius. He was a very forgiving man but was deeply wounded/offended when those he felt the closest to betrayed him.