I think I will make this old post of mine, part one on MVA.
Born between 64-62 BCE to a less than prominent family, Agrippa was able to meet an befriend another youth during his school years that would govern his action the rest of his life. This friend, Gaius Octavius Thurinus, who is better known to us by his latter title of Caesar Augustus, would recognize the inherent military skills of this young man named Agrippa, and would hold him close to his breast for all of his...