Battle of Thapsus happened on -46-04-06.

Cato of Utica stabbed himself in the chest (46bc) He was defeated by Caesar at the Battle of Thapsus and chose to take his own life.

Verbascum thapsus and a member of the Scrophulariaceae or figwort family.

We don't know of all the time Octavian spent with Julius but two of his documented trips were to Spain, where he had to overcome illness in order to get there and the other trip was when he was with Caesar in Africa and saved the brother of Agrippa after the battle of Thapsus.

Caesar fought just many battles, against different enemies. Some of them were the Helvetii and Germans, the Gauls under Vercingetorix, Pompey in the civil war, Ptolemy XIII in the Alexandrian war, Cato at the Battle or Thapsus , Gaius Pompey in Spain, and the king of Pontus around Syria.