[Octavian and his brother are a wasted Victorian sufferer and a moderately healthy academic, respectively, so no - they definitely aren't taking on any dragons anytime soon.

He waits a beat, then,] You are going to make me ask after every step. How do you get a dragon down?

[Wait, let him think about it, how about,] A harpoon gun. A ballista. Basically a large mechanism for shooting a spear. No?