$ 11), to have
regarded
Caesar's which was put down by his own uncle.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
c.
165, exhibited, in conjunction with his ing what was offered them; and many preferred
colleague Cn. Cornelius Dolabella, the Hecyra of their original condition as federate states to incur-
Terence at the Megalesian games. (Titul. Hecyr. ring the obligations and responsibilities of Roman
Ter. ) He was consul in 157 with L. Aurelius citizens. (Cic. pro Balb. 8; Vell. Pat. ii. 16;
Orestes. (Plin. H. N. xxxii. 3. 6. 17; Polyb. xxxii. Gell. iv. 4. )
20; Fast. Capit. )
In the following year, B. C. 89, Caesar's com-
7. Sex. JULIUS CAESAR, probably son of No. 6, mand was prolonged. He gained a considerable
praetor urbanus in B. c. 123. (Cic. pro Dom. 53; victory over the enemy, and afterwards proceeded
ad Her. ii. 13. )
to besiege Asculum, before which he died of dis-
8. L. Julius CAESAR, son of No. 6, and father ease, according to the statement of Appian. (B. C.
of No. 9 (Fast. Cap. ), married Popillin, who had i. 48. ) This, however, is clearly a mistake : be
been previously married to Q. Catulus.
probably was obliged to leave the army in conse-
9. L. JULIUS L. F. Sex. N. CAESAR, called quence of serious illness, and was succeeded in the
erroneously by Appian, Sex. Julius Caesar, son of command by C. Baebius. He was censor in the
No. 8, was consul, B. c. 90, with P. Rutilius Lupus, same year with P. Licinius Crassus (Cic. pro Arch.
when the Social war broke out. His legates in 5; Plin. H. N. xiii. 3. s. 5, xiv. 14. s. 16; Festus,
this war were Sulla Crassus, P. Lentulus, T. Di- s. v. Referri), and was engaged in carrying into
dius, and M. Marcellus. He commenced the cam- effect his own law and that of Silvanus and Carbo,
paign by attacking the Samnites, but was defeated passed in this year, for conferring the citizenship
by their general, Vettius Cato, and fled to Aeser- upon some of the other Italian allies. These citi-
nia, which still remained faithful to the Romans. zens were enrolled in eight or ten new tribes, which
Having, however, received a reinforcement of Gal- were to vote after the thirty-five old ones. (Ap-
lic and Numidian auxiliaries, he was soon able to pian, B. C. i. 49; Vell. Pat. ii. 20. )
face the enemy again, and pitched his camp near On the breaking out of the civil war in B. c. 87,
Acerrae in Campania, which was besieged by the L. Caesar and his brother Caius, who were opposed
enemy. Here a great number of the Numidians to Marius and Cinna, were killed by Fimbria.
deserted, and Caesar, suspecting the fidelity of the (Appian, B. C. i. 72; Flor. iii. 21. § 14; Ascon.
remainder, sent them back to Africa. Encouraged in Scaur. p. 24, ed. Orelli; Val. Max. ix. 2. $ 2; Cic.
by this defection, Papius Motulus, the general of de Orat. iii. 3, Tuscul. v. 19. )
the enemy, proceeded to attack Caesar's camp, but 10. C. Julius L. F. Sex. N. CAESAR STRABO
was repulsed with a loss of 6000 men. This vic- | Vopiscus (comp. Cic. Phil. xi. 5; Varro, R. R. i.
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CAESAR
CAESAR
ܪ
7. $ 10; Plin. H. N. xvii. 3. 8. 4), son of No. 8, 1 ing out of the civil war in 49, when he accompanied
and brother of No. 9. lle commenced his public C. Caesar into Italy. He took, however, no active
career in B. C. 103, when still young, by accusing part in the war; but it would appear that he de
T. Albucius, who had been praetor in Sicily, of serted the aristocracy, for he continued to live at
extortion (repetundac) in that province : Cn. Pom-Rome, which was in the dictator's power, and he
peius Strabo, who had been quaestor to Albu- was even entrusted with the care of the city in 47
cius, wished to conduct the prosecution, but was by his nephew M. Antony, who was obliged to
obliged to give way to Caesar. Albucius was con- leave Rome to quell the revolt of the legions in
demned, and the speech which Caesar delivered on Iuly. L. Caesar, however, was now advanced in
this occasion was much admired, and was after years, and did not possess sufficient energy to keep
wards closely imitated by his great namesake, the the turbulent spirits at Rome in order : hence
dictator, in the speech which he delivered upon much confusion and contention arose during Anta-
the appointment of an accuser against Dolabeila. ny's absence.
(Suet. Cues. 55. ) He was curule aedile in B. c. 90 After the death of the dictator in 44, L. Caesar
in the consulship of his brother, and not in the preserved neutrality as far as possible, though he
following year, as some modern writers state ; for rather favoured the party of the conspirators than
we are told, that he was aedile in the tribuneship that of Antony. He retired from Rome soon after
of C. Curio, which we know was in the year 90. this event, and spent some time at Neapolis, where
In B. C. 88 he became a candidate for the consul- Cicero saw him, at the beginning of May, dange-
ship, without having been praetor, and was strongly rously ill. From Neapolis he went to Aricia, and
supported by the aristocracy, and as strongly op- from thence returned to Rome in September, but
posed by the popular party. This contest was, did not take his seat in the senate, either on ac-
indeed, as Asconius states, one of the immediate count, or under the plea, of ill-health. L. Caesar
causes of the civil war. The tribunes of the plebs, had expressed to Cicero at Neapolis his approba-
P. Sulpicius and P. Antistius, contended, and with tion of Dolabella's opposition to his colleague An-
justice, that Caesar could not be elected consul tony; and as soon as the latter left Rome for Mu-
without a violation of the lex Annalis; but since tină, at the close of the year, he openly joined the
he persevered in spite of their opposition, the tri- senatorial party. It was on the proposal of L.
bunes had recourse to arms, and thus prevented Caesar, in B. C. 43, that the agrarian law of An-
his election. Shortly afterwards, Sulla entered tony was repealed; but he opposed the wishes of
Rome, and expelled the leaders of the popular the more violent of his party, who desired war to
party ; but upon his departure to Greece to prose- be declared against Antony as an enemy of the
cute the war against Mithridates, Marius and Cin- state, and he carried a proposition in the senate
na obtained possession of the city (B. C. 87), and that the contest should be called a “ tumult," and
C. Caesar was put to death, together with his bro not a war. In the same spirit, he proposed that
ther Lucius. It may be added, that C. Caesar was P. Sulpicius, and not C. Cassius or the consuls
a member of the college of pontiffs.
Hirtius and Pansa, as the more violent of his
C. Caesar was regarded as one of the chief ora- party wished, should be entrusted with the war
tors and poets of his age, and is introduced by against Dolabella. His object then was to prevent
Cicero as one of the speakers in the second book matters coming to such extremities as to preclude
of his “De Oratore. ” Wit was the chief charac- all hopes of reconciliation ; but, after the defeat of
teristic of Caesar's oratory, in which he was supe Antony in the middle of April, he was one of the
rior to all his contemporaries; but he was deficient first to express his opinion in favour of declaring
in power and energy. His tragedies were distin- Antony an enemy of the state. On the establish-
guished by ease and polish, though marked by the ment of the triumvirate, at the latter end of this
same defects as his oratory. His contemporary year, L. Caesar was included in the proscription ;
Accius appears, from a story related by Valerius his name was the second in the list, and the first
Maximus (iii. 7.
$ 11), to have regarded Caesar's which was put down by his own uncle. He took
poetry as very inferior to his own. The names of refuge in the house of his sister, Julia, who with
two of his tragedies are preserved, the “Adrastus” some difficulty obtained his pardon from her son.
and “Tecmessa. ” (Orelli, Onomast. Tull. ii. p. 301, From this time we hear no more of him. He was
where all the passages of Cicero are quoted ; Gell. not a man of much power of mind, but had some
iv. 6; Appian, B. C. i. 72; Val. Max. v. 3. $ 3; influence in the state through his family connexions
Suet. Cal. 60; Vell. Pat. ii. 9. & 2. The fragments and his position in society. (Orelli, Onomast. Tull.
of his orations are given by Meyer, Orat. Roman. ii. p. 314 ; Sall. Cat. 17; Dion Cass. xxxvii. 6, 10;
Fragm. p. 330, &c. Respecting his tragedies, see Caes. B. G. vii. 65, B. C. i. 8; Dion Cass. xlii. 30;
Welcker, Die Griechischen Tragödien, p. 1398; and xlvii. 6, 8; Appian, B. C. iv. 12, 37; Plut. Ant.
Weichert, Poct. Lat. Rel. p. 127. )
19, Cic. 46; Liv. Epit. 120; Vell. Pat. ii. 57;
11. L. Julius L. F. L. N. CAESAR, son of No. Flor. iv. 6. § 4. )
9, and uncle by his sister Julia of M. Antony the 12. Julia, the daughter of No. 9, and sister of
triumvir. He was consul B. c. 64 with C. Marcius No. 11. (Julia. ]
Figulus, and belonged, like his father, to the aris- 13. L. Julius L. F. L. N. CAESAR, son of Noll,
tocratical party. In the debate in the senate, in with whom he is sometimes confounded by modern
B. C. 63, respecting the punishment of the Catilina- writers, though he is usually distinguished from
rian conspirators, he voted for the death of the bis father by the addition to his name of filius or
conspirators, among whom was the husband of his adolescens. On the breaking out of the civil war
own sister, P. Lentulus Sura. L. Caesar seems in B. C. 49, the younger L. Caesar joined the Pom-
to have remained at Rome some years after bis peian party, although his father was Caesar's
consulship without going to any province. In B. c. legate. It was probably for this reason, and on
52, we find him in Gaul, as legate io C. Caesar, after- account of his family connexion with Caesar,
wards the dictator. Here he remained till the break- that Pompey sent him with the praetor Koscius 10
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CAESAR.
539
CAESAR.
Caesar, who was then at Ariminum, with some ancestors of the dictator. This Sex. Caesar must
proposals for peace. Although these did not amount not be confounded, as he is by Appian (B. C. i. 40),
to much, Caesar availed himself of the opportu- with L. Julius Caesar, who was consul in B. c. 90,
nity to send back by L. Caesar the terms on which in the first year of the Social war. [See No. 9. ]
he would withdraw from Italy. Cicero saw L. The following coin, which represents on the ob
Caesar at Minturnae on his way back to Pompey, verse the head of Pallas winged, and on the reverse
and whether he was jealous at not having been a woman driving a two-horse chariot, probably be-
employed himself, or for some other reason, he longs to this Cacsar.
speaks with the utmost contempt of Lucius, and
calls him a bundle of loose broom-sticks (scopae
solutae). Pompcy sent him back again to the
enemy with fresh proposals, but the negotiation,
as is well known, came to nothing. (Caes. B. C. i. 8,
9, 10; Cic. ad Att. vii. 13, 14, 16; Dion Cass. xli. 5. )
In the course of the same year (B. C. 49), L. Cae-
SEX VL
sar repaired to Africa, and had the command of
Clupea entrusted to him, which he deserted, how-
ever, on the approach of Curio from Sicily, who 18. C. JULIUS C. F. C. N. CAESAR, the dictator,
came with a large force to oppose the Pompeian son of No. 15 and Aurelia, was born on the 12th of
party. (Caes. B. C. ii. 23; Dion Cass. xli. 41. ) July, B. c. 100, in the consulship of C. Marius (VI. )
Three years afterwards (B. C. 46), we find L. Cae- and L. Valerius Flaccus, and was consequently six
sar serving as proquaestor to Cato in Utica. After years younger than Pompey and Cicero. He had
the death of Cato, who committed his son to his nearly completed his fifty-sixth year at the time of
care, he persuaded the inhabitants of Utica to sur- his murder on the 15th of March, B. C. 44. Caesar
render the town to the dictator, and to throw them- was closely connected with the popular party by the
selves upon his mercy. Lucius himself was par- marriage of his aunt Julia with the great Marius,
doned by the dictator, according to the express who obtained the election of his nephew to the
statement of Hirtius, though other writers say that dignity of filamen dialis, when he was only thirteen
he was put to death by his order. It is certain years of age. (B. c. 87. ) Marius died in the follow-
that he was murdered shortly afterwards; but it ing year; and, notwithstanding the murder of his
was probably not the dictator's doing, as such an own relations by the Marian party, and the for-
act would have been quite opposed to Caesar's midable forces with which Sulla was preparing to
usual clemency, and not called for by any circum- invade Italy, Caesar attached himself to the popu-
stance. He probably fell a victim to the fury of lar side, and even married, in B. C. 83, Cornelia,
the dictator's soldiers, who may have been exaspe- the daughter of L. Cinna, one of the chief oppo-
rated against him by the circumstance mentioned nents of Sulla. He was then only seventeen years
by Suetoniug. (Hirt. B. Afr. 88, 89; Plut. Cat. old, but had been already married to Cossutia, a
Min. 66; Cic. ad Fam. ix. 7; Dion Cass. xlii. wealthy heiress belonging to the equestrian order,
12; Suet. Caes. 75. )
to whom he had probably been betrothed by the
14. C. JULIUS CAESAR, the grandfather of the wish of his father, who died in the preceding year.
dictator, as we learn from the Fasti
.
colleague Cn. Cornelius Dolabella, the Hecyra of their original condition as federate states to incur-
Terence at the Megalesian games. (Titul. Hecyr. ring the obligations and responsibilities of Roman
Ter. ) He was consul in 157 with L. Aurelius citizens. (Cic. pro Balb. 8; Vell. Pat. ii. 16;
Orestes. (Plin. H. N. xxxii. 3. 6. 17; Polyb. xxxii. Gell. iv. 4. )
20; Fast. Capit. )
In the following year, B. C. 89, Caesar's com-
7. Sex. JULIUS CAESAR, probably son of No. 6, mand was prolonged. He gained a considerable
praetor urbanus in B. c. 123. (Cic. pro Dom. 53; victory over the enemy, and afterwards proceeded
ad Her. ii. 13. )
to besiege Asculum, before which he died of dis-
8. L. Julius CAESAR, son of No. 6, and father ease, according to the statement of Appian. (B. C.
of No. 9 (Fast. Cap. ), married Popillin, who had i. 48. ) This, however, is clearly a mistake : be
been previously married to Q. Catulus.
probably was obliged to leave the army in conse-
9. L. JULIUS L. F. Sex. N. CAESAR, called quence of serious illness, and was succeeded in the
erroneously by Appian, Sex. Julius Caesar, son of command by C. Baebius. He was censor in the
No. 8, was consul, B. c. 90, with P. Rutilius Lupus, same year with P. Licinius Crassus (Cic. pro Arch.
when the Social war broke out. His legates in 5; Plin. H. N. xiii. 3. s. 5, xiv. 14. s. 16; Festus,
this war were Sulla Crassus, P. Lentulus, T. Di- s. v. Referri), and was engaged in carrying into
dius, and M. Marcellus. He commenced the cam- effect his own law and that of Silvanus and Carbo,
paign by attacking the Samnites, but was defeated passed in this year, for conferring the citizenship
by their general, Vettius Cato, and fled to Aeser- upon some of the other Italian allies. These citi-
nia, which still remained faithful to the Romans. zens were enrolled in eight or ten new tribes, which
Having, however, received a reinforcement of Gal- were to vote after the thirty-five old ones. (Ap-
lic and Numidian auxiliaries, he was soon able to pian, B. C. i. 49; Vell. Pat. ii. 20. )
face the enemy again, and pitched his camp near On the breaking out of the civil war in B. c. 87,
Acerrae in Campania, which was besieged by the L. Caesar and his brother Caius, who were opposed
enemy. Here a great number of the Numidians to Marius and Cinna, were killed by Fimbria.
deserted, and Caesar, suspecting the fidelity of the (Appian, B. C. i. 72; Flor. iii. 21. § 14; Ascon.
remainder, sent them back to Africa. Encouraged in Scaur. p. 24, ed. Orelli; Val. Max. ix. 2. $ 2; Cic.
by this defection, Papius Motulus, the general of de Orat. iii. 3, Tuscul. v. 19. )
the enemy, proceeded to attack Caesar's camp, but 10. C. Julius L. F. Sex. N. CAESAR STRABO
was repulsed with a loss of 6000 men. This vic- | Vopiscus (comp. Cic. Phil. xi. 5; Varro, R. R. i.
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638
CAESAR
CAESAR
ܪ
7. $ 10; Plin. H. N. xvii. 3. 8. 4), son of No. 8, 1 ing out of the civil war in 49, when he accompanied
and brother of No. 9. lle commenced his public C. Caesar into Italy. He took, however, no active
career in B. C. 103, when still young, by accusing part in the war; but it would appear that he de
T. Albucius, who had been praetor in Sicily, of serted the aristocracy, for he continued to live at
extortion (repetundac) in that province : Cn. Pom-Rome, which was in the dictator's power, and he
peius Strabo, who had been quaestor to Albu- was even entrusted with the care of the city in 47
cius, wished to conduct the prosecution, but was by his nephew M. Antony, who was obliged to
obliged to give way to Caesar. Albucius was con- leave Rome to quell the revolt of the legions in
demned, and the speech which Caesar delivered on Iuly. L. Caesar, however, was now advanced in
this occasion was much admired, and was after years, and did not possess sufficient energy to keep
wards closely imitated by his great namesake, the the turbulent spirits at Rome in order : hence
dictator, in the speech which he delivered upon much confusion and contention arose during Anta-
the appointment of an accuser against Dolabeila. ny's absence.
(Suet. Cues. 55. ) He was curule aedile in B. c. 90 After the death of the dictator in 44, L. Caesar
in the consulship of his brother, and not in the preserved neutrality as far as possible, though he
following year, as some modern writers state ; for rather favoured the party of the conspirators than
we are told, that he was aedile in the tribuneship that of Antony. He retired from Rome soon after
of C. Curio, which we know was in the year 90. this event, and spent some time at Neapolis, where
In B. C. 88 he became a candidate for the consul- Cicero saw him, at the beginning of May, dange-
ship, without having been praetor, and was strongly rously ill. From Neapolis he went to Aricia, and
supported by the aristocracy, and as strongly op- from thence returned to Rome in September, but
posed by the popular party. This contest was, did not take his seat in the senate, either on ac-
indeed, as Asconius states, one of the immediate count, or under the plea, of ill-health. L. Caesar
causes of the civil war. The tribunes of the plebs, had expressed to Cicero at Neapolis his approba-
P. Sulpicius and P. Antistius, contended, and with tion of Dolabella's opposition to his colleague An-
justice, that Caesar could not be elected consul tony; and as soon as the latter left Rome for Mu-
without a violation of the lex Annalis; but since tină, at the close of the year, he openly joined the
he persevered in spite of their opposition, the tri- senatorial party. It was on the proposal of L.
bunes had recourse to arms, and thus prevented Caesar, in B. C. 43, that the agrarian law of An-
his election. Shortly afterwards, Sulla entered tony was repealed; but he opposed the wishes of
Rome, and expelled the leaders of the popular the more violent of his party, who desired war to
party ; but upon his departure to Greece to prose- be declared against Antony as an enemy of the
cute the war against Mithridates, Marius and Cin- state, and he carried a proposition in the senate
na obtained possession of the city (B. C. 87), and that the contest should be called a “ tumult," and
C. Caesar was put to death, together with his bro not a war. In the same spirit, he proposed that
ther Lucius. It may be added, that C. Caesar was P. Sulpicius, and not C. Cassius or the consuls
a member of the college of pontiffs.
Hirtius and Pansa, as the more violent of his
C. Caesar was regarded as one of the chief ora- party wished, should be entrusted with the war
tors and poets of his age, and is introduced by against Dolabella. His object then was to prevent
Cicero as one of the speakers in the second book matters coming to such extremities as to preclude
of his “De Oratore. ” Wit was the chief charac- all hopes of reconciliation ; but, after the defeat of
teristic of Caesar's oratory, in which he was supe Antony in the middle of April, he was one of the
rior to all his contemporaries; but he was deficient first to express his opinion in favour of declaring
in power and energy. His tragedies were distin- Antony an enemy of the state. On the establish-
guished by ease and polish, though marked by the ment of the triumvirate, at the latter end of this
same defects as his oratory. His contemporary year, L. Caesar was included in the proscription ;
Accius appears, from a story related by Valerius his name was the second in the list, and the first
Maximus (iii. 7.
$ 11), to have regarded Caesar's which was put down by his own uncle. He took
poetry as very inferior to his own. The names of refuge in the house of his sister, Julia, who with
two of his tragedies are preserved, the “Adrastus” some difficulty obtained his pardon from her son.
and “Tecmessa. ” (Orelli, Onomast. Tull. ii. p. 301, From this time we hear no more of him. He was
where all the passages of Cicero are quoted ; Gell. not a man of much power of mind, but had some
iv. 6; Appian, B. C. i. 72; Val. Max. v. 3. $ 3; influence in the state through his family connexions
Suet. Cal. 60; Vell. Pat. ii. 9. & 2. The fragments and his position in society. (Orelli, Onomast. Tull.
of his orations are given by Meyer, Orat. Roman. ii. p. 314 ; Sall. Cat. 17; Dion Cass. xxxvii. 6, 10;
Fragm. p. 330, &c. Respecting his tragedies, see Caes. B. G. vii. 65, B. C. i. 8; Dion Cass. xlii. 30;
Welcker, Die Griechischen Tragödien, p. 1398; and xlvii. 6, 8; Appian, B. C. iv. 12, 37; Plut. Ant.
Weichert, Poct. Lat. Rel. p. 127. )
19, Cic. 46; Liv. Epit. 120; Vell. Pat. ii. 57;
11. L. Julius L. F. L. N. CAESAR, son of No. Flor. iv. 6. § 4. )
9, and uncle by his sister Julia of M. Antony the 12. Julia, the daughter of No. 9, and sister of
triumvir. He was consul B. c. 64 with C. Marcius No. 11. (Julia. ]
Figulus, and belonged, like his father, to the aris- 13. L. Julius L. F. L. N. CAESAR, son of Noll,
tocratical party. In the debate in the senate, in with whom he is sometimes confounded by modern
B. C. 63, respecting the punishment of the Catilina- writers, though he is usually distinguished from
rian conspirators, he voted for the death of the bis father by the addition to his name of filius or
conspirators, among whom was the husband of his adolescens. On the breaking out of the civil war
own sister, P. Lentulus Sura. L. Caesar seems in B. C. 49, the younger L. Caesar joined the Pom-
to have remained at Rome some years after bis peian party, although his father was Caesar's
consulship without going to any province. In B. c. legate. It was probably for this reason, and on
52, we find him in Gaul, as legate io C. Caesar, after- account of his family connexion with Caesar,
wards the dictator. Here he remained till the break- that Pompey sent him with the praetor Koscius 10
## p. 539 (#559) ############################################
CAESAR.
539
CAESAR.
Caesar, who was then at Ariminum, with some ancestors of the dictator. This Sex. Caesar must
proposals for peace. Although these did not amount not be confounded, as he is by Appian (B. C. i. 40),
to much, Caesar availed himself of the opportu- with L. Julius Caesar, who was consul in B. c. 90,
nity to send back by L. Caesar the terms on which in the first year of the Social war. [See No. 9. ]
he would withdraw from Italy. Cicero saw L. The following coin, which represents on the ob
Caesar at Minturnae on his way back to Pompey, verse the head of Pallas winged, and on the reverse
and whether he was jealous at not having been a woman driving a two-horse chariot, probably be-
employed himself, or for some other reason, he longs to this Cacsar.
speaks with the utmost contempt of Lucius, and
calls him a bundle of loose broom-sticks (scopae
solutae). Pompcy sent him back again to the
enemy with fresh proposals, but the negotiation,
as is well known, came to nothing. (Caes. B. C. i. 8,
9, 10; Cic. ad Att. vii. 13, 14, 16; Dion Cass. xli. 5. )
In the course of the same year (B. C. 49), L. Cae-
SEX VL
sar repaired to Africa, and had the command of
Clupea entrusted to him, which he deserted, how-
ever, on the approach of Curio from Sicily, who 18. C. JULIUS C. F. C. N. CAESAR, the dictator,
came with a large force to oppose the Pompeian son of No. 15 and Aurelia, was born on the 12th of
party. (Caes. B. C. ii. 23; Dion Cass. xli. 41. ) July, B. c. 100, in the consulship of C. Marius (VI. )
Three years afterwards (B. C. 46), we find L. Cae- and L. Valerius Flaccus, and was consequently six
sar serving as proquaestor to Cato in Utica. After years younger than Pompey and Cicero. He had
the death of Cato, who committed his son to his nearly completed his fifty-sixth year at the time of
care, he persuaded the inhabitants of Utica to sur- his murder on the 15th of March, B. C. 44. Caesar
render the town to the dictator, and to throw them- was closely connected with the popular party by the
selves upon his mercy. Lucius himself was par- marriage of his aunt Julia with the great Marius,
doned by the dictator, according to the express who obtained the election of his nephew to the
statement of Hirtius, though other writers say that dignity of filamen dialis, when he was only thirteen
he was put to death by his order. It is certain years of age. (B. c. 87. ) Marius died in the follow-
that he was murdered shortly afterwards; but it ing year; and, notwithstanding the murder of his
was probably not the dictator's doing, as such an own relations by the Marian party, and the for-
act would have been quite opposed to Caesar's midable forces with which Sulla was preparing to
usual clemency, and not called for by any circum- invade Italy, Caesar attached himself to the popu-
stance. He probably fell a victim to the fury of lar side, and even married, in B. C. 83, Cornelia,
the dictator's soldiers, who may have been exaspe- the daughter of L. Cinna, one of the chief oppo-
rated against him by the circumstance mentioned nents of Sulla. He was then only seventeen years
by Suetoniug. (Hirt. B. Afr. 88, 89; Plut. Cat. old, but had been already married to Cossutia, a
Min. 66; Cic. ad Fam. ix. 7; Dion Cass. xlii. wealthy heiress belonging to the equestrian order,
12; Suet. Caes. 75. )
to whom he had probably been betrothed by the
14. C. JULIUS CAESAR, the grandfather of the wish of his father, who died in the preceding year.
dictator, as we learn from the Fasti
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