Lucius Julius Caesar (proquaestor)
Lucius Julius Caesar (died 46 BC) was a politician in the late Roman Republic.[1] He was the son of Lucius Julius Caesar (who was consul in 64 BC), and a member of the powerful patrician family Julii Caesares. His father was a first cousin of Julius Caesar.
Biography
Lucius Julius Caesar was son of another
He next appears later in 49 as commander under Publius Attius Varus of a fleet of ten ships, charged with guarding the waters between Africa and Sicily. Threatened by the fleet of Gaius Scribonius Curio, he withdrew from Clupea (in modern Tunisia) to Hadrumetum (also in modern Tunisia), and then joined Pompey's land forces in Africa.[8][7]: 10 According to Suetonius (writing about 170 years later), he behaved with great cruelty to those of Caesar's freedmen and slaves whom he captured, and even butchered the wild animals which had been captured for popular amusement in the circus.[9]
In 46, he is recorded as being
Footnotes
- American Philological Association. pp. 265, 270, 289, 297 – via Purdue University.
- ^ Münzer, col. 471; Shackleton Bailey 1965, pp. 127, 165 (Cic. Att. IV.17.5).
- ^ Broughton 1986, pp. 110–111; Shackleton Bailey 1968, p. 442.
- ^ a b Julius Caesar (1914). The Civil Wars. Vol. 1. Translated by Peskett, A. G. Loeb Classical Library – via University of Chicago.
- ^ archive.org.
- ^ a b Smith, William (1870). "Caesar 13". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 538-539.
- ^ a b Cassius Dio (1916). Roman History. Vol. XLI. Translated by Cary, Earnest and Foster, Herbert B. Loeb Classical Library – via University of Chicago.
- ^ a b Anon (attrib. Caesar) (1955). "Chapters 87‑98". De Bello Africo. Translated by Way, A. G. Loeb Classical Library. pp. 88, 89 – via University of Chicago.
- ^ The Lives of the Caesars. Trsnslated by Rolfe, J. C. Loeb Classical Library. p. 75 – via University of Chicago.
References
- ISBN 0-89130-811-3.
- Münzer, Friedrich, "Iulius 144", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE, PW), volume 10, part 1, columns 471–472 (Stuttgart, 1918).
- Shackleton Bailey, D.R. (1965). Cicero's Letters to Atticus, Volume II (books III–IV). Cambridge University Press.
- Shackleton Bailey, D.R. (1968). Cicero's Letters to Atticus Volume IV (books VII.10–X). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-06928-9.
Further reading
- Gundel, Hans Georg (1964). "Caesar I.5". Der Kleine PaulyHans Georg Gundel]. (in German). Vol. 1. p. 998. By
- Will, Wolfgang (1999). "Iulius I 7". ISBN 3-476-01476-2. By Wolfgang Will]