Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

IULI1798 C. Iulius (135) L. f. Caesar Strabo Vopiscus

Status

  • Patrician
  • Nobilis Expand

    Liv. Per. 80

Life Dates

  • 130?, birth (Rüpke 2005)
  • 87, death - violent (Broughton MRR II) Expand

    Executed by Marians.

Relationships

son of
L. Iulius (141) Sex. f. (Sex. n.) Fal. Caesar (pr.? before 129) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Gell. IV 6.2

Popillia (32) (married to? Q. Lutatius (A)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. de orat. II 220

brother of
L. Iulius (142) L. f. Sex. n. Caesar (cos. 90) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Asc. Scaur. 25f. C, Cic. de orat. III 10

stepbrother of
? P. Cornelius (203) Lentulus (pr. before 90) (DPRR Team)
Q. Lutatius (7) Q. f. Catulus (cos. 102) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Att. XIII 19.4, Cic. de orat. II 14, Cic. de orat. II 362, Cic. off. I 133

father of
? Iulia (544) (daughter of? C. Iulius (135) L. f. Caesar Strabo Vopiscus (aed. cur. 90)) (Zmeskal 2009)

Career

  • Pontifex? 105 to 100 (Rüpke 2005)
  • Decemvir Agris Dandis Attribuendis Iudicandis 103 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • The commission of which Caesar Strabo was a member must be clearly distinguished from the one constituted under the legislation of Livius Drusus in 91, not only because of the order and dates of the offices in Caesar's career, as Mommsen saw, but because the definition of its functions given in his Elogium contains the word iudicandis (agris dandis attribuendis iudicandis), while that of Drusus is described simply as agris dandis assignandis (CIL 1(2).1, p. 199- Inscr. Ital. 13.3.74). Hence Cichorius was mistaken in supplying the name of Caesar in a fragmentary list which he believes to be the land commission of Livius (CIL 10.44, and p. 1003; RS 116-125). The legislation of Saturninus provides the only other point we know in this period when a land commission would be necessary, and the formula here suitably recalls that of the Gracchan commission (agris iudicandis assignandis), which would provide a precedent, among the other Gracchan precedents, to which Saturninus appealed. It is probable that Iulius Caesar's father settled colonists at Cercina under the same authority (see for restorations of his Elogia, and discussions of his career, Inscr. Ital. 13.3.7, and 75a, and Degrassi's discussion; Frank, AJPh 58 [1937] 90ff.; and most recently, Broughton, AJA 52 [1948] 323-330). (Broughton MRR I)
    • CIL 1 .1, p. 198 - Inscr. Ital. 13.3.6. Probably a member of a commission to carry out the colonial and agrarian laws of Saturninus. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Xvir a. d. a. See above, on L. Appuleius Saturninus (29), and C. lulius Caesar (130). The commission probably dates from 103, rather than 100, as in MRR 1.577. He was twice a tr. mil. (Inscr. Ital. 13.3, no. 6-CIL 1(2).198, no. 27), about 100 B.C. See Suolahti, Junior Officers 312, 405. On his curule aedileship, see MRR 2.26, 30, note 6. He became a candidate for the consulship, most probably of 88, contrary to the leges annales omitting the praetorship, but perhaps had been granted an exemption from them (Cic. Phil. 11.11; cf. Brut. 226, Har. Resp. 43; Ascon. 25C), and was stopped by the violent opposition of Sulpicius and Antistius. See Badian, Historia 18, 1969, 481-490; T. J. Luce, Historia 19, 1970, 190-192; Lintott, CQ 26, 1971, 197-204; Sumner, Orators, 105-106; T. N. Mitchell, CPh 70, 1975, 197- 204, in favor of the consulship of 87; and A. Keaveney, Latomus 38, 1979, 451-460, arguing for 88, and holding that Strabo's purpose was to restore the victims of the Lex Varia, not to secure a command against Mithridates. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Tribunus Militum c. 100 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Xvir a. d. a. See above, on L. Appuleius Saturninus (29), and C. lulius Caesar (130). The commission probably dates from 103, rather than 100, as in MRR 1.577. He was twice a tr. mil. (Inscr. Ital. 13.3, no. 6-CIL 1(2).198, no. 27), about 100 B.C. See Suolahti, Junior Officers 312, 405. On his curule aedileship, see MRR 2.26, 30, note 6. He became a candidate for the consulship, most probably of 88, contrary to the leges annales omitting the praetorship, but perhaps had been granted an exemption from them (Cic. Phil. 11.11; cf. Brut. 226, Har. Resp. 43; Ascon. 25C), and was stopped by the violent opposition of Sulpicius and Antistius. See Badian, Historia 18, 1969, 481-490; T. J. Luce, Historia 19, 1970, 190-192; Lintott, CQ 26, 1971, 197-204; Sumner, Orators, 105-106; T. N. Mitchell, CPh 70, 1975, 197- 204, in favor of the consulship of 87; and A. Keaveney, Latomus 38, 1979, 451-460, arguing for 88, and holding that Strabo's purpose was to restore the victims of the Lex Varia, not to secure a command against Mithridates. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Tribunus Militum c. 99 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Xvir a. d. a. See above, on L. Appuleius Saturninus (29), and C. lulius Caesar (130). The commission probably dates from 103, rather than 100, as in MRR 1.577. He was twice a tr. mil. (Inscr. Ital. 13.3, no. 6-CIL 1(2).198, no. 27), about 100 B.C. See Suolahti, Junior Officers 312, 405. On his curule aedileship, see MRR 2.26, 30, note 6. He became a candidate for the consulship, most probably of 88, contrary to the leges annales omitting the praetorship, but perhaps had been granted an exemption from them (Cic. Phil. 11.11; cf. Brut. 226, Har. Resp. 43; Ascon. 25C), and was stopped by the violent opposition of Sulpicius and Antistius. See Badian, Historia 18, 1969, 481-490; T. J. Luce, Historia 19, 1970, 190-192; Lintott, CQ 26, 1971, 197-204; Sumner, Orators, 105-106; T. N. Mitchell, CPh 70, 1975, 197- 204, in favor of the consulship of 87; and A. Keaveney, Latomus 38, 1979, 451-460, arguing for 88, and holding that Strabo's purpose was to restore the victims of the Lex Varia, not to secure a command against Mithridates. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Pontifex 99 to 87 (Rüpke 2005) Expand
    • 12 See the genealogy of the Caesars suggested by Münzer in RE 10.183f. Gellius dates the event by the Consuls of 99. Obsequens reports a similar one in 98. (Broughton MRR II)
    • He announced as Pontifex the motion of the spears of Mars in the sacrarium of the Regia (Gell. 4.6.2; cf. Elogium, Inscr. Ital. 13.3, no. 6-CIL 12.1, p. 198). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Inscr. Ital. 13.3.6-ILS 48. Killed by the Marians (Cic. Brut. 307; De Or. 3.10; Tusc. 5.55; Liv. Per. 80; Val. Max. 5.3.3.; 9.2.2; Ascon. 25C; Suet. Cal. 60; App. BC 1.72; Flor. 2.9.14; Augustin. CD 3.27). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Quaestor? 96 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 6 Caesar's quaestorship must precede his curule aedileship in 90 B. C. by several years. The order of offices in the Elogium indicates a date after 100 B. C. It is hardly possible to be more precise. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Inscr. Ital. 13.3.6-CIL 12.1, p. 198. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Aedilis Curulis 90 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 6 Cicero lists Caesar Strabo among the magistrates of 90 (Brut. 305), and Varro records a phrase he uttered as aedilicius before the Censors of 89. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cic. Brut. 305; Phil. 11.11; Varro RR 1.7.10; Elogium, Inscr. Ital. 13.3.6-CIL 12.1, p. 198; Ascon. 25C; Plin. NH 17.32. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Xvir a. d. a. See above, on L. Appuleius Saturninus (29), and C. lulius Caesar (130). The commission probably dates from 103, rather than 100, as in MRR 1.577. He was twice a tr. mil. (Inscr. Ital. 13.3, no. 6-CIL 1(2).198, no. 27), about 100 B.C. See Suolahti, Junior Officers 312, 405. On his curule aedileship, see MRR 2.26, 30, note 6. He became a candidate for the consulship, most probably of 88, contrary to the leges annales omitting the praetorship, but perhaps had been granted an exemption from them (Cic. Phil. 11.11; cf. Brut. 226, Har. Resp. 43; Ascon. 25C), and was stopped by the violent opposition of Sulpicius and Antistius. See Badian, Historia 18, 1969, 481-490; T. J. Luce, Historia 19, 1970, 190-192; Lintott, CQ 26, 1971, 197-204; Sumner, Orators, 105-106; T. N. Mitchell, CPh 70, 1975, 197- 204, in favor of the consulship of 87; and A. Keaveney, Latomus 38, 1979, 451-460, arguing for 88, and holding that Strabo's purpose was to restore the victims of the Lex Varia, not to secure a command against Mithridates. (Broughton MRR III)

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