![]() ![]() 3ģ 1 He served too under Servilius Isauricus in Cilicia, but only for a short time for learning of the death of Sulla, and at the same time hoping to profit by a counter revolution which Marcus Lepidus was setting on foot, he hurriedly returned to Rome. During the rest of the campaign he enjoyed a better reputation, and at the storming of Mytilene Thermus awarded him the civic crown. Being sent by Thermus to Bithynia, to fetch a fleet, he dawdled so long at the court of Nicomedes that he was suspected of improper relations with the king and he lent colour to this scandal by going back to Bithynia a few days after his return, with the alleged purpose of collecting a debt for a freedman, one of his dependents. P5 held out against the most devoted and eminent men of his party who interceded for Caesar, and they obstinately persisted, he at last gave way and cried, either by divine inspiration or a shrewd forecast: "Have your way and take him only bear in mind that the man you are so eager to save will one day deal the death blow to the cause of the aristocracy, which you have joined with me in upholding for in this Caesar there is more than one Marius."Ģ 1 He served his first campaign in Asia on the personal staff of Marcus Thermus, governor of the province. ![]() 3 Everyone knows that when Sulla had long But at last, through the good offices of the Vestal virgins and of his near kinsmen, Mamercus Aemilius and Aurelius Cotta, he obtained forgiveness. He was accordingly forced to go into hiding, and though suffering from a severe attack of quartan ague, to change from one covert to another almost every night, and save himself from Sulla's detectives by bribes. 2 Therefore besides being punished by the loss of his priesthood, a his wife's dowry, and his family inheritances, Caesar was held to be one of the opposite party. In the next consulate, having previously been nominated priest of Jupiter, 2 he broke his engagement with Cossutia, a lady of only equestrian rank, but very wealthy, who had been betrothed to him before he assumed the gown of manhood, and married Cornelia, daughter of that Cinna who was four times consul, by whom he afterwards had a daughter Julia and the dictator Sulla could by no means force him to put away his wife. It is said that he even had a fling with Servilia's daughter Tertia.1 1 In the course of his sixteenth year 1 he lost his father. He spent lavishly on her he once bought her a pearl which cost him six milion sesterces, which was a great deal of money. The woman who was closest to him was a certain Servilia, the mother of Marcus Brutus. He married a woman he did not love for the sole purpose of furthering his career. Amongst the ladies he "borrowed" were Postumia, the wife of Servius Sulipcius, Lollia, the wife of Aulus Gabinius, Tertulla, the wife of Marcus Crassus and Mucia, the wife of Pompey, to name but a few. Actually, with all the "borrowing" he got up to no-wonder he made so many enemies. Yes, he was bald and although this did not deter him from his conquests, it was a source of constant bother to him as he was often ridiculed for his baldness, by his enemies. In Gaul adultery cost thee gold, here 'tis but borrowing." "Look to your wives, ye citizens, a lecher bald we bring, He was notorious for this and a typical ditty of the time, after his triumph in Gaul, says: ![]() He never hesitated to "borrow" other noblemen's wives and also "lend" his own wife Pompeia. He openly enjoyed the "company" of both men and women and there were many scandals to go with this. Julius Caesar was a man of great intensity. Thus is Julius Caesar characterized by Curio, according to Suetonius. "Every woman's husband and every man's wife". ![]()
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