young Caesar

Family: Roman · Role: heir of Caesar · First appears: Cicero

Life events

Young Caesar came to Rome, claimed Caesar's name and inheritance, and drew soldiers away from Antony.(Marcus Brutus · 📍 Rome)
- With: Antony
- “he immediately came to Rome, and, to ingratiate himself with the people, taking upon himself the name of Caesar, and punctually distributing among the citizens the money that was left them by the will, he soon got the better of Antony;”
Young Caesar condemned Brutus and Cassius in absentia for Caesar's murder.(Marcus Brutus · 📍 Rome)
- With: Marcus Brutus Cassius
- “At his first entry upon the consulship he immediately ordered a judicial process to be issued out against Brutus and his accomplices for having murdered a principal man of the city, holding the highest magistracies of Rome, without being heard or condemned; and appointed Lucius Cornificius to accuse Brutus, and Marcus Agrippa to accuse Cassius. None appearing to the accusation, the judges were forced to pass sentence and condemn them both.”
Young Caesar, Antony, and Lepidus formed a triumvirate and proscribed Cicero, who was slain.(Marcus Brutus · 📍 Rome)
- With: Antony Lepidus Cicero
- “After this, the three men, Caesar, Antony, and Lepidus, being perfectly reconciled, shared the provinces among themselves, and made up the catalogue of proscription, wherein were set those that were designed for slaughter, amounting to two hundred men, in which number Cicero was slain.”

with Cicero (interaction) “For the young man went so far in his court to him, that he called him Father”
parent: Octavius “whose father was a man of no great eminence, Octavius”
parent: Attia “and his mother, Attia, Caesar's sister's daughter”
with Marcellus (interaction) “and Marcellus, who married the sister of young Caesar”
rivals with Antony “reconciling himself to Antony and Lepidus, joined his power with theirs”
with Philippus (interaction) “Philippus, who married the mother ... of young Caesar”
with Cicero (interaction) “For the young man went so far in his court to him, that he called him Father”
friends with Lepidus “reconciling himself to Antony and Lepidus, joined his power with theirs”

parent: Caesar “He was son to the niece of Caesar, who adopted him, and left him his heir by his will”

Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.