Nicomedes

Family: Bithynian · Role: prince · First appears: Julius Caesar 2

Life events

Reports arose alleging criminal intercourse between Julius Caesar and Nicomedes.(Julius Caesar 2 · 📍 Bithynia)
- With: Julius Caesar
- “he loitered so long at the court of Nicomedes, as to give occasion to reports of a criminal intercourse between him and that prince;”
Julius Caesar cohabited with Nicomedes, creating the sole recorded stain upon his chastity.(Julius Caesar 49)
- With: Julius Caesar
- “The only stain upon his chastity was his having cohabited with Nicomedes;”

with Julius Caesar (The passage reports an alleged sexual relationship between Caesar and Nicomedes.) “to give occasion to reports of a criminal intercourse between him and that prince;”

with Julius Caesar (They had a sexual relationship.) “The only stain upon his chastity was his having cohabited with Nicomedes;”
child: Nysa (Nysa is explicitly identified as Nicomedes's daughter.) “upon Caesar’s pleading the cause of Nysa, the daughter of Nicomedes before the senate,”
servant: Julius Caesar (Nicomedes is the king whom Caesar is said to have served) “Caius Memmius likewise upbraided him with serving the king at table, among the rest of his catamites, in the presence of a large company, in which were some merchants from Rome, the names of whom he mentions.”

Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.