C. Julius Caesar, the son of C. Julius Caesar and Aurelia, was born on the twelfth of July, B.C. 100, in the sixth consulship of his uncle C. Marius.  His father, who had been praetor, died suddenly at Pisa when his son was in his sixteenth year.]

[Footnote 436:  See the Life of Pompeius, c. 9, and notes.]

[Footnote 437:  Caesar was first betrothed to Cossutia, the daughter of a rich Roman Eques, but he broke off the marriage contract, and married Cornelia, B.C. 83.]

[Footnote 438:  A different story is told by Suetonius (Caesar, c. 1), and Velleius Paterculus (ii. 43).]

[Footnote 439:  Cornelius Phagita (Suetonius, c. 1, 74.) The words of Sulla are also reported by Suetonius (c. 1).]

[Footnote 440:  Nicomedes III.  Caesar was sent to him by Thermus to get ships for the siege of Mitylene.  Suetonius, a lover of scandal, has preserved a grievous imputation against Caesar, which is connected with this visit to Nicomedes (Caesar, c. 2, 49).  Caesar in a speech for the Bithynians (Gellius, v. 13) calls Nicomedes his friend.  He felt the reproach keenly, and tried to clear himself (Dion Cassius, 43, c. 20).  But it is easier to make such charges than to confute them.

M. Minucius Thermus, Propraetor.  Caesar served his first campaign under him at the siege and capture of Mitylene B.C. 80.  Caesar gained a civic crown.  See the note in Burmaun’s edition of Suetonius.]

[Footnote 441:  This island was near Miletus.  Stephan.  Byzant., [Greek:  Pharmakoussa].]

[Footnote 442:  See the Life of Pompeius, c. 26.  Caesar served a short time against the Cilician pirates under P. Servilius Isauricus (Sueton. Caesar, 2) B.C. 77, or perhaps later.]

[Footnote 443:  He was now in Bithynia according to Vell.  Paterculus (ii. 42).  This affair of the pirates happened according to Drumann in B.C. 76.  Plutarch places it five years earlier.]

[Footnote 444:  Plutarch should probably have called him only Molo.  He was a native of Alabanda in Caria.  Cicero often mentions his old master, but always by the name of Molo only.  He calls the rhetorician, who was the master of Q. Mucius Scaevola, consul B.C. 117.  Apollonius, who was also a native of Alabanda.]

[Footnote 445:  See c. 54.]

[Footnote 446:  See the first chapter of the Life of Lucullus.]

[Footnote 447:  Cn.  Cornelius Dolabella, consul B.C. 81, afterwards was governor of Macedonia as proconsul, in which office he was charged with maladministration.  Cicero (Brutus, c. 71, 92) mentions this trial.  Drumann places it in B.C. 77.  Cicero (Brutus, c. 72) gives his opinion of the eloquence of Caesar. (Suetonius, Caesar, 4; Vell.  Paterculus, ii. 42.)]

[Footnote 448:  His name was Caius.  He was consul B.C. 63 with Cicero.  The trial, which was in B.C. 76, of course related to misconduct prior to that date.  The trial was not held in Greece.  M. Lucullus was the brother of L. Lucullus, and was Praetor in Rome at the time of the trial.]