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The Life of Caesar (original Greek title: Καίσαρ; translated into Latin as Vita Iulii Caesaris) is a biography of Julius Caesar written in Ancient Greek in the beginning of the 2nd century AD by the Greek moralist Plutarch, as part of his Parallel Lives.
Caesar, by a bribe of two talents, prevailed with Cornelius, their captain, to let him go, and was no sooner dismissed but he put to sea and made for Bithynia.
The wife of Caesar 1 was Cornelia, the daughter of the Cinna who had once held the sole power at Rome, 2 and when Sulla became master of affairs, 3 he could not, either by promises or threats, induce Caesar to put her away, and therefore confiscated her dowry. Now, the reason for Caesar's hatred of Sulla was Caesar's relationship to Marius.
The Life of Julius Caesar. 1. Caesar sides with Marius against Sylla. 2. Caesar taken by Pirates. 3. Caesar's eloquence. 4. Cicero's judgment of Caesar. Caesar's funeral oration over his aunt Julia. 5. Caesar sets up images of Marius. 6. He is made chief Bishop of Rome. 7. His action in the case of Catiline's conspiracy. 8.
When Julius Caesar was about sixteen, a civil war began between two mighty Roman rivals: Lucius Cornelius Sulla, and Caesar's uncle-by-marriage, Gaius Marius, who was allied with another leader named Lucius Cornelius Cinna.
Caesar snatching hold of the handle of the dagger, and crying out aloud in Latin, "Villain Casca, what do you?" he, calling in Greek to his brother, bade him come and help.
The wife of Caesar 1 was Cornelia, the daughter of the Cinna who had once held the sole power at Rome, 2 and when Sulla became master of affairs, 3 he could not, either by promises or threats, induce Caesar to put her away, and therefore confiscated her dowry. Now, the reason for Caesar's hatred of Sulla was Caesar's relationship to Marius.
Plutarch's Lives, Plutarch's estimate of Caesar and Shakespeare's estimate of Plutarch, Shakespeare's omissions and his divergences from Plutarch, and the reasons of these changes.
Plutarch's Lives Bookreader Item Preview ... Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Caesar -- v. 8. Sertorios and Eumenes. Phocion and Cato the Younger -- v. 9. Demetrius and Antony. Pyrrhus and Caius Marius -- v. 10. Agis and Cleomenes, and Tiberius and Caius Gracchus. Philopoemen and Flaminus -- v. 11.
Caesar was unable to overcome the anti-monarchical sentiments, as we can see in the following story, which is told by Plutarch of Chaeronea (46-c.120) in chapter 61 of his Life of Julius Caesar. The translation was made by Robin Seager.