This man was Gaius Marius, the novus homo and seven-time consul. Augustus Caesar (63 BCE-14 CE) was the first Emperor of Rome. His daughter Julia was married to a former plebeian tribune from an obscure family. The Aurelii Cottae had been plebeian nobles from the mid-3rd century BC, when two ancestors attained the consulship. He in turn arranged a marriage for his son Gaius to Aurelia Cotta, a daughter from the Cotta branch of the gens Aurelia. Gaius Julius Caesar II married a woman from the patrician Marcii Reges, a union his father would have arranged. Nothing is known of the career of Gaius Julius Caesar II, except that he can possibly be identified with a praetor who died suddenly at Rome, although Lucius Julius, a praetor urbanus in 166 BC is another likely candidate for that fact mentioned by Pliny. Gaius Julius Caesar was the father of Gaius Julius Caesar the Elder who was the father of Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator. There had been a quarrel between them, which he now succeeded in making up, and by this means strengthened himself by the united power of both. He may have been the father of the Gaius Julius Caesar that married Marcia. Others have conjectured this may have been a son of Sextus Julius Caesar, the military tribune, and a brother of the Sextus Julius Caesar who was consul in 157 BC. Octavian stated that he will fulfill Caesar’s wish to pay an amount of money, which Caesar promised to the people. Livy mentions Gaius Julius, a senator, who around 143 BC would have written a Roman history in Greek. He started calling himself Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian. Octavian (who became emperor after Caesars death) took advantage of this weakness to absorb the nation into his newly formed Roman Empire.
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