YOUNG JULIUS CAESAR

Servius Grammaticus ad Aeneidem comm. VI. 798:

Suetonius ait in Vita Caesaris responsa esse data per totum orbem nasci invictum imperatorem.

Sidonius ApollinarisCarmina II. 119-123 [Panegyric on Anthemius, January 1, 468]

praebuit intrepido mammas lupa feta Quirino;
Iulius in lucem venit dum laurea flagrat;
magnus Alexander nec non Augustus habentur
concepti serpente deo Phoebumque Iovemque
divisere sibi...

Suetonius Iulius 1.1

annum agens sextum decimum patrem amisit, sequentibus consulibus Flamen Dialis destinatus, dimissa Cossutia, quae familia equestri sed admodum dives praetextato desponsata fuerat, Corneliam Cinnae quater consulis filiam duxit uxorem, ex qua illi mox Iulia nata est....

Velleius Paterculus II. 43.1

paene puer a Mario Cinnaque Flamen Dialis creatus

thus between the last months of 87 and 13 January 86 (when Marius died).

Plutarch Caesar 1:

And though at the beginning (82? 81?), while so many were to be put to death, and there was so much to do, Caesar was overlooked by Sulla, yet he would not keep quiet, but presented himself to the People as a candidate for the priesthood, though he was yet a mere boy. Sulla . . . took measures to have him rejected . . . when it was urged by some that it was not worth while to contrive the death of a boy, he answered that they knew little who did not see more than one Marius in that boy.

Suetonius Iulius 45.3:

etiam cultu notabilem ferunt: usum enim lato clavo ad manus fimbriato nec umquam aliter quam ut super eum cingeretur et quidem fluxiore cinctura; unde emanasse Sullae dictum optimates saepius admonentis, ut 'male praecinctum puerum caverent'.

Velleius Paterculus II. 41.2:

habuisset fere XVIII annos eo tempore quo Sulla rerum potitus est., magis ministris Sullae adiutoribusque partium quam ipso conquirentibus eum ad necem mutata veste dissimilemque fortunae suae indutus habitum nocte urbe elapsus est. Idem postea admodum iuvenis, cum a piratis captus esset, ita se per omnium spatium, quo ab iis retentus est, apud eos gessit, ut pariter iis terrori venerationique esset, neque unquam aut nocte aut die (cur enim quod vel maximum est, si narrari verbis speciosis non potest, omittatur?) aut excalcearetur aut discingeretur, in hoc scilicet, ne si quando aliquid ex solito variaret, suspectus iis, quo oculis tantummodo eum custodiebant, foret.

Quintilian Institutiones Oratoriae XII. 6.1:

neque ego annos definiam, cum . . . Calvus, Caesar, Pollio multum ante quaestoriam omnes aetatem gravissima iudicia susceperint, praetextatos egisse quosdam sit traditum . . .

Tacitus Dialogus de oratoribus 34.8:

We still read with admiration the speeches in which Lucius Crassus in his nineteenth year, Caesar and Asinius Pollio in their twenty-first year, Calvus when very little older, denounced respectively Carbo, Dolabella, Cato, and Vatinius.

Prosecution of Dolabella: 77 B.C.? Suetonius 4.1, Plutarch 4.1, Velleius II. 43.3, Asconius 26C (23 St.)

Asconius 26 Clark:

Ne forte erretis et eundem hunc Dolabellam putetis esse in quem C. Caesaris orationes legetis, scire vos oportet duos eodem eo tempore fuisse et praenomine et nomine et cognomine Dolabellas. Horum igitur alterum Caesar accusavit nec damnavit; alterum M. Scaurus et accusavit et damnavit.

Suetonius Iulius 71:

studium et fides erga clientis ne iuveni quidem defuerunt. Masintham nobilem iuvenem, cum adversus Hiempsalem regem tam enixere defendisset, ut Iubae regis filio in altercatione barbam invaserit, stipendiarium quoque apud se diu et mox ex praetura profiscens in Hispaniam inter officia prosequentium fascesque lictorem lectica sua avexit.

before 61 B.C.

Appian Bellum Civile II. 1:

Pompey had lately cleared the sea of pirates (67 B.C.), who were then more numerous than ever before, and afterwards had overthrown Mithridates, king of Pontus (66-63), and regulated his kingdom and the other nations that he had subdued in the east (64-62). Caesar was still a young man (neos), but powerful in speech and action, .. While yet Aedile and Praetor he had incurred great debts and had made himself wonderfully agreeable to the multitude....

Suetonius Iulius 7:

Quaestor Ulterior Hispania obvenit; ubi cum mandatu Praetoris iure dicundo conventus circumiret Gadisque venisset, animadversa apud Herculis templum Magni Alexandri imagine ingemuit et quasi pertaesus ignaviam suam, quod nihil dum a se memorabile actum esset in aetate qua iam Alexander orbem terrarum subegisset....

68 B.C.

Eutropius Breviarium ab Urbe Condita VI. 24:

post annum Caesar Roman regressus quarto se consulem fecit (46 B.C., during the second intercalary month, i.e. November) et statim ad Hispanias est profectus, ubi Pompei filii, Cn. Pompeius et Sextus Pompeius, ingens bellum praeparaverant. Multa proelia fuerunt, ultimum apud Mundam civitatem (March 17, 45) in quo adeo Caesar paene victus est, ut fugientibus suis se voluerit occidere, ne post tantam rei militaris gloriam in potestatem adulescentium natus annos sex et quinquaginta veniret. Denique revocatis suis vicit. Ex Pompei filiis maior occisus est, minor fugit.

Suetonius Iulius 88:

periit sexto et quinquagensimo aetatis anno, atque in deorum numerum relatus est.

March 15, 44

Appian Bellum Civile II. 149:

Caesar went on his way and met his death, being fifty six years of age, a man most fortunate in all things, superhuman, of grand designs, and fit to be compared with Alexander.

Plutarch Caesar 69:

Caesar died, having reached the age of fifty six years all told.