Lee Pappas
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I found a problem with Julius Caesar's date of birth. According to Wikipedia he was born in 100 BC, and was consul for the first time in 59 BC. However the minimum age to be a consul was 42, so how could he become a consul when he was only 41. Something's rotten in Denmark. You had to be 42 to become a Roman consul, no exceptions.
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According to some sources the minimum age was 40 if you were a patrician, but I think that's apocryphal. That idea was invented to explain how Julius Caesar could become Roman consul at age 41.
In the opening sentence of Suetonius' The Life of Julius Caesar it states:
"In the course of his 16th year he lost his father."
So if we can figure out when his father died we will know when he was born, and we can do that by seeing through an ancient Roman lie.
Caius Julius Caesar was not the son of Caius Julius Caesar and Aurelia Cotta, he was the son of Caius Marius Caesar and Julia Cotta. His first name was the first name of his father, his middle name was the first name of his mother, and his last name was the last name of his father. Furthermore both his sisters had the first name of their mother Julia.
The clue is in the first chapter of the life of Julius Caesar. At the end of the chapter it states
Everyone knows that when Sulla had long p5 held out against the most devoted and eminent men of his party who interceded for Caesar, and they obstinately persisted, he at last gave way and cried, either by divine inspiration or a shrewd forecast: "Have your way and take him; only bear in mind that the man you are so eager to save will one day deal the death blow to the cause of the aristocracy, which you have joined with me in upholding; for in this Caesar there is more than one Marius."
More than one *MARIUS*. This was the kaius Marius who was Roman Consul an unprecedented seven times, right in the vicinity of when Julius Caesar was conceived.
Julius Caesar the individual who would One Day become the most powerful man in Rome was not the son of a senator, he was the son of a seven-time Roman consul, and his mother was descended from a Roman King. It makes sense.
Now it is known from Plutarch's the life of Marius that kaius Marius died on the 17th day of his consulship in 86 BC. At that time in history the consulships began in March, therefore Julius Caesar's father died on March 17th, 86 BC.
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Posidonius (135-51BC), a contemporary of Marius, found it peculiar that Marius only had two names, as we learn in the opening two sentences of Plutarch's the life of Marius. It states:
Of a third name for Caius Marius we are ignorant, as we are in the case of Quintus Sertorius the subduer of Spain, and of Lucius Mummius the captor of Corinth; for Mummius received the surname of Achaïcus from his great exploit, as Scipio received that of Africanus, and Metellus that of Macedonicus. 2 From this circumstance particularly Poseidonius thinks to confute those who hold that the third name is the Roman proper name, as, for instance, Camillus, Marcellus, or Cato; for if that were so, he says, then those with only two names would have had no proper name at all.
His last name was Caesar, Poseidonius was on the trail of the Great Lie.
Consider the following passage from Suetonius' the life of Julius Caesar:
When quaestor, he [Julius Caesar] pronounced the customary orations from the rostra in praise of his aunt Julia and his wife Cornelia, who had both died. And in the eulogy of his aunt he spoke in the following terms of her paternal and maternal ancestry and that of his own father: "The family of my aunt Julia is descended by her mother from the kings, and on her father's side is akin to the immortal Gods; for the Marcii Reges (her mother's family name) go back to Ancus Marcius, and the Julii, the family of which ours is a branch, to Venus.
Now consider Plutarch's The Life of Marius.
Still, the very intensity of his [Marius'] assurance, his indefatigable labours, and his plain and simple way of living, won him a certain popularity among his fellow citizens, and his honours brought him increasing influence, so that he married into the illustrious family of the Caesars and became the husband of Julia, who was the aunt of that Caesar who in after times became greatest among the Romans, and in some degree, because of his relationship, made Marius his example, as I have stated in his Life.6
If I'm right, both passages we're written after the lie was in place.
As for his birthday it was not July 12th it was February 23rd. When the Julian calendar was instituted in 44 BC, the leap day was set on his birthday February 23rd, by him.
In Macrobius' Saturnalia, Book 1, chapter 13, section 14, it states:
Now the month of February was appointed for all intercalation, because it was the last of the year: which they also did in imitation of the Greeks. For even they, in the last month of their year, interspersed the superfluous days, as Glaucippus relates, who wrote of the sacred things of the Athenians. 15 But in one respect they differed from the Greeks. For he was finished in the last month, and the Romans were not finished in February, but after p113 they intercalated the twentieth and third day of it, the Terminalia having already been completed; then they joined the remaining days of the month of February, which were five, after the intercalation;
Therefore Julius Caesar was born on February 23rd, 102 BC, making him 16 when his father died.
Cursus honorum - Wikipedia
According to some sources the minimum age was 40 if you were a patrician, but I think that's apocryphal. That idea was invented to explain how Julius Caesar could become Roman consul at age 41.
In the opening sentence of Suetonius' The Life of Julius Caesar it states:
"In the course of his 16th year he lost his father."
So if we can figure out when his father died we will know when he was born, and we can do that by seeing through an ancient Roman lie.
Caius Julius Caesar was not the son of Caius Julius Caesar and Aurelia Cotta, he was the son of Caius Marius Caesar and Julia Cotta. His first name was the first name of his father, his middle name was the first name of his mother, and his last name was the last name of his father. Furthermore both his sisters had the first name of their mother Julia.
The clue is in the first chapter of the life of Julius Caesar. At the end of the chapter it states
Everyone knows that when Sulla had long p5 held out against the most devoted and eminent men of his party who interceded for Caesar, and they obstinately persisted, he at last gave way and cried, either by divine inspiration or a shrewd forecast: "Have your way and take him; only bear in mind that the man you are so eager to save will one day deal the death blow to the cause of the aristocracy, which you have joined with me in upholding; for in this Caesar there is more than one Marius."
More than one *MARIUS*. This was the kaius Marius who was Roman Consul an unprecedented seven times, right in the vicinity of when Julius Caesar was conceived.
Julius Caesar the individual who would One Day become the most powerful man in Rome was not the son of a senator, he was the son of a seven-time Roman consul, and his mother was descended from a Roman King. It makes sense.
Now it is known from Plutarch's the life of Marius that kaius Marius died on the 17th day of his consulship in 86 BC. At that time in history the consulships began in March, therefore Julius Caesar's father died on March 17th, 86 BC.
Gaius Marius - Wikipedia
Posidonius (135-51BC), a contemporary of Marius, found it peculiar that Marius only had two names, as we learn in the opening two sentences of Plutarch's the life of Marius. It states:
Of a third name for Caius Marius we are ignorant, as we are in the case of Quintus Sertorius the subduer of Spain, and of Lucius Mummius the captor of Corinth; for Mummius received the surname of Achaïcus from his great exploit, as Scipio received that of Africanus, and Metellus that of Macedonicus. 2 From this circumstance particularly Poseidonius thinks to confute those who hold that the third name is the Roman proper name, as, for instance, Camillus, Marcellus, or Cato; for if that were so, he says, then those with only two names would have had no proper name at all.
His last name was Caesar, Poseidonius was on the trail of the Great Lie.
Consider the following passage from Suetonius' the life of Julius Caesar:
When quaestor, he [Julius Caesar] pronounced the customary orations from the rostra in praise of his aunt Julia and his wife Cornelia, who had both died. And in the eulogy of his aunt he spoke in the following terms of her paternal and maternal ancestry and that of his own father: "The family of my aunt Julia is descended by her mother from the kings, and on her father's side is akin to the immortal Gods; for the Marcii Reges (her mother's family name) go back to Ancus Marcius, and the Julii, the family of which ours is a branch, to Venus.
Now consider Plutarch's The Life of Marius.
Still, the very intensity of his [Marius'] assurance, his indefatigable labours, and his plain and simple way of living, won him a certain popularity among his fellow citizens, and his honours brought him increasing influence, so that he married into the illustrious family of the Caesars and became the husband of Julia, who was the aunt of that Caesar who in after times became greatest among the Romans, and in some degree, because of his relationship, made Marius his example, as I have stated in his Life.6
If I'm right, both passages we're written after the lie was in place.
As for his birthday it was not July 12th it was February 23rd. When the Julian calendar was instituted in 44 BC, the leap day was set on his birthday February 23rd, by him.
In Macrobius' Saturnalia, Book 1, chapter 13, section 14, it states:
Now the month of February was appointed for all intercalation, because it was the last of the year: which they also did in imitation of the Greeks. For even they, in the last month of their year, interspersed the superfluous days, as Glaucippus relates, who wrote of the sacred things of the Athenians. 15 But in one respect they differed from the Greeks. For he was finished in the last month, and the Romans were not finished in February, but after p113 they intercalated the twentieth and third day of it, the Terminalia having already been completed; then they joined the remaining days of the month of February, which were five, after the intercalation;
Therefore Julius Caesar was born on February 23rd, 102 BC, making him 16 when his father died.