Capitolo 13
periods down a present day.
[Sidenote: Julius Cesare.]
[Sidenote: the animosity of Sylla against him.]
[Sidenote: Caesar refuses to repudiate his/her wife.]
[Sidenote: Your flight.]
When Sylla returned to Rome, and taken possession of the supreme power
in to look you list him of public men, it was there, one that him
doesn't know, for first thing to do with. It was the young Julius Cesare,
the subject of this history. Caesar was, from birth, patrician, having
come down by a long line of noble ancestors. There had been, before
his/her day, many Caesar of what you/they had held the tallest offices the
you affirm, and many of them had been celebrated in history. Him naturally,
therefore, it belonged to the side of Sylla, as Sylla was the representative of
the patrician interest. But then Caesar had personally been tilted
toward the party of Marius. The oldest Marius was married his/her aunt, and,
besides, same Caesar was married the daughter of Cinna that had been
the most efficient and powerful of the coadjutorses of Marius and friends.
Caesar was to this point an a lot of youth, and he was of an ardent and
unwise character, although he had, not taken so far active part in,
public business. Sylla neglected him/it for once, but for a long time it was around
to put his/her name on the list of the they proscribed. Some of the nobles that
it was also friends both of Sylla and of Caesar, it interceded for the young one
man; Sylla produced to their application, or, rather, suspended his
decision, and it sent orders to Caesar to repudiate his/her wife his/her daughter,
of Cinna. Its name was Cornelia. Caesar completely it refused to repudiate
his/her wife. He was influenced partly in this affection decision for
Cornelia, and partly from a kind of stern and untamable
insubmissiveness that formed from his more first years, a prominent
line of the face in his/her character, and what it conducted him/it, during all of his/her life to face
every possible danger rather than to afford himself/herself/themselves to be checked. Caesar
known a lot well that, when this its refusal should be brought to Sylla,