_ (Loewenberg, 1879).

(M. BR.)

[1] In spite of the explicit statements of Suetonius, Plutarch and Appian
that Caesar was in his fifty-sixth year at the time of his murder, it is,
as Mommsen has shown, practically certain that he was born in 102 B.C.,
since he held the chief offices of state in regular order, beginning with
the aedileship in 65 B.C., and the legal age for this was fixed at 37-38.

[2] Suetonius, _Jul._ 76, errs in stating that he used the title
_imperator_ as a _praenomen_.

[3] The statement of Dio and Suetonius, that a general _cura legum et
morum_ was conferred on Caesar in 46 B.C., is rejected by Mommsen. It is
possible that it may have some foundation in the terms of the law
establishing his third dictatorship.

[4] Since the discovery of a fragmentary municipal charter at Tarentum (see
ROME), dating from a period shortly after the Social War, doubts have been
cast on the identification of the tables of Heraclea with Caesar's
municipal statute. It has been questioned whether Caesar passed such a law,
since the _Lex Julia Municipalis_ mentioned in an inscription of Patavium
(Padua) may have been a local charter. See Legras, _La Table latine
d'Heraclee_ (Paris, 1907).

[5] Brunetto Latini, _Tresor_: "_Et ainsi Julius Cesar fu li premiers
empereres des Romains._"

CAESAR, SIR JULIUS (1557-1558-1636), English judge, descended by the female
line from the dukes de' Cesarini in Italy, was born near Tottenham in
Middlesex. He was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and afterwards studied
at the university of Paris, where in the year 1581 he was made a doctor of
the civil law. Two years later he was admitted to the same degree at
Oxford, and also became doctor of the canon law. He held many high offices
during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I., including a judgeship of the
admiralty court (1584), a mastership in chancery (1588), a mastership of
the court of requests (1595), chancellor and under treasurer of the
exchequer (1606). He was knighted by King James in 1603, and in 1614 was
appointed master of the rolls, an office which he held till his death on
the 18th of April 1636, He was so remarkable for his bounty and charity to
all persons of worth that it was said of him that he seemed to be the
almoner-general of the nation. His manuscripts, many of which are now in
the British Museum, were sold by auction in 1757 for upwards of L500.

See E. Lodge, _Life of Sir Julius Caesar_ (1810); Wood, _Fa