He was an uncle to Lucius Julius Caesar IV, Julia Antonia and a great-uncle to Mark Antony, Gaius Antonius, Lucius Antonius and Lucius Julius Caesar V. Cicero published a dialogue called De Oratore, in which Strabo explains why humor is important in speech. According to Cicero, he was an orator known for his wit and humor. These plays were Adrastus, Tecmesa and Teutras. According to Livy, their heads were exposed on the speaker’s platform.Ĭaesar Strabo Vopiscus wrote at least 3 tragedies with Greek themes. Sulla supported him and this caused great civil unrest.Īlong with his brother he was killed fighting in the streets at the beginning of the Civil War by partisans of Marius in 87 BC. When the war between Sulla and Marius started, Strabo stood for the consulship, although he needed to be a praetor before. Strabo became a priest in 99 BC a quaestor in 96 BC and an aedile in 90 BC. In 103 BC, he was on a committee to supervise the implementation of the Lex frumentaria, an agrarian bill, proposed by tribune Lucius Appuleius Saturninus. His cognomina indicate he was possibly cross-eyed, and the surviving member of a set of twins. Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus (c.130 BC - 87 BC) was the younger son to Lucius Julius Caesar II and his wife Poppilia and younger brother to Lucius Julius Caesar III.
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