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title: Sextus Julius Caesar
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# Sextus Julius Caesar

_Authored by Livius_

Sextus [Julius Caesar](https://www.worldhistory.org/Julius_Caesar/) (died 90 or 89 BCE) was [Roman](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/Roman/) politician in the first quarter of the first century BCE. In our sources, he is sometimes called Lucius.

 The end of the second century BCE witnessed the rise of new families in Roman politics. The reforms proposed by [Tiberius](https://www.worldhistory.org/Tiberius/) and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus, and the supremacy of general [Gaius Marius](https://www.worldhistory.org/Gaius_Marius/), had deeply shaken the political world. One of the new families was that of the Julii Caesares. They were not completely new, but their power rapidly increased, which is also indicated by their claim that they descended from the goddess [Venus](https://www.worldhistory.org/venus/).

 The leading Julians were Lucius [Julius](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/Julius/) [Caesar](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/caesar/) ([praetor](https://www.worldhistory.org/praetor/) in 94 BCE, [consul](https://www.worldhistory.org/Consul/) in 90 BCE, [censor](https://www.worldhistory.org/censor/) in 89 BCE) and his younger brother Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo ([aedile](https://www.worldhistory.org/Aedile/) in 90 BCE). Two other members of the family were Gaius Julius Caesar (father of the dictator with the same name) and Sextus Julius Caesar. It is not known how these people were related.

 Of these four men, Sextus Julius Caesar is the least well-known. Probably in 94 BCE, he was praetor (together with his uncle Lucius Julius Caesar). He may have occupied a governorship, and was back in [Rome](https://www.worldhistory.org/Rome/) in 91 BCE, to be consul.

 It was to be a difficult year. A [tribune](https://www.worldhistory.org/Tribune/) named Marcus Livius Drusus proposed several reform bills, and to gain support, he had asked support from the Italian allies of Rome. However, he was unable to give them the [Roman citizenship](https://www.worldhistory.org/article/859/roman-citizenship/) he had promised, and was murdered. Immediately, the allies revolted: the beginning of the [Social War](https://www.worldhistory.org/Social_War/), which started with many Roman reverses. Sextus Julius Caesar lost a [battle](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/battle/) against the Samnites and died during the siege of Asculum.

 His son, also called Sextus Julius Caesar, was a friend of the famous Gaius Julius Caesar and commanded one of his Syrian legions.

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## Bibliography

- [Sextus Julius Caesar](http://www.livius.org/jo-jz/julius/sextus_julius_caesar.html "Sextus Julius Caesar"), accessed 1 Dec 2016.

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