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Gaius Julius Caesar was born (by Caesarean section according to an unlikely legend) of Aurelia and Gaius Julius Caesar, a praetor.
His family had noble, patrician roots, although they were neither rich nor influential in this period. His aunt Julia was the wife of Gaius Marius, leader of the popular division.
His father died, and a few years later he was betrothed and possibly married to a wealthy young woman, Cossutia.
This betrothal/marriage was soon broken off, and at age 18 he married Cornelia, the daughter of a prominent member of the popular faction; she later bore him his only legitimate child, a daughter, Julia. When the Optimate dictator, Sulla, was in power, he ordered Caesar to divorce her; when Caesar refused, Sulla proscribed him and Caesar went into hiding. Caesar's influential friends and relatives eventually got him a pardon.
At the public event, Antony offered him a diadem (symbol of the Hellenistic monarchs), but Caesar do not want it, saying Jupiter alone is king of the Romans (possibly because he saw the people did not want him to accept the diadem, or possibly because he wanted to end once and for all the speculation that he was trying to become a king).
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