Excerpt from Commentaries on the Gallic War: With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, a Lexicon, Indexes, Etc

Caius julius caesar was the son of Caius Caesar and Aurelia, the daughter of Cotta. He was born in the sixth consulship of Marius, ninety-nine years B. C. When only in his seventeenth year, he obtained the office of High Priest of Jupiter. His marriage with Cornelia, the daughter of Cinna, excited against him the hatred of Sylla, to whose suspicion he had, from his early years, been exposed, in consequence of his aunt Julia being the wife of Marius. To escape assassination, he was obliged to conceal himself, until, by the intercession of the Vestal virgins and entreaties of his relations, the tyrant was reluctantly induced to spare his life. That Sylla formed, at an early period, a correct opinion of his talents and ambition, is proved by the answer which he returned to his friends, who reproached him for the meanness of wishing to put a boy to death, In that boy, said he, I see many Mariuses.

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