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In the course of his sixteenth year [1] he lost his father. In the next consulate, having previously been nominated priest of Jupiter, [2] he broke his engagement with Cossutia, a lady of only equestrian rank, but very wealthy, who had been betrothed to him before he assumed the gown of manhood, and married Cornelia, daughter of that Cinna who was four times consul, by whom he afterwards had a daughter Julia; and the dictator Sulla could by no means force him to put away his wife.
[1]: 85 or 84 BC, according to the chronology of Suetonius, which makes the year of Caesar's birth 100 BC The arguments in favour of 102 are however very strong. ↩︎