Talk:Gaius Julius Caesar

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Died tying shoes?

An anonymous editor added this to the article, but it really belongs here, so I've moved it. --Nicknack009 19:25, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Caesar who died lacing his shoes was Gaius Julius Caesar III, father of the dictator, not Gaius Juius, father of Sextus Julius (consul) and Gaius Julius III, father-in-law of Gaius Marius. The description above is incorrect. (posted by User:71.60.105.95)

My response: here's the passage from Pliny:

Two of the Cæsars, one of whom was at the time praetor, and the other had previously discharged that office, and was the father of the Dictator Cæsar, died without any apparent cause, in the morning, while putting on their shoes; the former at Pisae, the latter at Rome.

The second, the dictator's father, died at Rome. The first, who died at Pisae, is not specified. The footnote on the Perseus translation of Pliny suggests he was the second's older brother Lucius, citing Jean Hardouin. Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology [1] thinks it may be his own father, although it confuses which one died where. I've edited the article to express the uncertainty. --Nicknack009 19:25, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]