person
Lucius Iulius Caesar (the younger)
L. Caesar the younger
also: L. Caesar filio, young Lucius Caesar, L. Iulius Caesar filius
Son of L. Iulius Caesar (cos. 64) and kinsman of the dictator; a Pompeian who served in the African war and was put to death after Thapsus in 46 BC despite the family tie. Cited at Fam. 9.7 as proof of Caesar's severity toward relatives. Distinct from his father, person:l-iulius-caesar-cos64.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 7.14 §1 Lucius Caesar brought Caesar's terms to Pompey
L. Iulius Caesar the younger, a kinsman of the dictator, served as Caesar's envoy in January 49 BC, carrying his peace terms to Pompey and the consuls; he is distinct from his father, the consul of 64 BC, and from Caesar himself.
- Ad Atticum 7.16 §2 what was given to Lucius Caesar to take back to him
L. Caesar (a young kinsman of the dictator) served as the formal go-between in the January 49 negotiations, carrying Caesar's demands to Pompey and the consuls and bringing their written replies back; the exchange is the diplomatic thread running through 7.16-7.19.
- Ad Atticum 7.19 §1 in which he mocks Lucius Caesar's embassy
Curio, now Caesar's man, ridicules the peace mission carried by L. Caesar; the legatio that had filled Cicero with hope in 7.16-7.18 is here treated by the Caesarian side as a sham, signalling the talks had collapsed.
- Ad Familiares 9.7 §1 young Lucius Caesar
L. Iulius Caesar the younger, son of the consul of 64 BC, had fought on the Pompeian side in Africa and was put to death after Thapsus (46 BC), despite his kinship to the dictator. Cicero's grim joke --- 'What will this fellow do to me, given what he did to his own father?' --- reflects the report that Caesar showed no mercy even to a relative, and underlies Cicero's wary policy of dining with the men now in power.