1The wife of Caesar1Many think that opening paragraphs of this Life, describing the birth and boyhood of Caesar, have been lost. was Cornelia, the daughter of the Cinna who had once held the sole power at Rome,2In 86 B.C., after the death of his colleague, Valerius Flaccus. and when Sulla became master of affairs,3In 82 B.C. Cf. the Pompey, ix. 1 f. he could not, either by promises or threats, induce Caesar to put her away, and therefore confiscated her dowry. Now, the reason for Caesar’s hatred of Sulla was Caesar’s relationship to Marius. For Julia, a sister of Caesar’s father, was the wife of Marius the Elder, and the mother of Marius the Younger, who was therefore Caesar’s cousin.