Next year, Lucius Julius Caesar, elected consul, defeated the Samnites. For example, consul Sextus Julius Caesar lost a battle against the Samnites and died during a siege. Immediately, the Italian allies revolted: the beginning of the Social War, which started with many Roman reverses. However, he was unable to give them the Roman citizenship he had promised, and was murdered. In 91, when Lucius' relative Sextus Julius Caesar was consul, a tribune named Marcus Livius Drusus had proposed several reform bills, and he had asked support from the Italian allies of Rome. During his consulship, in 90, his younger brother Gaius was aedile. (In the same year, his relative Sextus Julius Caesar was praetor too.) After his praetorship, Lucius Julius Caesar was proconsul ( governor) of Macedonia, and during the consulship of his nephew Sextus, he was elected consul too. Yet he was praetor in 94, an office that he cannot have occupied without being quaestor and aedile first. He was involved in the downfall of the revolutionary tribune Lucius Appuleius Saturninus (in 100) and tried to obtain the quaestorship, but in vain. The beginnings of the career of Lucius Julius Caesar are a bit obscure. Together with his younger brother Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo, he was among Rome's foremost politicians. One of these men was Lucius Julius Caesar. They were not completely new, but their power rapidly increased, which is also indicated by their claim that they descended from the goddess Venus.

One of the new families was that of the Julii Caesares. The reforms proposed by Tiberius and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus, and the supremacy of general Gaius Marius, had deeply shaken the political world. The end of the second century BCE witnessed the rise of new families in Roman politics. Coin of Caesar (the dictator), stressing his family's claim to be descendants of Aeneas Lucius Julius Caesar (c.135-87): Roman politician.

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