1 Many think that opening paragraphs of this Life, describing the birth and boyhood of Caesar, have been lost.
2 In 86 B.C., after the death of his colleague, Valerius Flaccus.
3 In 82 B.C. Cf. the Pompey, ix. 1 f.
4 Nam Caesari multos Marios inesse (Suetonius, Divus Julius, i.).
5 Caesar served under Marcus Thermus, praetor of Asia, in 81-80 B.C., being then nineteen years of age, and by him was sent to Bithynia in order to raise a fleet to assist in the siege of Mitylene.
6 According to Suetonius ( Div. Jul. 4), it was on a voyage from Rome to Rhodes (after 77 B.C.) that Caesar was captured by pirates.
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