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<p>[QUOTE="The Meat man, post: 24719071, member: 135271"]"Caesar" was simply part of Gaius Julius' name. It only became a title after his death. In that way you could say he was the first "Caesar", but there were others of the same name before him - including an ancestor who struck coins bearing the name "Caesar".</p><p><br /></p><p>Octavian took his great-uncle's name and was known as Caesar - as Emperor, his full name became Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="The Meat man, post: 24719071, member: 135271"]"Caesar" was simply part of Gaius Julius' name. It only became a title after his death. In that way you could say he was the first "Caesar", but there were others of the same name before him - including an ancestor who struck coins bearing the name "Caesar". Octavian took his great-uncle's name and was known as Caesar - as Emperor, his full name became Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus.[/QUOTE]
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