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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24719273, member: 26430&quot;]I just posted this one in another thread, but here&#039;s a &quot;Caesar&quot; a couple of generations before &quot;the&quot; Caesar. In fact, this one&#039;s even a &quot;Julius Caesar&quot; -- more specifically, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Julius_Caesar_(consul_90_BC)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Julius_Caesar_(consul_90_BC)" rel="nofollow">Lucius Julius Caesar (c. 134-87 BCE)</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>But that was before Caesar was a title, so it was just his name.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1581038[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It didn&#039;t become a title until after his ... great-nephew (?) ... &quot;the&quot; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar" rel="nofollow">Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE)</a> had taken over Rome:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1581039[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>One might say that &quot;Caesar&quot; started to become a title when it was adopted by Octavian/Augustus as his claim to power (well, Julius Caesar adopted Octavian/Augustus, who took his name). Technically, though, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_(title)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_(title)" rel="nofollow">it didn&#039;t become a legal title until 68 CE after the end of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty</a>, when Nero died. (Since it had to passed along to a non-heir.) So, I would say it was a process with some important intermediate steps.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1581040[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As you seen on the reverse of Augustus&#039; denarius, Caius and Lucius were &quot;Caesares&quot; too. But died before taking over the big show. (That was always kind of a pattern among the Roman rulers. They needed lots of backup heirs.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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