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Caesar was born into a patrician family, the gens Julia, which claimed descent from Iulus, son of the legendary Trojan prince Aeneas, supposedly the son of the goddess Venus.
The Julio-Claudian dynasty of the early Roman Empire has a family tree complicated by multiple marriages between the members of the gens Julia and the gens Claudia.
In addition, the Aeneid attempted to legitimize the rule of Julius Caesar ( and by extension, of his adopted son Augustus and his heirs ) by renaming Aeneas ' son, Ascanius ( called Ilus from Ilium, meaning Troy ), Iulus and offering him as an ancestor of the gens Julia, the family of Julius Caesar, and many other great imperial descendants as part of the prophecy given to him in the Underworld.
Like the Russian Czar it is directly derived from the Roman Emperors ' title of Caesar, which in turn is derived from the personal name of a branch of the gens ( clan ) Julia, to which Gaius Julius Caesar, the forebear of the first imperial family, belonged.
The veterans obtained lands near Cremona, and an inscription reports that the name of the legion at the time was Veneria, " devoted to Venus ", the mythical mother of gens Julia.
Julia Caesaris ( Classical Latin: ) is the name of all women in the Julii Caesares patrician family ( a subdivision of the Julii family ), since feminine names were their father's gens and cognomen declined in the female form.
The Julii also existed at an early period at Bovillae, as we learn from a very ancient inscription on an altar in the theatre of that town, which speaks of their offering sacrifices according to the lege Albana, or Alban rites ; and their connection with Bovillae is also implied by the sacrarium, or chapel, which the emperor Tiberius dedicated to the gens Julia in the town, and in which he placed the statue of Augustus.
Some modern critics have inferred from this, that a few of the Julii might have settled in Rome in the reign of the first king ; but considering the entirely fabulous nature of the tale, and the circumstance that the celebrity of the Julia gens in later times would easily lead to its connection with the earliest times of Roman story, no historical argument can be drawn from the mere name occurring in this legend.
The many Julii of imperial times, who were not descended from the gens Julia, did not limit themselves to the praenomina of that family.
It is uncertain which member of the Julia gens first obtained the surname of Caesar, but the first who occurs in history is Sextus Julius Caesar, praetor in BC 208.
In imperial times we find an immense number of persons named Julius ; but it must not be supposed that they were connected by descent in any way with the Julia gens ; for, in consequence of the imperial family belonging to this gens, it became the name of their numerous freedmen, and it may have been assumed by many other persons out of vanity and ostentation.
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The Julii Caesares were a specific branch of the gens Julia.
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X Fretensis symbols were the bull — the holy animal of the goddess Venus ( mythical ancestor of the gens Julia ) — a ship ( probably a reference to the Battles of Naulochus and / or Actium ), the god Neptune, and a boar.
Caesar had placed, on the front of his forum, a temple devoted to Venus Genitrix, since Caesar's family ( gens Julia ) claimed to descend by Venus through Aeneas.

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Ahenobarbus was the name of a plebeian family of the Domitia gens in the late Republic and early Principate of ancient Rome.
Clodius is an alternate form of the Roman nomen Claudius, a patrician gens that was traditionally regarded as Sabine in origin.
Descended from an ancient patrician gens Fabii, he was the son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges, a grandson of another Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges and a great-grandson of Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, all famous Consuls.
In ancient Rome, the genius ( plural in Latin genii ) was the guiding spirit or tutelary deity of a person, family ( gens ), or place ( genius loci ).
Central to the rise of the gens de couleur planter class was the growing importance of coffee, which thrived on the marginal hillside plots to which they were often relegated.
The largest concentration of gens de couleur was in the southern peninsula, the last region of the colony to be settled, owing to its distance from Atlantic shipping lanes and its formidable terrain, with the highest mountain range in the Caribbean.
The Luperci were divided into two collegia, called Quinctiliani ( or Quinctiales ) and Fabiani, from the gens Quinctilia ( or Quinctia ) and gens Fabia ; at the head of each of these colleges was a magister.
A member of the Antonia clan ( gens ), Antony was born on January 14, 83 BC.
( The gens was the larger unit, and was divided into several familiae: a person called " Gaius Iulius Caesar " belonged to the Julian gens and the Caesar family.
Also, some warfare was still conducted by Roman forces outside the legionary structure, the most famous example being the campaign in 479 BC by the clan army of gens Fabia against the Etruscan city of Veii ( in which the clan was annihilated ).
Uniquely, 16 acres ( 65, 000 m² ) was offered to each Free Coloured or Free Person of Colour ( gens de couleur libre, as they were later known ), and half as much for each slave they brought.
Trajan was the son of Marcia and Marcus Ulpius Traianus, a prominent senator and general from the gens Ulpia.
Lucretius was probably a member of the aristocratic gens Lucretia, and his work shows an intimate knowledge of the luxurious lifestyle in Rome.
Catiline was born in 108 BC to one of the oldest patrician families in Rome, gens Sergia.
Cinna was a cognomen that distinguished a patrician branch of the gens Cornelia, particularly in the late Roman Republic.
Lucius Cornelius Cinna ( died 84 BC ) was a four-time consul of the Roman Republic, serving four consecutive terms from 87 to 84 BC, and a member of the ancient Roman Cinna family of the Cornelii gens.
He was of the gens Claudia, who were patricians descended from the Sabines taken into the early Roman state.
Also, the core part of the name ( nomen ) was the inherited gens name, not the given name ( praenomen ).
Later in the Republic a cognomen was added to distinguish families within a gens, as the importance of the gens grew and the size of voting tribes required this differentiation.

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Suetonius recorded two different accounts of the origins of the Vitellius ( gens ), one making them descendants of past rulers of Latium, the other describing them as of lowly origins.
Other historians consider this a weak clue, as " Juliana " was a common name in the gens Anicia, and because Hermogenianus seems to have begotten only one daughter, who took chastity vows ; other possible fathers have therefore been proposed: either Flavius Anicius Probus ( suggested by Settipani ) or, according to some clues, Petronius Maximus.
His family, the Gracchi branch of the gens Sempronia, was one of the most politically connected in Rome.
The " Grand Salle " ( Great Hall ) was one of the largest in Europe, and its lower story, known as " La salle des gens d ' armes " survives: 64 m long, 27. 5 m wide and 8. 5 m high.
In Republican and Imperial times no more than one family member of a gens was member of the College of Pontiffs, nor did one person hold more than one priesthood in this collegium.
His career at Rome was launched from servitude and he became a freedman ( libertus ) by the grace of his master, one of the Livia gens.
There had long been racial and class tensions between gens de couleur and enslaved Africans and free blacks in Saint-Domingue, where slaves outnumbered whites and gens de couleur by ten to one.
The gens Claudia, sometimes written Clodia, was one of the most prominent patrician houses at Rome.
According to Suetonius, the gens avoided the praenomen Lucius because two early members with this name had brought dishonor upon the family, one having been convicted of highway robbery, and the other of murder.
Most of those who used the spelling Clodius were descended from plebeian members of the gens, but one family by this name was a cadet branch of the patrician Claudii Pulchri, which voluntarily went over to the plebeians, and used the spelling Clodius to differentiate themselves from their patrician relatives.
Valerius is the nomen of gens Valeria, one of the oldest patrician families of Rome.
The Valeria gens was one of the most ancient and most celebrated at Rome ; and no other Roman gens was distinguished for so long a period, although a few others, such as the Cornelia gens, produced a greater number of illustrious men.
Niebuhr, who mentions these distinctions, conjectures that among the gradual changes of the constitution from a monarchy to an aristocracy, the Valeria gens for a time possessed the right that one of its members should exercise the kingly power for the Tities, to which tribe the Valerii must have belonged, as their Sabine origin indicates ; but on this point, as on many others in early Roman history, it is impossible to come to any certainty.
The gens Sulpicia was one of the most ancient patrician families at Rome, and produced a succession of distinguished men, from the foundation of the Republic to the imperial period.
Not all those who have the nomen are related by blood ; Cicero himself did not believe that he was descended from Servius Tullius, though at one point he referred to their shared gens.
The gens Furia, originally written Fusia, was one of the most ancient and noble patrician houses at Rome.
Cornelia ), the nomen of the patrician gens Cornelia, one of the important families of Ancient Rome
This class is exclusively occupied by one clan or gens with the nomen gentile of Abriel.

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