During his quaestorship he pronounced funeral orations from the rostra, according
					to custom, in praise of his aunt Julia, and his wife Cornelia. In the panegyric
					on his aunt, he gives the following account of her own and his father's
					genealogy, on both sides: "My aunt Julia derived her descent, by the mother,
					from a race of kings, and by her father, from the Immortal Gods. For the Marcii
					Reges, Rex, it will be easily understood, was not a title
						of dignity in a Roman family, but the surname of the Marcii. her
					mother's family, deduce their pedigree from Ancus Marcius, and the Julii, her
					father's, from Venus; of which stock we are a branch. We therefore unite in our
					descent the sacred majesty of kings, the chiefest among men, and the divine
					majesty of Gods, to whom kings themselves are subject." To supply the place of
					Cornelia, he married Pompeia, the daughter of Quintus Pompeius, and
					grand-daughter of Lucius Sylla; but he afterwards divorced her, upon suspicion
					of her having been debauched by Publius Clodius. For so current was the report,
					that Clodius had found access to her disguised as a woman, during the
					celebration of a religious solemnity, The rites of the Bona
						Dea, called also Fauna, which were performed in the night, and by women
						only. that the senate instituted an inquiry respecting the
					profanation of the sacred rites. Farther-Spain Hispania Baetica; the Hither province being
						called Hispania Tarraconensis. fell to his lot as quaestor; when
					there, as he was going the circuit of the province, by commission from the
					praetor, for the administration of justice, and had reached Gades , seeing a statue of Alexander the Great
					in the temple of Hercules, he sighed deeply, as if weary of his sluggish life,
					for having performed no memorable actions at an ages at which Alexander had
					already conquered the world. Alexander the Great was only
						thirty-three years at the time of his death. He, therefore,
					immediately sued for his discharge, with the view of embracing the first
					opportunity, which might present itself in The City, of entering upon a more
					exalted career. In the stillness of the night following, he dreamt that he lay
					with his own mother; but his confusion was relieved, and his hopes were raised
					to the highest pitch, by the interpreters of his dream, who expounded it as an
					omen that he should possess universal empire; for that the mother who in his
					sleep he had found submissive to his embraces, was no other than the earth, the
					common parent of all mankind. Quitting therefore the province before the expiration of the usual term, he
					betook himself to the Latin colonies, which were then eagerly agitating the
					design of obtaining the freedom of Rome ; and he would have stirred them up to some bold attempt,
					had not the consuls, to prevent any commotion, detained for some time the
					legions which had been raised for service in Cilicia . But this did not deter him from making, soon
					afterwards, a still greater effort within the precincts of the city itself. For, only a few days before he entered upon the edileship, he incurred a
					suspicion of having engaged in a conspiracy with Marcus Crassus, a man of
					consular rank; to whom were joined Publius Sylla and Lucius Autronius, who,
					after they had been chosen consuls, were convicted of bribery. The plan of the
					conspirators was to fall upon the senate at the opening of the new year, and
					murder as many of them as should be thought necessary; upon which, Crassus was
					to assume the office of dictator, and appoint Caesar his master of the
						horse. The proper office of the master of the horse was
						to command the knights, and execute the orders of the dictator. He was
						usually nominated from amongst persons of consular and pratorian dignity;
						and had the use of a horse, which the dictator had not, without the order of
						the people. When the commonwealth had been thus ordered according to
					their pleasure, the consulship was to have been restored to Sylla and Autronius.
					Mention is made of this plot by Tanusius Geminus Seneca compares the annals of Tanusius to
						the life of a fool, which, though it may be long, is worthless; while that
						of a wise man, like a good book, is valuable, however short.-Epist. 94.
					 in his history, by Marcus Bibulus in his edicts, Bibulus was Caesar's colleague, both as edile and consul. Cicero calls his
						edicts "Archilochian," that is, as full of spite as the verses of
							Archilochus.- Ad. Attc. b. 7. ep. 24. 
					 and by Curio, the father, in his orations. A. U.
						C. 689. Cicero holds both the Curios, father and son, very cheap.-Brut. c.
						60. Regnum , the kingly power, which
						the Roman people considered an insupportable tyranny. An honourable
						banishment. Cicero likewise seems to hint at this in a letter to
						 Axius , where he says, that Caesar
					had in his consulship secured to himself that arbitrary power Regnum , the kingly power,
						which the Roman people considered an insupportable tyranny. to which
					he had aspired when he was edile. Tanusius adds, that Crassus, from remorse or
					fear, did not appear upon the day appointed for the massacre of the senate; for
					which reason Caesar omitted to give the signal, which, according to the plan
					concerted between them, he was to have made. The agreement, Curio says, was that
					he should shake off the toga from his shoulder. We have the authority of the
					same Curio, and of M. Actorius Naso, for his having been likewise concerned in
					another conspiracy with young Cneius Piso; to whom, upon a suspicion of some
					mischief being meditated in the city, the province of Spain was decreed out of the regular
						course. An honourable banishment. It is said to
					have been agreed between them, that Piso should head a revolt in the provinces,
					whilst the other should attempt to stir up an insurrection at Rome , using as their instruments the
					Lambrani, and the tribes beyond the Po. But the execution of this design was
					frustrated in both quarters by the death of Piso. In his edileship, he not only embellished the Comitium, The
						assemblies of the people were at first held in the open Forum. Afterwards, a
						covered building, called the Comitium, was erected for that purpose. There
						are no remains of it, but Lumisden thinks that it probably stood on the
						south side of the Forum, on the site of the present church of The
						Consolation.-Antiq. of Rome , p.
						357. and the rest of the Forum, with the adjoining halls, Basilicas, from βασιλεύσ ; a king. They were, indeed, the palaces of the
						sovereign people; stately and spacious buildings, with halls, which served
						the purpose of exchanges, council chambers, and courts of justice. Some of
						the Basilicas were afterwards converted into Christian churches. "The form
						was oblong; the middle was an open space to walk in, called Testudo, and
						which we now call the nave. On each side of this were rows of pillars, which
						formed what we should call the sideaisles, and which the ancients called
						Porticus. The end of the Testudo was curved, like the apse of some of our
						churches, and was called Tribunal, from causes being heard there. Hence the
						term Tribune is applied to that part of the Roman churches which is behind
						the high altar."-Burton's Antiq. of Rome , p. 204. but adorned the Capitol also, with
					temporary piazzas, constructed for the purpose of displaying some part of the
					superabundant collections he had made for the amusement of the people. Such as statues and pictures, the works of Greek artists.
					 He entertained them with the hunting of wild beasts, and with games,
					both alone and in conjunction with his colleague. On this account, he obtained
					the whole credit of the expense to which they had jointly contributed; insomuch
					that his colleague, Marcus Bibulus, could not forbear remarking, that he was
					served in the manner of Pollux. For as the temple It
						appears to have stood at the foot of the Capitoline hill. Piranesi thinks
						that the two beautiful columns of white marble, which are commonly described
						as belonging to the portico of the temple of Jupiter Stator, are the remains
						of the temple of Castor and Pollux. erected in the Forum to the two
					brothers, went by the name of Castor alone, so his and Caesar's joint
					munificence was imputed to the latter only. To the other public spectacles
					exhibited to the people, Caesar added a fight of gladiators, but with fewer
					pairs of combatants than he had intended. For he had collected from all parts so
					great a company of them, that his enemies became alarmed; and a decree was made,
					restricting the number of gladiators which any one was allowed to retain at
						 Rome .