P445 were searching those regions and arresting the men in hiding there. 6 Then, as he was changing his abode by night on account of sickness, he fell in with soldiers of Sulla who 4 To this candidacy Sulla secretly opposed himself, and took measures to make Caesar fail in it, and when he was deliberating about putting him to death and some said there was no reason for killing a mere boy like him, he declared that they had no sense if they did not see in this boy many Mariuses. 4 5 When this speech was reported to Caesar, he hid himself for some time, wandering about in the country of the Sabines. 3 Moreover, Caesar was not satisfied to be overlooked at first by Sulla, who was busy with a multitude of proscriptions, but he came before the people as candidate for the priesthood, although he was not yet much more than a stripling. For Julia, a sister of Caesar's father, was the wife of Marius the Elder, and the mother of Marius the Younger, who was therefore Caesar's cousin. 2 Now, the reason for Caesar's hatred of Sulla was Caesar's relationship to Marius. 1 1 The wife of Caesar 1 was Cornelia, the daughter of the Cinna who had once held the sole power at Rome, 2 and when Sulla became master of affairs, 3 he could not, either by promises or threats, induce Caesar to put her away, and therefore confiscated her dowry.
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