At the age of 13 or 14, she married Marcus Junius Brutus in the early 80s, who later was tribune of the plebs (83 BC) and founder of a colony at Capua. The second attack upon the city was carried our by Marius enemy Sulla, leader of. So public and notorious was Servilia's love to Caesar. Marriages and children A denarius of Marcus Junius Brutus issued after the assassination of Julius Caesar, Servilia's son and lover, respectively. Cinna was killed the year that Caesar had married Cinnas daughter Cornelia. Upon this, Cato cried out aloud, and accused Caesar of holding correspondence with and receiving letters from the enemies of the commonwealth and when many other senators exclaimed against it, Caesar delivered the note as he had received it to Cato, who reading it found it to be a love-letter from his own sister Servilia, and threw it back again to Caesar with the words, "Keep it, you drunkard," and returned to the subject of the debate. The story is told, that when the great question of the conspiracy of Catiline, which had like to have been the destruction of the commonwealth, was debated in the senate, Cato and Caesar were both standing up, contending together on the decision to be come to at which time a little note was delivered to Caesar from without, which he took and read silently to himself. If his enemys would use it to insult him, then they could hardly have thought it 'ok'. As for Roman opinion of homosexuality in Caesars time, well, it seems pretty obvious to me.
And this he is believed to have done out of a tenderness to Servilia, the mother of Brutus for Caesar had, it seems, in his youth been very intimate with her, and she passionately in love with him and, considering that Brutus was born about that time in which their loves were at the highest, Caesar had a belief that he was his own child. But Caesar did not live then, he lived in a more conservative Republic.
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