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True, but deep wounds in the abdomen are much, much more difficult regarding infections than e.g. limb amputation. Surviving that was very extremely unlikely. Roman law said that the child must be cut out of a dead mother's womb, to bury it separately, but by that time the woman was dead or dying.

As far as I could find, the earliest written source claiming Caesar was born with C-section is from about 1000 years later.