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by qwytw 923 days ago
Ceasar is basically a family name though. I don't think there were that many Julii left at this point? So it might not have been that confusing. However if you were Publius/Lucius Cornelius on the other hand there were probably a dozen other Roman aristocrats with the same name at any given time.
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He wasnt even the only Julius Caesar elected as Consul in that decade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Julius_Caesar_(consul_6...