Julus

the eldest son of Ascanius, who claimed the government of Latium, but was obliged to give it up to his brother Silvius, and received a compensation in the form of a priestly office. (Dionys. A. R. 1.70; Liv. 1.2.) According to the author of De Orig. Gent. Rom. 15, the Latins believed that Ascanius was identical with Julus, and that out of gratitude they not only described him as a son of Jupiter, but also called him Jobus, and afterwards Julus. It is at any rate not impossible that Julus may be a diminutive of Dius. The Roman Julia gens traced their origin to this Julus. [Julia Gens.] [L.S]

the name of an ancient patrician family of the Julia gens, which obtained the highest dignities in the early times of the republic,

1. C. Julius, L. F., Julus, consul in B. C. 489 with P. Pinarius Mamercinus Rufus, in lose consulship the Volscians under Coriolanus commenced war against Rome. (Dionys. A. R. 8.1.) Livy omits the consuls of this year altogether.

2. C. Julius, C. F. L. N., Julus, son of No. 1, consul in B. C. 482 with Q. Fabius Vibulanus, was elected to the office in consequence of an agreement between the two parties in the state, who, after the most violent opposition in the consular conitia, had at length consented that C. Julius should be chosen as the popular, and Fabius as the aristocratical candidate. Such is the account of Dionysius; but Livy merely says that the discord in the state was as violent this year as previously. The consuls marched against the Veientes; but as the enemy did not appear in the field, they returned to Rome, after only laying waste the Veientine territory. (Dionys. A. R. 8.90, 91; Liv. 2.43.)

This C. Julius was a member of the first decemvirate, B. C. 451, and it is recorded as an instance of the moderation of the first decemvirs, that, though there was no appeal from their sentence, Julius, notwithstanding, accused before the people in the comitia centuriata P. Sestius, a man of patrician rank, in whose house the corpse of a murdered person had been found, when he might have himself passed sentence upon the criminal. (Liv. 3.33; Cic. de Rep. 2.36; Dionys. A. R. 10.56; Diod. 12.23.) C. Julius is again mentioned in B. C. 449, as one of the three consulars who were sent by the senate to the plebeians when they had risen in arms against the second decemvirate, and were encamped upon the Aventine. (Liv. 3.50; Ascon. in Cic. Cornel. p. 77, ed. Baiter.)

3. Vopiscus Julius. C. F. L. N., Julus, son of No. 1, and brother of No. 2, was consul with L. Aemilius Mamercus in B. C. 473. Livy (2.54.) mentions Opiter Verginius as the colleague of Aemilius, but says that he had found in some annals the name of Vopiscus Julius in place of Verginius. There were great civil commotions at Rome in this year. First came the murder of the tribune Genucius, and the consequent excitement; and since the consuls, flushed with this victory, as they deemed it, over the people, pressed the levy of troops with more than usual rigour, and among other acts of oppression attempted to compel one Volero Publilius to serve as a common soldier, though he had previously held the rank of centurion, the people at length became so indignant, that they rose against the consuls, and drove them out of the formn. (Liv. 2.54, 55; Dionys. A. R. 9.37_41; Diod. 11.65; Flor. 1.22.)

4. C. Julius, C. F. C. N., Julus, son of No. 2, was consul in B. C. 447, with M. Geganius Macerinus, and again in B. C. 435, with L. Verginius Tricostus. In the latter year Rome was visited with such a grievous pestilence, that not only were the Romans unable to march out of their own territory to devastate the enemy's, but even offered no opposition to the Fidenates and Veientes, who advanced almost up to the Colline gate. While Julius manned the walls, his colleague consulted the senate, and eventually named a dictator. (Liv. 3.65, 4.21; Diod. 12.29, 49.) According to Licinius Macer, Julius was elected consul for the third time in the following year, with his colleague of the preceding. Other accounts mentioned other persons as the consuls; and others again gave consular tribunes this year. (Liv. 4.23.)

5. L. Julius, Vop. F. C. N., Julus, son of No. 3, one of the three consular tribunes in B. C. 438. (Liv. 4.16; Diod. 12.38.) He was magister equitum in B. C. 431 to the dictator, A. Postumius Tubertus, who left him and the consul for the year, C. Julius Mento, in charge of the city, while he marched against the Aequians and Volscians. (Liv. 4.26, 27; Diod. 12.64, who places the dictatorship in the preceding year.) In the following year, B. C. 430, L. Julius (erroneously called by Cicero C. Julius) was consul with C. Papirius Crassus. Having learnt from the treachery of one of the tribunes, that the latter intended to bring forward a law which was much wished for by the people, imposing a pecuniary fine instead of the one in cattle, which had been fixed by the Aternia Tarpeia lex., B. C. 454, the consuls anticipated their purpose, and proposed a law by which a small sum of money was to be paid in place of each head of cattle (multarum aestimatio). This law was occasioned, according to Cicero, by the censors, L. Papirius and P. Pinarius, having, through the infliction of fines, deprived private persons of an immense quantity of cattle, and brought them into the possession of the state. (Liv. 4.30; Diod. 12.72; Cic. de Rep. 2.35; Niebuhr, Rom. List. vol. ii. note 690.)

6. Sex. Julius Julus, consular tribune in B. C. 424, with three colleagues. (Liv. 4.35; Diod. 12.82.)

7. C. Julius Vop., L. F. N., Julus, grandson of No. 3, consular tribune in B. C. 408, with two colleagues, and again in B. C. 405, with five colleagues. In the former year he and his colleague, Cornelius Cossus, vehemently opposed the nomination of a dictator; and in the latter year he took part with his colleagues in the commencement of the siege of Veii. (Liv. 4.56, 61; Diod. 13.104, 14.17.) He was censor in B. C. 393, and died in his year of office. (Liv. 5.31, 9.34; Plut. Camill. 14.)

8. L. Julius Julus, consular tribune in B. C. 403, with five colleagues, according to the Capitoline Fasti. Diodorus mentions only five tribunes, but Livy increases the number to eight. Six is probably the real number, to which Livy has added the two censors. The consular tribunes of this year continued the siege against Veii during the winter. (Liv. 5.1, 2; Diod. 14.35.)

9. L. Julius, L. F., Vop. N., Julus, the son of No. 5, and the grandson of No. 3, consular tribune in B. C. 401, with five colleagues, and a second time in B. C. 397, with the same number of colleagues. In the former of these two years the consular tribunes entered upon their office on the kalends of October instead of the ides of December, which was the usual time, in consequence of a defeat sustained by their predecessors before Veii; and their own year of office was distinguished by the number of foreign wars and civil broils. In the latter year Julius, with his colleague, Postumius, fell upon the Tarquinienses, who had made a plundering inroad into the Roman territory, and stripped them of the booty they had gained. (Liv. 5.9, 10, 16; Diod. 14.44, 85.)

10. L. Julius Julus, consular tribune in B. C. 388, with five colleagues; and a second time in B. C. 379, with seven colleagues. (Liv. 6.4, 30 Diod. 15.23, 51.)

11. C. Julius Julus, was nominated dictator in B. C. 352, under pretence of an apprehended was with the Etruscans, but in reality to carry the election of two patricians in the consular comitia, in violation of the Licinian law. (Liv. 7.21.)

[Antonius, No. 19.]