In segment 11b Augustus and the Principate, we traced the rise of young Gaius Octavius later known as Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, but best know as Imperator Augustus Caesar.
神话百科 The Mythology Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained)
In the time of Gaius Caesar, who reigned from 27 BCE to 14 CE, the roots of Romulus's cornel tree were inadvertently cut by workmen repairing some nearby steps, and the tree withered and died.
He's one of the most recognizable figures from ancient history, Gaius Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, who was assassinated on the 15th of March, the Ides of March, in 44 BC.
Professor Beard's first source is a familiar and obvious one: Roman writers, and especially Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, who worked in the secretariats of both Hadrian and Trajan.