Lucius Caesar

Lucius ( Julius ) Caesar ( 17 BC *, † August 20 AD 2 in Massilia ) was the second son of Julia, daughter of Augustus, and her second husband Marcus Agrippa Vipsanius. In addition to his older brother, Gaius Caesar, which was how he himself adopted by Augustus, BC 17 to secure the succession to the Principate, Lucius had three younger siblings, sisters Julia the Younger and Agrippina the Elder, and Postumus Agrippa 's brother. The Caesars - as the two adopted sons of Augustus are referred to in modern research often - have been given early consideration of her adoptive father with honors and offices. Among other things, Augustus held on their behalf gladiator fights and co-opted them into the college of priests. At the application of the Männertoga was Lucius 2 BC, as his older brother appointed three years earlier, the princeps iuventutis ( " leader of the gallant youth "). The highlight of the prominence of the two sons of Augustus formed meanwhile which, if designated consuls, when they were barely out of childhood. However, Lucius died 2 AD on the way to Spain, where he was to be presented to the army before he could hold the highest public office. He was in the grave lay the Julio -Claudian dynasty, the Mausoleum of Augustus, was buried.