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Suetonius  (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum, Divus Iulius
(The Lives of the Caesars, The Deified Julius), written c. 110
CE  I. IN the course of his sixteenth year [c. 85/84 B.C.] he
lost his father. In the next consulate, having previously been
nominated priest of Jupiter [by Marius and Cinna, Cos. 86], he
broke his engagement with Cossutia, a lady of only equestrian
rank, but very wealthy, who had been betrothed to him before he
assumed the gown of manhood, and married Cornelia, daughter of
that Cinna who was four times consul, by whom he afterwards had
a daughter Julia; and the dictator Sulla could by no means force
him to put away his wife. Therefore besides being punished by
the loss of his priesthood, his wife's dowry, and his family
inheritances, Caesar was held to be one of the opposite party.
He was accordingly forced to go into hiding, and though
suffering from a severe