Julia Caesaris Major

First elder sister of Julius Caesar

The elder of the two sisters is known only from a passage in which Suetonius mentions her two grandsons,[1] Lucius Pinarius and Quintus Pedius. If the two men were actually her sons, as has been conjectured,[2] she was married, in an uncertain order, to a Pinarius, of a very ancient patrician family,[3] and a Pedius. It is not known if it was the elder or the younger of the dictator's sisters who gave evidence against Publius Clodius Pulcher when he was impeached for impiety in 61 BC.[4] Nothing else is known about the life of the elder sister