Suetonius Divus Julius 1.1

[1] JULIUS CAESAR, the divine, ¹ lost his father ² when he was in the sixteenth year of his age; ³ and the year following, being nominated to the office of high-priest of Jupiter, ⁴ he repudiated Cossutia, who was very wealthy, although her family belonged only to the equestrian order, and to whom he had been contracted when he was a mere boy. He then married Cornelia, the daughter of Cinna, who was four times consul; and had by her, shortly afterwards, a daughter named Julia. Resisting all the efforts of the dictator Sylla to induce him to divorce Cornelia,

In the course of his sixteenth year ¹ he lost his father. In the next consulate, having previously been nominated priest of Jupiter, ² 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 presently had a daughter Julia; and the dictator Sulla could by no means force him to put away his wife.