Gaius Iulius Iullus

Gaius Iulius Iullus or Gaius Julius C.f. L.n. Julus (fl. 5th century BC) was Consul of Rome in 482 BC, son of Gaius Iulius Iullus (consul in 489 BC).

His colleague was Quintus Fabius Vibulanus (consul in 485 BC). He was elected to the office in consequence of an agreement between the two parties in the state, who, after the most violent opposition in the consular comitia, had at length consented that Iulius should be chosen as the popular and Fabius as the aristocratical candidate. Such is the account of Dionysius, but Livy merely says that the discord in the state was as violent this year as previously. The consuls marched against the Veientes, but as the enemy did not appear in the field, they returned to Rome, after only laying waste the Veientine territory. [Dionys. viii. 90, 91; Liv. ii. 43]

Later he was a member of the first decemvirate in 451 BC and it is recorded as an instance of the moderation of the first decemvirs, that, though there was no appeal from their sentence, Iulius, notwithstanding, accused before the people in the comitia centuriata P. Sestius, a man of patrician rank, in whose house the corpse of a murdered person had been found, when he might have himself passed sentence upon the criminal. [Liv. iii. 33; Cic. "de Rep." ii. 36; Dionys. x. 56; Diod. xii. 23)] Iulius is again mentioned in 449 BC, as one of the three consular who were sent by senate to the plebeians when they had risen in arms against the second decemvirate and were encamped upon the Aventine. [Liv. iii. 50; Ascon. "in Cic. Cornel." p. 77, ed. Baiter.)]

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