Sextus_Julius_Iulus
Sextus Julius Iulus
5th-century BC Roman patrician and consular tribune
Sextus Julius Iulus was a consular tribune of the Roman Republic in 424 BC.[1]
Julius belonged to the patrician Julia gens and the branch known as the Julii Iuli, one of the early republics most influential families having produced five consuls prior to Sextus Julius. He is the first known Sextus among the Julii, a praenomen otherwise associated with a younger branch, the Julii Caesares, who appeared by the end of the 3rd century BC. As no filiations have survived it remains unclear of Julius connection to the other known Julii Iuli of the period, but there remains a possibility that Lucius Julius Iulus, consular tribune in 388 and 379 BC, was his son.[2]