Editing Gaius Caesar (section)

==Post mortem==
[[File:MaisonCarrée.jpeg|thumb|The ''[[Maison Carrée]]'' (French: "square house") was dedicated in [[Nîmes|Nemausus]] to Gaius and Lucius.]]
While Gaius was in Armenia, his brother Lucius had been sent by Augustus to complete his military training in Spain. While there, he fell ill and died on 20 August 2{{nbsp}}AD in [[Marseille|Massalia]], [[Gaul]].<ref>{{harvnb|Mommsen|1996|p=107}}</ref> In the span of 18 months, the planned future of Rome was shaken.<ref>Suetonius, ''The Lives of the Twelve Caesars'', Life of Augustus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/suetonius/12caesars/Augustus*.html#65 65]</ref> The deaths of both Gaius and Lucius, the Emperor's two most favoured heirs, led Augustus to adopt his stepson [[Tiberius]] and his sole remaining grandson Postumus as his new heirs on 26 June 4{{nbsp}}AD.<ref name=Pettinger235/>

[[File:Limyra 3745.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Limyra]] Cenotaph of Gaius Caesar]]
Many honors were heaped upon Gaius by citizens and city officials of the Empire, including ''Colonia Obsequens Iulia Pisana'' ([[Pisa]]), where it was decreed that proper rites must be observed by matrons to lament his passing. Temples, public baths, and shops shut their doors as women wept inconsolably. To commemorate his brief life, a cenotaph was erected on the Limyrus River at [[Limyra]] in Lycia.<ref name=Powell192>{{harvnb|Powell|2015|p=192}}</ref> Posthumously, the Senate voted honours for the young Caesars, and arranged for the golden spears and shields the boys had received on achieving the age of military service to be hung in the Senate House.<ref name=Powell192/> The caskets containing their ashes were stored in the [[Mausoleum of Augustus]] alongside those of their father Agrippa and other members of the imperial family.<ref name=Powell192/>

Both [[Tacitus]] and Cassius Dio suggested foul play may have been involved in the death of Gaius and Lucius and that Gaius's step grandmother Livia may have had a hand in their deaths. Livia's presumed motive may have been to orchestrate the accession of her own son Tiberius as heir to Augustus.<ref name="LV.10a"/><ref>Tacitus, ''The Annals'', [[s:The Annals (Tacitus)/Book 1#3|I.3]]</ref>
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