According to contemporary sources, she was a good and faithful wife, in spite of her husband's infidelity; and, forewarned of the attempt on his life, she endeavored in vain to prevent his murder.

About this time, Julia married (Pompey) Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, a former protégé of Sulla, who had been consul in 70 BC, and recently become one of Caesar's closest political allies.

[ii] According to Suetonius, he was obliged to break off their engagement when, at the age of sixteen,[iii] he was nominated Flamen Dialis, a high-ranking priestly office whose holders had to be married by confarreatio, an ancient and solemn form of marriage that was open only to patricians.

[8] Caesar then married Cornelia, a woman of patrician rank and the daughter of Lucius Cornelius Cinna, at that time the most powerful man in Rome.

But an ambitious young nobleman named Publius Claudius Pulcher entered the house disguised as a woman, ostensibly for the purpose of seducing Pompeia.

[14] By all accounts Calpurnia was a faithful and virtuous wife, and seems to have tolerated Caesar's affairs:[1] he was rumored to have seduced the wives of a number of prominent men, including both of his allies in the First Triumvirate;[15] and he had for some time been intimate with Servilia, a relationship that was an open secret at Rome.

According to the Roman historians, Caesar's murder was foretold by a number of ill omens, as well as the Etruscan haruspex Spurinna, who warned him of great personal danger either on or by the Ides of March in 44 BC.