Both the framework and the bulk of the governing coalition is revealed in the relations and alliances between that house and two other groups. […] Julius Caesar, of a patrician house newly arisen from long decay, largely by help from C. […] 3 His mother was an Aurelia, of the house of the Aurelii Cottae. […] But the power and splendour of that imperial house, the conquerors of Carthage and of Spain, belonged only to the past. […] For their intermarriage with a dynastic house of Capua c. 217 B.C., Livy 23, 2, 1 ff.