from his filiation, we know that sextus' father was also named "sextus", and that his grandfather was named "lucius". in his reconstruction of the family, classical scholar wilhelm drumann assumed that he was the son of sextus julius caesar, one of the military tribunes of 181 bc, and the grandson of an otherwise unknown lucius julius caesar, who would have been the son of sextus, praetor in 208 bc. however, more recent scholarship has concluded that the military tribune and the consul were the same person, and that his father was the praetor of 208.