Later lives report Caesar's falling-sickness; it is a received health file of medium confidence
Later lives report Caesar's falling-sickness. Julius Caesar's documented role is: Suetonius and Plutarch report seizures. In the causal graph this event weakens Health-System Capacity, a driver that strengthens Hospital beds (per 1,000 people) — a worsening welfare path.
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Later lives report Caesar's falling-sickness. Modern labels are not supplied. Julius Caesar's documented role is: Suetonius and Plutarch report seizures. Modern diagnosis is not here; the received file is the instrument.
Context
Public appearances sometimes noted it. Sharing the report with Suetonius and Plutarch as later carriers is required. The setting of Later lives report Caesar's falling-sickness; it is a received health file of medium confidence is the public file around -0046-12-01. Contribution type is direct. Driver health-system-capacity is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Why it matters
Worsening path from Later lives report Caesar's falling-sickness; it is a received health file of medium confidence on -0046-12-01. A received chronic-illness file is a health path of medium-low weight. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Julius Caesar
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.2 · verified
Suetonius and Plutarch report seizures. Modern diagnosis is not here; the received file is the instrument.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactLater lives report Caesar's falling-sickness; it is a received health file of medium confidence
- weakensDriverHealth-System Capacity
- strengthensIndicators (2)Hospital beds (per 1,000 people)
impact weight 0.2 · Effect from 46 BCE · verified
A received chronic-illness file is a health path of medium-low weight.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.12 (weight 0.2 × strength 0.6)
Observed
3.08 Per 1000 people · 1.24 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normal6 readings, 2018–2023: rose from 3.07 Per 1000 people to 3.08 Per 1000 people.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.1 (weight 0.2 × strength 0.5)
Observed
37.4 deaths per 1,000 live births · 12.4 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2018–2024: fell from 40 deaths per 1,000 live births to 37.4 deaths per 1,000 live births.
Above normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.LacusCurtius — Suetonius, Julius, offices as later EnglishUniversity of Chicago / LacusCurtius · High credibility · verified
- 2.Perseus — Plutarch, Caesar, Catiline neighbourhoodPerseus Digital Library / Tufts · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Official locator: LacusCurtius — Suetonius, Julius, health neighbourhood at https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Julius*.html (opens in a new tab) (University of Chicago / LacusCurtius). Independent locator: Perseus — Plutarch, Caesar, falling-sickness at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plut.+Caes (opens in a new tab). (Perseus Digital Library / Tufts). Official carrier: LacusCurtius — Suetonius, Julius, health neighbourhood (https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Julius*.html (opens in a new tab); University of Chicago / LacusCurtius). Independent carrier: Perseus — Plutarch, Caesar, falling-sickness (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plut.+Caes (opens in a new tab).; Perseus Digital Library / Tufts).
Established: a sourced public record of Later lives report Caesar's falling-sickness; it is a received health file of medium confidence under -0046-12-01 for Julius Caesar. Established: a sourced public record of Later lives report Caesar's falling-sickness; it is a received health file of medium confidence under -0046-12-01.
The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Medium confidence on any modern label. Mixed effects of Later lives report Caesar's falling-sickness; it is a received health file of medium confidence are separate paths.
Shared responsibility is part of Later lives report Caesar's falling-sickness; it is a received health file of medium confidence. Naming Julius Caesar does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0046-12-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorJulius Caesar
- contributed toFactLater lives report Caesar's falling-sickness; it is a received health file of medium confidence
- weakensDriverHealth-System Capacity
- strengthensIndicatorHospital beds (per 1,000 people)
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Factrail. (2026). Later lives report Caesar's falling-sickness; it is a received health file of medium confidence. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/juc-health-epilepsy-received
https://factrail.ai/facts/juc-health-epilepsy-received
Accessed 15 October 2026.
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