In 79 BCE, Julius Caesar was awarded the civic crown for saving the life of a citizen in battle. He was on the staff of a military league. The civil crown were basically oak leaves. I don't know why he would want oak leaves. His general sent him on an embassy to Nicomedes, the king of Bithynia, to obtain a fleet of ships. Caesar was successful at Bithinynia, but subsequently Nicomedes was gay, and he had to sleep with the kind to persuade him to obtain a fleet of ships. When Sulla died in 78, Caesar returned to Rome and began a career as a orator/lawyer and a life as an elegant man-about-town.
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