Julius Caesar, who was a Marian and had fled Rome during Sulla's persecution, returned to Rome because of the rebellion Lepidus was planning. However, he refused to join him because the outlook was less promising than he had thought and because he did not think that Lepidus was a good leader. After Lepidus' death, Caesar used a law proposed by a certain Plotius, which he had supported, to recall his brother-in-law Lucius Cornelius Cinna, the son of Lucius Cornelius Cinna (who had been one of the leaders of the Marians when they seized power in Rome between 87 BC and 82 BC, and who was also Caesar’s father-in-law). He also had men who had taken part in Lepidus' rebellion and had fled to Sertorius in Hispania recalled.