So either way long after Caesar himself was around, so it's just as likely to be from the story about his ancestor's birth, which I think came from Pliny the Elder.

The law apparently comes from one of the early kings, where it was the "Royal Law", which in later times became the "Imperial Law" or "Lex Caesarea", hence "caesarean". But I don't quite trust the derivation there and, in any case, it would have to be after Caesar became established as a title.

This was what my "basically always" was allowing for!

As were most other invasive surgeries. For most of history, people often died from minor cuts becoming infected. Antibiotics are rightly hailed as a turning point for our species.

The point is, it was only ever performed if the mother was dead or dying already, in an effort to save the child. Which would often have been futile anyway. It was an unthinkably rare and dangerous thing to do before modern medicine.

That's only one possible etymology, I believe! Evidence for it is pretty scanty.

(We know that Caesar's mother didn't die in childbirth, and the name predates him anyway. The term does come from his name, but only because of a folk story that came much later. The practice wasn't unknown in classical Rome, but there's no evidence an ancestor of Caesar underwent it.)

Yeah, I think it would be pretty easy to cheat!

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Beat that score after a few goes - 47.89. Still not cracked the top 500!

I appreciate that these people do exist and are trying to find a way to use what could be a powerful technology for something both useful and ethical. But I need to see the rest of it collapse first before I go anywhere near it, because I simply don't trust the current AI environment.