In the Dictionary of Modern Medicine, there lies a short history of the term Cesarean. Numa Pompilius introduced something called the Lex Regia (Royal Law), and one of the laws was that pregnant women cannot be buried pregnant; this led to babies being cut out of their dead mother's wombs. The Latin verb 'caedere' means 'to cut', and babies born in this way were called caesones. It was speculated that a Julius Caesar (not the famous one we know) was born in this way, which is why Pliny the Elder referred to him as ab utero caeso, and the term Caesar carried on to his descendants.