“Alas, my lord, your wisdom is consumed in confidence. So the conspirators, when the appointed day was come, gathered in the senate-house at dawn and called for Caesar. As for him, he was warned of the plot in advance by soothsayers, and was warned also by dreams. But in case any one should be so rash, they hoped at least that the gladiators, many of whom they had previously stationed in Pompey’s Theater under the pretext that they were to contend there, would come to their aid for these were to lie in wait somewhere there in a certain room of the peristyle.
40 conspirators who wanted to return Rome to a Republic after Caesar had declared himself Dictator For Life) to make the attempt in the senate, for they thought that there Caesar would least expect to be harmed in any way and would thus fall an easier victim, while they would find a safe opportunity by having swords instead of documents brought into the chamber in boxes, and the rest, being unarmed, would not be able to offer any resistance. Louis Calhern as Julius Caesar, Richard Hale as the SoothsayerĬassius Dio in his History 16-19 written in c. Julius had been warned by the soothsayer Spurinna to “Beware the Ides of March.” When he was on his way to the Senate that morning, he passed the seer and said, “This is the Ides of March.” Spurinna replied, “Yes, but it has not passed.” Julius Caesar (1953). He left for the Senate about 11:00 in the morning. Caesar was not feeling very well the next day and decided not to go to the Senate, but Brutus, one of the conspirators, urged him to go. On the night before Julius Caesar’s assassination, his wife dreamed that the foundation of their house fell down and her husband was stabbed in her arms. Those who opposed Rome having a monarch and wanted Rome to return to a Republic were called Liberators and began plotting Caesar’s death. Julius Caesar had declared himself “dictator for life” in 45 BC. His baldness gave him much uneasiness…he used to brush forward the hair from the crown of his head, and of all the honors conferred on him by the Senate and People, there was none which he either accepted or used with greater pleasure than the right of constantly wearing a laurel crown.” Lives Of The Caesars: Julius Caesar 45
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Suetonius (70-130 AD) gives the only physical description of Caesar: “He was tall, of a fair complexion, round limbed, rather full faced, with eyes black and piercing….kept the hair of his head closely cut and had his face smoothly shaved. Ancient Accounts Of The Assassination Of Julius Caesar: On The Ides (15th) March 44 BC Julius Caesar declared himself “dictator for life” in 45 BC
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