Ceasar

Eyewitnesses say that the senator, Casca was the one who struck the first blow and then the others followed. Caesar was stabbed several times. It is believed that Marcus Brutus was the one to strike the final blow. Some say that this was the cruellest blow of all.

Mark Antony a great friend of Caesar, was believed to have been distracted by Trebonius while the assassination too

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She also believes that he was misled into believing that he was going to be offered the throne once again.

After he gave the speech he read Caesar’s will to the people, and when he mentioned that they were the heirs of most his valuable possessions, all of a sudden the people were outraged and thought that Caesar shouldn’t have been killed.

It is now known that the great Caesar received many warnings about the plan to kill him, but he chose to ignore them.

The town’s people said that at first it seemed like they had a justified reason for killing Caesar. But Decius came for Caesar and convinced him that the dream was just misinterpreted. This sparked an absolute rampage of the town, burning down all of the conspirator’s houses and killing all conspirators that remained in town. He mentioned how Caesar never kept the ransom of the wanted men he captured for himself, that it always went to the poor. The reaction of the people at first was that of agreement and satisfaction, until they listened to the speech Mark Antony had to give. Artemidorous, a teacher of rhetoric in Rome, tried to pass him a letter that he wrote telling him to beware of the exact people that were responsible for his death, but he chose to ignore him when he tried to pass the letter to him. In all the confusion Cinna the famous poet, was mistaken for a conspirator and was killed by accident. Caesar’s wife Calpurnia, who was interviewed shortly after the assassination, said that she begged him not to go to the Capitol because of a terrifying dream she had, had that night. They said that Marcus Brutus said that he didn’t love Caesar any less than any other man, but that he loved Rome more, and that there was the same sword waiting for him if his country desired it.

According to an eyewitness that was in the Capitol after the assassination occurred, Brutus insisted that they bathe their hands in the blood of Caesar, so that the assassination did not look as though it was an act of cowardice, but a sacrifice for the good of Rome.

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