Julius Caesar Death
The conspirators, who feared that Caesar might become the King of Rome, assassinated him on the Ides of March (March 15) in 44 BC. On this unfortunate day, Caesar had to attend a Senate session at the Theater of Pompey. A frightened Liberator, named Servilius Casca, had informed Mark Antony about the plot a night before. However, in order to prevent Antony from helping Caesar, the plotters had asked Trebonius to stop Antony from reaching the portico of the Theater of Pompey by arresting him outside itself. |
According to the historical accounts given by Plutarch, as many as sixty conspirators, led by Decimus Brutus Albinus, Gaius Trebonius, Marcus Junius Brutus, and Gaius Cassius Longinus, arrived at the Senate meeting with daggers hidden in their togas. When Caesar was presented with a petition by Tilius Cimber to remember his deceased brother, all the conspirators crowded around Caesar to offer him support. As Caesar tried to defend himself, Cimber grabbed him from his shoulders and pulled down his tunic. Caesar was then stabbed with daggers nearly 23 times by the conspirators, as he stood helpless at the base of Pompey’s statue. The plan was made by Brutus.
Caesar lay defenseless, blinded by blood, on the steps of the Portico. All the Senators had fled away from the Theater by this time. Several hours later, Caesar’s body was carried home to his wife Calpurnia by three slaves. After Julius Caesar’s death, Mark Antony and Octavian, Caesar’s adopted nephew and heir, fought a series of civil wars against Caesar’s enemies. These wars led to the final collapse of the Roma Republic and its transformation into the Roman Empire.
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