Marcus Tullius Cicero, De divinatione  2.23 (44-43 B.C.): Quid vero Caesarem putamus, si divinasset fore ut in eo senatu, quem maiore ex parte ipse cooptasset, in curia Pompeia, ante ipsius Pompei simulacrum, tot centurionibus suis inspectantibus, a nobilissimis civibus, partim etiam a se omnibus rebus ornatis, trucidatus ita iaceret ut ad eius corpus non modo amicorum, sed ne servorum quidem quisquam accederet, quo cruciatu animi vitam acturum fuisse? What do we truly think of Caesar, if he had divined that in this senate, which from the greater part he himself had elected, in the curia of Pompeius, before the statue of Pompeius himself, with so many of his own centurions watching, after having been slaughtered by the most noble citizens, even those who had been furnished everything by himself, that he would lie such that to his body not even anyone, not only of his friends but also of his slaves would come near, by what torture of the soul would he have spent his life? (U.  K.  Vestal, trans.)