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Eutropius, Breviarium ab urbe condita 6.25 (A.D. 369): Inde Caesar, bellis civilibus toto orbe conpositis, Romam rediit. Agere insolentius coepit et contra consuetudinem Romanae libertatis. Cum ergo et honores ex sua voluntate praestaret, qui a populo antea deferebantur, nec senatui ad se venienti adsurgeret aliaque regia et paene tyrannica faceret, coniuratum est in eum a sexaginta vel amplius senatoribus equitibusque Romanis. Praecipui fuerunt inter coniuratos duo Bruti, ex eo genere Bruti, qui primus Romae consul fuerat et reges expulerat, et C. Cassius et Servilius Casca. Ergo Caesar, cum senatus die inter ceteros venisset ad curiam, tribus et viginit vulneribus confossus est. Then Caesar, after the civil wars had been settled throughout the whole world, returned to Rome. He began to act more insolently against the custom of Roman liberty. Therefore, since he also became responsible from his own inclination for the honours, which were formerly recommended from the people, since he did not rise up for the senate coming to himself, and since he was doing other things like a king and almost like a tyrant, a plot hatched against him by 60 or more senators and Roman equites. The most pre-eminent men among the conspirators were the two Bruti, from that family of the Brutus, who had been first consul of Rome and who had expelled the kings, and both Gaius Cassius and Servilius Casca. Therefore Caesar, when he had come on the day of the senate among the rest to the curia, was stabbed with 23 wounds. (U. K. Vestal, trans.) |