"Cesar-sa mort" by Vincenzo Camuccini (1798) |
'The Ides of March are come,' Caesar confidently declares.
'Ay, Caesar,' replies the soothsayer, 'but not gone.'
The conspirators gather around Caesar; he sees his trusted friend Brutus among them. They pull out their swords and stab Caesar. With his dying breath Caesar addresses Brutus,
"Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!"
Caesar pitches forward, lifeless upon the pedestal of Pompey's statue. Cinna rejoices, crying, "Liberty, Freedom! Tyranny is dead!" Witnesses to the assassination flee the Senate and Trebonius reports to Brutus and Cassius that Antony has fled to his house in shock and that people are running through the streets "As it were doomsday" .
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