THE DEATH OF CAESAR (Suetonius, Julius, 81, 82)
LESSON As a
result of the civil war,
131
Caesar became master of the
Roman
did not approve of his absolute power, and a plot was formed to take his life. As he left home for the senate house on the world.
Many
some one pushed
fatal day,
spiracy
into his
hand a document
but he did not stop to examine
Pluribus hostils caesls,
cum
telling of the con-
it.
non
litare
introiit
posset,
curiam spreta religione Spurinnamque irrldens et ut falsum arguens, quod sine ulla sua noxa Idus Martiae adessent
venisse quidem eas dice ret, sed non praeterquamquam isse. Assidentem conspiratl specie officil circumsteterunt is
5
Cimber
Ilicoque 1.
pluribus:
hostils cial
Tillius, qui
i.e.
primas partes susceperat, quasi
cum: slay. litare : lito, I,
caesus,
cecldi,
cessive.
con-avl,
-atumest, secure favorable omens ; the condition of the entrails of the
animals being supposed to portend good fortune or slaughtered
the reverse.
introiit
2.
introeo,
spreta
Spurinnam
-ae,
F.. sen-
from sperno.
a priest
as (a) false {prophet}. 3. arguens (-entis, part.): asquod as on p. 55, 1. 1 1. sailing. sua noxa (noxa, -ae, F.) harm
to
him (Caesar), is
i.e. Spurinna. assidentem: sc. Caesarem (assid5, 3, -sedi, -sessum est, take
4.
5.
M.)
conspiratl
seat}.
the
6.
ilico
primas rdle.
166
respect.
(adv.):
partes
(-orum, officii
conspirators.
of (showing)
who had
predicted peril for Caesar on the 1 5th of March (fdus Martiae, 1.3).
(-entis, part.): derid-
falsum
ut
ing.
one^s
curiam: curia,
ate house.
enter.
-Ire, -ii, -itus,
irrldens
compluribus.
hostia, -ae, F., sacrificaesls: victim. caedo, 3,
i.e.
i.e.
statim.
the
leading
