This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVII THE LAST BATTLE I After The Ides Caesar was murdered, in the senate-house erected by Pompey in the Campus Martius, on the Ides of March, the fifteenth, in the year 44 B.c. Though we do not know where Cicero was at this time, it is almost certain that he did not witness the assassination. Neither is it likely that he was in the forum. He had not been in the habit, for a long time, of mingling with men in public; it was too humiliating an advertisement of his political helplessness. Most probably he was at home, whether in his Palatine residence or in his Tusculan villa. During the days when the plot against Caesar was being matured, and perhaps 011 the very day it was executed, he .may have been collecting instances of ancient superstition for the De Divinationc or writing his essay to Atticus on Old Age. News of the assassination was probably sent to him by Basilus, one of the assassins;1 and he wrote in reply his famous two lines: "Congratulations! I am happy. I love you and watch over your interests. Send me your love, and let me know what you are doing and what is happening." Later in the day he repaired to the Capitol for a conference with the assassins; he was ready to take his place in the political turmoil. 1 If Cicero had been present in the senate-house or in the forum on the Ides, he would undoubtedly have referred to it in his letters or in his Philippics, but these contain no such reference. Basilus was far less intimate with Cicero than were several of the other conspirators. Cicero's note to Basilus can therefore scarcely be explained except on the supposition that Basilus, .who was not an important member of the conspiracy, was either delegated to communicate with Cicero or else did so out of a greater...

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