The Murder of Julius Caesar

Taken from the HBO's movie "Rome", i think this clip best shows the violence and the anger linked to what is still considered the most tremendous murder of all times. The latin words are taken from "De Vita Caesarum" (The Lives of the Caesars), written by Suetonius in 110 AD. Here is the whole extract:

LXXXII. [44 B.C.] As he took his seat, the conspirators gathered about him as if to pay their respects, and straightway Tillius Cimber, who had assumed the lead, came nearer as though to ask something; and when Caesar with a gesture put him off to another time, Cimber caught his toga by both shoulders; then as Caesar cried, "Why, this is violence!" one of the Cascas stabbed him from one side just below the throat. Caesar caught Casca's arm and ran it through with his stylus, but as he tried to leap to his feet, he was stopped by another wound. When he saw that he was beset on every side by drawn daggers, he muffled his head in his robe, and at the same time drew down its lap to his feet with his left hand, in order to fall more decently, with the lower part of his body also covered. And in this wise he was stabbed with three and twenty wounds, uttering not a word, but merely a groan at the first stroke, though some have written that when Marcus Brutus rushed at him, he said in Greek, 'You too, my child?" All the conspirators made off, and he lay there lifeless for some time, until finally three common slaves put him on a litter and carried him home, with one arm hanging down. And of so many wounds none turned out to be mortal, in the opinion of the physician Antistius, except the second one in the breast. The conspirators had intended after slaying him to drag his body to the Tiber, confiscate his property, and revoke his decrees; but they forebore through fear of Marcus Antonius the consul, and Lepidus, the master of horse.
LXXXVIII. [44 B.C.] He died in the fifty-sixth year of his age, and was numbered among the gods, not only by a formal decree, but also in the conviction of the common people. For at the first of the games which his heir Augustus gave in honor of his apotheosis, a comet shone for seven successive days, rising about the eleventh hour [about an hour before sunset] and was believed to be the soul of Caesar, who had been taken to heaven; and this is why a star is set upon the crown of his head in his statue. It was voted that the curia in which he was slain be walled up, that the Ides of March be called the Day of Parricide, and that a meeting of the senate should never be called on that day.

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[bfoaliali]

Et, Tu, Brute?

[liddleE1]

@jkcp1000 Its fairly close...He was stabbed about 20 times during a meeting.

[drfye]

hahaha, and some people think history is boring.

[trickster3696]

anyone else think how badass it was when caesar cuaght the knife

[hitschler100]

brutus war nicht caesars sohn sonder ein freund von ihm,caeser war aber mit seiner mutter zusammen.

[MagnificentFiend]

kai su, o teknon;

[Jinkamoto]

@bfoaliali that is not accurate shakespeare was the one who brought that up...

[jkcp1000]

@bobbydylanio dude why do you think they make these kind of programs.. for people to learn about history.

[bobbydylanio]

@jkcp1000 Why the fuck do people judge programmes on historical accuracy? Pleb

[jkcp1000]

@bobbydylanio "People that watch stuff like this looking for an education need to get a grip." are you an idiot?

[bobbydylanio]

@jkcp1000 Who gives a shit, it's an incredible show. People that watch stuff like this looking for an education need to get a grip.

[kingnikolaj]

@liddleE1 wasn't it 42??