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THE DEATH OF CAESAR
LESSON 131
As a result of the civil war, Caesar became master of the Roman world. Many 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 fatal day, some one pushed into his hand a document telling of the conspiracy; but he did not stop to examine it.
Plūribus[1] hostiīs[2] caesīs[3], cum[4] litāre[5] nōn posset, introiit[6] cūriam[7] sprētā[8] religiōne Spurinnam[9]que irrīdēns[10] et ut falsum[11] arguēns[12], quod[13] sine ūllā suā noxā[14] Īdūs Mārtiae adessent: quamquam is[15] vēnisse quidem eās dīceret, sed nōn praeterisse. Assidentem[16] cōnspīrātī[17] speciē officiī[18] circumstetērunt; īlicō[19]que Cimber Tillius, quī prīmās partēs[20] suscēperat, quasi
- ↑ plūribus: i.e. complūribus.
- ↑ hostiīs: hostia, -ae: f, sacrificial victim.
- ↑ caesīs: caedō, 3, cecīdī, caesus: slay.
- ↑ cum: concessive.
- ↑ litāre: litō, 1, -āvī, -ātum est: secure favorable omens; the condition of the entrails of the slaughtered animals being supposed to portend good fortune or the reverse.
- ↑ introiit: introeō, -īre, -iī, -itus: enter.
- ↑ cūriam: cūria, -ae: f, senate house.
- ↑ sprētā: from spernō.
- ↑ Spurinnam: m, a priest who had predicted peril for Caesar on the 15th of March (Īdūs Mārtiae, l. 3).
- ↑ irrīdēns (-entis, part.): deriding.
- ↑ ut falsum: as (a) false (prophet).
- ↑ arguēns (-entis, part.): assailing.
- ↑ quod: as on p. 55, l. 11.
- ↑ suā noxā (noxa, -ae, F.): f, harm to him (Caesar).
- ↑ is: i.e. Spurinna.
- ↑ Assidentem: sc. Caesarem (assīdō, 3, -sēdī, -sessum est), take one's seat.
- ↑ cōnspīrātī (-ōrum, M.): m, the conspirators.
- ↑ officiī: n, of (showing) respect.
- ↑ īlicō: adv., i.e. statim.
- ↑ prīmās partēs: f, i.e. the leading rôle.
