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On Death.
Offisar , that great Captain , always victorious , by the arms of valour and prudence , having outdone by his victories all the warriots that ever went before him , was one morning going out of his palace at Rome , but prevented by his wife Caliphurnia , who having had some strange dreams and visions the night before , begged of him on her knees not to go out that day : this in treaty of his wife the more alarmed himas he had never known her addicted to superstitious
, fears . By her advice , he sacrificed some animals to the Gods ; the soothsayers answered , that the omens promised nothing good : he was determined to send Marc Antony to the senate , to dissolve the assembly , but in the mean time arrived Decius Brutus , the beloved friend of Ctesar , who had in his will appointed him his second heir , though he was in the conspiracy of Marcus Brutus and Caius Cassius .
He feared , that if Ctesar should put off the assembly of the senate to another day , the conspiracy would be discovered : therefore he began to ridicule the soothsayers , blaming Ca ; sar for his credulity , saying , ' that he gave occasion to the senate to find great fault with him , because they had been assembled by his order , and they were ready with one voice to declare him King of all the provinces of the Roman empire , Italy excepted . ' In conclusion of these words , he took him by the hand , and led him to the senate . The conspirators , who were in number sixty , surrounded Ctesar on all sides , their drawn swords
in their hands , so that which ever way he turned , he always found some one ready to strike him . At first be defended himself ; but when he perceived Marcus Brutus , the chief of the conspiracy , advancing towards him , who gave him a thrust , he said , ' And thou also , my son ! 'Saying these words , he made no longer opposition , but wrapping his robe round his head , fell to the ground close to the ctatue of Pompeywith twenty-three stabs in the bod . Thus
-, y pe rished the great Ctesar in the hall of the senate , the 25 th of March , in the year of the world 3923 , of the foundation of Rome 710 , and 42 before the birth of our Saviour . Cassius , after the battle of . Philippi , to avoid falling into the hands of Marc Antony and Augustus , run himself through with the same sword with which he had wounded Ca 3 sar . Marcus Brutus , being overcome near the city of Philippi , in the
same manner with Cassius , his evil genius appeared to him in the morning without speaking a single word to him . From this silence he knew that his last hour was come ; he therefore rushed into all the perils and dangers of the battle ; but not meeting the death he wished for , and seeing his party slaughtered every where around him , he went to a retired spot , and , with the assistance of one of his friends , run upon his sword , and died on the spot , murdering himself with the same weapon with which he had pierced the body of the unfortunate Ca ; sar .
Segigambis , mother of Darius , learning the death of Alexander , who had always treated her in an honourable manner , threw herself upon the ground , wept , and tore her hair ; she would not admit the light of the day to be'admitted into her apartment , nor take the least nourishment . In a few days she died , Quintus Curtitts savs of this
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Death.
Offisar , that great Captain , always victorious , by the arms of valour and prudence , having outdone by his victories all the warriots that ever went before him , was one morning going out of his palace at Rome , but prevented by his wife Caliphurnia , who having had some strange dreams and visions the night before , begged of him on her knees not to go out that day : this in treaty of his wife the more alarmed himas he had never known her addicted to superstitious
, fears . By her advice , he sacrificed some animals to the Gods ; the soothsayers answered , that the omens promised nothing good : he was determined to send Marc Antony to the senate , to dissolve the assembly , but in the mean time arrived Decius Brutus , the beloved friend of Ctesar , who had in his will appointed him his second heir , though he was in the conspiracy of Marcus Brutus and Caius Cassius .
He feared , that if Ctesar should put off the assembly of the senate to another day , the conspiracy would be discovered : therefore he began to ridicule the soothsayers , blaming Ca ; sar for his credulity , saying , ' that he gave occasion to the senate to find great fault with him , because they had been assembled by his order , and they were ready with one voice to declare him King of all the provinces of the Roman empire , Italy excepted . ' In conclusion of these words , he took him by the hand , and led him to the senate . The conspirators , who were in number sixty , surrounded Ctesar on all sides , their drawn swords
in their hands , so that which ever way he turned , he always found some one ready to strike him . At first be defended himself ; but when he perceived Marcus Brutus , the chief of the conspiracy , advancing towards him , who gave him a thrust , he said , ' And thou also , my son ! 'Saying these words , he made no longer opposition , but wrapping his robe round his head , fell to the ground close to the ctatue of Pompeywith twenty-three stabs in the bod . Thus
-, y pe rished the great Ctesar in the hall of the senate , the 25 th of March , in the year of the world 3923 , of the foundation of Rome 710 , and 42 before the birth of our Saviour . Cassius , after the battle of . Philippi , to avoid falling into the hands of Marc Antony and Augustus , run himself through with the same sword with which he had wounded Ca 3 sar . Marcus Brutus , being overcome near the city of Philippi , in the
same manner with Cassius , his evil genius appeared to him in the morning without speaking a single word to him . From this silence he knew that his last hour was come ; he therefore rushed into all the perils and dangers of the battle ; but not meeting the death he wished for , and seeing his party slaughtered every where around him , he went to a retired spot , and , with the assistance of one of his friends , run upon his sword , and died on the spot , murdering himself with the same weapon with which he had pierced the body of the unfortunate Ca ; sar .
Segigambis , mother of Darius , learning the death of Alexander , who had always treated her in an honourable manner , threw herself upon the ground , wept , and tore her hair ; she would not admit the light of the day to be'admitted into her apartment , nor take the least nourishment . In a few days she died , Quintus Curtitts savs of this