ROMESDAY
All the News Romans Need to Know
March 16, 44 B.C.
Rome
Breaking News: Julius Caesar is
Assassinated!!!
Samulus Maximus
Source: Juslius Caesar, by Philip Freeman
Julius Caesar is an individual
that not everyone wanted alive,
including his old enemies, friends,
and idealists who believed in the
Republic.
Yesterday, March 15, Julius
Caesar woke up with his wife,
Calpurnia, in a panic. She had had
a horrible dream that she was
holding his dead body. She
insisted that Julius think about it,
but he was forced by Decimus to
attend a meeting. He urged
Calpurnia not to worry.
Artemidorus heard about an
assassination plot against Caesar
and had written the plot into a
scroll. Artemidorus then put these
conspirators’ plans into the hands
of Caesar to read, but he ignored
it and said he was going to read
the scroll directly after his
meeting.
Witnesses report that Julius
Caesar then took a seat at the
meeting, anxious for it to end so
he could read the scroll handed to
him by Artemidorus. Tullius
Cimber’s brother was exiled by
Caesar. He approached Julius and
was promptly dismissed. He could
not take that kind of rejection
from Caesar, so he grabbed his
toga and beseeched Julius for
mercy.
Casca rushed towards
Caesar, drawing his dagger, and
stabbed him in the neck. Although
this sounds like it injured Caesar, it
did not. Casca was so anxious to
execute him that he barely
scratched Julius with his dagger.
After that attempt to kill Caesar,
Julius took a writing implement
and stabbed Casca, immediately
killing him.
This quickly rose to a brawl
between Caesar and his fellow
Senators when others joined,
drawing lots of knives. Julius tried
to fight them off, as he trained to
fight off delegates for the past
several of years. He suddenly saw
Brutus charging at him with great
velocity, clutching a dagger. He
gouged Caesar and he tumbled to
the ground.
Eye witnesses report that
Caesar’s last words to Brutus as he
lay on the ground were, “Kaisu te
Knon” (Even you my child?). He
swathed himself in his toga, and
perished.
Who will take over? Will it
be Octavian? His death leads to a
lot of unanswered questions. Keep
reading Romesday to find out the
latest news on who will take over
and control the Roman Empire.
This is a painting of all of the Senators stabbing
Julius Caesar and eventually killing him on March
15, 44 B.C.