Caesar Assassinated!
- Lucia Salvius
- Nov 27, 2015
- 2 min read
It has become known that as of now, March 15, 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and found in the theater of Pompey. Confirmation on the identity of the assassin/assassins are yet to be made, but rumors are buzzing.
It has been a few hours now since discovery of Caesar’s body and we are all still in shock. The Ides of March, meant to be a celebratory time, is off to a rather glum start. When Caesar’s body was found, he was unconscious, and attempts of resuscitation were all failures. Upon close examination of his body, shocking wounds have been found. The fact is rapidly spreading that Caesar was apparently stabbed 23 times. What’s even more shocking about this, though, is that 22 of them were non-fatal. One stab wound was found in his lung was most likely the cause of his death, and it is horrible to imagine the one and only Julius Caesar lying there alone in his last hours. But why did it take so long for us to find him? Well all the streets are absolutely insane right now since the word is spreading so rapidly. It was already busy enough with the Ides of March celebrations, preventing anyone from reaching the Theater of Pompey, and besides, everyone thought that just a meeting was being held there. Nobody could’ve guessed this would’ve happened.
We have managed to hear from Marc Antony and Calpurnia, Caesar’s close friend and wife. Shaken, Calpurnia tells us she had a feeling something bad would happen today. Antony says they were even warned by an old fortune teller to, “Heed the Ides of March”. Caesar didn’t think much of this, but even though other signs led up this, nobody was prepared. What makes this assassination unlike any other is who did it though. Two of Caesar’s “closest friends” were Lucius Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, and they turned out to be behind the assassination. This was revealed by an anonymous source who was caught and also in on the assassination. The only plausible explanations would be that Cassius, Brutus, and the other assassinators were threatened by Caesar and worried about the state of the government.
Today we lost a legend, a leader, Julius Caesar will never be forgotten.
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