Caesar and the Senate

Caesar had been warned previously by a suthsayer to be on guard on the Ides of March. His wife and friends begged him to listen to the ill omens that surrounded the day and stay home. He was convinced by his old surrogate son, Brutus, that to ignore the Senate's request for his presence would be seen as a great insult. The petition of course was a fake, entered for public consideration by the plotting senators to lure their prey into a trap. At this word the sixty members of the conspiracy rushed in and surrounded Caesar stabbing at him recklessly. As he lay on the ground the stabbing continued. In the end all Caesar could do was cover his face with