Caesar's Response to the Assassination of Pompey the Great

After the battle of Pharsalus, a whole contingent of senators decided that running in order to keep up the fight was pointless and supplicated themselves before Caesar. Rather than making a friend in Caesar, they had just cemented him as a furious enemy. So you can imagine Caesar's reaction when he landed in Alexandria in the autumn of 48 BC, hot on Pompey's heels,. Instead of receiving information about which direction his rival had gone, he was instead presented with Pompey's head. When he saw the head he wept bitter tears and ordered that it be buried with full honors.