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The Ides of March
Chapter VIII
The Crown and the Daggers

The Ides of March

Idus Martiae

Omens gather, Calpurnia dreams of his death, and a soothsayer names the day. Caesar goes to the Senate anyway — and falls beneath twenty-three wounds at the foot of Pompey's statue, where history ends and tragedy begins.
Invoking the sacred fire...