![]() ![]() Julius Caesar hesitates for quite a while and finally decides to send Marc Antony to the Curia Pompey (about 1.4 km walking distance) to dismiss the Senate. Later the priests report to him that they have made several (animal) sacrifices and found them to be inauspicious (unfavorable). Julius Caesar is worried by her pleas, she is not an overly superstitious person. Julius Caesar is ill and his wife begs him not to go to the Senate meeting that day. His wife has a nightmare, she dreams that the pinnacle (placed there by the Senate) atop their house falls and smashes on the ground and she weeps over the body of her murdered husband in her arms. That thunderstorm again? Julius Caesar has a dream (?) that he is flying above the clouds holding the hand of the God Jupiter. That night Julius Caesar and his wife go to sleep, it will not be restful! In the middle of the night the doors and windows in their bedroom(s) (or throughout their home) are blown open by a violent wind. The topic of "What is the best death?" comes up, Julius Caesar quickly answers "A sudden one". Julius Caesar is catching up on some work (reading and signing things) while everyone else is engaged in after-dinner conversation. It's later in the evening, Julius Caesar and his friend Marcus Aemilius Lepidus have just finished dinner along with others (I've read (?) that *Decimus Brutus* was also there). ![]()
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