Kyle Sheeley
In Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar, there is a favorite line often quoted where Cesaer and Marcus Aurelius are walking in the Senate building along the upper level and they are talking quietly to each other.
As they look down on the lower level to the Senate floor, Marcus sees a cluster of Roman Senators all huddled together whispering and seemingly conspiring - plotting against his friend and emperor, Caesar, who stands at his side.
He turns to him and says, "Caesar, beware yon Cassius, for he has a lean and hungry look, for he thinks too much, and such man are dangerous."
In this, his loyal friend, General Marcus Aurelius warns his friend of a traitor, a snake in the Roman Senate who is about to strike at him and kill the head of the Roman Empire, Julius Caesar himself.
At the head of this conspiracy is Brutus, close to the emperor through most of his reign, most of his battles and his career.
Through trickery, General Aurelius is drawn away at the last moment, and Caesar is killed by two traitors, Cassius the vile, and Brutus, Julius Caesar's closest friend. At the end, it would be Brutus, his closest associate, his most trusted friend, who stuck him with the very last sword, " And you, too, Brutus? " he moaned, as he sank to the floor.
Caesar managed to flip his own robes over himself in an act to cover what most felt was his shame. Struck down by traitors, after giving so much to the city-state that he had loved so much.
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As they look down on the lower level to the Senate floor, Marcus sees a cluster of Roman Senators all huddled together whispering and seemingly conspiring - plotting against his friend and emperor, Caesar, who stands at his side.
He turns to him and says, "Caesar, beware yon Cassius, for he has a lean and hungry look, for he thinks too much, and such man are dangerous."
In this, his loyal friend, General Marcus Aurelius warns his friend of a traitor, a snake in the Roman Senate who is about to strike at him and kill the head of the Roman Empire, Julius Caesar himself.
At the head of this conspiracy is Brutus, close to the emperor through most of his reign, most of his battles and his career.
Through trickery, General Aurelius is drawn away at the last moment, and Caesar is killed by two traitors, Cassius the vile, and Brutus, Julius Caesar's closest friend. At the end, it would be Brutus, his closest associate, his most trusted friend, who stuck him with the very last sword, " And you, too, Brutus? " he moaned, as he sank to the floor.
Caesar managed to flip his own robes over himself in an act to cover what most felt was his shame. Struck down by traitors, after giving so much to the city-state that he had loved so much.
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