Yesterday Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Capitol. The assassins are believed to be the senators: Marcus Brutus, Cassius, Casca, Cina, Trebonius, Ligarius, Decius Brutus and Metellus Cimber. According to the speech Marcus Brutus gave to the town’s people shortly after the assassination took place, the killing of Caesar was for the good of Rome. Eyewitnesses say that the senator, Casca was the one who struck the first blow and then the others followed. …showed first 75 words of 497 total…

…showed last 75 words of 497 total…to beware of the exact people that were responsible for his death, but he chose to ignore him when he tried to pass the letter to him. According to an eyewitness that was in the Capitol after the assassination occurred, Brutus insisted that they bathe their hands in the blood of Caesar, so that the assassination did not look as though it was an act of cowardice, but a sacrifice for the good of Rome. -