The third plan was an attack during the gladiatorial fights. Some have suggested that they should make a coup while Caesar oversees the elections in the Field of Mars another idea was to throw him off the bridge during his election trip. There were many discussions as to how and where to implement the plan. According to his account, the conspirators never met openly, but always several in one of them. Their motives are not clear uncoiled that, apart from their dislike of Caesar’s autocracy, they were simply jealous of the higher positions of Antony and Lepidus, who had cooperated with Caesar for a shorter time.Īn important source of information on the plot to kill Caesar is Nicholas of Damascus, who lived at the time.
The circle of conspirators included, among others the aforementioned Decimus Brutus or Gaius Trebonius, which we would classify as “Caesarians”. It is worth noting that not only Caesar’s optimists and rivals were involved in the plot. Antony, in turn, was not invited to the plot, as Gaius Trebonius revealed that he had once offered him an attempt on Caesar’s life, but the offer was rejected. In the case of the great orator, it was finally dropped, because it was feared that the Roman was too conservative for this task, and he was spending a lot of time in the circle of “Caesarians” in recent times. The involvement of Cicero and Mark Antony was also considered. We know the names of nineteen conspirators, they are: Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Brutus (dealt the final blow), Publius Casca (dealt the first blow), Gaius Casca (dealt the death blow), Tilius Cimber, Gaius Trebonius (he stopped Mark Antony from entering the Senate), Lucius Minucius Bazylus, Rubrius Ruga, Marcus Fawonius, Marcus Spurius, Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, Servius Sulpicius Galba, Quintus Ligarius, Lucius Pella, Sextus Nazo, Pontius Aquila, Turulius, Hortensius and Bucolian. They gradually included more conspirators into their ranks, so as to be able to form a group capable of self-defense, but at the same time small enough to keep a secret.
Cassius Longinus was a former soldier of Crassus in the Party expedition (one of the few to survive) Marcus Brutus originally joined Pompey, however, after his defeat at Pharsalus, he received Caesar’s forgiveness and held the office of governor in Pre-Alpesque Gaul, and then the pretext Decimus Brutus, in turn, was Caesar’s officer in Gaul.
The origins of the conspiracy are related to the talks in February 44 BCE of Cassius Longinus, Marcus Brutus and Decimus Brutus, who were increasingly afraid that Caesar would proclaim himself king. After the defeat at the battle of Philippi in 42 BCE with the forces of Mark Antony and Octavian Augustus, Brutus committed suicide. Marcus Junius Brutus after Caesar’s death he allied with Cassius, with whom he headed the republicans and he was fighting the triumvirs.
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