gaius julius_caesar Quotes

Murdered by senators who feared what he would become

On March 15, 44 BC, a group of senators stabbed Caesar twenty-three times in the Theatre of Pompey. He was fifty-five. The conspirators believed they were saving the Republic. Instead they triggered another civil war that ended the Republic permanently. Caesar's adopted heir Octavian became Augustus, the first Roman Emperor. Caesar's name became a title. Every Roman emperor after him, and later the German Kaisers and Russian Tsars, took their titles from his name.