man who had increased its circuit; struck down in the senate-house—the man that had reared another such edifice at his own charge; unarmed, the brave warrior; defenseless, the promoter of peace; the judge beside the court of justice; the governor beside the seat of government; at the hands of the citizens—he whom none of the enemy had been able to kill even when he fell into the sea; at the hands of his comrades—he who had often taken pity on them.
Where, Cæsar, was your humaneness, where your inviolability, where the law's? You enacted many laws to prevent any one's being killed by personal foes, yet see how mercilessly your friends killed you; and now slain you lie before its in that forum through which you, often crowmed, led triumphal marches; wounded unto death you have been cast down upon that rostra from which you often addressed the people. Woe for the blood-bespattered locks of gray; alas for the rent robe, which you assumed, it seems, only to the end that you might be slain in it!
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