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showing a boldness worthy of leadership. When Caesar was also in danger, so that he shouted, running through his own ranks, if they were not ashamed to take him and hand him over to mere boys. And to his friends after the battle he said that he had often fought for victory, but now for the first time for his life. When Caesar was victorious, the younger of Pompey's sons escaped, but after some days the head of the elder was brought to him. This was the last war Caesar fought. And having returned to Rome, he was voted dictator for life, which happened to be an outright tyranny, adding the quality of being without a successor to the unaccountability of monarchy. And having thus been established in monarchy, he released many of those who had fought against him, and to some he even gave offices and honors, among whom were both Brutus and Cassius, and he also re-erected the statues of Pompey that had been thrown down. And when his friends asked that he be guarded by a bodyguard, he refused, saying, "it is better to die once than to be always expecting it." But desiring greater deeds and newer glory, he planned to march against the Parthians and to invade Scythia through Hyrcania. However, other things also created hatred against him among the people, but the greater part his love of kingship produced, on account of which his circle even spread a story among the populace that it appeared from the Sibylline books that Parthia would not otherwise be conquerable by the Romans, unless a king should campaign with them. And as Caesar was going from Alba to Rome, some dared to address him as king. But when the people were disturbed, he said he was called not king, but Caesar. He was called Caesar, as some suppose, because his mother perhaps died in childbirth, and he himself was brought to light by means of an incision. But this is not true; for those who have written about him have recorded that his mother was alive even when he had grown to manhood. But to have come into life from an incision did not happen to him, but to one of his ancestors, and from that one his descendants got the name. And when the consuls and the praetors once approached him, with the whole senate following, because he did not rise while seated, he not only grieved the senate but also the people, as if the city were being insulted in the person of the senate, and most went away at once with dejection. And to these offenses is added the public insult of the tribunes. For a festival was being celebrated in the city, and Caesar, seated on a golden chair, was adorned with triumphal attire; and Antony, who was consul, entered the forum carrying a diadem entwined with a laurel wreath, and offered it to Caesar. and there was applause, not brilliant, by arrangement; but when Caesar pushed it away, all the people applauded; and when this happened a second time, the attempt was exposed and Caesar stood up. And when his statues were also seen bound with royal diadems, the tribunes tore these off, and they led those who had addressed Caesar as king to prison. And at this the people applauded and called the men Brutuses; for it was Brutus, as was related above, who overthrew Tarquin and transferred the power from a monarchy to the commonwealth. At this Caesar, being provoked, deprived the tribunes of their office, and while accusing them, at the same time insulting the people, he often called the men Brutuses. From this point the multitude turned to Marcus Brutus, who was thought to trace his lineage from the Brutus of old; and those desiring a change, looking to him alone, or first, did not dare to speak with him, but at night they would throw letters around the tribunal and the chair on which he administered justice as praetor, saying, "You are sleeping, O Brutus," and "You are not Brutus." And Cassius also incited him. And many signs are said to have occurred to Caesar, indicating his destruction, of which this is one. Sleeping beside his wife, he perceived that she was uttering indistinct cries and inarticulate groans; for she seemed to be weeping, holding him in her arms