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1. Why did they choose to kill him in the senate in front of so many eye witnesses? Since Brutus was a friend wouldn't it have been easy for him to get close to Caesar at night and kill him while he wasn't looking?
2. Didn't Caesar have any body guards? Did no one come to his aid to help him?
3. Why were so many involved in the stabbing? I read there was up to 60 men trying to stab him. Overkill much?
1. Why did they choose to kill him in the senate in front of so many eye witnesses? Since Brutus was a friend wouldn't it have been easy for him to get close to Caesar at night and kill him while he wasn't looking?
2. Didn't Caesar have any body guards? Did no one come to his aid to help him?
3. Why were so many involved in the stabbing? I read there was up to 60 men trying to stab him. Overkill much?
Mark Anthony was acting as Caesar's bodyguard that day and he was lured away on a false pretext by members of the plot.
He was killed in public because the Senators wanted the act to be seen as a public one, done for the good of the Republic, not just a murder and power grab. For the same reason they agreed that there would be multiple stabbers, representing the republic, not some lone assassin who could be individually blamed.
And here's Mark (from the Bard's play 'Julius Caesar') discoursing on those undoubtedly 'honourable' men. The 'dogs of war' followed. What a speech to a crowd.
'Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest—
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men—
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me'.
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