Thursday, March 15, 2007
This Day in Ancient History
On this day, the Ides of March, in 44 B.C., Gaius Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate by a group of conspirators led by Cimber, Casca, Cassius, and Marcus Junius Brutus. To the question, Et tu, Brute? allegedly came this reply: Sic semper tyrannis.