Brutus doesn't betray Caesar

Perhaps it's just my HBO's Rome-addled brain talking here, but I had a thought.
What if Brutus hadn't joined the conspiracy to assassinate Gaius Julius Caesar? What if, instead, having learned of it, he made Caesar aware of the plot well ahead of time? How would the major figures of the time, including Caesar himself, proceed?
 
If it is possible that Brutus refuse to join the conspiracy, I don't think he would betray Cassius, Trebonius, Decimus Brutus and the test of the gang.

Remember that Antonius was informed of a previous plot against Caesar by his friend Trebonius who wanted him to join in. Antonius refused to join in but did not betray them.

Now if Brutus refuses to join Cassius, it is probable that the plot is cancelled since the main conspirators thought they needed Brutus in the plot to have it succeed.
 
Perhaps have Caesar openly declare Brutus to be his son- and HEIR? Now, how they'd keep Octavian from overwhelming the pot would be another question- to say nothing of Mark Anthony.
 
I think a fun point of divergence would be Caesar keeping his lictors.The conspirators would have to try and poison Caesar instead.
 
I think a fun point of divergence would be Caesar keeping his lictors.The conspirators would have to try and poison Caesar instead.

He'd be leaving the very next day wouldn't he? This was really their only chance to kill him until he came back from Dacia or Parthia.
 
Perhaps have Caesar openly declare Brutus to be his son- and HEIR? Now, how they'd keep Octavian from overwhelming the pot would be another question- to say nothing of Mark Anthony.

ASB because he was not Caesar's son nor even Caesar's favourite lieutenant nor even one of his friends.

Brutus was born in 85. All sources tell us that Servilia did not become Caesar's lover and did not even before 77 BCE, when Caesar came back from Asia after he was informed of Sulla's death.
Caesar had even engaged his daughter Julia with Marcus Brutus before he broke the engagement in order to have Julia marry Pompey.

One of Caesar's good friends was Decimus Junius Brutus, not Marcus (who was but a distant cousin of Decimus). It was this Decimus that Caesar had put in his will as a second rank heir if his first rank heirs (his son and his nephews) died.

Most of Brutus' image is due to the very close relationship between His mother Servilia and Caesar. Servilia was the true political genious of her family. Servilia was much more clever and talented than her half-brother Cato and her son Brutus.

But after the engagement between Julia and Brutus was broken in 59 BC, Caesar certainly never considered to have Brutus as heir. All Caesar ever did in favour of Brutus certainly was due to the deep mutual admiration, friendship and respect Caesar and Servilia shared.
 
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