I can only imagine the frustration of the seers.
>we heard that there is a plot against you!
>>okay but what do the entrails say?
> ' _ '
>>well?
>they say there is a plot against you
>>ah screw it, entrails aren't real science
How could Caesar survive his assassination attempt?
I can only imagine the frustration of the seers.
>we heard that there is a plot against you!
>>okay but what do the entrails say?
> ' _ '
>>well?
>they say there is a plot against you
>>ah screw it, entrails aren't real science
Well, in Caesar’s defense, a seer had also told him he’d die at Munda, and he didn’t.
What intel does Caesar get? Just "someone will try to kill you in the Senate house"? Or does he get some names? One problem is that some of the conspirators were men he trusted, notably Brutus. If he doesn't know who will strike, he may ask them to guard him.
If he knows who the plotters are, then he knows who they aren't. He can then get some genuine loyalists to serve as a covert escort. Basically, they stand near him, and get in the way when the conspirators try to rush Caesar. Also perhaps have some lictors or other armed guards standing by out of sight.
IIRC, one of the conspirators approached Caesar to plead for a petition; some others crowded behind as if in support; then when they got close, they rushed him with knives out.
If Caesar is alerted: he directs his friends to keep back the others when they try to close. When the knives come out, the friends have their own knives; also perhaps gauntlets or bucklers concealed under their togas; enough to hold off the conspirators while Caesar retreats to safety. The petitioner may still get a strike in, but the risk is vastly reduced.
If he knows who the plotters are, then he knows who they aren't. He can then get some genuine loyalists to serve as a covert escort. Basically, they stand near him, and get in the way when the conspirators try to rush Caesar. Also perhaps have some lictors or other armed guards standing by out of sight.
IIRC, one of the conspirators approached Caesar to plead for a petition; some others crowded behind as if in support; then when they got close, they rushed him with knives out.
If Caesar is alerted: he directs his friends to keep back the others when they try to close. When the knives come out, the friends have their own knives; also perhaps gauntlets or bucklers concealed under their togas; enough to hold off the conspirators while Caesar retreats to safety. The petitioner may still get a strike in, but the risk is vastly reduced.
Let's go.for this scenario. He get his covert friends to strike at the killers. Could he die in peace at this scenario or more people would show up to kill him? Maybe the families or the people he just killed in self defense?
Dolan
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If Julius Caesar's full name being Julius Caesar Zeppeli, I'm pretty certain that his steel balls alone will be enough to dispatch all his attackers.
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People always forget his last meal was with Livia Drusilla - if her reputation was true about poison (Arsenic is easy to get and very slow acting depending on dosage) - who is to say he might not have dropped dead on the way to Dacia?
Then there is the other physical problem - Julius' next major epilepsy attack might leave him either a vegetable or dead.
But let us say he can avoid the knives, the possible poison, or his health...who is watching his back in Dacia ?
"Oh, dear, the evil Dacians sent an assassin who smothered him while he slept. We are going to crucify the lot of them, then divide the empire."
Then there is the other physical problem - Julius' next major epilepsy attack might leave him either a vegetable or dead.
But let us say he can avoid the knives, the possible poison, or his health...who is watching his back in Dacia ?
"Oh, dear, the evil Dacians sent an assassin who smothered him while he slept. We are going to crucify the lot of them, then divide the empire."
Even if that works you've just left Caesar's top lieutenants with a massive army they can march back west and exact bloody vengeance.
Which it wasn't.
Once the assassination fails, the game is over. Most of the prominent Optimates would be caught in the act or implicated. Caesar would purge the entire party. Also, of course, he would maintain a close bodyguard at all times. This might have been offensive to Romans before (which is why he didn't have them in the Senate chamber). But after the attempt, it's obviously justified.
OTL, Caesar planned to leave Rome in three days for a campaign in Dacia. ITTL, he'll stay in Rome for quite a while to clean up this mess.
Apparently the guy who looked over the body said only one would, the second, had been fatal. I was going to do some mild trolling and suggest that one misses and he survives with all the other wounds, but I suspect the others weren't fatal due to the body starting to fall down and people not getting a clear shot at the chest and stomach.
Brutus(bonus points for both of them) has a crisis of conscience and chokes at the worst possible moment for the Liberators, protecting Caesar. The injured but still breathing Caesar uses the chaos to slink out.
ASB. Marcus Brutus was pushed in the conjure by his brother-in-law and his wife but will not choke at the last minute as he was fully convinced of them doing the right thing (Brutus was the one who firmly opposed to kill also Marcus Antonius) while Decimus is the one who had gone to Caesar’s home for persuading him to not miss the session of Senate. No way either of them or Cassius will stop at the last moment. If Decimus has a crisis of conscience then he will simply not go at Caesar’s home
Caesar would have known people wanted him dead, he fought a war against much of the Senate and their supporters. He simply got careless the day he was assassinated - when Marc Antony put the crown on his head, when he moved his unpopular mistress to Rome. Those should have been glaring warning signs. But Caesar was a gambler, he'd made a career of it and he pushed his luck too far this time.
If he had solid evidence of the plot against him, I agree with the comments that he simply wouldn't show up, would give a statement to Antony to read into the Senate record and go off to fight his campaign in the east.
If he had solid evidence of the plot against him, I agree with the comments that he simply wouldn't show up, would give a statement to Antony to read into the Senate record and go off to fight his campaign in the east.