The Decemvirs are contained with ten men, who are all the prestigious people in Rome. Some of them are from the previous consuls, some are the commissioners who had gone to Athens, and the others are chosen from the aged men (33). ... "The Forum was filled with one hundred and twenty lictors, and they bore the axes tied up in the 'fasces', "They presented the appearance of ten kings" (36). ... All in all, if we connect the preface of Livy to our analysis, it's not difficult for us to find the similarities. ...

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Next he appealed to their freedom by stating "Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead and live all free men?" ... This really hit home with the people because it made the inference that Caesar wanted to be King and Romans didn't like Kings at this period of history because of a past corrupt, tyrant king named, Tarquinus Superbus. ... This revealed that the most ruthless wound of all was from Brutus. ...

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The final offer of the crown occurred before a large crowd of Romans, when a crown was placed on Caesar's head he took it off and said "The Romans have no kings but their gods" (World Book Encyclopedia). ... Both say that at least sixty men were involved in the conspiracy, most of them senate members. Shakespeare's work says that only about eight men were part of the conspiracy, probably to cut down on the number of actors for the play. ... All of the sources also agree on when Caesar was killed. ... Artemidorus hands Caesar a scroll with the names of the men in the conspiracy and ...

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He describes Antony's generosity and how popular he was with his men, and cuts out suggestions of Cleopatra's disloyalty. ... Then comes another move, to kings and princes and servants wearing his livery, and finally a cosmic image of liberality, "realms and islands" carelessly dropped, like coins from his pocket. ... Also, in Act I Scene V, Cleopatra recalls the great men who have been her lovers (lines 30-35). To "stand," "grow" and "die" all suggest sexual arousal. However, Antony is her man of men, and there is a passionate intensity in her vision of him. ...

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Later, two of Caesar's best men, Marcus Brutus and Cassius, converse expressing their disbelief in their kings ability to do his job. ... As proper men as ever trod upon neat's leather have gone upon my handiwork." ... ANTONY (on Brutus) "This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. ... The skies are painted with unnumbered sparks; They are all fire, and every one doth shine; But there's but one in all doth hold his p...

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And conquer all Italy and its haughty peoples. ... It is he who shall consolidate your power-For thirty years with all their turning months; Then shall he move his capital from Lavinium To Alba Longa, which he shall fortify To the uttermost; and there a line of kings... ... Romulus established a government with a king, who was imperium, "Over all persons and in all causes supreme" (Adcock 6). ... The succession of kings wasn't hereditary. ... He sent men to finish him off, but Tullia ran over her father with a cisium, Latin for a light, two-wheeled carriage. ...

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A surprising move in my mind was Julius Caesar leaving all of his money to be spread throughout all the Roman citizens (Fife, 2012). ... Julius Caesar was a great leader for his men, he was a strategist and new how to gain success in any battle that was thrown his way. ... Caesar was a master of politics controlling his men and improving the name of Rome in any way possible, Caesar was a military and political genius. ... Caesar would walk through the streets dressed in kings robes to show him of greater importance and power (Brown,2006). ... Caesar came to want all the power and rule of Rome...

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