CHAPTER XXIX.

THE SECOND TRIUMVIRATE.

44--33.

The murderers of Csar had expected the Romans to hail them as deliverers from a tyrant, but his great friend Marcus Antonius, who was, together with him, consul for that year, made a speech over his body as it lay on a couch of gold and ivory in the Forum ready for the funeral. Antonius read aloud Csar's will, and showed what benefits he had intended for his fellow-citizens, and how he loved them, so that love for him and wrath against his enemies filled every hearer. The army, of course, were furious against the murderers; the Senate was terrified, and granted everything Antonius chose to ask, provided he would protect them, whereupon he begged for a guard for himself that he might be saved from Csar's fate, and this they gave him; while the fifteen murderers fled secretly, mostly to Cisalpine Gaul, of which Decimus Brutus was governor.

Csar had no child but the Julia who had been wife to Pompeius, and his heir was his young cousin Caius Octavius, who changed his name to Caius Julius Csar Octavianus, and, coming to Rome, demanded his inheritance, which Antonius had seized, declaring that it was public money; but Octavianus, though only eighteen, showed so much prudence and fairness that many of the Senate were drawn towards him rather than Antonius, who had always been known as a bad, untrustworthy man; but the first thing to be done was to put down the murderers--Decimus Brutus was in Gaul, Marcus Brutus and Cassius in Macedonia, and Sextus Pompeius had also raised an army in Spain.

1. What did the murderers of Caesar expect?
2. Who read Caesar's will?
3. What was his body laying on?
4. What did the will show?
5. Did he have children?
6. Did someone demand an inheritance?
7. Who?
8. How old was he?
9. What relation was he?
10. Had the inheritance been seized?
11. By whom?
12. Why?
13. What did the Senate think?
14. Why?
15. How was Antonious known?
16. Who were Caesar's murderers?

Provide a numbered list of answers.
1. Romans to hail them as deliverers from a tyrant
2. Antonius
3. couch of gold and ivory
4. benefits he had intended for his fellow-citizens
5. No
6. Yes
7. Caius Octavius
8. eighteen
9. his young cousin
10. Yes
11. Antonius
12. it was public money
13. they were drawn towards Octavius
14. he showed prudence and fairness
15. a bad, untrustworthy man
16. Decimus Brutus, Marcus Brutus, Cassius, and Sextus Pompeius