Pompeius, and the great debate on Caesar’s command was postponed till March 1st of the following year. Pompeius remained ambi

n the Caesarian party and consul, head of the government. The Ides of March could make no difference to that. When the tyrant

d troops under his command, with results at once apparent. At dawn on March 16th he occupied the Forum with armed men. Lepidu

of this crucial document has been much disputed. The early morning of March 17th, ably argued by O. E. Schmidt, accepted by m

Supp. v, 375 f.), is certainly attractive. A case can be made out for March 21st or 22nd, cf. S. Accame, Riv. di fil. LXII (1

. di fil. LXII (1934), 201 ff. PageBook=>098 On the morning of March 17th the Senate met. Antonius took charge of the

ident blended with design. The funeral oration delivered by Antonius ( March 20th) may not have been intended as a political m

m had already been done. Not the funeral of Caesar but the session of March 17th, that was the real calamity. 1 Both the acts

PageBook=>103 and before the Dictator’s acta were ratified on March 17th, it was feared that the consul would not all

ppened is obscure the provinces in question may have been allotted on March 18th. Early in April Decimus Brutus set out for C

aesarian leaders with concord in word and action. As the coalition of March 17th corresponded with political facts and with p

e of argument and personal authority, Antonius brought the session of March 17th to terms of compromise even to a spirit of c

ng at the failure of the coup d’état. Yet some could find the Ides of March a great comfort; and the NotesPage=>106 1

d easily be restored one day under another appellation. At the end of March or early in April the Senate allotted consular pr

lf-preservation, Antonius must build up support for the settlement of March 17th and the legislation passed in his consulate.

cans who cursed the melancholy incompleteness of the glorious Ides of March could not justly complain if the Caesarian consul

h it an army adequate to defy any enterprises of his enemies. Late in March he had received Macedonia. Before the end of Apri

lived to prevail over Antonius in the end. The news of the Ides of March found the young man at Apollonia, a town on the c

by the legislation of June 1st to a strengthening of the coalition of March 17th, and, more than that, to a firm pact with th

The ceremony was staged on the Capitol. In revenge for the Ides of March , Caesar’s ghost, as all men know, drove Brutus to

ent. Such was the outcome of Cicero’s first public appearance since March 17th. The Curia did not see him again for more th

n the populous and martial territory of Picenum. 3 The coalition of March 17th had not merely been split and shattered: it

a long time. What remained of the Caesarian faction after the Ides of March showed a lack of social distinction or active tal

of more use to a busy and imperious autocrat. Then came the Ides of March and, two days later, the meeting of the Senate in

en abolished brought a rapid disillusionment. Even before the Ides of March he thought of departing to Greece and remaining t

e acta of Caesar would be more decisively confirmed than they were on March 17th; if he failed, Antonius would be intolerable

nt and his professions, how shamefully he had deserted his post after March 17th when concord and ordered government might st

s never completed, this supplement to the Republic. After the Ides of March , however, came a new impulsion to demonstrate his

that they were impelled to civil strife. The non-party government of March 17th, 44 B.C., was inaugurated under the auspices

Junius Brutus, whether or no they had been implicated in the Ides of March . Like Brutus himself, many of these nobiles had a

omitius Calvinus, lost to history for thirty months after the Ides of March , but still with a future before him. 2 Ad fam.

racter, was with Antonius, his ally in the days following the Ides of March ; and he will have reflected that next to Antonius

prosecuted in the Cisalpina. Cicero pressed his advantage. Early in March came the news that Dolabella, passing through Asi

in the north would preclude any compromise. Two attempts were made in March . In Rome Piso and Calenus carried a motion that a

stage would NotesPage=>172 1 Phil, 10, 25 f. 2 Phil. 11 (c. March 6th). PageBook=>173 impair the military fe

our of the patriotic front. 1 The project was therefore wrecked. On March 20th came dispatches from Lepidus and Plancus, ac

e insult to his dignitas. Such was the situation towards the end of March . The efforts of diplomacy, honest or partisan, we

come up with his four legions of recruits. Pansa had left Rome about March 19th. Antonius for his part planned to crush Pans

his part planned to crush Pansa NotesPage=>173 1 Phil. 12 (c. March 10th?). 2 Phil. 13. 3 Ib. 13, 22 ff. 4 Ad f

the Republic against Antonius. He was rewarded by a vote of thanks on March 20th. To Pompeius was now assigned an extraordina

nths of the consulate of Antonius shattered for ever the coalition of March 17th, and divided for a time the ranks of the Cae

d knights slaughtered in solemn and religious ceremony on the Ides of March before an altar dedicated to Divus Julius. 3 Wh

us figure. It was from his house that Caesar set forth on the Ides of March ; 4 and Caesar had destined him to be NotesPage=

contemporary literature. The past was recent and tangible the Ides of March , the proscriptions and Philippi were barely twent

ar vested interests averted disturbance and imposed the settlement of March 17th. Vested interests were now more widely spr

he young Caesar’s political competition, six months after the Ides of March . All three Triumvirs concurred in the deification

early career, 41, 43, 76, 90, 94 ff., 103 f., 382; after the Ides of March , 97 ff.; statesmanship, 105, 108 f.; acts and des

478. Cassius Longinus, C. (pr. 44 B.C.), 57, 95; after the Ides of March , 101, 116 ff., 119; in the East, 124, 171 f., 177

s for the assassination, 57 ff.; his actions on and after the Ides of March , 97 ff.; political prospects, 99 ff.; his friends

lbinus, D., Caesarian and tyrannicide, 64, 95, 109; after the Ides of March , 97, 101, 102 f.; in Gallia Cisalpina, 110, 124,

rators, party of, 59 f., 95, 198 f., 205 f.; on and after the Ides of March , 97 ff.; in the summer, 44 B.C., 116 ff.; leave I

f Caesar, 53, 56, 81, 138 f., 143; his verdict on Caesar, 56, 145; in March , 44 B.C., 97 ff., 139; meets Octavianus, 114, 141