"If a man is saddened by his wife's infidelity, he is undoubtedly a hillbilly, and he knows nothing about the morals of the capital." —Ancient Roman verses

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While the crowd was in turmoil, two Curia attendants came running from the side of Capitol Hill, walked into the crowd, and announced in a loud voice: "The royal decree of the Senate, they have allowed Caesar's body to be transported to the temple of Jupiter on the holy mountain for incineration, and his statue can still be preserved in the temple of Zài." ”

"What nonsense! We are now going to turn the funeral of His Excellency Julius into a loud denunciation of the dictator's murderer, this is a battle, and we do not need the enemy to give us a battlefield! At this time, Amartius temporarily changed his tone again.

At the back of the street, Li Bida was dressed in full armor and followed closely behind the team with the Sixth Army Corps, acting as a military backing for their speech. Antony also scolded, and he shouted, "Ijulus, you are the most important clerk and treasurer of Caesar's life, and now you are his herald, and you are the herald of us, the veterans, and the people, to the synagogue where the senators are, and to tell them to stop the pointless struggle, and to put it in a way that we can accept!" ”

Ijulus, who had always been the only one who obeyed, hastened with his servants and asked the two Kuria attendants to lead the way, and the two attendants were so frightened that their faces were covered with sweat, because they saw that the people were dressed in mourning clothes and carried clubs, and the veterans were each armed with sharp blades. It's an army of rage and a thirst for revenge. He hurried in the direction of the holy mountain. It's as if it's not leading the way, it's running for your life.

About a day later, the second edict of the Senate soon arrived, "to allow Caesar's body to be cremated before the Theater of Pompey, where he was killed, at the request of the people, and to have a funeral." ”

This satisfied everyone, so the procession continued to carry the coffin and sing mourning songs one after another. Walking in the direction of the theater, when he reached the Civic Square, Antony begged everyone to stop, because he was going to give a funeral speech in memory of the great Caesar.

At this time, Li Bida, who was always in the rear, coldly gestured to Hebrida and Sabo next to him, and then the code was passed to the funeral team one after another, just when Anthony was still gearing up. Coming from out of town to attend the funeral, the two military tribunes who had previously been punished by Caesar. That is, Avinus and Fonteus, who suddenly ordered the soldiers around them, carried out Caesar's corpse, and shouted, "Let Caesar be incinerated in the civic square, this is the place to witness his life's work." ”

Then, before Antony could react, the bare-headed Amartius burst into tears, which immediately attracted everyone's attention, and several veterans climbed to the top of the pillar of the square, holding Caesar's blood-stained cloak, and Amartius generously stated, "Look at this cloak!" Citizens, although we have not been to the front line, the many veterans who are present, the heroes who have fought bloodily for their country, should know this—yes, Julius has always worn him on the battlefield, and in the decisive battle against the barbarians, he raised this cloak as a signal for the decisive battle, and encouraged you to move forward with your sword; He wore this cloak when the cavalry was running, and all the warriors followed. But the most amazing thing is that no matter how dangerous Caesar's battle situation is, the enemy's arrows did not break this cloak once, it guarded the city of Rome and the heroes in the dark, the most legendary one, to say that in the city of Alexandria, Caesar's ships were surrounded by the enemy, he himself fell into the sea, but with the command in his mouth, the cloak floated on the water, and he swam forward until he was rescued by the ships that came! ”

When this was said, all the people erupted in a wave of cheers.

"What is this guy, who allowed him to make noise here!" Anthony, who was left to dry, was blindfolded before, and then questioned Igiulus indignantly, but the other party was also dumbfounded, the situation changed too quickly, and he didn't know why.

However, Antony complained and complained, and he was not embarrassed to tell Amartius to get down, because in this state, he would become the target of public criticism if he did so.

Amartius then went on and asked the people to look at the fluttering cloak, "but now all of you look at the cloak, which is full of holes, and you should all know how these holes were made—look, this hole was pierced by Cassiyo, this hole was pierced by Brutus, who was his favorite one." ”

When the people saw the cloak full of holes and blood, they could not bear it any longer, and they rushed to Caesar's coffin, and scrambled to pull down the hair from the corpse as a memorial, and Amatius cried out, "Take off his hair, for every one of his qi ē will be given to Rome anyway, but without himself, he was murdered by the enemy in the shadows, with eternal regret and resentment." ”

At this time, Antony stood very embarrassed outside the circle, and from time to time raised his arms and raised his head, ready to speak, but he could not intervene at all, so he could only go around and around, and let Amartius spit there, and then the most surprising scene appeared, in Caesar's coffin, a wax figure of his whole body "swished" to bounce up, and the timid women around immediately changed from the original mourning to exclamation, because this wax figure was so realistic, like Caesar himself reincarnated.

Then, with a flick of his finger, Amartius was imitated by many of the robes and costumes of the murderers such as Cassillo, Brutus, Casca, and Dehemos, slowly showing the people how they plunged their swords into the dictator's body and killed him. There is also a rotating device underneath the wax figures and the makeshift stage where the performers are located, so that onlookers can see clearly how the horrific and miserable "wounds" of each place have remained on the body of their dictator.

Everyone cried and couldn't hold on, but this was not over, in a burst of surprise, people clearly saw that through the middle of the square, on the large gable wall of the temple of Venus, there was a statue of Caesar, because the distance was relatively far, it was difficult for people to distinguish whether it was a painting or a sculpture, but everyone believed that Caesar had become a god, he had appeared, he came to say goodbye to his beloved people before going to that world!

The veterans, the burghers, the freemen, the Gentiles, the Jews, men and women, all bowed down.

In the temple over there, several knights hired by Li Bida were directing the slaves, using the principle of small hole imaging to make a smooth drawing board of Caesar-related pictures from afar, and hanging the same board on the temple gable, directing this grand scene of the deity apparition. (To be continued......)