"You're Flamen of Venus, so you won't fool me, so tell me what divination news you've brought?" Caesar put down his robe, held it in his hand by some of the maids, and asked the priest a question, and Corponia was even more uneasy, and she begged Caesar to pay attention to what the priests had to say.

"Today a huge white comet swept over the city, and like a warning from the gods, we sacrificed a cow before Venus, only to find that it had no heart at all. The heart, O Julius, is the source of all wisdom, and Eros is warning you that everything you go out to do today is irrational, and it will bring disaster to you and your family. The priests bowed to the dictator and explained.

"Oh my God, this really coincides with my dream, Julius you should listen to the persuasion of all those who care about you, the Tuscan prophets, the cavalry commanders, and the Venus priests are all dissuading you, then don't go out, why fight against fate and danger, just to be angry?" Hearing his wife's pleading, Caesar was also a little shaken and hesitant, so he sat down slowly, and said, "Corpunia, I should listen to you, perhaps." ”

At this moment there was a sound of a trumpet at the door, and it turned out to be Dehemos of the House of Abenus who entered, and with many servants, asked in a polite tone in the atrium why His Excellency the Dictator had not yet gone to the theater to assemble, and almost all the Chosen Fathers were waiting there.

When Caesar saw that it was Dehemoth, who had come to invite him, he had been the most intimate in the past, and the corners of his eyes showed extremely complicated feelings, and he said to Dehemoth, "Child. You've come just in time. You turn around and sue everybody. Caesar is not out today. ”

"Why?" Dehemoth asked in surprise.

"Because I'm not happy and I don't want to go, you reply to everyone like this." Caesar did look a little angry and sad, and sat on the circle chair.

"The dictator is not happy to come, please apologize for such an excuse that I can hardly say in front of nine hundred specially chosen fathers." Dehemoth persuaded in a humble tone, "If you don't mind, please tell me the reason, maybe Abinus can help you dispatch the difficulty." ”

Caesar said with a sad smile on his face. "My biggest displeasure is that I used to see some people wrong, so last night Korpunia had such a dream." When the slave told Dehemos of his dream, he smiled and explained, "This should be a good sign, everyone knows that you are the fourth great father of this country, and the bleeding of your statue means that the old blood of the country is about to be drained, and the new blood is about to be integrated, which is exactly in line with your previous immigration decree." And the behavior of a large number of promoted officials. ”

"Fresh blood! Dehemoth, that's probably you. My baby. When I went out to Gaul, I promoted you from the family of Abinus, entrusted you with a heavy responsibility, and raised you as if you were my own child, alongside my nephews Petis and Dicias, and if you missed some heavy battles, your merits were slightly inferior to that of Lybidaeus and Antony, but I am still ready to promote you as an envoy to southern Gaul, to command four legions, and to participate in the future war against the remnants of Pompey, a Spanish province. Your interpretation of the dream has made me very, very happy, so I'll go to the Theater of Pompeii, and I'll wait a while. Then Caesar asked all the men to wait in the doorway and in the courtyard, saying that he would go to the study and take out some memo scrolls for the speech at the meeting place.

The lamp in the study was still emitting a little chaotic fragrance, Caesar slowly walked in, and several slaves began to get busy in front of the bookcase, "Don't worry, don't worry, come to Baunes my friend, pick up the pen and paper, I need you to help me with something, can I entrust it to you?" Caesar said, sitting down at the table, and said to the valet man.

The other party immediately took the thing and half-knelt at Caesar's feet, ready to listen to his narration, "Remember, Trebaunes hold your pen steady, for I am about to revise my will, dear, but don't be too flustered, it's not good to make a mistake." ”

After seeing that the other party had finally stabilized, Caesar smiled and said, "Turinus, Pedis, and Dicias are still the first successors in line, remove Lybidaeus from the second in line, and transfer Dehemoth, who was originally ranked third, to the second - yes, there are only two successors to the entire will, that is, Turinus and Dehemoth." But, dear Terebaunes, please add a footnote below, that when Rome is in turmoil, and the safety of my estate is at stake, my wife Corpunia has custody, and when her safety is also in danger, I may entrust the will and the estate to the two cavalry commanders, Lybida and Antony, of whom Pisso continues to be the reader of my will. In addition, my inheritance included a gift of one hundred dinars to each Roman citizen, effective immediately upon my death. After saying that, Caesar smiled and said that such an adjustment would inevitably make the world crazy, because I am a person who is not willing to be lonely, and immediately sent the revised will to Richlia in the Temple of the Stove, remember to go out through the back door, with armed slaves, to prevent hijacking, I am at the front door, "sound east and west".

Then Caesar put on his robe, and then stood at the door of his house, and when he himself came to the door, he saw the black-robed prophet, and greeted him with a smile, saying, "March 15 has come, but I am still safe." ”

"Yes, it has come, but it has not passed." And when the prophet had spoken, he departed again.

"A good prophet is a good prophet who prophesies correctly, but I'm going to keep reading because there's never a better opportunity than today." Caesar recited the remnants of the psalm, and then, under the opening of the way, walked in the direction of the Grand Theater of Pompeii.

At this time, Anthony came to Juilliard Hall out of breath, and after staying for a while, he realized that something was wrong, because it was completely empty, where did it come from? He just wanted to question the trio who brought him, but when he turned around, he found that the other party had long since disappeared, "It's over, it turned out to be a meeting in another place, and the place where the entire city of Rome can accommodate 900 people should be in the Collegium." ”

Just when Anthony was sweating and about to rush to the Grand Theater with the people again, someone called out to him, and he saw that it was Caesar's confidant Tepenniutas, and when the other party approached, he bluntly said to Anthony, "Don't think about telling Caesar, today all fathers will stab his sword at him, and he will definitely die, just like the fate of the first king Romulus in front of the Temple of Fire, the guy who tries to be a king, from the beginning to the end, is just a cycle of death." (To be continued......)