Augustus Road

"A man who grieves at his wife's infidelity is undoubtedly a country bumpkin who has no idea of ​​the morals of the capital." - Ancient Roman poetry

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Just as the crowd was raging, two Curia attendants ran from the Capitol Hill, walked into the crowd, and announced loudly: "The Senate has issued an order. They allow Caesar's body to be transported to the Holy Mountain. The temple of Jupiter was burned, but his statue could still be preserved in the temple."

"What nonsense are you talking about! We are now going to turn the funeral of His Excellency Julius into a loud denunciation of the murderer of the dictator. This is a battle, and we don't need the enemy to give us a battlefield!" Amatiu At this time, Si suddenly changed his tune.

At the back of the street, Li Bida, all in military uniform, followed closely behind the team with the Sixth Army Corps, acting as the military backing for their speech. And Antony also cursed loudly. He shouted, "Igurus, you were Caesar's most valued clerk and financial officer during his lifetime. Now you are his messenger, conveying the needs of us, the veterans and the people as fast as possible." Let's go to the synagogue where the senators are, and tell them to stop the meaningless struggle and find an explanation that is acceptable to us!" About an hour later, the second order from the Senate came quickly, "Permission is granted! At the request of the people, Caesar's body was burned in front of the Coliseum of Pompeii where he was killed, and a funeral was held."

This satisfied everyone. So the team continued to carry the coffin in a mighty manner and sang funeral songs one after another. Walking in the direction of the theater, and when they reached the Piazza della Ville, Antony asked everyone to stop because he was going to deliver a funeral oration. Come and remember the great Caesar.

At this time, Lepidus, who was always holding the line at the rear, coldly made a gesture to Hebrida and Sabo next to him, and then the secret signals were passed one after another to the funeral procession. Just when Anthony was still gearing up, Came from other places to attend the funeral, two military tribunes who had been punished by Caesar before, namely Avenus and Fonteus. Suddenly he ordered the soldiers around him to carry out Caesar's corpse and shouted, "Let Caesar be burned in the Civic Square. This is the place to witness his life's achievements." When he said this, all the people burst into cheers. wave.

"Who is this guy? Who allowed him to make noise here!" Anthony, who was left aside, was covered up before, and then asked Ijurus angrily, but the other party was also dumbfounded. The situation changed too quickly. , and he didn’t know why.

However, Antony complained, and he was embarrassed to tell Amartius to get out, because in this state, if he did so, he would be the target of public criticism.

So Amatius continued, asking the people to look at the floating cloak, "But if you all look at this cloak now, it is full of holes, and you should all understand how these holes were made- —See, this hole was pierced by Cassius, and this hole was pierced by Brutus, his beloved.”

When the people saw the cloak full of holes and blood, they couldn't bear it anymore emotionally. They swarmed towards Caesar's coffin, scrambling to pull off the hair on the body as a souvenir. Amatius also shouted, "Take off his hair. Anyway, everything he had will be given to Rome, except himself. He was so brutally killed by the enemy in the shadows, with Eternal regret and resentment.”

At this time, Antony stood awkwardly outside the circle, raising his arms and head from time to time, as if he was about to speak, but he couldn't get in at all, so he could only walk around, leaving Amartius to spit. Then the most surprising sight for the people appeared. The mechanism in Caesar's coffin was activated, and a full-length wax figure of Caesar stood up with a "whoosh". The timid women around him immediately changed from mourning to shock. Yep, because this wax figure is so lifelike, like Caesar himself reincarnated.

Then, Amatius flicked his finger, and many actors in robes and costumes imitated Cassius, Brutus, Casca, Decimus and other murderers, and slowly showed the people , how they plunged the sword into the dictator's body again and again, killing him. The temporary stage where the wax figures and performers are located has a rotating device underneath, so that the onlookers can clearly see how the horrific and miserable "trauma" everywhere is left in their dictator's body. on.

Everyone started to cry and couldn't hold themselves together, but it wasn't over yet. Amid a burst of surprise, people could clearly see, through the mid-air in the square, on the large pediment of the Temple of Venus, The image of Caesar actually appeared. Because it was far away, it was difficult for people to tell whether it was a painting or a sculpture, but everyone believed that it was Caesar who had become a god. He had manifested himself. Before he went to that world, he came to treat him at the end. Dear people, say goodbye!

Veterans, citizens, freedmen, Gentiles, Jews, men and women alike, all knelt down and worshiped.

In the temple over there, several knights hired by Lepidus were commanding the slaves. They were using the principle of small hole imaging to make a smooth drawing board of Caesar-related pictures from a distance, and put the same board on the same board. , hung on the mountain wall of the temple, directed this grand show of the gods appearing.