[Footnote 610:  Some would write Tullius Cimber.  See the note of Sintenis.  Atilius may be the true name.]

[Footnote 611:  P. Servilius Casca was at this time a tribune of the Plebs (Dion Cassius, 44. c. 52).]

[Footnote 612:  Dion Cassius adds (44. c. 19) that Caesar said to M. Brutus, “And you too, my son.”  Probably the story of Caesar’s death received many embellishments.  Of his three and twenty wounds, only one was mortal according to the physician Antistius (Suetonius, Caesar, 82):  but though the wounds severally might not have been mortal, the loss of blood from all might have caused death.  Suetonius (c. 82) adds, that Caesar pierced the arm of Cassius (he mentions two Cassii among the conspirators) with his graphium (stylus).  See the notes in Burmann’s edition of Suetonius.

The circumstances of the death of Caesar are minutely stated by Drumann, Geschichte Roms, Julii, p. 728, &c.  The reflections of Dion Cassius (44. c. 1, 2) on the death of Caesar are worth reading.  He could not see that any public good was accomplished by this murder; nor can anybody else.]

[Footnote 613:  Cicero was among them.  He saw, as he says himself (Ad Attic. xiv. 10), the tyrant fall, and he rejoiced.  In his letters he speaks with exultation of the murder, and commends the murderers.  But he was not let into the secret.  They were afraid to trust him.  If he had been in the conspiracy, he says (Philipp. ii. 14) he would have made clean work; he would have assassinated all the enemies of liberty; in other words, all the chief men of Caesar’s party.  He had abjectly humbled himself before Caesar, who treated him with kind respect.  Like all genuine cowards he was cruel when he had power.]

[Footnote 614:  M. AEmilius Lepidus, son of M. Lepidus, consul B.C. 78.  He afterwards formed one of the Triumviri with M. Antonius and Octavianus Caesar.  This was the Lepidus with whom Caesar supped the day before he was murdered.  He was a feeble man, though something of a soldier.  Shakspere has painted him in a few words: 

    Antony.  This is a slight unmeritable man,
    Meet to be sent on errands.

    Julius Caesar, Act iv.  Sc. 1.

There is more of him in the Lives of Brutus and Antonius.]

[Footnote 615:  I do not know who this Caius Octavius is.  There is probably some mistake in the name.  Lentulus was the son of P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther, consul B.C. 57.  He had, like many others, experienced Caesar’s clemency.  Plutarch is mistaken in saying that this Spinther was put to death, though he was probably included in the proscription. (See Drumann, Geschichte Roms, Lentuli, p. 545.) The Lentulus who is mentioned as having been put to death in Egypt (Life of Pompeius, c. 80) was L. Cornelius Lentulus Crus, consul B.C. 49.

The disturbances which followed Caesar’s death are more particularly described in the Lives of Brutus and Antonius.]