Die Is Cast

On the fifteenth of March, 44 BC, the man who had beaten every enemy Rome could field against him — Gauls and Germans, pirates and kings, and finally his fellow Romans — sat down in a gilded chair and was stabbed twenty-three times by senators he had pardoned. It was the most famous political murder in history, and almost nothing the world remembers about it is quite true. He never said "e;Et tu, ...