He's kidnapped Atia and is holding her in a dungeon until she tells him where Caesar's will is. He's not going to find it, because she passed it along to Cicero for safekeeping when he visited her in her cell. (It's also worth noting that Cicero is totally against the conspiracy.) They were trying to smuggle Caesar's body out of the city, but Antony (and a bunch of plebes) somehow blocked them, forced them to put his body up on some kind of ledge thing, and gave a really moving oration. The mob was chanting "hail Caesar!" so Cassius decided that, for some reason, Atia would be able to shut them up. Atia comes out, Cassius tells her that if she doesn't want to rot in a dungeon she'll do as he says. Atia gives another moving oration, and says she's read the will and that it names Octavius as his heir. The crowd gets even more worked up and starts building a funeral pyre. Atia's led back to her cell. "That whore dies!"
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*tries to imagine what possible context Cassius would ever say that*
*fails*
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He's kidnapped Atia and is holding her in a dungeon until she tells him where Caesar's will is.
He's not going to find it, because she passed it along to Cicero for safekeeping when he visited her in her cell.
(It's also worth noting that Cicero is totally against the conspiracy.)
They were trying to smuggle Caesar's body out of the city, but Antony (and a bunch of plebes) somehow blocked them, forced them to put his body up on some kind of ledge thing, and gave a really moving oration.
The mob was chanting "hail Caesar!" so Cassius decided that, for some reason, Atia would be able to shut them up.
Atia comes out, Cassius tells her that if she doesn't want to rot in a dungeon she'll do as he says.
Atia gives another moving oration, and says she's read the will and that it names Octavius as his heir.
The crowd gets even more worked up and starts building a funeral pyre.
Atia's led back to her cell.
"That whore dies!"
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There are no words.
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(And I'm barely 1/3 in.)
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