Marcus Brutus

Family: Roman · Role: senator · First appears: Julius Caesar 50

Life events

• The conspirators united their counsels instead of continuing to plot separately.(Julius Caesar 80)
  • With: Caius Cassius Decimus Brutus
  • “Instead, therefore, of caballing any longer separately, in small parties, they now united their counsels;”
• The conspirators approved the senate-house and the ides of March for their attack on Julius Caesar.(Julius Caesar 80 · 📍 senate-house built by Pompey)
  • With: Julius Caesar Caius Cassius Decimus Brutus
  • “About sixty persons were engaged in the conspiracy against him, of whom Caius Cassius, and Marcus and Decimus Brutus were the chief. It was at first debated amongst them, whether they should attack him in the Campus Martius when he was taking the votes of the tribes, and some of them should throw him off the bridge, whilst others should be ready to stab him upon his fall; or else in the Via Sacra, or at the entrance of the theatre. But after public notice had been given by proclamation for the senate to assemble upon the ides of March [15th March], in the senate-house built by Pompey, they approved both of the time and place, as most fitting for their purpose.”
• Julius Caesar was assassinated by the conspirators after being stabbed twenty-three times.(Julius Caesar 82)
  • With: Julius Caesar Tullius Cimber
  • “He was stabbed with three and twenty wounds, uttering a groan only, but no cry, at the first wound”
• The conspirators abandoned plans to dispose of Caesar’s body, confiscate his estate, and rescind his enactments.(Julius Caesar 82 · 📍 the Tiber)
  • With: Tullius Cimber Mark Antony Lepidus Julius Caesar
  • “The conspirators meant to drag his body into the Tiber as soon as they had killed him; to confiscate his estate, and rescind all his enactments; but they were deterred by fear of Mark Antony, and Lepidus, Caesar’s master of the horse, and abandoned their intentions.”
• Horatius Flaccus served as military tribune at Marcus Brutus's instance.(Horace · 📍 Philippi)
  • With: Horatius Flaccus
  • “In the battle of Philippi, he served as a military tribune, which post he filled at the instance of Marcus Brutus, the general;”

Julius Caesar 50

• parent: Servilia “But the mistress he most loved, was Servilia, the mother of Marcus Brutus, for whom he purchased, in his first consulship after the commencement of their intrigue, a pearl which cost him six millions of sesterces; and in the civil war, besides other presents, assigned to her, for a trifling consideration, some valuable farms when they were exposed to public auction.”

Julius Caesar 80

• enemies with Julius Caesar “About sixty persons were engaged in the conspiracy against him, of whom Caius Cassius, and Marcus and Decimus Brutus were the chief.”

Julius Caesar 82

• enemies with Julius Caesar “although some authors relate, that when Marcus Brutus fell upon him, he exclaimed, ‘What! art thou, too, one of them? Thou, my son!’”
• parent: Julius Caesar (Caesar is reportedly said to have addressed Brutus as his son.) “although some authors relate, that when Marcus Brutus fell upon him, he exclaimed, ‘What! art thou, too, one of them? Thou, my son!’”

Horace

• servant: Horatius Flaccus “In the battle of Philippi, he served as a military tribune, which post he filled at the instance of Marcus Brutus, the general”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.