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Title: History of Julius Caesar
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879
Subjects: Caesar, Julius
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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inwhich all honors, human and divine, had beenascribed to Caesar. He then added a few wordsof his own. The bed was then taken up, withthe body upon it, and borne out into the Forum,preparatory to conveying it to the pile whichhad been prepared for it upon the Field of Mars.A question, however, here arose among themultitude assembled in respect to the properplace for burning the body. The people seemedinclined to select the most honorable place whichcould be found within the limits of the city.Some proposed a beautiful temple on the Capi-toline Hill. Others wished to take it to thesenate-house, where he had been slain. TheSenate, and those who were less inclined to payextravagant honors to the departed hero, werein favor of some more retired spot, under pre-tense that the buildings of the city would be en-dangered by the fire. This discussion was fastbecoming a dispute, when it was suddenly endedby two men, with swords at their sides andlances in their hands, forcing their way through
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B.C. 44.) The Assassination. 277 The body burned in the Forum. The conflagration. the crowd with lignted torches, and setting thebed and its canopy on fire where it lay. This settled the question, and the whole com-pany were soon in the wildest excitement withthe work of building up a funeral pile upon thespot. At first they brought fagots and threwupon the fire, then benches from the neighbor-ing courts and porticoes, and then any thingcombustible which came to hand. The honordone to the memory of a deceased hero was, insome sense, in proportion to the greatness of hisfuneral pile, and all the populace on this oc-casion began soon to seize every thing theycould find, appropriate and unappropriate, pro-vided that it would increase the flame. Thesoldiers threw on their lances and spears, themusicians their instruments, and others strippedoff the cloths and trappings from the furnitureof the procession, and heaped them upon theburning pile. So fierce and extensive was the fire, that its

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