SPIRITUAL AI

The Death of Caesar Long before the day he was assassinated, Caesar had been warned by a soothsayer named Spurinna that the Ides of March (March 15 on the Roman calendar) held great danger for him. On that day in 44 B.C. Caesar’s wife Calpurnia, troubled by the prophecy and by a nightmare in which she saw her husband murdered, urged him to cancel a scheduled meeting of the Senate and stay home instead. Caesar had agreed to do so, until Decimus Brutus, one of the senators conspiring to murder him, convinced him to go forward with the meeting. On his way there Caesar encountered Spurinna and remarked, “Well, the Ides of March are come.” “Yes, Caesar,” Spurinna is said to have answered, “come, but not yet gone.”  Caesar, who had been declared Rome's dictator for life the previous year, entered the Senate Meeting Room in the Pompey Theater at about 11:30 a.m. and took his seat, unaware that among the hundreds of senators assembled there that morning, there were about 50 who