Besides that—and this is why my sword is drawn—I came across a lion next to the Capitol, which glared at me and sulked away without troubling me. And there was a group of old women out of their minds with fear, who swore they saw men on fire walking up and down the streets. And yesterday an owl was in the middle of the marketplace at noon, hooting and shrieking.
When all these things occur in such a short time, don't let anyone say, "oh, there must be reasons for each one, it's just natural. Indeed, this is a strange time. But men tend interpret things in their own views, completely unrelated to what they actually mean. Is Caesar coming to the Capitol tomorrow? Those who have known our earth is so flawed.
As for me, I've been walking about the streets subjecting myself to the dangerous night; and thus with my shirt undone, as you can see Casca, I have bared my chest to the thunder and lightning, and when the blue lightning seemed to open the chest of heaven, I presented myself right where it was aiming.
But why did you tempt the heavens so? It's the role of men to be afraid and tremble when the mighty gods send such dreadful messengers from the skies to astonish us.
You're ignorant, Casca, and you don't have the intelligence that a Roman should have, or else you don't use it. You look pale, gaze around, exhibit fear, and show your amazement to see this strange impatient of heaven.
But if you would think about the true cause of all these fires, all these gliding ghosts, all these birds and beasts acting unnaturally, all these old men, fools, and children who suddenly can foretell the future—why the natures and abilities of all these things have changed from their ordinary state to something extraordinary, you'll find that heaven has changed the character of these things to make them into instruments of fear, and warnings of some wicked state on earth.
Now, Casca, I could name a man who is very much like this frightening night, a man who thunders, zaps, opens graves, and roars like the lion in the Capitol, a man no mightier than your or me in his personal actions, but a man who has grown to be threatening and feared, like these strange outbursts of nature.
It is who it is. Romans nowadays have muscles and limbs like our ancestors, but—alas—the minds of our father's are dead; we're ruled by our mothers' spirits instead.
Our oppression and suffering have made us effeminate. Indeed, people are saying that the senators tomorrow want to establish Caesar as a king in the provinces, but—at least for the moment—not yet here in Italy. If that comes to pass, I know where I will stick this dagger. I'll deliver myself from bondage. In this way, you gods, you make the weak into the strongest. In this way, gods, tyrants are defeated.
No tower of stone or brass walls or airless dungeon or strong iron chains can restrain the strength of spirit. Life, tired of these constraints, always has the power to end itself. If I know this, let the whole world know it too. I can shake off the tyranny that weighs on me whenever I desire. So then why should Caesar be a tyrant? He wouldn't prey on us like a wolf except that he sees that all the Romans are sheep.
He would be no lion if the Romans didn't act like deer. Those wishing to make a huge fire start with pieces of straw. Rome is serving as the kindling to light up the vile thing that is Caesar! But, grief, where have you led me? Maybe I'm talking this way in front of a willingly slave, in which case I'll have to pay the price.
But I'm armed and don't care about the danger. You're speaking to Casca, and I'm no brown-nosing tattletale. Take my hand, and let's join together in redressing these wrongs; and I will go as far as anyone. That's a deal. Casca, you should know that I've already convinced certain others among the noblest-minded Romans to undertake some honorable but dangerous business, and I know they're waiting for me on the terrace of the Pompey Theater next to the Capitol.
With this dreadful night there's no one in the streets to see us; the elements have the same appearance as the work we have to do: most bloody, fiery, and terrible.
Glad to hear it, Casca. What a fearful night this is. Two or three of us have seen some strange sights. Be content. Good Cinna, take this note and place it on the praetor's chair in the Capitol where Brutus will find it, throw this one through his window, attach this one with wax to the statue of his ancestor. After you've done all this, come back to the Pompey Theater, where you'll find us.
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