Deed — 2 authors face each other below

assassination of Caesar

kind: assassination · 44 BCE (Ides of March) — the editor’s frame · 6 mentions across 6 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the witness index

The murder in Pompey's senate-house. Served witnesses: Suetonius and three Plutarchan lives; Nicolaus and Appian are not on the shelf.

Where the accounts part — the record’s own argument; the witnesses below carry the receipts

The last words are the divergence the whole tradition wears openly: Suetonius — 'uttering not a word... though some have written that when Marcus Brutus rushed at him, he said in Greek, You too, my child?'; Plutarch's Caesar has him cry out in Latin at Casca's first blow, then pull his toga over his head at the sight of Brutus. Even the omens are differently distributed. No harmonized account exists in the record, and the index declines to invent one.

The regnal line — the editor’s table of years, never the record’s voice

Anchored at 44 BCE on the editor’s table of years .

· 44 BCE — date secure ·

The Ides of March, 44 BCE — the one ancient date every witness carries.

The accounts, side by side — each witness in its own words; every quote is the served record’s, linked to its episode

Plutarch · 2 accounts

14–17 the principal narrative The same minutes from inside the conspiracy.

A meeting of the senate having been called, to which it was expected that Caesar would come, they determined to make their attempt there Plut. Brutus 14

Casca, who stood behind him, drew his dagger and gave him the first stab, not a deep one, near the shoulder. Plut. Brutus 17

Brutus · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

63–66 the principal narrative The omens and the deed, from the dictator's own life.

since they say that amazing signs and apparitions were seen. Plut. Caesar 63

It was Casca who gave him the first blow with his dagger, in the neck, not a mortal wound Plut. Caesar 66

Caesar · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

Suetonius · one account

80–82 the principal narrative The conspiracy, the prodigies, Spurinna's warning, and the twenty-three wounds.

Now Caesar’s approaching murder was foretold to him by unmistakable signs. Suet. Jul. 81

he was stabbed with three and twenty wounds, uttering not a word, but merely a groan at the first stroke Suet. Jul. 82

The Deified Julius · J. C. Rolfe, 1913

Who stands in this deed — standing in the same episodes; counted by the house’s first pass

Caesar — a candidate entry Brutus — a candidate entry Pompey — 4 episodes shared Antony — 3 episodes shared Julius Caesar — 2 episodes shared Marcus — a candidate entry Albinus — a candidate entry Livy — 1 episode shared Spurinna — a candidate entry Trebonius — a candidate entry

Doors to the sister houses

logoi — the words

No door is cut to the word-house from this room yet. logoi.health keeps the words meanwhile.

mythoi — the stories

No door is cut to the story-house from this room yet. mythoi.health keeps the stories meanwhile.

The record here: The Histories, Herodotus — Godley, 1920–25 · Parallel Lives, Plutarch — Perrin, 1914–26 · 166 works · 12,119 episodes served

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