The line the Roman dictator actually uttered has been overshadowed by a far more famous quote.
Hauntingly, Shakespeare presents us with the horrific premonition of Calpurnia and her unheeded warning to her husband. Thus, one is prompted to ask if Julius Caesar knowingly allowed himself to be ...
The story of Julius Caesar’s death is famously tragic. In a sense, the fact that he was stabbed in the back and was necessarily (and momentarily) going to die was actually not the worst of it.