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He died in the fifty-sixth year of his age, and was ranked amongst the Gods, not only by a formal decree, but in the belief of the vulgar. For during the first games which Augustus, his heir, consecrated to his memory, a comet blazed for seven days together, rising always about eleven o'clock; and it was supposed to be the soul of Caesar, now received into heaven: for which reason, likewise, he is represented on his statue with a star on his brow. The senate-house in which he was slain, was ordered to be shut up,Appian informs us that it was burnt by the people in their fury, B. C. xi. p. 521. and a decree made that the ides of March should be called parricidal, and the senate should never more assemble on that day.
89.1
Scarcely any of those who were accessory to his murder, survived him more than three years, or died a natural death.Suetonius particularly refers to the conspirators, who perished at the battle of Philippi, or in the three years which intervened. The survivors were included in the reconciliation of Augustus, Antony, and Pompey, A.U.C. 715. They were all condemned by the senate: some were taken off by one accident, some by another. Part of them perished at sea, others fell in battle; and some slew themselves with the same poniard with which they had stabbed Caesar.Suetonius alludes to Brutus and Cassius, of whom this is related by Plutarch and Dio.