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When the murderers had perpetrated their crime, in a sacred place, on one whose person was sacred and inviolable,Caesar’s person was sacred and inviolable under Roman law both as pontifex maximus and as dictator. there was an immediate flight from the curia and throughout the whole city. Some senators were wounded in the tumult and others killed. Many other citizens and strangers were murdered also, not designedly, but as such things happen in public commotions, by the mistakes of JULIUS CAeSAR AS PONTIFEX MAXIMUS In the Vatican Museum, Rome
