Julius Caesar (2011)
“There were the Senators, of course, standing in groups, laughing and talking as they waited for the day’s session to begin, their togas as white as snow in the spring sunshine. Milling around them were people seeking favours, or those who had grievances they wanted raised in the Senate.
Caesar led the way up the steps to the front of the Senate house with its tall columns and great bronze doors beyond them. The crowd cheered wildly, parting before him like the sea when some monster of the deep ...cuts through the waves. Then he spotted the soothsayer from the day before, and stopped.
‘Well, the Ides of March has come, old man,’ Caesar said to him, and turned to Mark Antony, grinning and winking.
Mark Antony grinned back at him.
‘Aye, it has, Caesar,’ muttered the soothsayer. ‘But it’s not yet gone.’ Caesar tutted, his grin instantly becoming a scowl. He turned on his heel and stomped off up the steps, then through the doors and into the Senate’s main chamber, an immense room with rows of banked seating in circles around a large open space, the walls lined with statues of famous Romans.MoreLess
Caesar led the way up the steps to the front of the Senate house with its tall columns and great bronze doors beyond them. The crowd cheered wildly, parting before him like the sea when some monster of the deep ...cuts through the waves. Then he spotted the soothsayer from the day before, and stopped.
‘Well, the Ides of March has come, old man,’ Caesar said to him, and turned to Mark Antony, grinning and winking.
Mark Antony grinned back at him.
‘Aye, it has, Caesar,’ muttered the soothsayer. ‘But it’s not yet gone.’ Caesar tutted, his grin instantly becoming a scowl. He turned on his heel and stomped off up the steps, then through the doors and into the Senate’s main chamber, an immense room with rows of banked seating in circles around a large open space, the walls lined with statues of famous Romans.MoreLess
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