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Updated: May 12, 2025
But there again foreknowledge was impotent against fate. Calphurnia, Cæsar's wife, in like manner strove in vain to avert the doom of her lord. There is no story more trite than that which tells of the apparition which warned Brutus that Cæsar would make Philippi his trysting-place. In these cases the dreams occurred to those closely associated with the doomed.
It is impossible not to believe that Piso was vile, but impossible also to believe that he was as vile as Cicero represented him. Cæsar was at this time his son-in-law, as he was father to Calphurnia, with whom Shakspeare has made us familiar. I do not know that Cæsar took in bad part the hard things that were said of his father-in-law. The first part of the speech is lost.
Forget not, in your speed, Antonius, To touch Calphurnia; for our elders say, The barren, touched in this holy chase, Shake off their sterile curse. Act i. The Cumæi, the inhabitants of Cume in Æolis, were reckoned very stupid. There was originally only one prætor, the Prætor Urbanus. There were now sixteen. Compare the Life of Brutus, c. 8. Cæsar was very lean.
Another work of his was restoring Corinth and Carthage, which had both been ruined the same year, and now were both refounded the same year. He was busy about the glory of the state, but there was much to shock old Roman feelings in his conduct. Cleopatra had followed him to Rome, and he was thinking of putting away his wife Calphurnia to marry her.
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