Julius

The Civil Wars 159 the Litter the Image of Cl1Isar, made of waxe,l for hys body it selfe lying flat in the Litter, could not be seene. Hys picture was by a devise turned about, and .xxiii. wounds wer shewed over al his body, and his face horrible to behold. The people seeing this pittifull picture, coulde beare the dolour no longer,2 but thronged togyther, and beset the Senate house, wherein Cl1Isar was kylled, and set it a fyre,3 and the kyllers that fledde for their lives, they ranne and sought in every place, and that so outragiouslye both in anger and dolour, as they kylled CYlllla the Tribune being in name lyke to CYlllla the Pretor that spake evill of Cl1Isar, and wold not tarry to heare the declaration of his name, but cruelly tore him a peeces, and lefte not one parte to be put in grave.4 They caried fire against other mens houses, who man lye defending themselves, and the neighbours entreating them, they refrayned from fyre, but threatned to be in armes the next day.5 Wherefore the strikers hid themselves, and fled out of the Citie. The people returned to the Litter, and caried it as an holye thing, to be buried in an holy place among the Gods, but bicause the Priests did deny it, they brought hym againe into the common place, where the Pallaice of the old Kings were, and there, with al the bourds and tymber, which they could find in the place, which was muche, beside that every man broughte of himselfe, with garlandes and other gifts of private persons, makyng a solemne shew, they buryed the body, and abode al night about the fyre,6 In the whiche place, at the first was made an Altare, but nowe there is a temple of Cl1Isar, where he is thought worthy divine honors.7 For his son by election, Octavius, taking the name of Cl1Isar, and disposing the state after his example, which then takyng the beginning, and he exceedingly advancing to the degree it is now did thinke his father to deserve honors equall with the Gods, the which at this time having their originall, the Romaines now use to give the same to hym that ruleth the estate, unlesse he be a Tyranne, or diffamed at his death, that in aIde tyme could not suffer the name of a K yng alyve.8