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Enter TREBONIUS and CINNA. Then CASCA, METELLUS, DECIUS BRUTUS, CAESAR, a SOOTHSAYER, CASSIUS, ARTEMIDORUS.
TREBONIUS: You poet, sure are going to be inspired by something.
CINNA; Don't make fun of me. I am Cinna. The poet is just my namesake. I could say: ah! The
Trebonius's brother, No, you are Trebonius.
TREBONIUS: We can be one or another, it's all the same to me. Somebody will not be soon.
CINNA: You know-all, do you know what plague could be? A tribun of the people could die.
TREBONIUS: Let's kill the people a few at a time. Come on! At Caesar's.
They come into CAESAR's house.
CASCA: Listen to me, Metellus, Cicero hates Marullus.
METELLUS: I don't give a damn. It's none of our business.
CASCA: Well, I was talking of this and that. That is not really dangerous.
METELLUS: Antony is making a career for himself, instead. Cassius would like to kill him, too.
CASCA: Who could kill him? We shall kill Caesar more easily.
DECIUS BRUTUS: Caesar, the senate is waiting for you in plenary session. You should make the open-speech.
CAESAR: How time should I speak? I would like to say many things.
BRUTUS: Caesar, you can. You speak for our sake.
SOOTHSAYER: I would like to point out to the lords, yesterday Caesar did not feel well, in the ides of March the weather is turning ugly.
CASSIUS: He fell down unconscious, foaming at mouth. He was sunburnt and feverishing as well.
ARTEMIDORUS: He was hypocondriac. As soon as possible I shall say it to him and he will take care of himself.
I read it closely, the act captures a small moment but would like to lknow more of Cicero and Cinna. Lets see how the play unfolds.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
In 44 BC, in Rome, the praetor Cinna was one of the conspirators against Caesar. Another Cinna was a poet: in Shakespeare, after the Caesar's murder, mistaking him for the conspirator, fellows kill the poet on the road. The senator, lawyer and writer Cicero was neither one of the conspirators nor one of the Caesar's friends; maybe he did not do anything to safe Caesar.