The horror of these scenes proved to be too much even for the populace, fierce and merciless as it was, which they were intended to amuse.

Caesar, in his eagerness to outdo all former exhibitions and shows, went beyond the limits within which the seeing of men butchered in bloody combats and dying in agony and despair would serve for a pleasure and a pastime.

The people were shocked; and condemnations of Caesar's cruelty were added to the other suppressed reproaches and criminations which every where arose.
Cleopatra, during her visit to Rome, lived openly with Caesar at his residence, and this excited very general displeasure.

In fact, while the people pitied Arsinoe, Cleopatra, notwithstanding her beauty and her thousand personal accomplishments and charms, was an object of general displeasure, so far as public attention, was turned toward her at all.
The public mind was, however, much engrossed by the great political movements made by Caesar and the ends toward which he seemed to be aiming.

Men accused him of designing to be made a king.