CHAPTER XI.
THE CONSPIRACY.
Caesar's greatness and glory came at last to a very sudden and violent end.

He was assassinated.

All the attendant circumstances of this deed, too, were of the most extraordinary character, and thus the dramatic interest which adorns all parts of the great conqueror's history marks strikingly its end.
[Sidenote: Jealousies awakened by Caesar's power.] [Sidenote: The Roman Constitution.] [Sidenote: Struggles and Conflicts.] His prosperity and power awakened, of course, a secret jealousy and ill will.

Those who were disappointed in their expectations of his favor murmured.

Others, who had once been his rivals, hated him for having triumphed over them.