Caesar arose, exclaiming, "But this is violence." At the same instant, one of the conspirators struck at him with his sword, and wounded him slightly in the neck.
[Sidenote: He resists.] All was now terror, outcry, and confusion Caesar had no time to draw his sword, but fought a moment with his style, a sharp instrument of iron with which they wrote, in those days, on waxen tablets, and which he happened then to have in his hand.

With this instrument he ran one of his enemies through the arm.
[Illustration: POMPEY'S STATUE.] [Sidenote: Caesar is overcome.] [Sidenote: Pompey's statue.] [Sidenote: Caesar's death.] This resistance was just what was necessary to excite the conspirators, and give them the requisite resolution to finish their work.

Caesar soon saw the swords, accordingly, gleaming all around him, and thrusting themselves at him on every side.

The senators rose in confusion and dismay, perfectly thunderstruck at the scene, and not knowing what to do.

Antony perceived that all resistance on his part would be unavailing, and accordingly did not attempt any.