Calpurnia, too, earnestly entreated her husband not to go to the senate-house that day.
She had a very strong presentiment that, if he did go, some great calamity would ensue.

Caesar himself hesitated.

He was half inclined to yield, and postpone his coronation to another occasion.
[Sidenote: Decimus Brutus.] In the course of the day, while Caesar was in this state of doubt and uncertainty, one of the conspirators, named Decimus Brutus, came in.
This Brutus was not a man of any extraordinary courage or energy, but he had been invited by the other conspirators to join them, on account of his having under his charge a large number of gladiators, who, being desperate and reckless men, would constitute a very suitable armed force for them to call in to their aid in case of any emergency arising which should require it.
[Sidenote: Decimus Brutus waits upon Caesar.] The conspirators having thus all their plans arranged, Decimus Brutus was commissioned to call at Caesar's house when the time approached for the assembling of the Senate, both to avert suspicion from Caesar's mind, and to assure himself that nothing had been discovered It was in the afternoon, the time for the meeting of the senators having been fixed at five o'clock.

Decimus Brutus found Caesar troubled and perplexed, and uncertain what to do.

After hearing what he had to say, he replied by urging him to go by all means to the senate-house, as he had intended.