"You have formally called the Senate together," said he, "and they are now assembling.

They are all prepared to confer upon you the rank and title of king, not only in Parthia, while you are conducting this war but every where, by sea and land, except in Italy.
And now, while they are all in their places, waiting to consummate the great act, how absurd will it be for you to send them word to go home again, and come back some other day, when Calpurnia shall have had better dreams!" [Sidenote: He persuades him to go.] He urged, too, that, even if Caesar was determined to put off the action of the Senate to another day, he was imperiously bound to go himself and adjourn the session in person.

So saying, he took the hesitating potentate by the arm, and adding to his arguments a little gentle force, conducted him along.
[Sidenote: Artemidorus discovers the plot.] [Sidenote: He warns Caesar.] The conspirators supposed that all was safe The fact was, however, that all had been discovered.

There was a certain Greek, a teacher of oratory, named Artemidorus.

He had contrived to learn something of the plot from some of the conspirators who were his pupils.