PAPER BOOKS Makers Of History - Alexander The Great / Jacob Abbott / / 9786258098532

The fire was so fierce and extensive that it spread to some of the neighboring houses and required great efforts to prevent a general conflagration.

the people too became greatly excited by the scene.

on the fire, they lit torches and went to the houses of brutus and cassius, threatening revenge on them for the murder of caesar.

the authorities succeeded, though with infinite difficulty, in protecting brutus and cassius from the violence of the mob, but they seized one unfortunate citizen of the name of cinna, thinking it a certain cinna who had been known as an enemy of caesar.

they cut off his head, despite his screams and cries, and carried it around the city on the tip of a pike, a terrible symbol of their hostility to caesar's enemies.

however, as often happens, in such acts of sudden violence, these hasty and lawless avengers later found that they had made a mistake and beheaded the wrong man.

The roman people erected a column in memory of caesar, on which they placed the inscription, “to the father of his country. "on the top of it, they fixed the figure of a star, and some time later, while the people were celebrating some games in honor of his memory, a great comet blazed for seven nights in the sky, which they recognized as the mighty the hero's soul rests in heaven."

(from the newsletter) author:jacob abbott publisher:paper books year of publication:2023 yai group:3-6 category:classics novel type:classics binding information:thin cover publication language:english publishing house:paper books