... with this 'present', much more than the one sent to him by Ptolemy XIII; the severed head of his once good friend Pompey. What ever the method of their meeting, they became lovers, perhaps for political reasons of political convenience, but the attraction between two powerful people ... power to rise into dictatorship. In the Ides of March 44BC, following rumors that Cesar wanted to be sole king, conspirators (including Brutus who is arguable Caesar's natural son) 'struck Caesar down at the foot of Pompey's statute during a session at the senate'(Plutarch). In the aftermath ... II once h...

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