Sir, Octavius is already come to Rome.
-Servant
Julius Caesar Act III, Scene ii, Line 267
And the goose of Brutus, Cassius, and company is officially
cooked. They assassinated Caesar to keep him from becoming an emperor, and now
Octavius has shown up. Octavius is Caesars grand-nephew and heir apparent, and he’s
going to join with Marc Antony and Lepidus to form the second triumvirate and effectively
end the Roman Republic and start the Roman Empire. And an emperor was exactly what the
boys were trying to avoid by killing Caesar. It just goes to show you that the best laid
plans of mice and men go oft awry.
Talk about best laid plans going awry; here's old Spike, and the poor guy is having a devil of a time with his dinner, isn't he? And he's not all that much bigger than a mouse either. I guess you could say that Brutus and Cassius really stepped in their dinner when they decided to murder Caesar.
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