decimus in A Sentence

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    Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus.

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    Decimus is waiting.

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    It isn't clear today why Decimus turned on his friend;

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    Decimus awaits. He came by expressly to accompany me to the Senate.

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    Directly before this, unlike Decimus, he had been Caesar's enemy fighting alongside Pompey during the civil war.

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    But[Decimus] Brutus, one of the conspirators who was then thought of as a firm friend, came up and said,'What is this, Caesar?

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    Crowe portrays Hispano-Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius, who is betrayed when Commodus, the ambitious son of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, murders his father and seizes the throne.

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    And so it was that shortly before his death, Decimus convinced Caesar to change his mind on his plans to skip the Senate session on the 15th.

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    A high-ranking general and close friend of Caesar, Decimus was perhaps the man that the Caesar most trusted of the three, and the only one of the trio that supported Caesar throughout the war with Pompey.

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    This includes the earliest account, written by Nicolaus of Damascus within a few decades of the event, naming Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus(who Shakespeare incorrectly called Decius) as the most important of the three in organizing Caesar's death.

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    Here, once again, we see Decimus playing a key role in that he provided the gladiators, not just for the show, but so that they would be nearby if the conspirators needed them for protection after the assassination.

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    Speculation abounds on this, with some believing he was angry at having been passed over for a promotion or that he felt he had been disrespected, such as when Caesar broke tradition and allowed some of his other lieutenants to conduct triumphal parades, but did not allow Decimus the same honor after Decimus' great victories in Gaul.

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