It may be supposed that the escape of the greater number was not actively impeded. The remainder were put to death--among them Ti. Cannutius, the tribune who had presented Caesar's heir before the people when he marched upon Rome for the first time. Death was also the penalty exacted of the town council of Perusia, with the exception, it is said, of one man, an astute person who in Rome had secured for himself a seat upon the jury that condemned to death the assassins of Caesar. These judicial murders were magnified by defamation and credulity into a hecatomb of three hundred Roman senators and knights slaughtered in solemn and religious ceremony on the Ides of March before an altar dedicated to Divus Julius.
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