Regardless of the reasoning, by practically rejecting a senatorial gift and not acknowledging the delegation's presence with proper etiquette, Caesar gave the strong impression that he no longer cared about the Senate. Roman historian Suetonius wrote (almost 150 years later) that Caesar failed to rise in the temple, either because he was restrained by the consul Lucius Cornelius Balbus or that he balked at the suggestion he should rise. He also joked about their news, saying that his honours needed to be cut back instead of increased. When they arrived, etiquette called for Caesar to stand up to greet the senators, but he did not rise. According to Roman historian Cassius Dio, after the Senate had voted to bestow a large group of honours upon Caesar, they decided to present them to him formally, and marched as a senatorial delegation to the Temple of Venus Genetrix. The first incident took place in December 45 BC or possibly early 44 BC. Roman historian Titus Livius describes three incidents that occurred from 45 to 44 BC as the final causes of Caesar's assassination – the "three last straws" as far as some Romans were concerned. After defeating the last of the opposition, Caesar was appointed dictator perpetuo ("dictator in perpetuity") in early 44 BC. After the Roman Senate demanded that Caesar disband his army and return home as a civilian, he refused, crossing the Rubicon with his army and plunging Rome into Caesar's Civil War in 49 BC. The Nomen had struck off on their own millennia ago, abandoning the safety of human civilization for the untamed cosmos.īorellian Nomen sat at the stations of crew members they had recently slain.Possible bust of Julius Caesar, posthumous portrait in marble, 44–30 BC, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museums.Ĭaesar had served the Republic for eight years in the Gallic Wars, fully conquering the region of Gaul (roughly equivalent to modern-day France). The hundreds of prisoners on the barge still railed against the Borellian Nomen, begging them to find the nearest habitable planet and plot a course there. The dark creature that called itself Count Iblis wanted chaos, and the Nomen would deliver it.Ī space appeared between the doors and from there it was a simple matter for the Nomen, with their prodigious strength, to peel the doors away. The Borellian Nomen were raging, driven into a frenzied state by the taste of freedom and vengeance. The perceptions of the Borellian Nomen were far more advanced than those of other humanoids.īut it might be a brief moment of liberty if he did not release his fellow Nomen and destroy the other wardens. The Nomen had despised all other branches of the human race since, considering themselves far superior in every way.īorellian Nomen in the universe, were still prisoners despite their superiority. The Borellian Nomen, an aboriginal race that had been on Scorpius millennia before: the colonists arrived, were much hairier, almost lupine, and bulkier due to their dedication to working the land.Įven if the barge was severely overpopulated, they would never put more than two Nomen in a cell together, and even that was undesirable. Mechanics and pilots stared to see the three strange Nomen in their territory, and they also stared at Apollo.Įven GarTokk and the other Nomen were growling and snarling at their tormentors. And Starbuck was sick of waiting, and sick of fighting, and really sick of insane conversations and getting cut to shreds by crazy nomen in closets.
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