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Enter TREBONIUS and CINNA. Then CASCA, METELLUS, DECIUS BRUTUS, CAESAR, a SOOTHSAYER, CASSIUS, ARTEMIDORUS.
TREBONIUS: You poet, sure are going to be inspired by something.
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I read it closely, the act captures a small moment but would like to lknow more of Cicero and Cinna. Lets see how the play unfolds.
In 44 BC, in Rome, the praetor Cinna was one of the conspirators against Caesar. Another Cinna was a poet: in Shakespeare, after the Caesar's murder, mistaking him for the conspirator, fellows kill the poet on the road. The senator, lawyer and writer Cicero was neither one of the conspirators nor one of the Caesar's friends; maybe he did not do anything to safe Caesar.