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Explanation: In the aftermath of the assassination of Julius Caesar, Cicero, a conservative, attempted to calm the crowds and ask for order in the face of the conservatives assassinating yet another populist leader - this time for the crime of doing what the celebrated conservative Sulla did just a generation before, only in favor of the poor rather than the aristocracy.
Mark Antony, one of Caesar's lieutenants, instead called for fucking blood, and the Roman people answered, breaking out into a riot, and forcing Caesar's assassins to realize that the opinions expressed at their fancy dinner parties did not represent the public mood of the Roman people.