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Accused, yet all sources agree that he never did so, and denied having designs on kingship.
You mean like how the Senate assassinated the dictator Sulla for doing the same?
No?
They actually revered his memory, because Sulla was an ultraconservative aligned with the Senatorial aristocracy? While Caesar was a lifelong (if moderate) populare reformist, aligned with the poor of Rome?
Well, I'm sure, at least, that Caesar's motivation for starting his civil war was equally petty - having his lucrative command given to someone else!
... no? Caesar started the civil war because Cato the Younger and the ultraconservatives in the Senate scuttled a compromise which would've seen Caesar lay down his command, all for the reason that they wished to kill Caesar just as they'd killed numerous populare reformers before him?
Well, I'm sure Caesar was at least as vicious and tyrannical as Sulla.
... no? Caesar was famous for his mercy, with most of his enemies pardoned without preconditions, and he continued to support the normal functioning of Roman elections? While Sulla suspended elections and stripped the democratic elements of the Roman Constitution so the rich could rule without having to worry about The Poors? And Sulla executed huge numbers of his political opponents, and some people just because they weren't his supporters and he wanted to seize their wealth?
Well, I'm sure the Senate wouldn't have broken the laws in the same period!
... it did? Repeatedly? Including unconstitutionally appointing a single consul without a colleague? Executing citizens without a trial? Violating measures it itself had passed regarding Caesar's term of office?
... hm. Almost like Caesar breaking the law and starting a civil war wasn't the actual cause of his assassination.
The money of the Roman Senate? The Senate of Rome?
Most of whom had abandoned Rome, some to follow Pompey, many under threat of force, and some simply having returned to their country villas in the hopes of avoiding attention?
And the rest of whom supported Caesar even before he entered the city? And validated his use of the money in the treasury of Rome that had been left behind by the Pompeiian forces?
Tribune Metellus should've remembered he wasn't at an optimate dinner party.
Not even close.