Artemidorus and the Soothsayer await Caesar in the street. Caesar enters with Brutus, Cassius, Casca, Decius, Metellus, Trebonius, Cinna, Ligarius, Antony, and other senators
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Artemidorus
Hail, Caesar! Read this schedule.
Caesar
Trebonius desires you to look over his humble petition, at your leisure.
Decius
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Artemidorus
Caesar, examine mine first.
Caesar
What!? Are you insane? pressing petition on the street? Go to the Capitol.
The group enters the Senate, and Cassius worries that the assassination plot has been discovered. Trebonius draws Antony away from the Senate room. Metellus approaches Caesar to request that his brother, Publius Cimber, who has been banished from Rome, be granted permission to return.
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Please Caesar, allow Publius, my brother to return
Metellus
Publius was banished by lawful decree, there is not just cause for absolving his guilt.
Caesar
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Please Caesar, allow Publius to enter Rome again
Brutus
Cassius
Mettelus
I will not change my mind now, as I am the “constant as the Northern Star”