Brutus however disagrees, arguing that Cicero "will never follow anything" (Line 150). Cassius agrees to leave Cicero out of their conspiracy... The Cicero issue settled, some very important decisions are made.
He wouldn't follow someone else's idea's. -Synthetic.
The conspirators want Cicero to join the conspiracy becasue it will be more convincing once he lures Caesar to see the Senate the day he's assinated.
Cicero went into voluntary exile because Publius Claudius Pulcher, a plebeian tribune he fell out with, introduced a law under which anyone who executed Roman citizens without a trial could be exiled. Cicero had executed the members of the Second Catilinarian Conspiracy which had been aimed against him four years earlier without formal trial. Cicero claimed that the law was directed against him by his political rival and asked the senators to help him. When no help was forthcoming, he left the city voluntarily for his safety.
Metellus believes that Cicero's standing, knowledge,and social image will lend respectability to the crime, making it seem reasonable to others. Cicero was an elderly and respected statesman in Rome (although Casca complained about his speaking in Greek). Cassius suggests that the conspirators ought to get Cicero on board, and Metullus agrees, saying that "his silver hairs will purchase us a good opinion and buy men's voices to commend our deeds. It shall be said, his judgment ruled our hands, our youths and wildness shall no whit appear, but all be buried in his gravity." In other words, he would lend credibility to the conspiracy. Brutus, however, nixes the idea, saying that Cicero would "never follow anything that other men begin"
Brutus however disagrees, arguing that Cicero "will never follow anything" (Line 150). Cassius agrees to leave Cicero out of their conspiracy... The Cicero issue settled, some very important decisions are made.
Cicero.
Brutus does. He says that Cicero will never go with a project he himself did not start.
No because he's black
Brutus doesn't think that Cicero should be part of the conspiracy because Cicero could not stand to be a part of anything unless he had started it himself. Yeah, I've met people like that too.
Cicero was exiled from Rome because he acted illegally in executing the Catalinean conspirators without a trial, which was the right of every Roman citizen. He was consul at the time of the conspiracy, and a consul could be prosecuted for misdeeds in office after he had left office.
Cicero is the senator whom Brutus refuses to ask to join the conspiracy.
It was Lucius Sergius Catilina who led the Second Catilinarian conspiracy.
He wouldn't follow someone else's idea's. -Synthetic.
Brutus thinks that Cicero would not be happy in any movement he did not actually start himself. Basically, he thinks that Cicero has too much of a swollen ego for their purposes.
Brutus doesn't want him in the conspiracy; he says Cicero will never follow anything he doesn't start. It doesn't help Cicero; he dies anyway.
The conspirators want Cicero to join the conspiracy becasue it will be more convincing once he lures Caesar to see the Senate the day he's assinated.