Enter CASCA and CICERO br br CASCA: Tomorrow in the senate we shall have to work. Caesar will be sitting. br CICERO: An orator does not go out of fashion, I shall deliver a speech. br CASCA: To be a conspirator has become fashionable. br CICERO: Our roles are not so definite, we use to ignore them. br CASCA: You yourself mention ignorance! Were not you Princeps Senatus? br CICERO: Though he put the crown by thrice, the dictator wants to be top of Rome. br CASCA: He is really top of Rome. Senators are useless. br CICERO: Antony is his shadow and wants put himself in his place. However I am looking all br around. br CASCA: I am one of your accomplices and wonder whether you are seeing anything interesting. br CICERO: I don't like Marullus. Let's get the tribun of the people killed. br CASCA: Do you want to kill a son, too? We already must kill a father. br CICERO: Maybe I don't like killing fathers. br br II,1 br Enter MARCUS BRUTUS and PORTIA br br BRUTUS: As sentinel greets the dawn, so I greet your return. You are late. br PORTIA: Sure, I was very busy at the market-place. Sometimes woman carries a heavy load. br BRUTUS: We must save Rome. People must honour its laws. br PORTIA: I always honoured those laws. br BRUTUS: For this reason I got married with you and did not want another in your place. br PORTIA: My place is close to our native Lares. br BRUTUS: Tradition is on our side. Our homework is the usual one. br PORTIA: No homework but this: one can not re-wind the spindle of time.