The senators, meanwhile, had decided to take the opportunity of Caesar’s absence to go full sycophant and, for absolutely no reason other than trying to make Caesar like them, voted him a bunch of new and extraordinary honours. Deeply pleased with themselves, a group of senators wanted to break the news in person that he now had an even fancier chair or the right to kick people in the face or whatever, in the hope that he’d reward them. So they put on their best togas – all the sources emphasise that they dressed up for the occasion – and traipsed over to the building site to tell him. They
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