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  • The senators the while kept silence, seeing the companions of Satyrus at the bar, and the whole front of the senate house crowded with the foreign guards, nor did they need to be told that there were daggers in reserve among those present.

    Hellenica 2007

  • Cassius shows him Caesar's "throne" in the senate house.

    HBO's ROme ep 11 2005

  • You and my roommate both missed the crucial "For the better part of a year, Caesar has been stuck in siege in Alexandria" that Brutus says to Cicero at the beginning of the scene in the senate house.

    HBO's Rome ep 8 2005

  • Cassius shows him Caesar's "throne" in the senate house.

    Archive 2005-11-01 2005

  • Calpurnia was the last wife, the one who begged him not to go to the senate house because she had had what today we would call a precognitive dream, where she visualized Caesar covered in blood, and she felt this was a bad -- something terrible was going to happen.

    The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People�s History of Ancient Rome 2003

  • The great men of the city were therefore utterly offended, and, fearing lest he should grow yet more popular, they took all opportunities of affronting him publicly in the senate house.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • His adversaries, taking notice of that action, ran off at once to the senate house, and declared, that Tiberius desired the people to bestow a crown upon him, as if this were the meaning of his touching his head.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • A week or two passed by, and once more they appeared in the senate house.

    The Violet Fairy Book 2003

  • National Party's proposal for a senate house, saying it was an attempt by Mr F W de Klerk to ensure the NP could continue to control the country.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • Down its width on his right he spied the column that upbore Justinian's equestrian statue in the Forum of Constantine and beyond it, just glimpsed, the walls of the Imperial palace grounds, senate house, law courts, Hippodrome; the domes of Hagia Sophia; the gardens and shining buildings on the Acropolis: glories raised through lifetime after transient lifetime.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

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