“As had happened with Julius Caesar, it turned out that the people of Rome were actually quite keen on Gaius and were not fans of presumptuous senators and magistrates making unilateral decisions about the nature of Roman government with swords. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, they believed, not from some farcical bloody murder. Strange men in corridors distributing stab wounds was no basis for a system of government.” HistoryRoman HistoryMonty Python Book:A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome Source: A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome