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Question 15

Which two senators are traditionally identified as the leading figures behind Caesar's assassination?

  1. Mark Antony and Lepidus
  2. Cicero and Cato the Younger
  3. Brutus and CassiusCorrect answer
  4. Octavian and Agrippa

Explanation

Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus organized and led the senatorial conspiracy that killed Caesar. Antony and Lepidus supported Caesar, the famous orator and Cato were not plot leaders, and Caesar's young adopted heir and Agrippa were not yet politically prominent in Rome.

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