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Casca

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Casca (Publius Servilius Casca Longus) (kăs`kə), d. c.42 B.C., Roman politician, one of the assassins of Julius Caesar Caesar, Julius (Caius Julius Caesar), 100? B.C.–44 B.C., Roman statesman and general. Rise to Power


Although he was born into the Julian gens, one of the oldest patrician families in Rome, Caesar was always a member of the democratic or
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. Casca was the first to stab Caesar. He died (presumably by suicide) soon after the battle of Philippi.


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Also unintentional (I would imagine) was Oliver Ryan's conspirator Casca sounding like Mr Burns from The Simpsons.
It was probably popularised by Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1599), in which Casca says: "For mine own part, it was Greek to me.
Casca (Oliver Ryan) provides much-needed comic light relief in a dark production, but partly because his odd accent resembles that of Mr Burns in The Simpsons.
 
 
 
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