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Julius Caesar, the dictator of the Roman Republic, was assassinated on March 15, 44 BCE, a date known as the Ides of March. The plot was carried out by a group of approximately 60 senators who called themselves the Liberators. The conspirators were led by Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus, a man Caesar had trusted and favored. They attacked Caesar during a session of the Senate at the Theatre of Pompey, stabbing him 23 times. The senators justified the murder as a necessary act