The crowd then dispersed in troops, broke into and destroyed the houses of the conspirators.

Brutus and Cassius fled from the city for their lives, followed by the other murderers.
As a general Caesar was probably superior to all others, excepting possibly Hannibal.

He was especially remarkable for the fertility of his resources.

It has been said that Napoleon taught his enemies how to conquer him; but Caesar's enemies never learned how to conquer him, because he had not a mere system of tactics, but a new stratagem for every emergency.

He was, however, not only a great general, but a pre-eminent statesman, and second only to Cicero in eloquence.