List of Conspirators
Some forty people joined in the plot, but about half of their names are lost to history. The known members are:
- Gaius Cassius Longinus
- Marcus Junius Brutus
- Servius Sulpicius Galba
- Quintus Ligarius
- Lucius Minucius Basilus
- Publius Servilius Casca Longus (brother of Gaius Servilius Casca)
- Gaius Servilius Casca (brother of Publius Servilius Casca Longus and the one responsible for the first stab)
- Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus
- Lucius Tillius Cimber
- Gaius Trebonius
- Lucius Cassius Longinus (brother of Gaius Cassius Longinus)
- Gaius Cassius Parmensis
- Caecilius (brother of Bucolianus)
- Bucolianus (brother of Caecilius)
- Rubrius Ruga
- Marcus Spurius
- Publius Sextius Naso
- Lucius Pontius Aquila
- Petronius
- Decimus Turullius
- Pacuvius Antistius Labeo
Marcus Tullius Cicero was not a member of the conspiracy and was surprised by it, but later wrote to the conspirator Trebonius that he wished he had been "...invited to that superb banquet." He believed that the Liberatores should also have killed Mark Antony. The conspirators had decided, however, that the death of a single tyrant would be more symbolically effective, claiming that the intent was not a coup d'état, but tyrannicide.
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