Did run pure blood; and many lusty Romans
Came smiling, and did bathe their hands in it.
And these does she apply for warnings and portents.
And evils imminent; and on her knee
Hath begged that I will stay at home to-day."
Decius easily puts a better interpretation upon the vision; and he changes Cæsar's mind by cunningly suggesting how the Senate may sneer at being adjourned until "another time,
When Cæsar's wife shall meet with better dreams."
So he leaves her sadly to reflect that his "death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come."
Of Calpurnia we learn nothing more save that her wisdom made her quick to place her husband's papers in the hands of Mark Antony, who so successfully took upon himself the task of avenging the death of his friend.