Julius Caesar, who was born under a Comet, saw his bloody end foretold by another Comet.
Therefore, Shakespeare in his play “Julius Caesar,” makes Calpurnia say to Caesar:
“When beggars die, there are no Comets seen;
The Heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.”
On the night of Caesar’s assassination, when the Comet was seen blazing at its brightest, the Romans said that it had come to bear away the great soul of the murdered Caesar.
At the death of Nero, the Roman Emperor, who persecuted the Christians, a Comet blazed forth again. The Roman historian Suetonius, who wrote the Life of Emperor Nero, thus described this Comet:
“A blazing star, which was commonly held to portend destruction to Kings and Princes, reappeared above the horizon several nights in succession.”
Another great Comet (Halley’s again) reappeared when Attila, the King of the Huns, the “Scourge of God,” was overthrown in the greatest battle of Christendom on the Catalaunian fields.
Claudius, a Roman writer of that period, then stated that “a Comet was never seen in the Heavens without implying some dreadful event.”
This has ever been the belief of all the great poets of olden time.