Let your tears pour forth in floods! Go to your homes and throw yourselves on the ground!
As for me, O King, I loved you.
You were my life and with wonder I looked upon you, King of men!
And your herald goes before you!
Hark to the voice of the herald! Everything is ended.
All effort has come to its vain conclusion.
—And I, Cassius, having proclaimed these tidings,
I disappear.
(He throws himself over the precipice.
(Pause.