 On the eve of the ides of March, the conspirators meet and reveal that they have forged letters of support from the Roman people to tempt Brutus into joining.Brutus reads the letters and, after much moral debate, decides to join the conspiracy, thinking that Caesar should be killed to "prevent" him from doing anything against the people of Rome if he were ever to be crowned.After ignoring the soothsayer, as well as his wife Calpurnia's own premonitions, Caesar goes to the Senate.