In Act II of the play Calpurnia begs Caesar to stay home from the Roman Senate. Terrible and supernatural events have happened in Rome during the stormy night, and Calpurnia has had a disturbing dream. During her dream Caesar heard her three times call out, "Help! Ho! they murder Caesar!"
The content of Calpurnia's dream, as Caesar explains it to Decius who has come to take him to the Senate, is a terrifying image. She sees a statue of Caesar bleeding from many sources, with the blood flowing freely like a fountain with many spouts. In her dream, "many lusty Romans / Came smiling and did bathe their hands in [Caesar's blood]." Calpurnia's dream foreshadows Caesar's assassination a few hours later in the Roman Senate.
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