Around March in 44 BCE, five months after his arrival back in Rome, only three days were left before his departure on campaign to the east. "Caesar was dead at the hands of a senatorial conspirators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, both former Pompeians who has been pardoned by Caesar after the battle of Pharsalus." Before his death Caesar who became the dictator of Rome and which he was the "most powerful man in the world, was not feeling well." A fortune teller beforehand had warned him that he should beware "The Ides of March." His wife Calpurnia had a dream of misfortune of her husband being murdered, after her dream she begged him not to leave the house. However one of the younger senators, Marcus Brutus, whom Caesar treated like a son, had come to the house to persuade Caesar to go to the senate meeting. When Caesar went to the senate meeting the events there were tragic. Despite the bad omens, Caesar decided to go and when he "reached the hall, a group of senators surrounded him to make it seem like their having a conversation. One man knelt before him and suddenly grabbed his robe. This was the signal for the assassins to plunge their daggers into his body." Caesar only had one item with him which was his fountain pen, but he couldn't use it as he slumped to the ground. Lying at the base of a statue of the Roman General, Pompey; there lies Caesar with 23 knife wounds all over his body. Even though Caesar died his impact in Rome had lived through the Romans lives from the ones who feared him and the ones who were at his side. "Although his own rule was unremarkable, his victory in the civil war replaced a republic, ruled by the consuls and the Senate, with an empire, reigned over by emperors and their heredity successors, it was the start of a brand new age for Rome. Julius Caesar had changed the nature of the Roman empire, he had swept away the old, corrupted system of the late Roman republic and had set an example to future Roman emperors as well as other future European leaders to live up to."