maybe it's a holdover from the holy roman empire, i don't know exactly. >> after julius ceasar was assassinated, augustus ceasar was in power for how long? >> his name by the way originally was octavius. then the senate decided to give him the title of augustus. he also took that and he also took the title of ceasar with him. he ruled for something like 47 years or so. quite a bit. because he came in rather young. i mean there were a number of years of civil war and then when he, until he emerged sou suprem. he died in 14 or 17a.d. >> back to the actual assassination, julius ceasar had no idea that this was going to happen? >> oh, he had his suspicions. he knew there had been conspiracies around. but he said you cannot live under guard all the time. to live under guard is to live perpetually in fear. >> how do we know or how do you know that there were actually 23 stabbings? >> that's what's reported. whether it's true or not, i don't know. i mean who actually did the counting in that tumultous time? he had multiple -- he did die from multiple wounds. there were quite a few people putting a dag