Julius Caesar's will, opened after his murder, made Octavian his son and gave every Roman 300 sesterces

Caesar was stabbed 23 times in the Curia of Pompey. The physician Antistius judged that only one wound, the second, in the breast, was fatal. Six months earlier, on the Ides of September 45 BC, Caesar had made his will at his villa near Labici and lodged it with the chief Vestal Virgin. At the request of his father-in-law Lucius Piso it was opened and read in Mark Antony's house. His great-nephew Gaius Octavius received three-quarters of the estate. Two other great-nephews, Lucius Pinarius and Quintus Pedius, shared the rest. A clause adopted Octavius into the family and gave him the name Caesar. Decimus Brutus, one of the assassins, was named an heir in the second degree. To the people Caesar left his gardens by the Tiber and 300 sesterces to each man. After Antony's funeral speech the crowd burned the body in the Forum and attacked the assassins' houses. The poet Cinna was killed because the crowd took him for a conspirator. The adopted heir used the name and the bequest to raise troops. Octavian and Antony defeated Brutus and Cassius at Philippi in 42 BC, and Octavian became Augustus, the first emperor. In June 2023 the murder site in Largo di Torre Argentina opened to visitors on walkways funded by Bulgari.