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Why did Caesar's will infuriate the Romans ?
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Solution
Caesar’s will infuriated the Romans because the man who had been branded by the conspirators as a tyrannical despot who lusted for power, was revealed as a person who had made all of the Rome, the heirs to his property after his death
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