Caesar's guards are talking about plans to attack at dawn. Enobarbus is heard praying to the moon for forgiveness from Antony and for a quick death. He dies.
For Roman writers, like Seneca, with whom Shakespeare and his contemporaries would have been familiar, suicide was considered a noble death; for Shakespeare's Christian audiences, it would be considered a sin, which would carry terrible spiritual consequences. If we choose to assume that Enobarbus' death was self-inflicted, (he certainly wished for it), we can understand it as.....
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