Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: ‘Shall Caesar send a lie? Have I in conquest stretch’d mine arm so far, To be afraid to tell graybeards the truth? Decius, go and tell them Caesar will not come’. (a) Why has Decius come to Caesar’s place? (b) What message does Caesar give him? (c) Who are the ‘graybeards’ referred to here?
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(a) Decius had come to Caesar’s palace to fetch him (Caesar) to the senate-house.
(b) Caesar tells him to bear his greetings to the senators and also tell them that he will not come to the senate-house on that day.
(c) The ‘graybeards’ are the old men, the senators whom Caesar was to go and meet on that particular day in the senate house.
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