Needs must he fear, who makes all else adread

Pubilius Syrus, a Syrian slave that became a freedman and eventually a writer of Roman mimes (farces}, defeated a celebrated writer named Decimus Laberius at Julius Caesar's games of 46 BCE. The prose he presented at those games foreshadowed Caesar's assassination two years later:  "Needs must he fear, who makes all else adread.  Apparently, later that same day, Laberius added: None the first place for ever can retain, But, ever as the topmost round you gain, Painful your station there and swift your fall.  Decimus Laberius. 46 BCE.

The dead body of Caesar, painted by Bela Čikoš Sesija, before 1920.