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Caesar was a an incredibly divisive figure and he in Rome. He was genuinely loved by the common people and hated most Romans, but despised by the City's elite. The senatorial class and their adherents were very suspicious of him and hated Caesar. He was a member of the popular part party and related by marriage to Marius, the darling of the common people. Moreover, many hated Caesar for personal reasons and vengeance was almost certainly a factor in the assassination on the Ides of March . <ref> Holland, p 201</ref>.  He had killed many of the senatorial order and the Roman elite died during the civil wars. Friends and family members of the elite had died on many battlefields against Caesar during the civil war. Many prominent and revered Romans such as Cato had committed suicide to escape having to live in a Rome dominated by one man. Moreover, Caesars Caesar's policy of clemency did not reconcile the elite to him and his regime. Those whom he had pardoned after his victories continued to resent him and were instrumental in his assassination. Mercy was a characteristic of a king or a tyrant and those who accepted it were thought to be have been dishonoured.<ref>Holland, p 210</ref>. Furthermore, in the social system of the time they , Senators had become the dependentsdependent on Caesar. Individuals such as Ultimately Cassius and Brutus, all while pardoned by the general may have been Caesar, were eager to wipe away the stain on their honour, because that they only lived due to the mercy of being granted mercy by the hated tyranta despised autocratic ruler.