It is said that the night before Caesar died, Calpurnia dreamed of a scene in which her stabbed husband dies in her embrace.

In the morning she told him of her fears and asked him not to go to the Senate that day. After much persuasion, Caesar agreed to stay home, but his closest friend Decimus Junius Brutus finally persuaded him not to be frightened by the "monstrous visions of a woman" and took part in the proceedings.