His role was to set the stage for the attack by presenting to Caesar a petition to recall Cimber's exiled brother.
[4] At the same time, Servilius Casca produced his dagger and made a glancing thrust at the dictator's neck but instead hit his shoulder.
After Caesar's death, Cimber left for Bithynia to raise a fleet in support of the leaders of the assassins, Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.
According to Seneca, Cimber was a bold, active man but was a heavy drinker and prone to violence.
[5] Cimber may have been the inspiration for the character Tillius in Horace's Satires, who epitomises raw ambition.