To be fair, you can be surrounded by what, like 8 people at one time? So even if they got 1 good stab in each, guy #24 is on the third rotation if they're being polite about it.
Now imagine being the 60th guy and Caesar's been dead for 8 minutes already and you're expected to shuffle through the crowd to find a yet unstabbed region to sink your knife to complete the agreement.
