Caesar

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  1. Brutus
    statesman of ancient Rome who (with Cassius) led a conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar (85-42 BC)
    The noble Brutus
    Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
    If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
    And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
  2. Caesar
    conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC)
    Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
    I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
  3. withhold
    hold back; refuse to hand over or share
    You all did love him once, not without cause:
    What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
  4. inter
    place in a grave or tomb
    The evil that men do lives after them;
    The good is oft interred with their bones;
    So let it be with Caesar.
  5. grievous
    causing or marked by grief or anguish
    The noble Brutus
    Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
    If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
    And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
  6. flee
    run away quickly
    O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
    And men have lost their reason.
  7. ambition
    a strong drive for success
    When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
    Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
    Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
    And Brutus is an honourable man.
  8. captive
    a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war
    He hath brought many captives home to Rome
    Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
    Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
  9. stern
    serious and harsh in manner or behavior
    When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
    Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
    Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
    And Brutus is an honourable man.
  10. judgment
    the act of assessing a person or situation or event
    O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
    And men have lost their reason.
  11. present
    happening or existing now
    You all did see that on the Lupercal
    I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
    Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Created on Thu Aug 16 11:41:34 EDT 2012

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