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Lucretia's kinsman Lucius Junius Brutus ( himself a member of the Tarquin dynasty ) and Lucretia's widowed husband, Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus ( grand-nephew of Tarquinus Priscus and thus also a member of the dynasty ) led the revolt, along with Publius Valerius Poplicola, and Lucretia's aging father, Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus.
Antony, left as sole Consul, surrounded himself with a bodyguard of Caesar's veterans and forced the senate to transfer to him the province of Cisalpine Gaul, which was then administered by Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, one of the conspirators.
When the Battle of Pharsalus began, Caesar ordered his officers to take Brutus prisoner if he gave himself up voluntarily, and if he persisted in fighting against capture, to let him alone and do him no violence.
However, upon seeing Brutus was with the conspirators, he covered his face with his toga and resigned himself to his fate.
" Booth was also known to be greatly attracted to Caesar himself, having played both Brutus and Caesar upon various stages.
Cassius does not lead himself, Brutus, or the rest of the conspiracy, as lambs to the slaughter.
Lucien returned to Corsica at the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and became an outspoken speaker in the Jacobin Club at Ajaccio, where he renamed himself " Brutus ".
The Emperor Jones is a 1920 play by American dramatist Eugene O ' Neill which tells the tale of Brutus Jones, an African-American man who kills a man, goes to prison, escapes to a Caribbean island, and sets himself up as emperor.
After wandering among the islands of the Tyrrhenian Sea and through Gaul, where he founded the city of Tours, Brutus eventually came to Britain, named it after himself, and filled it with his descendants.
Brutus renames the island after himself and becomes its first king.
One of the main charges of the senatorial faction that plotted against Julius Caesar after he had the Roman Senate declare him dictator for life, was that he was attempting to make himself a king, and a co-conspirator Cassius, enticed Brutus ' direct descendant, Marcus Junius Brutus, to join the conspiracy by referring to his ancestor.
After defeating Goffarius, the Trojans crossed to the island of Albion, which Brutus renamed Britain after himself.
* Appius Claudius C. f., mentioned by Cicero in a letter to Brutus ; he attached himself to the party of Marcus Antonius, who had restored his father.
In retirement, Sidney was bold enough to outrage the Lord Protector by allegedly putting on a performance of Julius Caesar, with himself in the role of Brutus.
He was the son of the consul Marcus Junius Brutus ( consul in 178 BC ) and brother of the praetor Marcus Junius Brutus ; he himself was appointed consul in 138 BC ( jointly with Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio ).
With his own political situation on the verge of disaster and himself declared public enemy, defeating Decimus Brutus was a way for Antony to regain his ascendancy and get control of the strategically important Italian Gaul.
Brutus marveled when he saw the gash on her thigh and after hearing this he no longer hid anything from her, but felt strengthened himself and related to her the whole plot.
Caesar later sends a letter to Porcia informing her that Brutus is returning to Rome, and Porcia replies with a polite thank you ; Caesar later confesses to Lucius Mamilius Turrinus ( the chief character ) that he greatly envies Brutus his marriage to her and often wishes he could have married her himself.
Brutus lands at Totnes and names the island, then called Albion, " Britain " after himself.
Caesar initially resisted his attackers, but when he saw Brutus, he supposedly spoke those words and resigned himself to his fate.

Brutus and be
Caesar also wrote that if Octavian died before Caesar did, Marcus Junius Brutus would be the next heir in succession.
Brutus happened to be a politically motivated participant.
Brutus happened to be Tribune of the Celeres, a minor office of some religious duties, but one which as a magistracy gave him the theoretical power to summon the curiae, an organization of patrician families used mainly to ratify the decrees of the king.
Brutus and Cassius were reluctant at first, but Brutus decided it would be harmless, Cassius disagreed.
Knowing his army had been defeated and that he would be captured, Brutus committed suicide.
Antonius, as a show of great respect, ordered Brutus ' body to be wrapped in Antonius ' most expensive purple mantle ( this was later stolen and Antonius had the thief executed ).
* John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, claimed to be inspired by Brutus.
* In Dante's Inferno, Brutus is one of three people deemed sinful enough to be chewed in one of the three mouths of Satan, in the very center of Hell, for all eternity.
Brutus is portrayed as a man similar to Caesar, but whose passions lead him to the wrong reasoning, which he realises in the end when he says in V. v. 50 – 51, “ Caesar, now be still :/ I kill ’ d not thee with half so good a will ”.
On the other hand, Jonathan Bate hypothesises that Lucius could be named after Lucius Junius Brutus, founder of the Roman Republic, arguing that " the man who led the people in their uprising was Lucius Junius Brutus.
The first siege was by Pompey in 78 BC, when Mutina was defended by Marcus Junius Brutus ( a populist leader, not to be confused with his son, Caesar's best known assassin ).
The city eventually surrendered out of hunger, and Brutus fled, only to be slain in Regium Lepidi.
He remembered that Brutus had stipulated, as a condition for his joining the plot to assassinate Caesar, that the life of Antony be spared.
Brutus claims to be the most populous town in the county.
The foundation myth of Brutus having settled in Britain was still considered as genuine history during the Early Modern Period, for example Holinshed's Chronicles ( 1577 ) considers the Brutus myth to be factual.
According to Livy, Brutus ' first act after the expulsion of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus was to bring the people to swear an oath never to allow any man again to be king in Rome.
Some cognomina were hereditary ( such as Caesar among a branch of the Julii, Brutus and Silanus among the Junii, or Pilius and Metellus among the Caecilii ): others tended to be individual.
A representation of Ahala is given on a coin of Marcus Junius Brutus, the murderer of Julius Caesar, but we cannot suppose it to be anything more than an imaginary likeness.
Decimus Brutus is not to be confused with the more famous Brutus among the conspirators, Marcus Brutus.

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The Parthian Empire had supported Brutus and Cassius in the civil war, sending forces which fought with them at Philippi ; following Antony and Octavian's victory, the Parthians invaded Roman territory, occupying Syria, advancing into Asia Minor and installing Antigonus as puppet king in Judaea to replace the pro-Roman Hyrcanus.
His works include the early and very influential De Inventione ( On Invention, often read alongside the Ad Herennium as the two basic texts of rhetorical theory throughout the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance ), De Oratore ( a fuller statement of rhetorical principles in dialogue form ), Topics ( a rhetorical treatment of common topics, highly influential through the Renaissance ), Brutus ( Cicero ) ( a discussion of famous orators ) and Orator ( a defense of Cicero's style ).
Brutus was persuaded into joining the conspiracy against Caesar by the other senators.
Set into the pavement of Fore Street is the ' Brutus Stone ', a small granite boulder onto which, according to local legend, Brutus first stepped from his ship.
Robert Yates, writing under the pseudonym Brutus, articulated this view point in the so-called Anti-Federalist No. 84, asserting that a government unrestrained by such a bill could easily devolve into tyranny.
It is Cassius who perceives this colorless, odorless, “ something in the air ”; which, if he can tap into its organizing and animating power in and over Brutus, will motivate Brutus to enlist, to organize, to persuade, and to sustain to completion, the act of conspiracy and brutal murder ; as an action of loyal, loving, patriotism.
Brutus was able to retreat into the nearby hills with the equivalent of only 4 legions.
He followed Brutus into Macedonia after Caesar's death, and was condemned by the Lex Pedia in 43 BC as one of the murderers.
Mulgrave adapted Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, breaking it up into two plays, Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus.
Junius Brutus Booth was inducted, posthumously, into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981.
In Conn Iggulden's Emperor Series the historical figures of Decimus Brutus and Marcus Brutus are blended together into the one character named Marcus Brutus.
She resolved not to inquire into Brutus ' secrets before she had made a trial of herself and that she would bid defiance to pain.
-Each level has a can of spinach ; attacking these cans will give Popeye invincibility and he can knock out Brutus just by running into him, although after a few seconds Brutus will swim back out and be ready for action again.
* The third main feud heading into WrestleMania was between Dream Team ( Greg Valentine and Brutus Beefcake ) and British Bulldogs ( Davey Boy Smith and Dynamite Kid ) over the WWF Tag Team Championship.
In December 2007, Brutus was to be inducted into the South African Sports Hall of Fame.
She can be a bit scolding of Brutus, and often gets into fights with him that he simply cannot win.
Since 2002, along with professors Neil Wollman and anti-apartheid activist Dennis Brutus, he has contributed to the international coalition Make TIAA-CREF Ethical dedicated to lobbying shareholders of 400 billion dollar fund into divesting from corporations shown to have damaged society, among them Costco, Walmart, Altria and Coca-Cola.

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