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Brutus and is
* 43 BC Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is wounded.
Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after.
The second is the Roman legend of Brutus, recorded in two separate Latin works.
This work, completed c. 1138, is an imaginative and fanciful account of British kings from the legendary Trojan exile Brutus to the 7th-century Welsh king Cadwallader.
* 44 BC Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
His treachery is considered so notorious that his name has long been synonymous with traitor, a fate he shares with Benedict Arnold, Marcus Junius Brutus ( who too is depicted in Dante's Inferno, suffering the same fate as Judas along with Cassius Longinus ), and Vidkun Quisling.
3, of ' Caesar is dead and Brutus is alive ', that ' we might as well call a street a complex house, as these two propositions a complex proposition '.”
During the episode " The Ides of March ", at the end of season 4, Xena and Gabrielle were crucified by the Romans, as Caesar is betrayed and killed by Brutus.
* Gaius Antonius is defeated by Marcus Junius Brutus at Dyrrachium, Brutus proceeds to secure his position in Thrace and Macedonia.
* April 14 Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Caesar's assassin Decimus Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, but is then immediately defeated by the army of the other consul, Hirtius.
** Antony is again defeated in the Battle of Mutina by a coalition of Octavian, Decimus Brutus, and the two consuls of the year.
Antony joints with Aemilius Lepidus, soon after Decimus Brutus is killed by brigands.
* June Porcia Catonis, wife of Marcus Junius Brutus ( b. 70 BC ) ( alternative date is July )
* March 15 ( the Ides of March ) Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is assassinated by a group of Roman senators, amongst them Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Junius Brutus, and Caesar's Massilian naval commander, Decimus Brutus.
* December Antony besieges Brutus Albinus in Mutina ( Modena ), with Octavian, an ally of Decimus, who is one of his uncle's assassins, close by.
Decimus Brutus — victor over the Veneti ( see 56 BC ) — is in charge of the fleet to blockade the harbor.
** September Brutus defeats the combined Pompeian-Massilian naval forces in the naval Battle of Massilia, while the Caesarian fleet in the Adriatic is defeated near Curicta ( Krk ).
Brutus is said to have been wounded in the hand and in the legs.
Brutus also uttered the well-known verse calling down a curse upon Antonius ( Plutarch repeats this from the memoirs of Publius Volumnius ): Forget not, Zeus, the author of these crimes ( in the Dryden translation this passage is given as Punish, great Jove, the author of these ills ).
His wife Porcia was reported to have committed suicide upon hearing of her husband's death, although, according to Plutarch ( Brutus 53 para 2 ), there is some dispute as to whether this is the case: Plutarch states that there is a letter in existence that was allegedly written by Brutus mourning the manner of her death.

Brutus and portrayed
* In the Masters of Rome novels of Colleen McCullough, Brutus is portrayed as a timid intellectual who hates Caesar for personal reasons, foremost of them the fact that his marriage arrangement with Caesar's daughter, Julia, whom Brutus deeply loved, was dissolved in Caesar's political gamble to give his daughter's hand to Pompey to cement with him an alliance.
* In the TV series Rome, Brutus, portrayed by Tobias Menzies, is depicted as a young man torn between what he believes is right, and his loyalty and love of a man who has been like a father to him.
Shakespeare's audience similarly did not ask whether the University of Wittenberg had existed in Hamlet's day, or whether clocks that struck time were available in Julius Caesar's ancient Rome: Shakespeare portrayed Brutus, plotting to assassinate Caesar in 44 BC, being interrupted by the striking of the clock, although ancient Rome was the era of the sundial, with invention of the mechanical clock dating from the 11th-13th centuries AD.
Another subtle difference between the characters of Brutus and Bluto is that while Bluto was often portrayed as a fellow sailor who also sought to win the heart of Olive Oyl, Brutus was portrayed as a generic villain, or bank robber, who showed no romantic interest in Olive.
He was the voice of the bear in the Gentle Ben TV series, and he worked as a voice actor on animated films, notably for Walt Disney, where he portrayed the Indian Chief in Peter Pan, one of Maleficent's goons in Sleeping Beauty, the Captain of the Guard in Robin Hood, Brutus and Nero in The Rescuers, the Escaped Convict ( Gus ) in the Haunted Mansion attraction and Fidget the peg-legged bat in The Great Mouse Detective.
Other performers, and the villains and victims they portrayed, included Jack Kruschen ( as William Burke and Trotsky assassin Ramón Mercader ), Jay Novello ( as William Hare and Dr. William Palmer ), Mary Jane Croft ( as Bathsheba Spooner and Madame de Brinvilliers ), Betty Lou Gerson ( as Agrippina and Lucrezia Borgia ), Edgar Barrier ( as Julius Caesar ), Harry Bartell ( as Brutus ), Hans Conried ( as Ali Pasha ), Herb Butterfield ( as Lincoln, Trotsky, and Thomas Edwin Bartlett ), Jack Edwards ( as John Wilkes Booth and Cole Younger ), Irene Tedrow ( as Lizzie Borden ), William Johnstone ( as Robert Knox ), Betty Harford ( as Madeleine Smith and Ripper victim Mary Jane Kelly ), Clayton Post ( as Jesse James ), and Sam Edwards ( as Billy the Kid and Bob Younger ).

Brutus and man
In the painting of Brutus ( 1789 ), the man and his wife are separated, both morally and physically.
This author points out that Casca praises Brutus at face value, but then inadvertently compares him to a disreputable joke of a man by calling him an alchemist, Oh, he sits high in all the people s hearts ,/ And that which would appear offence in us / His countenance, like richest alchemy ,/ Will change to virtue and to worthiness ” ( I. iii. 158-60 ).
Cassius like a modern psychoanalyst perceives in Brutus, his sub-conscious, inchoate fear, hostility, even loathing, of a man ( Caesar ) that he outwardly claims he both loves and admires.
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 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.
An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning (" For Brutus is an honorable man ; / So are they all, all honorable men ").
In Marc Antony's funeral oration in Julius Caesar, he says, " For Brutus is an honourable man ; So are they all ; all honourable men.
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.
Sextus Pompeius in Sicily was certainly a rebellious man, but the Cassius and Brutus faction was the second triumvirate's first priority.
For this reason, since they were very hard to fight with, the Callaicans themselves have not only furnished the surname for the man who defeated the Lusitanians Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus, Roman general but they have also brought it about that now, already, the most of the Lusitanians are called Callaicans.
/ 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.
Cato is introduced as a heroic man of principle ; as abhorrent as civil war is, he argues to Brutus that it is better to fight than do nothing.
Brutus: Recently released from prison, Brutus is an older man whose father, we are told, helped build the Edward Arms and knew all of its secrets.
Anderson's grizzly bear, Brutus the bear, served as his best man in the ceremony.

Brutus and similar
Brutus in 83 BC actually succeeded in establishing a colony, but it was soon dissolved ; and Cicero's speeches De Lege Agrania were directed against a similar attempt by Servilius Rullus in 63 BC.
In Julius Caesar there is a similar conflict between rival machiavels: the noble Brutus is a dupe of his machiavellian associates, while Antony s victorious order ”, like Hal's, is a negative thing.
Reports about " sixes " used during the 1st-century BC Roman civil wars indicate that they were of a similar height to the quinqueremes, and record the presence of towers on the deck of a " six " serving as flagship to Marcus Junius Brutus.
David later decided that this subject was too gruesome a way of sending the message of public duty overcoming private feeling, but his next major painting depicted a similar scene-Lucius Junius Brutus brooding as the bodies of his sons, whose executions for treason he had ordered, are returned home.
Taller than Brutus, with blond hair, she's rather similar to Edith " Dingbat " Bunker.
The original version of Hydra evolved from an earlier design called Brutus and works in a similar fashion to Deep Blue, utilising large numbers of purpose-designed chips ( in this case implemented as a field-programmable gate array or FPGA ).
At that time, he was very enthusiastic about Roman history, especially Brutus killing of Julius Caesar and pronounced that he sought a similar fate.

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