Julius Caesar, Act 5, scene 5 | The Folger SHAKESPEARE

On October 23 42 BC, during the Roman Republican Civil Wars at the Second Battle of Philippi, Brutus's army was decisively defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian. Brutus committed suicide. Shakespeare gave a poetic account. An excerpt from the text:

ANTONY
This was the noblest Roman of them all.
All the conspirators save only he
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar.
He only in a general honest thought
And common good to all made one of them.
His life was gentle and the elements
So mixed in him that nature might stand up
And say to all the world “This was a man.”
OCTAVIUS
According to his virtue, let us use him
With all respect and rites of burial.
Within my tent his bones tonight shall lie,
Most like a soldier, ordered honorably.
So call the field to rest, and let’s away
To part the glories of this happy day.

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