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Brutus was the pen name of an Anti-Federalist in a series of essays designed to encourage New Yorkers to reject the proposed Constitution. His essays are considered among the best of those written to oppose adoption of the proposed constitution. [1] They paralleled and confronted The Federalist Papers during the ratification fight over the ...
The Anti-Federalist papers were written over a number of years and by a variety of authors who utilized pen names to remain anonymous, and debates over authorship continue to this day. Unlike the authors of The Federalist Papers , a group of three men working closely together, the authors of the Anti-Federalist papers were not engaged in an ...
Vindiciae contra tyrannos (meaning: "Defences [of liberty] against tyrants" [1]) was an influential Huguenot tract published in Basel in 1579. Its author remains uncertain, since it was written under the pseudonym of "Stephen Junius Brutus". [1] Likely candidates for its authorship include Hubert Languet and Philippe de Mornay.
Photograph of the Mercury Theatre production of Caesar, the scene in which Julius Caesar (Joseph Holland, center) addresses the conspirators including Brutus (Orson Welles, left). Et tu, Brute? (pronounced [ɛt ˈtuː ˈbruːtɛ]) is a Latin phrase literally meaning "and you, Brutus?" or "also you, Brutus?", often translated as "You as well ...
Epistulae ad Brutum (Letters to Brutus) is a collection of letters between Roman politician and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero and fellow politician, and conspirator against Julius Caesar, Marcus Junius Brutus.
"Sergeant, the Spanish bullet isn't made that will kill me." — Captain Buckey O'Neill (1 July 1898), one of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, just before being shot in the mouth prior to charge up Kettle Hill. [80] "I think I'm going to make it." — Richard A. Loeb (28 January 1936), after being slashed 56 times with a razor in a prison ...
Caesar can be seen staring at Brutus, who is looking away from his gaze. Caesar's last words may have been directed at Brutus. The last words of the Roman dictator Julius Caesar are disputed. Ancient chroniclers reported a variety of phrases and post-classical writers have elaborated on the phrases and their interpretation. [1]
Orator is the continuation of a debate between Brutus and Cicero, which originated in his text Brutus, written earlier in the same year. The oldest partial text of Orator was recovered in the monastery of Mont Saint-Michel and now is located in the library at Avranches . [ 3 ]