Julius Caesar Quotes

Front 1

He shall not live. Look, with a spot I damn him.
But, Lepidus, go you to Caesar’s house.
Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine
How to cut off some charge in legacies.

Back 1

Speaker: Antony
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: The new triumvirate, Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus are making a “hit list” and are going to try to change Caesar’s will. This shows the theme that power leads to corruption

Front 2

This is a slight, unmeritable man,
Meet to be sent on errands. Is it fit,
The threefold world divided, he should stand
One of the three to share it?

Back 2

Speaker: Antony
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Antony is talking bad about Lepidus behind his back and wants to get rid of him. Antony doesn’t think a man like Lepidus should get a share in the wealth of leadership. This supports the theme that power corrupts.

Front 3

Speak your griefs softly. I do know you well.
Before the eyes of both our armies here,
Which should perceive nothing but love from us,
Let us not wrangle.

Back 3

Speaker: Brutus
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Brutus suggests that he and Cassius should go to his tent to talk out their problems so their armies won’t see them fight. This shows that Brutus is calm and less emotional while Cassius is fiery and expressive.

Front 4

Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself
Are much condemned to have an itching palm,

Back 4

Speaker: Brutus
Literary Devices: Idiom
Significance: Brutus accuses Cassius of taking bribes

Front 5

Remember March, the ides of March remember.
Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake?
What villain touched his body, that did stab,
And not for justice?

Back 5

Speaker: Brutus
Literary Devices: Situational Irony
Significance: Brutus is questioning the conspirator’s motives—he suggests that they all killed Caesar for justice’s sake, but, in reality, only Brutus had that motivation.

Front 6

You wrong me every way. You wrong me, Brutus.
I said an elder soldier, not a better.
Did I say “better”?

Back 6

Speaker: Cassius
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Brutus and Cassius are having a childish fight about who said or did what.

Front 7

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats,
For I am armed so strong in honesty
That they pass by me as the idle wind,
Which I respect not. I did send to you
For certain sums of gold, which you denied me,
For I can raise no money by vile means.

Back 7

Speaker: Brutus
Literary Devices: Situational Irony
Significance: Brutus and Cassius are arguing about who said or did what.

Front 8

I, that denied thee gold, will give my heart.
Strike, as thou didst at Caesar. For I know
When thou didst hate him worst, thou lovedst him better
Than ever thou lovedst Cassius.

Back 8

Speaker: Cassius
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Cassius is telling Brutus to go ahead and kill him now if he thinks Cassius denied him gold. Cassius thinks Brutus always loved Caesar more than himself.

Front 9

Speaker 1: I did not think you could have been so angry.
Speaker 2: O Cassius, I am sick of many griefs.
Speaker 1: Of your philosophy you make no use
If you give place to accidental evils.
Speaker 2: No man bears sorrow better. Portia is dead.

Back 9

Speaker: Speaker 1: Cassius; Speaker 2: Brutus
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: This shows Brutus’ Stoicism and Cassius’ emotional qualities

Front 10

Mine speak of seventy senators that died
By their proscriptions, Cicero being one.

Back 10

Speaker: Brutus
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Even senators that did not participate in the conspiracy have been executed by Antony and Octavius.

Front 11

'Tis better that the enemy seek us.
So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers

Back 11

Speaker: Cassius
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Cassius’ offers his battle strategy (Let Antony and his troops march up from Phillipi and get tired). Brutus offers his as well and Cassius still follows Brutus.

Front 12

The people ’twixt Philippi and this ground
Do stand but in a forced affection,
For they have grudged us contribution.
The enemy, marching along by them,
By them shall make a fuller number up,
Come on refreshed, new-added, and encouraged,
From which advantage shall we cut him off
If at Philippi we do face him there,
These people at our back.

Back 12

Speaker: Brutus
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Brutus thinks they should march down to Phillipi because Antony and Octavius will gain strength from villages if they march up.

Front 13

How ill this taper burns!—Ha, who comes here?
I think it is the weakness of mine eyes
That shapes this monstrous apparition.

Back 13

Speaker: Brutus
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Brutus assumes that his vision is caused by being tired. Could it be a prophetic vision?

Front 14

To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi.

Back 14

Speaker: Caesar’s Ghost
Literary Devices: Foreshadowing
Significance: The ghost is telling Brutus that he will see him at Phillipi and that there will be a bloody massacre.

Front 15

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome!
Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft
Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements,
…ye to chimney tops

Back 15

Speaker: Marullus
Literary Devices: Metaphor and foreshadowing (the commoners will be fickle again later.)
Significance: Shows the fickleness of commoners; they used to cheer for Pompey, but now they cheer for Caesar. The metaphor suggests that they are brainless.

Front 16

These growing feathers pluck'd from Caesar's wing
Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,
Who else would soar above the view of men
And keep us all in servile fearfulness.

Back 16

Speaker: Flavius
Literary Devices: Metaphor/ Extended Metaphor
Significance: The metaphor compares Caesar to a bird and his feathers are the commoners who follow him. If they manage to pluck the feathers, then Caesar won't be able to "fly"--in a sense, become less powerful.

Front 17

I shall remember.
When Caesar says 'do this,' it is performed.

Back 17

Speaker: Marc Antony
Literary Devices: Foreshadowing
Significance: Displays Antony’s loyalty to Caesar.

Front 18

Beware the ides of March.

Back 18

Speaker: Soothsayer
Literary Devices: Foreshadowing
Significance: Soothsayer is warning him about March 15, the day Caesar was assassinated. It displays his arrogance by his dismissive attitude towards the warning.

Front 19

Be not deceived: if I have veil'd my look,
I turn the trouble of my countenance
Merely upon myself. Vexed I am
Of late with passions of some difference,

Back 19

Speaker: Brutus
Literary Devices: Internal Conflict
Significance: Brutus is explaining that he has “passions of some difference” or conflicting emotions between his love for Caesar and his love for Rome.

Front 20

Speaker 1:
What means this shouting? I do fear, the people
Choose Caesar for their king.
Speaker 2: Ay, do you fear it?
Then must I think you would not have it so.

Back 20

Speaker: Speaker 1: Brutus; Speaker 2: Cassius
Literary Devices: Foreshadowing
Significance: Brutus’ comments let Cassius know that he is unhappy with Caesar’s growing power. He might easily be manipulated into joining the conspiracy.

Front 21

…he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about…

Back 21

Speaker: Cassius
Literary Devices: Allusion to the Colossus of Rhodes, Simile
Significance: Reveals Cassius’ character--he is resentful and jealous of Caesar’s power.

Front 22

Men at some time are masters of their fates.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Back 22

Speaker: Cassius
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: This quotation supports the belief that men are in control of their destinies rather than their fate.

Front 23

Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;

Back 23

Speaker: Cassius
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Cassius is using flattery to get Brutus to join the conspiracy by telling him that he and Caesar are equal. This shows that Cassius can manipulate people with his speech.

Front 24

Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

Back 24

Speaker: Caesar
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Caesar can tell that Cassius is acting suspicious, but his arrogance keeps him from listening to his “gut” instinct.

Front 25

Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet, I see
Thy honorable metal may be wrought
From that it is disposed.

Back 25

Speaker: Cassius
Literary Devices: Soliloquy
Significance: Cassius sees that Brutus is still honorable and cannot be convinced/"seduced." He's going to forge admiring letters of the citizens and throw them through Brutus' window to boost his confidence.

Front 26

When these prodigies
Do so conjointly meet, let not men say,
‘These are their reasons, they are natural,’
For I believe they are portentous things
Unto the climate that they point upon.

Back 26

Speaker: Casca
Literary Devices: Foreshadowing
Significance: Casca believes that when nature is out of order, society is out of order and it is a bad omen.

Front 27

For my part, I have walk'd about the streets,
Submitting me unto the perilous night,
And, thus unbraced, Casca, as you see,
Have bared my bosom to the thunder-stone;

Back 27

Speaker: Cassius
Literary Devices: Foreshadowing
Significance: Cassius has been tempting the gods, because he thinks the gods are angry at Julius Caesar, not the conspirators.

Front 28

Now could I, Casca, name to thee a man
Most like this dreadful night,
That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars
As doth the lion in the Capitol;

Back 28

Speaker: Cassius
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Cassius misinterprets the signs. He thinks that all the signs are against Caesar, but in reality, they are against the conspirators.

Front 29

Why all these things change from their ordinance,
Their natures, and performed faculties,
To monstrous quality, why, you shall find
That heaven hath infused them with these spirits
To make them instruments of fear and warning
Unto some monstrous state.

Back 29

Speaker: Cassius
Literary Devices: Simile
Significance: Shows that Cassius thinks Caesar is as dangerous as the stormy night.

Front 30

O, 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.

Back 30

Speaker: Casca
Literary Devices: Simile
Significance: Shows the need for Brutus in the conspiracy. Since the people respect him, he will make their actions appear worthy, and it also makes it clear that Brutus is an honorable man.

Front 31

It must be by his death: and for my part,
I know no personal cause to spurn at him,
But for the general.

Back 31

Speaker: Brutus (at home)
Literary Devices: Soliloquy
Significance: This shows character development in Brutus because of his internal conflict. He thinks he himself is honorable.

Front 32

He would be crown'd:
How that might change his nature, there's the question.

Back 32

Speaker: Brutus (at home)
Literary Devices: Soliloquy
Significance: This adds character development because it shows faulty reasoning. Brutus decides to kill Caesar because he might become dangerous.

Front 33

That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend. So Caesar may.

Back 33

Speaker: Brutus (at home)
Literary Devices: Extended Metaphor: comparing rise to power to ascending a ladder
Significance: More character development is added because he uses faulty reasoning.

Front 34

And therefore think him as a serpent's egg
Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous,
and kill him in the shell.

Back 34

Speaker: Brutus (at home)
Literary Devices: Simile, Soliloquy
Significance: Brutus uses faulty reasoning because he decides to kill Caesar even though no signs of danger are displayed.

Front 35

Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

Back 35

Speaker: Brutus (at home)
Literary Devices: Simile, Soliloquy
Significance: Brutus is having an internal struggle between his love for Rome and his love for Caesar. Cassius’ flattery persuades Brutus to kill Caesar.

Front 36

Swear priests and cowards and men cautelous,
Old feeble carrions and such suffering souls
That welcome wrongs; unto bad causes swear
Such creatures as men doubt; but do not stain
The even virtue of our enterprise

Back 36

Speaker: Brutus (at home planning murder)
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Brutus thinks swearing an oath of secrecy will make their acts seem like murder rather than sacrifice. He is wrong because people try to warn Caesar.

Front 37

O, let us have him, for his silver hairs
Will purchase us a good opinion
And buy men's voices to commend our deeds.
It shall be said, his judgment ruled our hands;
Our youths and wildness shall no whit appear,
But all be buried in his gravity.

Back 37

Speaker: Metellus
Literary Devices: Irony
Significance: The conspirators want Cicero to join because his old age and wisdom will offset their youth. Brutus doesn’t realize they want him for the same reasons.

Front 38

Our course will be too bloody, Caius Cassuis,
To cut the head off and then hack the limbs,

Back 38

Speaker: Brutus
Literary Devices: Metaphor (Caesar is the head and Antony is the arm)
Significance: Cassius is a better judge of character than Brutus. Antony will kill Cassius and Brutus later from Brutus’ miscalculation.

Front 39

Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus,
Is it excepted I should know no secrets
That appertain to you? Am I yourself
But, as it were, in sort or limitation,
To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed,
And talk to you sometimes? Dwell I but in the suburbs
Of your good pleasure? If it be no more,
Portia is Brutus’ harlot, not his wife.

Back 39

Speaker: Portia
Literary Devices: Figurative Language (Implied Metaphor and Simile)
Significance: This quote shows that Portia, Brutus’ wife, is worried about Brutus and noticed that something was wrong about his behavior. He is unable to tell his wife of his plans which shows his doubt in them.

Front 40

Speaker 1: What's to do?
Speaker 2: A piece of work that will make sick men whole.
Speaker 1: But are not some whole that we must make sick?

Back 40

Speaker: Speaker 1: Ligarius; Speaker 2: Brutus
Literary Devices: Extended Metaphor and Foreshadowing
Significance: Ligarius and Brutus speak in code about freeing themselves of Julius Caesar’s power. Ligarius’ intentions of joining the conspiracy were for bringing down those that were above him whereas Brutus joined for the people of Rome and maintaining their well-being.

Front 41

To do I know not what: but it sufficeth
That Brutus leads me on.

Back 41

Speaker: Ligarius
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Ligarius shows his complete confidence in Brutus—though he doesn’t know where he’s going or what he’s doing, he believes that all will be well with Brutus leading. This shows that Cassius is a good judge of character.

Front 42

Caesar should be a beast without a heart
If he should stay at home today for fear.
No, Caesar shall not. Danger knows full well
That Caesar is more dangerous than he.

Back 42

Speaker: Caesar
Literary Devices: Metaphor and Personification
Significance: When the augurers say that they cannot find the heart of the animal, Caesar sees this as the gods testing him. He fears to be seen as cowardly so he decides not to stay home for fear. He is arrogant because he thinks danger fears him and is brought down by his own flaws.

Front 43

And tell them that I will not come to-day:
Cannot, is false, and that I dare not, falser:
I will not come to-day: tell them so, Decius.

Back 43

Speaker: Caesar
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Calphurnia’s pleads make Caesar agree to not go to the Senate that day. He tells Decius that he just doesn’t feel like it—he is neither sick nor scared.

Front 44

If you shall send them word you will not come,
Their minds may change. Besides, it were a mock
Apt to be render'd, for some one to say
'Break up the senate till another time,
When Caesar's wife shall meet with better dreams.

Back 44

Speaker: Decius
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Decius tells Caesar that the senators were planning on giving Caesar the crown and that they would change their minds if he didn’t come. They would also joke that Caesar would only come when his wife had good dreams. This shows Decius’ powers of persuasion and how he uses Caesar’s fear against him.

Front 45

Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of
Cassius; come not near Casca; have an eye to Cinna;
trust not Trebonius: mark well Metellus Cimber:
Decius Brutus loves thee not: thou hast wronged Caius Ligarius.

Back 45

Speaker: Artemidorus
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Artemidorus lists out the names of the conspirators in a letter to Caesar, warning him. This shows that Brutus made a wrong choice when voting against secrecy within the conspiracy.

Front 46

I could be well moved, if I were as you;
If I could pray to move, prayers would move me:
But I am constant as the Northern Star,
Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.

Back 46

Speaker: Caesar
Literary Devices: Simile, Allusion, Irony
Significance: Caesar shows his arrogance by comparing himself by comparing himself to the North Star—no one else compares to him

Front 47

Et tu, Brute! Then fall, Caesar.

Back 47

Speaker: Caesar
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Caesar is shocked by Brutus’ betrayal. His will to live relinquishes when he sees his best friend has betrayed him.

Front 48

Brutus is noble, wise, valiant, and honest;
Caesar was mighty, bold, royal, and loving.
Say I love Brutus and I honor him;
Say I feared Caesar, honored him, and loved him.
If Brutus will vouchsafe that Antony
May safely come to him, and be resolved
How Caesar hath deserved to lie in death,
Mark Antony shall not love Caesar dead
So well as Brutus living…

Back 48

Speaker: Antony’s servant
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Antony’s servant sends a message to Brutus, saying that Antony will establish allegiance to Brutus if he swears him no harm.

Front 49

I know not, gentlemen, what you intend,
Who else must be let blood, who else is rank. If I myself, there is no hour so fit
As Caesar's death hour; nor no instrument
Of half that worth as those your swords, made rich
With the most noble blood of all this world.

Back 49

Speaker: Antony
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Antony tells the conspirators they might as well kill him now if they plan to kill him anyways. He would feel honorable to die the where Caesar did.

Front 50

Had I as many eyes as thou hast wounds,
Weeping as fast as they stream forth thy blood, It would become me better than to close
In terms of friendship with thine enemies.
Pardon me, Julius! Here wast thou bay'd, brave hart;
Here didst thou fall; and here thy hunters stand,
Signerd in thy spoil, and crimsoned in thy lethe.

Back 50

Speaker: Antony
Literary Devices: Metaphor (Caesar is the deer, conspirators are the hunters), Personification
Significance: Marc Antony shakes hands with the conspirators as if he is in allegiance with them. His words don’t support his claim.

Front 51

Therefore I took your hands, but was, indeed, Sway'd from the point, by looking down on Caesar.
Friends am I with you all and love you all, Upon this hope, that you shall give me reasons
Why and wherein Caesar was dangerous.

Back 51

Speaker: Antony
Literary Devices: Verbal Irony
Significance: Marc Antony claims that looking at Caesar’s body upset him and he forgot himself for a moment—he’ll be friends with them if they give him reasons for their actions.

Front 52

I know not what may fall; I like it not.

Back 52

Speaker: Cassius
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: They should not allow Marc Antony to speak at Julius Caesar’s funeral—remember, Cassius is a good judge of people while Brutus is idealistic.

Front 53

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!

Back 53

Speaker: Antony
Literary Devices: Personification, Metaphor, Soliloquy (Antony is alone revealing his true feelings to JC’s body)
Significance: He is vowing revenge against the conspirators.

Front 54

…Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men? As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honor him: but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.

Back 54

Speaker: Brutus
Literary Devices: Parallelism: As he was _______, I _______.
Significance: Brutus says that he loved Caesar, but that if Caesar had lived, they would all be slaves. Brutus says that he loved Rome (Republic) more than Julius Caesar, but he loved them both.

Front 55

…Who is here so rude
That would not be a Roman? If any, speak, for
him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? I any, speak, for him have I offended…

Back 55

Speaker: Brutus (giving speech to commoners explaining why they killed Caesar)
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Brutus is using faulty logic as a persuasive technique and is using name calling.

Front 56

Speaker 1: Let him be Caesar.
Speaker 2: Caesar's better parts
Shall be crown'd in Brutus.

Back 56

Speaker: Plebeians (Speaker 1: Third Citizen; Speaker 2: Fourth Citizen)
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: These comments by the commoners demonstrate that the commoners are fickle, and they do not understand Brutus’ message—he was telling hem Rome should not be ruled by a king, but they are cheering for Brutus to now become king.

Front 57

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar.

Back 57

Speaker: Antony
Literary Devices: Verbal Irony (Antony does plan on praising JC)
Significance: The evil things are what you get remembered for and the good you do doesn’t cancel it out.

Front 58

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 honorable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And sure he is an honorable man.

Back 58

Speaker: Antony (speaking to the commoners)
Literary Devices: Verbal Irony
Significance: Antony uses repetition and parallelism successfully as a rhetorical device. Shows how Caesar was not ambitious while implicating Brutus.

Front 59

O masters! If I were disposed to stir
Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,
I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong,
Who, you all know, are honorable men.
I will not do them wrong.

Back 59

Speaker: Antony
Literary Devices: Verbal Irony (Power of suggestion: planting an idea)
Significance: Marc Antony say that he fears that he will WRONG Brutus and Cassius (he really wants to) and that Brutus and cassis are honorable (he implies that they are not). He wants to get the plebeians to revolt.

Front 60

They were traitors. Honorable men!

Back 60

Speaker: Commoner (Fourth Plebeian)
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: The fickleness of the commoners has been shown repeatedly throughout the play; the conspirators do not plan for this and will pay for overlooking it.

Front 61

For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel.
Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!
This was the most unkindest cut of all;
For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,
Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms,
Quite vanquish'd him: then burst his mighty heart;

Back 61

Speaker: Antony
Literary Devices: Metaphor
Significance: Antony claims that Brutus’ betrayal was the cause of Caesar’s death—he then uses verbal irony by saying once again that Brutus was honorable.

Front 62

I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts.
I am no orator, as Brutus is,
But (as you know me all) a plain blunt man
That love my friend.

Back 62

Speaker: Antony
Literary Devices: Verbal Irony
Significance: His whole purpose in making his speech was to sway the commoners against the conspirators.

Front 63

In your bad strokes, Brutus, you give good words.
Witness the hole you made in Caesar's heart,
Crying “Long live! hail, Caesar!”

Back 63

Speaker: Antony
Literary Devices: Verbal Irony
Significance: Antony calls the conspirators traitors and hypocrites during “words before blows” (speaking before the battle)

Front 64

Flatterers! - Now, Brutus, thank yourself!
This tongue had not offended so today
If Cassius might have ruled.

Back 64

Speaker: Cassius
Literary Devices: Personification
Significance: Cassius says that if he had it his way, Antony wouldn’t be there insulting them—he’d be dead.

Front 65

…I draw a sword against conspirators;
When think you that the sword goes up again?
Never, till Caesar's three and thirty wounds
Be well avenged, or till another Caesar
Have added slaughter to the sword of traitors.

Back 65

Speaker: Octavius
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Octavius says he won’t stop until Caesar’s death is avenged or he is dead by their swords.

Front 66

Then, if we lose this battle,
You are contented to be led in triumph
Thorough the streets of Rome?

Back 66

Speaker: Cassius
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Cassius asks Brutus if he is willing to be taken captive. His response is that no, he will not be captive—he would rather take his life. They make a suicide pact of sorts.

Front 67

This day I breathed first. Time is come round,
And where I did begin, there shall I end;
My life is run his compass. – Sirrah, what news?

Back 67

Speaker: Cassius
Literary Devices: Extended Metaphor
Significance: Cassius reports that he has seen negative omens and he thinks that he will die today. He then asks Pindarus for news. He mistakenly reports that Titinius has been captured.

Front 68

Come down, behold no more. -
O, coward that I am, to live so long
To see my best friend ta'en before my face!

Back 68

Speaker: Cassius
Literary Devices: Situational Irony
Significance: Brutus’ men surrounded Titinius to give him a victory wreath, but Pindarus mistakenly thinks that Titinius has been captured. Cassius then commands his servant to kill him (5.3.38-49)

Front 69

So, I am free; yet would not so have been,
Durst I have done my will. - O Cassius…

Back 69

Speaker: Pindarus
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Pindarus obeys Cassius’ command (he vowed to serve Cassius when Cassius spared his life after a battle), by killing Cassius, he is now free from Cassius’ bondage, but he would rather Cassius were still alive and he were still his slave.

Front 70

Did I not meet thy friends? and did not they
Put on my brows this wreath of victory,
And bid me give it thee? Didst thou not hear their
shouts?
Alas, thou hast misconstrued every thing!

Back 70

Speaker: Titinius
Literary Devices: Situational Irony
Significance: Titinius sees Cassius’ dead body, and then kills himself as well.

Front 71

O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet:
Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords
In our own proper entrails.

Back 71

Speaker: Brutus
Literary Devices: Personification (“walking spirits”)
Significance: Brutus is saying this to Cassius’ dead body. He thinks Caesar’s spirit is avenging his death.

Front 72

Safe, Antony; Brutus is safe enough:
I dare assure thee that no enemy
Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus:

Back 72

Speaker: Lucilius
Literary Devices: Foreshadowing
Significance: Lucilius pretends to be Brutus to buy Brutus some time. He predicts that Brutus will not be taken alive by Antony’s forces.

Front 73

…Caesar, now be still:
I kill'd not thee with half so good a will.

Back 73

Speaker: Brutus
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Caesar can now rest in peace—it is easier for Brutus to kill himself than it was for him to kill Caesar.

Front 74

Free from the bondage you are in, Messala.
The conquerors can but make a fire of him,
For Brutus only overcame himself,
And no man else hath honor by his death.

Back 74

Speaker: Strato
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Messala has been taken prisoner, yet Strato feels that Brutus, by taking his own life instead of being taken prisoner, is more honorable.

Front 75

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.

Back 75

Speaker: Antony
Literary Devices: N/A
Significance: Antony admits that Brutus’ intentions were noble—he agrees to let Brutus have an honorable burial.