Junius Brutus

You always talk of an expedient adoption into a plebeian family, but a plebeian family called Junius Brutus must have been descended from a slave or a peasant belonging to the patrician family.”

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

On March 15, 44 BC, Julius Caesar was attacked by a group of senators, including Marcus Junius Brutus, a senator and Caesar's close friend.

Three New Senators Oppose Escalation 2009

Hannibal did, as Junius Brutus, as Vibius Virus, and those

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

He looked upon particular friendship as a passion unworthy of his ample soul, and was a professed admirer of L. Manlius, Junius Brutus, and those later patriots of the same name, who shut their ears against the cries of nature, and resisted all the dictates of gratitude and humanity.

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

They came, the one accompanied with Junius Brutus, the other with Publius Valerius; and finding Lucrece attired in mourning habit, demanded the cause of her sorrow.

The Rape of Lucrece 2004

Marcus Brutus was descended from that Junius Brutus to whom the ancient Romans erected a statue of brass in the capitol among the images of their kings with a drawn sword in his hand, in remembrance of his courage and resolution in expelling the Tarquins and destroying the monarchy.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

No one was ever so prudent, or was esteemed so wise for any singular deed of his, as Junius Brutus merited to be esteemed for his simulation of foolishness.

Discourses 2003

Junius Brutus and L. Tarquinius Collatinus were supposedly the first pair of consuls.

e. The Early Republic 2001

Marcus Junius Brutus, so long a mouse, took courage.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

The Senate under Philippus's skillful guidance pronounced those men who had taken part in Lepidus's rebellion sacer, but because the horrors of the proscriptions still lingered, did not exact any reprisals against their families; the crude pottery jar containing his ashes in her lap, the widow of Marcus Junius Brutus could relax.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993