Mark Antony

[ mahrk an-tuh-nee ]

noun

1. Antony, Mark.

Mark Antony

noun

1. See Antony

Antony, Mark

1. A historical politician and general of ancient Rome , who appears as a character in the plays Antony and Cleopatraand Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare . In a famous speech in Julius Caesar , given after Caesar has been killed, Antony turns public opinion against those who did the killing. Antony's speech begins, “ Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears ”; in it, he repeats several times the words “ Brutus is an honorable man .”

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Mark Antony supposedly gave the island to Cleopatra as a gift, and King Richard the Lionheart wed Queen Joanna there in 1191.

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He responded with Mark Antony's funeral oration; “ LEND me your ears…” emphasis on the lend, not the ears.

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He contrived, it was said, to be at once as rich as Croesus and as riotous as Mark Antony.

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In less than two minutes the cranium of Mark Antony Figgins was as smooth and destitute of hair as a bladder of lard.

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As the reader knows, there was nothing bold or daring about Mark Antony Figgins.

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A man in love may be inclined to play the Mark Antony; but a married man, “come what will, he has been blessed.”

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She runs out through the loggia, kissing her hand to Mark Antony across the sea.

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