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Mark Antony
[ mahrk an-tuh-nee ]
Mark Antony
Antony, Mark
- 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 .”
Example Sentences
Thurber’s saga concerns three priceless bejeweled eggs that Mark Antony gave to Cleopatra, one of which has been lost to time.
Mark Antony supposedly gave the island to Cleopatra as a gift, and King Richard the Lionheart wed Queen Joanna there in 1191.
He responded with Mark Antony's funeral oration; “ LEND me your ears…” emphasis on the lend, not the ears.
He contrived, it was said, to be at once as rich as Croesus and as riotous as Mark Antony.
In less than two minutes the cranium of Mark Antony Figgins was as smooth and destitute of hair as a bladder of lard.
As the reader knows, there was nothing bold or daring about Mark Antony Figgins.
A man in love may be inclined to play the Mark Antony; but a married man, “come what will, he has been blessed.”
She runs out through the loggia, kissing her hand to Mark Antony across the sea.
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