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  Mark Antony

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  Antony, Mark.
• Antony, Mark
  Antony, Mark

  A historical politician and general of ancient Rome, who appears as a character in the plays Antony and Cleopatra and 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.”

Mark Antony

American  

[mahrk an-tuh-nee] / mɑrk ˈæn tə ni /

noun

1. Antony, Mark.

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Mark Antony British  

noun

1. See Antony

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Antony, Mark Cultural  

1. A historical politician and general of ancient Rome, who appears as a character in the plays Antony and Cleopatra and 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 Antony, Mark

The former was forced to rule as one of a triumvirate with Mark Antony and Lepidus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Understandable, since she had children with Julius Caesar and Caesar's lieutenant Mark Antony, whose death in her arms inspired future writers to romanticize their love story above the other.

From Salon ● May 11, 2023

In the love duet that opens the new opera, for which Adams borrowed a few lively lines from “The Taming of the Shrew,” Finley’s Mark Antony is without heat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

In 1962 he played Mark Antony in the New York Shakespeare Festival’s production of “Julius Caesar.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2022

The marriage bond that Cleopatra wanted for herself was about to tie Mark Antony to the power of her archrival in Rome.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

There were three distinguished brothers of the name of Antony; Mark, the consul; Caius, who was praetor; and Lucius, a tribune of the people.

From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

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