Mark Antony
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Antony, Mark
Antony, MarkA 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 /
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Mark Antony
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Antony, Mark
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When she was ruling Egypt and frolicking with Mark Antony, the Sphinx had already been buried up to its neck in sand for thousands of years.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025
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
Jordan Barbour’s Mark Antony, first discovered with the Lupercalia ravers, remains a cipher.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2019
As relations with Mark Antony broke down, Cicero moved to open condemnation, delivering no fewer than fourteen Philippics* denouncing Antony.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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