person
Marcus Junius Brutus
Brutus
The chief assassin of Julius Caesar and leader of the republican cause; named as a figure under whom the commonwealth might have survived.
Reading notes
- The Annals §1.2 killing of Brutus and Cassius
Marcus Junius Brutus, chief assassin of Caesar, defeated and dead at Philippi (42 BC).
- The Histories §1.51 Brutus
Marcus Junius Brutus, Caesar's assassin and champion of the republic.
- The Histories §2.7 Brutus
Marcus Junius Brutus, the chief assassin of Caesar, who carried the civil war across the sea and fell at Philippi.