person
Marcus Junius Brutus
Brutus
Orator, Stoic, and chief assassin of Julius Caesar (85–42 BC); his austere, 'Attic' oratory was thought listless. Praised here for frank, unspiteful judgement.
Reading notes
- A Dialogue on Oratory §17 Brutus
M. Junius Brutus, the orator, Stoic, and assassin of Caesar.