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Julius Caesar

As Antony opens his speech, he presents the audience with a multitude of detailed specific evidence as an aid to convince the Romans to feel angry toward the conspirators. In the previous speech given by Brutus, Brutus states that Caesar's ambition caused the conspiracy against him. Antony proceeds to disprove this accused trait of Caesar's to incite the audience to assess the validity of the accusation. Antony expresses the fact that Caesar had brought many captives to Rome, whose ransomed filled the public treasury. He also reminds the Romans of the feast of Lupercal, when Antony presented him a crown, which Caesar refused three times. If Caesar did those for the good of Rome, he could not have done them ambitiously. "He hath brought many captives home to Rome,/ whose ransoms did the general coffers fill;/ Did in this Caesar seem ambitious?/ You all did see on Lupercal/ I thrice presented him a kingly crown,/ Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?" (III, ii, 89-91,......


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