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Brutus the Younger

Assassin of Julius Caesar

  • Fame64.3
  • Momentum15.0
  • Wikipedia72.4K
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Lived -85–-42, aged 43
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  • Era
    -85–-42
    Aged 43
Summary
Updated 2026-06-08

His name became shorthand for betrayal in nearly every European language — the Roman senator who put a dagger in Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, then watched his own cause collapse in civil war two years later.

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Marcus Junius Brutus was a Roman politician and orator who early on opposed Pompey, the man responsible for his father's death, while staying close to Caesar. When Caesar's behaviour grew autocratic after the civil war of 49–45 BC, Brutus joined the conspiracy and took a leading role in the assassination on 15 March 44 BC. The Senate granted the assassins amnesty, but popular unrest drove Brutus and his brother-in-law Cassius out of Rome by April. Octavian, Caesar's adopted son, seized the consulship, retroactively declared the conspirators murderers, and launched a second civil war. In Octobe…

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Brutus the Younger
saidundated
Your councils be long, your doings be slow, consider the end.
— As quoted in "Marcus Brutus" in Lives by Plutarch, as translated by John Dryden
Brutus the Younger
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Yes, indeed, we must fly, but not with our feet, but with our hands..
— As quoted in "Marcus Brutus" in Lives by Plutarch, as translated by John Dryden. Said supporting suicide to escape when someone said they
Brutus the Younger
saidundated
Farewell, good Strato. — Caesar now be still: I kill'd not thee with half so good a will.
— William Shakespeare, depicting the death of Brutus in Julius Caesar, V. v
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