Mark Antony

[ mahrk an-tuh-nee ]

noun

1. Antony, Mark.

Mark Antony

noun

1. See Antony

Antony, Mark

1. A historical politician and general of ancient Rome , who appears as a character in the plays Antony and Cleopatraand 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 .”

Example Sentences

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

“The last guy that made a speech in these sorts of surroundings started with ‘friends, Romans and countrymen,’” he began, quoting Mark Antony from Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.”

From New York Times

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

In 1962 he played Mark Antony in the New York Shakespeare Festival’s production of “Julius Caesar.”

From New York Times

The great speeches of Brutus and Mark Antony at Caesar’s funeral were addressed to the chorus, which responded with volatile moods: aroused, becalmed, confused, manipulated.

From New York Times