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Marcus Junius Brutus (c.55-42 B.C.). One of the conspirators against Caesar. "The glamor thrown over the character of Brutus by Shakespeare will, unhappily, not bear scrutiny. He was at one time a relentless usurer and did not scruple to apply to Cicero as Governor of Cilicia for power to make unlawful exactions." (The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. IV, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920, 73.)
John Clark Ridpath, Ridpath's History of the World, Vol. II (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 248. (Rome, Capitol)
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