"Mark antony" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Caesar was talking to some of the back-country members about the approaching fall elections, and paying little attention to what was going on around him. Billy Trebonius got into conversation with the people's friend and Caesar's—Mark Antony—and under some pretence or other got him away, and Brutus, Decius, Casca, Cinna, Metellus Cimber, and others of the gang of infamous desperadoes that infest Rome at present, closed around the doomed Caesar. Then ...
— Editorial Wild Oats • Mark Twain
... of one of these young men, and afterward of the father himself, rekindled the flame of war in Palestine. But the Romans under Gabinius and the celebrated Mark Antony, speedily subdued the hasty levies of Aristobulus, and completely re-established the ascendency of the Republic in all the revolted districts. In the civil war which ensued, Antipater, who still directed the affairs of the weak-minded ...
— Palestine or the Holy Land - From the Earliest Period to the Present Time • Michael Russell
... wish to be there to enjoy it. Such a thing might help one to an appreciation of certain incidents in Roman history, like the turmoils in the time of the Gracchi, and the scene in the forum when Mark Antony played on the heartstrings of the populace. Everything is grist that comes to our mill. Even a football game is a modern rendition of a gladiatorial combat. Don't you ...
— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins
... proceedings by carrying the lady off by force. At banquets he would raise a disturbance, and while he was being forcibly ejected from one door, his servants would sneak in at another and steal the silverware, which he would give away as charity. He also indulged in the Mark Antony trick of rushing into houses at night and pulling good folks out of bed by the heels, and then running away ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 • Elbert Hubbard
... marching from the sea With Caesar's cohorts sang of thee, How thy fair head was more to him Than all the land of Italy. Yea, in the old days thou wast she Who lured Mark Antony from home To death and Egypt, seeing he Lost love ...
— The Little Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse
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