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प्रश्न
Answer the following question briefly.
When he is left alone with the body of Caesar what does Anthony call Brutus and the others?
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उत्तर
Antony begs pardon for he is being meek and gende with Caesar’s killers. He calls Caesar ‘a bleeding piece of earth’ and ‘ruins of the noblest man that ever lived in the tide of times’. He curses the hands that shed the cosdy blood of Caesar.
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c) What was Cassius' motive for murdering Julius Caesar?
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