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Marcus Junius Brutus
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Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC), Stoic, philosophical author (he wrote a De Virtute), and leader of Caesar's assassins. Not to be confused with Lucius Junius Brutus, founder of the Republic.
Reading notes
- Consolation to His Mother Helvia §8 Marcus Brutus
Marcus Junius Brutus, the Stoic and tyrannicide; he wrote a book On Virtue and visited the exiled Marcellus at Mytilene.
- On Benefits §2.20.1 Marcus Brutus
M. Junius Brutus (85–42 BC), Stoic and leader of Caesar's assassins; Seneca asks whether he was right to accept his life from the man he meant to kill.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §15.95.45 Marcus Brutus
Marcus Junius Brutus (85–42 BC), Caesar's assassin and a Stoicizing author; his treatise 'On Duty' (peri kathekontos) is cited here.
- Octavia §510 Brutus
Marcus Junius Brutus, who led the assassination of Julius Caesar though spared by him; cited by Nero as proof that mercy invites murder.