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Julius Caesar Vocabulary
Construe
Interpret
Cogitations
Thoughts
Accoutered
Fully armed
Entreat
Make an earnest request of
Fain
Gladly
Mettle
Temperament
Prodigies
Omens
Portentous
Foreboding
Augmented
Made greater in size; established
Visage
Face
Affability
Friendliness; graciousness
Ingrafted
Planted firmly; established
Prodigies
Signs of Disaster
Augurers
Professional interpreters of omens
Appertain
Belong to as a proper function or part
Emulation
Envy
Puissant
Powerful; mighty
Malice
Ill-will or spite
Appeased
Soothed; pacified
Strife
Struggle, fight or quarrel
Oration
Formal speech
Base
Devoid of high values or ethics
Coffers
Public treasury
Mantle
Cloak
Conspirator
One who plans with others to commit an illegal act
Legacies
Inherited money or goods
Chastisement
Punishment
Covetous
Wanting the possessions of others
Exigent
Critical Moment
Ensign
Colors; flag carried by a company
Engendered
Conceived
Envenomed
Poisoned
Entrails
Internal organs, especially intestines
Cato
Soldier in the army of Brutus and Cassius
Rome
… not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved ____ more
Varro
Servant of Brutus
dreams
Calphurnia tries to convince Caesar that her ______ are omens of tragedy
oath
Brutus thinks a just cause needs no ____ to bind the doers to their cause
will
Caesar, now be still.
I killed not thee with half so good a ____.
Julius
______ Caesar
man
… that Nature might stand up and say to all the world, ‘This was a ___’
wife
Render me worthy of this noble ____!
funeral
Antony spoke at Caesar’s _______
Decius
Reinterprets Calphurnia’s dream and convinces Caesar to go to the Senate
March
Beware the Ides of _____
Cinna
Plants the forged letters for Cassius
Crown
Antony offered Caesar a _____.
Artemidorus
Gives Caesar a letter of warning naming the conspirators
Butchers
Let us be sacrificers, but not ________, Caius.
Cassius
Organizes the conspiracy & gets Brutus to join
Ligarius
Vows to follow Brutus
Tyranny
Liberty! Freedom! _______ is dead!
Antony
Devoted follower of Caesar; defeats Brutus
Flavius
Tribune who breaks up crowd waiting to honor Caesar’s triumph
Brutus
Joins and then leads the conspiracy to kill Caesar
Calphurnia
Caesar’s wife
Casca
First to stab Caesar
Might
I have man’s mind, but a women’s _____
Friends
_______, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears
Metellus
Distracts Caesar’s attention so the conspirators can carry out their plan
Brutus
Who said, “The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.”
Brutus
Who said, “Let’s kill him boldly but not wrathfully. Let’s carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds. And let our hearts, as subtle masters do, Stir up their servants to an act of rage And after seem to chide ’em. This shall make Our purpose necessary and not envious, Which so appearing to the common eyes, We shall be called purgers, not murderers.
And for Mark Antony, think not of him, For he can do no more than Caesar’s arm When Caesar’s head is off.”
Caesar
Who said, “Thrice hath Calphurnia in her sleep cried out, ‘Help,ho! They murder Caesar!’”
Cinna
Who said, ” Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!”
Cassius
Who said, “You know not what you do. Do not consent that Antony speak in his funeral.”
Brutus
Who said, “… not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”
Antony
Who said, ” Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears…”
Antony
Who said, ” Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot, take thou what course thou wilt.”
Cassius
Who said, ” Caesar, thou art revenged, even with the sword that killed thee.”
Brutus
Who said, ” Caesar, now be still. I killed not thee with half so good a will.”
Antony
Who said, ” This was the noblest Roman of them all.All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar. He only in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements
So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, “This was a man.”
sword
Caesar, thou art revenged, even with the _____ that killed thee.
Strato
Holds Brutus’s suicide sword
Portia
Wife of Brutus
Voluminous
Friend and Soldier to Brutus; refuses to hold Brutus’s sword
Lucius
Servant to Brutus
Lucilius
Captured by Antony’s soldiers, mistaken for Brutus
Titinius
Officer; guards tent at Sardis
Messala
Reports Portia’s death, discovers Cassius’s body
Cicero
Roman Senator to whom Casca talks on the eve of the assassination
Clitus
Servant of Brutus; refused to kill Brutus
Trebonius
Takes Antony away from the assassination scene so he won’t interfere
Octavius
Heir of Julius Caesar
Senate
Caesar goes to this meeting
Publius
One of the many who escort Caesar to the Senate meeting
Hungry
Yond Cassius has a lean and ______ look
