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Julius Caesar · Act V · Scene IV

Cato and the False Brutus

Scene summary

In the confusion of battle, Brutus rallies his men, and young Cato shouts his own name and dies fighting. Lucilius pretends to be Brutus so as to be captured in his place and is brought before Mark Antony, to whom he declares that no enemy will ever take Brutus alive. Antony recognizes the deception but orders the prisoner treated with kindness.

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