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Grocott & Ward, comps.  Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed.  189-?.
 
Romans
 
Romans, countrymen, and lovers.
        Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act III. Scene 2. (Brutus’ Address to the Citizens after Cæsar’s death.)		  1
The last of all the Romans, fare thee well!
        Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act V. Scene 3. (Brutus on seeing Cassius dead.)		  2
This was the noblest Roman of them all.
        Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act V. Scene 5. (Antony on seeing Brutus dead.)		  3
It is the finest piece that has been composed, as some pedant has said, since the Romans died.
        Horace Walpole.—Letter to Mason, 2nd March, 1773. (With reference to Sir Thomas Wyat’s Oration.)		  4
 
 
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