E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Last of the Romans.
Marcus Junius Brutus, one of the murderers of Cæsar. (B.C. 85–42.)
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Caius Cassius Longi’nus, so called by Brutus. (DiedB.C. 42.)
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Stilicho, the Roman general under Theodosius. (The Nineteenth Century, Sepember, 1892.)
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Atius, a general who defended the Gauls against the Franks and other barbarians, and defeated Attila in the Champs Catalaumques, near Châlons, in 451. So called by Proco’pius.
4
François Joseph Terasse Desbillons; so called from the elegance and purity of his Latin. (1751–1789.)
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Pope calls Congreve Ultimus Romanorum. (1670–1729.) (See ULTIMUS.)
tius, a general who defended the Gauls against the Franks and other barbarians, and defeated Attila in the Champs Catalaumques, near Châlons, in 451. So called by Proco’pius.
