From the novel; Julius Ceasar
‘Night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest, that have but laboured to attain this hour’.
Brutus’ words in the above lines come
- after the conclution of the plan to kill caesar
- soon after his wife's insisted to know the object of his unusual brooding
- as part of his famous address to his fellow Romans
- during a brief meeting between him and Cassius on how to counter the forces of Octavius and Antony
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after his defeat by the forces of Octavius and Antony.
