a play by William Shakespeare about the murder of the Roman leader Julius Caesar, and about his friend Brutus, who thinks Caesar is taking too much power and so joins his murderers. After Julius Caesar's death his friend Mark Antony makes a famous speech to the crowd beginning with the words "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears".
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
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