Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious.
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest—
For Brutus is an honorable man;
So are they all, all honorable men—
Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me.
But Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
And, sure, he is an honorable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause.
What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me.
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
Η ειρωνεία στα καλύτερα της. Με πόνο ψυχής, ο Αντώνιος μιλάει πάνω από το φέρετρο του Καίσαρα, χάρις στη δυνατότητα που του έδωσαν οι δολοφόνοι του. Δράττεται της ευκαιρίας και βγάζει ένα λόγο με ρητορική ευελιξία.
Ο Μάρκος Αντώνιος επαναλαμβάνει τέσσερις φορές ότι "Ο Βρούτος είναι έντιμος άνθρωπος", ακριβώς για να υπονοήσει το αντίθετο. Και φέρνει τους δράστες προ των ευθυνών τους, μπροστά στο κοινό της Ρώμης.
Friends, Romans, Countrymen.
Αν ζούσε στην Αθήνα, ίσως τη γλύτωνε με έναν εξοστρακισμό ο Ιούλιος. Στη Ρώμη δεν είχε όμως ελπίδα, είχε μαζέψει όλα τα βλέμματα και τα πυρά επάνω του. Ήταν απλά θέμα χρόνου. Et tu Brute? Wer sonst?
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious.
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest—
For Brutus is an honorable man;
So are they all, all honorable men—
Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me.
But Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
And, sure, he is an honorable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause.
What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me.
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
Η ειρωνεία στα καλύτερα της. Με πόνο ψυχής, ο Αντώνιος μιλάει πάνω από το φέρετρο του Καίσαρα, χάρις στη δυνατότητα που του έδωσαν οι δολοφόνοι του. Δράττεται της ευκαιρίας και βγάζει ένα λόγο με ρητορική ευελιξία.
Ο Μάρκος Αντώνιος επαναλαμβάνει τέσσερις φορές ότι "Ο Βρούτος είναι έντιμος άνθρωπος", ακριβώς για να υπονοήσει το αντίθετο. Και φέρνει τους δράστες προ των ευθυνών τους, μπροστά στο κοινό της Ρώμης.
Friends, Romans, Countrymen.
Αν ζούσε στην Αθήνα, ίσως τη γλύτωνε με έναν εξοστρακισμό ο Ιούλιος. Στη Ρώμη δεν είχε όμως ελπίδα, είχε μαζέψει όλα τα βλέμματα και τα πυρά επάνω του. Ήταν απλά θέμα χρόνου. Et tu Brute? Wer sonst?
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