“Et tu, Brute! Then fall, Caesar.”

Ah, it’s The Ides of March. And so here’s a Quotations from Julius Caesar Quiz.

Good luck! My score was only stumblingly okay … got the famous ones right, basically.

And just for kicks …

Here is “the moment before” in Julius Caesar.

Act II, scene iv, (the end of the act). I love the character of Portia. Here, her sense of foreboding grows. She knows something is going to happen.

PORTIA
Come hither, fellow: which way hast thou been?

Soothsayer
At mine own house, good lady.

PORTIA
What is’t o’clock?

Soothsayer
About the ninth hour, lady.

PORTIA
Is Caesar yet gone to the Capitol?

Soothsayer
Madam, not yet: I go to take my stand,
To see him pass on to the Capitol.

PORTIA
Thou hast some suit to Caesar, hast thou not?

Soothsayer
That I have, lady: if it will please Caesar
To be so good to Caesar as to hear me,
I shall beseech him to befriend himself.

PORTIA
Why, know’st thou any harm’s intended towards him?

Soothsayer
None that I know will be, much that I fear may chance.
Good morrow to you. Here the street is narrow:
The throng that follows Caesar at the heels,
Of senators, of praetors, common suitors,
Will crowd a feeble man almost to death:
I’ll get me to a place more void, and there
Speak to great Caesar as he comes along.

Exit

PORTIA
I must go in. Ay me, how weak a thing
The heart of woman is! O Brutus,
The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise!
Sure, the boy heard me: Brutus hath a suit
That Caesar will not grant. O, I grow faint.
Run, Lucius, and commend me to my lord;
Say I am merry: come to me again,
And bring me word what he doth say to thee.