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Question: Julius Caesar Paraphrasing of Antony?

When you paraphrase a passage, you express its ideas in your own words.

Read the numbered passages below in their contexts before you paraphrase each.

1. Antony. That I did love thee, Caesar, O, 'tis tue!
If then thy spirit look upon us now,
Shall it not grieve thee dearer than thy death
To see thy Antony making his peace,
Shaking the bloody fingers of thy foes,
Most noble, in the presence of thy corse?

2. Antony. 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;

I need you to paraphrase (make these into your own words and thoughts). Best answer gets well, the best answer.

Answer: 1. for your 1st passage. the modern text is at this link

http://nfs.sparknotes.com/juliuscaesar/page_116.html

It shows the original text next to a modern traslation, so it makes it easier to understand.
But you should really paraphrase it on your own. Its not too hard to figure out

2. As for your 2nd passage, He's just asking everyone in the audience to listen. He saying he hasn't come to say a whole bunch of nice things about caesar, he's come to bury him. like he's just there speaking at his funeral. Then he goes on to say that basically people only remember the bad things a person has done after they are dead, and all of the good things are buried with them.

the modern text for that is at this link

http://nfs.sparknotes.com/juliuscaesar/page_132.html

The assassinationof Cpt.Caesar