Ju ‧ li ‧ us Cae ‧ sar /ˌdʒuːliəs ˈsiːzəʳ/ BrE AmE
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’.