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cassius
Alternative clues for the word cassius
- He of the "lean and hungry look"
- Shakespeare's "lean and hungry" character
- -- Clay (Muhammad Ali, once)
- Conservative idiot is hanging around university, a plotter
- One who conspired with accountants originally installed in S America
- Senator who was one of the assassins of Julius Caesar
- Prime mover in the conspiracy against Julius Caesar (died in 42 BC)
Word definitions for cassius in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cassius \Cas"sius\, n. [From the name of the discoverer, A. Cassius, a German physician of the 17th centry.] A brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and staining porcelain ...
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" Cassius " is the second single from the album Antidotes by Foals . It is their fifth single in total to date. It was released as a digital download on 18 February 2008 and on CD and vinyl on 10 March 2008. In a video interview with NME , lead singer Yannis ...
Usage examples of cassius.
When Brutus and Cassius marched west on the same road, they had to be halted well east of the Adriatic, and a formidably entrenched force eight legions strong would bring them to an abrupt stop, no matter how enormous their own army was.
Having Cassius Clay speaking on the riverboat had got the belowdecks folks into a state, and some of them were quite angry at Clay for making white folks feel guilty.
Cicero, calling on them, found Servilia convinced that she still possessed enough power in the Senate to have the decision reversed, Cassius in the mood for war, Brutus utterly despondent, Porcia carping and nagging as usual, and Tertulla in the depths of despair because she had lost her baby.
It would not take much to convince the Emperor that this Erich von Harben is an emissary of Cassius Hasta, who is reputed to be in Castra Sanguinarius.
There was Cassius Hasta of Castrum Mare, son of a Caesar, and Maximus Praeclarus, a patrician of Castra Sanguinarius and captain of Legionaries.
Praeclarus about Castra Sanguinarius and with Cassius Hasta about Castrum Mare.
Let Cassius come back and find us sitting on the doorstep of his town!
Cassius as he sauntered through the front door with his usual dilletante grace.
Cassius had suddenly abrogated Stoicism and espoused Epicureanism, for no reason Servilia could see beyond the fact that it devastated Brutus so much that Brutus was avoiding him.
They began making excuses and Cassius could not get them to agree on a proper plan of action.
Caesar will but recall the friendship that ever existed between Cassius Hasta and Mallius Lepus, the nephew of Septimus Favonius.
The thought of finicky Lotte Dietrich, the dour old manhunter Cassius Potter, and laid-back Hector Motlaletsie carousing among the frozen fleshpots of Torngat made me smile.
Karl Nazarian emerged, followed by Lotte Dietrich, Hector Motlaletsie, and Cassius Potter.
Gaius Cassius picked up his two legions of militia outside Smyrna and took them up the valley of the Maeander into Phrygia on a line heading for the tiny trading settlement of Prymnessus.
Gaius Cassius learned of the fate which had befallen Quintus Oppius, he abandoned his militia in Apameia and fled on a sorry horse toward the coast at Miletus, keeping the Maeander River between himself and Mithridates, and traveling completely alone.