Lucius
Family: Bрутus's household · Role: servant · First appears: Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene I
In Julius Caesar, Lucius serves in Marcus Brutus’s household. In Act II, Scene I, Marcus Brutus orders him, “Get me a taper in my study, Lucius,” and in Scene III Portia sends him to report on her lord, telling him, “Run, Lucius, and commend me to my lord.”
Later, in Antony and Cleopatra, Lucius is identified as Mark Antony’s sibling. At Italy, his war with Fulvia ends, and they become friends and join forces against Octavius Caesar, making Octavius Caesar his enemy.
Relationship record
Life events
- Fulvia and Lucius end their war and join forces against Octavius Caesar.(Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene II · 📍 Italy)
- With: Fulvia Octavius Caesar
- “But soon that war had end, and the time’s state Made friends of them, jointing their force ’gainst Caesar, Whose better issue in the war from Italy Upon the first encounter drave them.”
Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene I
- employer: Marcus Brutus “Get me a taper in my study, Lucius: When it is lighted, come and call me here.”
Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene III
- employer: Portia “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.”
- employer: Marcus Brutus “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.”
Julius Caesar · Act IV, Scene II
- employer: Marcus Brutus “LUCIUS. It is my duty, sir.”
Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene II
- siblings with Mark Antony “Against my brother Lucius.”
- friends with Fulvia “But soon that war had end, and the time’s state Made friends of them, jointing their force ’gainst Caesar,”
- enemies with Octavius Caesar “But soon that war had end, and the time’s state Made friends of them, jointing their force ’gainst Caesar,”
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