18 Metaphors for antony

Antony becomes a misanthrope.

St. Antony the abbot is a favourite saint in pictures painted for the Augustine hermits.

Antony was now the real master of Rome.

Late one October night, Antony, alone with Silencieux, as was now again his custom, was surprised to hear footsteps coming hastily up the wood, and even more surprised at the sudden unusual appearance of Beatrice.

" "But Sir Antony is a Tory, I understand, Mr. Budge!

Antony was elated at this and furthermore based great hopes upon Monaeses, who had promised him to lead his army and bring over to him most of Parthia without conflict.

"You, pretty Marquise, would call me a fool because to-day Antony is not my lover.

Macbeth says that "under Banquo his own genius was rebuked [or snubbed], as it is said Mark Antony's was by Cæsar" (act iii.

Antony's was the easier dream.

Mark Antony, when judged by our standards, was certainly, as well as Ptolemy, a depraved and vicious man; but his depravity was of a very different type from that of Cleopatra's father.

Marc Antony was a great general.

In emulation of his father he had started out to lead an expedition into Britain, and had already advanced into Gaul after the winter in which Antony for the second time and Lucius Libo were consuls, when some of the newly captured and Dalmatians with them rose in revolt.

Mark Antony was a special object of public regard and admiration at the time.

He understood well that he should find no great difficulty in fighting against the latter, if with his aid he could first overcome his adversaries, but that Antony would be a powerful antagonist on any subsequent occasion.

"Well, I suppose it is true more or less, but Antony is always the person who holds the cheek, hardly even complacentlygenerally with perfect indifference.

When Caesar was assassinated, Antony was the most powerful man of the empire.

Decimus did not look askance particularly at Caesar, for the latter had uttered no threats against the assassins: on the other hand, he saw that Antony was no more formidable a foe than his rival, or, indeed, than himself or any of the rest who were in power as a result of natural acquisitiveness; therefore he refused to give ground before him.

Antony was by nature a genial, open-hearted Roman, a good soldier, quick, resolute, and vigorous, but reckless and self-indulgent, devoid alike of prudence and of principle.

18 Metaphors for  antony