Last of the Romans

Marcus Junius Brutus, one of the murderers of Cæsar. (B.C. 85–42.)

Caius Cassius Longiʹnus, so called by Brutus. (Died B.C. 42.)

Stilicho, the Roman general under Theodosius. (The Nineteenth Century, Sepember, 1892.)

Aētius, a general who defended the Gauls against the Franks and other barbarians, and defeated Attila in the Champs Catalaumques, near Châlons, in 451. So called by Procoʹpius.

François Joseph Terasse Desbillons; so called from the elegance and purity of his Latin. (1751–1789.)

Pope calls Congreve Ultimus Romanorum. (1670–1729.) (See Ultimus.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Last of the Romans

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