3 Read the excerpt from act 4 scene 3 of The Tragedy of

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3 Read the excerpt from act 4 scene 3 of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar BRUTUS Messala I have here receiv d letters That young Octavius and Mark Antony Come down upon us MESSALA Myself have letters of the selfsame tenor BRUTUS With what addition MESSALA That by proscription and bills of outlawry Octavius Antony and Lepidus Have put to death an hundred senators BRUTUS Therein our letters do not well agree Mine speak of seventy senators that died By their proscriptions Cicero being one CASSIUS Cicero one MESSALA Ay Cicero is dead And by that order of proscription What is the central idea of this excerpt O the power of love the value of peace the ruthlessness of power the importance of compromise