 He loses and commits suicide by running on his own sword, held for him by a loyal soldier.The play ends with a tribute to Brutus by Antony, who proclaims that Brutus has remained "the noblest Roman of them all" because he was the only conspirator who acted, in his mind, for the good of Rome.There is then a small hint at the friction between Mark Antony and Octavius which characterises another of Shakespeare's Roman plays, "Antony and Cleopatra."