midnight
`` This answer to thy challenge : Can Antony find no better way of death than beneath the sword of Cæsar ? Farewell ! '' And thereafter they cheered no more . The darkness came , and before it was midnight , having feasted with his friends who to-night went over his woes and to-morrow should betray him , Antony went forth to the gathering of the captains of the land-forces and of the fleet , attended by many , among whom was I . When all were come together , he spoke to them , standing bareheaded in their midst , beneath the radiance of the moon . And thus he most nobly spoke : `` Friends and companions in arms ! who yet cling to me , and whom many a time I have led to victory , hearken to me now , who to-morrow may lie in the dumb dust , disempired and dishonoured .