Rhetoric In Julius Caesar

"You all saw that on the Lupercal feast day I offered him a king’s crown three times, and he refused it three times. Was this ambition?" (Antony 94).
"I will have when you hear the rest of what I have to say. The senate has decided to give mighty Caesar a crown today. If you send them word that you won’t come, they might change their minds" (Decius 92).
“Then we’ll explain to you why I, who loved Caesar even while I stabbed him, have taken this course of action" (Brutus 191).
This is an example of logos because Antony uses the repetition of the number 3. He explains how, 3 times, he offered a crown to Caesar, and that each time he turned it down. How could Caesar really be ambitious if he turned down a crown so many times?
This is an example of pathos because Decius knows that Caesar desperately wants a crown. He's using Caesar's feelings against him by giving him hope that he will get a crown. He tries to make Caesar feel that he'll be sad if he doesn't go.
Brutus is using ethos here by saying that if he, a man who truly loved Caesar, felt it was necessary to kill him, then it must've been. He must be able to justify his actions because he was friends with Caesar. He would be a credible person to explain why the conspirators did what they did.

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