The crossword solution for the term 'TO BE, FOR BRUTUS' is 'ESSE'. This is a Latin phrase meaning 'to be' and is often used in literature. It is most famously used in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, where Marc Antony says 'Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest-- For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men-- Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.' In this speech, Marc Antony uses the phrase 'ESSE' to emphasize that Caesar's death should be accepted as it is.