Choose the answer.
read the passage.

brutus: if there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of caesar's, to him i say, that brutus's love to caesar was no less than his.

which best expresses the explicit meaning in this passage?

a. brutus loved caesar more than any of you here.

b. if any of you are caesar's friend, know that i loved him just as much as you did.

c. i'm only speaking to caesar's friends, to let you know that i loved caesar less.

d. i want to say caesar's friends that brutus loved caesar just as much as caesar loved brutus.