Antony gets the last word on Brutus

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Antony gets the last word on Brutus. What he says is lovely. It's also an odd way to describe the man you have been trying to kill for the last two acts. Is this play the tragedy of Brutus? If so, how does his death serve justice? Does Frye's (Shakespearean) description of tragedy work here?

 

Antony           This was the noblest Roman of them all.

All the conspirators save only he

Did that they did in envy of great Caesar.

He only in a general honest thought

And common good to all made one of them.

His life was gentle and the elements

So mixed in him that nature might stand up

And say to all the world "This was a man."