The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere . [The Tiber. Mount Aventiue in the distance. 163. [Isola Tiberiana.] ILLUSTRATIONS OF ACT I. Scene I.— Suffer us to famish, and their store-houses crammed with grain. Plutarch describes two insurrections of the Ro-man plebeians against the patricians. The secondwas on account of the scarcity of corn, and is thusrelated:— Now, wlien this war was ended, the flatterers ofthe people began to stir up sedition again, witlioutany new occasion or just matter oftered of com-plaint. For they did ground this second insurrec-tion against the nobility and pa
The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere . [The Tiber. Mount Aventiue in the distance. 163. [Isola Tiberiana.] ILLUSTRATIONS OF ACT I. Scene I.— Suffer us to famish, and their store-houses crammed with grain. Plutarch describes two insurrections of the Ro-man plebeians against the patricians. The secondwas on account of the scarcity of corn, and is thusrelated:— Now, wlien this war was ended, the flatterers ofthe people began to stir up sedition again, witlioutany new occasion or just matter oftered of com-plaint. For they did ground this second insurrec-tion against the nobility and patricians upon thepeoples misery and misfortune, tliat could not butfall out, by reason of the former discord and sedi-tion between them and the nobility. Because themost part of the arable land within the territory ofRome was become heathy and barren for lack ofploughing, for that they had no time nor mean tocause corn to he brought them out of other countriesto sow, by reason of their wars, which made the ex-treme dearth they had among them. Now thosebusy prattlers, tiiat sought the peopl
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