Typical tales of fancy, romance, and history from Shakespeare's plays; in narrative form, largely in Shakespeare's words, with dialogue passages in the original dramatic text . edupon the names of thosewho it was decided should die ; and even their desire toavenge the death of Caesar was swallowed up in their eagerness to be rid of their ownpersonal enemies. To reach this end, they arranged with one another : Octaviusconsented to give up to Antonys revenge the great orator Cicero, who was hisenemy, and had written and spoken bitterly against him, on condition that Antonyshould sacrifice his un
Typical tales of fancy, romance, and history from Shakespeare's plays; in narrative form, largely in Shakespeare's words, with dialogue passages in the original dramatic text . edupon the names of thosewho it was decided should die ; and even their desire toavenge the death of Caesar was swallowed up in their eagerness to be rid of their ownpersonal enemies. To reach this end, they arranged with one another : Octaviusconsented to give up to Antonys revenge the great orator Cicero, who was hisenemy, and had written and spoken bitterly against him, on condition that Antonyshould sacrifice his uncle Lucius Caesar, who was the enemy of Octavius; whileLepidus consented to the death of his own brother Paulus, at the demand of theother two. They seemed to vie with each other in eagerness to prick, or markfor slaughter, their relatives and friends. Antony. These many then shall die ; their names are Your brother too must die : consent you, Lepidus ?Lepidtis. I do consent — Octavius. Prick him down, Antony. Lepidus. Upon condition Publius shall not live,Who is your sisters son, Mark Antony. Antony. He shall not live ; look, with a spot I damn More than three hundred of the leading citizens of Rome fell by this bloodyproscription. The fugitive conspirators were scattered over the empire. Brutus and Cassius,however, had bent all their energies to the raising of an army, and it was needfulfor the Triumvirate to form a strong alliance, if they hoped to hold securely allthey had won at such a fearful cost. By their abuse of power they soon madethemselves very odious at Rome, and were not at peace among was jealous and envious of the others. Some sort of division, however,was at last made of the army and treasure. Lepidus remained at Rome to take 204 SHAKESPEARE FOR THE YOUNG FOLK. care of public affairs, while Antony and Octavius Caesar went to Macedonia tomeet the two leading tyrant-killers (as they would fain be called), and the forceth
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