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 . Act IV. Scenes 1-3. ,HEN the people were in such a mood, Rome was no placefor the conspirators. Antony, passing from the Forumafter his triumph, was met by the servant of Octavius,and informed that that young gentleman and Lepidus,f^p. the commander of the Roman cavalry, were already inthe city, at the house of Caesar, and that Brutus, Cas-sius, and the other conspirators had ridden like madmenthrough the gates of
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 . Act IV. Scenes 1-3. ,HEN the people were in such a mood, Rome was no placefor the conspirators. Antony, passing from the Forumafter his triumph, was met by the servant of Octavius,and informed that that young gentleman and Lepidus,f^p. the commander of the Roman cavalry, were already inthe city, at the house of Caesar, and that Brutus, Cas-sius, and the other conspirators had ridden like madmenthrough the gates of Rome. Then these three men (the Triumvirate, as they were afterwards called) —Octavius Caesar, the grand-nephew, adopted son, and heir of the great Julius ; MarkAntony, the dissolute but brilliant soldier, true friend and lover of Caesar; andLepidus, the master of Caesars horse, who was to have succeeded him as gov-ernor of Gaul — met together to divide between them the empire of the at first underrated Octavius, on account of his youth; but he soon dis-covered the power and influence of the young man who was to become theEmperor Augustus. Lepidus he always
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