A Probable Italian Source of Shakespeare's "Julius Cæsar"

by Alexander Boecker

Insonuere tubae et quanto clamore cohortes

Miscentur tantum nox astra silentibus umbris Phar., Bk. I., 578–80.

Edidit.

Vergil has,

Armorum sonitum toto Germania caelo

Audiit. Georg., Bk. I., l. 474.

[49].

Saepe inter nimbos guttae cecidere cruentae. Met., Bk. XV., l. 788.

Appian mentions the rain of blood in connection with the crossing of the Rubicon.

[50].