[57]. Appian says: “Some of the Conspirators” (1578 Ed.).
[58]. Plutarch, page 119. Skeat.
[59]. This scene goes far beyond Muret and Grévin. In Muretus the scene is confined to the following lines:
Cass.— . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Unus mihi nunc scrupulus restat:
Unane opera confodiendum
Cum Caesare ipso censeas Antonium? Bru.— Jam saepe dixi, id esse consilium mihi,
Salvis perimere civibus tyrannida. Cass.— Perimatur ergo ab infimis radicibus,
Ne quando post hac caesa rursum pullulet. Bru.— Latet sub uno tota radix corpore. Cass.— Itan’ videtur? amplius nil proloquar.
Tibi pareatur; te sequimur omnes ducem.
Vide modo, ut, cum opus erit, adsis. Brut. videro. Lines 184 ff.
Grévin differs but slightly. Cassius says:
Mais j’ay je ne sçay quoy qui mi detient pensif.
N’estes vous pas d’advis que de force pareille
Nous abordions Antoine, à fin qu’il ne resveille,
L’orgueil de ce Tyran en ses nouveaux amis?
M. Brute.