[70]. J. C., Act. III., Sc. I, ll. 14–27.
[72]. In the monograph to which reference has already been made.
[73]. Page [24]. See later chapter on Brutus.
[74]. Compare Antony’s outburst:
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times. J. C. III., 1, 257–58.
[75]. This is a detail which Pescetti derived from Appian’s “Civil Wars,” Bk. II., Ch. XVI., wherein it is stated that the conspirators had to hasten, as Caesar contemplated departing for Parthia within four days and would thereupon have a bodyguard. (White’s translation, p. 176.)
[76]. Pp. [76]–77. This speech, in substance, occurs both in Muretus and in Grévin.
[77]. I., ii. 199.