My ancestors did from the streets of Rome
The Tarquin drive, when he was called a King.
‘Speak, strike, redress.’—Am I entreated
To speak and strike? O Rome, I make thee promise
If the redress will follow, thou receivest
Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus!”
The exclamatory style is particularly noteworthy, as it occurs frequently in the parallels.
A peculiar difference in treatment, but a striking parallel in content, is to be found in a portion of the Brutus-Cassius scene.[[93]] In Pescetti, Brutus enters the action fully resolved, and though Cassius is already in the plot, that cautious conspirator has his doubts as to Caesar’s vulnerability. Brutus thereupon indulges in an argument curiously similar to that used later by Cassius in Shakespeare’s play when he is striving to arouse Brutus. In Pescetti, Cassius says of Caesar:
“Tu sai, ch’egli è feroce, e ne’ perigli
Non si sgomenta punto, anzi diviene