7 potuisti = had you the heart to—question indicated by tone of the voice.
10-11 non . . . succurrit = did it not occur to you?
19-20 invidia rei oppressum = overwhelmed by the unpopularity of his action.
20 alii alio leto, e.g. i. by a voluntary death; ii. put to death by the Volscians; iii. lived to old age in exile.
References. Cic. Brutus x. (compared to Themistocles). Plutarch, Coriolanus.
‘The germ from which the whole legend sprang is the story of the filial love of Coriolanus, and of the great authority exercised in olden times by Roman matrons over their sons and husbands.’ Ihne.
Shakespeare, Coriolanus, V. iii.