9 High Caesar, great Pompey, and fierce Antonius.
Caesar > (Gaius Julius Caesar, c. 101-44 BC, whose overweening power and ambition led to his assassination) Pompey > (Pompeius Magnus, 106-48 BC, triumvir with Caesar and Crassus; Caesar's great rival) Antonius > (Marcus Antonius, Mark Antony, c. 83-30 BC, triumvir and general; committed suicide after defeat by Octavian)
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Amongst these mighty men were wemen mixt,
2 Proud wemen, vaine, forgetfull of their yoke:
The bold Semiramis, whose sides transfixt
4 With sonnes owne blade, her fowle reproches spoke;
Faire Sthenob{oe}a, that her selfe did choke
6 With wilfull cord, for wanting of her will;
High minded Cleopatra, that with stroke
8 Of Aspes sting her selfe did stoutly kill:
And thousands moe the like, that did that dongeon fill.
1 Amongst these mighty men were women mixed, 2 Proud women, vain, forgetful of their yoke: 3 The bold Semiramis, whose sides transfixed
Semiramis > (Fl. c. 1250 BC, queen of King Ninus of Assyria; seduced her own son, who murdered her)
4 With son's own blade, her foul reproaches spoke; 5 Fair Sthenoboea, that herself did choke
Sthenoboea > (Queen of King Proetus of Argos, rejected lover of his brother Bellerophon; committed suicide on Bellerophon's marriage)
6 With wilful cord, for wanting of her will;
wanting > being deprived