Voice: O! O!
Cassius: This the King saw and he did not try to prevent it, and he alone remained.
Then he threw his sword to the ground, and dismounting from his horse he unbridled it.
And alone he advanced against the opposing army, holding the bit to heaven,
Thus we saw him advance
Like a wrathful pigeon that leaps towards the female dragging its wings.
Voice: O!
Cassius: This we saw! And they threw themselves upon him tooth and nail like savage rats.
And there were some who took him by the arms and others by the legs and others caught at his head from behind,
And we, unhappy wretches, we saw him towering out of the midst of them, engulfed as far as the girdle.