To our confusion.
(III. xiii. 111.)
Of the preliminary blunder, which Plutarch signalises as “among the greatest faults that ever Antonius committed,” viz., his failure to give Octavius battle, when universal discontent was excited at home by Octavius’ exactions, there is no mention, or only a very slight and doubtful one in the play. When Eros has told the news of Pompey’s overthrow and Lepidus’ deposition, Enobarbus at once foresees the sequel:
Then, world, thou hast a pair of chaps, no more:
And throw between them all the food thou hast,
They’ll grind the one the other.
(III. v. 14.)
And presently he continues:
Our great navy’s rigg’d.
Eros. For Italy and Caesar. More, Domitius,