[231] E.g., by Delius. Shakespeare’s Coriolanus in seinem Verhältness zum Coriolanus des Plutarch (Jahrbuch der D.-Sh. Gesellschaft, xi. 1876).
[232] In some respects Shakespeare’s details remind me more of Livy than either of Plutarch or Camden; e.g., “Inde apparuisse ventris quoque haud segne ministerium esse, nec magis ali quam alere eum, reddentem in omnis corporis partes hunc, quo vivimus vigemusque, divisum pariter in venas maturum confecto cibo sanguinem.”
(II. 32.) Cf.
I receive the general food at first,
Which you do live upon; ...
... but, if you do remember,
I send it through the rivers of your blood, ...
And through the cranks and offices of man,
The strongest nerves and small inferior veins
From me receive that natural competency