[II.193] [Exeunt severally] Theobald | Exeunt F1.
Act III
[III.1] Rome. Before ... Publius, and others Capell (substantially) | Flourish. Enter Cæsar ... Artimedorus, Publius, and the Soothsayer Ff | Ff omit Popilius.
[III.2] Cf. Plutarch, Julius Cæsar: "There was a certain soothsayer, that had given Cæsar warning long time afore, to take heed of the day of the Ides of March, which is the fifteenth of the month; for on that day he should be in great danger. That day being come, Cæsar, going unto the Senate-house, and speaking merrily unto the soothsayer, told him 'the Ides of March be come.'—'So they be,' softly answered the soothsayer, 'but yet are they not past.'" Note Shakespeare's development of his material.
[III.3] schedule F3F4 | Scedule F1F2.
[III.4] us ourself. The plural of modern English royalty transferred to ancient Rome. Another of the famous anachronisms.
[III.5] See quotation from Plutarch, Julius Cæsar, [above, p. 74].
[III.6] As already indicated (see [note, p. 39, l. 126]), the murder of Cæsar did not take place in the Capitol, but Shakespeare, departing from Plutarch, followed a famous literary tradition. So in Chaucer, The Monkes Tale, ll. 713-720. Cf. the speech of Polonius, Hamlet, III, ii, 108-109: "I did enact Julius Cæsar; I was kill'd i' the Capitol; Brutus kill'd me." See Introduction, Sources, [p. xv.]
[III.7] Cæsar goes ... | Ff omit.
[III.8] Advances ... | Ff omit.