[III.125] So in Henry VIII, IV, ii, 45: "Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water."
[III.126] Cæsar's campaigns in Gaul put vast sums of money into his hands, a large part of which he kept to his own use, as he might have kept it all; but he did also, in fact, make over much of it to the public treasury. This was a very popular act, as it lightened the taxation of the city.
[III.127] on the Lupercal: at the festival of the Lupercal.
[III.128] These repetitions of 'honourable man' are intensely ironical; and for that very reason the irony should be studiously kept out of the voice in pronouncing them. Speakers and readers utterly spoil the effect of the speech by specially emphasizing the irony. For, from the extreme delicacy of his position, Antony is obliged to proceed with the utmost caution, until he gets the audience thoroughly in his power. The consummate adroitness which he uses to this end is one of the greatest charms of this oration.
[III.129] to mourn: from mourning. The gerundive use of the infinitive.
[III.130] art F2F3F4 | are F1.
[III.131] 'Brutish' is by no means tautological here, the antithetic sense of human brutes being most artfully implied.
[III.132] It was here, as the first words of the reply of the Third Citizen, that Pope would have inserted the quotation preserved in Jonson's Discoveries, discussed in [note, p. 83, ll. 47-48]. Pope's note is:
"Cæsar has had great wrong.
3 Pleb. Cæsar had never wrong, but with just cause.