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Plutarch's Lives of Coriolanus, Caesar, Brutus, and Antonius
Plutarch's Lives of Coriolanus Caesar Brutus and Antonius Author:Plutarch Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES ON THE LIFE OF CORIOLANUS P. 1. 11. 1-8. Cf. Shakespeare, Ooriolanus ii. 8. 246-53:— The noble house o' the Marcians, from whence came That Ancus Mar... more »cius, Numa's daughter's son, Who, after great Hostilius, here was king; Of the same house Publius and Quintus were, That our best water brought by conduits hither; And Censoriuus, that was so surnam'd,— And nobly nam'd so, twice being censor,— Was his great ancestor. For 11. 251-3 the Folios have :— And Nobly uam'd, so twice being Censor, Was his great Ancestor. Pope inserted: And Censorinus, darling of the. people. The eds. of the Cambridge Shakespeare suggest rather tamely : And Censorinus nobly named so Twice being by the people chosen censor. The emendation quoted above from the Oxford Shakespeare is that of Delius. 1. 6. Conduits. The 1579 ed. has 'conducts' (see Introd. p. xvii). P. 2. 1 . 27—P. 3. 1 . 4. Cf. Sh. Cor. ii. 2. 92-103. I. 83. As it were to set up his whole rest, i.e. to stake his last chance. A favourite idiom of North's, corresponding to Amyot's ' feit tout son dernier effort'. The origin of the phrase is disputed, but it is generally supposed to be a metaphor from the game of primero. ' In primero a player who stood upon the cards in his hand in the hope that they might prove stronger than those held by his opponent was said to stand upon his rest.' (Cent. Diet.) For the cognate meaning of' to make up one's mind' cf. Sh. Jtereh. of Yen. ii. 2. 112-14: 'As I have set up my rest to run away, so I will not rest till I have run some ground.' P. 4. 1 . 10. Without. A printer's error, corrected in 1603 and subsequent edd. to ' with'. II. 12-19. Cf. Sh. Cor. i. 1. 88-41, and ill 2. 107-8. 1. 29. Two children. 'Two' is inserted by North. Ainyot and Plutarch used the plural simply...« less