 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1847 - 570 pages
...But ere we could arrive the point propos'd, Caesar cry'd, Help me, Cassius, or I sink. I, as ./Eneas, our great ancestor, Did from the flames of Troy upon...shoulder The old Anchises bear, so, from the waves of Tyber Did I the tired Csesar : And this man Is now become a god ; and Cassius is A wretched creature,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 568 pages
...Troy upon his shoulder The old Anchiscs bear, so, from the waves of Tyber Did I the tired Caesar : And this man Is now become a god ; and Cassius is A wretched creature, and must bend his body, If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And, when the fit was on him,... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 400 pages
...Troy, upon his shoulders, The old Anchises bear, so, from the waves of Tyber, Did I the tired Caesar : And this man Is now become a god ; and Cassius is A wretched creature, and must bend his body, If Csesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him,... | |
 | Derek Traversi - 1963 - 300 pages
...belittlement colours the speaker's words and is related to its true cause in the revealing conclusion : this man Is now become a god, and Cassius is A wretched creature, and must bend his body If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. [I. ii. 1 15.] Perhaps it is not altogether certain that Cassius... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 pages
...upon his shoulders, The old Anchises bear, so, from the waves of Tyber, Did I the tired Caesar. — And this man Is now become a god ; and Cassius is A wretched creature, and must bend his body, If Caesar carelessly but nod at him. He had a fever when he was in Spain ; And, when the fit was on him,... | |
 | L. C. Knights - 1979 - 326 pages
...says to Brutus: I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. . . . . . . And this man Is now become a god, and Cassius is A wretched creature and must bend his body If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. Caesar, he says to Casca, is: A man no mightier than thyself or me... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - 2004 - 264 pages
...Andronicus. The reference to Vergil becomes explicit as Cassius remembers his rescue of Caesar: 1, as Aeneas, our great ancestor, Did from the flames of Troy upon...old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber Did 1 the tired Caesar. (112-15) In so rhetorically taut and controlled a play, this allusion to Vergil... | |
 | Paul N. Siegel - 1986 - 176 pages
...whom Cassius complains (1.2.115— 18) — and his words accurately describe Caesar's behaviour — "This man/ Is now become a god, and Cassius is/ A wretched creature and must bend his body/ If Caesar carelessly but nod on him." He disregards omens and prophecies and stalks blindly to his doom.... | |
 | Peter Salovey - 1991 - 316 pages
...ere we could arrive the point propos'd, Caesar cried, "Help me, Cassius, or I sink!" I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor, Did from the flames of Troy upon...Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber Did I the tired Caesar. And this man Is now become a god, and Cassius is A wretched creature and must bend his body... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 pages
...me, Cassius, or I sink! ' ( 1 07-1 1 1 ) He sees Caesar's political success as a personal injustice: And this man Is now become a god, and Cassius is A wretched creature, and must bend his body If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. (115-118) About here, the actor finds Cassius' long speech is very... | |
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Help me, Cassius, or I sink.' I, as ./Eneas, our great ancestor, Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder The old Anchises bear ; so, from the waves of... 
