scends_ Dyce | Enter Pindarus Ff.]

[Note 36-37: One line in Ff.]

[Note 45: [PINDARUS ...] | F1 omits | kills him F2 F3 F4
(after l. 46).]

[Note 46: [_Dies_] Capell | Ff omit.]

[Note 47: Two lines in Ff.]

[Note 50: [_Exit_] Rowe | Ff omit.]

[Note 38: /saving of thy life:/ when I saved thy life. The
usual interpretation, but 'saving' may qualify 'Thou' in l.
40, and then the expression would mean, 'Except for
endangering thy life.']

[Note 43: /hilts./ Shakespeare uses both the singular and the
plural form of this word to describe a single weapon, the
plural more often.]

[Note 46: It was a dagger, not a sword, that Cassius stabbed
Caesar with. But by a common figure of speech the same weapon
is put for the same owner. The 'sword' is taken from Plutarch.
"For he, being overcome in battle at the journey of Philippes,
slew himself with the same sword with the which he strake
Caesar."--Plutarch, _Julius Caesar_.]

[Note 50: "Cassius, thinking indeed that Titinius was taken of
the enemies, he then spake these words: 'Desiring too much to
live, I have lived to see one of my best friends taken, for my
sake, before my face.' After that, he got into a tent where
nobody was, and took Pindarus with him, one of his bondsmen
whom he reserved ever for such a pinch, since the cursed
battle of the Parthians, where Crassus was slain, though he
notwithstanding scaped from that overthrow: but then, casting
his cloak over his head, and holding out his bare neck unto
Pindarus, he gave him his head to be stricken off. So the head
was found severed from the body; but after that time Pindarus
was never seen more."--Plutarch, _Marcus Brutus_.]

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_Re-enter_ TITINIUS, _with_ MESSALA

MESSALA. It is but change, Titinius; for Octavius
Is overthrown by noble Brutus' power,
As Cassius' legions are by Antony.

TITINIUS. These tidings will well comfort Cassius.

MESSALA. Where did you leave him?

TITINIUS. All disconsolate, 55
With Pindarus his bondman, on this hill.

MESSALA. Is not that he that lies upon the ground?

TITINIUS. He lies not like the living. O my heart!

MESSALA. Is not that he?

TITINIUS. No, this was he, Messala,
But Cassius is no more. O setting sun, 60
As in thy red rays thou dost sink to night,
So in his red blood Cassius' day is set;
The sun of Rome is set! Our day is gone;
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