...into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point?' Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, And bade him follow: so, indeed, he did. The torrent roar'd;...of controversy: But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Cœsar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!' I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor, Did from the...

...into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point?' Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow; so indeed he did. The torrent roar'd,...of controversy; But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!' I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor, Did from the...

...word, Accoutered as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow; so indeed he did. The torrent roared, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it...aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy. A Modern Perspective 223 At a key moment in the play, when Brutus tries to justify murdering Caesar,...

...Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, And bade him follow,— so, indeed, he did ; The torrent roared ; and we did buffet it With lusty sinews ; throwing it aside, And stemming it with hearts of contawersy.' ' Shakespeare, Juttm Caesar. It was only near the foot of the Capitol that any buildings...