6. Power to locate. (a) To attribute a line or statement to a certain person on a certain occasion. (b) To cap a line. (c) To fill in the right word or epithet. FLAVIUS, MARULLUS, Tribunes. ARTEMIDORUS of Cnidos, a teacher of Rhetoric. CINNA, a Poet; another Poet; a Soothsayer. SCENE-ROME; SARDIS; and near PHILIPPI. THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CÆSAR ACT I SCENE I Rome. A street Enter FLAVIUS, MARULLUS, and a rabble of Citizens. Flav. Hence! home, you idle creatures, get you home. Is this a holiday? What! know you not, Of your profession?-Speak, what trade art thou? 1 Cit. Why, sir, a carpenter. Mar. Where is thy leather apron, and thy rule? What dost thou with thy best apparel on?You, sir; what trade are you? 2 Cit. Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, 10 I am but, as you would say, a cobbler. Mar. But what trade art thou? Answer me directly. 2 Cit. A trade, sir, that I hope I may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles. |