![]() ![]() As reported in Plutarch's Anthony' William Shakespeare adapted this in having Caesar declare Cassius as having "a lean and hungry look.".It is not the well-fed long-haired man I fear, but the pale and the hungry looking.His declaration as to why he had divorced his wife Pompeia, when questioned in the trial against Publius Clodius Pulcher for sacrilege against Bona Dea festivities (from which men were excluded), in entering Caesar's home disguised as a lute-girl apparently with intentions of a seducing Caesar's wife as reported in Plutarch's Lives of Coriolanus, Caesar, Brutus, and Antonius by Plutarch, as translated by Thomas North, p. ![]()
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