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the childhood friends, the lovers, the conspirators, it’s all the same: brutus, cassius, hand in bloody hand
tristram, dinadan, and palomides! my favorite trio, I love them so much
#arthuriana
thinking about how appian compares cassius to a gladiator and brutus as someone who seeks out knowledge by nature, so this is 'one of those frequent disputes plutarch writes about, except they're just hanging out on some stairs somewhere bickering until the sun goes down' part II
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar Act IV Scene III
aka the dialogue exchange that I have not stopped thinking about since I first read it ten years ago
a quiet moment after that One Fight™ 😔
[with no one else present the two men first began blaming one another and then fell to recriminations and counter-charges. These soon led to indignant reproaches and tear, /plutarch]
right after that one story about cassius punching faustus, brutus takes it upon himself to bandage up his hands 🥺