Eros. For Italy and Cæsar. More, Domitius;
My lord desires you presently: my news
I might have told hereafter.
Eno. 'Twill be naught;
But let it be. Bring me to Antony.24
Eros. Come, sir.Exeunt.
Scene Six
[Rome. A Room in Cæsar's House]
Enter Agrippa, Mæcenas, and Cæsar.
Cæs. Contemning Rome, he has done all this and more
In Alexandria; here's the manner of 't;
I' the market-place, on a tribunal silver'd,
Cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold4
Were publicly enthron'd; at the feet sat
Cæsarion, whom they call my father's son,
And all the unlawful issue that their lust
Since then hath made between them. Unto her8
He gave the 'stablishment of Egypt; made her
Of Lower Syria, Cyprus, Lydia,
Absolute queen.
Mæc. This in the public eye?
Cæs. I' the common show-place, where they exercise.12
His sons he there proclaim'd the kings of kings;
Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia
He gave to Alexander; to Ptolemy he assign'd
Syria, Cilicia, and Phœnicia. She16
In the habiliments of the goddess Isis
22 presently: at once
1 Contemning: scorning
3 tribunal: raised platform
6 my father's son; cf. n.
9 'stablishment: settled occupation