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Shakespeare's Roman plays and their background

Note 199 — Chapter II · ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, A HISTORY, TRAGEDY, AND LOVE POEM; AS SHOWN BY ITS RELATIONS WITH PLUTARCH

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It is interesting to note that it had already caught the fancy of Jodelle, though being more faithful to the text in enumerating only the kings who were actually present and taking no liberties with the names and titles, he failed to get all the possible points out of it. Agrippa says to Octavian:

Le Roy Bocchus, le Roy Cilicien Archelaus, Roy Capadocien, Et Philadelphe, et Adalle de Thrace, Et Mithridate, usoyent-ils de menace Moindre sus nous que de porter en joye Nostre despouille et leur guerriere proye, Pour a leurs Dieux joyeusement les pendre Et maint et maint sacrifice leur rendre? Acte II.

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