Chapter Carton to Cassius of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook

with their sabres. They then hacked the carcase into four parts, placed them near the door, and left the cave. Ali Baba carried off the body and had it decently interred.—Arabian Nights (“Ali Baba, or the Forty Thieves”).

Cassio (Michael), a Florentine, lieutenant in the Venetian army under the command of Othello. Simple- minded but not strong-minded, and therefore easily led by others who possessed greater power of will. Being overcome with wine, he engaged in a street-brawl, for which he was suspended by Othello, but Desdemona pleaded for his restoration. Iago made capital of this intercession to rouse the jealousy of the Moor. Cassio’s “almost” wife was Bianca, his mistress.—Shakespeare: Othello (1611).

“Cassio” is brave, benevolent, and honest, ruined only by his want of stubbornness to resist an insidious invitation.—Dr. Johnson.

Cassiodorus (Marcus Aurelius), a great statesman and learn ed writer of the sixth century, who died at the age of 100, in A.D. 562. He filled many high offices under Theodoric, but ended his days in a convent.

Listen awhile to a learned prelection
On Marcus Aurelius Cassiodorus.
   —Longfellow: The Golden Legend.

Cassiopela, wife of Cepheus king of Ethiopia, and mother of Andr omeda. She boasted that her daughter’s beauty surpassed that of the sea-nymphs; and Neptune, to punish her, sent a huge sea-serpent to ravage her husband’s kingdom. At death she was made a constellation, consisting of thirteen stars, the largest of which form a “chair” or imperfect W.

…that starred Ethiop queen, that strove
To set her beauty’s [daughter’s] praise above
The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended.
   —Milton: It Penseroso, 19 (1638).

Cassius, instigator of the conspiracy against Julius Cæsar, and friend of Brutus.—Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar (1607).

Brutus. The last of all the Romans, fare thee well!

It is impossible that ever Rome
Should breed thy fellow. Friends, I owe more tears
To this dead man than you shall see me pay.
I shall find time, Cassius, I shall find time.
   —Act v. sc. 3.

Charles Mayne Young trod the boards with freedom. His countenance was equally well adapted for the expression of pathos or of pride: thus in such parts as “Hamlet,” “Beverley,” “The Stranger,” “Pierre,” “Zanga,” and “Cassius,” he looked the men he represented.—Rev. J. Young: Life of C. M. Young.

(“Hamlet” (Shakespeare); “Beverley” (The Gamester, Moore); “The Stranger” (B. Thompson); “Pierre” (Venice Preserved, Otway), “Zanga” Revenge, by Young).)