Analyzing Cassius' Argument Directions:

Reread Cassius' speech to Brutus (below). Identify Cassius' claim

(assertion) with a purple highlight or underline. Identify his grounds
(evidence) with a blue highlight or underline. Identify his justification
with a green highlight or underline.
Additionally, label any logical fallacies, rhetorical devices, or
persuasive techniques used in his speech.

fortune to.

90 CASSIUS. know that virtue to be in you, Brutus,

I

31. favor n. face; As well as I do know your outward favor.31

appearance.
Well, honor is the subject of my story.
I cannot tell what you and other men
23 Think of this life, but for my single self,
32. as lief not be just as soon I had as lief not be,32 as live to be
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not exist.
33. such a thing as myself
I
In awe of such a thing as I myself.33
another human being I was born free as Caesar; so were you:

(Caesar).
We both have fed as well, and we can both
34. chafing with raging
against.
Endure the winter's cold as well as he:
100 For once, upon a raw and gusty day,
The troubled Tiber chafing with34 her shores,
 Caesar said tome "Darest thou, Cassius, now
Leap in with me into this angry flood,

Aridswim to yonder point?" Upon the word,

Accout'red35 as I was, I plungéd in 35. Accout'red (e kö trod)
adj. dressed in armor.
105 And bade him follow: so indeed he did. 36. buffet (buf it) v. struggle

The torrent roared, and we did buffet36 it against.

37. lusty sinews (sin* yöz)

With lusty sinews,37throwing it aside strong muscles.

And stemming it with hearts of controversy.38 38. stemming it

controversy making
But ere we could arrive the point proposed, progress against it with
Caesar cried "Help me, Cassius, or I sink!" our intense
rivalry.
I, our great ancestor,
as Aeneas,39
39. Aeneas (i nä es) Trojan
Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder hero of the poet Virgil's

epic poem Aeneid, who

The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber
carried his old father,
Did I the tired Caesar. And this man Anchises, from the burning
city of Troy and later
Is now become a god, and Cassius is founded Rome.
A wretched creature, and must bend his body
40. His coward lips fly
If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. color fled from his lips,

which were
He had a fever when he was in Spain,
like cowardly
soldiers fleeing from a
And when the fit was on him, I did mark battle.

How he did shake: 'tis true, this god did shake. 41. bend n. glance.

42. his pron. its.

His coward lips did from their color fly,40
43. feeble temper weak
And that same eye whose bend41 doth awe the world physical constitution.
44. get the start of
did lose his42 luster: I did hear him groan; outdistance.
125 Ay, and that tongue of his, that bade the Romans 45. palm n. leaf of a palm
tree carried or worn as a
Mark him and write his speeches in their books, symbol of victory; victor's

Alas, it cried, "Give me some drink, Titinius," prize.

46. Colossus (ke läs• es) n.
As a sick girl. Ye gods! It doth amaze me,
gigantic ancient statue

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A man of such a feeble temper43 should of Apollo, a Greek and
Roman god, that was set
so getthe start oP4 the majestic world, at the entrance to the
[Shout. Flourish of trumpets)
And bear the palm45 alone. harbor of Rhodes; ships
would sail under its legs.
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