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Ambition 5, Before the Gates of Rome

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A servant points at a hooded stranger, trying to turn him out, while another servant watches from beside a table.
Illustration by John Gilbert, engraved by the Dalziel Brothers, The Plays of Shakespeare, ed. Howard Staunton, Routledge, 1858-64Original

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Where does a man go after walking out of the gate? Romans assumed he would soon be forgotten. Where he went was Antium, a city of the Volscians.

He walks in with his face covered. He looks for the house of a man called Aufidius. This is the enemy commander he has crossed swords with many times.

The servants try to drive him out. Then he lifts the hood and gives his name. Aufidius looks at him and takes him in his arms.

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