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Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

 

Take  my cap, Jupiter, and I thank thee.—Hoo! Marcius coming home!

  

Menenius Agrippa

Coriolanus                      Act II, Scene i, Line 108

 

It looks like Menenius is glad to hear that Caius Marcius Coriolanus is coming home. The latter is coming home from battle where he nearly single-handedly captured the town of Corioli. This is how he got the name Coriolanus, but Menenius doesn’t know about this yet, so he is calling him by his given name which is Caius Marcius or just Marcius.

One of the versions I looked at had the stage direction of throws cap into the air after the name Jupiter. I'm having a bit of a hard time trying to picture what kind of cap a Roman would have been wearing.

       

This is the hat I wore today. It's my rain hat because, well, it's raining. It seems very doubtful that Menenius would have had a hat like this. 

But who knows?