Today’s Totally Random
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He has made too much plenty with ‘em,
He’s a sworn rioter: he has a sin that
often
Drowns him, and takes his valour prisoner:
If there were no foes, that were enough
To overcome him: in that beastly fury
He has been know to commit outrages
And cherish factions: ‘tis inferr’d to us
His days are foul, and his drink
dangerous.
Second Senator
Timon of Athens Act
III, Scene v, Line 72
The senator is speaking about a man who they are about to pass sentence on for murder. The murderer is a soldier, and his general, Alcibiades, is here pleading for his life. He’s telling the senators what a great soldier this guy is and how well he has served and defended his country. Apparently though, this fellow can’t handle his drink, and that’s a problem.
Previous to Today’s Line Alcibiades is saying of the soldier,
How full of valour did he bear himself
In the
last conflict, and made plenteous wounds.
Apparently, though, according to the senator, he makes too many wounds and much of them are made not in battle but in bar rooms. The senator makes reference to the soldier’s drinking problem
…he has a sin that often
Drowns him,
and takes his valour prisoner:
Bottom line is that they end up sentencing the guy to death for murder. Alcibiades gets a bit overzealous in his defense of the soldier and in the process manages to really piss off the senators; so they banish Alcibiades just for good measure.
We’re done with the soldier after this scene (in fact, we never actually see the guy), but banished Alcibiades will show up later in the play interacting with the self-banished Timon. So, this scene is merely a set up for Alcibiades to be banished, and the soldier is just collateral damage of the plot line. Hey, what do you think of that wording: collateral damage of the plot line. I like that, and it carries the battle scene imagery straight through. Not bad, eh?
And there he goes again with the ‘how great his writing is’
thing.
Not listening. NOT LISTENING.
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