blance; whereas, in reality, one of them
was born in Asia, and the other beyond the Alps. The fraud,
however, having been soon afterwards discovered through the
difference in the language of the youths, Antony, who was
greatly exasperated, violently upbraided the dealer, and, among
other things, complained that he had fixed the price at so high
a sum as two hundred thousand sesterces.We assume the sestertium to be equivalent to somewhat more than
eight pounds sterling; this sum will be about £1600.—B. The crafty slave-merchant, however, made answer that that was the very reason
for his having set so high a price upon them; for, as he said,
there would have been nothing particularly striking in the resemblance of the boys, if they had been born of the same mother, whereas, children found to be so exactly like each other,
though natives of different countries, ought to be deemed
above all price; an answer which produced such a reasonable
feeling of surprise and admiration in the mind of
reditor: and other coincidences like the Et tu, Brute, in Acolastus his Afterwit By S. Nicholson.（1600) may be due to the use of common or current authorities. One little detail has been used as an argument that the play was later than 1600. Cassius says:
There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd
The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome
As easily as a king. (I. ii. o the increasing disapproval of profane language on the stage; and since three plays published in 1600 use infernal, the inference is that
Julius Caesar is subsequent to them. One fails to see, how very well have been made in any of the intervening years, even though it were written before 1600. The most then that can be established by this set of inferences, is that it was produced after Mloser relations with Hamlet than with Henry V. It is not rash to place it between the two, in 1600 or 1601. This does not however mean that we necessarily have it quite in its original form. O
