This correction was first made by Sir Thomas Hanmer, and Mr. Johnson hath received it. Most indisputably it is the sense of Plutarch, and given so in the modern translations: but Shakespeare was misled by the ambiguity of the old one, “Antonius sent again to challenge Cæsar to fight him: Cæsar answered, That _he_ had many other ways to die than so.” In the Third Act of _Julius Cæsar_, Anthony in his well-known harangue to the people, repeats a part of the Emperor’s will, ——To every Roman citizen he gives, To every sev’ral man, seventy-five drachmas—— Moreover he hath left you all his walks, His private arbours, and new-planted orchards, On _this_ side Tyber.—— “Our Author certainly wrote,” says Mr. Theobald, “On _that_ side Tyber— _Trans_ Tiberim—prope Cæsaris hortos. And Plutarch, whom Shakespeare very diligently _studied_, expressly declares that he left the publick his gardens and walks, πέραν τοῦ Ποταμοῦ, _beyond_ the _Tyber_.” This emendation likewise hath been adopted by the subsequent Editors; but hear again the old Translation, where Shakespeare’s _study_ lay: “He bequeathed unto every citizen of Rome seventy-five drachmas a man, and he left his gardens and arbours unto the people, which he had on _this_ side of the river of Tyber.” I could furnish you with many more instances, but these are as good as a thousand. Hence had our author his characteristick knowledge of Brutus and Anthony, upon which much argumentation for his learning hath been founded: and hence _literatim_ the Epitaph on Timon, which, it was once presumed, he had corrected from the blunders of the Latin version, by his own superior knowledge of the Original. I cannot, however, omit a passage of Mr. Pope. “The _speeches_ copy’d from Plutarch in _Coriolanus_ may, I think, be as well made an instance of the learning of Shakespeare, as those copy’d from Cicero in _Catiline_, of Ben. Jonson’s.” Let us inquire into this matter, and transcribe a _speech_ for a specimen. Take the famous one of Volumnia: