14. _Ostentation._ This is a Latin word meaning _show_ or _parade_. _Ostentation_ and _parade_ both imply effort, but the former refers to the intent rather than to the manner. _Ostentation_ may be shown by _parade_. From _The Death of Caesar_ (Volume IX, page 143) As preliminary to the intensive study of the speech alluded to below, read to the class or have them read all of the three selections, namely: _The Death of Caesar_, from Plutarch (page 126); The _Death of Caesar_, from Shakespeare (page 143), and _Julius Caesar_, from Froude (page 155). As an example of selections worthy of close reading, take the speech of Cæsar as given on page 153, beginning, "I could be well mov'd, if I were as you." Bring out by questions these facts: A. _Words._ "Moved"; induced to change my mind. "Constant"; fixed, unchangeable, immovable. "Northern star"; the pole star; the north star. To us this star always appears fixed in the northern heavens. The other stars and the constellations revolve around it; Ursa Major, the Big Dipper, is most conspicuous, and by a line through its two front stars we may always locate the North Star and, hence, the direction, _north_. Mariners have steered by this star for centuries. Many a lost and wandering man has found his way to safety by its fixed light. "Resting"; always stationary. "Fellow"; equal. "Firmament"; sky, heavens. "Painted"; decorated. "Sparks"; stars. "Doth"; does. "Furnished"; filled. "Apprehensive"; doubtful, filled with forebodings and easily moved. "Unassailable"; not subject to attack; here the meaning is rather that of _unconquerable_. "Constant"; _insistent_, the first time the word appears; but _unchangeable_, the second time. B. _Phrases._ "Well moved"; easily moved. "If I were as you"; if I were as you are, or if I were like you. "Could pray to move"; could try to change the opinion or the determination of someone else. "True-fixed and resting quality"; quality of always remaining true or fixed to the one spot in the heavens. "So in the world"; as all the unnumbered stars shine in the heavens and all move but one, thus in the world. "Holds on his rank unshak'd of motion"; is fixed in his ideas and unmoved by prayers and petitions. "And that I am he"; and I am that one immovable man. "Let me a little show it"; let me give a little proof. C. _Sentences._ The first sentence means: If I could beg others to change their purposes, I could be induced to change mine; but I am as fixed in my conclusions as the north star is fixed in the heavens. The second sentence says: As there are unnumbered movable stars in the heavens and only one that is fixed, so in the world there are unnumbered changeable men and only one who is fixed in his determination; that I am the one determined man let me prove a little by saying that, as I was persistent in banishing Cimber so will I continue to keep him in banishment.