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BRUTUS4 CASSIUS. This name appears in MkT 2697. It occurs in several medieval works, beginning with Chapter XIX of King Alfred's translation of De consolatione philosophiae, 2, Metr 7, through Lydgate's Fall of Princes. The form suggests that et had been omitted between Brutus and Cassius in the first manuscript, thus causing the error.

Riverside Chaucer, ed. L. Benson, 935; H.T. Silverstein, "Chaucer's 'Brutus Cassius.'" MLN 47 (1932): 148-159.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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