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Mistaken Identity: Discovering The Two Cinnas in the Audley End Notes

Shows that one of the most potent passages relevant to the authorship question — namely the murderous confusion of “Cinna the Poet” for “Cinna the Conspirator — by the mob roused to a fury by Mark Antony’s Funeral Oration — is inscribed as an annotation in the Audley End copy of Cassius Dio.

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