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"high Olympus"
Allusion
Act 4,
Scene 2
Lines 140a-143

An explanation of the reference to Mount Olympus in Act 4, Scene 2 of myShakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

Cassius

You love me not.

Brutus

                             I do not like your faults.

Cassius

A friendly eye could never see such faults.

Brutus

A flatterer's would not, though they do appear
As huge as high Olympus.

Mount Olympus was home to the ancient Greek gods. In this allusion, Brutus suggests that Cassius' faults are as huge as Mount Olympus is high.