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Spoke he of me?

LARTIUS
He did, my lord.

CORIOLANUS
How? What?

LARTIUS
How often he had met you, sword to sword;
That of all things upon the earth he hated
Your person most; that he would pawn his fortunes [15]

To hopeless restitution, so he might
Be called your vanquisher.

CORIOLANUS
At Antium lives he?

LARTIUS
At Antium.

CORIOLANUS
I wish I had a cause to seek him there,

To oppose his hatred fully. Welcome home. [20]

Enter Sicinius and Brutus.

Behold, these are the Tribunes of the People,
The tongues o’th’common mouth. I do despise them,
For they do prank them in authority

Against all noble sufferance.

SICINIUS
Pass no further.

CORIOLANUS
Ha? What is that? [25]