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  • First, the great South African actor John Kani, major exponent of Athol Fugard's plays and for decades a victim of apartheid, is cast as General Cominius.

    Coriolanus – review 2012

  • Loathly Cominius, if e'er this people's voice should arraign thee,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • Loathly Cominius, if e'er this people's voice should arraign thee,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • Titus Lartius, having set a guard upon Corioli, going with drum and trumpet toward Cominius and

    The Tragedy of Coriolanus 2004

  • Enter Cominius the general, and Titus Lartius; between them,

    The Tragedy of Coriolanus 2004

  • Enter Cominius, as it were in retire, with soldiers

    The Tragedy of Coriolanus 2004

  • Thus it is: the Volsces have an army forth; against whom Cominius the general is gone, with one part of our Roman power: your lord and Titus Lartius are set down before their city Corioli; they nothing doubt prevailing and to make it brief wars.

    The Tragedy of Coriolanus 2004

  • The Romans were now at war with the Volscian nation, whose principal city was Corioli; when, therefore, Cominius the consul had invested this important place, the rest of the Volscians, fearing it would be taken, mustered up whatever force they could from all parts, to relieve it, designing to give the Romans battle before the city, and so attack them on both sides.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Cominius, to avoid this inconvenience, divided his army, marching himself with one body to encounter the Volscians on their approach from without, and leaving Titus Lartius, one of the bravest Romans of his time, to command the other and continue the siege.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Thus it is: The Volsces have an army forth; against whom Cominius the general is gone, with one part of our Roman power: your lord and Titus Lartius are set down before their city Corioli; they nothing doubt prevailing and to make it brief wars.

    Act I. Scene III. Coriolanus 1914

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