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Cassius In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Cassius refers to his flaws by saying they are "as huge as high Olympus" (IV.iii.94). According to the footnotes Olympus is "a mountain in Greece, presumed, the home of the gods".
However, this is not the first time this word is used in the play.
Earlier, Caesar says, "Wilt thou lift up Olympus?" (III.i.73) to imply he was a god.
It seems like it was pretty common to use the mountain Olympus as a reference for analogies of height as it is used twice in the
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