"Doth" means does, not only in Julius Caesar but also in any other work by Shakespeare, or any other contemporary work in English like the King James Bible.
"Why, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus."
"I am as constant as the Northern Star". "He doth bestride this narrow world like a Colossus." "Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war" Those are three examples which spring to mind. I am sure you can find many more.
CASSIUS Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that 'Caesar'? Why should that name be sounded more than yours? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar. Now, in the names of all the gods at once, Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed! Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods! When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was famed with more than with one man? When could they say till now, that talk'd of Rome, That her wide walls encompass'd but one man? Now is it Rome indeed and room enough, When there is in it but one only man. O, you and I have heard our fathers say, There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome As easily as a king.
Cassius had his own selfish motives to kill Julius Caesar and did not have Roman welfare on his mind. He had quoted an incident in Scene 1 where by he tells about his upperhand on Julius Caesar. He tells that once Caesar challenged him to swim across storming Tiber. Cassius, in an instant, jumped in the waters bading with his lusty sinews. But, Caesar himself could not swim and was helped by Cassius to reach the bank. Now, Cassius bears this grudge that such chicken-hearted Caesar should rule over Rome and doth not pay attention to his friends. He thinks that such a man is not wotrhy at all. Furthermore, Caesar's negligence and rudeness unto him makes him feel angry towards Caesar so much so that he was bent over killing Julius Caesar.
Saying Caesar was like a Colossus is saying that he is/was one of the giants of history. The word colossus means giant or extremely large--super sized. The term certainly was appropriate for Caesar due to all he accomplished. Cassius's line "Why man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus" is a reference to the wonder of the ancient world, the Colossus of Rhodes, which was popularly imagined as a statue of a man so huge that one foot was on either side of the harbour, and boats had to pass between his legs to enter.
Julius Caesar. The quote is from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" I.2.135. Cassius conversation with Brutus.
"Why, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus."
"The angry spot doth glow on Caesar's brow, / And all the rest look like a chidden train." Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1.2.193-194)
"The fault, dear Brutus lies not in the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings." Also, "Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus." Both of these quotations are from Act I Scene 2
"I am as constant as the Northern Star". "He doth bestride this narrow world like a Colossus." "Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war" Those are three examples which spring to mind. I am sure you can find many more.
I'd say that describing someone as "brilliant" is so much a matter of individual preference that any answer is OK. Maybe I think he was brilliant because he came up with the line "he doth bestride the world like a Colossus." Can you argue with that?
"Why man, he doth BESTRIDE the narrow world like Colossus, and we petty man walk under his huge legs and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves." -Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Notice, the professor told the class, Cassius' choice of imagery when he asks, upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed that he is grown so great?
As part of his conversation with Brutus, Cassius relates two stories suggesting that Caesar is physically weak. In the first, he describes a time when Caesar challenged him to a swimming contest, but Cassius ended up having to save Caesar from drowning. In the other, he describes a time when Caesar was sick in Spain and was wussy about being sick. He concludes, "Ye gods, it doth amaze me a man of such feeble temper should so get the start of the majestic world, and bear the palm alone."
If we agree with the definition that a soliloquay is an instance when a character relates his or her thoughts and feelings to him/herself and to the audience without addressing any of the other characters, then examples of soliloquay are bound in the Play Julius Caesar but since the question demands 'a' meaning one answer, I will refer us to Act 2, Scene 1 from line 25 wherein, Brutus is in conflict with his conscience on whether to join in Cassius' plan. Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar/...
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