finished_summaries/novelguide/Antony And Cleopatra/section_6_part_2.txt
Antony And Cleopatra.act 3. scene 8
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A plain near Actium.

[Enter CAESAR, TAURUS, Officers, and others.]

CAESAR.
Taurus,--

TAURUS.
My lord?

CAESAR.
Strike not by land; keep whole; provoke not battle
Till we have done at sea. Do not exceed
The prescript of this scroll: our fortune lies
Upon this jump.

[Exeunt.]

act 3, Scene 8
Caesar tells his lieutenant, Taurus, not to provoke a battle by land