Agrippa

Family: Roman · Role: commander · First appears: Antony and Cleopatra · Act II, Scene I

Life events

Antony accepts Agrippa’s proposal to marry Octavia and unite Caesar’s and Antony’s realms.(Antony and Cleopatra · Act II, Scene I · 📍 Messina)
- With: Mark Antony Octavia Octavius Caesar
- “To hold you in perpetual amity, To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts With an unslipping knot, take Antony Octavia to his wife; whose beauty claims No worse a husband than the best of men; Whose virtue and whose general graces speak That which none else can utter. By this marriage All little jealousies, which now seem great, And all great fears, which now import their dangers, Would then be nothing. Truths would be tales, Where now half-tales be truths. Her love to both Would each to other, and all loves to both, Draw after her. Pardon what I have spoke, For ’tis a studied, not a present thought, By duty ruminated. ANTONY. Will Caesar speak? CAESAR. Not till he hears how Antony is touched With what is spoke already. ANTONY. What power is in Agrippa, If I would say ‘Agrippa, be it so,’ To make this good? CAESAR. The power of Caesar, and His power unto Octavia. ANTONY. May I never To this good purpose, that so fairly shows, Dream of impediment! Let me have thy hand. Further this act of grace; and from this hour The heart of brothers govern in our loves And sway our great designs! CAESAR. There’s my hand. A sister I bequeath you, whom no brother Did ever love so dearly. Let her live To join our kingdoms and our hearts; and never Fly off our loves again!”

friends with Enobarbus “Half the heart of Caesar, worthy Maecenas! My honourable friend, Agrippa!”

patron: Octavius Caesar “Go forth, Agrippa, and begin the fight. Our will is Antony be took alive; Make it so known.”
enemies with Mark Antony “Go forth, Agrippa, and begin the fight. Our will is Antony be took alive; Make it so known.”

Extracted from the original text of Shakespeare's Roman Plays. Made with Rho MD.