Quotation by Shakespeare

Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you
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William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Coriolanus, in Coriolanus, act 3, sc. 1, l. 89-90.

Showing his contempt for Sicinius, a tribune of the people; Triton was a minor sea-god in ancient Greece.
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