“Under your pardon. You must note beside that we have tried the utmost of our friends,
our legions are brimful, our cause is ripe.
The enemy increaseth every day;
We, at the height, are ready to decline.
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and miseries.
On such a full sea we are now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures” (4.3.212-223).

The purpose of the water imagery is...

A) to express fear due to the weakness of their military position

B) to reveal Cassius' plans for s*icide if they are defeated

C) to empathize the strength of their current military position

D) to describe the destruction of the civil war