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over the stage: across the stage (from the commoners). —The point of the stage direction is that Flavius and Marullus do not come in with the commoners. Flavius and Marullus want to do all they can to derail Caesar's march to power, so when they spot the commoners rushing to see Caesar's triumphal procession, they intercept them and scold them.