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Pilate VoiceA loud ranting voice. In the old mysteries all tyrants were made to speak in a rough ranting manner. Thus Bottom the Weaver, after a rant “to show his quality,” exclaims, “That's 'Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein;” and Hamlet describes a ranting actor as “out-heroding Herod.” In Pilate voys he gan to cry, And swor by armës, and by blood and bones.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Pilate Voice from Infoplease:
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