In Julius Caesar, what do you think Lucius means in the following quote from Act II scene 1?Line 73 when he says the conspirators’ “hats are...

It is always important when trying to work out the meaning
of a line or a group of lines to look at them in context of the rest of the scene or
chapter. Let us remember that Lucius, a servant of Brutus, enters telling him that
Cassius is at the door with others. When Brutus asks whom these "others" are and if he
knows them, note how Lucius responds:

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No, sir; their hats are plucked about their
ears,

And half their faces buried in their
cloaks,

That by no means I may discover
them

By any mark of
favour.

Thus the quote "their
hats are plucked about their ears" relates to the way that the conspirators, for this is
obviously who is with Cassius, are trying to hide their identity so that they cannot be
recognised. Just as they are burying their faces in their cloaks, so they have their
hats so firmly on their head so that their faces are concealed and they may not be
recognised.