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>He tries to force himself on Casca in the wagon when they rescue him, but he's too weak to do anything.
Griffith saw how Casca couldn't even look in his eyes when previously she had always stared at him in admiration and it broke him. That's why he tries to "force" himself on her, because any other time she would have loved if he did that, but also to get her to look at his eyes, to be acknowledged once again.