From other words which have come from him, on other occasions but on the same subject, it would not be difficult to compose such a speech as he might have spoken.

But there were those who were already sick of hearing him say that Rome had been saved by his intelligence and courage.

We can imagine what Caesar might have said among his friends of the expediency of putting down this self-laudatory Consul.

As it was, Metellus Nepos, one of the Tribunes, forbade the retiring officer to do more than take the oath usual on leaving office, because he had illegally inflicted death upon Roman citizens.

Metellus, as Tribune, had the power of stopping any official proceeding.