I understand that he has already suffered no slight calamity for adhering to your party." "_Vah!_" and the tribune shrugged his shoulders.

"Doubtless he has had a disagreeable time with the consul-elect, but from all that I can hear, the girl he lost was hardly one to make his life a happy one.
It's notorious the way she has displayed her passion for young Lucius Ahenobarbus, and we all know what kind of a man _he_ is.

But I may presume to remark that your ladyship would hardly come here simply to remind me of this." "No," replied Fabia, directly, "I have come here to appeal to you to do something for me which Marcellus the consul was too drunk to try to accomplish if he would." Fabia had struck the right note.

Only a few days before Appius Claudius, the censor, had tried to strike Curio's name from the rolls of the Senate.

Piso, the other censor, had resisted.