I would tread on you as on a viper or a desert asp, as a noxious creature that is not fit to live.

I have played my game; and though it was not I who won, but Agias who won for me, I am well content.

Drusus lives! Lives to see you miserably dead! Lives to grow to glory and honour, to happiness and a noble old age, when the worms have long since finished their work on you!" "Girl," thundered Lentulus, fiercely, "you are raving! Ahenobarbus is your affianced husband.

Rome knows it.

I will compel you to marry him.
Otherwise you may well blush to think of the stories that vulgar report will fasten around your name." But Cornelia faced him in turn, and threw her white arms aloft as though calling down some mightier power than human to her aid; and her words came fast:-- "What Rome says is not what my heart says! My heart tells me that I am pure where others are vile; that I keep truth where others are false; that I love honourably where others love dishonourably.