_Veto!_" "_Veto!_" shouted Cassius.
Domitius, too, had risen.

"Conscript Fathers, let the consuls remonstrate with the tribunes to withdraw their prohibition.

And, if they do not succeed, let them lay before the Senate that order which is the safeguard of the Republic." Everybody knew what Domitius meant.

If Antonius would not give way, martial law was to be declared.

Hot and furious raged the debate.