To Pompeius's palace, without the gates, every man whose voice or vote seemed worth the winning had been summoned.

All the senators had streamed out thither; and there the Magnus had brought them under the spell of his martial authority and made them as wax in his hand.

And all "that majesty that doth hedge about a king," or about a victorious general, exerted its full influence.

The senators came into the palace of Pompeius as into the palace of their despot.
He stood before them in his largest hall, wearing the embroidered robe of a triumphator, with the laurel crown of his victories upon his head.

At his right hand, as first vizir of his state, stood Lentulus Crus; at his left Lucius Domitius.