You, Calidius, have given the same untimely advice.

Beware lest you repent the hour when you counselled that I should disarm or quit the neighbourhood of Rome." The two-edged suggestion contained in this last warning was too marked for the reproved men not to turn pale with dread, and slink away trembling behind their associates.
"But," continued Pompeius, "I have praise as well as blame; Marcus Cato has not deserted the Republic.

He has advised, and advised well, that the proconsul of the Gauls be stripped of his legions." It was Cato's turn now to bite his lips with mortification, for in times past he had foretold that through Pompeius great miseries would come to the state, and in his praetorship had declared that Pompeius ought to go to his province, and not stay at home to stir up tumults and anarchy from which he could emerge as monarch.

And such praise from the Magnus's lips, under the present circumstances, was gall and wormwood to his haughty soul.
"And," continued Pompeius, "I shall not forget to applaud the energetic counsels of Domitius and Lentulus Crus.

Let those who wish to preserve life and property," he added, with a menacing significance, "see to it that they do as these gentlemen advise." And thereupon there was a great shout of applause from all the more rabid senators, in which the rest thought it safer to join, with simulated heartiness.