As Cato passed the tribune's bench, and saw the handful of Caesarians gathered there, he cast a glance of indescribable malignity upon them, a glance that made Drusus shudder, and think again of the horrors of the Tullianum.
[145] Pompeius was not allowed by law to attend sessions of the Senate (so long as he was proconsul of Spain) when held inside the old city limits; but the Curia which he himself built was outside the walls in the Campus Martius.

This meeting seems to have been convened there especially that he might attend it.
"I know now how Cato looked," said he to Antonius, "when he denounced the Catilinarians and urged that they should be put to death without trial." Antonius shrugged his shoulders, and replied:-- "Cato cannot forgive Caesar.

When Caesar was consul, Cato interrupted his speech, and Caesar had him haled off to prison.

Marcus Cato never forgives or forgets." Curio, Caelius, and Quintus Cassius had entered the senate-house--the only Caesarians present besides Antonius and his viator.

The first two went and took their seats in the body of the building, and Drusus noticed how their colleagues shrank away from them, refusing to sit near the supporters of the Gallic proconsul.
"_Eho!_" remarked Antonius, his spirits rising as the crisis drew on.
"This is much like Catilina's days, to be sure! No one would sit with him when he went into the Senate.