The din was louder and louder.

The bronze casings on the walls rattled, the pediments and pavements seemed to vibrate; outside, the vast mob swarming around the Curia reﾃｫchoed the shout.

"Down with Caesar!" "Down with the tribunes!" "_Io!_ Pompeius!" It was all as some wild distorted dream passing before Drusus's eyes.
He could not bring himself to conceive the scene as otherwise.

In a sort of stupor he saw the senators swarming to the right of the building, hastening to cast their votes in favour of Domitius's motion.

Only two men--under a storm of abuse and hootings, passed to the left and went on record against the measure.