These were Curio and Caelius; and they stood for some moments alone on the deserted side of the house, defiantly glaring at the raging Senate.

Antonius and Cassius contemptuously remained in their seats--for no magistrate could vote in the Senate.
It was done; it could not be undone.

Not Caesar, but the Senate, had decreed the end of the glorious Republic.

Already, with hasty ostentation, some senators were stepping outside the Curia, and returning clad no longer in the toga of peace, but in a military cloak[146] which a slave had been keeping close at hand in readiness.
Already Cato was on his feet glaring at the Caesarian tribunes, and demanding that first of all they be subjected to punishment for persisting in their veto.

The Senate was getting more boisterous each minute.