[A Friend of Caesar by William Stearns Davis]@TWC D-Link bookA Friend of Caesar CHAPTER XV 21/44
Ye stay, we go.
Ye stay to pass once more unvetoed the decree declaring Caesar and his friends enemies of the Republic; we go--go to endure our outlaw state.
But we go to appeal from the unjust scales of your false Justice to the juster sword of an impartial Mars, and may the Furies that haunt the lives of tyrants and shedders of innocent blood attend you--attend your persons so long as ye are doomed to live, and your memory so long as men shall have power to heap on your names reproach!" Drusus hardly knew that Antonius had so much as stopped, when he found his friend leading him out of the Curia. Behind, all was still as they walked away toward the Temple of Mars. Then, as they proceeded a little distance, a great roar as of a distant storm-wind drifted out from the senate-house--so long had Antonius held his audience spellbound. "_Finitum est!_" said Curio, his eyes cast on the ground.
"We have seen, my friends, the last day of the Republic." II Behind the Temple of Mars the faithful Agias was ready with the slaves' dresses which were to serve as a simple disguise.
Antonius and his companions tossed off their cumbrous togas and put on the dark, coarse cloaks and slippers which were worn by slaves and people of the lower classes.
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