The vetoes were set aside.

Our protests were disregarded.

The Senate has clothed the consuls and other magistrates with dictatorial power; they are about to make Lucius Domitius proconsul of Gaul." "And I ?" asked Caesar, for the first time displaying any personal interest.
"You, Imperator, must disband your army and return to Rome speedily, or be declared an outlaw, as Sertorius or Catilina was." "Ah!" and for a minute the proconsul sat motionless, while Drusus again kept silence.
"But you--my friends--the tribunes ?" demanded the general, "you spoke of danger; why was it that you fled ?" "We fled in slaves' dresses, O Caesar, because otherwise we should long ago have been strangled like bandits in the Tullianum.

Lentulus Crus drove us with threats from the Senate.

On the bridge, but for the favour of the gods, his lictors would have taken us.