And this is true of all of us; we all have some end to serve, we are not created for no purpose." Caesar paused.

When he began again it was in a different tone of voice.

"I have brought you with me, because I know you are intelligent, are humane, love your country, and can make sacrifices for her; because you are my friend and to a certain extent share my destiny; because you are too young to have become overprejudiced, and calloused to pet foibles and transgressions.

Therefore I took you with me, having put off the final decision to the last possible instant.
And now I desire your counsel." "How can I counsel peace!" replied Drusus, warming to a sense of the situation.

"Is not Italy in the hand of tyrants?
Is not Pompeius the tool of coarse schemers?
Do they not pray for proscriptions and confiscations and abolition of debt?
Will there be any peace, any happiness in life, so long as we call ourselves freemen, yet endure the chains of a despotism worse than that of the Parthians ?" "Ah! amice!" said Caesar, twisting the long limp grass, "every enemy is a tyrant, if he has the upper hand.