Remember Euripides's line:-- "'Money can warp the judgment of a God.' Thus I err in good company.

And with this, _vale!_" Flaccus was left with his menials to clamber back into his plundered carriage.

Gabinius drove his horse at topmost speed, and before morning was saluted by the remainder of the banditti, near their mountain stronghold.

Dumnorix met him with news.
"It is rumoured in the country towns that Caesar is driving all before him in the north, and will be down on Rome in less days than I have fingers." Gabinius clapped his hands.
"And we will be down on Rome, and away from it, before a legionary shows himself at the gates!".