"_Hem!_ Most excellent Magnus, you do not have confidence enough in your own cause to join us.

Do you doubt our loyalty or soldierly qualities!" "_Perpol!_" replied Pompeius, with a rather ill-concealed effort to speak gayly, "do you think, good Labienus, that I am as distrustful of you as Caesar ought to be of his men ?" And the Magnus also took the oath.
Outside the tent the sentries were exchanging their challenges.

It was the end of the second watch of the night.[178] [178] Midnight.
"It is late, gentlemen," said Pompeius.

"I believe that I have given my orders.

Remember our watch word for to-morrow." "Hercules Invictus!" shouted one and all.
"Unconquerable' we shall be, I trust," continued the commander-in-chief.