He has been my friend, my father-in-law.

I could not treat him harshly." "Doubtless," said the ever suave Lentulus Crus, "it would be most disagreeable for you, Magnus, to have to reward such an enemy of the Republic as he deserves.

But your excellency will, of course, bow to the decrees of the Senate, and--I fear it will be very hard to persuade the conscript fathers that Caesar has earned any mercy." "_Vah!_ gentlemen," retorted Pompeius, pressing his hands together, and walking up and down: "I have been your tool a long while! I never at heart desired this war! A hundred times I would draw back, but you in some way prevented.

I have been made to say things that I would fain have left unsaid.

I am perhaps less educated and more superstitious than you.