The End of the Magnus I The months had come and gone for Cornelia as well as for Quintus Drusus, albeit in a very different manner.

The war was raging upon land and sea.

The Pompeian fleet controlled all the water avenues; the Italian peninsula was held by the Caesarians.

Cornelia wrote several times to old Mamercus at Praeneste, enclosing a letter which she begged him to forward to her lover wherever he might be.

But no answer came.
Once she learned definitely that the ship had been captured.