If the Pompeian sources of information were to be believed, he was now really a negligible military factor, and the war was practically over.

The tidings fell on Cornelia's soul like lead.

She knew perfectly well that the defeat of the Caesarians would mean the death of Quintus Drusus.

Her uncle and the Domitii, father and son, would be all powerful, and they never forgave an enmity.

As for herself--but she did not think much thereon; if Drusus was slain or executed, she really had very little to live for, and there were many ways of getting out of the world.