"Has your uncle come back from Rome yet?
I did not meet him while there.

I was busy; and besides, to speak honestly, I have a little hesitation in seeing him, since the political situation is so tense." "He returns to-night, I believe," replied Cornelia.

Then as if a bit apprehensive, "Tell me about the world, Drusus; I don't care to be one of those fine ladies of the sort of Clodia,[71] who are all in the whirl of politics, and do everything a man does except to speak in the Senate; but I like to know what is going on.

There isn't going to be a riot, I hope, as there was two years ago, when no consuls were elected, and Pompeius had to become sole magistrate ?" [71] She was a sister of Clodius, a famous demagogue, and was a brilliant though abandoned woman.
"There have been no tumults so far," said Drusus, who did not care to unfold all his fears and expectations.
"Yet things are in a very bad way, I hear," said Cornelia "Can't Caesar and my uncle's party agree ?" "I'm afraid not," replied Drusus, shaking his head.

"Caesar wishes to be consul a second time.