We must enmesh the conspirators so completely that when their stab is parried, not merely will their power to repeat it be gone, but they themselves will be in danger of retribution.

And for this, some one must be confederate to their final plan." "Agias," said Cornelia, quietly, "Quintus said that you would be a faithful servant to him and to myself.

I believe he was right.

You have asked a great thing of me, Agias.

I would not do it unless I believed that you were unlike other slaves.