If in the past you have been cold to Ahenobarbus, grow gracious; but not too rapidly.

Finally, at the proper time, do not hesitate to urge him to commit the act we know he is meditating.
Then he will make you a full partner of his plot, and Pratinas and he can be permanently thwarted." "You say that Drusus can be saved by this ?" asked Cornelia, steadying herself as she rose from the divan; "I will warn him at once," replied Agias.

"Any premature attempt on his life will certainly fail.

But it is not Ahenobarbus that I fear; it is Pratinas.

Pratinas, if baffled once, will only be spurred on to use all his cunning in a second trial.