I proposed the scheme; and I will join in executing it.

But policy is as necessary to our plans as boldness.

I did not wish to startle Caesar--to lose his co-operation--perhaps to send him off with an information against us to Cicero and Catulus.

He was so indignant at your suggestion that all my dissimulation was scarcely sufficient to prevent a total rupture." "Indignant! The Gods confound him!--He prated about humanity, and generosity, and moderation.

By Hercules, I have not heard such a lecture since I was with Xenochares at Rhodes." "Caesar is made up of inconsistencies.