SCENE VII.—Another Room in the same.

Enter Terentius, Minutius, Laco, Cotta, Latiaris and Pomponius; Regulus, Trio and others, on different sides.

POMPONIUS.
Is not my lord here?

TERENTIUS.
Sir, he will be straight.

COTTA.
What news, Fulcinius Trio?

TRIO.
Good, good tidings;
But keep it to yourself. My lord Sejanus
Is to receive this day in open senate
The tribunitial dignity.

COTTA.
Is’t true?

TRIO.
No words, not to your thought: but, sir, believe it.

LATIARIS.
What says the consul?

COTTA.
Speak it not again:
He tells me, that to-day my lord Sejanus—