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—