"None."
"Any chance that the senators will recover their senses, and propose a reasonable compromise?"
"None."
"Will not Cicero use his eloquence in the cause of peace and common justice?"
"I have seen him. He dare not open his mouth."
"Ah!" and again Cæsar was silent, this time with a smile, perhaps of scorn, playing around his mouth.
"Are the people, the equites, given body and soul over to the war party?"
Drusus nodded sadly. "So long as the consuls are in the ascendant, they need fear no revolution at home. The people are not at heart your enemies, Imperator; but they will wait to be led by the winning side."
"And you advise?"—pressed Cæsar, returning to the charge.
"War!" replied Drusus, with all the rash emphasis of youth.