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It is a grievous thing that we must thus quarrel with bitterness, when victory is within our grasp." But the war of words went on hotter and hotter. Lentulus Crus noticed that Pompeius looked pale and worried. "You look careworn, Magnus," he whispered; "it will be a relief for the burdens of war to be off your shoulders!" "I know not how this all will come out," said the general.
That Australian wines will ever compete with the famous French crûs I should very much doubt, but that they will in the course of the next twenty years gradually supersede with advantage a great deal of the manufactured stuff now drunk in England is more than probable. At present the prices are too high for Australian wines to find any large market at home.
Close on top of this letter came another disquieting piece of information, although it was only what he had expected. He learned that Lentulus Crus had marked him out personally for confiscation of property and death as a dangerous agitator, as soon as the Senate could decree martial law. To have even a conditional sentence of death hanging over one is hard to bear with equanimity.
Rather late in the afternoon, a few days subsequently, the most noble Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus, consul-designate, and one of the most prominent politicians of his time and nation, arrived at Præneste; having hurried away from Rome to escape for a little while the summer heats which made the capital anything but a pleasant place for residence.
Drusus's travelling cortège would have seemed small enough compared with the hedge of outriders, footmen, and body-servants that surrounded the great man. But notwithstanding his prospective dignities, and his present importance, Lentulus Crus was hardly an imposing personality. He was a bald-pated, florid individual, with rough features, a low, flat forehead, and coarse lips.
Lentulus Crus had determined, with the same grim tenacity of purpose which led him to plunge a world into war, that his niece should comply with his will and marry Lucius Ahenobarbus. He sent down to Baiæ, Phaon, the evil-eyed freedman of Ahenobarbus, and gave to that worthy full power to do anything he wished to break the will of his prospective patroness.
You are to rise to new glories, and Cæsar is to utterly fall!" "The stars have said it, gentlemen," said Pompeius, solemnly; "Cæsar shall meet his fate. Let there be war." Lentulus Crus rode away from the conference, his litter side by side with that of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, the consular, whom we will know as Domitius to distinguish from his son and namesake.
To Capua they went, to find small comfort there, and thence to join Pompeius in further flight beyond the seas to Greece. But we anticipate. Enough that neither Lentulus Crus, nor Domitius, nor Cato, nor the great Magnus himself, ever saw Rome again. Agias stood in a shop by the Sacred Way watching the stream of fugitives pouring down toward the Porta Capena.
And such praise from the Magnus's lips, under the present circumstances, was gall and wormwood to his haughty soul. "And," continued Pompeius, "I shall not forget to applaud the energetic counsels of Domitius and Lentulus Crus. Let those who wish to preserve life and property," he added, with a menacing significance, "see to it that they do as these gentlemen advise."
The external labia were divided, the left crus of the clitoris separated, the nymphae lacerated, and the vaginal wall penetrated to the extent of five inches; the patient recovered by the fourth week. Homans reports recovery from extensive wounds acquired by a negress who fell from a roof, striking astride an upright barrel.
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