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Updated: May 16, 2025
"Yes; as soon as Drusus is dead," insinuated the Greek who was already computing his bill for brokerage in this little affair, "you can raise plenty of loans, on the strength of your coming marriage with Cornelia." "But how will you manage it?" put in the alert Gabinius. "There mustn't be any clumsy bungling."
Gabinius followed him with a hideous smirk. He had directed the Emperor's attention to the mosaic pavement in the steward's room, and had shamelessly accused Keraunus of having offered to sell him a work that belonged to the palace, contrasting his conduct with his own rectitude.
In fair fight we can soon master it." A part of the gladiators started to leave the atrium, Gabinius with them. An instant later he had rushed back in blank dismay. "Horsemen! They are dismounting before the house. There are more than a score of them. We shall be cut to pieces." "We have more than fifty," retorted Dumnorix, viciously. "I will sacrifice them all, rather than have the attack fail!
Nevertheless, on these comitial days the tribunes say that they will bring forward the case of Gabinius. I collect every item of intelligence, that I may have some news to tell you: but, as you see, I am short of material. Accordingly, I return to Callisthenes and Philistus, in whom I see that you have been wallowing.
Aulus Gabinius the same who as tribune of the people had sent Pompeius to the east had in 689 marched along the Tigris and then across Mesopotamia to Syria, to adjust the complicated affairs of Judaea. In like manner the severely pressed Damascus had already been occupied by Lollius and Metellus.
What I am expecting to hear from you is, what Arrius says, and how he endures being left in the lurch, and who are intended to be consuls is it Pompey and Crassus, or, as I am told in a letter, Servius Sulpicius with Gabinius? and whether there are any new laws or anything new at all; and, since Nepos is leaving Rome, who is to have the augurship the one bait by which those personages could catch me!
Piso and Gabinius were Consuls. Piso was kinsman to Piso Frugi, who had married Cicero's daughter, and was expected to befriend Cicero at this crisis. But Clodius procured the allotment of Syria and Macedonia to the two Consuls by the popular vote.
Piso conducted the Thracian, Gabinius the Egyptian, Crassus the Parthian war, without consulting the senate, and without even reporting, as was usual, to that body; in like manner triumphs and other marks of honour were accorded and carried out, without the senate being asked about them.
The frontiers had been overrun with brigands, and the outcries of his subjects had been audible even in Rome against his tyranny and incapacity. Gabinius, in Syria, had been more ambitious, and had exposed himself to an indignation more violent because more interested.
The troops and ships of the victorious Caesar were close at hand; many of Gabinius' men were serving in the Egyptian army. To receive the vanquished Pompey kindly was to make the victorious Caesar a foe. I was to witness the terrible solution of this dilemma. The infamous words of Theodotus, 'Dead dogs no longer bite, had turned the scale.
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