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Updated: June 22, 2025
'By Jupiter Capitolinus, Optimus, Maximus, I swear not to return from the battle until victorious over Cæsar!" All the council rose. "We swear!" cried a score of tongues, as though their oath was the lightest thing imaginable. "Bravely done!" shouted Labienus, while the two Lentuli and Domitius and Scipio and many another scion of the great noble houses joined in the oath. "Hem!
Pure "love" was seldom recognized as such by the age. When the carriage reached a spot where two roads forked, leading to adjacent estates, Drusus alighted. The two Roman consuls were magistrates of the highest rank, and were chosen each year by the people. "Is her ladyship Cornelia at the villa of the Lentuli?" was his demand of a gardener who was trimming a hedge along the way. "Ah!
The scene that had taken place at the villa of the Lentuli, soon was reported through all the adjacent farms; for several slaves had been the mute witnesses of the angry colloquy, and had not been slow to publish the report. The familia of Drusus was in a tumult of indignation.
But it was over to the country-house of the Lentuli that Drusus made small delay to hasten, there to be in bliss in company with Cornelia, "And how," he asked, after the young lady had talked of a dozen innocent nothings, "do you like Agias, the boy I sent you?" "I can never thank you enough at least if he is always as clever and witty as he has been since I have had him," was the reply.
Well, I cannot complain. I'll have Drusus's bride, even if I can't have his money or his life." And so deliberating, he put on his finest saffron-tinted synthesis, his most elegant set of rings, his newest pair of black shoes, and spent half an hour with his hairdresser; and thus habited he repaired to the house of the Lentuli. Black shoes were worn as a sort of badge by equites.
They were standing within the colonnade of the villa of the Lentuli, and the sunlight streaming between the pillars fell directly upon Cornelia's troubled face, and made a sort of halo around her.
"Papæ!" muttered the man, "what has befallen Master Quintus? Has he fallen out with her ladyship?" "Strange! Marvellous!" Drusus kept on, looking neither to the right hand nor to the left, until he found himself past the boundary stone between his own estate and that of the Lentuli. Then he stopped and passed his hand over his forehead. It was damp with an unhealthy sweat.
So that without waiting for any further entreaty or discourse, he took him into his ship, together with as many of his company as he thought fit, and hoisted sail. There were with him the two Lentuli, and Favonius; and a little after they spied king Deiotarus, making up towards them from the shore; so they stayed and took him in along with them.
The persons Pompey took with him, were the two Lentuli and Favonius; and a little after, they saw king Deiotarus beckoning to them with great earnestness from the shore, and took him up likewise.
He longed unspeakably to see Cornelia face to face; to kiss her; to press her in his arms; and the desire grew and grew. She was no longer in the capital. Her uncle had sent her away guarded by trusty freedmen to the villa of the Lentuli at Baiæ. The fashionable circles of the great city had made of her name a three days' scandal, of which the echo all too often came to Drusus's outraged ears.
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