I have consulted the opinion of the sensible persons here and all of them unanimously disapprove Don Filipo's plan.

Is it not so, gentlemen ?" "Yes, yes!" cried the youths and elders with one voice.

The youths were delighted to hear an old man speak so.
"What are we going to do with four _hermanos mayores ?_" went on the old man.

"What is the meaning of those chickens, capons, and roast pigs, thrown into the lake?
'Humbug!' our neighbors would say.

And afterwards we should have to fast for six months! What have we to do with Sylla and the Romans?
Have they ever invited us to any of their festivities, I wonder?
I, at least, have never received any invitation from them, and you can all see that I'm an old man!" "The Romans live in Rome, where the Pope is," Capitan Basilio prompted him in a low voice.