The Consuls of next year promise well." He was wofully mistaken.

"We have excellent Praetors, citizens alive to their duty.

Domitius, Nigidius, Memmius, and Lentulus are specially trustworthy.

The others are good men.

You may therefore pluck up your courage and be confident." From this we perceive that he had already formed the idea that he might perhaps be required to fight for his position as a Roman citizen; and it seems also that he understood the cause of the coming conflict.