There seems very soon to have grown up a feeling in Rome that the city had disgraced itself by banishing such a man; and Caesar had gone to his provinces.

We can well imagine that when he had once left Rome, with all his purposes achieved, having so far quieted the tongue of the strong speaker who might have disturbed them, he would take no further steps to perpetuate the orator's banishment.

Then Pompey and Clodius soon quarrelled.

Pompey, without Caesar to direct him, found the arrogance of the Patrician Tribune insupportable.

We hear of wheels within wheels, and stories within stories, in the drama of Roman history as it was played at this time.