Ah! how much we shall have to say! But you are travel-stained and weary.

Words will keep while you bathe, and our dinner is prepared; for I myself have not dined, waiting, as I thought, for your despatches." "Your excellency shows me too much courtesy," said Drusus, bowing in what was, to tell truth, some little embarrassment; "it is not fit that a young man like myself should dine at the same table with an imperator before whom nations have trembled." And then it was that Drusus caught his first glimpse of that noble and sententious egotism which was a characteristic of the great proconsul.
"To be a friend of Caesar is to be the peer of kings." Drusus bowed again, and then, with Curio, followed the attendants who were leading them to comfortably, though not sumptuously, furnished apartments.
* * * * * Quintus Drusus in years to come sat at the boards of many great men, enjoyed their conversation, entered into their hopes and fears, but he never forgot the first dinner with the proconsul of the Gauls.

Caesar kept a double table.

His hospitality was always ready for the people of note of the district where he happened to be staying, and for his own regular army officers.

But he dined personally with such high-rank Romans and very noble Provincials as chanced to be with him from day to day.