If ever I return to Rome, my party victorious, myself in favour, then let us renew our friendship; but till then you and I meet no more." Agias knelt and kissed Drusus's robe in a semi-Oriental obeisance.
"And is there nothing," he asked half wistfully at the parting, "that I can yet do for you ?" "Nothing," said Drusus, "except to see that no harm come to my Aunt Fabia, and if it be possible deliver Cornelia from the clutches of her bloody uncle." "Ah!" said Agias, smiling, "that is indeed _something_! But be not troubled, domine,"-- he spoke as if Drusus was still his master,--"I will find a way." That evening, under the canopy of night, the five Caesarians sped, swift as their horses could bear them, on their way to Ravenna..