Are to give flatterers grace; accusers, power;
That those may seem to kill whom they devour.

Enter CORDUS and ARRUNTIUS.

Now, good Cremutius Cordus

Cor. [salutes Sabinus] Hail to your lordship!

Nat. [whispers Latiaris.] Who's that salutes your cousin?

Lat.
'Tis one Cordus,
A gentleman of Rome: one that has writ
Annals of late, they say, and very well.

Nat. Annals! of what times?

Lat.
I think of Pompey's,
And Caius Caesar's; and so down to these.

Nat.
How stands he affected to the present state!
Is he or Drusian, or Germanic,
Or ours, or neutral?

Lat. I know him not so far.

Nat.