Very well, Senate Speaker. You are accurate and irrefutable as always. Thank you for your efforts on my behalf.

Unfortunately this leaves the consuls no other option but to comply with the senate wishes, ill advised as we may think they may be. We will probably plunge our troops in new wars in the East, while we are still not recovered from our previous and ongoing, and perhaps upcoming, wars.

Alea jacta est.

The flight of the brids this morning predicted evil tidings. I hope they did not bear on the senate decisions this day, but I fear the worst.