Here is an idea, let all those who voted for the conquest of Byzantium attend it's siege, that way when the armies of both Ptolemy and the Seleucids descend upon it from opposite sides to secure the strongest foothold they could have against their enemy, these senators can defend their ill thought motion and their isolated and surrounded legion with their own lives.

You have voted to abandon our soldiers in the depths of a snake pit senators, why don't you all join them?