They built him a pyre of benches and wood ripped from the Senate House and then, at the appropriate hour, they burnt his body and the Senate House with it and held the funeral feast in the shadow of its flames. It had stood for five hundred years, built by the king Tullus Hostilius, and now, with the body of yet another murdered Tribune, it burnt. It took with it another slice of the Republic, and the Senate, in a panic, gave sole control of the Empire to Pompey.
