On a time a long and fruitless consultation was held in the house of Tiberius, which had survived the fire. Petronius thought it best to leave troubles, go to Greece, thence to Egypt and Asia Minor. The journey had been planned long before; why defer it, when in Rome were sadness and danger?
Caesar accepted the counsel with eagerness; but Seneca when he had thought awhile, said,—
"It is easy to go, but it would be more difficult to return."