- Gaius Julius Caesar: You're a thief - a foolish, incompetent thief. But you have served us well in the past so we will pretend your foolishness is a species of honesty and let you go unpunished. In fact, I think we should reward you. I do not like to quarrel with fortune and clearly she's taken you for a pet.
- [to Marc Antony]
- Gaius Julius Caesar: When you find the trove, give him a hundred gold pieces.
- Titus Pullo: Thank you, Sir.
- Mark Antony: As you wish.
- Gaius Julius Caesar: Wife?
- [Posca thinks for a moment]
- Posca: Caecilia.
- [Caesar sits down next to the Chief Augur]
- Gaius Julius Caesar: Tell me, how is Caecilia?
- Chief Augur: Oh, she's healthy, I thank you.
- Gaius Julius Caesar: Good. I recall I forgot her last birthday.
- [Antony sits down on the other side of the Chief Augur]
- Chief Augur: Her birthday?
- Gaius Julius Caesar: Remiss of me, I know. Perhaps she would forgive my rudeness were I to send her a gift.
- Chief Augur: Oh, really, that's not necessary.
- Gaius Julius Caesar: Hard to find the right gift for a woman, nay? What one loves, another scorns.
- Mark Antony: Perhaps she would accept some money.
- Gaius Julius Caesar: There's an idea. A hundred thousand sesterce, say?
- Chief Augur: [catching on] Oh, that's very kind of you. I'm afraid my wife is a woman of expensive tastes
- Mark Antony: The best women often are.
- Gaius Julius Caesar: A hundred and fifty thousand.
- Chief Augur: She would dress her slaves in silk if I would let her. She eats oysters for breakfast. Daily.
- Mark Antony: She should be most careful. People often choke on oysters.
- Gaius Julius Caesar: Two hundred thousand.
- Chief Augur: That is a very generous and, I may say, appropriate gift. She would be under great obligation to you.
- Gaius Julius Caesar: To think well of me would be her only obligation.
- Chief Augur: [obsequiously] She's always thought well of you. It is not unethical she continue to do so.
- Gaius Julius Caesar: We understand each other.
- [he turns to Posca]
- Gaius Julius Caesar: [quietly] Make a note of it. Two hundred to the Chief Augur.
- Posca: [to himself, disapprovingly] Thinks he's Midas, the loon.
- Chief Augur: Name yourself, citizen.
- Gaius Julius Caesar: Gaius of the Julii, called Caesar.
- Chief Augur: Speak, then.
- Gaius Julius Caesar: I humbly ask that auguries be taken, that Rome might know that the gods favor my actions.
- Chief Augur: You've entered the city under arms. I must warn you, that seldom augurs well.
- Gaius Julius Caesar: The gods know my intentions are peaceful. The people must know it also.
- [the augurs whisper to each other]
- Chief Augur: So be it. Auguries will be taken on the first clean morning. Let the birds fly where they may.
- [while looking over Caesar's proposed guest list for the party]
- Atia of the Julii: Servilia? Why invite her? Can there still be something between them? A rattled old sandal like her? Surely not.
- Merula: Some juice in her yet.
- Atia of the Julii: I'll not let that woman get between me and Caesar.
- [she climbs onto the bed, where Antony is sleeping. She taps him on the back to wake him up]
- Atia of the Julii: Why is Servilia invited to the party?
- Mark Antony: Hmm?
- Atia of the Julii: Servilia of the Junii, why is she invited?
- Mark Antony: On account of her son, obviously. For this you wake me?
- Atia of the Julii: Of course. He needs to keep Brutus as his symbolic friend, that's all. It would look ill with the people if Brutus were his enemy. There's no love there. It's just politics.
- Mark Antony: Dear gods, woman, would you let me sleep?
- Newsreader: Martial Law is in effect. For the safety of all citizens, groups of more than three men shall not congregate in public spaces. A curfew is in effect. Any person found on the street after dark will be subject to summary judgment. Long live General Gaius Julius Caesar, savior of our Republic.
- Titus Pullo: Priests, crooks many of them. I just talk directly to whatever god I'm doing business with. Bugger the priests.