Cicero quotes from Rome

Please continue with your threats; I would hate to submit to implication alone.

Oh, how I tire of young men and their ambitions.

Caesar is bluffing. He wishes to appear supremely confident. Evidently, he's desperately weak, weaker than we thought. This is a last-ditch attempt to frightening us into making concessions while he still has the semblance of an army. He's weak, Cicero, dying.

Is that not when all the proverbs tell us to be wary? Does not the dying serpent bite deepest?

You may do as you wish. As for me, I intend to go from here and surrender myself to Caesar.

[outraged] Have you no dignity?! No honor?!

Some little, I hope. Not as much as you, of course.

[sympathetic] Caesar will kill you.

That may be. I'm not afraid to die. I'm tired. I want to go home.

You should have no ill conscience, we only did what we have to do.

No doubt Saturn said something of the sort after eating his children.

Antony

You're not saying that these men paid me to put their names on here.

Oh, no... I assume they paid Posca.

Some willow tea, perhaps?

Henbane, more like. I've been outmanoeuvred by a child.

What is your name, young man?

Pullo

Titus Pullo, sir. Late of the Thirteenth.

Ah, the famous Titus Pullo. I'm honoured.

Pullo

Likewise, honoured. Talk about famous. Everyone's heard of Cicero.

Yes. I daresay your work today will earn you immortality.

Pullo

How's that?

I will be in all the history books. My killer's name, no doubt, will live on also.

Pullo

[slightly disappointed] Ah, my name... thought you meant me. [looks at a fruit tree] Good peaches!

Yes, just getting ripe. There's no way I can dissuade you from your task, I suppose? I have a great deal of money.

Pullo

No, sorry. Normally, I'd be tempted, but you're far too important. Imagine the fuss, I get back and I haven't done my job.