[presenting the head of Pompey Magnus] We were going to make him a body, with moving arms and legs, and do a mime show with real animals and everything, and...
[furious] SILENCE!
[long, heavy silence]
Shame on the House of Ptolemy for such barbarity. Shame.
But... you are enemies.
(shouts) He was a consul of Rome!
[guards put hands to their swords]
A consul of Rome, to die in this sordid way - quartered like some low thief? Shame!
[another long, heavy silence]
Where is the rest of him?
Pothinus (stammering) It... he, has been cremated. With all proper funeral rites, of course! With all decorum.
Gaius Julius Caesar I will return tomorrow, at which time you will give me the man that took Pompey's life.
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