Rome (TV Series)
Stealing from Saturn (2005)
Nicholas Woodeson: Posca
Quotes
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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.