- [Jonathan revives the half-drowned Lupus with artificial respiration]
- Flavia Gemina: How did you do that?
- Jonathan Ben-Mordechai: I breathed my spirit into him.
- Nubia: Do you not lose your spirit?
- Jonathan Ben-Mordechai: God will fill me up.
- [Lupus is playing with a stick]
- Flavia Gemina: Where did you find that?
- [giggles]
- Flavia Gemina: Lupus, I know you lived on the street before coming here, but...
- Gaius Flavius Geminus: [o.s] Flavia! Where's the sponge stick?
- Flavia Gemina: [calls] Sorry, Uncle Gaius! Do you need a fig leaf?
- Gaius Flavius Geminus: [grumbles] I'll get it myself!
- [Lupus looks at the stick, and realizes]
- Jonathan Ben-Mordechai: You guessed it, Lupus. One of the many wonders of the Roman civilization: the bottom wiper.
- [Flavia and Nubia are shoving their prized possessions through a secret passage to hide them from the debt collector]
- Flavia Gemina: Scuto, get out of the way!
- Nubia: Is not dog property?
- Flavia Gemina: Good boy, Scuto! That's it, through the hole!
- Mordecai Ben-Ezra: Captain Geminus, the sores on your feet are infected. Soon the flesh will blacken, and I will have to amputate.
- Nubia: What is "amputate"?
- Flavia Gemina: [pale] Cut off. Please, Dr. Mordecai, you can't!
- Mordecai Ben-Ezra: There is another way.
- [He uncovers the dish he is holding to reveal a wriggling cluster of...]
- Flavia Gemina: Maggots!
- Mordecai Ben-Ezra: I have used this method before. These creatures will clean your wound. They eat only the rotten flesh. Will you trust me?
- [Marcus looks at the maggots, then looks up at Mordecai and nods weakly]