Rome (TV Series)

How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic (2005)

Ciarán Hinds: Gaius Julius Caesar

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• Gaius Julius Caesar : Soldiers! Pompey and the Senate have formally declared that Gaius Julius Caesar is an enemy of Rome. They have declared that I am a criminal. They have declared, in effect, that all of you *also* are criminals. Tribune's veto was not exercised. People's tribune Mark Antony and 50 men of the 13th were assaulted by 1000 head of Pompeian scum! A tribune of the plebs assaulted on the steps of the senate house. Can you imagine a more terrible sacrilege? Our beloved republic is in the hands of madmen. This is indeed a dark day, and I stand at a fork in the road. I can surrender my arms, in accordance with the law and watch Rome fall to tyranny and chaos. Or, I can return home *with my sword in my hand* and run these maniacs to the Tarpeian rock!

• Gaius Julius Caesar : After all these years, Pompey surprises me. I had hoped to provoke some kind of aggression, sure, but to try and kill a tribune? In the Forum? The man's found some hard, black iron in his soul.

  [a dirty and bloody Antony slurps thirstily on a cup of wine] 

  Mark Antony : I'm sure it was yon demented little worm Cato put him up to it.

  [he smacks his lips] 

  Mark Antony : It's excellent, this. So, what next?

  Gaius Julius Caesar : Let's see what the men have to say.

  [Antony steps toward a basin of water to wash himself] 

  Gaius Julius Caesar : Oh, don't do that! You look just right as you are. Like Leonidas at Thermopylae.