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[Posca helps Vorenus pore over legal documents to help him prepare for the election]
Lucius Vorenus : Surely this can wait until after the election. There's no point learning all this if I lose.
Posca : You will not lose.
Lucius Vorenus : You're very sure of that. There are other candidates.
[Posca laughs]
Lucius Vorenus : I believe I warned you about mocking me.
Posca : Forgive me, sir, I had thought you understood the system. The other candidates are straw men.
Lucius Vorenus : [displeased] Straw men?
Posca : It saves a great deal of useless strife if there's no opposition, but it would look ill if Caesar's man was the only one standing.
[Vorenus gets up from the table]
Posca : These facts disturb you somehow?
Lucius Vorenus : The elections are sanctioned by Jupiter Capitolinus. They are sacred.
Posca : Caesar also is sanctioned by Jupiter, is he not? By augury, by triumph, by acclaim of the people. Anything he does is sacred. In a way, he is a demigod.
Lucius Vorenus : For one day only. For the rest, he is a mortal man like you and me.
Posca : Mortal or not, he is trying to save the Republic.
Lucius Vorenus : By corrupting the elections?
Posca : The Roman people are not crying out for clean elections. They're crying out for jobs. They're crying out for clean water, for food, for stability and peace. You can do great things for your people. You can help save the Republic.
[pause]
Posca : Or you can go back to your shop and resume selling mutton and pig, have dirty hands but a clean conscience.
