Benjamin Sadler credited as playing...
Gaius Octavius • Young Augustus
- Octavius: [to Agrippa] The Egyptian relgion declares that to die of a snake bite will secure immortality. Did you know that, Agrippa?
- Maecenas: Never mind that! History... History will never forget this moment. At last, every legion in Rome listens to the command of a single man. The peace of Rome is assured, to the one, absolute ruler of the Roman Empire.
- Agrippa: [In disgust] So, that was you plan all along, Octavius? To wear a crown on your head!
- Maecenas: In order to keep the nobles from tearing Rome apart he must be king. He will be declared..."Augustus"!
- Octavius: I'd spare your life if I could, Antony.
- Mark Antony: I wasn't begging for your mercy!
- [short pause and smile]
- Mark Antony: I have lived well. I have no hatred or envy for Caesar's son. I wonder if your father had foresaw this end.
- Octavius: No... and neither did I.
- [to Agrippa, upon reaching Rome]
- Octavius: Tomorrow, we go to Munda. Tonight, I am going to show you the greatest city in the world.
- [On Caesar's murder]
- Mark Antony: Ten of them came at us with daggers, I don't know why I'm alive.
- Octavius: They must have not wished you dead.
- Octavius: Livia, you look well. How is Tiberius, that son of yours?
- Young Livia: And what is it that lies in *your* wife's belly? Do soothsayers predict a boy or a girl?
- Maecenas: We are three kings. Octavius, the leader. Agrippa, the soldier, and Maecenas, the...
- Agrippa: Mouth?
- Maecenas: - Maecenas, the politician.
- [Indicates a rise to Octavius and Agrippa]
- Maecenas: A rise. Let us all promise now: that we will let nothing never destroy this friendship!
- Maecenas, Agrippa, Octavius: Never!
- [about Agrippa's aqueducts]
- Agrippa: This spring will quench the thirst of 50,000 or more Romans everyday and water the fields streching for miles around Rome.
- [Hands cups of water to Octavius. Maecenas refuses his cup]
- Maecenas: No, thanks. I prefer to have something a little more lively.
- Octavius: [Toasts] To furture harvests.
- Agrippa: Now no one can bribe Rome again by cutting off it's food supply.
- Maecenas: It's all very lovely, Agrippa. At least we'll be able to get some lovely fountains out of it.
- [On the list of enemies to be murdered]
- Mark Antony: Write your enemies names on this list.
- Octavius: I have no names.
- Mark Antony: You have no balls!