Karl Johnson credited as playing...
Porcius Cato
- [after the defeat at Thapsus]
- Scipio: We should go.
- Porcius Cato: Where?
- Scipio: Utica's not far.
- Porcius Cato: Utica? What's there for us?
- Scipio: Food, shelter.
- Porcius Cato: I need neither.
- Scipio: Sleep, then.
- Porcius Cato: Sleep would be pleasant.
- [to Scipio, after being defeated by Caesar at Thapsus, while watching a wounded war elephant die]
- Porcius Cato: [distantly] They sleep standing up, you know. Elephants. On account once laid down, they... cannot rise again.
- Scipio: Cheer up. We live.
- Porcius Cato: We do, we live.
- Scipio: And where there's life, there's hope.
- Porcius Cato: I'm afraid if we've done anything, my old friend, we've disproved that proverb.
- Porcius Cato: Scipio, you have a tolerant spirit. I suggest that, if you can, you should try and make your peace with Caesar.
- Scipio: I shall do whatever you do.
- Porcius Cato: [chuckles] Oh, I wouldn't do that.
- [Cato commits suicide later that evening]