- Achillas: We've found them. They've set up camp just beyond Pelusium, trying to recruit soldiers from the desert tribes.
- Theodotus: Just like her great-great-grandmother did.
- Achillas: Who?
- Theodotus: Her great-great-grandmother, the second Queen Cleopatra.
- Achillas: Well what has that got to do with it?
- Theodotus: Nothing, except it's nice to know history.
- Achillas: And why is it?
- Theodotus: It proves that men can make fools of themselves in exactly the same way any number of times.
- Achillas: Are you saying that I'm a fool?
- Theodotus: No, I'm not *saying* it...
- Julius Caesar: I must tell you that Dioscorides and Serapion have been killed.
- Cleopatra: Killed? How?
- Julius Caesar: An extraordinary way to treat envoys. Achillas wouldn't listen to them, but had them murdered straightaway.
- Cleopatra: That's terrible.
- Julius Caesar: It's against all the rules of war. I've broken most of them myself, but never that one.
- Achillas: They've set up camp just beyond Pelusium, trying to recruit soldiers from the desert tribes.
- Theodotus: Just like her great-great-grandmother did.
- Achillas: Who?
- Theodotus: Her-great great-grandmother, the second Queen Cleopatra.
- Achillas: What's that got to do with it?
- Theodotus: Nothing. Except it's nice to know history
- Achillas: Why is it?
- Theodotus: It proves that men can make fools of themselves in exactly the same way any number of times.