- Horatio: [Giving his men encouragement at the bridge before being attacked] A Roman makes a good hero if he dies at the end of a battle, but if he gets killed in the first skirmish, he's a fool.
- Drusco: [Riding side by side with Clelia] What's your name?
- Clelia: Clelia.
- Drusco: Clelia? Does it mean anything special? The she wolf? The lioness? The vixen?
- Clelia: The idiot who was captured. That's all I am? And you. What's your name?
- Drusco: Ah! It's a long one. The idiotic warrior who forgives pretty girls who play soldier.
- Clelia: What is it in the tongue of the barbarian?
- Drusco: Drusco.