- Vetius: If you condemn the son of Spartacus to the cross, you must do the same to all of us.
- [Behind him stands the entire population, several hundreds of men, women, and children]
- Giulio Cesare: We have not enough wood for so many crosses, isn't that so, Verulus?
- Verulus: Yes, Caesar, and you didn't appoint me governor of a dead people.
- Giulio Cesare: Set him free!