1x12 Kalends of February

Episode Quotes

Mistakes/Goofs

• Goof (anachronisms): There is a sulphur crested cockatoo at Vorenus's house. This bird is native to Australia and New Guinea and would not have been pets in Rome until at least the 1800's.
• Goof (anachronisms): When Pullo is seen by the physician in Rome, he says he has given him henbane for the pain. The term "henbane" was not in use until about 1265 CE.

Trivia

• Just before Vorenus leaves home to meet Caesar, Niobe slips a bag of herbs into his tunic. This was a good luck pouch, which the Ancient Romans believed had to be worn close to the skin for it to work.
• When the child is put to bed, he is addressed as "little man". The Ancient Romans didn't actually have the word "child" in their vocabulary. So children were referred to as small adults.
• Cicero's protests at Vorenus being elevated to the senate despite being a Plebeian are hypocritical. In fact, Cicero himself was originally a Plebeian.
• The Ancient Roman Suetonius recorded that had Caesar lived, he had planned to enact a series of public works, drain the Promptine marshes, triple the size of all libraries, and build a highway from the Tiber River through the Appenine Mountains to the Adriatic Sea.
• During Caesar's assassination, Cassius says: "Thus always for tyrants!". This is the literal translation of the Latin phrase "Sic semper tyrannis", which was also used by John Wilkes Booth when he killed Abraham Lincoln.