- [on his last day before the Senate, Claudius sees the ghosts of his family and predecessors]
- Augustus: Well done, Claudius. Emperor after all. Who would have thought it, eh?
- Livia: You're a fool, boy, you always were. People say it's not your fault. Well, if it's not your fault, whose fault is it, eh?
- Antonia: Your nose is still running, Claudius. It's still running!
- Caligula: Excuse me.
- [Leans in to the camera]
- Tiberius: [Interrupts] Just a minute. Just wait your turn.
- [Tiberius waves his hand in front of Claudius' eyes. This becomes two senators in reality doing the same while the emperor is in a fugue]
- Senator: Shall a doctor be brought?
- [Back to Claudius' hallucination]
- Tiberius: Wasn't worth it, was it? I could have told you that.
- Caligula: Uncle Claudius, I wasn't their Messiah after all! Don't believe it! You could have knocked me over with a feather when they told me.
- Narcissus: Unable to poison Claudius' food, Agripinilla must have poisoned hers. It was in a dish of mushrooms, which she loved and out of which she had been eating. He had finished his own and had called for more, which he often did. Then she offered him hers, out of her own dish. At first, I thought nothing of it; when you're used to seeing someone eat out of a dish it doesn't occur to you that it may contain something different in just one part. And then, she lifted the mushroom onto her fork and held it out for him to take. I knew then there was something different about it. And I knew too, as certainly as I knew *that,* that *he* knew. He *knew* it was poisoned, that his end was near, and he didn't care. He welcomed it.
- The Sybil: Farewell, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus, god of the Britons, onetime emperor of the Roman world. Farewell.
- The Sybil: They burned your book, you know? All of it. Lucky for you, you made another copy and buried it.