How is it my fault that [Julia's] a slut? She took my husband Agrippa and now he isn't good enough and... I'm supposed to feel sorry for her. That spoiled little princess bitch! It serves her right!
When preparing the previous I, Claudius gifset, one thing I've noticed was that Claudius really plays up the clumsiness in front of Livia but then stops once she is dead. I couldn't really find any moment of him dropping stuff or running into things from episode 8, but than he starts again in episode 13 when he marries Agripinilla.
I have been too benevolent. I repaired the ruin my predecessors spread. I reconciled Rome and the world to monarchy again. By dulling the blade of tyranny, I fell into great error. By sharpening that blade I might redeem that error. Violent disorders call for violent remedies.
And the difference between this great lady and myself is that my work is her hobby. My hobby happens to be gardening, for which I don't expect to be paid.
Trust no one, my friend. No one. Not your most grateful freedman, not your most intimate friend, not your dearest child, not the wife of your bosom. Trust no one.
Now there is something that you ought to know before he arrives, so that you won't be taken totally by surprise. We are privileged to be living at the time of the most astonishing event. The Emperor has undergone a transformation - a metamorphosis. He has become a god.