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400 years after the last king
was driven from the city,
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the republic of Rome rules many nations,
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but cannot rule itself.
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The city is constantly roiled by conflict
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between the common
people and the nobility.
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Power is shared and order maintained
by two soldiers, old friends,
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Gnaeus Pompey Magnus
and Gaius Julius Caesar.
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Once, Pompey was acknowledged
by all to be the greater man,
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but for the last eight years,
while Pompey has kept the peace in Rome,
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Caesar has waged a war
of conquest in Gaul
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that has made him ever
more rich and popular.
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The balance of power is shifting,
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and the nobility have grown fearful.
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Though of noble blood himself,
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Caesar stands with the common people.
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A man like that,
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an aristocrat with soldiers, money
and the love of the people,
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might make himself king.
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Pullo, formation!
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Pullo! Single formation!
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Shields on me!
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Get back in formation, you drunken fool.
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Reform!
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Legionary Titus Pullo is a hero of the
13th legion, but look at him now.
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Justice knows every man's number.
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He has committed a terrible sacrilege,
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and he will pay for it with his life!
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As will any man here who breaks the law.
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Brawlers and drunkards will be flogged.
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Thieves will be strangled.
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Deserters will be crucified.
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Is that it?
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I was just beginning to enjoy myself.
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Before you...
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Vercingetorix, son of Celtil,
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chieftain of the tribe of the Arverni,
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commander of the rebel
stronghold of Alesia,
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king of all the Gauls.
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What would you have of him?
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Caesar!
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Hey! Hey, what's going on?
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Hey, here!
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You piss-drinking sons of circus whores!
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The chief of the Gauls has
surrendered to Caesar.
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The war is over.
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Don't say that.
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The boys have been given two days' liberty
to sack the town and take personal spoils.
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They'll all be rich.
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And me in here!
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Hey!
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Come on, get in there!
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400 denarii? Are you insane?
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That's a floor price.
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We'll pay the usual premium for tradesmen
and fertile women, et cetera.
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From Pompey Magnus, sir.
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Set the floor closer to eight.
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"My dear friend and partner, Gaius,
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"I have terrible news."
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Forgive me.
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Forgive me.
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I forgive you. I forgive you.
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- Be good to my slaves.
- I will.
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- And to my father.
- I will.
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Kiss me.
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Your hair.
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Funny.
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This isn't miserable Eastern peasantry.
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This is the crème of the Gallic nations.
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A glut on the market.
You can't give them away.
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- Seven and be done with it.
- On delivery to Massilia?
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- Oh, please!
- Agreed. See to the details.
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I hope you got a decent
price off those parasites.
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Good enough.
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News from Rome?
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Pompey writes.
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My daughter Julia has died in childbirth.
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I grieve with you.
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The child?
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A girl, stillborn.
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Pompey will be needing a new wife.
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Caesar!
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More of Caesar's spoils from Gaul.
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Caesar!
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What a dreadful noise plebs
make when they're happy.
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This is music.
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Wait until Caesar starts them
howling for our blood.
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Then you'll hear something dreadful.
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A fine reward is offered
for the return of a slave woman,
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stolen or absconded
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from the house of Marius Dolabella.
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Under the protection of Pompey
Magnus and Julius Caesar,
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Senate sits tomorrow.
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Be aware!
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No disorder will be tolerated.
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Yes, they come from a Palmerian source.
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That was lovely, Timon.
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Two stallions have come to Rome today.
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Of course. How childish of me.
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- You want the horse.
- I do.
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But don't be sullen now.
This was not a hardship for me.
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I've always found something
perversely erotic
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about goaty little men.
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Do please don't lurk, Octavian.
Come in.
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Don't be a goose. Come in.
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- I've bought a horse.
- Have you?
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The best horse in Rome, by all accounts.
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- I'm very happy for you.
- It's a gift for your great-uncle.
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I want you to take the animal to Gaul
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and give it to him in person.
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- Why?
- When he's back,
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everyone will give him gifts.
We must be first.
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He won't return to Rome soon.
The Senate's hostility will prevent him.
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- Legally speaking...
- Please don't start speaking legally.
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- You know it bores me.
- It's a long way to Gaul.
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Exactly. While yet a mere boy,
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you would risk your life to honor
your beloved great-uncle.
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You ride into Caesar's camp alone,
on a noble white stallion.
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- That's a gift he won't soon forget.
- Alone?
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Well, you'll have plenty of slaves.
You'll be perfectly safe.
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And you'll make your mama
very proud and happy.
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Cato, the Senate hears you.
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Pompey Magnus...
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I have a question concerning
your friend and co-consul,
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the darling of Venus, Gaius Julius Caesar.
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Why does his chair remain empty?
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Why does he not come home?
His illegal war is over.
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Gaul is long since on its knees.
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Why does Caesar keep his brave soldiers
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from their families and friends?
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For eight long years,
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he has gorged himself like a wolf
on the blood of Gaul,
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and thereby made himself
monstrously rich.
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- Why?
- Sit down!
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Why does he ply the mob with races
and fights and gaudy feasts?
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Why has he paid the debts
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of every reprobate fool
in this Senate house?
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Why?
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I'll tell you why he does these things.
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He wants to buy himself a crown.
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He wants to destroy the Republic
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and rule Rome as a bloody tyrant!
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That's why!
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Therefore, I move
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that Caesar's governorship in Gaul
be terminated immediately,
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that his armies be disbanded
and that he be recalled to Rome
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to answer charges of illegal warfare,
theft, bribery and treason!
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Very good, Cato.
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Full of vim and verve, as usual.
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Caesar has been generous to the people
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because he loves the people as I do.
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It is the people that rule,
not you fine noblemen.
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It is Pompey's soldiers that rule,
not we fine noblemen.
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I'm going to save us all
hours of useless clamor
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and use my consular veto on your motion.
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- Yes!
- I do not...
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- I do not...
- Silence!
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Are we children? Let the consul speak.
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Thank you, Cicero.
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- I do not...
- However...
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if I might say a few words
before you continue.
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When confronted by a hungry wolf,
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it is unwise to goad the beast,
as Cato would have us do.
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But it is equally unwise
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to imagine the snarling animal a friend
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and offer your hand as Pompey does.
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Perhaps you would have us climb a tree.
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Caesar is my brother by sacred oath.
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I know his heart. He is my friend
and a faithful son of the Republic.
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And until anyone proves that he is not,
I will never betray him.
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Pompey Magnus, my dear fellow,
you're well met.
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Scipio, Cato.
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I would not take you
for lovers of the mime.
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You know my daughter, Cornelia.
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Widow of noble Publius
who died at Carrhae.
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Cornelia, your husband was a fine Roman.
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I thank you.
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Father, my presence is not appropriate.
There's a lewd woman on the stage.
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I had no notion.
We will not linger, then.
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Pompey, a pleasant good night.
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If it please you, might we speak alone?
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Neither we aristocrats alone nor you and
your soldiers alone can crush Caesar.
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Stop there.
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I do not say that you
wish to crush Caesar,
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I only say that if you did wish it,
you could not do it alone.
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I have no need of you noble gentlemen.
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I have only to stamp my feet and
legions will spring up all over Italy.
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I can squash Caesar like
an insect if I wished it so.
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I do not wish it.
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Renounce him, Pompey!
Renounce Caesar!
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Ally yourself with us and his
strength will wither away.
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It is you who has the real power.
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It is you the people truly love.
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Will they still shout Caesar's name
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when he runs out of Gallic
trinkets to throw to them?
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Think you I care what names
are shouted in the streets?
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Nothing is more important.
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You ask me to openly betray a friend.
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I cannot do it. Good night.
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Oh, silly baby brother.
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Everything will be all right.
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Is he not perfect? Proper little soldier.
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- He's scared.
- Nonsense. Roman men are never scared.
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He's just sad to be leaving his mama.
You're not scared, are you, Octavian?
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Of course you're not. Time flies.
Give me a kiss, my love.
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Andros...
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Bring him back safe or I'll use the eyes
of your children for beads.
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Lyco, the horse.
Not too expensive, I hope.
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I'm sorry, sir,
the horse was sold already.
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- To Atia of the Julii.
- Atia?
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She's sending it to Gaul.
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A gift for Caesar.
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Damn him!
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Must he have everything?
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As you were going to be in Gaul anyway,
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I might kill two birds with one stone.
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- Let me look at you.
- As ugly as ever, I'm afraid.
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Not at all. Age suits you, Brutus.
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- How long has it been? Five years?
- No, six.
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Oh, how clever.
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It's almost like a proper house.
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I deeply regret your loss.
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Julia and so forth. Horrible business.
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Condolences, really.
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- Now tell me, how's your mother?
- The same as ever.
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She sends her love, demands to know
why you haven't written to her in months.
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I can remedy that if you'll be my courier.
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I have several letters to send to her.
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If I can bring myself
to get on another horse.
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I had no conception that Gaul was so far.
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Brutus, me old cock!
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- What on earth are you doing here?
- Mark Antony, how nice.
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I've been visiting my cousin in Narbo.
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How is that idiot cousin of yours?
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He was...
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Actually, I'm sorry,
I'm in a bit of a rush.
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I need, say, a half talent of gold.
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- Do you?
- See how he trusts me.
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- For the eagle.
- Of course. Strabo!
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Give his honor Mark Antony
a half talent of gold.
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- A half talent of gold.
- And not a penny more.
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Dominus.
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I don't know how you
tolerate that man.
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He likes to fight.
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The way he carries on is as if
he came from no family at all.
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He does have a vulgarian streak.
I don't mind it.
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What is this about the eagle?
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My personal standard was stolen
by brigands. A bad business.
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The legions were already
homesick and surly.
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Now they're positively mutinous.
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The men think it's a sure
sign of my doom,
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and they're clamoring like
geese for disbandment.
252
00:25:38,162 --> 00:25:41,124
They did not seem so unhappy.
253
00:25:41,249 --> 00:25:44,460
They never flaunt their discontent.
Gets them whipped.
254
00:25:45,253 --> 00:25:48,673
I tell you, Brutus, I'm at my wits' end.
255
00:26:07,024 --> 00:26:08,192
Master Octavian...
256
00:26:09,902 --> 00:26:11,446
Vasio is only a few more miles.
257
00:26:11,571 --> 00:26:14,157
Do not touch me without permission.
258
00:26:15,324 --> 00:26:16,993
Water.
259
00:26:55,406 --> 00:26:57,492
Lucius Vorenus.
260
00:27:01,662 --> 00:27:03,956
You have a brain.
261
00:27:05,208 --> 00:27:07,710
So the tribunes say.
262
00:27:07,835 --> 00:27:12,048
So tell me, if it were you who had
to retrieve Caesar's eagle,
263
00:27:12,173 --> 00:27:13,925
how would you go about it?
264
00:27:14,509 --> 00:27:17,887
I'd take captives from
every tribe in Gaul
265
00:27:18,012 --> 00:27:21,891
and crucify them one by one until
someone tells me where the eagle is.
266
00:27:22,016 --> 00:27:24,852
Then, I would go in quick and
quiet with one or two men
267
00:27:24,977 --> 00:27:27,146
and steal it back.
268
00:27:27,271 --> 00:27:29,982
Good. We are of one mind.
269
00:27:30,107 --> 00:27:32,026
- Do it.
- Do it, sir?
270
00:27:32,151 --> 00:27:34,737
There's a torture detachment
with the third,
271
00:27:34,862 --> 00:27:37,323
but you may choose
your own men if you wish.
272
00:27:44,497 --> 00:27:47,667
There's a quarter talent there,
for bribes and such.
273
00:27:47,792 --> 00:27:50,878
- Spend it wisely.
- Sir.
274
00:28:02,139 --> 00:28:06,853
No! No! Please let me down!
275
00:28:06,978 --> 00:28:09,814
Let me down!
276
00:28:13,234 --> 00:28:16,279
Let me down! I know...
I know where the eagle is.
277
00:28:16,404 --> 00:28:18,614
- Speak.
- The Blue Spaniards,
278
00:28:18,739 --> 00:28:23,744
they came to stay for one night...
and then rode to the Cadurci lands.
279
00:28:23,870 --> 00:28:27,290
Please! Please, please. Let me down.
280
00:28:27,415 --> 00:28:30,084
The Cadurci.
281
00:28:30,751 --> 00:28:32,837
Fortune pisses on me.
282
00:28:32,962 --> 00:28:35,590
- Please let me down!
- Take them down.
283
00:28:39,343 --> 00:28:40,970
Forculus,
284
00:28:41,095 --> 00:28:43,757
if you be the right god
for the business here
285
00:28:43,781 --> 00:28:45,349
I call on you to help me.
286
00:28:45,474 --> 00:28:50,146
If you will open this door,
then I will kill for you a fine white lamb,
287
00:28:50,271 --> 00:28:54,817
or, failing that, if I couldn't get a good
one at a decent price, then six pigeons.
288
00:28:54,942 --> 00:28:56,861
This, Forculus, I vow to you.
289
00:28:56,986 --> 00:28:59,363
Legionary Titus Pullo, stand up.
290
00:29:07,371 --> 00:29:09,165
- Why's he here?
- You are released
291
00:29:09,290 --> 00:29:12,585
to the command of Second Spear
Centurion Lucius Vorenus.
292
00:29:12,710 --> 00:29:14,039
Do your duty to his satisfaction
293
00:29:14,063 --> 00:29:15,896
and you'll be spared
damnation in the arena.
294
00:29:15,922 --> 00:29:17,925
I won't even stand next to
this short-arsed shit
295
00:29:17,949 --> 00:29:20,652
leave alone serve under him.
I'll stay here, thanks very much.
296
00:29:20,676 --> 00:29:23,429
These orders are from his
excellency Mark Antony.
297
00:29:23,554 --> 00:29:26,223
You are to retrieve Caesar's eagle.
298
00:29:27,850 --> 00:29:30,311
Me, retrieve Caesar's eagle?
299
00:29:39,987 --> 00:29:42,073
- Brutus?
- Mama!
300
00:29:45,660 --> 00:29:48,871
You can't imagine how good
it is to be home.
301
00:29:48,996 --> 00:29:50,665
You're as brown as a bean.
302
00:29:50,790 --> 00:29:53,376
It makes me look quite soldierly, though.
303
00:29:53,501 --> 00:29:55,878
It does, it does.
304
00:29:56,003 --> 00:29:59,215
- How is cousin Marcellus?
- Tedious but healthy.
305
00:29:59,340 --> 00:30:01,050
- And Caesar?
- Who?
306
00:30:01,175 --> 00:30:05,012
Don't be cruel. Is he well?
Did he ask of me?
307
00:30:05,846 --> 00:30:07,932
Did he? I can't recall.
308
00:30:08,057 --> 00:30:09,600
I think not.
309
00:30:09,725 --> 00:30:11,811
He did write you a letter, though.
310
00:30:12,687 --> 00:30:14,063
You beast.
311
00:30:14,981 --> 00:30:17,358
"Dearest Servilia,
forgive my long silence.
312
00:30:17,483 --> 00:30:20,861
"These last long months were
all blood and iron and mud,
313
00:30:20,987 --> 00:30:23,030
"and no time for letters to friends.
314
00:30:23,155 --> 00:30:26,492
"Be sure that I have been thinking
of you with great affection.
315
00:30:26,617 --> 00:30:29,912
"I long to be together
and alone with you."
316
00:30:34,375 --> 00:30:36,377
"Great affection."
317
00:30:36,502 --> 00:30:38,462
Longs to be alone with you.
318
00:30:38,587 --> 00:30:41,757
You think he says such
things to his wife?
319
00:30:41,882 --> 00:30:44,719
Affection? What's that?
320
00:30:44,844 --> 00:30:46,971
He could not say love.
321
00:30:48,055 --> 00:30:50,016
Would you have him pluck a harp?
322
00:30:50,141 --> 00:30:52,351
He's a soldier, not a poet.
323
00:30:52,476 --> 00:30:55,813
The day dwindles.
Our guests will be arriving.
324
00:31:10,911 --> 00:31:13,372
You ride well, almost as well as me.
325
00:31:13,497 --> 00:31:15,499
You will address me correctly.
326
00:31:15,624 --> 00:31:17,835
Almost as well as me, sir.
327
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,255
Me, I'm a natural.
My father was an Ubian, probably.
328
00:31:21,380 --> 00:31:23,799
Where did you learn to ride so nice?
329
00:31:25,342 --> 00:31:27,845
Please yourself.
Only trying to be pleasant.
330
00:31:27,970 --> 00:31:30,806
My mother's people
raised horses in Mutina.
331
00:31:30,931 --> 00:31:32,933
Mutina, near Regium?
Up round there?
332
00:31:33,059 --> 00:31:35,936
- Up there.
- Good country.
333
00:31:37,730 --> 00:31:40,441
Listen, sir, thank you
for taking me on this job.
334
00:31:40,566 --> 00:31:42,651
- A noble way to make amends.
- Amends?
335
00:31:42,777 --> 00:31:45,362
For getting me into this cack
by calling me names.
336
00:31:45,488 --> 00:31:48,324
- Think nothing of it.
- Never. I won't forget.
337
00:31:48,449 --> 00:31:50,743
Titus Pullo never forgets a favor.
338
00:31:50,868 --> 00:31:52,495
What do you mean, "hah"?
339
00:31:52,620 --> 00:31:55,998
What do you think our chances
are of finding the eagle?
340
00:31:56,123 --> 00:31:58,834
- 13th never fails, eh?
- Little or no chance.
341
00:31:58,959 --> 00:32:03,089
The eagle might be anywhere. Buried,
melted down, sunk to the bottom of the sea.
342
00:32:03,214 --> 00:32:05,257
We are hunting a black dog in the night.
343
00:32:05,382 --> 00:32:07,843
Not finding the eagle
is the same as losing it.
344
00:32:07,968 --> 00:32:11,555
We will be disgraced. I chose you
because you are disgraced already
345
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,183
- and condemned to die.
- So not making amends?
346
00:32:14,308 --> 00:32:17,853
Pullo, in effect, you're dead already.
347
00:32:17,978 --> 00:32:21,565
The loss of one drunken fool does
little damage to the legion.
348
00:32:21,690 --> 00:32:25,402
If I'm dead already then, sir, you should
take care how you speak to me.
349
00:32:25,528 --> 00:32:27,905
If I've got nothing to lose,
350
00:32:28,030 --> 00:32:32,409
what's to stop me cutting you
into little gobs and riding off, eh?
351
00:32:32,535 --> 00:32:33,869
What's to stop me, sir?
352
00:32:33,994 --> 00:32:36,872
If your honor as a soldier
of the 13th isn't enough,
353
00:32:36,997 --> 00:32:39,542
I'll have to rely on my
superior fighting skills.
354
00:32:39,667 --> 00:32:41,710
Superior fighting skills?
355
00:32:42,878 --> 00:32:43,921
Very good.
356
00:32:45,506 --> 00:32:48,467
And of course, you have to imagine
long hair down to here,
357
00:32:48,592 --> 00:32:51,512
huge mustaches, the most horrific stench.
358
00:32:51,637 --> 00:32:53,931
They eat only raw meat and never wash.
359
00:32:54,056 --> 00:32:56,392
Oh, they do have one admirable custom.
360
00:32:56,517 --> 00:33:00,688
They settle their political disputes
by single combat to the death.
361
00:33:00,813 --> 00:33:03,899
- Excellent idea.
- Isn't it?
362
00:33:04,024 --> 00:33:07,153
Mother is always nagging me
to attend politics.
363
00:33:07,278 --> 00:33:12,283
Well, it's been our family's tradition
and duty for 500 years.
364
00:33:12,408 --> 00:33:14,201
It is such dreadfully dull stuff.
365
00:33:14,326 --> 00:33:17,272
Now you see, if our Senate conducted
business in the German style
366
00:33:17,296 --> 00:33:18,514
I should certainly go and watch.
367
00:33:18,539 --> 00:33:23,002
No tedious lawsuits and endless
debates, just swords, daggers...
368
00:33:23,127 --> 00:33:26,213
- Much more entertaining.
- Brutus, a word.
369
00:33:28,090 --> 00:33:31,969
Tell me, you are a good judge.
370
00:33:32,094 --> 00:33:36,307
How is my dear friend Caesar?
371
00:33:36,432 --> 00:33:39,894
Well, he is... He's been better, I think.
372
00:33:41,395 --> 00:33:45,232
Very... very weary, to be honest.
A little demoralized.
373
00:33:45,357 --> 00:33:49,069
- Caesar, demoralized? Never.
- His standard was stolen.
374
00:33:49,195 --> 00:33:51,197
How'd he let a foolish thing
like that happen?
375
00:33:51,322 --> 00:33:54,617
I don't know, but his men
are in uproar about it.
376
00:33:54,742 --> 00:33:57,244
You know how plebeians
can be about such things.
377
00:33:57,369 --> 00:33:59,663
Desperate to come home, mutinous.
378
00:33:59,788 --> 00:34:05,461
I had heard there was some discontent,
but mutinous? Hard to believe.
379
00:34:05,586 --> 00:34:07,338
Can you imagine?
380
00:34:07,463 --> 00:34:09,715
After all he has done for them,
381
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:13,260
he is not sure whether they will...
will fight for him any more.
382
00:34:13,385 --> 00:34:18,098
And the lower classes have a very,
very crude sense of loyalty.
383
00:34:20,017 --> 00:34:23,479
No offense. I don't mean you.
You are lower class,
384
00:34:23,604 --> 00:34:26,607
but that is to say, the lower
class in general, however.
385
00:34:26,732 --> 00:34:29,985
A very crude sense of... of loyalty.
386
00:34:30,110 --> 00:34:31,612
Excuse me.
387
00:34:33,614 --> 00:34:36,992
"My dear niece, I hope you
and the children are well.
388
00:34:37,117 --> 00:34:41,538
"I have a task for you. Policy dictates
I give a new wife to Pompey,
389
00:34:41,664 --> 00:34:43,396
"but I have been
gone too long to know
390
00:34:43,420 --> 00:34:46,001
who among the females of
our family would be suitable.
391
00:34:46,126 --> 00:34:51,465
"I would ask Calpurnia, but though
an excellent wife, she has no eye for this.
392
00:34:51,590 --> 00:34:55,678
"Do me the favor of selecting whichever
girl you think most likely to please
393
00:34:55,803 --> 00:34:58,347
"and offer her to him in my name."
394
00:35:01,892 --> 00:35:03,852
Excuse me, I was far away.
395
00:35:03,978 --> 00:35:05,854
Caesar has no bad news for you, I hope.
396
00:35:05,980 --> 00:35:08,148
No, not at all. Not at all.
397
00:35:08,274 --> 00:35:10,401
- What a lovely party.
- Thank you.
398
00:35:10,526 --> 00:35:13,320
Not as lovely as you look in that dress.
399
00:35:15,656 --> 00:35:19,743
And Octavia. Beautiful.
400
00:35:19,868 --> 00:35:21,870
Well, I try.
401
00:35:21,996 --> 00:35:25,124
She will insist on slouching.
402
00:35:25,249 --> 00:35:27,376
Where's Octavian?
403
00:35:27,501 --> 00:35:29,211
He's in Gaul.
404
00:36:48,248 --> 00:36:51,126
Great Mother says no harm
shall come to your boy.
405
00:36:51,251 --> 00:36:52,336
Good.
406
00:36:56,799 --> 00:36:59,134
Tell me now, how goes your marriage?
407
00:36:59,259 --> 00:37:00,969
Glabius is a good man.
408
00:37:01,095 --> 00:37:04,932
You surprise me. I always thought
there were difficulties between you.
409
00:37:05,057 --> 00:37:07,226
Must you always have a needle in hand?
410
00:37:07,351 --> 00:37:09,645
I was only asking. Excuse my curiosity.
411
00:37:09,770 --> 00:37:13,649
There were some difficulties in the past,
but we overcame them.
412
00:37:13,774 --> 00:37:17,444
- We love each other very much.
- Well, that's a shame. Now I feel bad.
413
00:37:17,569 --> 00:37:20,114
I thought you'd be overjoyed.
414
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,449
What do you mean?
415
00:37:23,659 --> 00:37:26,787
Uncle Julius intends to marry you
416
00:37:26,912 --> 00:37:28,997
to Pompey Magnus.
417
00:37:30,457 --> 00:37:33,293
- Uncle Julius...
- Pompey is a touch low in manner,
418
00:37:33,419 --> 00:37:35,838
but I'm told he's a
perfectly adequate lover.
419
00:37:35,963 --> 00:37:38,799
And you shall be the first woman in Rome.
420
00:37:40,008 --> 00:37:44,596
We shall have to get you divorced
from Glabius, obviously. Quick as poss.
421
00:37:44,721 --> 00:37:47,349
I will not do it. I love my husband.
422
00:37:47,474 --> 00:37:50,043
If you do not divorce
Glabius willingly
423
00:37:50,067 --> 00:37:52,120
then Caesar will ask
Glabius to divorce you.
424
00:37:52,146 --> 00:37:54,898
- And Glabius will refuse.
- And then he'll be killed.
425
00:37:55,023 --> 00:37:56,942
Does anybody want that to happen?
426
00:37:58,819 --> 00:38:00,320
Caesar would not do that.
427
00:38:00,446 --> 00:38:04,158
The man's been in Gaul for eight years.
428
00:38:04,283 --> 00:38:06,869
He's practically a wild beast.
429
00:38:20,007 --> 00:38:22,050
The man has tears in his eyes.
430
00:38:22,176 --> 00:38:24,178
Tears.
431
00:38:24,303 --> 00:38:26,472
He loves me.
432
00:38:26,597 --> 00:38:28,974
A womanish husband is no use to anyone.
433
00:38:29,099 --> 00:38:31,101
And your servants! What a fuss!
434
00:38:31,226 --> 00:38:33,562
I think you feed them too much.
435
00:38:35,272 --> 00:38:38,525
A little more arsenic, I think, Gaia.
436
00:38:38,650 --> 00:38:41,737
Try to look
a little more cheerful, Octavia.
437
00:38:41,862 --> 00:38:44,323
- It's for the good of the family.
- I don't care.
438
00:38:44,448 --> 00:38:47,159
You and I and your brother
are alone in the world.
439
00:38:47,284 --> 00:38:49,912
- We have to be strong.
- We are not alone. Caesar...
440
00:38:50,037 --> 00:38:51,705
Caesar is in Gaul.
441
00:38:51,830 --> 00:38:53,832
Pompey is here.
442
00:38:55,459 --> 00:38:57,544
Courage, my love.
443
00:39:04,968 --> 00:39:08,180
The Parthian were threatening
my left flank.
444
00:39:08,305 --> 00:39:13,602
And so, rather than shorten the line
as would be conventional,
445
00:39:13,727 --> 00:39:18,565
I sent in my cavalry reserve
and outflanked the flankers.
446
00:39:21,610 --> 00:39:23,654
Bravo, Magnus. Masterly.
447
00:39:24,571 --> 00:39:27,491
Is he not, Octavia, masterly?
448
00:39:29,409 --> 00:39:30,702
Masterly.
449
00:39:30,827 --> 00:39:35,082
Magnus, tell me something, and be honest.
Does my daughter please you?
450
00:39:35,749 --> 00:39:37,751
Very pleasing, no doubt.
451
00:39:37,876 --> 00:39:42,089
Then I can tell you that Caesar,
as a token of his abiding friendship,
452
00:39:42,214 --> 00:39:45,509
would like to offer her to you in marriage.
453
00:39:50,764 --> 00:39:52,975
She is not married to young Glabius?
454
00:39:53,100 --> 00:39:55,310
Divorced.
455
00:39:57,479 --> 00:40:03,235
- Perhaps you need time to think.
- Excuse me, I was taken unawares.
456
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:07,823
How could I refuse such
a worthy and dignified bride?
457
00:40:07,948 --> 00:40:10,951
- Caesar is far too generous.
- Excellent.
458
00:40:11,076 --> 00:40:15,163
We would have to wait until next month
for an actual ceremony, of course,
459
00:40:15,289 --> 00:40:17,416
when Julia's mourning days are over.
460
00:40:17,541 --> 00:40:18,779
Of course, of course.
461
00:40:18,803 --> 00:40:22,921
But you may take your betrothal
privileges any time you wish.
462
00:40:24,798 --> 00:40:27,259
Now, if you like.
463
00:40:28,135 --> 00:40:30,971
- Really, that's not necessary.
- Don't be silly.
464
00:40:31,930 --> 00:40:33,682
Octavia would love to.
465
00:40:33,807 --> 00:40:38,478
There's no need for shyness.
We're all family now, after all.
466
00:41:06,673 --> 00:41:08,884
British women, now, that's savage cunny.
467
00:41:09,009 --> 00:41:11,011
You have to hunt them down like deer.
468
00:41:11,136 --> 00:41:14,723
Mind, once you get them under you,
slack as your best Narbo scortum.
469
00:41:14,848 --> 00:41:16,725
Do you care for nothing but women?
470
00:41:16,850 --> 00:41:19,186
What else is there? Food, I suppose.
471
00:41:20,103 --> 00:41:22,397
You don't like women?
472
00:41:22,522 --> 00:41:25,692
Of course I do. I'm married to one.
473
00:41:25,817 --> 00:41:29,071
- I have a wife, Niobe.
- I see. Centurions can marry, then?
474
00:41:29,196 --> 00:41:32,574
- I received a special dispensation.
- A special dispensation?
475
00:41:32,699 --> 00:41:34,368
She must be some good...
476
00:41:37,329 --> 00:41:38,872
woman.
477
00:41:41,083 --> 00:41:42,751
She is.
478
00:41:44,252 --> 00:41:46,755
Been a while since you've seen her, then.
479
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,633
Seven years, 140 days.
480
00:41:49,758 --> 00:41:52,636
That's hard. May fortune smile on you.
481
00:41:53,345 --> 00:41:54,971
Me, I have simpler tastes.
482
00:41:55,097 --> 00:41:58,892
I like to kill my enemy, take their
gold and enjoy their women.
483
00:41:59,017 --> 00:42:01,853
That's it. Why tie yourself to one?
484
00:42:01,978 --> 00:42:04,064
Where's the flavor? Where's the joy?
485
00:42:04,189 --> 00:42:08,652
When was the last time you had a woman
who wasn't crying or wanting payment?
486
00:42:11,780 --> 00:42:15,117
You're on first watch.
Wake me when the moon's at the zenith.
487
00:42:15,242 --> 00:42:17,327
Right you are, sir.
488
00:42:26,169 --> 00:42:27,838
Halt!
489
00:42:35,887 --> 00:42:37,305
Sons of Dis!
490
00:42:45,564 --> 00:42:47,232
They weren't such good horses.
491
00:42:47,357 --> 00:42:50,318
My people fought at Zama and Magnesia,
my father rode with Sulla,
492
00:42:50,444 --> 00:42:53,947
and I'm reduced to this.
Unhorsed and robbed by children.
493
00:43:04,124 --> 00:43:05,751
Nice horse.
494
00:43:28,648 --> 00:43:31,443
Look here, Mars. Look here, Mars.
495
00:43:31,568 --> 00:43:34,905
I am Titus Pullo.
These bloody men, my gift to you.
496
00:43:36,531 --> 00:43:39,534
Thank the gods you came.
I am extremely grateful to you.
497
00:43:43,330 --> 00:43:46,792
Listen to me. I order you
to release me this instant.
498
00:43:46,917 --> 00:43:50,337
Fine way for a slave to talk. You won't
get far with a mouth like that on you.
499
00:43:50,462 --> 00:43:53,590
I'm no slave.
I'm Gaius Octavian of the Julii.
500
00:43:53,715 --> 00:43:56,927
- Great-nephew of Julius Caesar.
- Gaius who?
501
00:43:57,052 --> 00:43:59,054
I am a Roman citizen of noble birth,
502
00:43:59,179 --> 00:44:01,223
and I order you to cut these ropes.
503
00:44:01,348 --> 00:44:03,475
Say please.
504
00:44:04,559 --> 00:44:06,228
Please.
505
00:44:36,633 --> 00:44:40,887
Be assured you will be amply rewarded
for your services to me.
506
00:44:41,012 --> 00:44:44,766
- See how good he talks?
- He's convincing, I'll give him that.
507
00:44:44,891 --> 00:44:47,018
Caesar will prove who I am.
Take me to him.
508
00:44:47,143 --> 00:44:49,521
We cannot do that as yet.
We have orders.
509
00:44:49,646 --> 00:44:52,023
- Orders?
- To find Caesar's stolen eagle.
510
00:44:52,148 --> 00:44:55,443
Caesar wouldn't pull a hair for his eagle.
It's a fool's errand.
511
00:44:55,569 --> 00:44:58,446
If Caesar doesn't care about the eagle,
why send us to find it?
512
00:44:58,572 --> 00:45:00,818
It would look strange
if he made no effort.
513
00:45:00,842 --> 00:45:03,410
Actually, losing the
eagle is useful to Caesar.
514
00:45:03,535 --> 00:45:07,831
- Why would that be useful to Caesar?
- Because Pompey is no deep philosopher.
515
00:45:07,956 --> 00:45:10,083
He'll make a symbolic loss a real weakness.
516
00:45:10,208 --> 00:45:11,459
Explain.
517
00:45:13,044 --> 00:45:16,339
Caesar won't strike the first
blow against an old friend,
518
00:45:16,464 --> 00:45:19,342
so he wishes to lure Pompey
into attacking him first.
519
00:45:19,467 --> 00:45:22,053
Pompey will only do this
if he believes Caesar is weak.
520
00:45:22,178 --> 00:45:24,639
No. They're as good as brothers, those two.
521
00:45:24,764 --> 00:45:27,893
When Julia died, the last true
bond between them was cut.
522
00:45:28,018 --> 00:45:32,814
Caesar took the love of the common people
from Pompey, his most prized possession.
523
00:45:32,939 --> 00:45:35,025
A battle is inevitable.
524
00:45:47,412 --> 00:45:49,289
Pullo.
525
00:45:51,166 --> 00:45:52,208
Blue Spaniards!
526
00:46:49,891 --> 00:46:52,018
Good morning, Uncle!
527
00:46:54,479 --> 00:46:56,189
Octavian?
528
00:47:02,821 --> 00:47:06,032
One of Pompey's men. I misjudged him.
529
00:47:06,157 --> 00:47:08,481
I thought it would take
strategy to turn him against me,
530
00:47:08,505 --> 00:47:10,829
but he must have
turned the moment Julia died.
531
00:47:10,954 --> 00:47:14,374
And all the while he was
defending you in the Senate.
532
00:47:14,499 --> 00:47:17,085
He has the cunning of a sardine, poor fool.
533
00:47:18,753 --> 00:47:20,839
The battle begins.
534
00:47:21,923 --> 00:47:23,508
About time.
535
00:47:40,650 --> 00:47:42,736
Porca Juno.
536
00:47:44,529 --> 00:47:48,825
"Dearest Pompey, I believe
the enclosed man belongs to you.
537
00:47:48,950 --> 00:47:52,537
"A quick note to tell you I have
decided to winter the 13th Legion
538
00:47:52,662 --> 00:47:54,622
"closer to home, at Ravenna,
539
00:47:54,748 --> 00:47:59,002
"so I shall soon have the pleasure
of paying you homage in person."
540
00:48:29,616 --> 00:48:33,620
All of you, this is my new wife, Cornelia.
541
00:48:41,252 --> 00:48:43,088
Maybe if you'd summoned a little charm
542
00:48:43,213 --> 00:48:46,049
instead of moping about like
some torpid old she-cow,
543
00:48:46,174 --> 00:48:49,344
- this would never have happened.
- Oh, dear!
544
00:48:58,228 --> 00:49:01,314
Please, I was only speaking in anger.
545
00:49:02,398 --> 00:49:05,401
Everyone knows it's a political
repudiation on account,
546
00:49:05,527 --> 00:49:07,987
Pompey and Caesar are enemies now.
547
00:49:09,322 --> 00:49:13,618
One only has to look at Cornelia.
Poor sad chicken, plucked and boiled.
548
00:49:15,662 --> 00:49:17,956
Maybe Glabius will take me back.
549
00:49:19,499 --> 00:49:22,293
We are well rid of him.
550
00:49:22,418 --> 00:49:25,630
We'll find you somebody much
more worthwhile than Glabius.
551
00:49:25,755 --> 00:49:28,883
I've been dishonored and shamed
before the whole city!
552
00:49:29,008 --> 00:49:32,762
Nonsense! A girl from a good family
can never be dishonored
553
00:49:32,887 --> 00:49:35,390
by a villainous little pleb like Pompey!
554
00:49:35,515 --> 00:49:37,600
No...
555
00:49:37,725 --> 00:49:40,854
it is I who has been made to look foolish.
556
00:49:40,979 --> 00:49:45,483
- It is I who have lost face!
- I want him dead.
557
00:49:50,864 --> 00:49:52,991
And that you shall have.
558
00:49:57,745 --> 00:50:00,373
Pompey will eat sand for this.