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And so it fell out
that at Pharsalia...
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...the great might and manhood of Rome
met in bloody civil war...
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...and Caesar's legions
destroyed those of the great Pompey...
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...so that now only Caesar
stood at the head of Rome.
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But there was no joy for Caesar
as in his other triumphs...
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...for the dead which his legions
counted and buried and burned...
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...were their own countrymen.
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The smoke of burning Roman dead
is just as black...
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...and the stink no less.
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It was Pompey, not I,
who wanted it so.
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Let what I have said be set down.
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You may stand.
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Do not try and impress me by looking
either too penitent or too proud.
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As field officers,
you fought miserably for Pompey.
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Men under your command will be
permitted to enlist in my legions...
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...and returned to Rome as Romans.
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You shall have the same privilege.
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I'm not magnanimous. Your names
are marked. You'll be watched.
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First sign of treachery,
you'll be killed.
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What is it, Flavius? Antony?
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Oh, yes. Canidius.
With news of Pompey, I hope.
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-Hail Caesar!
-Drink that in my name, Canidius.
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To all Marc Antony's cavalry,
Caesar's left wing and right arm.
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What news of Pompey,
or what's left of him?
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Pompey's gone, Caesar.
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Slipped through our fingers,
disguised as a peddler.
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-Leaving most of his merchandise.
-Gone? Where?
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He has a galley waiting at the coast.
Provision enough for Egypt, they say.
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Egypt. Possibly.
They owe him a great deal.
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He'll ask for sanctuary.
Borrow money, borrow time.
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I thought it was over.
It seems it's not.
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Rufio, consult the augurers.
I want to know.
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In Egypt, will Pompey face me at last?
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But surely Caesar will now
return to Rome!
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I must go to Egypt in any case.
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Young King Ptolemy and his sister
have a civil war of their own...
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...intent on destroying each other,
and in the process, Rome's wheat.
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That cannot be so urgent.
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Let the Romans welcome
great Caesar properly at last...
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...in this greatest of his triumphs.
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Triumph? Over what?
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Over whom?
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-Canidius.
-Caesar?
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Leave me the 10th and 12th.
Antony's to take the rest to Rome.
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-When can he start?
-Whenever you say.
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Then at once.
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And in Rome,
Marc Antony is to speak for Caesar.
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His authority is not to be questioned.
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His word will be yours.
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As always, Caesar's word is law.
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Of course.
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But remind him to keep his legions
intact. They make the law legal.
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Caesar.
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And even as Caesar's galleys
sailed the great sea to Egypt...
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...it was happening that,
just as the Romans...
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...so the Egyptians made war,
one upon the other...
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...for young King Ptolemy would no longer
share the throne...
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...with his sister Cleopatra...
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...but drove her
from the city of Alexandria...
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...and sought to destroy her.
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We've arrived on their market day.
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Once a week they're allowed
in the royal enclosure.
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Where's the guard of honor for Caesar?
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Some representative
of the royal or military?
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We have the privilege of watching
Caesar battle through our marketplace.
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Marcellus, a dozen front-rank men,
swords only.
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Clear a direct line
to the palace steps.
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Then as many more to keep it open.
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It's precisely what they hope we'd be stupid
enough to do: manhandle their people.
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No. This is their market day,
we will go marketing.
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-You're not serious.
-We'll shop our way to the palace.
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Have you my money?
Everything is to be paid for by coin.
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Tell them to put away the swords
and carry moneybags.
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Olives. Oil of olives.
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Ah, the wine of Samos.
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How much for your wine? Four drachma.
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Sixty of your wine for my men.
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Pay him.
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You said they'd push the people
and make them angry.
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Why aren't they doing
what you said they'd do?
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Your king has asked a question,
Lord Chamberlain.
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The Romans have degenerated minds,
Most High Majesty.
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They do the unexpected.
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Particularly one Roman.
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Master of the unexpected.
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But with so few men.
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You all look so impressive.
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Any one of you could be king.
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His Divine Majesty, my Lord Ptolemy...
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...lord of the Upper
and Lower regions...
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...son of Ra, of Horus and of Thoth,
beloved of--
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Et cetera, et cetera. You welcome me.
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And l, Gaius Julius Caesar,
Pontifex Maximus...
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...et cetera, et cetera, thank you.
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From the Senate and people
of Rome, hail King Ptolemy.
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And his sister and co-ruler,
Queen Cleopatra?
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They won't tell you so,
but Cleopatra's dead.
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She tried to kill me,
and we chased her into the desert.
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And there she died.
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Whereas it is true
that His Majesty's sister...
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...repeatedly plotted
to have him killed...
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...it is not true
that Cleopatra is dead.
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Whereas it is true that she
fled from Alexandria--
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I seem to always interrupt you...
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...but the search for truth
can go on and on.
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Pothinus, is it not?
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Lord Chamberlain and chief eunuch
to King Ptolemy. An exalted rank.
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Obtained not without certain,
shall we say, sacrifice.
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Theodotus, am I right?
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Tutor to His Majesty in history,
philosophy and ambition.
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And Achillas.
They say you're a good soldier.
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-As one to another, where is Cleopatra?
-With her army.
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And how many of your men
between her and Alexandria?
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-Enough.
-May I speak?
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Surely you have come in peace.
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And we present ourselves to you
in warm and respectful welcome.
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Our only problem being an
internal one, of concern only to us...
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...why have you come, Caesar?
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As we all know, when the father
of both Ptolemy and Cleopatra died...
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...he named the two of them
to rule jointly over Egypt.
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Rome was appointed their guardian
and the executor of his will.
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I have come in the name of Rome to ask
why Cleopatra has been deposed...
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...to resolve the differences
between her and King Ptolemy...
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...and to see that they peacefully
resume their joint rule of Egypt.
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That will be difficult.
Cleopatra has forfeited her right.
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I shall try to decide justly.
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Don't you see he'll send for her?
He'll bring her back!
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The sun which sheds its grace
upon the ruler of the two lands...
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...burns too brightly perhaps.
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If Lord Ptolemy wishes to retire--
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I wish nothing of the kind!
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I won't be put out of the way
until I've watched you give him that!
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A thousand pardons,
I had almost forgotten.
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Lord Ptolemy wishes to enhance his
welcome by a gift of some importance.
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Most generous.
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The ring. Give him Pompey's ring.
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And now the token of
His Majesty's affection for Rome...
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...and regard for Caesar.
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Pompey the Great.
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Dead men, they say, do not bite.
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Does it please you, Caesar?
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They said it would
please you very much.
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The sun does shed its grace
too brightly.
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It has become too hot here for kings.
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My Lord Ptolemy will retire.
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For His Majesty,
a Roman guard of honor.
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It was not by your hand, of course.
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If, as you say, you've been told
of me, you know better, Caesar.
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My men shall be
properly housed and fed.
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-May I speak?
-Not until you're spoken to.
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I'll require rooms in the palace.
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I shall consider myself
honored to escort you.
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Anyone but you.
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Find the rest of Pompey.
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Tear out a thousand tongues,
but find him.
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Have him purified...
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...the coin in the mouth
and the rest, honorably.
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Of course.
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For now, this is what we must hold.
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Moon gate and three others.
Here, here and here.
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How are we placed?
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The 10th slingers on the moon gate.
The rest in reserve.
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The 12th holding all other positions.
Very thin.
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For now, deep enough.
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-Have we tested the wells?
-The water's brackish, but drinkable.
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So far. Keep an eye on them.
Watch the corn and wheat.
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With our supplies secure,
we can hold indefinitely.
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For a week, perhaps.
For the time being, time enough.
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What do you want?
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Is the man to be trusted?
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Seems someone's brought me a gift...
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...from Queen Cleopatra.
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Apparently, a rug peddler.
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Flavius doubts it.
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He seems to know the palace very well.
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He appeared through a secret passage
which none of the men knew.
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Pothinus might send an assassin
in Cleopatra's name.
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Have the man brought in.
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Are you the one
who brings a gift from Cleopatra?
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Put it down and go.
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It is the command of my queen
I deliver her gift personally.
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I am Caesar. Lay it here before me.
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Forgive me, Admiral Agrippa,
but you're not Caesar.
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Nor you, General Rufio.
Nor you, Germanicus.
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My queen's gift is for
the eyes of Caesar...
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...alone.
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-lt seems harmless enough.
-No, Caesar!
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You can lend me your sword, Rufio.
It may require some cutting.
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Odd way to carry a rug.
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Isn't it easier
to sling it over your shoulder?
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It was less comfortable that way.
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-For you or the rug?
-That sword, Caesar.
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The rug is such a delicate weave.
If l may untie it for you.
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Turn it over first.
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-But the rug is right-side up.
-l want it the wrong side up.
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-Should l flip it over with my sword?
-No, no, no.
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I find one can tell more
about the quality of merchandise...
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...by examining the back side first.
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All hail Cleopatra,
kindred of Horus and Ra...
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...beloved of the moon and sun,
daughter to Isis...
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...and of Upper and Lower Egypt,
queen.
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Thank you.
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Here.
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Take this to the captain
of the night watch.
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He'll see the queen's quarters
are made ready to her.
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Stay where you are.
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-Have I dismissed you?
-No, Your Majesty.
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This is my palace, Caesar.
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All of it
is available to me at my will.
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I am not your prisoner.
If anything, you are my guest.
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Most kind.
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And as for having my quarters,
as you put it, made ready...
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...my chief handmaiden has, by now,
brought the others out of hiding.
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They should almost be finished.
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Impossible.
The doors are under guard.
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There are doors, and doors.
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Oh, yes. Of course.
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You must take me on a tour someday
within the walls of your palace.
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-What are you waiting for?
-Permission to leave.
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Granted.
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Apollodorus.
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Thank you.
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I'm pleased you received my summons
and were able to--
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Summons? I'm pleased to say
I received nothing of the kind.
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I'm surprised you thought
I would answer one.
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Young lady, the voyage
in your non-magic carpet...
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...has apparently not tired you,
but I'm exhausted.
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Caesar, it is essential
we understand each other.
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Only through me
can you hope to escape...
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...the desperate situation
in which you find yourself.
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I wouldn't bite into that.
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Did you bring it with you?
Have you had it tasted?
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If neither, it's probably poisoned.
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At least it's another way out of the
desperate situation in which l'm found.
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You're being tolerant of me,
aren't you?
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Is it because you're so much older?
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Your maps are inferior.
Out-of-date, compared to mine.
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They and I have aged together.
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The lakes to the west
are poorly marked...
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00:23:34,910 --> 00:23:37,740
...certain important hill positions
not even noted.
241
00:23:38,250 --> 00:23:42,210
I must arrange for you to address
my mapmakers and general staff.
242
00:23:44,540 --> 00:23:47,290
We've gotten off to a bad start,
haven't we?
243
00:23:48,130 --> 00:23:49,840
I've rubbed you the wrong way.
244
00:23:50,510 --> 00:23:54,300
I'm not sure l want to be
rubbed by you at all, young lady.
245
00:23:57,390 --> 00:24:00,020
It is permissible
for me to sit, is it not?
246
00:24:03,770 --> 00:24:08,270
As quickly as possible you must
set me alone on the throne of Egypt.
247
00:24:08,530 --> 00:24:12,190
My mission is to put to an end the tiresome
squabbling between your brother and you.
248
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,740
You're not a fool. Or are you?
249
00:24:14,950 --> 00:24:17,240
Immodestly, perhaps, no.
250
00:24:17,490 --> 00:24:19,990
You've seen my brother
and listened to him?
251
00:24:20,250 --> 00:24:22,910
And that truly evil man
to whom he belongs?
252
00:24:24,330 --> 00:24:25,420
Yes.
253
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,550
Shall we agree upon what Rome
really wants...
254
00:24:29,750 --> 00:24:31,550
...has always wanted of Egypt?
255
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:36,050
Corn, grain, treasure.
It's the old story.
256
00:24:36,470 --> 00:24:39,640
Roman greatness built
upon Egyptian riches.
257
00:24:40,100 --> 00:24:43,600
You shall have them.
You shall have them all and in peace.
258
00:24:44,270 --> 00:24:46,230
But there is only one way.
259
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,440
My way. Make me queen.
260
00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:52,530
That sounds very much
like an ultimatum.
261
00:24:52,780 --> 00:24:54,280
There is no other way.
262
00:24:54,950 --> 00:24:57,490
For one whose assets,
up to a few moments ago...
263
00:24:57,740 --> 00:25:00,410
...was a devoted slave
and a rolled-up carpet....
264
00:25:00,660 --> 00:25:02,700
But l have you now, Caesar.
265
00:25:02,950 --> 00:25:04,710
Besides, there are my armies...
266
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,330
...and the simple fact that
no mortal hand can destroy me.
267
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,460
Yes, l recall some
mention of an obsession...
268
00:25:11,670 --> 00:25:13,760
...you have about your divinity.
269
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:16,010
Isis, is it not?
270
00:25:18,470 --> 00:25:21,350
I shall have to insist
that you mind what you say.
271
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:26,020
I am Isis. I am worshiped
by millions who believe it.
272
00:25:26,810 --> 00:25:28,560
Do not confuse what I am...
273
00:25:28,810 --> 00:25:31,190
...with the so-called divine origin...
274
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:35,150
...that every Roman general acquires
together with his shield.
275
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:40,820
It was Venus you chose to be
descended from, wasn't it?
276
00:25:41,740 --> 00:25:44,200
I must now do a little
insisting of my own.
277
00:25:44,450 --> 00:25:47,250
First, your journey has tired you
and you wish to retire.
278
00:25:47,500 --> 00:25:50,290
I am not your servant, Caesar.
Do not dismiss me.
279
00:25:50,540 --> 00:25:52,920
Secondly, you have no armies,
young lady.
280
00:25:53,170 --> 00:25:55,920
They are gone because
you could not pay them.
281
00:25:56,170 --> 00:25:59,050
Egypt's riches are not
available for your own use...
282
00:25:59,300 --> 00:26:02,050
...much less to give away.
Perhaps in a day or two...
283
00:26:02,310 --> 00:26:04,640
-...we can speak again.
-That may be too late...
284
00:26:04,890 --> 00:26:06,020
...for both of us.
285
00:26:06,270 --> 00:26:08,940
Your safety will be
my responsibility.
286
00:26:09,980 --> 00:26:12,190
And what about your own?
287
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,150
I am prepared, l believe,
for the time being.
288
00:26:15,990 --> 00:26:17,400
I hope so.
289
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:21,200
I hope you are as wise,
as brilliant...
290
00:26:21,450 --> 00:26:23,410
...the god they say you are.
291
00:26:23,660 --> 00:26:27,160
You Roman generals
become divine so quickly.
292
00:26:27,540 --> 00:26:30,830
A few victories, a few massacres.
293
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,040
Only yesterday, Pompey was a god.
294
00:26:34,250 --> 00:26:37,090
-They murdered him, didn't they?
-Yes.
295
00:26:37,470 --> 00:26:40,090
Because they thought
it would please you.
296
00:26:40,390 --> 00:26:43,430
-lt didn't, did it?
-No.
297
00:26:45,310 --> 00:26:49,600
Today l found myself remembering
how much my daughter loved him.
298
00:26:49,850 --> 00:26:52,610
She died trying
to bear him a son.
299
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:54,980
She gave him this ring.
300
00:26:56,740 --> 00:26:59,490
Sleep well tonight, Caesar.
301
00:27:00,070 --> 00:27:02,280
These next days may
be difficult for you.
302
00:27:03,070 --> 00:27:04,580
Good night.
303
00:27:08,540 --> 00:27:11,920
Germanicus, a guard to escort
Queen Cleopatra to her apartments.
304
00:27:12,170 --> 00:27:13,290
Guards!
305
00:27:24,050 --> 00:27:26,810
The corridors are dark, gentlemen.
306
00:27:27,310 --> 00:27:29,730
But you mustn't be afraid.
I am with you.
307
00:27:43,070 --> 00:27:45,820
Haven't we covered everything
we can tonight, sir?
308
00:27:46,030 --> 00:27:49,540
-Perhaps a fresh start in the morning.
-No, a few more matters.
309
00:27:49,750 --> 00:27:53,080
Rufio, has it occurred to you
that our maps of this area...
310
00:27:53,290 --> 00:27:55,540
...are not quite what they should be?
311
00:27:55,750 --> 00:27:58,340
Why, no. What makes you
think they're not?
312
00:27:58,550 --> 00:28:00,760
I have an instinct about these things.
313
00:28:09,810 --> 00:28:11,680
--actually of Macedonian descent.
314
00:28:11,940 --> 00:28:14,230
No officially-admitted Egyptian blood.
315
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,730
"Reputed to be extremely intelligent
and sharp of wit.
316
00:28:17,980 --> 00:28:21,440
Queen Cleopatra is widely read.
Well-versed in the sciences...
317
00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:22,700
...and mathematics.
318
00:28:22,990 --> 00:28:25,660
She speaks seven languages
proficiently.
319
00:28:25,910 --> 00:28:29,280
Were she not a woman, she'd be
considered an intellectual."
320
00:28:30,370 --> 00:28:32,750
Nothing bores me so much
as an intellectual.
321
00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:35,330
Makes a better admiral of you,
Agrippa.
322
00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:39,040
Here's something
of more interest to the navy:
323
00:28:39,250 --> 00:28:44,090
"In obtaining her objectives, she has
been known to use torture, poison...
324
00:28:44,380 --> 00:28:48,300
...and even her own sexual talents,
which are said to be considerable.
325
00:28:49,060 --> 00:28:53,020
Her lovers, l am told, are listed
more easily by number than by name.
326
00:28:53,270 --> 00:28:56,270
It is said that she chooses
in the manner of a man...
327
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,310
...rather than wait to be chosen
after womanly fashion."
328
00:28:59,570 --> 00:29:02,070
Well, there's more reason
than we thought...
329
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,240
...for not wanting to leave
you two alone, eh, sir?
330
00:29:05,450 --> 00:29:07,240
I'm sorry, I wasn't listening.
331
00:29:07,620 --> 00:29:09,660
Are you inclined to trust Cleopatra?
332
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,490
Trust? Not for a minute.
333
00:29:12,910 --> 00:29:17,250
"Trust." The word has always
made me apprehensive.
334
00:29:17,500 --> 00:29:21,630
Like wine, whenever l've tried it,
the aftereffects have not been good.
335
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:23,170
So l've given up wine...
336
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:25,130
...and trusting.
337
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,890
Oh, it's been a long
and difficult day, gentlemen.
338
00:29:29,140 --> 00:29:32,510
The next few may be even longer
and more difficult.
339
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,180
-Good night.
-Good night.
340
00:30:13,890 --> 00:30:19,900
Flavius!
341
00:32:19,890 --> 00:32:22,890
It is autumn again, my best-loved Lesbia
342
00:32:23,100 --> 00:32:28,190
Look, the torrents of Roman leaves
Are falling, falling
343
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,860
And lovers revive in kisses
The promise of spring
344
00:32:32,070 --> 00:32:36,450
Which will end the winter world
With new nightingales calling
345
00:32:36,660 --> 00:32:38,910
I taste your food, daughter of Isis...
346
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,870
...and if there be harm in it,
let the harm fall upon me.
347
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,580
But love must bring
Despair one day
348
00:32:45,790 --> 00:32:48,340
As beauty, sorrow
349
00:32:53,300 --> 00:32:57,470
-Why do you stop, Phoebus?
-ln the corridor, there is movement.
350
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,970
That's how the Romans
frighten the enemy...
351
00:33:01,180 --> 00:33:05,140
-...by stamping their elephant feet.
-No, this is one man...
352
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,150
...followed by others.
353
00:33:07,650 --> 00:33:10,820
-Caesar, l would say.
-Would you?
354
00:33:14,990 --> 00:33:17,490
We must not disappoint
the mighty Caesar.
355
00:33:17,700 --> 00:33:20,950
The Romans tell fabulous tales
of my bath...
356
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,330
...and handmaidens...
357
00:33:23,580 --> 00:33:25,910
...and my morals.
358
00:33:29,340 --> 00:33:31,340
Cleopatra's requested an audience
with me.
359
00:33:31,550 --> 00:33:34,720
-That was yesterday, Caesar.
-l've been occupied.
360
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:39,180
The queen is occupied with her bath.
Perhaps Caesar could return later...
361
00:33:39,430 --> 00:33:42,390
-...or tomorrow.
-l'm afraid not. Hold him.
362
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:44,520
No, don't hurt him.
363
00:33:44,730 --> 00:33:46,520
You're a good man, Apollodorus.
364
00:33:46,730 --> 00:33:48,440
I hope you're appreciated.
365
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,360
Wait here for me.
366
00:34:08,580 --> 00:34:11,420
Ah, then let us live and love
Without one thought
367
00:34:11,670 --> 00:34:16,170
For the gossip of virgins
Now grown old and stale
368
00:34:16,420 --> 00:34:18,180
Suns go down and may return
369
00:34:18,430 --> 00:34:20,510
But once put out
Our own brief light
370
00:34:20,720 --> 00:34:23,140
We sleep through
One eternal night
371
00:34:23,890 --> 00:34:26,180
An intruder! A man!
372
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:31,310
Oh, it's you.
373
00:34:32,190 --> 00:34:34,320
You wanted to see me?
374
00:34:35,780 --> 00:34:38,610
I summoned you yesterday...
375
00:34:38,820 --> 00:34:41,160
...to an audience in my throne room.
376
00:34:41,370 --> 00:34:44,200
I was told I was not
permitted to go there.
377
00:34:44,910 --> 00:34:48,790
It's too close to the quarters
occupied by your brother and the rest.
378
00:34:49,210 --> 00:34:52,750
I will not be told where
I can go and where l cannot go!
379
00:34:53,540 --> 00:34:55,380
Since there's nothing you want....
380
00:34:55,630 --> 00:34:58,130
Except my throne!
381
00:35:01,510 --> 00:35:04,300
At least you've dressed
properly for my presence.
382
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:07,220
Your best armor?
383
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,640
Almost, but l'm afraid
it's not being worn in your honor.
384
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:13,730
I know.
385
00:35:14,270 --> 00:35:18,860
This morning, you paid a formal
visit to the tomb of Alexander.
386
00:35:19,070 --> 00:35:22,740
You remained alone beside
the sarcophagus for some time.
387
00:35:23,490 --> 00:35:25,490
I'd like to know
how you know.
388
00:35:25,700 --> 00:35:27,910
Just staring down at him.
389
00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:31,250
And then you cried.
390
00:35:33,170 --> 00:35:34,920
Why did you cry, Caesar?
391
00:35:37,630 --> 00:35:39,380
That man recites beautifully.
392
00:35:39,590 --> 00:35:41,340
-ls he blind?
-Don't you hurt him.
393
00:35:41,590 --> 00:35:45,010
I won't. Not anyone
who speaks Catullus so well.
394
00:35:45,220 --> 00:35:48,850
Catullus doesn't approve of you.
Why haven't you had him killed?
395
00:35:49,100 --> 00:35:51,270
Because I approve of him.
396
00:35:51,850 --> 00:35:54,940
My desire to please you, Caesar
Is very slight
397
00:35:55,150 --> 00:35:58,190
Nor do I greatly care to know
If you are black or white
398
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,650
Achillas is moving
his entire army to Alexandria.
399
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,990
By tonight, he'll outnumber you
20-to-1, 30-to-1.
400
00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:09,830
He'll have the royal enclosure
entirely surrounded.
401
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:11,040
Except to the sea.
402
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:14,460
Do you plan to sail away,
great Caesar?
403
00:36:15,790 --> 00:36:17,590
Not for the time being.
404
00:36:18,090 --> 00:36:21,090
Achillas may attack tomorrow,
the next day...
405
00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:23,840
-...whenever it suits him!
-Very probable.
406
00:36:24,430 --> 00:36:28,310
In your wildest dreams, Caesar,
how can you possibly hope to hold...
407
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,600
...the gates of this enclosure
against such odds?
408
00:36:31,850 --> 00:36:34,640
And if you say once more,
"For the time being"....
409
00:36:34,850 --> 00:36:38,400
My officers say anything
from a week to indefinitely.
410
00:36:38,650 --> 00:36:40,400
What would you estimate?
411
00:36:41,860 --> 00:36:43,820
Before you're without water...
412
00:36:44,030 --> 00:36:45,320
...without food...
413
00:36:45,570 --> 00:36:48,620
...your troops slaughtered,
picked off from the rooftops...
414
00:36:48,830 --> 00:36:50,910
...poisoned in the brothels?
415
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:55,290
A few days, Caesar.
At the most, a few days.
416
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,210
I'm inclined to agree with you.
417
00:36:59,500 --> 00:37:01,960
Young man, do you know this
of Catullus?
418
00:37:02,220 --> 00:37:05,220
Give me a thousand
And a thousand kisses
419
00:37:05,430 --> 00:37:08,010
When we have many thousand more
We'll scramble them
420
00:37:08,260 --> 00:37:09,800
And forget the score
421
00:37:10,010 --> 00:37:12,810
So evil envy will not know
How high the count
422
00:37:13,060 --> 00:37:15,940
And cast its evil eye
423
00:37:20,190 --> 00:37:23,280
It couldn't have been
as pleasant in the throne room.
424
00:37:26,950 --> 00:37:30,030
"My desire to please you, Caesar,
Is very slight--"
425
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:31,370
Be still!
426
00:37:32,450 --> 00:37:35,120
Caesar, a word. lt's important.
427
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:41,130
The Egyptian galleys in the harbor
have been taking on men and armaments.
428
00:37:41,380 --> 00:37:45,340
-When will they be prepared?
-Tomorrow, with the morning wind.
429
00:37:46,470 --> 00:37:48,050
Burn them tonight.
430
00:37:48,260 --> 00:37:50,140
Their ships lie close to shore.
431
00:37:50,390 --> 00:37:53,470
-The fire may spread to the city.
-Let's hope it doesn't.
432
00:37:53,720 --> 00:37:55,140
I can't risk a blockade.
433
00:37:55,390 --> 00:37:58,900
Remember, not before tonight.
Prepare as secretly as possible.
434
00:37:59,150 --> 00:38:01,060
I need this day.
435
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:02,650
Good luck.
436
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,950
Why not before tonight, my lord?
Why does Caesar need this day?
437
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:13,700
I can't give you that information,
for the time being.
438
00:38:21,750 --> 00:38:23,300
Flavius.
439
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:26,590
Here it is, Caesar. Just arrived.
440
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,260
The gods shouldn't
tantalize us so, Rufio.
441
00:38:31,970 --> 00:38:34,430
It's even better than l'd hoped.
442
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:38,560
-Be on your way, you haven't much time.
-Hail Caesar.
443
00:39:00,620 --> 00:39:05,250
It's called an epilepse because of the
arching caused by muscular spasms...
444
00:39:05,500 --> 00:39:08,420
...the contortions.
The early Greeks considered...
445
00:39:08,670 --> 00:39:12,010
...those who suffered from it
to be favored by the gods.
446
00:39:13,010 --> 00:39:14,930
The great Alexander, they say...
447
00:39:15,180 --> 00:39:17,520
...had this falling sickness.
448
00:39:17,730 --> 00:39:21,480
And, so they say,
the mighty Caesar too.
449
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,070
Your Majesty, forgive me.
Sosigenes, the library.
450
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,820
-What are you saying?
-The Romans set fire...
451
00:39:29,070 --> 00:39:31,570
-...to the Egyptian fleet.
-lt's about time.
452
00:39:31,820 --> 00:39:34,820
Come see for yourself.
The fire's spread to the city.
453
00:39:35,030 --> 00:39:37,410
-The city?
-Just a few buildings...
454
00:39:37,660 --> 00:39:39,620
...but the library is burning.
455
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,210
The great library.
456
00:40:01,690 --> 00:40:03,900
Aristotle's manuscripts.
457
00:40:06,610 --> 00:40:10,400
The Platonic commentaries,
the plays, the histories.
458
00:40:10,860 --> 00:40:12,990
The Testament of the Hebrew god.
459
00:40:13,780 --> 00:40:16,280
The Book of Books.
460
00:40:20,870 --> 00:40:25,210
-Wind blew into the merchant shipping.
-Four or five burned and sank right here.
461
00:40:25,460 --> 00:40:27,170
-And our ships?
-Safe and dry.
462
00:40:27,380 --> 00:40:30,130
Prisoners are surrendering in droves.
I need help.
463
00:40:30,380 --> 00:40:34,090
-Not one man. I may need your sailors.
-Halt!
464
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:37,600
Take your hands off me!
465
00:40:44,900 --> 00:40:48,690
You should attack my guards more
often. Battle seems to become you.
466
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:51,990
You grow more beautiful
each time I see you.
467
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:55,240
And you grow bolder.
468
00:40:55,410 --> 00:40:56,410
And busier.
469
00:40:56,660 --> 00:41:00,330
-Actually, we're extremely busy--
-Do you smell smoke?
470
00:41:01,750 --> 00:41:04,580
We found it necessary
to burn the Egyptian fleet.
471
00:41:04,830 --> 00:41:06,620
The ships were in the water.
472
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:09,960
Did you find it necessary
to burn them in the streets?
473
00:41:10,210 --> 00:41:11,920
Merchant ships caught fire.
474
00:41:12,170 --> 00:41:14,170
The burning masts fell.
Some houses--
475
00:41:14,430 --> 00:41:18,260
One of them, the great
Library of Alexandria.
476
00:41:18,470 --> 00:41:21,060
Yes, l've been told.
I'm extremely sorry.
477
00:41:21,310 --> 00:41:24,100
-Now, if you don't mind, l must ask--
-l do mind.
478
00:41:24,350 --> 00:41:26,270
Are you putting the fire out?
479
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,020
We're forming prisoners
into fire brigades.
480
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:33,190
Oh, l see. Romans only start fires,
is that it?
481
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,570
Have you broken out of your nursery
to come irritate the adults?
482
00:41:36,820 --> 00:41:38,320
Another time, we're working.
483
00:41:38,570 --> 00:41:43,580
-Shall we remove her for you, Caesar?
-Use that Roman genius for destruction.
484
00:41:43,790 --> 00:41:46,460
Tear down pyramids, wipe out cities!
485
00:41:46,710 --> 00:41:52,130
How dare you and the rest of your
barbarians set fire to my library?
486
00:41:52,510 --> 00:41:55,550
Play conqueror all you want,
mighty Caesar.
487
00:41:56,010 --> 00:42:00,050
Rape, murder, pillage thousands,
millions of human beings.
488
00:42:00,260 --> 00:42:03,770
But neither you nor
any other barbarian...
489
00:42:03,970 --> 00:42:06,680
...has the right to destroy
one human thought!
490
00:42:07,100 --> 00:42:10,690
Enough!
Leave me alone with her.
491
00:42:13,650 --> 00:42:16,610
I will send for you when l finish.
It won't be long.
492
00:42:21,410 --> 00:42:24,370
Swords? Javelins?
493
00:42:24,580 --> 00:42:26,660
Or are you going to set me on fire?
494
00:42:26,870 --> 00:42:30,040
The time has come for us
to understand each other.
495
00:42:30,290 --> 00:42:34,250
Whatever else l may be, in your
opinion, first of all, l am Caesar.
496
00:42:34,510 --> 00:42:37,090
And l am Cleopatra,
queen, daughter of lsis!
497
00:42:37,340 --> 00:42:41,590
If l say so and when I say so,
you are what I say you are...
498
00:42:41,850 --> 00:42:43,390
...nothing more.
499
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:45,850
Hail Caesar!
500
00:42:47,980 --> 00:42:53,400
You, descendant of inbred generations
of incestuous mental defectives...
501
00:42:53,610 --> 00:42:56,280
-...how dare you call anyone barbarian.
-Barbarian!
502
00:42:56,490 --> 00:42:59,700
Daughter of a drunkard who
bribed his way to the throne.
503
00:42:59,950 --> 00:43:04,080
-Your price was too high, remember?
-l've had my fill with you pretenders...
504
00:43:04,330 --> 00:43:08,160
-...parading on ruins of your past glories.
-Only the future concerns me.
505
00:43:08,370 --> 00:43:11,960
-Keep out of my affairs, do as l say.
-Do as you say?
506
00:43:12,210 --> 00:43:13,250
Literally?
507
00:43:13,420 --> 00:43:15,750
As if l were something
you had conquered?
508
00:43:16,130 --> 00:43:18,760
If l choose to regard you as such.
509
00:43:20,340 --> 00:43:24,100
Am l to understand that you're free
to do with me whatever you want...
510
00:43:24,850 --> 00:43:26,010
...whenever you want?
511
00:43:26,430 --> 00:43:29,230
Yes, l want that understood.
512
00:43:33,810 --> 00:43:36,270
Won't you at least wear
your laurel wreath...
513
00:43:36,530 --> 00:43:40,860
...so l can be reminded it's
the divine Caesar that honors me so?
514
00:43:41,570 --> 00:43:43,410
You talk too much.
515
00:43:45,660 --> 00:43:47,580
I promise you...
516
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:49,950
...you won't like me this way.
517
00:43:52,370 --> 00:43:55,500
Caesar! An attack on the moon gate!
518
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,460
The moon gate.
An attack in force!
519
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:08,030
Those ballistas need eliminating.
520
00:45:08,240 --> 00:45:10,200
Send out a turtle.
521
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,750
Form the turtle!
522
00:46:31,620 --> 00:46:33,620
Now is the time for us to attack!
523
00:46:33,830 --> 00:46:36,120
-No.
-We have a full legion in reserve.
524
00:46:36,790 --> 00:46:38,210
We hold our positions here.
525
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,810
Two hours till dawn.
We'll hold where we are.
526
00:46:54,010 --> 00:46:56,770
-And what happens at dawn?
-l thought you knew.
527
00:46:56,980 --> 00:46:58,980
The sun comes up.
528
00:47:31,510 --> 00:47:33,300
Tell the men they've won.
529
00:47:33,550 --> 00:47:35,970
Liberty and wine
for defenders of the gate.
530
00:47:36,220 --> 00:47:40,020
All reserves, cavalry, every man
available, move out behind Achillas.
531
00:47:40,230 --> 00:47:43,520
-We have him in a vise.
-What is the other half of this vise?
532
00:47:43,730 --> 00:47:46,980
Rufio and the armies of Mithradates.
He left last night to meet them.
533
00:47:47,230 --> 00:47:49,860
Mithradates? How could
he get here this fast?
534
00:47:50,110 --> 00:47:52,110
I sent him when we sailed for Egypt.
535
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:57,080
No general in his right mind can
hold Alexandria with two legions...
536
00:47:57,290 --> 00:48:00,660
...as you and others have repeatedly
pointed out to me.
537
00:48:24,810 --> 00:48:27,270
I taste your drink,
daughter of Isis...
538
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:31,150
...and if there be harm in it,
let the harm fall upon me.
539
00:48:36,830 --> 00:48:38,330
Lotus.
540
00:48:40,750 --> 00:48:45,170
You wiped the rim of the cup
after you tasted it. Why?
541
00:48:45,540 --> 00:48:48,790
Why? So my mouth would not soil it.
542
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:51,510
Lotus...
543
00:48:52,090 --> 00:48:53,340
...taste it again.
544
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:06,810
Pothinus said he would have me killed.
Forgive me, Majesty.
545
00:49:07,110 --> 00:49:10,070
Forgive me. Forgive me.
546
00:49:11,030 --> 00:49:12,070
I forgive you.
547
00:49:15,910 --> 00:49:17,030
Now drink it.
548
00:49:45,730 --> 00:49:50,860
Apollodorus!
549
00:49:56,490 --> 00:49:58,910
Great silence
for Gaius Julius Caesar...
550
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:01,370
...consul of the senate
of the people of Rome.
551
00:50:01,620 --> 00:50:03,740
You will all stand.
552
00:50:27,770 --> 00:50:29,690
Let what is said be recorded...
553
00:50:29,900 --> 00:50:33,940
...as the judgment and decree
of the Senate and people of Rome.
554
00:50:35,240 --> 00:50:37,030
There is no judgment here.
555
00:50:37,240 --> 00:50:39,780
And the decree not Rome's,
but Cleopatra's.
556
00:50:40,490 --> 00:50:42,030
She has lied to you, Caesar.
557
00:50:42,240 --> 00:50:44,330
She and her slaves lie to you.
558
00:50:44,540 --> 00:50:48,500
You have not been accused, Pothinus.
Thus far.
559
00:50:48,710 --> 00:50:53,460
You are now charged with inciting and
abetting war against the Roman army.
560
00:50:53,670 --> 00:50:56,840
You are now charged with plotting
to assassinate Queen Cleopatra.
561
00:50:57,510 --> 00:51:00,340
You are guilty of both.
You are sentenced to death.
562
00:51:20,780 --> 00:51:23,990
It's too bright in here.
Shut out some of the sun.
563
00:51:38,090 --> 00:51:40,260
Are you going to kill me too, Caesar?
564
00:51:40,590 --> 00:51:41,800
What am I accused of?
565
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:46,970
King Ptolemy is hereby removed
from the protective custody of Rome.
566
00:51:47,270 --> 00:51:49,140
He'll leave within the hour...
567
00:51:49,390 --> 00:51:52,270
...and be conducted safely
to the camp of Achillas.
568
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:55,940
Achillas! You're going to send me
back to my own troops?
569
00:51:56,190 --> 00:52:00,320
He is to be accompanied
by his learned tutor, Theodotus.
570
00:52:00,570 --> 00:52:03,450
Do you hear that?
You'll be saved along with me.
571
00:52:03,700 --> 00:52:06,080
Stop grinning, you little idiot.
572
00:52:06,330 --> 00:52:11,080
May I speak?
You know that Achillas is trapped...
573
00:52:11,330 --> 00:52:14,540
...between your own legions
and the armies of Mithradates.
574
00:52:14,750 --> 00:52:18,050
To send His Majesty to fight
them may mean his death.
575
00:52:18,260 --> 00:52:20,800
An occupational hazard
for those who will be king.
576
00:52:21,050 --> 00:52:23,300
But then certainly not l, Caesar.
577
00:52:23,510 --> 00:52:25,680
I'm no king, nor general.
What do I know of war?
578
00:52:25,890 --> 00:52:27,930
A simple scholar.
579
00:52:28,140 --> 00:52:30,390
A man of thoughts and words.
580
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:33,730
Too many words. Enough.
581
00:52:33,980 --> 00:52:36,060
Let all be done properly as decreed.
582
00:53:00,420 --> 00:53:02,260
Flavius.
583
00:53:04,130 --> 00:53:06,760
Find Apollodorus.
Return his dagger to him.
584
00:53:07,010 --> 00:53:10,810
You might clean it first.
It has Pothinus all over it.
585
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:15,190
Yes, yes, l know l'm tired.
I promise l'll sleep.
586
00:53:17,150 --> 00:53:21,690
You have my apologies
for what almost happened to you.
587
00:53:21,940 --> 00:53:26,030
Caesar, will you talk with me
for just a minute?
588
00:53:26,450 --> 00:53:28,620
Yesterday was full.
Tonight was long.
589
00:53:28,870 --> 00:53:31,120
This morning has not been uneventful.
590
00:53:31,370 --> 00:53:34,500
Did you know that Apollodorus
would kill Pothinus?
591
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:38,790
He was kind enough to wait until Rome
had passed sentence of death.
592
00:53:39,590 --> 00:53:41,460
And my brother...
593
00:53:41,670 --> 00:53:43,130
...and Theodotus?
594
00:53:43,380 --> 00:53:45,470
They too will be killed, possibly.
595
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:47,510
Probably.
596
00:53:47,970 --> 00:53:49,970
Your Majesty, I'm truly weary.
597
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:54,430
You knew all along, didn't you,
that there was no real danger.
598
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:57,850
That Mithradates was on his way
to reinforce you.
599
00:53:58,100 --> 00:53:59,270
Why didn't you tell me?
600
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:01,570
I said l was prepared.
You wouldn't believe me.
601
00:54:01,780 --> 00:54:04,610
-l really must insist--
-l would've believed you.
602
00:54:04,820 --> 00:54:07,490
-You didn't trust me.
-Not for an instant.
603
00:54:08,240 --> 00:54:10,320
And yet, in these last few minutes...
604
00:54:10,580 --> 00:54:13,580
...you have made me undisputed queen.
605
00:54:13,790 --> 00:54:16,290
The sole ruler of Egypt. Why?
606
00:54:16,500 --> 00:54:19,210
Perhaps tomorrow, later in the day,
we could talk.
607
00:54:19,420 --> 00:54:21,540
-Why, Caesar?
-lt was best for Rome. Please.
608
00:54:21,750 --> 00:54:24,210
-Best for Egypt.
-For Egypt too.
609
00:54:24,460 --> 00:54:27,130
Cleopatra, get out.
I beg of you, get out.
610
00:54:52,700 --> 00:54:54,740
That will not be needed.
611
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:58,410
It wasn't necessary
for me to betray myself.
612
00:54:58,670 --> 00:55:00,620
I could have
called out for Flavius.
613
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:03,790
How many new spy-holes
have you dug in the walls?
614
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,550
Are we being watched
even now?
615
00:55:07,420 --> 00:55:10,510
If you see Flavius,
you might send him to me.
616
00:55:11,510 --> 00:55:14,560
-Still trying to dismiss me?
-What is it you want?
617
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:18,430
-What more do you want?
-To be of help to you.
618
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:21,980
There never has been help.
There never will be.
619
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:28,440
Now there is.
620
00:55:28,860 --> 00:55:31,410
One day it'll happen
where l cannot hide.
621
00:55:31,610 --> 00:55:34,200
Where the world will see me fall.
622
00:55:34,410 --> 00:55:36,950
I shall tumble down before the mob...
623
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:39,710
...and foam at the mouth
and make them laugh.
624
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:42,040
And they'll tear me to pieces.
625
00:55:42,290 --> 00:55:45,420
The gods themselves had your sickness.
626
00:55:45,630 --> 00:55:49,470
Hannibal, even the great Alexander.
627
00:55:49,670 --> 00:55:51,760
And in the end, they fell.
628
00:55:51,970 --> 00:55:54,300
Were torn to pieces by the mob.
629
00:55:55,720 --> 00:55:57,430
Not you.
630
00:55:58,220 --> 00:56:00,770
I will see to that.
631
00:56:17,330 --> 00:56:22,160
In the name of the Senate and the
people of Rome and by their will.
632
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:57,990
Isis herself would surrender her place
in heaven to be as beautiful as you.
633
00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:02,000
You're not supposed
to look at me. No one is.
634
00:57:02,250 --> 00:57:05,210
If they aren't looking,
how do they know l am?
635
00:57:06,380 --> 00:57:08,340
You should be kneeling.
636
00:57:08,670 --> 00:57:12,630
Would that do
before all these visiting kings?
637
00:57:13,260 --> 00:57:16,590
Making believe
they're not watching us?
638
00:57:20,220 --> 00:57:23,730
You have such bony knees.
639
00:57:23,980 --> 00:57:28,060
Not only bony, but unaccustomed
to this sort of thing.
640
00:58:15,950 --> 00:58:18,320
If we're to get an early start
in the morning--
641
00:58:18,530 --> 00:58:20,410
What will it be tomorrow?
642
00:58:20,660 --> 00:58:22,160
More wheat?
643
00:58:22,410 --> 00:58:25,950
What l've seen already could feed
more legions than Rome ever had.
644
00:58:26,210 --> 00:58:28,120
There's enough to feed the world.
645
00:58:28,330 --> 00:58:29,920
More gold then.
646
00:58:30,170 --> 00:58:32,790
Why not buy the world?
Surely you have enough.
647
00:58:33,630 --> 00:58:37,300
At least enough to pay more legions
than even Rome has ever had.
648
00:58:37,550 --> 00:58:39,550
More granite, more marble...
649
00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:43,140
...more millions of slaves
to build whatever needs building.
650
00:58:43,430 --> 00:58:46,310
Better routes to lndia,
shorter routes to the East.
651
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:49,440
What can there be in Egypt
that I haven't seen?
652
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:52,810
Egypt itself. The reason for Egypt.
653
00:58:53,730 --> 00:58:55,860
My responsibility is Rome.
654
00:58:56,990 --> 00:58:59,320
Alexander understood it...
655
00:58:59,570 --> 00:59:02,740
...that from Egypt
he could rule the world.
656
00:59:03,950 --> 00:59:07,370
He was very young.
And you, even younger.
657
00:59:07,620 --> 00:59:12,250
At your age, such dreams have a
reality which grows less in time.
658
00:59:13,630 --> 00:59:15,710
Caesar no longer dreams?
659
00:59:16,340 --> 00:59:18,510
Dangerous to a man of my calling.
660
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:22,140
Necessary, I would have thought.
661
00:59:38,860 --> 00:59:42,320
I can't stay away from Rome too long.
There are problems.
662
00:59:42,530 --> 00:59:45,580
Messages from Marc Antony
endlessly demanding my return.
663
00:59:45,790 --> 00:59:49,870
And on my way back, wars
to be fought in the east and north.
664
00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:53,670
Even in Rome itself
I'm not without opposition.
665
00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:56,550
Do to them
what you did to Achillas.
666
00:59:56,750 --> 00:59:59,050
This is opposition
of a different sort.
667
00:59:59,260 --> 01:00:01,880
They weave it cleverly, lightly,
like a cobweb.
668
01:00:02,140 --> 01:00:06,140
You know what happens when cobwebs
are not regularly swept away.
669
01:00:06,350 --> 01:00:09,390
Do you trust this Marc Antony?
670
01:00:10,730 --> 01:00:13,600
If anyone in the world,
I trust Antony.
671
01:00:14,020 --> 01:00:18,230
Let him brush away the cobwebs
for you and stay with me.
672
01:00:18,530 --> 01:00:20,860
You've been declared
dictator for a year.
673
01:00:21,110 --> 01:00:23,240
You can do what you want
with your time.
674
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:27,030
Everything but make it stand still.
675
01:00:28,290 --> 01:00:31,040
If-- When you return to Rome...
676
01:00:31,250 --> 01:00:35,040
...these wars that have to be fought
on the way, are they important?
677
01:00:35,210 --> 01:00:39,090
Well, there's no such thing
as an unimportant war.
678
01:00:39,300 --> 01:00:43,470
I've been reading in your commentaries
about your campaigns in Gaul.
679
01:00:43,680 --> 01:00:46,140
How does my writing
compare with Catullus?
680
01:00:47,470 --> 01:00:49,560
Well, it's different.
681
01:00:49,810 --> 01:00:51,390
Dull.
682
01:00:51,810 --> 01:00:54,190
Perhaps a little
too much description.
683
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:57,900
You're being tactful.
Some of my critics, Brutus, for one...
684
01:00:58,150 --> 01:01:02,070
...tell me my Latin is not only
ungrammatical, but common.
685
01:01:02,780 --> 01:01:05,990
You spared his life more than once.
686
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:09,330
People say it's because
Brutus is your son.
687
01:01:09,580 --> 01:01:10,950
Is that true?
688
01:01:11,660 --> 01:01:13,910
I have no son.
689
01:01:14,120 --> 01:01:16,880
-Calpurnia, your third wife...
-Fourth.
690
01:01:17,090 --> 01:01:21,000
...married to you how long?
12 years?
691
01:01:21,300 --> 01:01:24,840
And still, Caesar has no son,
no child at all.
692
01:01:25,090 --> 01:01:28,300
It is well-known that
Calpurnia is barren.
693
01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:31,390
A woman who cannot bear children...
694
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:34,810
...is like a river that is dry.
695
01:01:35,100 --> 01:01:38,310
I see no purpose in discussing
the subject further.
696
01:01:39,020 --> 01:01:43,650
A woman, too, must make
the barren land fruitful.
697
01:01:43,900 --> 01:01:47,950
She must make life grow
where there was no life.
698
01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:53,330
Just as the Mother Nile feeds
and replenishes the earth.
699
01:01:55,160 --> 01:01:57,290
I am the Nile.
700
01:02:00,710 --> 01:02:03,550
I will bear many sons.
701
01:02:04,220 --> 01:02:06,260
Isis has told me.
702
01:02:08,180 --> 01:02:12,310
My breasts are filled
with love and life.
703
01:02:13,020 --> 01:02:16,480
My hips are rounded
and well apart.
704
01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:19,810
Such women, they say...
705
01:02:20,060 --> 01:02:22,150
...have sons.
706
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:48,050
That first time
when you stood here alone...
707
01:02:49,090 --> 01:02:51,930
...why did you cry?
Will you tell me now?
708
01:02:52,180 --> 01:02:54,680
Because I had lost something.
709
01:02:54,930 --> 01:02:57,390
-What?
-A lifetime.
710
01:02:57,690 --> 01:02:59,900
-Mine.
-Nonsense.
711
01:03:00,190 --> 01:03:03,730
Having conquered the world,
he died at 32.
712
01:03:03,940 --> 01:03:05,980
I am 52.
713
01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:09,700
My remaining ambition is to keep
the world from conquering me.
714
01:03:13,030 --> 01:03:16,540
Your ambitions
must always have been his.
715
01:03:17,040 --> 01:03:18,870
They still must be.
716
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:24,000
Shall l tell you something?
When I was 32 in Spain...
717
01:03:24,210 --> 01:03:27,210
...l came upon a statue of Alexander.
718
01:03:27,470 --> 01:03:29,510
I wept then too.
719
01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:31,380
Even then.
720
01:03:32,050 --> 01:03:35,390
I want you to have his sword
to take back with you.
721
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:37,810
-Too deeply embedded.
-lt can be removed.
722
01:03:38,020 --> 01:03:39,940
It's buried in time.
723
01:03:40,230 --> 01:03:43,520
-And Alexander's mantle?
-Too heavy for Caesar.
724
01:03:46,440 --> 01:03:48,240
His dream then.
725
01:03:49,490 --> 01:03:52,410
Make his dream yours, Caesar.
726
01:03:52,660 --> 01:03:55,330
His grand design.
727
01:03:56,080 --> 01:03:58,790
Pick it up where he left off.
728
01:04:00,250 --> 01:04:03,670
Out of the patchwork of conquests...
729
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:05,750
...one world.
730
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:09,300
And out of one world, one nation.
731
01:04:09,550 --> 01:04:13,930
One people on earth living in peace.
732
01:04:14,180 --> 01:04:17,510
So you have told me at last
what it is you want of me.
733
01:04:17,770 --> 01:04:19,100
Of us!
734
01:04:19,350 --> 01:04:23,060
At the center, the capital of this
world, one people, one nation...
735
01:04:23,270 --> 01:04:24,440
...Alexandria?
736
01:04:24,690 --> 01:04:26,310
-He chose it.
-l am Roman.
737
01:04:26,570 --> 01:04:30,360
He was Greek! What will it matter
when we're all one people?
738
01:04:30,570 --> 01:04:33,320
I am 52. He was 32 and failed.
739
01:04:33,570 --> 01:04:35,370
We will succeed.
740
01:04:35,620 --> 01:04:39,330
Your dreams, your ambitions.
741
01:04:39,580 --> 01:04:43,710
One lifetime is not enough
for such dreams, such ambitions.
742
01:04:44,670 --> 01:04:47,340
The cloak of Alexander
cannot be too heavy...
743
01:04:47,550 --> 01:04:51,050
...for Rome and Egypt
to carry together.
744
01:04:51,300 --> 01:04:55,300
And what if his sword
is too deeply embedded?
745
01:04:55,510 --> 01:04:58,010
Yours will replace it, Caesar.
746
01:04:58,310 --> 01:05:01,220
You have a way of mixing
politics and passion.
747
01:05:01,430 --> 01:05:03,940
Where does one begin
and the other leave off?
748
01:05:04,190 --> 01:05:08,110
That did not start,
nor will it end with me.
749
01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:12,320
Cleopatra, whatever it is,
however it comes out...
750
01:05:12,530 --> 01:05:14,570
...leave me my destiny.
751
01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:19,700
Your destiny
is no longer just yours.
752
01:05:19,950 --> 01:05:21,870
It's mine too.
753
01:05:22,580 --> 01:05:27,380
Soon, there will be someone to
carry both the cloak of Alexander...
754
01:05:27,630 --> 01:05:30,880
...and the sword of Caesar...
755
01:05:31,130 --> 01:05:33,210
...and the name of Caesar.
756
01:05:34,470 --> 01:05:38,010
And in that name he will rule Egypt.
757
01:05:38,220 --> 01:05:42,770
And whatever part or all
of the world that we give him...
758
01:05:43,020 --> 01:05:45,850
...our child...
759
01:05:46,060 --> 01:05:50,020
...will be a son for you, Caesar.
760
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:53,940
By lsis, I swear it.
761
01:06:00,120 --> 01:06:03,160
Could you put off
your return to Rome...
762
01:06:03,620 --> 01:06:05,540
...just long enough?
763
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:35,940
I came as quickly as l could.
764
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:41,320
Antony is welcome to Caesar's house
as often and as quickly as he likes.
765
01:06:41,620 --> 01:06:45,080
As Caesar's wife, before truth
is distorted into vicious gossip...
766
01:06:45,290 --> 01:06:49,460
-...I wanted you to hear--
-That my husband has married Cleopatra.
767
01:06:51,420 --> 01:06:55,300
There's some fresh wine.
One of your many favorites.
768
01:06:57,340 --> 01:07:01,390
The ceremony, according to vicious
gossip, was in the Egyptian religion.
769
01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:04,260
Even if true, that can't be
taken seriously.
770
01:07:04,470 --> 01:07:08,020
During which he was formally
declared an Egyptian god.
771
01:07:08,480 --> 01:07:10,940
Officially divine, at last.
772
01:07:11,560 --> 01:07:13,690
That must have pleased Caesar.
773
01:07:13,940 --> 01:07:17,440
Calpurnia, we know Caesar, you and l.
774
01:07:17,700 --> 01:07:20,910
This so-called marriage
has no validity under Roman law.
775
01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:23,160
There must be political purpose to it.
776
01:07:23,410 --> 01:07:26,620
Perhaps a symbolic ceremony
to ratify Rome's alliance with Egypt.
777
01:07:26,870 --> 01:07:30,170
Perhaps merely
indulging some barbaric custom.
778
01:07:30,420 --> 01:07:32,580
You've been loyal and kind.
779
01:07:32,790 --> 01:07:35,340
You came as quickly
as you could.
780
01:07:35,710 --> 01:07:39,420
Unhappily, vicious gossip
travels even faster than you...
781
01:07:39,630 --> 01:07:41,380
...and the truth.
782
01:07:42,010 --> 01:07:46,390
Have you heard, for instance, that
Cleopatra is carrying Caesar's child?
783
01:07:48,430 --> 01:07:50,560
Yes, Antony.
784
01:07:50,770 --> 01:07:52,650
We know him...
785
01:07:52,860 --> 01:07:54,940
...you and l.
786
01:08:19,420 --> 01:08:21,300
There shall be--
787
01:08:21,550 --> 01:08:23,380
There shall be...
788
01:08:23,640 --> 01:08:25,510
...Rome.
789
01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:28,100
Mighty and alone and unloved.
790
01:08:29,020 --> 01:08:30,270
A mistress.
791
01:08:30,520 --> 01:08:33,980
A mistress shall raise thee again
from earth to heaven...
792
01:08:34,230 --> 01:08:39,360
...and all the world shall know
a golden age ofjustice and of love.
793
01:08:40,990 --> 01:08:47,410
A son shall be born to Isis!
794
01:08:47,660 --> 01:08:50,250
Rome shall know him in cloth of gold.
795
01:08:50,500 --> 01:08:54,790
The East shall see him laden
with jewels and treasure.
796
01:08:55,040 --> 01:08:58,250
A son of Egypt and of Rome!
797
01:09:03,010 --> 01:09:07,100
Here shall he find his destiny!
798
01:09:39,710 --> 01:09:42,550
Do exactly as l tell you.
799
01:09:42,920 --> 01:09:45,260
When the child is born...
800
01:09:45,510 --> 01:09:49,140
...after he is anointed
and named royal prince...
801
01:09:49,390 --> 01:09:51,140
...take him to Caesar.
802
01:09:51,390 --> 01:09:52,640
Bring Caesar here.
803
01:09:52,890 --> 01:09:57,150
No. Exactly as l tell you.
804
01:09:57,400 --> 01:10:01,270
Take the child to Caesar,
in front of his men.
805
01:10:01,480 --> 01:10:03,400
Do you understand?
806
01:10:03,690 --> 01:10:06,320
In front of all the Romans.
807
01:10:08,160 --> 01:10:11,240
Lay him at Caesar's feet.
808
01:10:11,450 --> 01:10:14,290
At Caesar's feet.
809
01:10:14,540 --> 01:10:16,750
I will do just as you say.
810
01:10:35,230 --> 01:10:37,310
Fear not.
We have never lost a Caesar.
811
01:10:37,560 --> 01:10:41,150
That remark was insubordinate
and in bad taste!
812
01:10:49,570 --> 01:10:51,620
Caesar, remember Roman law.
813
01:10:51,870 --> 01:10:54,740
If you pick up this child
you acknowledge it's yours...
814
01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:57,500
...and a citizen of Rome,
as your heir.
815
01:11:22,650 --> 01:11:24,730
A son.
816
01:11:28,150 --> 01:11:30,490
I have a son!
817
01:11:30,700 --> 01:11:33,490
-Hail Caesar!
-Hail Caesar!
818
01:11:40,080 --> 01:11:41,830
He's been made king of Egypt.
819
01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:44,750
They have named their bastard
Caesarion.
820
01:11:44,960 --> 01:11:46,460
Prince Caesarion.
821
01:11:46,710 --> 01:11:49,760
What better name for the heir
to the throne of Rome.
822
01:11:50,010 --> 01:11:51,630
There is no throne of Rome.
823
01:11:51,890 --> 01:11:54,760
Nor shall there be,
nor would Caesar tolerate one.
824
01:11:55,010 --> 01:11:56,560
But a son!
825
01:11:56,810 --> 01:12:00,180
We know how much he's wanted one.
I am happy for Caesar.
826
01:12:00,890 --> 01:12:03,520
Your happiness
is understandable enough.
827
01:12:03,730 --> 01:12:06,520
Now that Caesar has
publicly recognized a son...
828
01:12:06,730 --> 01:12:09,490
...one need no longer
wonder about Brutus.
829
01:12:09,740 --> 01:12:12,320
Is it a relief not to be
wondered about, Casca?
830
01:12:12,570 --> 01:12:15,330
To be known openly
as you are for what you are:
831
01:12:15,580 --> 01:12:17,740
Liar, swindler, bully and coward.
832
01:12:17,950 --> 01:12:21,080
Brutus, you'll turn Casca's head
with your flattery.
833
01:12:21,290 --> 01:12:25,000
And Casca's head, if turned,
will see Marc Antony.
834
01:12:25,920 --> 01:12:29,210
A part of Caesar more to be feared
than his infant son.
835
01:12:30,630 --> 01:12:34,890
But it is for the good of Rome that
Caesar has stayed so long in Egypt.
836
01:12:35,140 --> 01:12:38,350
In his absence, the people
have come to worship him as a god.
837
01:12:38,560 --> 01:12:41,890
Why should he return to show himself
as mortal as the rest?
838
01:12:42,140 --> 01:12:45,230
There are those
who fear Caesar's ambition.
839
01:12:45,440 --> 01:12:48,650
But what is there to fear?
That he will destroy the republic?
840
01:12:48,900 --> 01:12:51,280
Yes, he will.
841
01:12:51,490 --> 01:12:53,360
I promise you he will.
842
01:12:53,570 --> 01:12:56,160
Your tongue is old but sharp, Cicero.
843
01:12:56,370 --> 01:12:59,410
Be careful how you waggle it.
It may cut off your head.
844
01:12:59,620 --> 01:13:02,000
It will more likely
be your sword, Antony.
845
01:13:02,250 --> 01:13:05,040
'Tis just as sharp and quicker...
846
01:13:05,290 --> 01:13:07,540
...and frightened of heads.
847
01:13:09,420 --> 01:13:12,800
There'll be a strong smell
of wine in the Senate today.
848
01:13:13,050 --> 01:13:15,050
We must breathe with restraint.
849
01:13:20,520 --> 01:13:24,640
Octavian, this what's his name,
this son of Caesar...
850
01:13:24,850 --> 01:13:26,560
...does it upset you?
851
01:13:26,810 --> 01:13:28,310
No.
852
01:13:28,570 --> 01:13:30,270
You run off at the mouth so...
853
01:13:30,530 --> 01:13:33,440
...one thinks your words
are as precious to you as your gold.
854
01:13:33,700 --> 01:13:37,570
Like my gold, l use them
where they are worth most.
855
01:13:38,370 --> 01:13:42,370
And your virtue?
My friend has a friend.
856
01:13:42,910 --> 01:13:44,870
That too.
857
01:13:45,330 --> 01:13:49,170
You know, it's quite possible,
Octavian, that when you die...
858
01:13:49,380 --> 01:13:53,010
...you will die without
ever having been alive.
859
01:14:27,710 --> 01:14:31,920
I can't leave without saying
goodbye to my son and to you.
860
01:14:32,170 --> 01:14:36,130
We thought, your son and l,
that if we came to you...
861
01:14:36,340 --> 01:14:39,390
...we would have those
few minutes more.
862
01:14:44,310 --> 01:14:46,810
A good thing to remember, my son:
863
01:14:47,270 --> 01:14:50,310
What you will not let go,
no one will take from you.
864
01:14:53,780 --> 01:14:56,610
Hail and farewell, little Caesar.
865
01:15:10,880 --> 01:15:15,800
Was it a century ago when l was dropped
at your feet, wrapped in a carpet?
866
01:15:17,800 --> 01:15:20,050
Or was it last night?
867
01:15:31,860 --> 01:15:34,070
When will you send for us? When?
868
01:15:34,270 --> 01:15:37,690
-Soon.
-How soon? When?
869
01:15:37,900 --> 01:15:40,820
So much time must go by
before even l reach Rome.
870
01:15:41,030 --> 01:15:43,370
And then how soon?
871
01:15:43,580 --> 01:15:45,740
Within reasonable time.
872
01:15:45,950 --> 01:15:48,000
Time is never reasonable.
873
01:15:48,210 --> 01:15:50,040
Time is our enemy, Caesar.
874
01:15:50,250 --> 01:15:54,420
Am l to conquer it for you?
What plan of battle do you suggest?
875
01:15:55,550 --> 01:15:58,130
I must bring your son to Rome.
876
01:15:58,800 --> 01:16:01,680
Rome must see Caesar's son...
877
01:16:02,470 --> 01:16:05,640
...who will one day rule
over Caesar's world.
878
01:16:06,270 --> 01:16:07,720
Caesar?
879
01:16:09,430 --> 01:16:12,310
I'm afraid the tides
will soon be against you.
880
01:16:28,950 --> 01:16:31,790
Not only time, but the tides.
881
01:16:32,000 --> 01:16:35,670
Even as divinities, there seems
little we can do about either.
882
01:16:51,640 --> 01:16:53,480
But only after more than two years...
883
01:16:53,690 --> 01:16:57,320
...and many wars
in Africa and Asia Minor...
884
01:16:57,520 --> 01:17:01,860
...was Caesar able to cross over
to Italy and come home at last...
885
01:17:02,070 --> 01:17:06,780
...to celebrate his triumphs
and see to his affairs.
886
01:17:28,220 --> 01:17:31,350
"In recognition, the Senate
has bestowed upon Caesar...
887
01:17:31,600 --> 01:17:36,650
...the rank, privilege and title
of dictator of Rome for life."
888
01:17:36,860 --> 01:17:38,980
Dictator for life!
889
01:17:39,190 --> 01:17:42,280
At long last, he is master of Rome.
890
01:17:42,490 --> 01:17:45,610
Apollodorus,
everything must be made ready at once.
891
01:17:45,820 --> 01:17:48,320
-Ships, servants--
-We've been ready for some time.
892
01:17:48,490 --> 01:17:51,450
Surely now nothing
can prevent his sending for us...
893
01:17:51,660 --> 01:17:54,540
...if only to attend
his coronation as he did mine.
894
01:17:54,750 --> 01:17:58,000
-Your Majesty--
-Three long, wasted years!
895
01:17:58,210 --> 01:18:00,670
Why should the Senate
have taken so long...
896
01:18:00,880 --> 01:18:03,670
...to recognize what the world
has already known?
897
01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:07,090
That Caesar was master of Rome.
898
01:18:07,640 --> 01:18:10,140
Rufio wishes to speak.
899
01:18:10,350 --> 01:18:12,390
Your Majesty seems to misunderstand.
900
01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:17,400
It seems quite clear. Caesar has been
declared dictator of Rome for life.
901
01:18:17,600 --> 01:18:19,270
True. However, to the Roman...
902
01:18:19,440 --> 01:18:22,730
...there is a vast difference
between dictator and master.
903
01:18:23,190 --> 01:18:25,280
No man can call himself
master of Rome.
904
01:18:25,490 --> 01:18:27,280
Why not?
905
01:18:27,490 --> 01:18:31,280
It has a meaning far too close
to a word no Roman will tolerate:
906
01:18:31,490 --> 01:18:32,950
King.
907
01:18:40,130 --> 01:18:43,050
And to be dictator of Rome for life?
908
01:18:43,260 --> 01:18:47,680
Is to be granted the lifelong respect
and honor of the Roman people.
909
01:18:47,880 --> 01:18:50,890
And the dictates of the dictator?
910
01:18:51,100 --> 01:18:55,470
Must in each case, of course,
be approved by the Senate of Rome.
911
01:18:57,350 --> 01:18:59,230
Thank you, Rufio.
912
01:19:06,190 --> 01:19:08,700
The enemy! The enemy! The enemy!
913
01:19:21,290 --> 01:19:23,000
Sosigenes.
914
01:19:25,550 --> 01:19:30,220
You must think it odd that l propose
an invitation to Queen Cleopatra.
915
01:19:30,430 --> 01:19:31,760
Do you?
916
01:19:32,010 --> 01:19:35,720
Egypt, after all, has been
officially declared ally of Rome.
917
01:19:35,970 --> 01:19:40,020
Still, l confess l was surprised
at some of those who voted in favor.
918
01:19:40,270 --> 01:19:41,400
Were you?
919
01:19:41,610 --> 01:19:46,530
May I express my gratitude for being
permitted to attend today's session?
920
01:19:46,740 --> 01:19:48,530
It was truly inspiring...
921
01:19:48,740 --> 01:19:52,870
...to witness the free will
of free men so fearlessly expressed.
922
01:19:54,790 --> 01:19:56,910
He seemed most anxious to be present.
923
01:19:57,120 --> 01:20:00,040
-l saw no harm in granting him permission.
-Didn't you?
924
01:20:00,290 --> 01:20:05,420
After today, never again shall l
doubt the extent of Egypt's wealth.
925
01:20:05,670 --> 01:20:07,670
I don't like Cicero's implication.
926
01:20:07,920 --> 01:20:11,630
There's not enough gold in Egypt
to buy the honor of a Roman senator.
927
01:20:11,840 --> 01:20:15,760
More than enough, it seems,
to buy his vote.
928
01:20:18,180 --> 01:20:20,100
How was it now?
929
01:20:20,310 --> 01:20:24,730
"Rome will know him in cloth of gold."
930
01:20:43,630 --> 01:20:47,460
According to reports, the reception
in the streets has been extraordinary.
931
01:20:47,670 --> 01:20:51,010
The queen has instructed
the procession to move slowly...
932
01:20:51,260 --> 01:20:53,550
...for the people's enjoyment.
933
01:20:53,800 --> 01:20:58,810
I might almost believe Cleopatra set
out to capture the citizens of Rome.
934
01:20:59,020 --> 01:21:02,480
One would have every reason
for believing exactly that.
935
01:26:29,140 --> 01:26:33,020
Nothing like this has come
into Rome since Romulus and Remus.
936
01:27:27,030 --> 01:27:32,450
How unafraid he is.
937
01:29:40,370 --> 01:29:43,120
Your queen has conquered
the people of Rome.
938
01:29:43,330 --> 01:29:45,790
The people, yes.
939
01:29:57,720 --> 01:30:01,010
Now then, walk like a king.
Head up.
940
01:30:01,220 --> 01:30:03,060
Listen to them cheer.
941
01:30:03,270 --> 01:30:05,100
Take your throne.
942
01:30:05,310 --> 01:30:07,730
Bow to the right, left.
943
01:30:07,940 --> 01:30:11,150
Now an angry glance at someone
who's displeased you.
944
01:30:12,320 --> 01:30:15,610
Very good. l tremble.
See me tremble?
945
01:30:16,740 --> 01:30:18,490
No, don't smile.
946
01:30:18,740 --> 01:30:21,410
Not when they're trembling.
It makes them stop.
947
01:30:21,660 --> 01:30:24,830
Now the prisoners
are dragged before you, one by one.
948
01:30:25,080 --> 01:30:28,380
This one has no power anywhere,
therefore means nothing.
949
01:30:28,630 --> 01:30:32,880
But you wish to be known
as a noble ruler. What do you say?
950
01:30:33,670 --> 01:30:36,050
I pardon you.
951
01:30:36,300 --> 01:30:39,390
Louder, boy. You pardon somebody,
you want it known.
952
01:30:39,640 --> 01:30:43,060
I pardon you!
953
01:30:45,690 --> 01:30:47,480
Ah, now, who comes here?
954
01:30:47,730 --> 01:30:52,150
Once your friend. You trusted him,
and he turned against you.
955
01:30:52,400 --> 01:30:54,570
He has power, wealth and family.
956
01:30:54,820 --> 01:30:57,950
He kneels.
He begs you to be his friend again.
957
01:30:58,160 --> 01:31:00,160
To have you trust him again.
958
01:31:00,370 --> 01:31:02,870
And then? What then, little king?
959
01:31:11,790 --> 01:31:15,130
Caesar must wish
what needs commanding.
960
01:31:15,340 --> 01:31:18,510
To drain the Pontine Marshes.
To free Rome from malaria.
961
01:31:18,720 --> 01:31:20,470
To fill my belly.
962
01:31:20,720 --> 01:31:23,310
To control the Tiber's floods.
963
01:31:23,510 --> 01:31:27,390
To improve the harbor at Ostia.
To please my ambition.
964
01:31:27,640 --> 01:31:31,270
And must I wish roads to be built,
libraries for public use?
965
01:31:31,520 --> 01:31:34,440
The free men of Italy to be equal
citizens to those of Rome?
966
01:31:34,650 --> 01:31:37,570
Many of these have merits
and merit our approval.
967
01:31:37,780 --> 01:31:41,990
"Merit your approval." Is Caesar
to come before the Senate each day...
968
01:31:42,240 --> 01:31:45,290
...like a schoolboy with his lessons,
now passing, now failing?
969
01:31:45,500 --> 01:31:49,500
Do you suggest the Senate no longer
deliberate the welfare of Rome?
970
01:31:49,710 --> 01:31:51,790
To end the process of Roman law?
971
01:31:52,000 --> 01:31:56,460
I must be the law! And my word
must be the welfare of Rome.
972
01:31:57,720 --> 01:32:02,300
Else, take from me
this meaningless title of dictator.
973
01:32:03,050 --> 01:32:05,220
I've carried a sword for too long.
974
01:32:05,470 --> 01:32:08,770
I cannot now pretend
with an empty scabbard.
975
01:32:10,940 --> 01:32:14,360
Surely Caesar recalls the symbolic
nature of the title "dictator"...
976
01:32:14,570 --> 01:32:16,480
...at the time it was conferred.
977
01:32:16,690 --> 01:32:19,030
It was to honor Caesar
above all men...
978
01:32:19,280 --> 01:32:22,990
...and to indicate Rome's gratitude
for Caesar's triumphs in its name.
979
01:32:24,030 --> 01:32:28,160
Brutus, I recall them well,
those triumphs.
980
01:32:28,370 --> 01:32:29,910
Do you?
981
01:32:30,160 --> 01:32:33,120
Pharsalia, for one.
You trembled in Antony's hand...
982
01:32:33,330 --> 01:32:36,340
...when Antony was hot
to separate you from your head...
983
01:32:36,590 --> 01:32:38,000
...with just cause.
984
01:32:38,840 --> 01:32:40,920
My command spared your life.
985
01:32:41,130 --> 01:32:44,680
There was no deliberating body.
It was not my wish, but my command.
986
01:32:44,890 --> 01:32:49,350
By my dictate that you stand here
dribbling virtue out of your mouth.
987
01:32:49,560 --> 01:32:51,100
Sit down.
988
01:32:52,100 --> 01:32:56,020
No, I want no more meaningless
privileges and considerations.
989
01:32:56,230 --> 01:32:59,110
No more honors designed to pacify me.
990
01:32:59,320 --> 01:33:02,490
I would rather have nothing.
Remain what l am at heart.
991
01:33:02,700 --> 01:33:05,700
A humble man, anxious only to serve.
992
01:33:08,040 --> 01:33:11,540
Why are the eyes of a statue
always without life?
993
01:33:13,920 --> 01:33:16,290
Have any of you here seen the Nile?
994
01:33:16,500 --> 01:33:18,800
Spare yourselves the journey.
995
01:33:19,010 --> 01:33:21,760
She carries it within her eyes.
996
01:33:22,880 --> 01:33:25,260
I suggest, Caesar,
that the hour is late.
997
01:33:25,470 --> 01:33:27,390
Very late for Rome.
998
01:33:27,600 --> 01:33:29,600
I was speaking, Cassius! l was....
999
01:33:33,350 --> 01:33:34,730
Now, where was I?
1000
01:33:34,980 --> 01:33:36,900
"Anxious to serve."
1001
01:33:38,320 --> 01:33:42,360
Yes, l've served.
Served for all of my life.
1002
01:33:42,570 --> 01:33:45,570
I've won for Rome
more than half of the world.
1003
01:33:45,780 --> 01:33:48,830
Most of you owe your honors
and fortunes to me.
1004
01:33:49,040 --> 01:33:52,830
And now I want you to do as l say.
1005
01:33:53,660 --> 01:33:55,750
You will appoint me...
1006
01:33:55,960 --> 01:33:58,460
...emperor of Rome.
1007
01:34:04,260 --> 01:34:06,590
There is no need to resume your seats.
1008
01:34:07,260 --> 01:34:11,260
On behalf of all, thank you,
Majesty, for your hospitality.
1009
01:34:13,430 --> 01:34:14,930
Good night.
1010
01:34:18,770 --> 01:34:21,190
Thank you and good night.
1011
01:34:30,490 --> 01:34:35,250
They resent being summoned here for
meetings properly held in the Senate.
1012
01:34:35,460 --> 01:34:37,670
Resent it, do they?
1013
01:34:38,880 --> 01:34:41,130
I cannot understand...
1014
01:34:41,380 --> 01:34:46,010
...that the eyes of a statue
should be always without life.
1015
01:34:51,010 --> 01:34:52,680
They resent me.
1016
01:34:52,930 --> 01:34:55,520
To flaunt me like this.
1017
01:34:55,770 --> 01:34:59,150
They'll use it to keep from you
that which is already yours.
1018
01:35:00,520 --> 01:35:03,730
By divine right, is that not so?
1019
01:35:05,570 --> 01:35:07,860
Yes. lt is.
1020
01:35:09,620 --> 01:35:12,080
By divine right.
1021
01:35:12,580 --> 01:35:17,290
We shall have the Senate,
in its deliberations, deliberate that.
1022
01:35:26,220 --> 01:35:28,800
Are you quite sure
what it is you want...
1023
01:35:29,050 --> 01:35:30,390
...so desperately?
1024
01:35:30,590 --> 01:35:33,260
I've always been sure.
1025
01:35:34,430 --> 01:35:35,600
And Caesar?
1026
01:35:37,480 --> 01:35:39,350
Does anyone speak for him?
1027
01:35:42,230 --> 01:35:43,770
No.
1028
01:35:44,570 --> 01:35:46,070
Good night.
1029
01:35:52,490 --> 01:35:56,410
Tell me, Brutus, is it proper
to stand before this new goddess...
1030
01:35:56,660 --> 01:36:00,290
-...Caesar has set here in the temple?
-Or must we, as Romans, kneel?
1031
01:36:00,500 --> 01:36:04,670
Not yet. See there, where room
has been left for another deity?
1032
01:36:04,920 --> 01:36:08,840
When the god Caesar stands beside
the goddess Cleopatra...
1033
01:36:09,010 --> 01:36:11,010
...then Rome will crawl before them.
1034
01:36:11,180 --> 01:36:12,890
When that day comes, if it comes.
1035
01:36:13,140 --> 01:36:17,100
-He demanded we make him emperor.
-Once. That one night, it was his sickness.
1036
01:36:17,270 --> 01:36:20,060
His sickness grows worse.
In the end, it will kill us.
1037
01:36:20,270 --> 01:36:24,360
He asked once to be made emperor,
but he's since decreed himself a god!
1038
01:36:24,570 --> 01:36:29,150
Emperor and god. No longer just king,
but emperor and god!
1039
01:36:29,360 --> 01:36:32,910
-Brutus, open your eyes!
-What do you want of me?
1040
01:36:33,120 --> 01:36:35,740
When the people think
upon the honor of Rome...
1041
01:36:35,990 --> 01:36:38,160
...they think upon one man:
He is Brutus.
1042
01:36:38,370 --> 01:36:41,250
By that honor and
by the responsibility you carry...
1043
01:36:41,460 --> 01:36:44,000
...Brutus, save Rome from Caesar!
1044
01:36:44,210 --> 01:36:46,710
You cannot ask me to destroy him.
1045
01:36:46,920 --> 01:36:50,090
Then let Caesar destroy Rome.
1046
01:37:07,530 --> 01:37:11,780
Antony has just come from a meeting
of my friends with good news.
1047
01:37:11,990 --> 01:37:16,320
Tomorrow at the Senate, Lucius Cotta
will move that l be made king.
1048
01:37:16,530 --> 01:37:18,450
It will pass.
1049
01:37:18,990 --> 01:37:21,620
But l don't understand.
1050
01:37:21,830 --> 01:37:23,960
King and emperor.
1051
01:37:24,170 --> 01:37:25,790
And it will pass?
1052
01:37:26,040 --> 01:37:28,550
The last few months,
I've been enjoying...
1053
01:37:28,750 --> 01:37:31,300
...one of the few privileges
of being dictator.
1054
01:37:31,510 --> 01:37:33,420
I have been appointing senators.
1055
01:37:33,630 --> 01:37:37,850
Slightly more than half the Senate
has been appointed by me.
1056
01:37:38,470 --> 01:37:41,680
Once again, the army of Mithradates...
1057
01:37:41,890 --> 01:37:44,230
...on its way all the time.
1058
01:37:44,440 --> 01:37:45,770
It will pass.
1059
01:37:46,020 --> 01:37:49,110
Tomorrow, the ides of March,
a day to be remembered...
1060
01:37:49,320 --> 01:37:51,940
...the Senate will declare me
king of Rome.
1061
01:37:52,150 --> 01:37:54,240
King, yes, but not of Rome.
1062
01:37:55,160 --> 01:37:57,950
Not of Rome? What are you saying?
1063
01:37:58,200 --> 01:38:01,450
They'll offer you king
of the Roman Empire, outside ltaly.
1064
01:38:03,410 --> 01:38:06,420
They're afraid, Caesar.
Even your friends.
1065
01:38:06,630 --> 01:38:08,290
Afraid of the people.
1066
01:38:08,500 --> 01:38:12,510
-Perhaps in time--
-To be afraid of the people.
1067
01:38:12,720 --> 01:38:14,670
To waste time on the people.
1068
01:38:14,880 --> 01:38:17,800
King of all but Rome?
1069
01:38:18,050 --> 01:38:21,310
What is there? The huts of Gaul?
The caves of Britain?
1070
01:38:21,560 --> 01:38:24,640
The whole of the empire outside ltaly.
1071
01:38:25,350 --> 01:38:27,190
I will not accept.
1072
01:38:27,440 --> 01:38:30,570
They mean it to be an empty gesture.
1073
01:38:30,770 --> 01:38:33,940
Another title to please your fancy,
flatter your ego.
1074
01:38:34,190 --> 01:38:35,610
Nothing more.
1075
01:38:37,110 --> 01:38:39,160
And it will pass.
1076
01:38:40,580 --> 01:38:42,580
Then accept it, Caesar.
1077
01:38:42,950 --> 01:38:45,410
I have never settled
for half a victory.
1078
01:38:45,660 --> 01:38:49,170
Nor will you now.
Caesar, mighty Caesar...
1079
01:38:49,380 --> 01:38:52,090
...all l can say
is what you've taught me:
1080
01:38:52,340 --> 01:38:56,720
Take a little, then a little more
until finally you have it all.
1081
01:38:57,590 --> 01:38:59,590
Let them declare you king.
1082
01:38:59,800 --> 01:39:02,850
Even if it's only
of a tree in Asia Minor.
1083
01:39:03,100 --> 01:39:04,810
The rest will come to you.
1084
01:39:05,060 --> 01:39:08,230
To redo once more everything
I have already done?
1085
01:39:08,440 --> 01:39:13,400
It's what you have never done, what
you never conquered that waits for you.
1086
01:39:13,610 --> 01:39:18,490
The great legions of Rome in the outer
empire that will become your legions.
1087
01:39:18,700 --> 01:39:22,740
The gold, the power of Egypt.
Your Egypt.
1088
01:39:22,950 --> 01:39:27,370
Caesar, you can conquer
and hold the world as your own.
1089
01:39:27,580 --> 01:39:30,210
Won't you understand?
1090
01:39:30,420 --> 01:39:34,460
Kings are not elected.
Gods are not elected.
1091
01:39:34,670 --> 01:39:38,800
Why, not only Rome but all of Italy
upon which Rome stands...
1092
01:39:39,050 --> 01:39:41,720
...must fall in your hands
like a drop of sweat.
1093
01:39:41,930 --> 01:39:43,890
Let them make you what they choose.
1094
01:39:44,140 --> 01:39:46,560
I'll serve with you.
My legions with yours.
1095
01:39:46,770 --> 01:39:51,900
Together we'll conquer a world beyond
the wildest dreams of even Alexander.
1096
01:39:52,110 --> 01:39:54,940
Rome.
What was Rome when Sulla died...
1097
01:39:55,190 --> 01:39:58,150
...when Crassus lost the armies
in Parthia?
1098
01:39:58,400 --> 01:40:01,160
These same men came after me
through the streets...
1099
01:40:01,410 --> 01:40:05,080
...howling like frightened dogs,
"Caesar, save us!"
1100
01:40:05,290 --> 01:40:07,580
They would've made me king then.
1101
01:40:07,790 --> 01:40:10,250
I wouldn't let them then.
1102
01:40:20,630 --> 01:40:24,100
He was thrown over the wall.
It's not a pretty sight.
1103
01:40:24,470 --> 01:40:26,510
Titus, the moneylender.
1104
01:40:26,770 --> 01:40:30,270
Why should he be killed savagely
and brought here?
1105
01:40:30,480 --> 01:40:33,400
Obviously, I am being warned.
1106
01:40:33,610 --> 01:40:35,440
Perhaps I am next.
1107
01:40:35,650 --> 01:40:37,820
They dare to threaten you?
1108
01:40:38,070 --> 01:40:40,900
-Caesarion. Where was my son--?
-Not far away.
1109
01:40:41,110 --> 01:40:43,070
It frightened him.
1110
01:40:49,460 --> 01:40:53,420
-Lepidus, how many legions has he now?
-Fifteen. Perhaps more.
1111
01:40:53,630 --> 01:40:55,420
-Where?
-Scythia.
1112
01:40:55,670 --> 01:40:58,000
You and I will dine
with Lepidus tonight.
1113
01:40:58,210 --> 01:41:02,090
We'll talk of armies and battlefields
and lists of men to die.
1114
01:41:02,340 --> 01:41:06,680
Tomorrow in the Senate, let them offer
the sands of Libya as my kingdom...
1115
01:41:06,890 --> 01:41:08,850
...l will accept.
1116
01:41:48,930 --> 01:41:51,390
This is great Caesar...
1117
01:41:51,640 --> 01:41:53,680
...beloved by Rome...
1118
01:41:54,560 --> 01:41:57,110
...and at least one of us...
1119
01:41:57,310 --> 01:42:00,610
...who must die so that Rome may live.
1120
01:42:00,860 --> 01:42:05,570
If it must be done, then let us do it
unashamed and unafraid.
1121
01:42:06,070 --> 01:42:09,740
If the world is to know that
it is Rome that will not have a king...
1122
01:42:09,950 --> 01:42:14,160
...then let us make it the honorable
act of free men in the light of day.
1123
01:42:14,370 --> 01:42:16,540
In the light of what day, Brutus?
1124
01:42:16,750 --> 01:42:18,500
Tomorrow?
1125
01:42:19,670 --> 01:42:23,300
In the curia of the Senate?
1126
01:42:24,220 --> 01:42:27,260
And shall we be armed, all of us?
1127
01:42:32,640 --> 01:42:37,270
Decimus, come to Caesar's villa early
tomorrow to escort him to the Senate.
1128
01:42:37,480 --> 01:42:41,770
Cimber, Marc Antony must not enter
the curia with Caesar.
1129
01:42:41,980 --> 01:42:46,610
On a pretext, lead him aside to speak
of what you heard at Lepidus' house.
1130
01:42:46,820 --> 01:42:49,320
I remember something odd.
1131
01:42:49,530 --> 01:42:52,120
At one point,
Caesar asked of each of us...
1132
01:42:52,330 --> 01:42:55,120
...what manner of death
we would choose.
1133
01:42:55,370 --> 01:42:58,960
And Caesar, when it came to him,
looked straight at me and said:
1134
01:42:59,170 --> 01:43:01,040
"Sudden."
1135
01:43:02,960 --> 01:43:05,010
Odd, isn't it?
1136
01:43:28,240 --> 01:43:30,490
I was afraid l'd find you
still asleep.
1137
01:43:30,740 --> 01:43:34,040
Caesarion is.
He was awake most of the night.
1138
01:43:34,240 --> 01:43:36,040
Did the storm frighten him?
1139
01:43:36,250 --> 01:43:40,210
He said not, but it did.
I could tell.
1140
01:43:40,420 --> 01:43:42,210
Have you time to come in?
1141
01:43:42,420 --> 01:43:47,090
Decimus awaits. He came by expressly
to accompany me to the Senate.
1142
01:43:47,300 --> 01:43:49,760
Decimus? Has he done this before?
1143
01:43:50,010 --> 01:43:51,590
A shrewd politician.
1144
01:43:51,850 --> 01:43:55,430
He hopes to benefit
by arriving with me, this day of days.
1145
01:43:55,640 --> 01:43:58,060
Keep Antony close by.
1146
01:43:59,980 --> 01:44:01,850
You too?
1147
01:44:02,060 --> 01:44:05,020
The ladies of Rome seem to have caught
each other's fears this morning.
1148
01:44:05,230 --> 01:44:07,030
Like a head cold.
1149
01:44:07,240 --> 01:44:10,450
Calpurnia pleaded with me
not to go to the Senate at all.
1150
01:44:10,660 --> 01:44:14,080
Why? Why would she
not want you to go?
1151
01:44:14,330 --> 01:44:16,540
Oh, the bad night. Nothing else.
1152
01:44:16,790 --> 01:44:20,250
She awoke screaming in her sleep.
The thunder, the lightning.
1153
01:44:20,460 --> 01:44:24,670
She dreamed that she saw me murdered.
That she saw me...
1154
01:44:24,920 --> 01:44:27,090
...or a statue of me covered in blood.
1155
01:44:27,340 --> 01:44:30,840
The servants told her of seeing
men of fire in the heavens...
1156
01:44:31,050 --> 01:44:33,050
...odd happenings and so forth.
1157
01:44:33,260 --> 01:44:35,970
Strange birds were seen in the Forum.
1158
01:44:36,180 --> 01:44:41,270
One flew into the Senate carrying a
sprig of laurel which it dropped...
1159
01:44:41,520 --> 01:44:44,060
...at the base of Pompey's statue.
1160
01:44:44,360 --> 01:44:45,940
Pompey?
1161
01:44:47,280 --> 01:44:51,650
-Caesar, l'm afraid.
-You must not tell me to stay away.
1162
01:44:51,910 --> 01:44:54,070
Shall l too be afraid?
1163
01:44:54,320 --> 01:44:58,540
Can it be said of Caesar, he gave up
the world because of a thunderstorm?
1164
01:44:58,750 --> 01:45:02,620
That such divinity that was in him ran
before mortal superstition?
1165
01:45:03,460 --> 01:45:05,540
I feel you need me now...
1166
01:45:05,750 --> 01:45:07,550
...and l cannot help you.
1167
01:45:07,800 --> 01:45:12,930
Then help me to live as l have lived,
always differently from the rest.
1168
01:45:13,300 --> 01:45:17,470
The others, for whom life is merely
an endless fear of dying.
1169
01:45:19,060 --> 01:45:20,770
Your gods...
1170
01:45:20,980 --> 01:45:23,890
...and mine go with you, Caesar.
1171
01:45:25,980 --> 01:45:30,280
The world, except for you,
is filled with little men.
1172
01:46:36,680 --> 01:46:41,680
Fire burns.
1173
01:46:42,470 --> 01:46:45,180
The winds of destruction blow.
1174
01:46:46,940 --> 01:46:48,900
Rome...
1175
01:46:49,150 --> 01:46:53,150
...mighty and alone, the winds of
destruction blow down upon thee!
1176
01:46:53,360 --> 01:46:55,570
Storms and hail
shall cut down wheat...
1177
01:46:55,780 --> 01:46:58,660
...shall cut down birds
and living things of earth.
1178
01:46:58,870 --> 01:47:01,080
The heavens...
1179
01:47:01,370 --> 01:47:04,040
...and the gods themselves.
1180
01:49:17,000 --> 01:49:19,550
My son!
1181
01:49:34,810 --> 01:49:38,440
Caesar! Caesar!
1182
01:52:23,480 --> 01:52:25,650
I would've come sooner.
There was much to do.
1183
01:52:25,820 --> 01:52:28,690
And it seems you have
done it extremely well.
1184
01:52:31,200 --> 01:52:33,320
Is that where--?
1185
01:52:33,580 --> 01:52:34,950
Yes.
1186
01:52:37,950 --> 01:52:42,670
In Egypt, we build eternal monuments
to our dead heroes.
1187
01:52:43,000 --> 01:52:45,880
Here, you burn them like rubbish.
1188
01:52:46,130 --> 01:52:47,250
Goodbye.
1189
01:52:47,460 --> 01:52:50,590
I've brought the 10th Legion
and Rufio. You have nothing to fear.
1190
01:52:51,930 --> 01:52:55,550
Nothing to fear?
That's no reason for staying.
1191
01:52:56,930 --> 01:52:59,180
So much has happened so quickly.
1192
01:52:59,390 --> 01:53:02,690
Suddenly l have the pieces
of a broken world to pick up:
1193
01:53:02,940 --> 01:53:05,770
Caesar, you running off
at night like this.
1194
01:53:05,980 --> 01:53:07,940
Do you suggest that l stay? Why?
1195
01:53:08,150 --> 01:53:11,990
Don't ask me to be clear about
my feelings right now. I'm tired.
1196
01:53:12,450 --> 01:53:15,620
And with you,
it's never easy to say my meaning.
1197
01:53:16,370 --> 01:53:19,410
But you speak so well, Antony.
1198
01:53:19,620 --> 01:53:22,870
I've been told how excitingly
you read Caesar's will...
1199
01:53:23,080 --> 01:53:27,130
...to the sobbing, murdering,
free citizens of Rome.
1200
01:53:27,340 --> 01:53:31,840
Naming as his heir
his great nephew, Octavian!
1201
01:53:32,300 --> 01:53:34,590
I knew Caesar's will
and the reasons for it.
1202
01:53:34,800 --> 01:53:36,720
If Octavian hadn't been named...
1203
01:53:36,970 --> 01:53:40,060
...how many hours or minutes
would you and your son have survived?
1204
01:53:41,520 --> 01:53:44,060
And if Caesar had become truly king...
1205
01:53:44,270 --> 01:53:47,310
...do you believe he would
still have named Octavian?
1206
01:53:49,650 --> 01:53:51,780
In any case, it's over.
1207
01:53:51,990 --> 01:53:53,650
Caesar...
1208
01:53:53,910 --> 01:53:56,910
...and the dream
that was murdered with him.
1209
01:53:57,620 --> 01:54:00,040
First Alexander's...
1210
01:54:01,080 --> 01:54:03,160
...then Caesar's.
1211
01:54:03,370 --> 01:54:05,420
Now over. Finished.
1212
01:54:05,630 --> 01:54:08,250
-First, Rome must be put in order.
-Rome again.
1213
01:54:08,460 --> 01:54:11,170
Brutus, Cassius and the others
must be found and killed.
1214
01:54:11,420 --> 01:54:12,800
-Then?
-Then in death...
1215
01:54:13,050 --> 01:54:17,090
...Caesar must be granted the power
and title he was denied in life. Deified, even.
1216
01:54:17,300 --> 01:54:21,180
A dead king, a dead god.
Safe enough even for Rome.
1217
01:54:21,430 --> 01:54:26,520
Caesarion as Caesar's son could claim
both the title of king and his deification.
1218
01:54:27,190 --> 01:54:31,150
And to what court of law
would my son and I take our claim?
1219
01:54:31,360 --> 01:54:34,650
I will present it
to the Roman Senate myself.
1220
01:54:37,030 --> 01:54:39,660
I believe you would.
1221
01:54:39,990 --> 01:54:43,290
And after the noble senators
have stopped laughing...
1222
01:54:43,500 --> 01:54:46,750
...do my son and I
then declare war on Rome?
1223
01:54:46,960 --> 01:54:51,460
No. For this,
a Caesar would be needed.
1224
01:54:51,670 --> 01:54:54,260
You have very little time.
1225
01:54:56,590 --> 01:54:58,640
Another Caesar.
1226
01:54:59,010 --> 01:55:03,470
But thank you.
I shall remember your kindness to us.
1227
01:55:03,680 --> 01:55:06,560
-You give up too easily.
-Do l?
1228
01:55:07,560 --> 01:55:10,440
Let me come to Alexandria
and talk more with you.
1229
01:55:10,690 --> 01:55:14,690
-Whenever you like.
-Now. Tonight, if l could.
1230
01:55:17,070 --> 01:55:19,280
In any case, try to remember.
1231
01:59:47,510 --> 01:59:51,800
For more than two years did Antony
seek out the assassins of Caesar.
1232
01:59:52,010 --> 01:59:53,810
At last, at Philippi...
1233
01:59:54,060 --> 01:59:58,180
...he was able to set against them
his legions and those of Octavian...
1234
01:59:58,390 --> 02:00:00,560
...who was Caesar's heir.
1235
02:00:00,770 --> 02:00:02,860
Cassius was the first to die...
1236
02:00:03,070 --> 02:00:05,070
...by his own hand.
1237
02:00:05,280 --> 02:00:08,280
Then Brutus and the others.
1238
02:01:46,130 --> 02:01:50,920
Hail Antony!
1239
02:01:54,300 --> 02:01:57,600
Hail Antony's legion!
1240
02:02:10,070 --> 02:02:12,240
You remember Philippi.
1241
02:02:12,860 --> 02:02:14,320
He won it.
1242
02:02:15,820 --> 02:02:17,280
My lord.
1243
02:02:18,160 --> 02:02:21,490
-This way.
-But my tent is this way.
1244
02:02:24,420 --> 02:02:28,080
Later. l'll see him later.
Octavian depresses me.
1245
02:02:29,050 --> 02:02:30,590
You promised.
1246
02:02:40,850 --> 02:02:43,810
Well, the fighting's over.
We've won it all.
1247
02:02:44,060 --> 02:02:46,020
Your health should improve
quickly now.
1248
02:02:46,270 --> 02:02:49,060
Even if l die,
my place is with you on the field.
1249
02:02:49,270 --> 02:02:51,860
-You were wrong to prevent me.
-Caesar was ill.
1250
02:02:52,070 --> 02:02:55,570
Caesar? Ah, yes. l keep forgetting.
1251
02:02:55,780 --> 02:02:58,490
I have inherited the name.
I have made it mine.
1252
02:02:58,700 --> 02:03:02,700
Why not? You'll never be confused
with the other one.
1253
02:03:03,160 --> 02:03:06,540
At least your troops
fought bravely, under my command.
1254
02:03:06,750 --> 02:03:09,500
Agrippa has kept me fully informed.
1255
02:03:09,750 --> 02:03:11,290
What were you doing there?
1256
02:03:11,500 --> 02:03:15,300
The battle was fought on land, between
men, not wood bumping on water.
1257
02:03:15,510 --> 02:03:18,760
Why did you bring Agrippa?
Were you expecting rain?
1258
02:03:18,970 --> 02:03:21,930
Shall we choose a piece of land,
just you and I?
1259
02:03:22,180 --> 02:03:24,640
Be quiet. There are matters
to talk about.
1260
02:03:24,850 --> 02:03:27,690
Have you an objection
to Agrippa remaining?
1261
02:03:28,600 --> 02:03:32,730
I object to Agrippa at all times.
1262
02:03:38,030 --> 02:03:39,950
Lying here, indisposed...
1263
02:03:40,200 --> 02:03:43,280
...you must have had time
to consider the problem.
1264
02:03:43,540 --> 02:03:46,620
I think it is best
to continue the Triumvirate.
1265
02:03:46,830 --> 02:03:50,040
You and I and Lepidus.
1266
02:03:50,250 --> 02:03:51,920
Very well.
1267
02:03:52,250 --> 02:03:56,130
Lepidus shall have Africa and
the islands. You, Spain and Gaul.
1268
02:03:56,340 --> 02:04:00,470
Rome and Italy to be administered
by the three of us, jointly.
1269
02:04:00,720 --> 02:04:03,260
-And you?
-All the rest.
1270
02:04:04,430 --> 02:04:07,770
Then, with Lepidus in Africa
and you in the East...
1271
02:04:07,980 --> 02:04:11,100
...bringing order to Rome and ltaly
will be my problem.
1272
02:04:11,310 --> 02:04:13,820
-So it seems.
-Spain and Gaul aren't enough.
1273
02:04:14,070 --> 02:04:15,360
I'll need money.
1274
02:04:15,610 --> 02:04:18,610
-There have been tax riots in Rome.
-So I've heard.
1275
02:04:20,660 --> 02:04:21,700
Done.
1276
02:04:25,370 --> 02:04:26,950
And done.
1277
02:04:51,190 --> 02:04:53,230
Would Caesar approve, do you think?
1278
02:04:53,440 --> 02:04:57,820
Definitely. Perhaps the veil of lsis
would have bothered him a bit.
1279
02:04:58,030 --> 02:04:59,900
Three years...
1280
02:05:00,110 --> 02:05:04,030
...and Rome remembers him
only by the image on a gold coin.
1281
02:05:04,240 --> 02:05:06,830
Are they those I brought back with me?
1282
02:05:07,040 --> 02:05:09,000
When Octavian had them struck off...
1283
02:05:09,210 --> 02:05:12,210
...it was to commemorate
Caesar's deification.
1284
02:05:12,420 --> 02:05:17,130
So that he could inherit Caesar's
divinity together with all the rest.
1285
02:05:17,380 --> 02:05:20,170
Even a dead god
cannot rewrite his will.
1286
02:05:20,420 --> 02:05:23,380
Antony did present
Caesarion's claims to the Senate.
1287
02:05:23,590 --> 02:05:26,300
He kept that much of his promise.
1288
02:05:27,010 --> 02:05:29,180
And he will keep the rest of it.
1289
02:05:29,390 --> 02:05:32,350
After almost three years
since Caesar's death...
1290
02:05:32,560 --> 02:05:34,560
...more than a year
since Philippi?
1291
02:05:34,770 --> 02:05:38,150
Antony will come. He will need Egypt.
1292
02:05:38,360 --> 02:05:40,530
Egypt is you.
1293
02:05:40,740 --> 02:05:45,160
That's what l meant, of course.
Antony will need me.
1294
02:05:50,910 --> 02:05:53,370
Finances! My head hurts
when you talk of money.
1295
02:05:53,620 --> 02:05:55,170
Change the subject.
1296
02:05:55,380 --> 02:05:58,920
All right. News from Rome.
1297
02:05:59,170 --> 02:06:02,880
Octavian has forced Lepidus
out of his command and into exile.
1298
02:06:07,220 --> 02:06:11,640
I wish I hadn't--
I wish I had not drunk so much today.
1299
02:06:11,850 --> 02:06:13,730
So do l.
1300
02:06:14,480 --> 02:06:17,060
Do I trouble you, Rufio?
1301
02:06:17,690 --> 02:06:19,360
Yes, you do.
1302
02:06:22,030 --> 02:06:25,700
I'll wager Caesar was never befuddled
by wine. Nothing befuddled Caesar
1303
02:06:25,950 --> 02:06:28,320
The campaign against Parthia
won't be easy.
1304
02:06:28,580 --> 02:06:31,540
-How many legions have we left?
-lt's hard to tell.
1305
02:06:31,750 --> 02:06:34,830
-So many desertions.
-Desertions?
1306
02:06:35,040 --> 02:06:37,500
They haven't been paid in months.
1307
02:06:39,590 --> 02:06:41,920
You remember when
we started into Greece?
1308
02:06:42,130 --> 02:06:45,220
I lived with them, ate with them.
I was one of them.
1309
02:06:45,430 --> 02:06:48,930
They seem distant to me now,
as if they were a memory.
1310
02:06:53,100 --> 02:06:55,890
We must find the gold to pay them...
1311
02:06:56,100 --> 02:07:00,060
...the wheat to feed them,
supplies, ships, armor.
1312
02:07:00,320 --> 02:07:03,570
And where do you suggest
we look for all these?
1313
02:07:03,860 --> 02:07:06,700
-l thought perhaps further to the east.
-Syria?
1314
02:07:07,740 --> 02:07:10,240
-Perhaps more to the south.
-Ethiopia?
1315
02:07:11,160 --> 02:07:12,200
To the north--
1316
02:07:12,410 --> 02:07:14,200
-l forbid you to mention her!
-l didn't.
1317
02:07:14,410 --> 02:07:17,250
I won't crawl to her!
Why hasn't she offered assistance?
1318
02:07:17,500 --> 02:07:19,920
-She may not know.
-She knows everything.
1319
02:07:20,130 --> 02:07:23,250
-lf only out of gratitude--
-Perhaps she'll express it in person.
1320
02:07:23,510 --> 02:07:26,260
Then let her come to me.
Am l so much less than Caesar?
1321
02:07:26,470 --> 02:07:29,800
Nor is she less than Cleopatra,
queen of Egypt, and you promised--
1322
02:07:30,010 --> 02:07:32,720
Queen. Strip them naked,
they're no longer queens.
1323
02:07:32,930 --> 02:07:36,310
It is also difficult
to tell the rank of a naked general.
1324
02:07:36,980 --> 02:07:40,270
And generals without armies
are naked, indeed.
1325
02:07:41,230 --> 02:07:44,360
All right. l'll meet her halfway.
1326
02:07:44,610 --> 02:07:46,110
I'll send you to her.
1327
02:07:46,320 --> 02:07:50,110
-You order her to come.
-lf I am to order her, I need not journey.
1328
02:07:50,370 --> 02:07:51,950
-Then summon her.
-Even worse.
1329
02:07:52,160 --> 02:07:54,990
Then beg, entreat, cajole,
find the word you like...
1330
02:07:55,250 --> 02:07:59,460
...pour perfume, whinny like a stallion.
But see that she comes to me.
1331
02:08:00,250 --> 02:08:02,840
I understand your position, Rufio.
1332
02:08:03,090 --> 02:08:05,420
Surely you must understand mine.
1333
02:08:05,630 --> 02:08:09,180
I do not intend to join
that long list of queens...
1334
02:08:09,390 --> 02:08:12,930
...who have quivered happily
at being summoned by Lord Antony.
1335
02:08:13,180 --> 02:08:15,310
But surely l didn't say "summoned."
1336
02:08:15,520 --> 02:08:18,730
You said "invite." He meant "summon."
1337
02:08:18,980 --> 02:08:22,190
In any case, I am the queen of Egypt.
1338
02:08:22,400 --> 02:08:25,570
And l choose to remain
on Egyptian soil.
1339
02:08:25,820 --> 02:08:29,200
Tarsus is not the other end
of the world, Your Majesty.
1340
02:08:29,450 --> 02:08:32,780
If it were one step from Egypt,
that would be too far.
1341
02:08:34,120 --> 02:08:37,620
I will meet with Lord Antony...
1342
02:08:38,750 --> 02:08:41,250
...but only on Egyptian soil.
1343
02:08:42,380 --> 02:08:46,590
My lady, a way must be found,
a time, a place to satisfy you both.
1344
02:08:47,130 --> 02:08:48,710
Must it, Rufio?
1345
02:10:05,250 --> 02:10:07,290
Cleopatra.
1346
02:10:31,110 --> 02:10:33,150
Cleopatra!
1347
02:10:37,780 --> 02:10:39,490
It is.
1348
02:10:39,740 --> 02:10:41,490
It must be.
1349
02:10:59,140 --> 02:11:01,430
She said never,
except on Egyptian soil.
1350
02:11:01,680 --> 02:11:04,180
"Never." Something
women say to begin with.
1351
02:11:04,430 --> 02:11:06,600
Welcome Queen Cleopatra on my behalf.
1352
02:11:06,770 --> 02:11:09,980
Extend my invitation
to a banquet in her honor.
1353
02:11:10,190 --> 02:11:12,900
-Don't you think--?
-Still not convinced Rufio?
1354
02:11:13,110 --> 02:11:16,820
Hurry back, there's much to be done.
Have the cooks sent to me.
1355
02:11:53,570 --> 02:11:57,150
Forgive me, noble Rufio.
It is you who do not understand.
1356
02:11:57,360 --> 02:12:01,990
Queen Cleopatra, at present in her
chamber, is on Egyptian territory...
1357
02:12:02,200 --> 02:12:03,950
...and intends to remain on it.
1358
02:12:04,160 --> 02:12:06,750
Most learned Sosigenes, forgive me...
1359
02:12:07,000 --> 02:12:09,170
...but this is Tarsus, not Alexandria.
1360
02:12:09,370 --> 02:12:13,170
You are on Tarsus, noble Rufio.
I am on Egypt.
1361
02:12:13,460 --> 02:12:17,880
Tonight and tomorrow night, if Lord
Antony desires to meet Her Majesty...
1362
02:12:18,090 --> 02:12:21,260
...he will come to her, to Egypt.
1363
02:12:23,100 --> 02:12:26,680
I shall do my best, learned friend,
to prevail upon Lord Antony to attend.
1364
02:14:23,010 --> 02:14:25,800
Marc Antony, how prompt you are.
1365
02:14:26,010 --> 02:14:28,800
If l had not been,
it would be unforgivable of me.
1366
02:14:29,010 --> 02:14:32,100
I had hoped to be here to
welcome you as you came aboard.
1367
02:14:32,310 --> 02:14:34,980
If you had been, it would be
unforgivable of me.
1368
02:14:35,230 --> 02:14:38,980
Be more tolerant.
Forgive yourself now and then.
1369
02:14:41,150 --> 02:14:44,740
Almost three years. Have you
possibly become more beautiful?
1370
02:14:44,990 --> 02:14:47,660
Almost three? That long?
1371
02:14:47,870 --> 02:14:49,830
The time has passed so quickly.
1372
02:14:49,990 --> 02:14:53,910
Your necklace.
It seems to be made of gold coins.
1373
02:14:54,160 --> 02:14:56,750
Coins of Caesar.
1374
02:14:57,000 --> 02:14:59,630
-Do you find it attractive?
-Very.
1375
02:14:59,840 --> 02:15:03,010
And l find what you're wearing
most becoming.
1376
02:15:03,260 --> 02:15:04,420
Greek, isn't it?
1377
02:15:04,670 --> 02:15:07,340
I have a fondness
for almost all Greek things.
1378
02:15:07,550 --> 02:15:11,640
As an almost all-Greek thing,
I'm flattered.
1379
02:15:16,350 --> 02:15:18,440
An unusual necklace.
1380
02:15:18,690 --> 02:15:21,020
Nothing but gold coins of Caesar.
1381
02:15:21,230 --> 02:15:23,860
-How did you come by it?
-l had it made.
1382
02:15:24,150 --> 02:15:26,240
I wear it always.
1383
02:16:26,340 --> 02:16:28,220
A fabulous feast.
1384
02:16:28,930 --> 02:16:32,140
One is so limited
when one travels by ship.
1385
02:16:32,430 --> 02:16:34,140
This fabulous ship...
1386
02:16:34,430 --> 02:16:37,600
...together with its queen,
the fabulous Cleopatra.
1387
02:16:39,230 --> 02:16:43,360
The name of Marc Antony
is not exactly unknown to the world.
1388
02:16:43,610 --> 02:16:47,320
-ln the last year or so since we met--
-Almost three.
1389
02:16:47,820 --> 02:16:51,820
By now you have become
one-third the master of Rome.
1390
02:16:52,620 --> 02:16:55,280
You don't permit yourself
to forget him, is that it?
1391
02:16:55,950 --> 02:16:59,290
That's an odd way of putting it.
"Don't permit myself"?
1392
02:16:59,500 --> 02:17:02,120
Is it necessary
to wear him around your neck?
1393
02:17:03,040 --> 02:17:06,460
You forget, Antony,
in these almost three years...
1394
02:17:06,760 --> 02:17:08,880
...how full your own life has been.
1395
02:17:09,510 --> 02:17:13,470
They can't have been uneventful
for you. You rule Egypt alone.
1396
02:17:13,680 --> 02:17:16,350
Oh, they have been busy, but not full.
1397
02:17:16,640 --> 02:17:18,060
There's a difference.
1398
02:17:18,310 --> 02:17:21,980
There cannot be enough hours
in the days of a queen...
1399
02:17:22,190 --> 02:17:24,310
...and her nights have too many.
1400
02:17:24,770 --> 02:17:27,690
-So I fill them with memories.
-Of Caesar?
1401
02:17:28,070 --> 02:17:29,900
And of a dream...
1402
02:17:30,200 --> 02:17:31,900
...that almost came true.
1403
02:17:32,160 --> 02:17:33,490
You may remember.
1404
02:17:33,780 --> 02:17:37,910
I remember that night in Rome,
saying it could still come true.
1405
02:17:38,410 --> 02:17:42,210
You said so much that night
to so many.
1406
02:17:58,310 --> 02:17:59,720
Let me get rid of them all.
1407
02:18:00,020 --> 02:18:02,690
Why? I have arranged
an entertainment.
1408
02:18:02,890 --> 02:18:06,940
A dance in the Greek fashion
to welcome the god Bacchus.
1409
02:18:07,190 --> 02:18:10,570
If l make a great show of going,
they'll have to leave too.
1410
02:18:10,820 --> 02:18:13,320
Then l can return...
1411
02:18:13,530 --> 02:18:16,870
...and we can talk alone, you and I.
1412
02:18:17,200 --> 02:18:21,370
-When would you return?
-ln an hour, no more than two.
1413
02:18:21,580 --> 02:18:26,210
-How long would you stay?
-Until we had nothing more to say.
1414
02:18:27,090 --> 02:18:31,420
Are you a strong swimmer?
We sail at sunrise.
1415
02:18:33,130 --> 02:18:34,970
I don't understand.
1416
02:18:35,220 --> 02:18:38,930
Home to Alexandria, to Egypt.
1417
02:18:39,260 --> 02:18:43,230
You've come all this way for one
night. All to make a fool of me.
1418
02:18:44,390 --> 02:18:46,560
Perhaps you would feel less a fool...
1419
02:18:46,730 --> 02:18:49,400
...if you stayed the night with me,
is that it?
1420
02:18:52,150 --> 02:18:54,360
I've told you before.
1421
02:18:54,570 --> 02:18:57,740
With you, words do not
come easily to me.
1422
02:18:57,950 --> 02:19:00,580
There is too much unsaid
within me that I cannot say.
1423
02:19:00,790 --> 02:19:02,490
Then l cannot know it.
1424
02:19:02,750 --> 02:19:04,750
There is much unsaid within you too.
1425
02:19:04,960 --> 02:19:07,670
That is probably true of everybody.
1426
02:19:07,920 --> 02:19:10,090
Stay for a while.
1427
02:19:10,250 --> 02:19:14,800
I have known you so long
but so little. Give me time.
1428
02:19:15,010 --> 02:19:17,930
Not I. Not Egypt and Rome together.
1429
02:19:18,090 --> 02:19:22,310
Not even the gods
have time to give you.
1430
02:19:22,930 --> 02:19:25,430
But, Antony, use what you have.
1431
02:19:25,640 --> 02:19:30,440
Don't waste it by playing
at god here in Tarsus...
1432
02:19:30,690 --> 02:19:35,280
...while Octavian in Rome
becomes a god.
1433
02:22:54,890 --> 02:22:57,350
The dance, l take it, is over.
1434
02:22:57,980 --> 02:22:59,520
Sit up.
1435
02:22:59,820 --> 02:23:03,360
I want to see whether you sleep
with your memories.
1436
02:23:08,830 --> 02:23:11,830
With so much left unsaid
within you...
1437
02:23:12,040 --> 02:23:15,160
...it must be a relief
to break and tear things.
1438
02:23:15,710 --> 02:23:19,330
-l want to say something now.
-Perhaps some other time.
1439
02:23:19,630 --> 02:23:20,670
Now!
1440
02:23:23,510 --> 02:23:25,510
Caesar.
1441
02:23:27,340 --> 02:23:29,760
Conquer and conquer.
1442
02:23:30,010 --> 02:23:32,560
Bring the world to its knees.
1443
02:23:32,850 --> 02:23:36,060
"You're not a Caesar.
Did you know that?"
1444
02:23:37,440 --> 02:23:39,020
Be braver than the bravest...
1445
02:23:39,270 --> 02:23:42,520
...stronger than the strongest.
Still no Caesar.
1446
02:23:42,730 --> 02:23:46,780
Caesar's done it first and better.
Ruled better, loved better, fought better.
1447
02:23:47,030 --> 02:23:50,370
Run where you will, you can't get out.
There's no way out.
1448
02:23:50,580 --> 02:23:55,080
The shadow of Caesar will cover you
and cover the universe for all of time.
1449
02:23:59,880 --> 02:24:02,040
"Whenever you like," you said in Rome.
1450
02:24:02,250 --> 02:24:04,550
"Come to Alexandria
whenever you like."
1451
02:24:04,800 --> 02:24:06,380
"Now, tonight," I said.
1452
02:24:06,670 --> 02:24:09,720
To bow to the throne
upon which Caesar put you.
1453
02:24:09,930 --> 02:24:13,390
To talk of a new treaty.
Caesar's can't be improved. Copy it.
1454
02:24:13,600 --> 02:24:17,810
Of Caesar's son. Of the dream you shared
with Caesar that still fills your life.
1455
02:24:18,060 --> 02:24:22,810
Alexander's design for a world
to be ruled by you and Caesar.
1456
02:24:23,900 --> 02:24:25,400
Where is Antony?
1457
02:24:25,690 --> 02:24:27,490
Where is Marc Antony?
1458
02:24:27,740 --> 02:24:30,910
Antony the Great! The divine Antony!
1459
02:24:31,280 --> 02:24:32,910
Here.
1460
02:24:33,200 --> 02:24:34,990
He's...
1461
02:24:35,240 --> 02:24:36,950
...here.
1462
02:24:37,210 --> 02:24:40,960
One step behind Caesar.
At the right hand of Caesar.
1463
02:24:41,210 --> 02:24:44,420
In the shadow of Caesar.
1464
02:24:45,250 --> 02:24:48,340
Tell me, how many
have loved you since him?
1465
02:24:48,590 --> 02:24:51,510
One? Ten? Anyone? No one?
1466
02:24:51,760 --> 02:24:55,930
Have they kissed you with Caesar's lips?
Is it his name you cry out in the dark?
1467
02:24:56,100 --> 02:24:59,770
Afterwards, has he reproached you
and have you begged forgiveness?
1468
02:25:01,100 --> 02:25:05,270
You've come here, then, running over
with wine and self-pity...
1469
02:25:05,440 --> 02:25:07,440
...to conquer Caesar.
1470
02:25:07,650 --> 02:25:11,950
For so long now,
you've filled my life...
1471
02:25:12,530 --> 02:25:17,330
...like a great noise
I hear everywhere in my heart.
1472
02:25:18,120 --> 02:25:21,500
I want to be free of you,
of wanting you...
1473
02:25:21,790 --> 02:25:23,250
...of being afraid.
1474
02:25:25,840 --> 02:25:28,880
Yet, Caesar would not permit it.
1475
02:25:50,030 --> 02:25:52,150
But l will never...
1476
02:25:52,990 --> 02:25:54,870
...be free of you.
1477
02:26:10,720 --> 02:26:12,840
From the first instant l saw you...
1478
02:26:13,090 --> 02:26:16,340
...entering Rome
on that monstrous stone beast...
1479
02:26:16,550 --> 02:26:19,060
...shining in the sun...
1480
02:26:19,310 --> 02:26:22,180
...like a little gold toy.
1481
02:26:22,390 --> 02:26:24,350
...how l envied Caesar.
1482
02:26:24,560 --> 02:26:26,440
Went suddenly sick with it.
1483
02:26:26,690 --> 02:26:28,730
Not his conquests or his triumphs.
1484
02:26:28,940 --> 02:26:31,570
Not his titles
or the roaring of the mob.
1485
02:26:32,240 --> 02:26:34,530
I envied him you.
1486
02:26:37,620 --> 02:26:41,040
When we first met in Rome,
I remembered you.
1487
02:26:41,330 --> 02:26:43,960
I wondered that I could
ever have forgotten.
1488
02:26:44,210 --> 02:26:46,080
Remembered me?
1489
02:26:46,330 --> 02:26:49,040
Years ago, when you were
a young cavalry officer...
1490
02:26:49,250 --> 02:26:53,090
...stationed at the palace in
Alexandria under that fat Roman general.
1491
02:26:53,380 --> 02:26:56,050
-What was his name?
-Gabinius.
1492
02:26:56,220 --> 02:26:57,470
Gabinius.
1493
02:26:59,100 --> 02:27:02,970
I was 12 years old, and I loved you.
1494
02:27:03,230 --> 02:27:05,560
-Nonsense.
-lt's true.
1495
02:27:05,770 --> 02:27:09,560
Lovers always want so much
never to have loved before.
1496
02:27:11,070 --> 02:27:12,440
It's possible, you know.
1497
02:27:12,650 --> 02:27:15,280
It becomes a game.
Who loved whom first?
1498
02:27:15,490 --> 02:27:17,070
I did.
1499
02:27:18,410 --> 02:27:22,950
If you noticed me at all then,
you were probably terrified of me.
1500
02:27:23,410 --> 02:27:27,080
With good reason. Everybody knows
Romans cut up little children...
1501
02:27:27,290 --> 02:27:29,580
...and feed them to their horses.
1502
02:27:34,420 --> 02:27:37,180
We'll make this our beginning.
1503
02:27:37,430 --> 02:27:39,430
Beginning with tonight...
1504
02:27:39,600 --> 02:27:42,140
...you must never envy Caesar...
1505
02:27:42,390 --> 02:27:46,270
...or anyone, anything again.
1506
02:27:55,280 --> 02:27:57,150
After all...
1507
02:27:57,450 --> 02:27:59,700
...this is nothing new.
1508
02:27:59,950 --> 02:28:01,780
For so many years...
1509
02:28:01,990 --> 02:28:04,120
...Antony has fed upon the crumbs...
1510
02:28:04,290 --> 02:28:07,790
...that fell from
Julius Caesar's table.
1511
02:28:09,170 --> 02:28:10,960
I say...
1512
02:28:11,290 --> 02:28:13,800
...they are deserving of each other.
1513
02:28:14,050 --> 02:28:16,010
Let him stay in Egypt.
1514
02:28:16,220 --> 02:28:18,300
Let him fritter away
his life as he chooses...
1515
02:28:18,470 --> 02:28:22,140
...but not the possessions
and the empire of the Roman people!
1516
02:28:22,430 --> 02:28:24,930
The Roman people!
1517
02:28:25,310 --> 02:28:28,850
The Roman people. What are
glory and possessions to them?
1518
02:28:29,060 --> 02:28:32,060
Is their Antony content?
1519
02:28:32,320 --> 02:28:35,320
Then so are they.
1520
02:28:36,150 --> 02:28:39,070
Does their Antony sweep
their empire...
1521
02:28:39,320 --> 02:28:42,160
...under Cleopatra's bed?
1522
02:28:42,530 --> 02:28:47,660
His adoring Romans sigh
and remain content.
1523
02:28:48,210 --> 02:28:51,670
Let him stay however distant
for however long...
1524
02:28:51,880 --> 02:28:54,000
...with never a thought of them.
1525
02:28:54,210 --> 02:28:57,340
The Roman people hold him
close to their hearts.
1526
02:28:57,510 --> 02:28:59,340
Distant?
1527
02:28:59,590 --> 02:29:02,550
Perhaps from Rome
but not from Caesar, l think.
1528
02:29:02,760 --> 02:29:04,180
Nor from Caesar's son.
1529
02:29:04,390 --> 02:29:07,180
Germanicus, do you speak of me?
1530
02:29:07,390 --> 02:29:09,180
No, Octavian, l speak of Caesar.
1531
02:29:10,230 --> 02:29:12,270
I am Caesar.
1532
02:29:13,020 --> 02:29:15,190
Only while Antony remains...
1533
02:29:15,480 --> 02:29:17,480
...distant from Rome.
1534
02:29:20,280 --> 02:29:22,070
Antony!
1535
02:29:22,280 --> 02:29:25,700
Stay not too long in Alexandria!
1536
02:29:28,540 --> 02:29:30,540
Germanicus...
1537
02:29:31,080 --> 02:29:34,040
...stay not too long in Rome.
1538
02:29:55,060 --> 02:29:58,270
-How much of this is known to Antony?
-All of it and more.
1539
02:29:58,570 --> 02:30:02,950
I've written him regularly. Letters,
dispatches by personal messenger.
1540
02:30:03,160 --> 02:30:05,160
And what has he answered?
1541
02:30:05,410 --> 02:30:09,120
He wrote he was no longer interested
in the matters I described.
1542
02:30:09,330 --> 02:30:11,410
That he would not return to Rome.
1543
02:30:11,580 --> 02:30:15,630
That he understood quite clearly
what was at stake, what he would lose.
1544
02:30:15,840 --> 02:30:17,960
But that he would not leave you.
1545
02:30:38,070 --> 02:30:39,610
Let's try the goat.
1546
02:30:44,450 --> 02:30:47,990
Let's have that goat again.
There. Not too much.
1547
02:30:48,280 --> 02:30:49,580
There.
1548
02:30:51,330 --> 02:30:53,710
The milk of a cow...
1549
02:30:53,960 --> 02:30:57,830
...of a goat and of an ass.
Which is best for softening the beard?
1550
02:30:58,590 --> 02:31:01,800
Is it true Octavian shaves
but once a week?
1551
02:31:02,720 --> 02:31:06,380
Even then, he has merely to face
the wind and let the fuzz blow away.
1552
02:31:06,720 --> 02:31:10,180
You knew, didn't you,
Germanicus was here from Rome?
1553
02:31:10,470 --> 02:31:11,970
Yes.
1554
02:31:12,220 --> 02:31:15,980
Have you strong feelings about beards?
I had one. Bright red.
1555
02:31:16,190 --> 02:31:17,980
Why haven't you seen him?
1556
02:31:25,610 --> 02:31:27,910
When you go...
1557
02:31:28,530 --> 02:31:30,370
...must it be for very long?
1558
02:31:31,040 --> 02:31:34,200
I must take some of these with me.
They don't have them.
1559
02:31:34,410 --> 02:31:36,660
At least, they didn't
when l was last...
1560
02:31:37,170 --> 02:31:38,830
...in Rome.
1561
02:31:46,680 --> 02:31:50,430
While they were digging
the foundation of my tomb...
1562
02:31:50,680 --> 02:31:53,350
...the workers found an old wall.
1563
02:31:53,560 --> 02:31:58,190
Someone had scratched on it
hundreds of years ago:
1564
02:31:58,520 --> 02:32:02,770
"You were not here last night,
and l could not sleep.
1565
02:32:03,190 --> 02:32:05,650
Will you be here tonight?"
1566
02:32:07,530 --> 02:32:10,910
Do you suppose they ever met again?
1567
02:32:12,240 --> 02:32:16,200
Everything that l shall ever want to hold
or look upon or have or be...
1568
02:32:16,370 --> 02:32:19,040
...is here now with you.
1569
02:32:19,710 --> 02:32:22,170
I must not be sorry for myself.
1570
02:32:22,380 --> 02:32:26,920
Queens are sometimes no better at that
than kings, or even princes.
1571
02:32:29,430 --> 02:32:31,720
It doesn't seem fair.
1572
02:32:32,930 --> 02:32:38,060
What l feel I should have felt
long ago when I was very young.
1573
02:32:38,270 --> 02:32:41,730
When I could say to myself
that this was how love was...
1574
02:32:41,940 --> 02:32:44,190
...and how it would be.
1575
02:32:44,400 --> 02:32:49,400
But to have waited so long,
to know so suddenly...
1576
02:32:49,570 --> 02:32:51,320
...this late...
1577
02:32:51,570 --> 02:32:56,120
...how it hurts.
How love can stab the heart.
1578
02:33:05,420 --> 02:33:08,420
Be careful with Octavian.
1579
02:33:08,720 --> 02:33:10,760
Let him be careful with me.
1580
02:33:10,970 --> 02:33:14,140
The Romans want no war
between the two of you.
1581
02:33:14,350 --> 02:33:16,970
In any case, you are not ready yet.
1582
02:33:17,220 --> 02:33:20,770
War? The world is filled with love.
There'll be no more wars.
1583
02:33:20,940 --> 02:33:22,980
You must have your share.
1584
02:33:23,230 --> 02:33:26,980
Your titles and powers
must be spelled out exactly.
1585
02:33:27,230 --> 02:33:30,950
There can be no question of your
complete authority in the East.
1586
02:33:33,740 --> 02:33:35,870
Antony, how will l live?
1587
02:33:36,830 --> 02:33:38,660
The same as l.
1588
02:33:39,790 --> 02:33:42,170
One breath upon the other.
1589
02:33:42,370 --> 02:33:44,130
Each bringing us...
1590
02:33:44,380 --> 02:33:47,800
...one breath closer.
1591
02:33:47,960 --> 02:33:51,880
You take so much of me
with you so far.
1592
02:33:52,130 --> 02:33:54,970
Remember, remember.
They'll want you to forget.
1593
02:33:55,140 --> 02:33:58,770
-Please--
-Forget? How?
1594
02:33:59,640 --> 02:34:02,310
I can never be more
far away from you...
1595
02:34:03,650 --> 02:34:05,360
...than this.
1596
02:34:16,830 --> 02:34:18,790
He will come first to Brindisium.
1597
02:34:18,990 --> 02:34:23,920
Agrippa and I plan to welcome
his arrival with a great ceremony.
1598
02:34:24,170 --> 02:34:28,670
Antony must see how dear to the hearts
of the Romans, of us all...
1599
02:34:28,840 --> 02:34:30,590
...he is and has been.
1600
02:34:30,840 --> 02:34:34,300
He has been away for a very long time.
1601
02:34:34,510 --> 02:34:38,350
Perhaps we can persuade him
to stay with us even longer.
1602
02:34:38,560 --> 02:34:42,930
Perhaps, Octavia, if you came
to Brindisium, you could help.
1603
02:34:43,190 --> 02:34:46,350
You may have forgotten.
It is only six months since--
1604
02:34:46,560 --> 02:34:49,690
Begging the pardon
of Agrippa and our ancestors...
1605
02:34:49,860 --> 02:34:53,360
...l do not agree that a young widow
must retire from life.
1606
02:34:53,700 --> 02:34:56,950
You haven't left my house
since your husband died.
1607
02:34:57,200 --> 02:35:01,870
If only for the sake of your health,
the change alone....
1608
02:35:04,250 --> 02:35:08,330
Then, begging the pardon of
Lord Agrippa and our ancestors...
1609
02:35:08,540 --> 02:35:11,880
...l would look forward
very much to the change.
1610
02:35:14,130 --> 02:35:18,550
Nothing, no one, could possibly
shine more brightly in the sun.
1611
02:35:18,850 --> 02:35:20,430
Not only Antony.
1612
02:35:20,640 --> 02:35:24,230
I know of no man who would not
hold out his greedy fists for Octavia.
1613
02:35:24,440 --> 02:35:27,650
After all, what greater pledge
could l offer...
1614
02:35:27,900 --> 02:35:30,060
...of my goodwill toward him?
1615
02:35:30,360 --> 02:35:33,900
And how could Antony better show
his love of peace and Rome...
1616
02:35:34,150 --> 02:35:35,740
...than by accepting?
1617
02:35:35,900 --> 02:35:37,740
And Cleopatra?
1618
02:35:39,120 --> 02:35:42,410
Are you suggesting
we invite her to the wedding?
1619
02:35:42,620 --> 02:35:45,120
You remember when
Julius Caesar returned...
1620
02:35:45,410 --> 02:35:47,920
...and those months
while she was in Rome?
1621
02:35:48,080 --> 02:35:51,130
There was a poison
in his heart, in his brain.
1622
02:35:51,380 --> 02:35:54,760
Yes, the falling sickness.
But more than that.
1623
02:35:54,970 --> 02:35:57,760
-Cleopatra.
-l remember well.
1624
02:35:58,010 --> 02:36:01,930
-Antony is no Caesar.
-l am grateful for that.
1625
02:36:02,600 --> 02:36:06,680
Granted that he marries Octavia,
will he forget Cleopatra?
1626
02:36:06,940 --> 02:36:11,270
-Will she permit him to forget?
-Most probably not.
1627
02:36:57,360 --> 02:36:59,950
-Have I permission to speak?
-Tell me, quickly.
1628
02:37:00,780 --> 02:37:03,530
A galley came to Pelusium
with news from Rome.
1629
02:37:03,740 --> 02:37:06,620
Antony and Octavian
have sealed a great pact.
1630
02:37:06,830 --> 02:37:10,410
Antony has 10 more legions
and all of the East for his domain.
1631
02:37:10,620 --> 02:37:12,670
Egypt will be declared ally of Rome.
1632
02:37:12,880 --> 02:37:14,540
It is done.
1633
02:37:16,460 --> 02:37:19,510
-There is more.
-No. No more, my lord.
1634
02:37:19,720 --> 02:37:22,550
-He's afraid.
-ls there anything more?
1635
02:37:24,100 --> 02:37:27,930
Forgive me, Divine Majesty.
There has been a marriage.
1636
02:37:28,930 --> 02:37:30,640
A marriage of state.
1637
02:37:31,810 --> 02:37:34,980
Between Octavia,
the sister of Caesar...
1638
02:37:35,820 --> 02:37:37,530
...and Lord Antony.
1639
02:37:42,570 --> 02:37:44,450
Anything more?
1640
02:37:44,990 --> 02:37:46,450
They're presently in Athens.
1641
02:37:46,660 --> 02:37:50,370
Sometime within the year,
Lady Octavia is to return to Rome.
1642
02:37:50,580 --> 02:37:55,000
Antony will come Alexandria to negotiate
the alliance of Rome and Egypt.
1643
02:38:09,770 --> 02:38:11,680
Leave me.
1644
02:38:15,020 --> 02:38:16,480
No.
1645
02:38:18,530 --> 02:38:20,860
Completely alone.
1646
02:38:54,810 --> 02:38:57,810
Antony!
1647
02:41:36,260 --> 02:41:38,140
Do you find it pleasing, my lord?
1648
02:41:40,890 --> 02:41:42,560
Oh, yes. Very.
1649
02:41:42,770 --> 02:41:44,810
It was made here in Athens.
1650
02:41:45,070 --> 02:41:48,230
Not as practical
as our Roman ones, of course.
1651
02:41:48,440 --> 02:41:51,490
The Greeks have such
a weakness for beauty.
1652
02:42:04,380 --> 02:42:07,170
Does the dinner
not please you, my lord?
1653
02:42:07,420 --> 02:42:09,760
Very much.
I'm not particularly hungry.
1654
02:42:10,010 --> 02:42:12,590
If anything would please you more--
1655
02:42:13,140 --> 02:42:15,090
Believe me, l am pleased.
1656
02:42:17,260 --> 02:42:20,890
The gods know you do
nothing but please me...
1657
02:42:21,100 --> 02:42:23,390
...in every way.
1658
02:42:29,820 --> 02:42:31,490
Word from Domitius?
1659
02:42:31,740 --> 02:42:33,700
He never even reached the palace.
1660
02:42:33,910 --> 02:42:36,950
He was not permitted
through the city gate.
1661
02:42:41,660 --> 02:42:44,040
If l may be excused.
1662
02:42:44,790 --> 02:42:46,540
There's no need for you to go.
1663
02:42:46,790 --> 02:42:49,880
When I hear matters of state
discussed by men...
1664
02:42:50,090 --> 02:42:52,720
...invariably I find myself
wondering about...
1665
02:42:52,920 --> 02:42:55,550
...why the wine has gone sour.
1666
02:42:55,760 --> 02:42:57,600
Good night, Rufio.
1667
02:42:58,310 --> 02:43:00,100
Good night, my lord.
1668
02:43:08,400 --> 02:43:11,110
Domitius turned away at the gate.
1669
02:43:11,320 --> 02:43:13,490
That makes how many?
1670
02:43:13,740 --> 02:43:17,200
Five of your ambassadors
turned away within this year.
1671
02:43:17,450 --> 02:43:21,240
-lf you'd gone when--
-lt was the only favor l ever asked of you.
1672
02:43:21,500 --> 02:43:22,830
You granted it.
1673
02:43:23,710 --> 02:43:27,670
The treaty with Egypt must be made.
We've received no wheat, no gold--
1674
02:43:27,880 --> 02:43:30,630
I cannot go to her
to negotiate a treaty!
1675
02:43:30,880 --> 02:43:33,050
She'll have no one else.
1676
02:43:33,970 --> 02:43:35,880
And what if she should...
1677
02:43:36,130 --> 02:43:37,590
...turn me away?
1678
02:43:39,260 --> 02:43:41,220
That would be quite impossible.
1679
02:43:44,940 --> 02:43:46,730
Have you ever really left her?
1680
02:43:49,400 --> 02:43:50,980
No.
1681
02:44:05,870 --> 02:44:08,790
Three days l've waited
for an audience with you alone.
1682
02:44:09,040 --> 02:44:10,580
What is the purpose?
1683
02:44:10,790 --> 02:44:12,880
Get out, all of you.
I'll see her privately.
1684
02:44:13,130 --> 02:44:15,800
-You're before the throne of Egypt.
-l know where l am!
1685
02:44:16,010 --> 02:44:17,470
State your purpose!
1686
02:44:17,680 --> 02:44:19,800
Matters I won't discuss publicly.
1687
02:44:20,050 --> 02:44:24,220
I do not grant private audiences
to unidentified persons.
1688
02:44:26,100 --> 02:44:28,730
I am Marcus Antonius.
1689
02:44:28,940 --> 02:44:32,900
I know who you are.
What are you, at the moment?
1690
02:44:33,110 --> 02:44:37,950
Envoy of Rome, proconsul of all
the Roman Empire to the east of ltaly.
1691
02:44:38,200 --> 02:44:39,860
An impressive title.
1692
02:44:40,070 --> 02:44:42,450
Worthy, perhaps,
of a private audience?
1693
02:44:42,660 --> 02:44:44,990
Without a treaty of alliance
with Egypt...
1694
02:44:45,200 --> 02:44:49,920
...you could not hold the territories
under your command. True?
1695
02:44:50,500 --> 02:44:51,750
Possibly.
1696
02:44:52,000 --> 02:44:55,420
Then, Lord Antony, you come before me
as a suppliant.
1697
02:44:55,670 --> 02:44:58,510
-lf you choose to regard me as such.
-l do.
1698
02:44:59,430 --> 02:45:04,180
You will therefore assume the position
of a suppliant before this throne.
1699
02:45:04,430 --> 02:45:06,020
You will kneel.
1700
02:45:07,930 --> 02:45:12,190
-l will what?
-On your knees.
1701
02:45:13,400 --> 02:45:16,690
You dare ask the proconsul
of the Roman Empire--
1702
02:45:16,900 --> 02:45:19,240
I asked it of Julius Caesar.
1703
02:45:19,490 --> 02:45:22,530
I demand it of you!
1704
02:45:33,790 --> 02:45:35,040
Now...
1705
02:45:35,420 --> 02:45:38,420
...you may have the treaty
you asked for...
1706
02:45:38,670 --> 02:45:40,800
...on the following conditions:
1707
02:45:41,050 --> 02:45:43,890
By your authority
as proconsul of Rome...
1708
02:45:44,100 --> 02:45:47,720
...you will cede to Egypt immediately
the following territories:
1709
02:45:47,930 --> 02:45:52,230
Judea, Jordan, Armenia, Phoenicia,
the provinces of Sinai and Arabia...
1710
02:45:52,480 --> 02:45:55,770
...the islands of Cyprus and Crete.
1711
02:45:57,860 --> 02:46:00,610
You ask for one-third
of the Roman Empire!
1712
02:46:00,990 --> 02:46:02,780
Put it another way.
1713
02:46:03,030 --> 02:46:05,820
I give to you two-thirds.
1714
02:46:08,040 --> 02:46:09,660
Most generous.
1715
02:46:09,870 --> 02:46:11,870
I cannot accept.
1716
02:46:12,460 --> 02:46:15,500
I suggest you deliberate further.
1717
02:46:15,750 --> 02:46:20,170
Perhaps consult with your superior
in Rome.
1718
02:46:20,380 --> 02:46:21,630
My superior?
1719
02:46:21,840 --> 02:46:23,840
Octavian.
1720
02:46:24,050 --> 02:46:26,100
Caesar Octavian?
1721
02:46:33,060 --> 02:46:35,060
You have not been dismissed!
1722
02:46:40,240 --> 02:46:42,280
You are now dismissed.
1723
02:47:33,830 --> 02:47:38,290
Outside, all of you. Her Majesty
and l will speak in private.
1724
02:47:38,670 --> 02:47:41,800
Out! Before l chop you up
and feed you to my horses.
1725
02:47:42,300 --> 02:47:45,050
That's how Romans
frighten little girls.
1726
02:47:45,300 --> 02:47:48,720
They like to frighten little girls.
Wait outside.
1727
02:48:00,320 --> 02:48:02,900
I married Octavia
at her brother's insistence...
1728
02:48:03,110 --> 02:48:06,110
...as a gesture of faith, of peace.
A bargain sealed.
1729
02:48:06,360 --> 02:48:10,660
With a kiss? Or did you simply
shake hands on your wedding night?
1730
02:48:10,870 --> 02:48:15,250
Rome was celebrating the marriage even
before l arrived. How could l refuse?
1731
02:48:15,500 --> 02:48:17,210
By saying no.
1732
02:48:17,420 --> 02:48:20,130
As you have said no to all my demands.
1733
02:48:20,340 --> 02:48:24,050
They're unreasonable! The kind
laid down for a helpless enemy!
1734
02:48:24,300 --> 02:48:26,420
You're not helpless...yet.
1735
02:48:26,630 --> 02:48:31,510
I can't cede the territories. lt would
lead to a break between Rome and me.
1736
02:48:32,310 --> 02:48:34,310
Why do you think
I asked for them?
1737
02:48:34,520 --> 02:48:37,390
It would be playing into
Octavian's hands, what he hopes for.
1738
02:48:37,640 --> 02:48:39,190
It would not be wise!
1739
02:48:39,440 --> 02:48:41,270
What is wise?
1740
02:48:41,480 --> 02:48:44,820
To hand over Rome, Italy,
the world to Octavian?
1741
02:48:45,070 --> 02:48:47,860
To grovel publicly
before his authority?
1742
02:48:48,110 --> 02:48:50,990
Take his sister to wed and to bed.
1743
02:48:51,200 --> 02:48:52,990
As if to beg forgiveness...
1744
02:48:53,200 --> 02:48:57,540
...for having stayed so long
with your Egyptian harlot.
1745
02:49:03,040 --> 02:49:06,090
What has angered you?
That I dealt with Octavian how l could...
1746
02:49:06,340 --> 02:49:09,760
...or that l married his sister to do it?
Jealousy or politics? Which?
1747
02:49:10,010 --> 02:49:13,470
Both! And damn you for not
understanding either.
1748
02:49:13,720 --> 02:49:15,720
I wouldn't look to you
for instruction.
1749
02:49:15,930 --> 02:49:19,390
Which is why you have come back
chained to Octavian like a slave.
1750
02:49:19,600 --> 02:49:23,060
-Slave!
-And with such exquisite chains.
1751
02:49:23,310 --> 02:49:26,940
So softly spoken, so virtuous.
1752
02:49:27,150 --> 02:49:31,110
She sleeps, l hear, fully clothed.
1753
02:49:33,740 --> 02:49:36,330
I come back.
That's all that should concern you.
1754
02:49:36,580 --> 02:49:37,620
Should it?
1755
02:49:37,830 --> 02:49:42,960
How long before your master snaps his
finger and you run back to him, or her?
1756
02:49:45,920 --> 02:49:48,010
I have only one master.
1757
02:49:48,590 --> 02:49:50,630
My love for you.
1758
02:49:50,880 --> 02:49:52,590
No.
1759
02:49:52,840 --> 02:49:55,510
Your master must not be love.
1760
02:49:55,970 --> 02:49:58,470
Never love.
1761
02:49:58,680 --> 02:50:02,390
Give yourself to love and you
give yourself to forgetfulness...
1762
02:50:02,600 --> 02:50:06,480
...of what you are and who you are
and what you want.
1763
02:50:06,690 --> 02:50:09,940
And what you want
is worth so much more?
1764
02:50:10,900 --> 02:50:13,700
I will not have love as my master.
1765
02:50:13,950 --> 02:50:17,120
-Then you will not have love.
-Nor will l have Octavian.
1766
02:50:19,120 --> 02:50:22,960
-Never fear.
-How confident you are.
1767
02:50:23,170 --> 02:50:25,540
And has Octavian a master?
1768
02:50:25,750 --> 02:50:29,210
His ambition: to rule the Roman world
as emperor and god.
1769
02:50:29,460 --> 02:50:32,130
The Roman world, to begin with.
1770
02:50:32,380 --> 02:50:34,930
And what stands in his way?
1771
02:50:35,430 --> 02:50:38,260
-You and l.
-And my son!
1772
02:50:38,510 --> 02:50:42,310
The rightful heir to the name
and glory of great Caesar.
1773
02:50:42,520 --> 02:50:47,650
Octavian has already stolen those
and he will now destroy...
1774
02:50:47,940 --> 02:50:50,780
...in the name of his sister,
the love Rome has for you.
1775
02:50:51,030 --> 02:50:53,360
And by your marriage to her...
1776
02:50:53,610 --> 02:50:57,570
...he has made of me, unmistakably,
your whore.
1777
02:50:57,830 --> 02:51:00,870
Never fear Octavian?
1778
02:51:01,160 --> 02:51:06,290
It is he, now, who l think
must be unafraid.
1779
02:51:10,380 --> 02:51:12,710
Show me a city
and l'll tell you how to take it.
1780
02:51:12,970 --> 02:51:16,220
I'll find an army's weak points
and hit them hard where they are.
1781
02:51:16,550 --> 02:51:20,560
But make me to sit down and talk
in whispers of this and that...
1782
02:51:20,770 --> 02:51:25,600
...with an emphasis here and a shrug there,
and l'm soon confounded and defeated.
1783
02:51:26,980 --> 02:51:29,560
Meaning to do the best...
1784
02:51:30,070 --> 02:51:32,940
...l suppose l could not
have done worse.
1785
02:51:37,950 --> 02:51:40,200
There is still time.
1786
02:51:41,040 --> 02:51:44,250
Let someone ask me what l want:
1787
02:51:44,500 --> 02:51:47,710
To live with you in peace and love.
1788
02:51:48,080 --> 02:51:50,000
Do you have...
1789
02:51:50,250 --> 02:51:53,130
...conditions for total surrender?
1790
02:51:53,380 --> 02:51:56,050
First, as did Caesar...
1791
02:51:56,340 --> 02:51:59,800
...you will marry me
according to Egyptian ritual.
1792
02:52:00,140 --> 02:52:02,390
That's not a condition,
that's a reward.
1793
02:52:02,640 --> 02:52:05,020
You'll declare, by your authority...
1794
02:52:05,230 --> 02:52:07,600
...Caesarion to be king of Egypt...
1795
02:52:07,850 --> 02:52:10,560
...and we will rule together
in his name.
1796
02:52:10,820 --> 02:52:12,730
Happily granted.
1797
02:52:12,980 --> 02:52:17,740
You will cede to Egypt
all the territories l have demanded.
1798
02:52:20,370 --> 02:52:22,240
You must.
1799
02:52:22,490 --> 02:52:26,000
If only to assert
your own authority and power.
1800
02:52:26,250 --> 02:52:30,250
Otherwise, inevitably,
in time we will lose everything.
1801
02:52:30,630 --> 02:52:32,960
Can't you see that?
1802
02:52:34,670 --> 02:52:36,720
I can see nothing...
1803
02:52:37,180 --> 02:52:38,800
...but you.
1804
02:52:44,970 --> 02:52:47,560
I am no longer content
to forgive Antony!
1805
02:52:47,770 --> 02:52:50,850
To marry this Egyptian
according to their barbaric rites!
1806
02:52:51,060 --> 02:52:54,020
Meaningless under Roman law!
Great Caesar himself--
1807
02:52:54,230 --> 02:52:57,990
Yes. Bit by bit,
Antony crawls behind his memory.
1808
02:52:58,200 --> 02:52:59,910
But tell us this, Germanicus:
1809
02:53:00,110 --> 02:53:03,910
Did great Caesar also toss one-third
of the Roman Empire...
1810
02:53:04,160 --> 02:53:07,540
...into Cleopatra's
undoubtedly deserving lap?
1811
02:53:07,790 --> 02:53:11,710
The territories in dispute
were subjugated by Julius Caesar.
1812
02:53:11,920 --> 02:53:15,960
The right to rule over them
is the heritage of his son.
1813
02:53:16,210 --> 02:53:20,300
And in the name of the mighty Caesar
I grant to King Ptolemy Caesarion...
1814
02:53:20,550 --> 02:53:22,340
...that right.
1815
02:53:24,310 --> 02:53:28,180
Let it be known the greatness of Rome
lies not in what she takes...
1816
02:53:28,430 --> 02:53:30,480
...but in what she gives.
1817
02:53:34,650 --> 02:53:38,440
"Rome's greatness lies
in what she gives," he says.
1818
02:53:38,690 --> 02:53:41,570
Then calmly gives what is not his.
1819
02:53:41,780 --> 02:53:44,780
And Cleopatra takes...
1820
02:53:45,030 --> 02:53:46,700
...and will take more.
1821
02:53:46,910 --> 02:53:49,250
And war will come.
1822
02:53:49,960 --> 02:53:52,250
She knows and I know...
1823
02:53:52,500 --> 02:53:54,710
...that war will come.
1824
02:53:55,090 --> 02:53:57,420
But l will not speak for it...
1825
02:53:57,630 --> 02:54:00,920
...nor will I speak against Antony.
1826
02:54:02,260 --> 02:54:05,100
I must be forced into war.
1827
02:54:05,350 --> 02:54:08,720
The people of Rome
must force this war upon me.
1828
02:54:08,930 --> 02:54:13,520
They must storm the doors
of the Senate, crying for it.
1829
02:54:13,770 --> 02:54:17,400
If we move quickly, the Romans won't know
we've crossed the Mediterranean...
1830
02:54:17,650 --> 02:54:19,230
...until we land in Greece.
1831
02:54:19,440 --> 02:54:22,280
You and General Rufio will start
embarking the troops at once.
1832
02:54:22,490 --> 02:54:24,280
Yes, Your Majesty.
1833
02:54:25,780 --> 02:54:28,450
If it is decided
to move our armies into Greece.
1834
02:54:28,660 --> 02:54:30,450
It has been decided.
1835
02:54:30,660 --> 02:54:32,410
My men do not...
1836
02:54:32,620 --> 02:54:33,870
...travel well by sea.
1837
02:54:34,080 --> 02:54:36,790
They fight on land.
They move on land.
1838
02:54:37,000 --> 02:54:39,800
Your men will do
as they are told, as mine will.
1839
02:54:40,010 --> 02:54:43,680
My men will do as they're told by me.
They have not yet become--
1840
02:54:46,890 --> 02:54:48,890
They are still Roman.
1841
02:54:50,100 --> 02:54:52,060
However...
1842
02:54:52,310 --> 02:54:54,730
...since l do as l'm told....
1843
02:54:55,560 --> 02:54:58,730
The final decision will,
of course, be Lord Antony's.
1844
02:54:58,940 --> 02:55:02,740
And l'm sure that in time
he will make it.
1845
02:55:02,990 --> 02:55:04,400
That is all.
1846
02:55:11,750 --> 02:55:16,830
It would be wiser not to disagree
in the presence of our officers.
1847
02:55:17,040 --> 02:55:19,130
Your officers.
1848
02:55:19,500 --> 02:55:22,550
What final decision
have you decided l am to make?
1849
02:55:22,800 --> 02:55:26,050
Why do you oppose transporting
our armies to Greece?
1850
02:55:26,260 --> 02:55:28,720
Because I do not want war
against Rome.
1851
02:55:28,930 --> 02:55:32,100
One hundred thousand men
led by Marc Antony.
1852
02:55:32,310 --> 02:55:35,100
Octavian is no fool. He won't fight.
1853
02:55:35,350 --> 02:55:38,520
He'll have to, instantly,
on the spot where they land.
1854
02:55:38,770 --> 02:55:41,730
Rome will not declare war against you.
1855
02:55:42,030 --> 02:55:43,690
I do not agree.
1856
02:55:44,820 --> 02:55:47,030
I have not asked for your opinion.
1857
02:55:47,410 --> 02:55:48,820
Not for some time.
1858
02:55:49,080 --> 02:55:52,790
Not since I doubted the necessity
of building 300 ships.
1859
02:55:53,000 --> 02:55:56,410
The way to prevent war
is to be ready for it.
1860
02:55:56,620 --> 02:56:00,250
Have 300 warships ever been
built for war without war?
1861
02:56:00,500 --> 02:56:03,800
We shall have what we want
without it.
1862
02:56:04,010 --> 02:56:06,680
Your Majesty, please hear me.
1863
02:56:06,930 --> 02:56:10,220
I think we are very near the edge.
1864
02:56:10,430 --> 02:56:12,930
Strings are being pulled,
and not by us.
1865
02:56:13,770 --> 02:56:17,020
We are being managed and maneuvered
without our choosing.
1866
02:56:17,270 --> 02:56:20,270
The deputation sent on behalf
of Lady Octavia...
1867
02:56:20,520 --> 02:56:23,860
...chosen from the most
highly revered men of Rome.
1868
02:56:24,110 --> 02:56:29,200
Why? They can take back to their
people nothing but Lord Antony's...
1869
02:56:29,530 --> 02:56:34,200
...forgive me, insulting and
unnecessary divorce of her...
1870
02:56:34,410 --> 02:56:36,660
...and his rejection of them.
1871
02:56:38,670 --> 02:56:42,840
It was done at my bidding.
The responsibility is mine.
1872
02:56:45,130 --> 02:56:46,670
The doing was mine.
1873
02:56:50,050 --> 02:56:51,300
What do you propose?
1874
02:56:51,510 --> 02:56:55,560
Let me go to Rome and approach
Octavian, possibly the Roman people...
1875
02:56:55,810 --> 02:56:58,560
...and assure them that we want peace.
1876
02:57:00,900 --> 02:57:02,560
Go then.
1877
02:57:03,070 --> 02:57:04,480
Go to Rome.
1878
02:57:17,370 --> 02:57:19,460
Sosigenes!
1879
02:57:21,750 --> 02:57:23,630
Take care.
1880
02:57:28,470 --> 02:57:30,090
He's very dear to you,
that old man.
1881
02:57:30,300 --> 02:57:33,090
Your concern and worry
are written all over you.
1882
02:57:33,300 --> 02:57:36,890
Forgive me, but it's a kind of love
that you're showing.
1883
02:57:37,100 --> 02:57:40,730
Let them talk. Let them
negotiate all they want.
1884
02:57:40,940 --> 02:57:44,360
Time is on our side.
We can only grow stronger.
1885
02:57:59,210 --> 02:58:02,080
These walls must not
believe their ears...
1886
02:58:02,290 --> 02:58:05,750
...to hear such silence...
1887
02:58:06,670 --> 02:58:08,880
...from the right...
1888
02:58:09,970 --> 02:58:12,430
...from the left.
1889
02:58:12,680 --> 02:58:15,930
The call of the Roman people
can be clearly heard...
1890
02:58:16,140 --> 02:58:18,600
...yet the Roman Senate...
1891
02:58:18,810 --> 02:58:21,600
...has no answer.
1892
02:58:22,440 --> 02:58:26,400
Shall we then just sit...
1893
02:58:26,690 --> 02:58:28,690
...and listen?
1894
02:58:29,690 --> 02:58:34,570
There is not one of us that would not
willingly make war upon Cleopatra.
1895
02:58:35,530 --> 02:58:37,030
But how...
1896
02:58:37,240 --> 02:58:39,870
...without also making war
upon Marc Antony...
1897
02:58:40,080 --> 02:58:42,960
...loved by Rome and loving Rome?
1898
02:58:43,170 --> 02:58:47,040
"Loved by Rome and loving Rome."
1899
02:58:48,130 --> 02:58:52,050
I have here the last will
and testament...
1900
02:58:52,260 --> 02:58:55,590
...of Antony, who so loves Rome.
1901
02:58:58,640 --> 02:59:00,560
Read for yourselves...
1902
02:59:00,770 --> 02:59:04,480
...how dearly Antony loves you,
loves Rome...
1903
02:59:04,690 --> 02:59:08,900
...in this, his last will
under his seal.
1904
02:59:10,940 --> 02:59:13,240
Only lately brought from Egypt...
1905
02:59:13,450 --> 02:59:17,490
...and deposited in our holy temple
at Antony's request...
1906
02:59:17,700 --> 02:59:20,080
...by the distinguished Sosigenes.
1907
02:59:20,290 --> 02:59:23,660
An extraordinary mission
for an extraordinary man.
1908
02:59:23,870 --> 02:59:28,130
So wise, so close to Cleopatra,
so trusted by her.
1909
02:59:29,000 --> 02:59:31,710
Read in Antony's will...
1910
02:59:31,920 --> 02:59:33,760
...at the end.
1911
02:59:33,970 --> 02:59:38,300
Commit to memory the last request
of your beloved Antony.
1912
02:59:38,510 --> 02:59:42,350
It bears witness to his love for Rome.
1913
02:59:48,610 --> 02:59:52,860
When he is dead, it says...
1914
02:59:53,070 --> 02:59:56,610
...when Marc Antony has died...
1915
02:59:56,820 --> 03:00:00,160
...it is his wish to be buried...
1916
03:00:00,370 --> 03:00:04,410
...in his beloved Alexandria!
1917
03:00:05,790 --> 03:00:07,330
In Egypt!
1918
03:00:07,540 --> 03:00:09,880
Among Egyptians.
1919
03:00:10,130 --> 03:00:13,460
Beside his Egyptian whore!
1920
03:00:16,550 --> 03:00:19,220
Is what I say the truth?
1921
03:00:19,430 --> 03:00:22,600
Do I speak the truth?
1922
03:00:30,270 --> 03:00:32,020
-War!
-War!
1923
03:00:32,190 --> 03:00:35,400
War! War! War!
1924
03:01:10,940 --> 03:01:15,070
I hold before you
the Golden Spear of War.
1925
03:01:15,360 --> 03:01:18,240
Placed into my hands
without dissent...
1926
03:01:18,490 --> 03:01:22,070
...by the command and will
of the Senate of Rome.
1927
03:01:22,280 --> 03:01:27,410
And now it is you,
the people of Rome, who must direct me.
1928
03:01:27,620 --> 03:01:30,040
Where is the enemy?
1929
03:01:30,250 --> 03:01:33,540
Where is Egypt? Show me the way!
1930
03:01:41,800 --> 03:01:45,010
No!
1931
03:01:46,220 --> 03:01:47,970
There!
1932
03:01:48,230 --> 03:01:50,350
There is Egypt.
1933
03:02:08,910 --> 03:02:12,870
And so once more,
the Romans warred upon each other.
1934
03:02:13,080 --> 03:02:15,460
And just as Antony had foretold...
1935
03:02:15,710 --> 03:02:18,380
...the forces of Octavian
came to meet them...
1936
03:02:18,590 --> 03:02:20,920
...on the spot where they landed...
1937
03:02:21,130 --> 03:02:24,970
...which was at Actium, in Greece.
1938
03:02:25,800 --> 03:02:27,970
Action begins
with the rise of the sun.
1939
03:02:28,220 --> 03:02:31,230
Your plan is brave and simple.
It's possible on land...
1940
03:02:31,480 --> 03:02:33,980
...but we debate
its wisdom upon the sea.
1941
03:02:34,190 --> 03:02:38,110
I have an enemy on land with fewer
troops, on sea with fewer ships.
1942
03:02:38,320 --> 03:02:40,440
Let him debate the wisdom
of his position.
1943
03:02:40,650 --> 03:02:45,030
I have a happy choice. To destroy him
wet or dry. l have chosen wet.
1944
03:02:47,950 --> 03:02:52,460
I think it best, Euphranor, you report
to Cleopatra aboard her vessel in the harbor.
1945
03:02:52,670 --> 03:02:54,580
There you may point out to her...
1946
03:02:54,790 --> 03:02:59,170
...the reasons why my brave simplicity
has failed.
1947
03:02:59,380 --> 03:03:02,670
In any case, you are relieved
of your battle command.
1948
03:03:14,020 --> 03:03:17,980
This final commitment of yourself,
your ships, of all of us...
1949
03:03:18,230 --> 03:03:20,650
...to fight at sea,
when did you decide?
1950
03:03:21,860 --> 03:03:24,950
-Forgive me. l had--
-We've worked hard for many months.
1951
03:03:25,200 --> 03:03:29,330
We've trained an army
of 200,000 men from 20 countries.
1952
03:03:29,580 --> 03:03:32,950
-They won't be wasted--
-Of which, tonight, 20,000 of them...
1953
03:03:33,210 --> 03:03:37,750
...will be herded onto those ships and
dragged out to sea, puking and afraid.
1954
03:03:37,960 --> 03:03:41,800
-Why, my lord? Why?
-Because I have decided it will be so!
1955
03:03:42,920 --> 03:03:44,300
I consider it an honor...
1956
03:03:44,510 --> 03:03:48,390
...to fight beside Lord Antony
at any time, anywhere.
1957
03:03:49,180 --> 03:03:51,140
Spoken like a Roman, Ramos.
1958
03:03:53,100 --> 03:03:56,560
And you shall fight at my side,
in Rufio's place.
1959
03:03:57,810 --> 03:04:01,110
Rufio, you will remain with
Her Majesty aboard her vessel.
1960
03:04:02,690 --> 03:04:03,940
As you command.
1961
03:04:04,240 --> 03:04:06,950
Canidius, you will remain
with the land forces...
1962
03:04:07,200 --> 03:04:09,570
...cheering from the hilltop,
if you like.
1963
03:04:11,120 --> 03:04:14,120
-As you command.
-Exactly.
1964
03:04:14,330 --> 03:04:16,960
As l command.
1965
03:04:19,460 --> 03:04:21,340
You're all dismissed.
1966
03:04:39,860 --> 03:04:40,940
Antony.
1967
03:04:44,490 --> 03:04:46,190
What has happened?
1968
03:04:46,650 --> 03:04:48,240
To me?
1969
03:04:49,410 --> 03:04:51,570
You have happened to me.
1970
03:05:36,120 --> 03:05:38,160
Do the lookouts have
Octavian's insignia?
1971
03:05:38,370 --> 03:05:42,880
-A golden eagle. Sighted at sunrise.
-By sunset we'll have those gold feathers.
1972
03:05:45,550 --> 03:05:47,590
Let Octavian know we're coming!
1973
03:05:48,340 --> 03:05:53,090
Let the enemy hear the voice
of Antony's legions!
1974
03:06:17,330 --> 03:06:19,830
He's on his way.
Signal my lord Caesar's ship.
1975
03:06:20,080 --> 03:06:21,790
Does it fly his insignia?
1976
03:06:22,040 --> 03:06:25,000
My orders are to be followed
exactly as issued.
1977
03:06:29,840 --> 03:06:34,180
And may the gods grant that Antony
has not changed his plan of battle.
1978
03:06:41,140 --> 03:06:42,890
There he goes...
1979
03:06:43,100 --> 03:06:46,900
...as he's done 100 times on land.
Straight for the center.
1980
03:06:47,230 --> 03:06:51,070
If only it were on land, and we
were there to protect his flanks.
1981
03:06:51,280 --> 03:06:52,530
But we're not.
1982
03:06:57,490 --> 03:06:59,620
This and all dispositions are
to be signaled...
1983
03:06:59,790 --> 03:07:02,000
...to Admiral Euphranor
aboard Cleopatra's barge.
1984
03:07:02,250 --> 03:07:04,040
But Euphranor's in command of--
1985
03:07:04,290 --> 03:07:07,960
In command of moving toy ships
on a painted ocean...
1986
03:07:09,170 --> 03:07:13,220
...so that Egypt's queen can more
clearly follow her war upon water...
1987
03:07:13,430 --> 03:07:17,350
...to which she has committed
Marc Antony and 20,000 Romans.
1988
03:07:27,400 --> 03:07:29,020
Just as he said he would.
1989
03:07:29,270 --> 03:07:32,690
Antony and his escorts,
by themselves, are after Octavian.
1990
03:07:32,950 --> 03:07:35,990
-He's already broken through their center.
-They let him through.
1991
03:07:36,240 --> 03:07:38,070
They Roman line will close behind him.
1992
03:07:38,240 --> 03:07:39,990
Not if we engage, as Antony said.
1993
03:07:40,240 --> 03:07:45,080
They won't engage. Agrippa will pull
them back and back, behind Antony...
1994
03:07:45,330 --> 03:07:47,250
...as Antony chases Octavian.
1995
03:07:50,050 --> 03:07:51,340
What report?
1996
03:07:51,550 --> 03:07:55,720
Lord Antony is already through
the center of the Roman line.
1997
03:07:58,010 --> 03:08:03,020
He is now deep within the Roman fleet,
in pursuit of Octavian.
1998
03:08:14,610 --> 03:08:16,990
Faster! Faster!
1999
03:08:28,540 --> 03:08:32,170
They've increased their own speed.
We're too heavy to catch them.
2000
03:08:32,380 --> 03:08:34,920
Then we'll slow them down.
2001
03:08:35,130 --> 03:08:38,130
Start the ballistas.
Javelin throwers.
2002
03:08:38,340 --> 03:08:41,390
Aim high.
Overshoot rather than under.
2003
03:08:45,560 --> 03:08:47,640
Ballistas. Javelins.
2004
03:08:52,480 --> 03:08:55,150
Ballistas!
2005
03:09:05,830 --> 03:09:09,750
Octavian's ships are so much faster
than our Egyptian tubs.
2006
03:09:10,000 --> 03:09:13,290
Why doesn't Agrippa keep him away
from Antony's ballistas?
2007
03:09:28,440 --> 03:09:29,770
Ballistas!
2008
03:09:49,370 --> 03:10:02,090
Ballista!
2009
03:10:02,800 --> 03:10:05,050
My lord! My lord!
2010
03:10:05,310 --> 03:10:08,470
A direct hit on the enemy!
A bank of oars has been destroyed!
2011
03:10:12,100 --> 03:10:14,690
He's coming around broadside.
2012
03:10:14,940 --> 03:10:16,270
We've got him!
2013
03:10:16,480 --> 03:10:20,240
Collision course.
We'll ram him, board and destroy him.
2014
03:11:16,000 --> 03:11:17,710
Octavian!
2015
03:11:20,550 --> 03:11:24,010
Octavian!
Now is your time to be a Caesar!
2016
03:11:49,740 --> 03:11:53,870
-Where is he hiding?
-My Lord Octavian is not on board.
2017
03:11:57,500 --> 03:11:59,710
And now we close the trap.
2018
03:11:59,920 --> 03:12:03,300
Now we hit my Lord Antony
with everything we have.
2019
03:12:25,570 --> 03:12:27,490
No word of Lord Antony?
2020
03:12:27,740 --> 03:12:31,240
By now he must have Octavian.
You said he rammed Octavian's ship.
2021
03:12:31,450 --> 03:12:35,330
It may be Lord Antony rammed a ship
flying Octavian's insignia.
2022
03:12:35,540 --> 03:12:38,750
But if it is Octavian's ship,
if Octavian is on board--
2023
03:12:38,960 --> 03:12:43,550
If he finds and kills Octavian, he's
still surrounded by the Roman fleet.
2024
03:12:43,800 --> 03:12:46,470
-Then send him help.
-l've none to send.
2025
03:12:50,300 --> 03:12:52,680
They're pulling our ships apart now.
2026
03:12:52,930 --> 03:12:55,180
They've got Antony
alone and cut off...
2027
03:12:55,430 --> 03:12:59,520
...closing in on him
like a pack of dogs on a wounded bear.
2028
03:14:21,060 --> 03:14:23,900
-Lord Antony's ship?
-Gone.
2029
03:14:25,650 --> 03:14:28,940
-And Octavian's ship?
-Burning, helpless.
2030
03:14:37,870 --> 03:14:40,080
Would you say, admiral...
2031
03:14:41,620 --> 03:14:44,040
...that Lord Antony is dead?
2032
03:14:56,010 --> 03:14:57,850
How is the wind for Egypt?
2033
03:14:58,260 --> 03:14:59,810
Fair.
2034
03:15:04,600 --> 03:15:05,980
We'll sail at once.
2035
03:15:15,200 --> 03:15:19,490
Man the oar banks. Hoist anchor.
We sail for Egypt!
2036
03:15:51,940 --> 03:15:53,820
My Lord Canidius!
2037
03:16:08,840 --> 03:16:13,090
Remember always,
that after the battle of Actium...
2038
03:16:13,300 --> 03:16:18,050
...with Octavian dead
and Antony dead...
2039
03:16:18,260 --> 03:16:20,300
...you saw the victor...
2040
03:16:20,510 --> 03:16:23,850
...sail away on her golden barge.
2041
03:16:32,980 --> 03:16:34,690
She's going.
2042
03:16:35,530 --> 03:16:36,780
Cleopatra's going!
2043
03:16:41,950 --> 03:16:43,330
Leaving me!
2044
03:16:43,660 --> 03:16:45,200
My lord.
2045
03:16:45,460 --> 03:16:48,870
My lord, our casualties are heavy.
We have little armor left.
2046
03:16:49,080 --> 03:16:52,000
Our men need regrouping,
someone to give them courage.
2047
03:16:52,210 --> 03:16:55,670
The dying are calling for you.
The living need your help.
2048
03:16:55,920 --> 03:16:57,840
You can't leave them.
2049
03:16:58,260 --> 03:17:00,550
Listen to me!
2050
03:17:31,290 --> 03:17:36,800
Help!
2051
03:17:56,530 --> 03:17:58,110
Caesar, news!
2052
03:17:58,360 --> 03:18:01,950
Great news! Cleopatra is leaving
the battle. Antony is following her.
2053
03:18:02,160 --> 03:18:04,580
We have won a great victory.
2054
03:18:14,540 --> 03:18:18,050
Weigh oars!
2055
03:19:48,890 --> 03:19:52,810
Her Majesty is most anxious
to see you. Will you come below?
2056
03:19:55,400 --> 03:19:58,060
Perhaps if you wish to remain here,
she will come to you.
2057
03:20:00,530 --> 03:20:03,440
Shall l send you food? Wine?
2058
03:20:09,080 --> 03:20:11,410
Her Majesty's orders.
2059
03:20:11,740 --> 03:20:13,660
She's afraid you might...
2060
03:20:13,910 --> 03:20:15,960
...harm yourself.
2061
03:21:59,600 --> 03:22:01,270
Please.
2062
03:22:03,860 --> 03:22:08,570
Octavian has crossed
from Syria into Egypt.
2063
03:22:09,070 --> 03:22:11,320
He can be here in a matter of weeks.
2064
03:22:11,700 --> 03:22:14,620
There are two full legions
here in Alexandria...
2065
03:22:14,870 --> 03:22:16,950
...who have remained loyal to you.
2066
03:22:17,830 --> 03:22:20,580
They and their officers...
2067
03:22:20,790 --> 03:22:23,710
...are waiting for you
to command them.
2068
03:22:24,880 --> 03:22:29,010
If not to me, won't you speak
to Rufio at least...
2069
03:22:29,220 --> 03:22:32,760
...or to anyone you choose?
2070
03:22:33,390 --> 03:22:37,680
Antony, just say what you want done
and it will be.
2071
03:22:40,770 --> 03:22:44,900
It's been so long since you've
looked at me. Don't turn away...
2072
03:22:45,150 --> 03:22:47,650
...even like this...
2073
03:22:47,900 --> 03:22:50,900
...with your eyes filled with hate.
2074
03:22:51,610 --> 03:22:54,030
How they burn with hate.
2075
03:22:57,080 --> 03:22:59,120
Why, Antony? Why?
2076
03:23:00,080 --> 03:23:02,080
Because I ran away?
2077
03:23:02,290 --> 03:23:05,080
They told me you were dead!
2078
03:23:08,300 --> 03:23:09,550
What...
2079
03:23:09,800 --> 03:23:11,760
...could I do?
2080
03:23:13,300 --> 03:23:15,510
Where could I go...
2081
03:23:15,760 --> 03:23:19,060
...in a world suddenly without you...
2082
03:23:20,100 --> 03:23:23,390
...except to my son and my country...
2083
03:23:23,600 --> 03:23:26,150
...Caesarion and Egypt?
2084
03:23:26,610 --> 03:23:29,690
I wanted to save them from Octavian.
2085
03:23:30,360 --> 03:23:32,820
You would have wanted me to go.
2086
03:23:33,200 --> 03:23:35,360
You would have commanded me to go.
2087
03:23:36,660 --> 03:23:39,080
Tell me you would have!
2088
03:23:43,830 --> 03:23:51,420
They told me you were dead.
2089
03:23:59,720 --> 03:24:01,810
You were quite right.
2090
03:24:02,430 --> 03:24:04,100
I am dead.
2091
03:24:35,550 --> 03:24:37,470
The armies of Gaius Julius Caesar...
2092
03:24:37,720 --> 03:24:40,800
...are advancing without opposition
upon Alexandria.
2093
03:24:41,060 --> 03:24:43,970
Gaius Julius Caesar?
2094
03:24:44,180 --> 03:24:47,230
So now Octavian has
stolen all of the name.
2095
03:24:47,440 --> 03:24:52,150
Caesar wishes it known he has
no quarrel with Cleopatra of Egypt.
2096
03:24:52,360 --> 03:24:55,690
Then let him take his armies
out of here and go home.
2097
03:24:55,950 --> 03:24:59,610
He has charged me to say
that the choice of war or peace...
2098
03:24:59,820 --> 03:25:01,120
...now rests with Egypt.
2099
03:25:01,370 --> 03:25:04,700
And that for himself,
he desires only peace.
2100
03:25:05,410 --> 03:25:09,710
And what are his terms
for this unconditional peace?
2101
03:25:09,960 --> 03:25:12,380
A small token.
2102
03:25:12,630 --> 03:25:15,710
A demonstration. A gesture.
2103
03:25:15,970 --> 03:25:19,380
An indication of Queen Cleopatra's
goodwill and good faith.
2104
03:25:19,590 --> 03:25:21,930
What does Octavian want?
2105
03:25:23,180 --> 03:25:24,810
Marc Antony.
2106
03:25:27,980 --> 03:25:29,390
The...
2107
03:25:29,980 --> 03:25:31,860
...head of Marc Antony?
2108
03:25:49,500 --> 03:25:52,880
Take this to him as my answer.
2109
03:25:54,590 --> 03:25:56,840
Egyptian generosity.
2110
03:25:57,090 --> 03:26:00,970
Octavian may have two heads
for the price of one.
2111
03:26:01,180 --> 03:26:03,260
Either two...
2112
03:26:03,510 --> 03:26:04,930
...or none.
2113
03:26:53,690 --> 03:26:55,520
I'm told you come here to sleep.
2114
03:26:57,270 --> 03:26:58,860
Not to sleep.
2115
03:26:59,530 --> 03:27:01,190
To pass the night then.
2116
03:27:01,530 --> 03:27:03,070
I'm not alone.
2117
03:27:05,030 --> 03:27:08,160
The old boy and l
exchange memories of life.
2118
03:27:08,410 --> 03:27:12,120
It's like having a roommate,
or should l say, "tomb-mate"?
2119
03:27:12,920 --> 03:27:16,080
If he were in your place,
would l find Caesar here?
2120
03:27:16,340 --> 03:27:20,210
Hidden away, wrapped in moonlight
and endless self-pity?
2121
03:27:20,460 --> 03:27:23,380
Self-pity again! You repeat yourself!
Find new reproaches!
2122
03:27:23,590 --> 03:27:26,720
Until now it has just been
a part of your being drunk.
2123
03:27:26,970 --> 03:27:29,100
Singing sad songs for Antony.
2124
03:27:29,350 --> 03:27:33,690
Your time would be better spent
negotiating with Octavian.
2125
03:27:35,230 --> 03:27:38,400
Why did you not give my head to Agrippa?
It's no great loss to me.
2126
03:27:38,610 --> 03:27:42,530
Dying the second time is painless
and possibly an advantage to you.
2127
03:27:42,740 --> 03:27:45,360
The basis, perhaps,
of a great new alliance with Rome.
2128
03:27:45,570 --> 03:27:48,370
I do not want a great
new alliance with Rome.
2129
03:27:48,830 --> 03:27:50,580
What do you want?
2130
03:27:51,870 --> 03:27:54,080
I have come for Marc Antony.
2131
03:27:54,290 --> 03:27:57,080
What is left of his army,
Rufio, my son and l...
2132
03:27:57,290 --> 03:28:00,500
...all of Egypt are waiting for him.
2133
03:28:00,710 --> 03:28:03,090
There is little time.
2134
03:28:03,550 --> 03:28:05,220
Marc Antony?
2135
03:28:06,470 --> 03:28:08,930
There is no one here by that name...
2136
03:28:09,760 --> 03:28:11,430
...alive.
2137
03:28:30,620 --> 03:28:32,620
Time for what?
2138
03:28:33,910 --> 03:28:36,660
For Marc Antony
to appear in shiny armor...
2139
03:28:36,920 --> 03:28:39,040
...swords flashing in both hands?
2140
03:28:39,290 --> 03:28:41,040
Agrippa. Octavian.
2141
03:28:41,250 --> 03:28:45,800
Stand back! Rejoice!
Marc Antony will save the day!
2142
03:28:52,310 --> 03:28:54,180
Antony, you say?
2143
03:28:54,430 --> 03:28:56,730
He died at Actium...
2144
03:28:56,980 --> 03:28:58,770
...running away.
2145
03:28:59,400 --> 03:29:01,940
He tried to run on the water,
the story goes...
2146
03:29:02,110 --> 03:29:04,400
...but you weren't there to hold his hand!
2147
03:29:10,120 --> 03:29:13,580
Rufio, my legions, waiting.
2148
03:29:13,830 --> 03:29:15,450
For what?
2149
03:29:16,250 --> 03:29:18,580
To ask me
what they carry in their eyes...
2150
03:29:18,830 --> 03:29:21,330
...in their hearts, in their sleep,
as l have in mine.
2151
03:29:21,590 --> 03:29:24,420
Why are you not dead?
2152
03:29:24,670 --> 03:29:26,710
Why do you live? How can you live?
2153
03:29:26,920 --> 03:29:30,010
Why do you not lie
in the deepest hole of the sea...
2154
03:29:30,220 --> 03:29:34,180
...bloodless and bloated and
at peace with honorable death?
2155
03:29:42,360 --> 03:29:46,400
You begged forgiveness from me
for running away.
2156
03:29:46,650 --> 03:29:50,740
You wept and gave your reason. A mother
to her child, a queen to her country.
2157
03:29:50,950 --> 03:29:53,830
Where and how can l weep and beg?
From whom?
2158
03:29:54,030 --> 03:29:57,580
The thousands and thousands
who can no longer hear me?
2159
03:30:00,170 --> 03:30:01,960
Shall l give my reason?
2160
03:30:02,880 --> 03:30:05,800
Shall l say simply, I loved?
2161
03:30:07,210 --> 03:30:09,090
When I saw you go, l saw nothing.
2162
03:30:09,300 --> 03:30:12,140
Felt, heard, thought nothing
except your going.
2163
03:30:12,340 --> 03:30:15,050
Not the dying and dead,
not Rome, not Egypt...
2164
03:30:15,260 --> 03:30:18,020
...not victory or defeat,
honor or disgrace...
2165
03:30:18,270 --> 03:30:21,520
...only that my love was going
and l must be with her.
2166
03:30:21,730 --> 03:30:24,310
That my love, my master, called.
2167
03:30:25,070 --> 03:30:26,610
And l followed.
2168
03:30:26,980 --> 03:30:29,190
And that only then...
2169
03:30:29,400 --> 03:30:32,240
...l looked back...
2170
03:30:32,570 --> 03:30:34,910
...and l saw.
2171
03:30:46,460 --> 03:30:48,550
How right you were.
2172
03:30:49,510 --> 03:30:53,590
"Have as your master
anyone, anything...
2173
03:30:54,850 --> 03:30:56,600
...but never love."
2174
03:30:57,970 --> 03:30:59,770
How wrong.
2175
03:31:00,020 --> 03:31:02,440
How wrong I was.
2176
03:31:03,310 --> 03:31:07,110
Antony, the love you followed is here.
2177
03:31:08,030 --> 03:31:10,360
To be had upon payment of an empire.
2178
03:31:10,570 --> 03:31:13,070
Without you, Antony...
2179
03:31:13,320 --> 03:31:15,950
...this is not a world
I want to live in...
2180
03:31:16,580 --> 03:31:19,120
...much less conquer.
2181
03:31:20,830 --> 03:31:23,210
Because for me...
2182
03:31:23,460 --> 03:31:26,830
...there would be no love anywhere.
2183
03:31:28,670 --> 03:31:32,130
Do you want me to die with you?
I will.
2184
03:31:33,680 --> 03:31:36,300
Or do you want me to live with you?
2185
03:31:38,510 --> 03:31:40,390
Whatever you choose.
2186
03:31:54,450 --> 03:31:58,320
Are we too late, do you think,
if we choose to live?
2187
03:31:58,910 --> 03:32:00,830
Better too late...
2188
03:32:01,290 --> 03:32:03,120
...than never.
2189
03:33:03,520 --> 03:33:06,310
My lady, there is disturbing news
from the city.
2190
03:33:06,520 --> 03:33:10,810
The people are frightened. Some are
beginning to leave their homes.
2191
03:33:11,060 --> 03:33:14,690
During the night, hundreds of notices
were secretly posted everywhere.
2192
03:33:14,900 --> 03:33:17,570
They were found
stuck up in the marketplace.
2193
03:33:17,780 --> 03:33:20,410
Even painted on temples
and other holy places.
2194
03:33:20,660 --> 03:33:25,790
Signed by Octavian Gaius
Julius Caesar Augustus...
2195
03:33:26,370 --> 03:33:30,170
...promising the Egyptian people
peace if they surrender to him...
2196
03:33:30,420 --> 03:33:32,420
...and destruction if they do not.
2197
03:33:32,630 --> 03:33:36,130
I've had all of the notices removed
and l've ordered the death penalty...
2198
03:33:36,340 --> 03:33:40,760
...for anyone who spreads the false rumors
that Antony's men might desert him.
2199
03:33:41,680 --> 03:33:45,720
And what penalty
if the rumors might come true?
2200
03:33:47,350 --> 03:33:49,270
How do you know?
2201
03:33:49,520 --> 03:33:51,560
I know the Romans.
2202
03:33:51,810 --> 03:33:54,900
There is only one commander
they will never desert.
2203
03:33:55,110 --> 03:33:57,570
His name is "Victory."
2204
03:33:58,280 --> 03:34:02,200
But yet, just now,
you let Lord Antony go as if--
2205
03:34:06,750 --> 03:34:10,870
If you could have seen him,
how proud he was...
2206
03:34:11,120 --> 03:34:13,040
...unafraid...
2207
03:34:14,290 --> 03:34:16,170
...as he used to be.
2208
03:34:17,670 --> 03:34:21,800
All of my attendants, have they been
given their freedom? Have they gone?
2209
03:34:22,050 --> 03:34:24,930
Yes. They wanted once more
to tidy up.
2210
03:34:25,140 --> 03:34:27,850
Octavian can do his own housecleaning.
2211
03:34:28,060 --> 03:34:32,350
The captain of the guards and three
of his best men are to report to me...
2212
03:34:32,560 --> 03:34:34,360
...disguised as merchants.
2213
03:34:34,610 --> 03:34:38,070
They are to escort
Caesarion out of Egypt...
2214
03:34:39,030 --> 03:34:40,780
...for the time being.
2215
03:34:41,320 --> 03:34:42,860
And you?
2216
03:34:43,280 --> 03:34:45,580
Your Majesty, please reconsider.
2217
03:34:45,780 --> 03:34:49,000
There are two of Euphranor's ships,
very fast, in the east harbor.
2218
03:34:49,200 --> 03:34:52,250
And would you roll me
on board in a carpet?
2219
03:34:52,870 --> 03:34:54,330
No.
2220
03:34:54,920 --> 03:34:59,670
There are no more Caesars to go to,
at least not for me.
2221
03:35:00,220 --> 03:35:04,390
-Then it is still your intention--
-To remain in Alexandria.
2222
03:35:04,640 --> 03:35:07,680
In the last possible place
anyone would look.
2223
03:35:08,600 --> 03:35:12,480
Literally, the last possible place.
2224
03:35:12,690 --> 03:35:15,940
Your Majesty, I have never
questioned your decisions.
2225
03:35:16,190 --> 03:35:18,020
This is not the time to begin.
2226
03:35:18,230 --> 03:35:19,820
Let me stay with you.
2227
03:35:20,030 --> 03:35:22,490
Charmian and Eiras will look after me.
2228
03:35:22,740 --> 03:35:24,570
If Lord Antony should--
2229
03:35:26,910 --> 03:35:30,120
When Lord Antony returns...
2230
03:35:30,370 --> 03:35:33,330
...you will be here to tell him
where to find me...
2231
03:35:33,620 --> 03:35:35,630
...waiting for him.
2232
03:35:36,790 --> 03:35:39,000
Together, we will then do...
2233
03:35:39,250 --> 03:35:41,260
...what he thinks best.
2234
03:35:41,510 --> 03:35:42,760
Is that clear?
2235
03:35:45,890 --> 03:35:50,010
-Yes, my lady.
-Was there anything more?
2236
03:35:51,430 --> 03:35:53,770
I have always loved you.
2237
03:35:55,100 --> 03:35:57,310
And l have always known.
2238
03:36:09,830 --> 03:36:14,250
Rome has never known such an army.
We should be taking on all of Asia.
2239
03:36:14,500 --> 03:36:18,830
It seems a waste to slaughter what's
left of Antony's army and Antony.
2240
03:36:19,090 --> 03:36:22,920
There will be no slaughter.
I doubt there will be even bloodshed.
2241
03:36:23,130 --> 03:36:27,970
Has a battle ever been won without
a blow being struck? l wonder.
2242
03:36:28,220 --> 03:36:31,310
At any rate, let me
make it clear once more.
2243
03:36:31,560 --> 03:36:35,560
I want Antony alive,
and l want her alive.
2244
03:36:35,770 --> 03:36:38,400
She must be taken alive.
2245
03:36:41,190 --> 03:36:44,150
Queen Cleopatra's second procession
into Rome...
2246
03:36:44,400 --> 03:36:46,740
...will surpass her first.
2247
03:36:59,460 --> 03:37:01,960
The ring your father gave you.
2248
03:37:03,380 --> 03:37:05,300
It is yours now...
2249
03:37:05,510 --> 03:37:07,260
...to keep.
2250
03:37:07,470 --> 03:37:11,140
Wear it with pride and with honor.
2251
03:37:11,760 --> 03:37:13,350
I'm afraid.
2252
03:37:13,600 --> 03:37:15,730
I know l shouldn't be.
2253
03:37:16,310 --> 03:37:18,020
Who told you that?
2254
03:37:18,270 --> 03:37:20,190
All kings...
2255
03:37:20,440 --> 03:37:23,440
...and especially queens, are afraid.
2256
03:37:23,650 --> 03:37:26,690
They just manage not to show it.
2257
03:37:26,900 --> 03:37:30,320
Something ordinary people cannot do.
2258
03:38:28,470 --> 03:38:32,050
Hail Antony!
2259
03:38:53,700 --> 03:38:56,990
-How near is Octavian?
-Very near. Over that low ridge.
2260
03:38:57,240 --> 03:39:01,250
As it grows darker, the glow from
his campfires will light up the sky.
2261
03:39:06,630 --> 03:39:09,800
Our troops must find it
attractive to watch.
2262
03:39:11,010 --> 03:39:12,510
Inviting, even.
2263
03:39:12,720 --> 03:39:15,680
Antony's legions warm themselves
at their own fires.
2264
03:39:15,930 --> 03:39:17,640
Yes.
2265
03:39:17,890 --> 03:39:21,060
I could feel the warmth as l rode by.
2266
03:39:22,350 --> 03:39:24,400
-How many legions has he?
-Twenty.
2267
03:39:24,600 --> 03:39:27,310
-And we?
-Two. The 12th and one made up--
2268
03:39:27,570 --> 03:39:30,030
Made up from what was left
of the others.
2269
03:39:30,240 --> 03:39:35,240
As l remember it, Caesar
held Alexandria with two.
2270
03:39:38,700 --> 03:39:41,290
How are they deployed? Rufio.
2271
03:39:44,580 --> 03:39:48,840
Cavalry to the left, cavalry
to the right, infantry to the center.
2272
03:39:49,090 --> 03:39:53,880
Three elephants deployed
to stamp out a fly.
2273
03:39:54,550 --> 03:39:58,600
My lords Octavian and Agrippa have
all the strategic brilliance...
2274
03:39:58,850 --> 03:40:00,890
...of two vestal virgins.
2275
03:40:01,390 --> 03:40:03,560
We can draw back here
to softer ground...
2276
03:40:03,730 --> 03:40:06,350
...too soft for cavalry
and make our stand against their infantry.
2277
03:40:06,560 --> 03:40:10,610
Stand? And let them stamp on us?
No. Let the elephants stand.
2278
03:40:10,860 --> 03:40:14,190
We flies will bite
and buzz and tickle.
2279
03:40:14,650 --> 03:40:16,660
At the first light of day...
2280
03:40:16,910 --> 03:40:20,700
...while Octavian's glow
still lights up the sky...
2281
03:40:21,120 --> 03:40:22,490
...we will attack.
2282
03:40:25,620 --> 03:40:28,880
By sunset, both our loyal legions
will have grown larger...
2283
03:40:29,130 --> 03:40:31,340
...and even more loyal, I promise you.
2284
03:40:32,960 --> 03:40:34,260
Good night.
2285
03:40:43,770 --> 03:40:46,690
Rufio, tell the guards, please...
2286
03:40:46,940 --> 03:40:49,270
...l am to be awakened
just before dawn.
2287
03:40:49,480 --> 03:40:50,650
Of course.
2288
03:40:50,900 --> 03:40:52,400
And, Rufio...
2289
03:40:53,650 --> 03:40:58,780
...if, for whatever reason, the guards
should forget or misjudge the time...
2290
03:40:59,030 --> 03:41:00,780
...will you, yourself, wake me?
2291
03:41:01,160 --> 03:41:02,660
The guards will wake you.
2292
03:41:05,710 --> 03:41:08,580
-But if they don't?
-Then l will. Never fear.
2293
03:41:09,330 --> 03:41:11,040
I never fear.
2294
03:41:16,630 --> 03:41:18,470
Not anymore.
2295
03:42:18,240 --> 03:42:19,610
Rufio!
2296
03:43:33,770 --> 03:43:35,480
Rufio.
2297
03:45:58,710 --> 03:46:11,340
Fight!
2298
03:46:16,430 --> 03:46:18,560
Why don't you fight?
2299
03:46:43,290 --> 03:46:46,130
Is there no one
who would grant Antony...
2300
03:46:46,380 --> 03:46:49,130
...an honorable way to die?
2301
03:47:11,490 --> 03:47:13,410
Before me...
2302
03:47:13,950 --> 03:47:18,620
...this was carried by another Roman
killed by Rome.
2303
03:47:18,830 --> 03:47:20,500
Another...
2304
03:47:21,120 --> 03:47:23,000
...Caesar.
2305
03:47:32,340 --> 03:47:33,630
No.
2306
03:47:34,640 --> 03:47:36,970
We will have him.
2307
03:47:37,680 --> 03:47:40,520
We will have them both together.
2308
03:49:21,530 --> 03:49:26,330
Where is she?
2309
03:49:27,870 --> 03:49:30,040
Her Majesty said to tell you...
2310
03:49:30,250 --> 03:49:34,800
...she can be found in the last
possible place anyone would look.
2311
03:49:36,970 --> 03:49:40,430
Literally, the last possible place.
2312
03:49:46,180 --> 03:49:47,730
She might have waited.
2313
03:49:48,310 --> 03:49:50,650
Once more, it seems...
2314
03:49:51,150 --> 03:49:54,820
...Cleopatra is out of reach...
2315
03:49:55,280 --> 03:49:57,860
...and l must hurry after.
2316
03:49:58,110 --> 03:50:00,110
Throughout life...
2317
03:50:00,360 --> 03:50:02,160
...and now beyond.
2318
03:50:02,410 --> 03:50:06,620
One woman, one love!
2319
03:50:09,790 --> 03:50:11,920
Nothing changes...
2320
03:50:12,590 --> 03:50:14,840
...except life into death.
2321
03:50:24,140 --> 03:50:25,810
Will you help me?
2322
03:50:31,480 --> 03:50:33,230
Help me to die, Apollodorus!
2323
03:50:33,480 --> 03:50:35,230
I want to!
2324
03:50:36,190 --> 03:50:37,780
But l can't.
2325
03:50:52,880 --> 03:50:56,130
I've always envied Rufio...
2326
03:50:56,380 --> 03:50:59,050
...his long arms.
2327
03:51:17,230 --> 03:51:19,780
The ultimate desertion:
2328
03:51:20,030 --> 03:51:22,320
I from myself.
2329
03:51:22,570 --> 03:51:27,490
Else, how could l have missed what
I must have aimed for all my life?
2330
03:51:28,700 --> 03:51:30,700
Will you finish me now?
2331
03:51:32,120 --> 03:51:35,880
Where is my sword?
I beg you to finish me.
2332
03:51:36,130 --> 03:51:39,050
I lied to you.
I let you think the queen is dead.
2333
03:51:39,260 --> 03:51:42,010
But she's alive in her tomb,
waiting for you.
2334
03:51:44,180 --> 03:51:46,390
Cleopatra waiting?
2335
03:51:47,850 --> 03:51:51,810
There will be just enough time...
2336
03:51:52,020 --> 03:51:53,890
...if you'll help me.
2337
03:52:53,410 --> 03:52:56,830
Perhaps, my lady, if we were
to bind his wounds tightly....
2338
03:52:57,040 --> 03:53:01,880
It would only give him pain.
Let him sleep.
2339
03:53:13,640 --> 03:53:15,520
Sleep.
2340
03:53:16,440 --> 03:53:18,770
Will you come tonight...
2341
03:53:19,730 --> 03:53:21,690
...so that l can sleep?
2342
03:53:22,980 --> 03:53:25,440
The dark sleep.
2343
03:53:28,160 --> 03:53:30,990
They did meet after all...
2344
03:53:31,200 --> 03:53:33,370
...the lovers.
2345
03:53:33,790 --> 03:53:35,790
They will always meet.
2346
03:53:37,370 --> 03:53:39,670
Be lonely for me.
2347
03:53:40,210 --> 03:53:42,540
But not for very long.
2348
03:53:42,800 --> 03:53:44,840
I promise.
2349
03:53:47,220 --> 03:53:49,720
I thought always I would die...
2350
03:53:49,930 --> 03:53:52,720
...so well...
2351
03:53:53,430 --> 03:53:55,430
...as becomes a soldier.
2352
03:53:57,770 --> 03:54:00,150
A soldier's death.
2353
03:54:01,860 --> 03:54:04,860
I lived always as l saw fit.
2354
03:54:07,740 --> 03:54:09,740
Unfittingly.
2355
03:54:09,950 --> 03:54:13,620
I would make it up, l thought,
in death.
2356
03:54:14,160 --> 03:54:16,160
I expected--
2357
03:54:16,950 --> 03:54:19,620
I expected too much of me in death...
2358
03:54:20,500 --> 03:54:22,580
...as in life.
2359
03:54:23,000 --> 03:54:25,170
Are you holding me?
2360
03:54:25,380 --> 03:54:27,760
Never so closely.
2361
03:54:27,970 --> 03:54:30,090
Even closer.
2362
03:54:32,550 --> 03:54:35,310
You and I will prove death...
2363
03:54:35,510 --> 03:54:38,430
...so much less than love.
2364
03:54:40,520 --> 03:54:42,520
You and I, we will--
2365
03:54:43,230 --> 03:54:45,270
We'll make of dying...
2366
03:54:45,860 --> 03:54:48,570
...nothing more than one...
2367
03:54:49,320 --> 03:54:51,320
...last...
2368
03:54:51,990 --> 03:54:53,870
...embrace.
2369
03:54:59,210 --> 03:55:00,540
A kiss...
2370
03:55:02,960 --> 03:55:05,540
...to take my breath away.
2371
03:55:25,440 --> 03:55:28,190
There has never been...
2372
03:55:28,730 --> 03:55:31,190
...such a silence.
2373
03:56:15,700 --> 03:56:17,490
Turn him over.
2374
03:56:23,870 --> 03:56:27,920
Strange people.
Poisons that smell like perfume.
2375
03:56:28,130 --> 03:56:32,510
Find more. Have it analyzed.
Test it on one of the badly wounded.
2376
03:56:38,260 --> 03:56:41,310
My lord, they have
found Queen Cleopatra.
2377
03:56:41,520 --> 03:56:44,100
She is locked in a building,
that is to say, a tomb.
2378
03:56:44,310 --> 03:56:45,850
Hurry.
2379
03:56:51,650 --> 03:56:56,070
Oh, Marc Antony is with her,
they say. He's dead.
2380
03:56:58,280 --> 03:57:01,280
-What?
-Lord Antony is dead.
2381
03:57:03,540 --> 03:57:06,080
Is that how one says it?
2382
03:57:07,170 --> 03:57:09,420
As simply as that.
2383
03:57:10,750 --> 03:57:12,920
Marc Antony is dead.
2384
03:57:14,420 --> 03:57:16,720
Lord Antony is dead.
2385
03:57:18,890 --> 03:57:22,470
The soup is hot. The soup is cold.
2386
03:57:22,680 --> 03:57:26,520
Antony is living. Antony is dead.
2387
03:57:28,560 --> 03:57:32,110
Shake with terror when
such words pass your lips...
2388
03:57:32,320 --> 03:57:36,490
...for fear they be untrue and Antony
cut out your tongue for the lie!
2389
03:57:36,700 --> 03:57:38,400
And if true...
2390
03:57:38,780 --> 03:57:41,070
...for your lifetime boast...
2391
03:57:41,280 --> 03:57:45,500
...that you were honored
to speak his name even in death.
2392
03:57:45,870 --> 03:57:48,620
The dying of such a man...
2393
03:57:48,830 --> 03:57:51,330
...must be shouted.
2394
03:57:51,540 --> 03:57:53,340
Screamed.
2395
03:57:53,590 --> 03:57:58,010
It must echo back
from the corners of the universe.
2396
03:57:59,010 --> 03:58:01,760
Antony is dead!
2397
03:58:02,390 --> 03:58:07,390
Marc Antony of Rome lives no more!
2398
03:58:28,620 --> 03:58:31,540
You needn't lower
your head before Caesar.
2399
03:58:32,040 --> 03:58:34,090
I never did.
2400
03:58:34,290 --> 03:58:36,800
But if he were here, l'd be happy to.
2401
03:58:37,010 --> 03:58:39,470
I am Caesar.
2402
03:58:39,680 --> 03:58:41,880
If it pleases you, Octavian.
2403
03:58:43,470 --> 03:58:45,260
Look at me.
2404
03:58:45,470 --> 03:58:47,020
If it pleases you.
2405
03:58:50,190 --> 03:58:53,690
After all this time
and all that has happened...
2406
03:58:53,940 --> 03:58:57,820
...l suppose you are still beautiful,
in a way.
2407
03:58:58,280 --> 03:58:59,740
You flatter me.
2408
03:58:59,950 --> 03:59:03,410
My interest is impersonal.
Should you have any intention--
2409
03:59:03,660 --> 03:59:05,580
Now you flatter yourself.
2410
03:59:05,780 --> 03:59:08,370
The fighting is over.
2411
03:59:08,580 --> 03:59:12,580
Your country, your possessions
and you are mine by right of conquest.
2412
03:59:12,830 --> 03:59:17,380
I will permit you to rule Egypt as a Roman
province and return your possessions.
2413
03:59:17,630 --> 03:59:21,840
There is one condition.
You will first accompany me to Rome.
2414
03:59:22,680 --> 03:59:24,510
Behind your chariot?
2415
03:59:24,720 --> 03:59:26,220
Look at me!
2416
03:59:32,900 --> 03:59:36,770
Would the proud citizens of Rome
wait for hours in the hot sun...
2417
03:59:36,980 --> 03:59:40,280
...to see my dead body
dragged through the Forum?
2418
03:59:40,530 --> 03:59:42,450
I'll have you closely watched.
2419
03:59:44,410 --> 03:59:46,240
Octavian...
2420
03:59:46,450 --> 03:59:49,370
...when I am ready to die...
2421
03:59:50,250 --> 03:59:52,910
...l will die.
2422
04:00:05,680 --> 04:00:08,180
What if I promise
no harm will come to you...
2423
04:00:08,390 --> 04:00:10,640
...that you will be returned
safely to Alexandria?
2424
04:00:11,140 --> 04:00:13,140
Look at me!
2425
04:00:15,560 --> 04:00:17,560
What more could you ask?
2426
04:00:21,820 --> 04:00:23,570
You have not spoken...
2427
04:00:23,780 --> 04:00:25,030
...of my son.
2428
04:00:25,990 --> 04:00:29,240
Your son. l'd forgotten him.
2429
04:00:29,490 --> 04:00:30,870
Where is he?
2430
04:00:31,080 --> 04:00:32,950
Safe.
2431
04:00:35,420 --> 04:00:38,580
If l go with you to Rome...
2432
04:00:39,590 --> 04:00:42,460
...would you permit my son
to rule Egypt?
2433
04:00:42,970 --> 04:00:44,670
And his sons?
2434
04:00:44,930 --> 04:00:46,590
And theirs?
2435
04:00:46,800 --> 04:00:48,760
I'll do everything I can.
2436
04:00:49,350 --> 04:00:51,600
Do I have your word...
2437
04:00:51,850 --> 04:00:54,100
...as a Roman emperor and god?
2438
04:00:57,100 --> 04:00:58,690
Yes.
2439
04:01:00,820 --> 04:01:02,860
When will you require me to go?
2440
04:01:03,070 --> 04:01:04,610
As soon as possible.
2441
04:01:06,950 --> 04:01:10,580
At the moment, I am very tired
and would like to rest.
2442
04:01:10,830 --> 04:01:12,160
If you'll leave me now.
2443
04:01:12,620 --> 04:01:15,290
Do I have your word...
2444
04:01:15,500 --> 04:01:18,250
...that you will not harm yourself
in any way?
2445
04:01:19,290 --> 04:01:21,540
I swear it.
2446
04:01:23,170 --> 04:01:25,340
On the life of my son.
2447
04:01:35,480 --> 04:01:37,980
Must the guards remain inside?
2448
04:01:38,190 --> 04:01:40,100
I have sworn...
2449
04:01:40,360 --> 04:01:41,980
...after all...
2450
04:01:43,110 --> 04:01:46,400
...on the life of my son.
2451
04:01:56,870 --> 04:01:59,920
And now I must make ready to go.
2452
04:02:00,130 --> 04:02:01,580
There's little to do.
2453
04:02:02,920 --> 04:02:05,760
First, I shall want something to eat.
2454
04:02:07,170 --> 04:02:10,640
Something to sustain me on my way.
2455
04:02:10,840 --> 04:02:12,550
Some fruit, perhaps?
2456
04:02:12,760 --> 04:02:14,100
Bring it to me.
2457
04:02:16,680 --> 04:02:18,480
Charmian.
2458
04:02:21,520 --> 04:02:23,480
You then, Eiras.
2459
04:02:24,610 --> 04:02:27,240
You have never been without us.
2460
04:02:28,200 --> 04:02:29,780
You cannot leave us behind.
2461
04:02:31,030 --> 04:02:33,070
Perhaps...
2462
04:02:33,620 --> 04:02:36,200
...there may be enough for us all.
2463
04:02:36,910 --> 04:02:39,250
Bring me a tablet to write on.
2464
04:02:39,500 --> 04:02:41,620
I want a message
brought to Octavian.
2465
04:02:41,830 --> 04:02:44,380
Words are wasted on such a man.
2466
04:02:44,630 --> 04:02:48,510
I have wasted so many on so many men.
2467
04:02:48,800 --> 04:02:51,550
A few more. One last request.
2468
04:02:51,800 --> 04:02:54,350
Will he grant it, do you think?
2469
04:02:54,680 --> 04:02:56,470
I may never know.
2470
04:02:59,560 --> 04:03:01,850
In this case...
2471
04:03:02,810 --> 04:03:04,770
...l think l shall.
2472
04:03:12,820 --> 04:03:15,620
I will serve Her Majesty as always.
2473
04:03:15,870 --> 04:03:17,700
I have always served her.
2474
04:03:17,910 --> 04:03:20,200
You will both wait...
2475
04:03:20,410 --> 04:03:22,920
...to dress me for my travels.
2476
04:03:23,540 --> 04:03:25,210
I will wear--
2477
04:03:27,170 --> 04:03:30,010
I want to be as Antony first saw me.
2478
04:03:30,380 --> 04:03:32,510
The dress of gold?
2479
04:03:33,050 --> 04:03:34,550
He must know at once...
2480
04:03:35,300 --> 04:03:37,720
...even from a great distance...
2481
04:03:37,970 --> 04:03:39,810
...that it is I.
2482
04:03:41,270 --> 04:03:43,690
This will be the last thing you do.
2483
04:03:43,940 --> 04:03:47,320
Drop this to one of the guards outside
for Octavian.
2484
04:03:48,690 --> 04:03:51,070
But be sure to wait.
2485
04:04:10,260 --> 04:04:14,380
And now let me see if the figs
are as they should be.
2486
04:04:41,830 --> 04:04:44,660
The taste of these, they say,
is sharp...
2487
04:04:44,870 --> 04:04:47,170
...and swiftly over.
2488
04:04:52,670 --> 04:04:55,720
How strangely awake l feel.
2489
04:04:56,510 --> 04:05:00,100
As if living
had been just a long dream.
2490
04:05:01,770 --> 04:05:04,060
Someone else's dream.
2491
04:05:04,890 --> 04:05:07,810
Now finished at last.
2492
04:05:13,280 --> 04:05:15,530
But then now...
2493
04:05:15,740 --> 04:05:17,820
...will begin...
2494
04:05:18,820 --> 04:05:21,160
...a dream of my own...
2495
04:05:23,290 --> 04:05:25,330
...which will never end.
2496
04:05:28,500 --> 04:05:30,130
Antony?
2497
04:05:33,590 --> 04:05:35,760
Antony, wait.
2498
04:05:49,310 --> 04:05:52,060
From the Egyptian queen,
a message for Caesar.
2499
04:05:52,320 --> 04:05:56,610
Read it. Whatever she wants will be
granted upon her arrival in Rome.
2500
04:05:56,820 --> 04:06:00,360
We will discuss it
as she walks beside my chariot.
2501
04:06:01,490 --> 04:06:02,870
What is it?
2502
04:06:03,080 --> 04:06:06,120
"My one wish,
which l implore you to grant...
2503
04:06:06,370 --> 04:06:09,790
...is to be buried at the site of
Antony and to remain there...
2504
04:06:10,040 --> 04:06:12,040
...until all things end."
2505
04:07:05,810 --> 04:07:08,560
Was this well done of your lady?
2506
04:07:10,850 --> 04:07:13,150
Extremely well.
2507
04:07:13,520 --> 04:07:15,230
As befitting...
2508
04:07:15,440 --> 04:07:18,150
...the last of so many noble...
2509
04:07:19,280 --> 04:07:21,280
...rulers.
2510
04:07:27,410 --> 04:07:29,620
And the Roman asked:
2511
04:07:29,830 --> 04:07:32,750
"Was this well done of your lady?"
2512
04:07:33,580 --> 04:07:35,880
And the servant answered:
2513
04:07:36,340 --> 04:07:39,000
"Extremely well.
2514
04:07:39,210 --> 04:07:41,380
As befitting the last...
2515
04:07:41,630 --> 04:07:45,890
...of so many noble rulers."
2516
04:08:37,190 --> 04:08:38,190
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