1 00:00:15,891 --> 00:00:16,767 [grunting] 2 00:00:17,184 --> 00:00:17,852 - [blade rings, blood splatters] - [yells] 3 00:00:18,018 --> 00:00:18,936 [grunts] 4 00:00:20,187 --> 00:00:21,105 Doctore! 5 00:00:21,731 --> 00:00:24,859 Korris yet lives, though grievously fucking injured. 6 00:00:25,025 --> 00:00:26,527 Proculus moves against us? 7 00:00:26,694 --> 00:00:29,405 The villain Fides is known to be his man upon occasion. 8 00:00:29,739 --> 00:00:31,073 What of your task? 9 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:32,533 [Korris] I broke words and wine with Opiter 10 00:00:32,700 --> 00:00:34,285 and gained his confidence. 11 00:00:34,410 --> 00:00:37,455 I would see my men in deserved position in the impending games. 12 00:00:37,621 --> 00:00:40,124 Elevating the Syrian at my own expense? 13 00:00:40,291 --> 00:00:43,377 What of dispatches from Rome? Any been received? 14 00:00:43,544 --> 00:00:44,587 No, Dominus. 15 00:00:44,754 --> 00:00:46,046 [Gabinius] Viridia. 16 00:00:46,213 --> 00:00:48,924 It swells heart to see you stir from chambers. 17 00:00:49,049 --> 00:00:50,217 The Syrian. 18 00:00:50,801 --> 00:00:52,136 [Korris] Should the gods favor you towards the arena, 19 00:00:52,303 --> 00:00:53,637 you shall face three- 20 00:00:54,305 --> 00:00:55,556 the Brothers Ferox, 21 00:00:55,723 --> 00:00:57,600 vicious half-men. 22 00:00:58,434 --> 00:01:00,603 Dominus has tainted it by positioning woman 23 00:01:00,770 --> 00:01:02,271 towards the arena. 24 00:01:02,438 --> 00:01:05,649 [Ashur] Seize fate as champion of this fucking house. 25 00:01:07,151 --> 00:01:09,028 [blades ring, blood splatters] 26 00:01:09,195 --> 00:01:12,615 [rapid percussive music, vocalizing] 27 00:01:13,282 --> 00:01:18,245 [dark, eerie music] 28 00:01:18,412 --> 00:01:21,916 [unnerving music] 29 00:01:28,297 --> 00:01:29,924 [steady, pulsating music] 30 00:01:30,090 --> 00:01:31,550 [thud on shield] 31 00:01:39,015 --> 00:01:41,227 [Celadus] Brothers Ferox may be twisted in form, 32 00:01:41,393 --> 00:01:43,687 yet stand fierce opponent 33 00:01:43,854 --> 00:01:45,689 capable of sending any man... 34 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:47,733 or woman 35 00:01:48,359 --> 00:01:49,693 into the afterlife. 36 00:01:50,319 --> 00:01:53,322 [steady, pulsating music continues] 37 00:01:53,489 --> 00:01:55,741 [yelling] 38 00:02:00,204 --> 00:02:01,038 [crack] 39 00:02:01,163 --> 00:02:02,957 [yells in pain] 40 00:02:05,209 --> 00:02:07,211 Send the cunt to grass and be done with it. 41 00:02:07,378 --> 00:02:09,128 [men laugh] 42 00:02:09,630 --> 00:02:11,006 [yelps] 43 00:02:12,424 --> 00:02:13,926 [Celadus] Note distraction. 44 00:02:14,093 --> 00:02:17,471 Pulling attention and blessing Satyrus with open attack. 45 00:02:20,432 --> 00:02:23,769 [yelling] 46 00:02:24,353 --> 00:02:25,728 Good. Good. 47 00:02:27,439 --> 00:02:29,316 Now press advantage. 48 00:02:30,901 --> 00:02:32,736 [screams aggressively] 49 00:02:34,405 --> 00:02:36,781 [grunting, shouting] 50 00:02:37,575 --> 00:02:39,118 [music stops] 51 00:02:41,412 --> 00:02:45,165 [coughs breathlessly, splutters] 52 00:02:45,332 --> 00:02:47,209 [Tarchon] You assume proper place 53 00:02:48,377 --> 00:02:49,503 for weakened animal. 54 00:02:49,670 --> 00:02:51,380 [men laugh] 55 00:02:56,802 --> 00:02:59,805 [Achillia coughs, breathes heavily] 56 00:03:02,850 --> 00:03:04,059 [Ashur] Ah. 57 00:03:07,605 --> 00:03:10,524 [Ashur] Is it intent to lay in repose all morning 58 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:14,820 or prove worthy of the mark of Brotherhood you now bear 59 00:03:15,446 --> 00:03:17,781 and rise to fucking occasion? 60 00:03:17,948 --> 00:03:20,367 [urines continues trickling] 61 00:03:20,784 --> 00:03:23,537 Dominus, a message arrives. 62 00:03:24,079 --> 00:03:25,204 From Crassus. 63 00:03:26,498 --> 00:03:28,751 [dramatic music swells] 64 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:31,253 [Ashur] Aha. 65 00:03:31,420 --> 00:03:33,881 'Prepare for honored arrival.' 66 00:03:38,010 --> 00:03:40,596 That is the sum of it? 67 00:03:41,388 --> 00:03:43,265 [Hilara] It stands all received. 68 00:03:43,390 --> 00:03:44,767 When? 69 00:03:44,934 --> 00:03:47,311 When will Crassus bless us with fucking presence? 70 00:03:47,478 --> 00:03:49,021 [Messia] We do not know. 71 00:03:49,897 --> 00:03:52,900 Question was not posed expecting fucking reply. 72 00:03:53,776 --> 00:03:54,860 [sighs] 73 00:03:56,612 --> 00:03:58,322 See floor polished to reflection. 74 00:03:58,489 --> 00:04:01,325 Fill pool with water, fresh and clear. 75 00:04:01,492 --> 00:04:03,577 Messia will attend to menial duties. 76 00:04:04,161 --> 00:04:05,371 Go. 77 00:04:05,996 --> 00:04:08,165 [Ashur] We must present finest wines and exotic meats. 78 00:04:08,749 --> 00:04:11,293 Have meal prepared to move the gods themselves to salivation. 79 00:04:11,418 --> 00:04:13,337 - For this day? - Every fucking day 80 00:04:13,504 --> 00:04:16,757 until Crassus materializes or coffer runs fucking dry. 81 00:04:16,923 --> 00:04:19,301 We cannot bear such expense beyond week's end. 82 00:04:19,468 --> 00:04:23,514 You break words towards any beyond fucking calamity? 83 00:04:25,391 --> 00:04:26,392 Apologies. 84 00:04:27,476 --> 00:04:30,938 Sentiment deserved to be broken from my tongue alone. 85 00:04:32,022 --> 00:04:34,233 Fuck Jupiter's face! 86 00:04:34,692 --> 00:04:36,318 We stand ill-timed for Crassus, 87 00:04:36,485 --> 00:04:38,654 absent position in approaching games. 88 00:04:38,821 --> 00:04:41,448 How do labors progress in such regard? 89 00:04:42,157 --> 00:04:44,118 Vexing at fucking best. 90 00:04:44,576 --> 00:04:46,161 Gabinius stands maker of decision, 91 00:04:46,328 --> 00:04:49,331 yet his bitch Cossutia growls and froths 92 00:04:49,498 --> 00:04:52,209 like Cerberus at the gate, denying entry. 93 00:04:53,419 --> 00:04:54,670 What of Opiter? 94 00:04:56,296 --> 00:04:57,756 Korris lays infirm, 95 00:04:58,632 --> 00:05:01,844 unable to ply the man with honey word towards cause. 96 00:05:01,969 --> 00:05:03,345 Even if so swayed, 97 00:05:03,512 --> 00:05:07,391 I fear Cossutia will hold fast in hateful resolution. 98 00:05:07,933 --> 00:05:09,601 A concern well shared. 99 00:05:10,602 --> 00:05:13,522 Yet something fucking must move the woman. 100 00:05:13,689 --> 00:05:15,941 [woman moans sensually] 101 00:05:19,486 --> 00:05:22,531 [moans erotically] 102 00:05:25,576 --> 00:05:27,578 Your man possesses admirable talent 103 00:05:27,745 --> 00:05:29,329 beyond sands of the arena. 104 00:05:29,496 --> 00:05:33,584 His enthusiasm but rises to the occasion of your beauty. 105 00:05:34,460 --> 00:05:38,589 - [Cossutia laughs pleasurably] - More wine? 106 00:05:39,673 --> 00:05:41,633 [moans passionately] I would... 107 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:42,968 pause... 108 00:05:43,302 --> 00:05:45,971 a moment. [pants] 109 00:05:48,682 --> 00:05:50,642 [giggles excitedly] 110 00:05:50,808 --> 00:05:52,603 Ah! 111 00:05:52,770 --> 00:05:54,229 [sighs] 112 00:05:56,398 --> 00:05:58,025 Gratitude! 113 00:05:59,735 --> 00:06:02,321 - Leave us. - [Cossutia sighs lightly] 114 00:06:03,405 --> 00:06:04,865 [giggles breathlessly] 115 00:06:05,032 --> 00:06:09,244 How I wish aged husband possessed such artful tongue. 116 00:06:10,496 --> 00:06:13,082 - Beyond oration in the Senate. - [Opiter chuckles] 117 00:06:13,248 --> 00:06:16,460 - How fares good Gabinius? - Oh, I would hardly know. 118 00:06:16,585 --> 00:06:18,253 His gaze is forever towards Rome 119 00:06:18,378 --> 00:06:21,548 and growing tensions between Pompey and Crassus. 120 00:06:22,007 --> 00:06:24,968 A grievous concern, that of civil war. 121 00:06:25,636 --> 00:06:27,679 Yet Cilician threat 122 00:06:27,805 --> 00:06:30,057 to ports and goods more pressing. 123 00:06:30,224 --> 00:06:32,601 We stand well removed from waters of the Tyrrhenian 124 00:06:32,768 --> 00:06:35,437 and fucking plunderers upon its waves. 125 00:06:35,604 --> 00:06:38,899 And yet bodies have been found in our very streets, 126 00:06:39,983 --> 00:06:42,361 perhaps fallen to Cilician blades. 127 00:06:42,528 --> 00:06:43,529 Bodies? 128 00:06:43,654 --> 00:06:45,280 Six, discovered in wake of storm. 129 00:06:45,614 --> 00:06:46,698 Among them 130 00:06:47,074 --> 00:06:48,575 the brute Fides, 131 00:06:49,326 --> 00:06:51,787 an unpleasant specimen favored by Proculus. 132 00:06:52,329 --> 00:06:55,249 Throat slit as gutted fish. 133 00:06:56,457 --> 00:06:57,584 [blade rings] 134 00:06:57,709 --> 00:07:00,003 [thunder booms] 135 00:07:00,921 --> 00:07:02,005 I did not know the man. 136 00:07:02,923 --> 00:07:06,009 Perhaps he fell to misadventure of his own construction. 137 00:07:06,844 --> 00:07:09,096 [sighs] It stands deepest mystery 138 00:07:09,263 --> 00:07:12,349 why I yet wear this, 139 00:07:13,100 --> 00:07:17,437 yesterday's fashion extended beyond use or consideration. 140 00:07:17,563 --> 00:07:21,441 Sackcloth is elevated to silk upon frames such as yours. 141 00:07:21,608 --> 00:07:23,694 Sackcloth shall be a blessing before long. 142 00:07:23,819 --> 00:07:27,656 It stands impossible challenge to obtain new fabric 143 00:07:27,823 --> 00:07:31,577 with those Cilician shits preying upon our merchant ships. 144 00:07:31,743 --> 00:07:33,662 Word upon breeze has caressed ear 145 00:07:33,829 --> 00:07:35,998 of the finest Egyptian linens 146 00:07:36,165 --> 00:07:38,332 arriving tomorrow at gates' close, 147 00:07:38,917 --> 00:07:41,211 to be received by the trader, Spurius. 148 00:07:42,671 --> 00:07:43,839 Egyptian? 149 00:07:44,381 --> 00:07:47,426 - Are you certain? - As sun breaking dawn each day. 150 00:07:48,969 --> 00:07:52,222 Gratitude for timely consideration. 151 00:07:52,347 --> 00:07:53,432 Are we not friends? 152 00:07:53,599 --> 00:07:55,517 One I would see mountains reformed 153 00:07:55,642 --> 00:07:57,186 towards shared interests. 154 00:07:57,352 --> 00:08:00,397 [chuckles] I would not ask such Herculean effort. 155 00:08:00,522 --> 00:08:01,398 Mmm. 156 00:08:02,482 --> 00:08:06,612 Yet...there is one favor I would humbly entreat. 157 00:08:06,778 --> 00:08:09,031 Oh, give it voice and see it well received. 158 00:08:09,198 --> 00:08:12,743 Thoughts turn towards games of Ludi Apollinares 159 00:08:12,910 --> 00:08:14,328 noble husband presents. 160 00:08:14,453 --> 00:08:15,537 Place mind at ease. 161 00:08:15,704 --> 00:08:16,622 Your men shall hold position in them. 162 00:08:16,747 --> 00:08:18,248 Honored, as always. 163 00:08:18,624 --> 00:08:21,501 Yet I broach subject not for myself but... 164 00:08:22,127 --> 00:08:23,921 for the House of Ashur. 165 00:08:26,632 --> 00:08:28,467 You petition for the fucking Syrian? 166 00:08:28,634 --> 00:08:31,220 By tenuous association only. 167 00:08:31,845 --> 00:08:35,640 I speak toward worthy figure of his Doctore, Korris, 168 00:08:36,558 --> 00:08:38,894 deserving of the presentation of his labors. 169 00:08:42,648 --> 00:08:45,067 What stand you to gain from... 170 00:08:45,734 --> 00:08:46,985 unsavory request? 171 00:08:47,152 --> 00:08:49,071 A man indebted by gracious act 172 00:08:49,238 --> 00:08:52,157 pays future dividends when called upon. 173 00:08:53,116 --> 00:08:54,284 You have always possessed 174 00:08:54,451 --> 00:08:56,286 delicate sensibilities of foresight. 175 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:58,413 Yet I fear 176 00:08:58,914 --> 00:09:00,582 this may have been... 177 00:09:01,625 --> 00:09:03,585 rare miscalculation. 178 00:09:04,294 --> 00:09:06,171 [scoffs] In what regard? 179 00:09:06,338 --> 00:09:09,424 Rumor vibrates that the Syrian's man 180 00:09:09,591 --> 00:09:12,636 has suffered grievous injury. 181 00:09:13,595 --> 00:09:14,888 - Injury? - Mm. 182 00:09:17,140 --> 00:09:18,308 Does he yet live? 183 00:09:18,475 --> 00:09:21,228 [winces] 184 00:09:23,438 --> 00:09:25,023 [Korris] Fuck the gods! 185 00:09:25,190 --> 00:09:26,191 Ah. 186 00:09:26,942 --> 00:09:30,028 We at last come to common ground upon subject. 187 00:09:31,113 --> 00:09:32,322 How does he fare? 188 00:09:32,739 --> 00:09:35,325 Do you not see me fucking rise before you? 189 00:09:36,159 --> 00:09:39,579 With spirits inflamed, although weak of flesh. 190 00:09:39,705 --> 00:09:41,748 I yet draw breath. [winces] 191 00:09:41,915 --> 00:09:44,001 And the rest shall follow shortly. 192 00:09:44,126 --> 00:09:45,711 News to harden cock. 193 00:09:46,670 --> 00:09:49,381 As what I break shall in return. 194 00:09:50,299 --> 00:09:53,343 Crassus sends word of impending arrival. 195 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:54,511 Crassus? 196 00:09:55,429 --> 00:09:57,764 - Upon what hour? - Enigma yet to be revealed. 197 00:09:57,931 --> 00:09:59,308 It weighs thought, 198 00:09:59,433 --> 00:10:01,852 where he will stand towards house conspiring 199 00:10:02,019 --> 00:10:03,437 to present a woman in the arena. 200 00:10:03,603 --> 00:10:05,105 As long as it heralds adulation from the crowd 201 00:10:05,272 --> 00:10:09,151 and coin in fucking palm, Crassus shall stand delighted. 202 00:10:10,068 --> 00:10:11,987 We will then turn favorable humor towards advantage 203 00:10:12,154 --> 00:10:15,073 and press the man to commit effort into rebuilding the arena 204 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:17,534 destroyed by Spartacus and his mongrels. 205 00:10:17,701 --> 00:10:19,411 Assuming we gain position in the arena. 206 00:10:19,536 --> 00:10:22,497 When we gain position. 207 00:10:22,914 --> 00:10:24,207 You fucking goat. 208 00:10:25,459 --> 00:10:28,045 Come. You stand in need of food and wine... 209 00:10:29,254 --> 00:10:30,589 and cleansing waters 210 00:10:30,714 --> 00:10:33,508 to remove stench of narrowly averted death. 211 00:10:36,595 --> 00:10:38,555 I have stationed men upon ridge to give signal 212 00:10:38,722 --> 00:10:40,182 when procession comes to view. 213 00:10:40,349 --> 00:10:43,560 When sounded, I would have you fall to my side- 214 00:10:43,727 --> 00:10:44,728 Dominus. 215 00:10:44,895 --> 00:10:46,813 We have received unannounced guest. 216 00:10:47,439 --> 00:10:49,566 Good Opiter! [chuckles lightly] 217 00:10:49,733 --> 00:10:52,694 You grace us with unexpected presence. 218 00:10:52,861 --> 00:10:55,822 Gratitude stands in order for your generous gift of grain. 219 00:10:55,989 --> 00:10:57,699 Oh, give it no thought. [chuckles] 220 00:10:57,866 --> 00:11:01,745 Apologies for appearing in advance of proper... warning. 221 00:11:01,912 --> 00:11:04,831 News only just reached ear of your man's injuries. 222 00:11:04,956 --> 00:11:06,708 I had feared him no longer among us. 223 00:11:06,875 --> 00:11:09,711 I yet cling to fucking life and stand absent need for concern. 224 00:11:09,878 --> 00:11:14,549 Oh, he exaggerates recovery as a matter of pride. 225 00:11:14,716 --> 00:11:16,760 Apologies. I would offer wine and midday repast, 226 00:11:16,927 --> 00:11:19,930 yet pressing concerns pulls me to market. 227 00:11:20,347 --> 00:11:22,766 - I shall take my leave, then. - Oh, no. Remain. 228 00:11:22,933 --> 00:11:25,894 Korris is to the baths to soak troubled wounds. 229 00:11:26,478 --> 00:11:27,938 Concern will be put from thought 230 00:11:28,063 --> 00:11:30,607 knowing the weight of his suffering is lifted 231 00:11:31,274 --> 00:11:32,818 by caring hands. 232 00:11:33,235 --> 00:11:34,694 [intriguing music] 233 00:11:34,861 --> 00:11:36,863 Your presence would lend comfort. 234 00:11:40,242 --> 00:11:42,494 [steam whooshes] 235 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:47,749 [intriguing music continues] 236 00:11:48,792 --> 00:11:51,169 Are you often invited into the Syrian's bath? 237 00:11:52,254 --> 00:11:55,048 It has been known to happen, upon occasion. 238 00:11:55,215 --> 00:11:56,383 Hmm. 239 00:11:56,842 --> 00:11:59,094 I was unaware he possessed such... 240 00:11:59,886 --> 00:12:01,012 appetites. 241 00:12:01,596 --> 00:12:04,349 His desires do not extend towards his fucking Doctore, 242 00:12:04,516 --> 00:12:05,767 nor mine towards his. 243 00:12:05,934 --> 00:12:09,104 You do not favor one of such rich complexion? 244 00:12:09,271 --> 00:12:11,648 The tone of a man's skin stands meaningless. 245 00:12:12,399 --> 00:12:13,567 When cut, 246 00:12:14,151 --> 00:12:15,527 the color holds equal for all. 247 00:12:15,694 --> 00:12:16,695 Ow! 248 00:12:17,863 --> 00:12:19,364 Fall from presence. 249 00:12:30,333 --> 00:12:33,420 A woman's hands offer rough comfort. 250 00:12:37,090 --> 00:12:39,468 A man's, more... 251 00:12:39,634 --> 00:12:42,262 familiar with rugged terrain... 252 00:12:44,306 --> 00:12:46,725 traverses with practiced ease. 253 00:12:49,144 --> 00:12:51,229 You need not burden yourself with such a chore. 254 00:12:51,354 --> 00:12:53,815 Hm. It's a rare privilege 255 00:12:53,982 --> 00:12:56,610 for a mere mortal to touch the heavens. 256 00:12:58,236 --> 00:13:01,406 [intriguing music] 257 00:13:01,573 --> 00:13:03,867 Who handled you so roughly? 258 00:13:06,369 --> 00:13:07,746 An old acquaintance 259 00:13:07,913 --> 00:13:10,248 who took issue with recent conversation. 260 00:13:10,874 --> 00:13:12,876 Does the villain carry a name? 261 00:13:13,293 --> 00:13:14,336 Fides. 262 00:13:15,128 --> 00:13:17,130 He fell upon me with a clutch of men. 263 00:13:17,631 --> 00:13:18,924 Their lives claimed for the offense, 264 00:13:19,090 --> 00:13:22,052 yet the man himself fluttered to the winds. 265 00:13:22,219 --> 00:13:23,970 And swiftly plummeted, 266 00:13:24,554 --> 00:13:26,556 never to spread wings again. 267 00:13:28,767 --> 00:13:30,727 Fides no longer draws breath? 268 00:13:31,186 --> 00:13:33,104 Difficulty with throat slit. 269 00:13:35,232 --> 00:13:37,567 Wounds not inflicted by my hands. 270 00:13:38,235 --> 00:13:39,236 Then whose? 271 00:13:39,778 --> 00:13:41,988 He was known to have dealings with Proculus, 272 00:13:42,781 --> 00:13:44,866 a thing I'm certain you're well aware of. 273 00:13:45,951 --> 00:13:47,369 I have witnessed such 274 00:13:48,245 --> 00:13:51,081 and mentioned to Cossutia this very day. 275 00:13:52,958 --> 00:13:57,963 Troubles me to see flesh so marred by base maneuverings. 276 00:13:59,756 --> 00:14:02,842 I would see wounds visited tenfold 277 00:14:03,009 --> 00:14:04,553 upon Proculus' men 278 00:14:04,970 --> 00:14:06,388 in the arena. 279 00:14:08,515 --> 00:14:11,726 Twice in as many visits you have mentioned desire 280 00:14:11,893 --> 00:14:13,979 to see yourself in the games. 281 00:14:15,897 --> 00:14:19,317 Is such your own desire in holding my company? 282 00:14:20,569 --> 00:14:22,404 I am Doctore of this house. 283 00:14:23,321 --> 00:14:26,116 Glory in the arena consumes fucking mind. 284 00:14:26,241 --> 00:14:27,993 As well as that of the Syrian, 285 00:14:28,410 --> 00:14:29,911 one would assume. 286 00:14:32,956 --> 00:14:35,083 [chuckles] 287 00:14:35,250 --> 00:14:37,002 It's a thing of no matter. 288 00:14:38,044 --> 00:14:39,796 We must all play our part 289 00:14:39,921 --> 00:14:43,216 in this game of men and their ambitions. 290 00:14:45,719 --> 00:14:49,097 Words to be agreed upon. [chuckles] 291 00:14:49,264 --> 00:14:51,349 Place worried thought aside. 292 00:14:52,017 --> 00:14:53,768 I have broached subject with Cossutia 293 00:14:53,893 --> 00:14:57,897 and will revisit upon soonest opportunity. 294 00:15:00,025 --> 00:15:02,736 Gratitude towards effort... 295 00:15:04,321 --> 00:15:06,197 wherever such may lead. 296 00:15:08,408 --> 00:15:10,702 [intriguing music continues] 297 00:15:10,869 --> 00:15:14,748 Next time you find yourself in need... 298 00:15:16,374 --> 00:15:18,668 [longing music] 299 00:15:20,170 --> 00:15:21,338 part lips... 300 00:15:23,298 --> 00:15:25,592 and I shall storm Olympus 301 00:15:25,759 --> 00:15:27,677 to see you satisfied. 302 00:15:33,975 --> 00:15:35,560 [chuckles softly] 303 00:15:39,439 --> 00:15:41,566 A bold claim... 304 00:15:45,362 --> 00:15:47,155 for one so slight. 305 00:15:48,114 --> 00:15:51,409 Valiant purpose soars in your presence. 306 00:15:53,495 --> 00:15:56,706 Is gesture yet in service of the Syrian? 307 00:16:00,752 --> 00:16:03,588 He stands far from fucking thought. 308 00:16:08,259 --> 00:16:11,304 [vigorous flute music plays, drums beat] 309 00:16:11,471 --> 00:16:13,765 [woman moans lustfully] 310 00:16:14,474 --> 00:16:16,768 [indistinct chatter] 311 00:16:18,061 --> 00:16:22,649 Beef and fowl unmatched by any offering in Capua! 312 00:16:23,525 --> 00:16:25,193 Oysters stand fresh? 313 00:16:25,819 --> 00:16:28,613 Neptune himself blesses each fucking one of them. 314 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:32,492 They smell of his ass. 315 00:16:33,535 --> 00:16:36,037 What make you of the moray and sar? Huh? 316 00:16:36,204 --> 00:16:38,581 I fear they threaten to exceed weight of purse, 317 00:16:38,998 --> 00:16:40,625 added to what stands already purchased. 318 00:16:40,792 --> 00:16:43,545 You would see Crassus presented with thin fucking offering? 319 00:16:43,670 --> 00:16:45,714 I would see him well attended, 320 00:16:46,381 --> 00:16:48,508 short of coffers emptied in attempt. 321 00:16:48,675 --> 00:16:51,344 - You fret beyond reason. - Yet not beyond purpose. 322 00:16:52,178 --> 00:16:56,182 As vilica, am I not charged with the accounts of your house? 323 00:16:56,599 --> 00:16:57,892 You stand so. 324 00:16:58,977 --> 00:17:03,106 And I benefactor of such attentive counsel. 325 00:17:03,523 --> 00:17:06,025 [crowd cheers in distance] 326 00:17:09,404 --> 00:17:11,448 [vigorous flute music plays, drums beat] 327 00:17:11,614 --> 00:17:13,907 [crowd laughs] 328 00:17:14,659 --> 00:17:16,327 [men grunt] 329 00:17:16,493 --> 00:17:20,290 [vigorous flute music and drums continue] 330 00:17:23,626 --> 00:17:25,420 [crowd laughs] 331 00:17:25,587 --> 00:17:27,839 [crowd cheer, boo] 332 00:17:28,548 --> 00:17:29,799 [crowd laughs] 333 00:17:29,966 --> 00:17:32,761 - Ammonius, victor once again. - [crowd cheers] 334 00:17:32,886 --> 00:17:34,304 I almost fucking had him. 335 00:17:34,471 --> 00:17:36,890 You almost had his cock in fucking arse. 336 00:17:37,056 --> 00:17:39,434 [crowd laughs] 337 00:17:39,559 --> 00:17:41,478 Good citizens of Capua, 338 00:17:42,061 --> 00:17:45,857 in honor of the approaching games of the Ludi Apollinares, 339 00:17:45,982 --> 00:17:48,902 I again invite any Roman to step forth 340 00:17:49,068 --> 00:17:52,530 and test worth against the House of Proculus! 341 00:17:52,697 --> 00:17:54,532 [crowd cheers] 342 00:17:54,699 --> 00:17:55,742 Yeah! 343 00:17:57,660 --> 00:18:00,830 The House of Ashur would see challenge accepted. 344 00:18:05,460 --> 00:18:07,128 Upon the sands of the arena. 345 00:18:07,295 --> 00:18:08,254 [crowd mutters] 346 00:18:08,421 --> 00:18:10,465 You stand absent giant shadow. 347 00:18:11,090 --> 00:18:13,301 Where lurks your mighty Doctore? 348 00:18:13,468 --> 00:18:16,679 Trainer of those who fall against better fucking men. 349 00:18:16,846 --> 00:18:19,182 [crowd laughs] 350 00:18:19,349 --> 00:18:21,351 I thought it courtesy he not eclipse your children 351 00:18:21,476 --> 00:18:24,145 spilled from aberrant womb. 352 00:18:24,312 --> 00:18:25,855 [crowd laughs] 353 00:18:26,022 --> 00:18:27,482 We spill but wine 354 00:18:27,649 --> 00:18:30,652 and the blood of shit and piss you deem fucking champion. 355 00:18:30,819 --> 00:18:32,695 [crowd laughs] 356 00:18:32,862 --> 00:18:34,239 Victory well earned, 357 00:18:34,656 --> 00:18:36,616 even for half-men. 358 00:18:36,950 --> 00:18:38,576 [Crowd] Ooh! 359 00:18:38,743 --> 00:18:40,870 Yet, let us see contest revisited 360 00:18:41,037 --> 00:18:44,415 against the newest offering from the House of Ashur. 361 00:18:45,834 --> 00:18:48,294 A sight of wonder and awe, 362 00:18:48,461 --> 00:18:51,464 never before witnessed upon the sands of the arena. 363 00:18:53,049 --> 00:18:55,343 Let the Syrian move good Gabinius 364 00:18:55,510 --> 00:18:57,637 to secure position in the games, 365 00:18:57,804 --> 00:19:00,348 and then behold the Brothers Ferox, 366 00:19:00,515 --> 00:19:04,602 as again they send his champion to deserved end. 367 00:19:04,769 --> 00:19:06,938 [crowd cheers] 368 00:19:07,272 --> 00:19:09,524 We stand ready to fuck 369 00:19:09,691 --> 00:19:12,610 all who dare stand before us. 370 00:19:12,777 --> 00:19:14,445 [crowd laughs] 371 00:19:14,571 --> 00:19:18,241 Colossal words from such little fucking man. 372 00:19:18,575 --> 00:19:19,367 Perhaps-- 373 00:19:19,492 --> 00:19:23,288 [crowd laughs, cheers] 374 00:19:23,454 --> 00:19:25,707 [Satyrus] Brother Balbus shows us the way! 375 00:19:25,874 --> 00:19:28,835 [crowd laughs] 376 00:19:29,002 --> 00:19:31,379 Let us honor the Syrian with gifts of food 377 00:19:31,546 --> 00:19:35,383 to feed malnourished men beneath his fucking roof! 378 00:19:35,550 --> 00:19:38,469 - [crowd laughs, jeers] - [woman] Fuck the Syrian! 379 00:19:38,595 --> 00:19:42,307 [man] Go to fucking hell! Fucking cunt! 380 00:19:45,810 --> 00:19:47,478 [laughter] 381 00:19:47,645 --> 00:19:49,606 [Erato] Words fall as shit from mouth. 382 00:19:49,772 --> 00:19:51,357 It stands fucking so. 383 00:19:51,524 --> 00:19:56,154 I witnessed a woman graced with cunt and cock, one atop another. 384 00:19:56,321 --> 00:19:58,114 [all laugh] 385 00:19:58,239 --> 00:20:00,700 So did you fuck her, or she you? 386 00:20:00,867 --> 00:20:02,785 [all laugh] 387 00:20:04,746 --> 00:20:07,749 [indistinct chatter, laughter] 388 00:20:18,593 --> 00:20:21,596 [Celadus] My own shit would offer more flavored taste. 389 00:20:22,347 --> 00:20:25,350 [men laugh in background] 390 00:20:25,767 --> 00:20:28,436 Does cook offer anything beyond fucking porridge? 391 00:20:28,603 --> 00:20:32,941 Hm. Houses of higher esteem have been known to present meat. 392 00:20:33,066 --> 00:20:34,484 The gods fuck us, then. 393 00:20:34,651 --> 00:20:37,320 A thing of deep familiarity beneath this roof. 394 00:20:39,322 --> 00:20:41,658 - You stand not afraid? - Towards? 395 00:20:42,116 --> 00:20:44,661 Breaking meal with someone so hated. 396 00:20:44,827 --> 00:20:46,454 [scoffs] They but fall to distemper 397 00:20:46,621 --> 00:20:49,332 in response to your promised station as champion. 398 00:20:49,499 --> 00:20:51,876 Absent time and effort has claimed their own. 399 00:20:52,043 --> 00:20:55,672 I bear the mark of the fucking Brotherhood, as they do. 400 00:20:55,838 --> 00:20:56,839 Yet not as they earned it. 401 00:20:57,006 --> 00:20:58,800 A thing not of my choosing. 402 00:20:59,425 --> 00:21:01,302 We all set upon rightful path, 403 00:21:01,970 --> 00:21:04,764 footfall placed upon succession, one following another. 404 00:21:05,348 --> 00:21:08,017 You fall to seat only to break words absent meaning? 405 00:21:08,184 --> 00:21:09,477 [chuckles] 406 00:21:10,061 --> 00:21:12,563 Bold proclamation from one who spent the morning upon ground, 407 00:21:12,689 --> 00:21:14,190 mouth filled with fucking dirt. 408 00:21:14,357 --> 00:21:17,568 Give name to one among us who could best three opponents. 409 00:21:17,735 --> 00:21:20,405 If Dominus maneuvers entry to games next presented, 410 00:21:20,530 --> 00:21:23,741 you shall face equal number in the arena. 411 00:21:23,908 --> 00:21:26,536 [scoffs] The Brothers Ferox? 412 00:21:26,703 --> 00:21:28,663 Half-men barely formed beyond that of a child. 413 00:21:28,830 --> 00:21:31,874 Bend your fucking ear and you clutch my words to heart. 414 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,837 The Brothers fight as one, with singular mind. 415 00:21:37,005 --> 00:21:41,718 The men that you face here stand absent such purpose. 416 00:21:43,886 --> 00:21:46,639 [all giggle childishly] 417 00:21:46,806 --> 00:21:49,183 They appear of singular mind to fucking eyes. 418 00:21:49,350 --> 00:21:50,893 Yet one presses attack 419 00:21:51,060 --> 00:21:53,896 absent thought of those who would aid him in such regard. 420 00:21:54,230 --> 00:21:57,608 You fight but single opponent. 421 00:21:58,526 --> 00:22:00,737 You best him, and the others will quickly fall. 422 00:22:02,905 --> 00:22:05,074 [contemplative music] 423 00:22:05,241 --> 00:22:06,826 You speak of your son. 424 00:22:07,618 --> 00:22:11,497 - Tarchon? - No, I speak of a gladiator... 425 00:22:12,832 --> 00:22:15,918 consumed by hubris, with a thirst for glory. 426 00:22:17,378 --> 00:22:21,382 A thing to be tempered if he is to survive in the arena. 427 00:22:30,058 --> 00:22:31,642 [grunts] 428 00:22:32,977 --> 00:22:34,270 [suspenseful music] 429 00:22:34,395 --> 00:22:37,315 Take stock of what you see before you. 430 00:22:38,399 --> 00:22:42,737 This is what Capua thinks of our house, 431 00:22:43,613 --> 00:22:48,284 because none of you shits demonstrate fucking worth! 432 00:22:49,911 --> 00:22:52,914 You gorge yourself upon my generosity, 433 00:22:53,081 --> 00:22:54,624 -and in return, -[bowl shatters] 434 00:22:54,749 --> 00:22:58,503 produce nothing but bleating excuses and disappointment! 435 00:23:00,213 --> 00:23:01,547 And know this. 436 00:23:01,714 --> 00:23:04,717 Toil and task pulled from effort of your Dominus 437 00:23:04,884 --> 00:23:07,428 shall see this house to deserved position 438 00:23:07,595 --> 00:23:09,055 in the fucking games. 439 00:23:10,014 --> 00:23:11,516 And upon such day, 440 00:23:11,641 --> 00:23:14,727 you shall claim victory against the House of Proculus, 441 00:23:15,770 --> 00:23:19,565 or I will see you all to the fucking mines! 442 00:23:21,943 --> 00:23:23,277 [Ashur] Doctore. 443 00:23:25,113 --> 00:23:26,989 The marketplace appears to disagree with you. 444 00:23:27,156 --> 00:23:28,783 Break good words towards mind of Opiter 445 00:23:28,950 --> 00:23:31,953 so I may ram them up Proculus' ass. 446 00:23:32,453 --> 00:23:35,331 The man seems moved to aid us. 447 00:23:35,498 --> 00:23:37,917 And how gauge you imagined success upon venture? 448 00:23:38,084 --> 00:23:41,420 Opiter has proved unexpectedly persuasive. 449 00:23:43,673 --> 00:23:44,799 [sniffs] 450 00:23:47,593 --> 00:23:51,305 After all these years of blood and sacrifice... 451 00:23:51,931 --> 00:23:54,934 clawing to precipice of honored position... 452 00:23:56,352 --> 00:23:59,689 only to stake future upon man so slight of fucking note! 453 00:23:59,856 --> 00:24:04,152 Such specters often move where men of more solid form cannot. 454 00:24:06,154 --> 00:24:08,364 [pensive music] 455 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:17,957 What do eyes behold? 456 00:24:21,794 --> 00:24:23,963 A chamber, embracing void. 457 00:24:25,506 --> 00:24:27,216 Was not always so. 458 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:31,387 Here once stood the champions of the House of Batiatus. 459 00:24:32,638 --> 00:24:35,391 Visage and cock captured in stone. 460 00:24:37,351 --> 00:24:41,647 Gannicus, Crixus, the mad Thracian Spartacus, 461 00:24:42,273 --> 00:24:43,941 gods of the arena. 462 00:24:44,108 --> 00:24:46,110 [Ashur] Gods of the arena. 463 00:24:49,530 --> 00:24:51,199 My former Dominus schemed his way 464 00:24:51,365 --> 00:24:53,117 from beneath mountains of shit 465 00:24:53,284 --> 00:24:56,454 to seize victory upon their backs. 466 00:25:00,750 --> 00:25:02,585 Yet here stands Ashur... 467 00:25:03,669 --> 00:25:07,798 ever his better, clutching air for thread... 468 00:25:09,133 --> 00:25:10,843 of fucking possibility. 469 00:25:10,968 --> 00:25:13,721 Then let us weave it into tapestry of victory 470 00:25:13,888 --> 00:25:17,642 and show this fucking city that we tower above all others. 471 00:25:18,059 --> 00:25:19,602 [Hilara] Dominus. 472 00:25:19,769 --> 00:25:22,855 Apologies. Another message has been dispatched from Crassus. 473 00:25:23,022 --> 00:25:25,942 Ah. Does it clarify hour of day of arrival? 474 00:25:26,108 --> 00:25:28,819 Not of person, but of baggage. 475 00:25:33,616 --> 00:25:34,867 Ha! 476 00:25:35,701 --> 00:25:37,912 He sends possessions in advance 477 00:25:38,079 --> 00:25:39,997 and commands me as beast of fucking burden 478 00:25:40,164 --> 00:25:42,917 upon setting of morrow's sun! 479 00:25:43,417 --> 00:25:44,877 Labors more befitting a slave. 480 00:25:45,002 --> 00:25:47,880 As I yet stand in his fucking eyes. 481 00:25:48,047 --> 00:25:50,466 A notion to be stricken if we defy odds 482 00:25:50,633 --> 00:25:52,218 and see Achillia to victory. 483 00:25:52,385 --> 00:25:54,095 I shall reclaim mantle borrowed by-- 484 00:25:54,262 --> 00:25:55,179 No. 485 00:25:56,097 --> 00:25:58,099 Your absence was gravely noted in the Albana 486 00:25:58,266 --> 00:25:59,517 by that shit Proculus. 487 00:25:59,684 --> 00:26:01,435 I would have you fall to my side 488 00:26:01,602 --> 00:26:05,481 and remain so attached in event of future provocation. 489 00:26:07,275 --> 00:26:08,567 Your will, 490 00:26:09,235 --> 00:26:10,987 my fucking hands. 491 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,490 [resolute music] 492 00:26:20,246 --> 00:26:22,623 [dramatic eastern music] 493 00:26:26,252 --> 00:26:28,129 [music swells] 494 00:26:28,296 --> 00:26:30,506 [grunting] 495 00:26:32,216 --> 00:26:34,510 [Achillia grunts] 496 00:26:36,262 --> 00:26:38,514 [introspective music] 497 00:26:44,770 --> 00:26:47,565 Eyes fall upon you with thoughts of fucking. 498 00:26:50,985 --> 00:26:54,280 Well, she will find bitter embrace within my arms. 499 00:26:54,655 --> 00:26:55,865 [chuckles] 500 00:27:00,411 --> 00:27:02,621 [whip lashes, cracks] 501 00:27:04,498 --> 00:27:06,167 [Celadus] Tarchon, 502 00:27:06,334 --> 00:27:08,627 Ephesius, Erato, take position. 503 00:27:10,296 --> 00:27:11,964 Achillia. 504 00:27:14,258 --> 00:27:16,552 [foreboding music] 505 00:27:30,483 --> 00:27:31,692 Begin. 506 00:27:35,071 --> 00:27:37,198 [Achillia screams aggressively] 507 00:27:37,365 --> 00:27:39,241 [yelps in pain, coughs] 508 00:27:39,408 --> 00:27:41,118 I will mourn your death 509 00:27:41,994 --> 00:27:45,915 at the little hands of Satyrus and his brothers. 510 00:27:47,083 --> 00:27:48,376 [grunts aggressively] 511 00:27:48,542 --> 00:27:49,377 [crack] 512 00:27:51,212 --> 00:27:55,758 And see title of champion fall to more deserving name. 513 00:27:57,635 --> 00:27:58,928 Focus effort. 514 00:27:59,804 --> 00:28:02,515 And you recall words broken between us. 515 00:28:13,401 --> 00:28:16,278 [Achillia screams aggressively] 516 00:28:16,445 --> 00:28:18,697 [men grunt] 517 00:28:22,410 --> 00:28:25,454 [Achillia screams aggressively] 518 00:28:27,790 --> 00:28:31,127 [screams aggressively] 519 00:28:33,170 --> 00:28:35,131 [blades ring] 520 00:28:39,385 --> 00:28:42,179 [men laugh] 521 00:28:42,346 --> 00:28:45,015 [tense music slowly builds] 522 00:28:51,439 --> 00:28:53,732 [grunting] 523 00:28:55,484 --> 00:28:57,361 [screams aggressively] 524 00:28:57,528 --> 00:29:00,364 [music fades] 525 00:29:00,489 --> 00:29:02,825 [breathes heavily] 526 00:29:16,255 --> 00:29:17,798 Proper place 527 00:29:18,299 --> 00:29:20,134 for weakened animal. 528 00:29:22,386 --> 00:29:23,596 Good. 529 00:29:25,473 --> 00:29:29,226 Instruction towards victory at last finds purchase. 530 00:29:30,895 --> 00:29:31,770 [grunts] 531 00:29:32,313 --> 00:29:33,772 [gate clangs loudly] 532 00:29:34,982 --> 00:29:36,859 That fucking woman mocks this house. 533 00:29:37,943 --> 00:29:39,403 With her prowess? 534 00:29:40,488 --> 00:29:42,656 By elevation of position not yet earned, 535 00:29:42,823 --> 00:29:45,784 by Dominus rewarding her with the mark of the Brotherhood, 536 00:29:45,951 --> 00:29:48,037 absent proper fucking test. 537 00:29:48,204 --> 00:29:49,246 And... 538 00:29:50,789 --> 00:29:52,166 by shifting a father's allegiance 539 00:29:52,333 --> 00:29:53,709 from its rightful place. 540 00:29:55,002 --> 00:29:56,337 All could hold truth, 541 00:29:56,462 --> 00:29:58,130 yet none negate poor showing against Achillia. 542 00:29:58,297 --> 00:29:59,965 Erato and Ephesius should have bested her. 543 00:30:00,132 --> 00:30:01,550 Yes. Perhaps they would have 544 00:30:01,717 --> 00:30:04,136 had you not foolishly pressed your own advantage, 545 00:30:04,929 --> 00:30:07,348 a fault oft repeated. 546 00:30:08,557 --> 00:30:10,226 Are those the fucking words you broke with her 547 00:30:10,392 --> 00:30:13,187 over yesterday's meal- how to defeat your fucking son? 548 00:30:14,021 --> 00:30:17,983 In Korris' absence, I stand Doctore. 549 00:30:18,943 --> 00:30:21,362 And words shared reflected such. 550 00:30:26,700 --> 00:30:28,827 You place her victory above mine. 551 00:30:31,622 --> 00:30:35,751 I place the victory of this fucking house... 552 00:30:36,961 --> 00:30:39,255 over all concerns. 553 00:30:43,175 --> 00:30:44,927 And even those of blood. 554 00:30:49,348 --> 00:30:51,642 Well, does it stand so tenuous a bond? 555 00:31:00,526 --> 00:31:02,528 You are my son. 556 00:31:05,447 --> 00:31:07,283 I would see you 557 00:31:07,449 --> 00:31:09,577 rise above all others. 558 00:31:14,873 --> 00:31:17,167 And I will honor you... 559 00:31:19,545 --> 00:31:22,172 when my time comes in the arena. 560 00:31:23,716 --> 00:31:24,883 First, 561 00:31:25,009 --> 00:31:26,635 you honor self... 562 00:31:27,428 --> 00:31:29,305 with thoughtful strategy. 563 00:31:33,642 --> 00:31:35,352 I fight as I was taught- 564 00:31:36,478 --> 00:31:37,896 by my father. 565 00:31:38,731 --> 00:31:40,983 [somber music] 566 00:31:42,651 --> 00:31:44,570 Then the failure is mine. 567 00:31:45,696 --> 00:31:48,115 [somber music continues] 568 00:31:51,660 --> 00:31:54,663 May you find a more willing student in the fucking Nubian. 569 00:31:54,830 --> 00:31:57,249 - Look, son- - [yells aggressively] 570 00:31:58,667 --> 00:32:00,919 [dramatic music] 571 00:32:02,713 --> 00:32:06,050 Again, you lash out, absent thought of consequence. 572 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:09,470 And yet you froth 573 00:32:09,637 --> 00:32:12,139 over how a woman bested you. 574 00:32:16,810 --> 00:32:19,021 [gate slams] 575 00:32:20,814 --> 00:32:23,025 [birds chirp] 576 00:32:24,943 --> 00:32:26,654 Place game aside and gather yourself. 577 00:32:26,820 --> 00:32:28,364 I would have you accompany me. 578 00:32:29,114 --> 00:32:29,990 Where? 579 00:32:30,157 --> 00:32:31,367 Where honored mother commands. 580 00:32:31,533 --> 00:32:33,827 If passions lie beyond these walls, 581 00:32:33,994 --> 00:32:35,996 I fear I stand not your reflection. 582 00:32:36,789 --> 00:32:38,874 [Cossutia] Are we so opposed, you and I? 583 00:32:39,333 --> 00:32:42,628 When you were yet a child, we were of one heart and mind. 584 00:32:42,795 --> 00:32:44,505 I'm far removed from the youth I was. 585 00:32:44,672 --> 00:32:48,509 Yet here I stand, willing to embrace you as such. 586 00:32:51,804 --> 00:32:52,971 Apologies. 587 00:32:54,556 --> 00:32:56,100 I am not myself. 588 00:32:58,018 --> 00:33:00,896 And have not been so for too long a time. 589 00:33:01,647 --> 00:33:04,566 Life has been unkind in its offering. 590 00:33:04,692 --> 00:33:06,652 It is but oscillation 591 00:33:06,777 --> 00:33:09,446 between joy and despair. 592 00:33:09,613 --> 00:33:13,784 Each new day presents fresh choice between them. 593 00:33:14,118 --> 00:33:15,494 What is choice 594 00:33:15,994 --> 00:33:17,621 when fate has final say, 595 00:33:17,788 --> 00:33:21,041 often leaving but fractured remnants in its wake? 596 00:33:21,166 --> 00:33:22,418 You yet breathe. 597 00:33:22,876 --> 00:33:25,462 And I thank the gods it is so. 598 00:33:26,255 --> 00:33:28,924 I would have you return to the happy child 599 00:33:29,049 --> 00:33:32,678 that so brightened this house... 600 00:33:32,845 --> 00:33:35,055 and world beyond. 601 00:33:36,098 --> 00:33:37,891 And if it holds nothing but shadow? 602 00:33:38,058 --> 00:33:40,102 We cannot halt setting of the sun, 603 00:33:40,269 --> 00:33:43,731 yet perhaps together, we may ignite torch 604 00:33:43,897 --> 00:33:45,733 to guide our way 605 00:33:45,899 --> 00:33:47,735 from darkness. 606 00:33:49,570 --> 00:33:51,780 I promised Father a game of Latrunculi. 607 00:33:52,364 --> 00:33:54,533 Game shall greet you upon return. 608 00:33:55,159 --> 00:33:59,246 Opiter whispers that Spurius the trader receives... 609 00:33:59,621 --> 00:34:01,415 Egyptian linen. 610 00:34:01,999 --> 00:34:04,710 How I would see us draped in fineries 611 00:34:04,877 --> 00:34:06,086 befitting mother 612 00:34:06,211 --> 00:34:09,089 and radiant daughter. 613 00:34:13,552 --> 00:34:15,304 Then let us to market. 614 00:34:16,013 --> 00:34:17,014 Together. 615 00:34:18,389 --> 00:34:20,684 [indistinct chatter] 616 00:34:20,851 --> 00:34:23,687 [droning flute music plays] 617 00:34:23,853 --> 00:34:24,646 Oh! 618 00:34:25,438 --> 00:34:28,065 The sun threatens to bake senses to oblivion. 619 00:34:28,525 --> 00:34:30,860 Should we pause and fall to shade? 620 00:34:31,277 --> 00:34:33,362 I find it comforting upon skin. 621 00:34:34,864 --> 00:34:36,867 It lifts heart to see you resurrected 622 00:34:37,034 --> 00:34:38,786 among the living, Viridia. 623 00:34:39,578 --> 00:34:41,121 [gasps] Look. 624 00:34:41,288 --> 00:34:43,456 Tertius graces presence. 625 00:34:44,291 --> 00:34:47,335 Where stands his wife? The name escapes me. 626 00:34:47,503 --> 00:34:49,545 A woman of tenuous impression, 627 00:34:49,713 --> 00:34:52,424 recently called to the shores of the afterlife. 628 00:34:52,591 --> 00:34:55,969 Poor man. A loss most keenly felt. 629 00:34:56,386 --> 00:34:58,764 [scoffs] There stood no love between them. 630 00:34:59,139 --> 00:35:00,224 Only advantage of marriage, 631 00:35:00,390 --> 00:35:02,100 strengthening respective families. 632 00:35:02,643 --> 00:35:05,187 He does cut a form, does he not? 633 00:35:05,938 --> 00:35:08,357 Any woman would be blessed to call him husband. 634 00:35:08,524 --> 00:35:09,858 Perhaps we should pay respect 635 00:35:10,025 --> 00:35:12,569 and offer what comfort may be afforded. 636 00:35:13,403 --> 00:35:15,489 The heat is a living thing, is it not? 637 00:35:16,156 --> 00:35:18,867 I would lay eyes upon Egyptian linen so breathlessly promised, 638 00:35:19,284 --> 00:35:21,370 lest it evaporate in advance of purchase. 639 00:35:22,663 --> 00:35:24,456 Let us fall to purpose, then, 640 00:35:24,623 --> 00:35:28,335 and consider words with Tertius at later convenience. 641 00:35:32,631 --> 00:35:34,007 Discharged upon whim, 642 00:35:34,174 --> 00:35:36,885 absent concern towards obligation claimed my own. 643 00:35:37,469 --> 00:35:40,013 Crassus yanks his leash and expect obedient cur 644 00:35:40,180 --> 00:35:42,391 to fall to fucking heel. 645 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:47,771 Does voice offend, 646 00:35:48,313 --> 00:35:50,524 or do thoughts wander astray from fucking consideration? 647 00:35:50,691 --> 00:35:52,609 I care not for eyes upon us. 648 00:35:53,986 --> 00:35:56,280 [uneasy music] 649 00:36:02,244 --> 00:36:05,581 Let us attend demanded undertaking and return to villa. 650 00:36:06,415 --> 00:36:08,375 Absent fucking incident. 651 00:36:19,469 --> 00:36:21,054 [chest thuds] 652 00:36:21,847 --> 00:36:23,181 Is this the sum of it, 653 00:36:23,765 --> 00:36:25,392 or does the man seek to transport 654 00:36:25,559 --> 00:36:27,603 all of fucking Rome as well? 655 00:36:28,186 --> 00:36:30,439 What eyes lay upon is all I have been charged to deliver. 656 00:36:30,564 --> 00:36:33,817 Then our business concludes. Fall from fucking sight. 657 00:36:34,651 --> 00:36:36,153 I would see us removed from the street 658 00:36:36,278 --> 00:36:38,280 in advance of encroaching night. 659 00:36:39,907 --> 00:36:41,533 You yet have more words to break, 660 00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:45,037 or do you stand dumbstruck by glorious form before you? 661 00:36:45,203 --> 00:36:48,999 Apologies. I was instructed payment would be due upon... 662 00:36:49,124 --> 00:36:50,292 receipt. 663 00:36:52,294 --> 00:36:55,672 [clears throat] And, uh...what is the sum? 664 00:36:55,797 --> 00:36:57,341 30 denarii. 665 00:36:59,217 --> 00:37:00,636 30 denarii. 666 00:37:01,929 --> 00:37:04,139 [coins jingle] 667 00:37:04,306 --> 00:37:06,600 Purse stands shy of required sum. 668 00:37:06,767 --> 00:37:09,686 Send notice for balance, and I shall see you satisfied. 669 00:37:09,853 --> 00:37:11,188 Upon what day? 670 00:37:12,606 --> 00:37:14,691 Of my fucking choosing. 671 00:37:15,609 --> 00:37:20,739 Press matter and find yourself forever absent of need... 672 00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:22,866 of coin. 673 00:37:23,241 --> 00:37:24,868 At your leisure, then. 674 00:37:28,246 --> 00:37:31,041 Crassus stands richest man in fucking Republic, 675 00:37:31,750 --> 00:37:34,044 yet it falls upon this house to see debt paid. 676 00:37:34,211 --> 00:37:37,172 How do you hold the man became so swollen with wealth? 677 00:37:37,297 --> 00:37:40,634 By shrewdly using the coin of others in place of his own. 678 00:37:41,510 --> 00:37:43,345 A thing to aspire to. 679 00:37:44,596 --> 00:37:46,556 Pay mind towards footing! 680 00:37:48,100 --> 00:37:51,311 Injury to valued burden will be visited tenfold 681 00:37:51,478 --> 00:37:53,939 upon those accountable. 682 00:37:55,107 --> 00:37:57,609 [eerie, mysterious music] 683 00:38:02,114 --> 00:38:03,740 [Messia] Retrieve more water. 684 00:38:03,907 --> 00:38:06,702 I would see pool filled before our Dominus returns, 685 00:38:07,494 --> 00:38:10,163 or brave ill humor so often unleashed. 686 00:38:11,415 --> 00:38:14,918 His mood is but reflective of forces brought to bear. 687 00:38:15,335 --> 00:38:17,170 You must not hold such against him. 688 00:38:17,337 --> 00:38:18,964 I shall do as commanded. 689 00:38:19,548 --> 00:38:21,800 You are not to speak to me in such manner. 690 00:38:21,967 --> 00:38:23,051 Apologies... 691 00:38:23,593 --> 00:38:25,679 for breaking unwanted words. 692 00:38:28,056 --> 00:38:30,809 Messia, what would you have me do? 693 00:38:30,976 --> 00:38:33,145 I cannot return feelings I do not hold. 694 00:38:33,270 --> 00:38:35,230 I wish to the gods I could reverse sun 695 00:38:35,397 --> 00:38:37,149 and see them unspoken. 696 00:38:38,191 --> 00:38:40,360 I do not mean to be unkind. 697 00:38:40,527 --> 00:38:41,361 Nor I. 698 00:38:41,737 --> 00:38:43,530 Yet I do not know how to be 699 00:38:44,573 --> 00:38:47,617 when presented each day with that which I desire 700 00:38:48,076 --> 00:38:49,536 yet cannot have. 701 00:38:51,204 --> 00:38:54,458 [wistful music] 702 00:38:58,170 --> 00:39:00,422 [grunts] 703 00:39:02,215 --> 00:39:04,509 [intense music slows] 704 00:39:06,553 --> 00:39:07,929 [Ephesius] Your attention wanders, brother. 705 00:39:08,096 --> 00:39:10,140 [Tarchon] Towards vexing cause. 706 00:39:16,813 --> 00:39:19,316 You take well to style of dimachaerus. 707 00:39:20,150 --> 00:39:21,318 I never favored it. 708 00:39:22,069 --> 00:39:24,738 You stand too vulnerable absent shield. 709 00:39:25,739 --> 00:39:26,948 Yours offered little protection 710 00:39:27,115 --> 00:39:28,867 when I sent you to fucking ground. 711 00:39:29,493 --> 00:39:32,746 Do not ascribe to skill what lies in fault of another. 712 00:39:34,039 --> 00:39:36,833 More careful thought will greet you next we meet. 713 00:39:39,461 --> 00:39:42,422 Strategy counselled by one more experienced? 714 00:39:44,299 --> 00:39:46,510 [dramatic tone] 715 00:39:46,885 --> 00:39:48,011 Yes, good. 716 00:39:49,429 --> 00:39:50,847 It is a heavy thing, 717 00:39:51,348 --> 00:39:53,975 living beneath shadow of noble father. 718 00:39:56,770 --> 00:40:00,107 - I live in no man's shadow. - Only a woman's, then? 719 00:40:04,361 --> 00:40:06,154 [solemn music] 720 00:40:06,321 --> 00:40:07,531 Upon a day, 721 00:40:08,365 --> 00:40:09,407 Nubian. 722 00:40:11,159 --> 00:40:12,869 Upon a fucking day. 723 00:40:14,538 --> 00:40:15,539 [Tarchon] Ephesius! 724 00:40:16,373 --> 00:40:18,625 Let us fall to proper fucking contest! 725 00:40:19,334 --> 00:40:21,586 [both grunt] 726 00:40:29,219 --> 00:40:30,262 [chuckles] 727 00:40:31,346 --> 00:40:32,639 Oh, no. 728 00:40:33,348 --> 00:40:35,642 How favor you... 729 00:40:36,518 --> 00:40:37,894 - Oh! - ...this one? 730 00:40:38,019 --> 00:40:39,563 [Horatia] A gift from the gods. 731 00:40:39,688 --> 00:40:41,189 I've never felt its equal. 732 00:40:41,356 --> 00:40:43,608 [merchant] I have yet more to offer one so luminous. 733 00:40:43,733 --> 00:40:45,318 [Cossutia] We are going to fashion the finest stola 734 00:40:45,485 --> 00:40:48,196 this city has ever beheld... 735 00:40:48,363 --> 00:40:52,534 in anticipation of your father's games. 736 00:40:53,410 --> 00:40:54,703 The games? 737 00:40:54,870 --> 00:40:57,164 Entering the pulvinus draped in such finery 738 00:40:57,330 --> 00:40:59,374 shall precipitate absolute riot. 739 00:40:59,541 --> 00:41:03,003 - I will not be in attendance. - Your father expects it so. 740 00:41:03,753 --> 00:41:05,505 A desire I have not heard expressed from his lips. 741 00:41:05,672 --> 00:41:07,174 You must come, Viridia. 742 00:41:07,340 --> 00:41:10,010 You have been too long removed from eyes of adoring public- 743 00:41:10,135 --> 00:41:12,012 [man grunts, blood splatters] 744 00:41:15,265 --> 00:41:16,308 [Cossutia] Guards! 745 00:41:16,474 --> 00:41:17,726 [woman screams] 746 00:41:17,893 --> 00:41:19,477 [guard screams aggressively, blades clang] 747 00:41:19,603 --> 00:41:20,770 We must go! 748 00:41:20,937 --> 00:41:25,525 [men grunt, blades clang] 749 00:41:25,692 --> 00:41:28,695 -[guard] This way, come. -[panicked screaming] 750 00:41:29,446 --> 00:41:31,698 [tense music] 751 00:41:32,407 --> 00:41:33,408 [men grunt] 752 00:41:33,575 --> 00:41:35,702 [blade rings, blood splatters] 753 00:41:35,827 --> 00:41:37,746 [panicked screaming] 754 00:41:37,913 --> 00:41:38,997 Seize them! 755 00:41:40,498 --> 00:41:41,458 [grunts] 756 00:41:41,625 --> 00:41:44,252 [panicked screaming continues] 757 00:41:44,377 --> 00:41:47,672 [distorted screaming] 758 00:41:53,303 --> 00:41:55,222 - [man grunts] - [Viridia screams] 759 00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:00,143 Viridia! 760 00:42:02,437 --> 00:42:04,898 [ominous pulsating music] 761 00:42:07,943 --> 00:42:09,236 Why do you fall upon us? 762 00:42:09,402 --> 00:42:11,321 Pose question to noble husband. [laughs] 763 00:42:11,988 --> 00:42:14,783 - Argh! - [grunts] 764 00:42:15,742 --> 00:42:18,036 [laughs mockingly, grunts] 765 00:42:18,870 --> 00:42:20,080 Mother! 766 00:42:20,247 --> 00:42:22,499 We need but one. Part her from fucking life. 767 00:42:25,460 --> 00:42:27,754 [breathes heavily] 768 00:42:28,505 --> 00:42:30,006 Fucking cunts! 769 00:42:31,007 --> 00:42:33,343 [Viridia yells] 770 00:42:33,927 --> 00:42:37,264 [Ashur grunts aggressively, blades clang] 771 00:42:38,473 --> 00:42:40,350 [tense music] 772 00:42:40,517 --> 00:42:42,852 [men grunt, blades clang] 773 00:42:44,479 --> 00:42:46,773 [tense music continues] 774 00:42:50,652 --> 00:42:54,489 [blade rings, flesh squelches, blood-curdling scream] 775 00:42:56,032 --> 00:42:57,909 [blade rings, blood splatters] 776 00:42:58,493 --> 00:43:01,288 [ominous music slowly builds] 777 00:43:04,124 --> 00:43:06,418 [blade rings, blood splatters, man grunts] 778 00:43:07,460 --> 00:43:09,796 [dark momentous music] 779 00:43:11,298 --> 00:43:12,424 [blades clang] 780 00:43:12,590 --> 00:43:13,925 Keep moving, you fucking bitch, 781 00:43:14,092 --> 00:43:16,094 or I shall have your fucking blood! 782 00:43:16,636 --> 00:43:18,722 - [crunch!] - Argh! 783 00:43:20,557 --> 00:43:22,142 [grunts] 784 00:43:22,434 --> 00:43:23,643 Argh! 785 00:43:25,186 --> 00:43:26,229 [screams] 786 00:43:26,396 --> 00:43:28,523 [flesh squelches, blood drips] 787 00:43:28,648 --> 00:43:31,818 [breathes heavily] 788 00:43:35,655 --> 00:43:37,907 [gentle music] 789 00:43:40,660 --> 00:43:42,871 [breathes heavily] 790 00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,375 [man grunts aggressively, blade rings] 791 00:43:47,542 --> 00:43:50,295 [dark, tense music] 792 00:43:50,462 --> 00:43:53,715 [grunting continues, blades ring] 793 00:43:57,510 --> 00:43:59,846 [tense music builds] 794 00:44:04,642 --> 00:44:06,895 [heroic music] 795 00:44:08,563 --> 00:44:10,899 [grunts aggressively] 796 00:44:11,608 --> 00:44:13,151 [man grunts in pain] 797 00:44:13,276 --> 00:44:14,861 [bone crunches] 798 00:44:17,364 --> 00:44:18,573 Behind you! 799 00:44:18,740 --> 00:44:22,077 [heroic music continues] 800 00:44:23,244 --> 00:44:26,081 [blades ring, blood splatters] 801 00:44:29,584 --> 00:44:31,961 [men grunt, blades clang] 802 00:44:34,589 --> 00:44:36,925 [doomed music continues] 803 00:44:37,842 --> 00:44:39,302 [blade rings, blood splatters] 804 00:44:40,512 --> 00:44:44,182 [tense, momentous music slowly builds] 805 00:44:49,896 --> 00:44:50,939 [Cossutia shrieks] 806 00:44:51,106 --> 00:44:52,065 [blade rings, flesh thuds] 807 00:44:52,232 --> 00:44:54,317 [blood-curdling scream] 808 00:44:55,735 --> 00:44:57,987 [heroic music] 809 00:44:58,696 --> 00:45:01,032 [music fades] 810 00:45:01,741 --> 00:45:02,992 [distant screaming] 811 00:45:03,159 --> 00:45:04,828 [Cossutia sobs] 812 00:45:12,669 --> 00:45:15,046 [men grunt, blades clang] 813 00:45:19,175 --> 00:45:20,552 [flesh squelches] 814 00:45:20,718 --> 00:45:22,720 [screams chillingly] 815 00:45:31,771 --> 00:45:33,982 [heroic music] 816 00:45:36,693 --> 00:45:39,612 [blade rings, blood splatters] 817 00:45:39,779 --> 00:45:42,490 [gasps breathlessly, groans] 818 00:45:52,083 --> 00:45:53,042 [exhales sharply] 819 00:45:53,168 --> 00:45:57,213 [soft, assured music] 820 00:45:57,380 --> 00:45:59,007 You are safe now. 821 00:46:05,096 --> 00:46:06,639 [Viridia inhales shakily] 822 00:46:06,764 --> 00:46:07,891 You're hurt. 823 00:46:08,391 --> 00:46:10,727 I would welcome a thousand such wounds 824 00:46:11,352 --> 00:46:12,645 if earning of them 825 00:46:13,229 --> 00:46:14,981 yet saw you grace this world. 826 00:46:16,024 --> 00:46:19,652 Nor would I have you fall from it, my life the cause. 827 00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:25,033 [winces] 828 00:46:28,703 --> 00:46:30,121 [Cossutia] Viridia! 829 00:46:31,539 --> 00:46:33,041 [gasps] Mother! 830 00:46:33,166 --> 00:46:36,127 I thought you dead! [sobs] 831 00:46:38,505 --> 00:46:39,839 Such would have held true, 832 00:46:40,006 --> 00:46:42,467 had Ashur and his man not chanced upon us. 833 00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:46,054 [Cossutia sobs] 834 00:46:49,849 --> 00:46:50,767 Ashur. 835 00:46:50,892 --> 00:46:52,519 [Viridia] Who are these men? 836 00:46:57,524 --> 00:46:58,900 Cilicians. 837 00:47:01,694 --> 00:47:04,739 We must return you to your villa, quickly. 838 00:47:06,741 --> 00:47:10,411 [Gabinius] Pirates? Here within city walls? 839 00:47:10,745 --> 00:47:12,914 So far removed from fucking sea? 840 00:47:13,081 --> 00:47:16,125 They grow bold, absent proper response from Rome. 841 00:47:17,335 --> 00:47:21,047 Oh, thank the gods you did not fall to rancorous harm. 842 00:47:21,214 --> 00:47:22,882 [Viridia] They held no divinity in it. 843 00:47:23,049 --> 00:47:26,010 Ashur and his man delivered us from untimely fate. 844 00:47:26,928 --> 00:47:30,390 [sobs] Would that Horatia stood as fortunate. 845 00:47:31,057 --> 00:47:32,392 The Aedile's wife? 846 00:47:32,684 --> 00:47:33,601 Slain? 847 00:47:34,519 --> 00:47:37,814 In the streets, whilst sun yet graced fucking sky? 848 00:47:37,939 --> 00:47:40,942 Wife and daughter stood apparent bounty sought. 849 00:47:41,359 --> 00:47:43,861 Towards ransom, one would suspect. 850 00:47:44,028 --> 00:47:47,031 An outrage that shall be answered in blood. 851 00:47:47,198 --> 00:47:49,284 I fear it has already been drawn. 852 00:47:49,450 --> 00:47:51,619 He suffered injury in the exchange, 853 00:47:51,786 --> 00:47:53,621 no thought given to safety beyond our own. 854 00:47:53,788 --> 00:47:55,623 He shall be properly attended. 855 00:47:56,207 --> 00:48:00,503 See yourselves to bath and wine, to calm inflamed nerves. 856 00:48:02,255 --> 00:48:03,548 Once more, 857 00:48:03,965 --> 00:48:05,800 tongue bends towards gratitude. 858 00:48:05,967 --> 00:48:07,468 Unnecessary. 859 00:48:08,386 --> 00:48:10,179 Yet gratefully received. 860 00:48:11,389 --> 00:48:14,058 [Cossutia] I thank the gods you were present... 861 00:48:15,059 --> 00:48:18,813 and had not succumbed to rumor of previous wounds. 862 00:48:19,772 --> 00:48:22,275 I but stood as any man of means and skill would have- 863 00:48:22,859 --> 00:48:24,319 to protect the Republic. 864 00:48:27,447 --> 00:48:29,073 [Gabinius] Fall to the baths. 865 00:48:29,240 --> 00:48:32,952 I would break words with the Syrian in private. 866 00:48:33,786 --> 00:48:36,122 I shall attend to Crassus' shipment. 867 00:48:39,375 --> 00:48:40,501 Crassus? 868 00:48:40,668 --> 00:48:42,795 We prepare for his imminent arrival. 869 00:48:43,254 --> 00:48:45,006 He disengages from his army in Rome, 870 00:48:45,173 --> 00:48:46,674 so entrenched outside its gates? 871 00:48:46,841 --> 00:48:50,136 Such is message recently dispatched into my hands. 872 00:48:50,928 --> 00:48:52,805 More than can be said of Pompey. 873 00:48:54,098 --> 00:48:57,685 He remains unmoved by request to unset from opposing perch 874 00:48:57,852 --> 00:49:00,188 and quell these Cilician cutthroats. 875 00:49:00,313 --> 00:49:03,775 Perhaps loss of untold men in failed attempt 876 00:49:04,150 --> 00:49:05,568 may give them pause. 877 00:49:06,152 --> 00:49:08,988 Or they shall see efforts redoubled 878 00:49:09,113 --> 00:49:11,491 at expense heart can ill afford. 879 00:49:11,658 --> 00:49:14,452 We must remain vigilant against such possibility. 880 00:49:15,536 --> 00:49:18,539 Beloved daughter broke words carrying truth. 881 00:49:19,791 --> 00:49:21,918 Gratitude is owed. 882 00:49:23,169 --> 00:49:26,172 As is reward rising to level of deed. 883 00:49:26,964 --> 00:49:29,217 [insects chirp] 884 00:49:30,385 --> 00:49:33,554 Your... noble daughter yet among the living 885 00:49:33,721 --> 00:49:35,890 presents reward beyond measure. 886 00:49:36,057 --> 00:49:39,143 A debt unpaid promises future expense. 887 00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:41,979 Often many times original sum. 888 00:49:42,855 --> 00:49:46,234 It is well known by all blessed with sense of fucking hearing 889 00:49:46,984 --> 00:49:49,112 that you desire entry to approaching games 890 00:49:49,237 --> 00:49:50,947 of the Ludi Apollinares. 891 00:49:51,322 --> 00:49:53,700 Thoughts occasionally turn upon subject. 892 00:49:53,825 --> 00:49:57,328 Then cease the churning of them. I shall see you well positioned. 893 00:50:00,039 --> 00:50:01,833 [chuckles softly] 894 00:50:02,542 --> 00:50:03,501 I... 895 00:50:05,670 --> 00:50:07,338 I do not possess words. 896 00:50:07,505 --> 00:50:09,507 Do not misconceive intent. 897 00:50:09,674 --> 00:50:11,342 I but erase debt, 898 00:50:11,467 --> 00:50:13,511 one I would not see plied against me 899 00:50:13,678 --> 00:50:16,180 upon inconvenient moment. 900 00:50:16,347 --> 00:50:17,306 Ah. 901 00:50:17,724 --> 00:50:20,768 Then we stand balanced, in all regards. 902 00:50:21,853 --> 00:50:23,896 Come. I shall have my medicus attend your wounds. 903 00:50:24,063 --> 00:50:25,398 Oh, a burden I will not impose. 904 00:50:25,565 --> 00:50:27,817 My own shall see to unconcerning wounds. 905 00:50:27,942 --> 00:50:30,361 I assure you mine stands of greater skill. 906 00:50:30,486 --> 00:50:32,405 Of that I hold no question. 907 00:50:32,905 --> 00:50:36,409 Yet I prefer not to stand in your debt. 908 00:50:37,952 --> 00:50:39,245 [chuckles softly] 909 00:50:39,412 --> 00:50:41,330 You learn quickly, Syrian. 910 00:50:42,123 --> 00:50:43,374 Very well. 911 00:50:43,875 --> 00:50:46,169 Let us part ways equally... 912 00:50:46,711 --> 00:50:48,129 untethered. 913 00:50:53,259 --> 00:50:54,969 [exhales deeply] 914 00:51:00,099 --> 00:51:03,603 You left Dominus at Gabinius' villa, to return alone? 915 00:51:03,770 --> 00:51:05,646 Ashur proves himself capable. 916 00:51:05,813 --> 00:51:07,440 Those who underestimate him 917 00:51:07,607 --> 00:51:09,317 do so at their own fucking peril. 918 00:51:09,484 --> 00:51:10,860 I would still see guards dispatched. 919 00:51:11,027 --> 00:51:14,113 Place concerns aside. The man himself appears. 920 00:51:15,406 --> 00:51:16,449 Dominus. 921 00:51:17,700 --> 00:51:20,870 - Fetch the medicus, quickly! - Oh, fuck medicus! 922 00:51:21,370 --> 00:51:25,833 I will bathe hard-fought wound in a river of fucking wine. 923 00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,461 Gabinius breaks words towards such elated mood? 924 00:51:28,628 --> 00:51:32,340 He breaks words that shall elevate this house. 925 00:51:32,924 --> 00:51:35,134 We stand blessed with position... 926 00:51:35,885 --> 00:51:37,887 in his fucking games. 927 00:51:41,599 --> 00:51:44,435 And you. [chuckles excitedly] 928 00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:46,562 You fucking titan! 929 00:51:47,647 --> 00:51:51,150 Your part in this shall not soon fall to discarded remembrance. 930 00:51:51,943 --> 00:51:54,237 Wine! Where is the fucking wine? 931 00:51:54,403 --> 00:51:56,113 How did you broach subject with Gabinius? 932 00:51:56,239 --> 00:51:57,573 A thing not required. 933 00:51:57,740 --> 00:52:00,284 He offered unprompted reward towards rescue 934 00:52:00,451 --> 00:52:02,411 of beloved wife and daughter. 935 00:52:02,537 --> 00:52:04,997 And you maneuvered such towards advantage in the arena? 936 00:52:05,164 --> 00:52:06,582 I maneuvered nothing. 937 00:52:07,625 --> 00:52:10,711 Tongue threatened to leap from mouth at the thought, but... 938 00:52:11,295 --> 00:52:13,381 heart held it fast in place. 939 00:52:13,881 --> 00:52:16,050 Viridia's life spared stood reward enough 940 00:52:16,217 --> 00:52:19,220 to consume all desire. 941 00:52:20,638 --> 00:52:25,476 The gods I hold no faith in favored humble Ashur. 942 00:52:27,687 --> 00:52:32,650 And you as well, with unwanted task now removed. 943 00:52:33,860 --> 00:52:34,861 Task? 944 00:52:35,278 --> 00:52:36,529 Lowering yourself to imagined affection 945 00:52:36,696 --> 00:52:39,740 to gain Opiter's aid towards the games. 946 00:52:40,867 --> 00:52:44,579 That preening little shit no longer stands of use. 947 00:52:45,162 --> 00:52:48,875 It is a relief not to be forced into his company. 948 00:52:50,835 --> 00:52:53,170 See all within this ludus to formation. 949 00:52:53,921 --> 00:52:56,090 And let us present glorious news 950 00:52:56,382 --> 00:52:57,675 of fucking 951 00:52:57,842 --> 00:53:00,011 -ascension! -[cup shatters] 952 00:53:05,391 --> 00:53:07,643 [dramatic music] 953 00:53:15,776 --> 00:53:18,613 You expect burning gaze to set her aflame? 954 00:53:19,906 --> 00:53:21,657 If I were so fortunate, 955 00:53:22,742 --> 00:53:25,870 surely my father would rush to extinguish blaze. 956 00:53:32,251 --> 00:53:33,878 This house has given rise 957 00:53:34,045 --> 00:53:37,673 to storied champions of lore and legends. 958 00:53:38,716 --> 00:53:41,260 Yet all who have come before shall pale 959 00:53:41,427 --> 00:53:44,555 against what I have fought with blood and bone 960 00:53:44,722 --> 00:53:46,933 to see opportunity presented. 961 00:53:48,184 --> 00:53:50,645 And such have been secured. 962 00:53:51,687 --> 00:53:55,858 We have gained position in the games of the Ludi Apollinares! 963 00:53:56,025 --> 00:53:58,611 [all cheer] 964 00:53:59,570 --> 00:54:00,947 And who shall grace the sands, Dominus? 965 00:54:01,113 --> 00:54:03,324 - Tarchon, hold tongue. - [scattered laughter] 966 00:54:04,075 --> 00:54:07,662 The boy is overcome by visions of glory. [chuckles] 967 00:54:08,412 --> 00:54:10,831 Positions and placements have yet to be broached. 968 00:54:10,957 --> 00:54:12,208 Yet know this. 969 00:54:12,583 --> 00:54:15,294 We shall see the Brothers Ferox to fucking grass 970 00:54:15,461 --> 00:54:18,756 for offense presented by the shit Proculus, 971 00:54:19,090 --> 00:54:20,174 by the hands 972 00:54:20,549 --> 00:54:22,802 of the goddess of fucking death. 973 00:54:24,428 --> 00:54:26,681 [momentous music] 974 00:54:28,140 --> 00:54:31,477 Fall to your beds and gather strength for coming days. 975 00:54:31,644 --> 00:54:34,313 I will announce those among you who are for the arena- 976 00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:35,398 Dominus. 977 00:54:35,982 --> 00:54:38,609 Procession has been spotted upon road towards villa. 978 00:54:39,902 --> 00:54:42,321 [laughs excitedly] 979 00:54:44,448 --> 00:54:47,284 Our patron, Crassus, at last arrives. 980 00:54:47,451 --> 00:54:49,036 Let him stand in awe 981 00:54:49,203 --> 00:54:53,249 at the fearsome offering of the House of fucking Ashur! 982 00:54:53,416 --> 00:54:56,752 [all cheer] 983 00:54:59,839 --> 00:55:02,341 Doctore, fall to my side 984 00:55:02,508 --> 00:55:05,970 and let us greet destiny with worthy embrace. 985 00:55:06,137 --> 00:55:09,306 [all cheer] 986 00:55:09,473 --> 00:55:12,476 [momentous music] 987 00:55:15,521 --> 00:55:16,856 [insects chirp] 988 00:55:17,023 --> 00:55:18,983 Do robes fall in manner matter pleasing to eye? 989 00:55:19,108 --> 00:55:20,401 You intend to welcome the man 990 00:55:20,526 --> 00:55:22,737 or present your arse for his pleasure? 991 00:55:23,863 --> 00:55:26,490 - [horn blares] - His wagon arrives. 992 00:55:27,074 --> 00:55:28,159 Straighten backs. 993 00:55:28,534 --> 00:55:29,952 Assume pleasant disposition, 994 00:55:30,077 --> 00:55:32,621 yet cast gaze downwards to avoid catching eye. 995 00:55:34,540 --> 00:55:36,792 [expectant music] 996 00:55:39,545 --> 00:55:41,964 [horse whinnies, reins jangle] 997 00:55:42,673 --> 00:55:45,801 [regal music] 998 00:55:48,054 --> 00:55:49,472 Whoa! 999 00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:54,643 Korris, three steps lingering a pace. 1000 00:55:56,062 --> 00:55:58,773 [exhales deeply, clears throat] 1001 00:56:06,197 --> 00:56:09,742 [fanfare music] 1002 00:56:10,159 --> 00:56:12,161 [footsteps approach] 1003 00:56:12,328 --> 00:56:16,248 [momentous, thumping music] 1004 00:56:19,168 --> 00:56:22,797 Mighty Crassus, you honor us with your noble presence. 1005 00:56:23,506 --> 00:56:25,508 You mistake me, Syrian. 1006 00:56:28,344 --> 00:56:29,637 Caesar. 1007 00:56:29,804 --> 00:56:32,932 [bright, dramatic music]