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[thunder rumbles]

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- [groans]
- You stand not yourself.

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Argh!

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[grunts]

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[screaming]

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It lifts spirits to
see you rise again.

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Tarchon assumes mantle

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until such time you
are able to reclaim it.

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[Tarchon roars]

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[Achillia]
I would take up fucking spear.

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What fucking hand
laid marks upon you?

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The fat one.

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Petition for seat towards
very front next I fight.

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And I will give him spectacle
not soon forgotten.

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I would have my
name upon your lips.

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-Ashur!
-[moaning]

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[Ashur]
And know that my heart is yours.

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-You tainted fucking wine?
- [giggles]

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Opiter's holdings fall
to the house of Proculus.

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[Ashur]
The fate Opiter feared.

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He feared Cilician assault?

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- No.
- Whose, then?

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One I would enlist aid in
holding to deserved account.

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- Why reveal the Syrian's plan?
- A loathsome creature,

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eyes slithering
across my daughter.

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I would see him to quick
and unfortunate end.

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But how best to rid ourselves
of such annoyance?

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I will send counterfeit message,

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confirming meeting in place
far removed from view.

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I shall see the matter
properly attended.

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It shall not be
the cries of Ashur

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that fill the air this night.

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Fucking cunt!

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Argh!

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- [splat!]
- Argh!

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Carry a message to your master.

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[Ashur]
I would not have let him live.

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I would reclaim title.

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[Ashur] Doctore.

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[blades ring, blood splatters]

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[rapid percussive music]

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[dark, eerie music]

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[pounding on door]

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[suspenseful music]

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Summon your dominus!

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[Ashur] Aedile.

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You grace us with
unexpected presence.

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Let us see
pleasantries abandoned

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and come to blunt words.

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Proculus asserts grievous
loss at your hands

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and seeks appropriate redress.

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Demands upon position
must exceed reason,

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to find you in such
low fellowship

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at early hour, Uvidus.

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Do more lanistae convene?

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Shall I send for
wine and olives?

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I merely request
Opiter's medicus,

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purchased with his
holdings at auction.

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Such could have
been satisfied

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absent need to rouse
esteemed Aedile.

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I thought it prudent to make
request among proper company.

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- Ah.
- [speaks Greek]

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[speaks Greek]

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- [both laugh]
- We stand in agreement, then.

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I leave you to your duties,
such as they may require.

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- Well, Syrian?
- I shall see the man produced.

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Satyrus will secure
him from your ludus.

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You would have me
descend there? Alone?

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See troubled mind
set to ease, little one.

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I shall see you escorted
by trusted doctore.

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[gasps]

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Where are their bodies?

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My brothers stood gladiators

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and deserve the honor
of funeral rites!

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They shall not have them,

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nor you the opportunity
to break farewells.

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Why stay hand from
my blood as well?

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To deliver message to your
fucking master, as I said.

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Claiming life would
have sent the same.

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[ominous music)

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It is a terrible thing,
is it not?

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To have those held to heart
ripped from it.

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Suffer, little man.

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Until the gods drag
you to the afterlife.

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[sighs]

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That seeping cunt!

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Bringing fucking aediles
and guards to bear.

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Perhaps wise precaution,
considering passions aroused.

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Tongue wags absent
fucking thought.

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Apologies.

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Word of this will
reach ear of Gabinius,

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weighing scale already
tipped to disfavor

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in wake of embarrassment
at auction.

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You will find means to balance
them again towards your favor,

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as you always have
and always shall.

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Does faith ever waver
towards me?

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Cause has yet to be given.

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I would keep sentiment close,

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to brace coming days.

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We stand, once again, in need...

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of a medicus.

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I will send word throughout
Capua in attempt to secure one,

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in advance of further injuries.

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Strike with spear,
not fucking jaw!

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Your little stick
falls short of purpose.

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Again!

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[both grunt]

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[both grunt]

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[Korris]
Hold!

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[sighs]

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I would see title
of doctore restored.

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Well, the gods rejoice...

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to see you again of a form,

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old friend.

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Fall to position,
you sentimental shit.

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And see return to glory
upon the sands.

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Doctore.

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Attend!

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Achillia crawls back to us

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from the depths
of the underworld.

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And your dominus
blesses her once more

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with mantle of champion.

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[gladiators cheer]

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The bitch returns.

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Celadus,
pair with the champion.

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Doctore.

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The goddess of death
rises again.

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Upon wings of your instruction.

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Begin!

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Perhaps it would be prudent

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to remove ourselves
from the streets.

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You fear renewed assault
by the Cilicians?

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No.

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City guards but conjure thought

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towards reason of
increased presence.

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The loss of dearest friend.

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As you once counselled me

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to face the darkness
of this world together,

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know that I offer same.

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I am undeserving
of such a child.

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[sighs]

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Apologies. Do I intrude
upon tender moment?

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[tense music]

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Proculus.

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In the flesh, warm with life.

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Viridia, return to villa.

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I would break words
with Proculus

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concerning acquisition of
a few of Opiter's trifles.

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Might I be of some small aid?

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Well, I would not refuse
such glorious company.

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See her to escort.
I will join you presently.

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May the gods favor
your dealings.

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Such a beautiful, ripe child.

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I did not expect to find myself

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downwind of you this day,
lanista.

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I am yet of this world.

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Yet, deep wound

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has been inflicted
upon poor Satyrus...

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in form of beloved brothers
put to grass,

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in addition to
several valued men.

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How unfortunate.

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More so for those
who move against me,

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absent thought of retribution.

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You forget who stands
my fucking husband.

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Memory holds of the man
towering over Capua

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lo these many, many years.

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I pray he clings to
the ones left to him,

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for fear of what may befall wife

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and cherished daughter
upon his passing.

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You attempt to cower
with veiled threat?

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I attempt nothing,
save idle conversation.

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Know this, lanista -
the woman before you

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does not shrink at thought of
blood upon her fucking hands.

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[chuckles] Perhaps you shall...

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when it is your own.

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[ominous music]

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Husband.

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I would break words towards
decision made in error.

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Whatever the infraction,
consider it forgiven,

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in favor of more
vital concerns.

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It- it is not a matter
of forgiveness.

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I do not stand of fucking mind
to hear it upon the moment!

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What so consumes you to bare
teeth towards loving wife?

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Apologies.

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Response arrives at
last from Pompey,

186
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towards Cilician incursion.

187
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"I am otherwise engaged...

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"with Caesar."

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- What other words did he break?
- That is the sum of them.

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[sighs]

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Crassus dispatches his vagrant
sword to cleave alliance,

192
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whilst his army marshals
at the gates of Rome.

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The man stands tyrant
in the forming,

194
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with Caesar stitched of
equal thread of ambition.

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If you feel such, why did you
concede to Caesar's demands,

196
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while he was yet within Capua?

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Crassus, Pompey and Caesar
each maneuver towards power

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currently beyond reach.

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We must tread every
path presented

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towards peaceful resolution

201
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or see beloved republic
devoured by ravenous appetites.

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Knot of Pompey's bond
loosens by day and hour.

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Should he unravel towards
cause of Crassus and Caesar,

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confederation formed
would be crushing blow.

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Well, you state but
the fucking obvious.

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00:11:45,585 --> 00:11:47,712
And draw towards
obvious conclusion.

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Pompey's allegiance
must be moved toward advantage

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and desire.

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I have attempted all

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to tether the man towards
greater fucking purpose.

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Not all.

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00:12:11,111 --> 00:12:13,113
How turn your thoughts, woman?

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[contemplative music]

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00:12:26,793 --> 00:12:29,880
Marriage would seal
him towards your cause.

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You propose union

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with our daughter?

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Have you swam in fucking wine
in advance of entry,

218
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sinking towards murky bottom?

219
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I but seek elegant solution

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to myriad difficulties
presenting themselves.

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And to ensure Viridia
is secure in her future

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when unthinkable day arrives

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and you stand
no longer among us.

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Oh. Am I so grim of countenance,
to incite such worry?

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No.

226
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Yet...

227
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If the gods snatched her
husband from her upon whim,

228
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as they did Opiter.

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From warm embrace, we cannot
know what future holds,

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only guard against possibility.

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Well, if I were to
shed mortal coil

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at setting of fucking sun,

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you would fall beneath
wing of my brother.

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And is that a fate
you would wish upon us?

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There must lie another way.

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You have said yourself
there is not.

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Something must be done,
and swiftly.

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I shall give thought
upon suggestion.

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[poignant music]

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[eagle cries]

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Messia.

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I would have a moment.

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I have none to give.
Domina requires attention.

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We seldom have occasion to speak
since her arrival.

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00:14:12,274 --> 00:14:14,442
You have said all
I need to hear.

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You were mistaken
regarding Dominus.

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- His heart is mine.
- You believe so?

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He has professed as much.

249
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[Ashur] Hilara?

250
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Your master calls.

251
00:14:41,303 --> 00:14:43,763
Gabinius has summoned me
to his villa.

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He seeks to mend relationship?

253
00:14:46,766 --> 00:14:48,727
Or to rend meat yet
clinging to bone.

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00:14:48,893 --> 00:14:50,770
Has search for new
medicus born fruit?

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00:14:51,313 --> 00:14:54,441
It has not.
I- I shall redouble effort.

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00:14:55,442 --> 00:14:59,195
See that this one breaks word
in common fucking tongue.

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Fall to my side.

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00:15:03,742 --> 00:15:05,785
And do not break from it
until I stand embraced

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within senator's villa.

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[indistinct conversations,
bell tolls]

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[birds chirp]

262
00:15:25,221 --> 00:15:27,390
[sighs]

263
00:15:30,435 --> 00:15:31,519
Apologies.

264
00:15:33,980 --> 00:15:35,982
Your father had summoned me.

265
00:15:36,441 --> 00:15:38,568
He should return upon a moment.

266
00:15:39,653 --> 00:15:40,862
Do you play?

267
00:15:43,698 --> 00:15:45,992
Such has been known to occur.

268
00:15:46,159 --> 00:15:48,995
Although deeper strategy eludes.

269
00:15:49,621 --> 00:15:52,207
Well, let instruction
see mystery dispelled.

270
00:15:57,170 --> 00:15:59,339
[gentle harp music]

271
00:16:04,969 --> 00:16:07,347
Pieces do not move
of own accord.

272
00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:11,518
They rise and fall in response
to hand upon them.

273
00:16:13,395 --> 00:16:15,480
Firm, at times...

274
00:16:16,690 --> 00:16:19,609
to insert where
movement is desired;

275
00:16:21,528 --> 00:16:23,405
soft at others...

276
00:16:24,406 --> 00:16:27,200
when seduction
of opponent is aim.

277
00:16:29,869 --> 00:16:32,247
I have been eager to break
words with you again.

278
00:16:33,581 --> 00:16:34,874
Towards what subject?

279
00:16:36,084 --> 00:16:37,252
All of them.

280
00:16:38,211 --> 00:16:39,795
[chuckles]

281
00:16:45,844 --> 00:16:49,055
There - I have
broached first move.

282
00:16:49,889 --> 00:16:52,308
-How will you counter?
-[chuckles]

283
00:16:53,727 --> 00:16:56,521
Cautiously, and with
great trepidation.

284
00:17:04,070 --> 00:17:05,113
Ah.

285
00:17:06,906 --> 00:17:09,575
- I fall to rapid disadvantage.
- [both laugh]

286
00:17:09,743 --> 00:17:13,036
To triumph, you must not be
consumed by present loss.

287
00:17:13,662 --> 00:17:16,166
Gaze instead towards horizon...

288
00:17:17,709 --> 00:17:19,419
and victory it may yet hold.

289
00:17:23,672 --> 00:17:25,467
Ah, um...

290
00:17:31,347 --> 00:17:32,223
[gasps]

291
00:17:32,932 --> 00:17:35,393
Are you certain this is
the move you wish to make?

292
00:17:41,316 --> 00:17:42,609
[lush music]

293
00:17:42,776 --> 00:17:44,194
- [clears throat]
- Father.

294
00:17:44,903 --> 00:17:47,363
I was just schooling
your guest towards game.

295
00:17:47,781 --> 00:17:48,948
So I see.

296
00:17:49,783 --> 00:17:52,911
I will leave you to private
words, as men often desire.

297
00:17:53,578 --> 00:17:55,663
Gratitude for instruction.

298
00:17:56,247 --> 00:17:58,333
Perhaps continued
upon another day.

299
00:18:08,259 --> 00:18:10,094
She favors your company.

300
00:18:10,595 --> 00:18:12,347
I yet stand unworthy of hers.

301
00:18:12,472 --> 00:18:14,891
We find ourselves
in agreement, then.

302
00:18:16,476 --> 00:18:17,852
Gratitude for invitation,

303
00:18:18,019 --> 00:18:20,480
coupled with deepest apologies.

304
00:18:20,647 --> 00:18:21,481
Towards?

305
00:18:21,648 --> 00:18:23,483
Outburst of my
doctore at auction.

306
00:18:23,650 --> 00:18:25,735
A regrettable fit of passion.

307
00:18:25,860 --> 00:18:27,445
Forgotten as it happened.

308
00:18:28,279 --> 00:18:31,658
Does Achillia stand ready
to grace the arena once more?

309
00:18:31,825 --> 00:18:33,451
Injury has required
shift in style

310
00:18:33,576 --> 00:18:34,869
towards that of hoplomachus.

311
00:18:35,036 --> 00:18:37,330
Does she stand ready?

312
00:18:39,290 --> 00:18:41,459
- She does.
- Good.

313
00:18:43,086 --> 00:18:46,506
I have intentions towards
unannounced games,

314
00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:48,299
to lift spirit...

315
00:18:48,842 --> 00:18:51,636
and distract from
recent Cilician assaults.

316
00:18:52,136 --> 00:18:53,888
A most excellent notion.

317
00:18:54,013 --> 00:18:55,807
And who shall my champion face?

318
00:18:57,058 --> 00:19:00,144
Proculus crows to aedile that
he has acquired a Scythian

319
00:19:00,311 --> 00:19:02,397
of most frightful prowess.

320
00:19:02,981 --> 00:19:04,732
I have not laid eyes on the man,

321
00:19:05,358 --> 00:19:09,070
but we shall put boast
to test in the Primus, yes?

322
00:19:09,237 --> 00:19:13,199
I shall see Achillia prepared
for most welcomed spectacle.

323
00:19:15,243 --> 00:19:16,369
Linger...

324
00:19:17,203 --> 00:19:18,371
a moment.

325
00:19:20,081 --> 00:19:21,916
What know you
of Caesar's intent

326
00:19:22,041 --> 00:19:25,378
towards meeting with Pompey
in Sinuessa en Valle?

327
00:19:28,131 --> 00:19:30,174
It remains enigma.

328
00:19:30,341 --> 00:19:34,137
Yet Caesar's machination forever
move towards his own elevation.

329
00:19:34,304 --> 00:19:36,431
If he can sway
Pompey towards such,

330
00:19:36,598 --> 00:19:40,351
he'll spare nothing
to see it so,

331
00:19:40,727 --> 00:19:42,812
to the detriment of us all.

332
00:19:43,563 --> 00:19:47,817
Yes. Course of action avails
itself that may see Pompey

333
00:19:47,984 --> 00:19:52,447
again aligned towards this
house, and greater cause.

334
00:19:53,615 --> 00:19:55,825
Yet cost of it carves
grievous wound.

335
00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:58,161
The sting of
yesterday's sacrifice,

336
00:19:58,328 --> 00:20:01,122
in service of greater
glory of tomorrow.

337
00:20:01,247 --> 00:20:04,584
[chuckles] You turn my own
words against me, Syrian?

338
00:20:04,751 --> 00:20:06,836
I but echo wisdom dispensed.

339
00:20:07,921 --> 00:20:11,090
Wise words often elude ear
of the man who speaks them.

340
00:20:11,257 --> 00:20:15,261
Gratitude for breaking them,
when most needed.

341
00:20:15,428 --> 00:20:17,597
I but serve more eminent cause.

342
00:20:18,848 --> 00:20:20,892
See Achillia and a clutch
of other offerings

343
00:20:21,059 --> 00:20:22,352
readied for the games -

344
00:20:22,936 --> 00:20:26,981
a distraction I find myself
unexpectedly in need of as well.

345
00:20:32,487 --> 00:20:34,697
[dramatic music]

346
00:20:38,242 --> 00:20:40,370
Celadus, press advantage.

347
00:20:44,415 --> 00:20:46,668
Achillia,
seek opening in retreat.

348
00:20:47,460 --> 00:20:49,420
[both grunt]

349
00:20:49,587 --> 00:20:51,631
[growls]

350
00:20:57,261 --> 00:21:00,348
- Your form returns.
- Yours never faltered.

351
00:21:00,473 --> 00:21:01,349
Attend!

352
00:21:02,558 --> 00:21:04,727
[panting]

353
00:21:10,692 --> 00:21:12,568
Senator Gabinius presents games

354
00:21:12,735 --> 00:21:15,279
to quell nerve from
Cilician attacks.

355
00:21:16,489 --> 00:21:20,368
Those to stand in blood and
glory for the House of Ashur

356
00:21:20,535 --> 00:21:22,245
shall be soon posted.

357
00:21:22,912 --> 00:21:26,290
Yet know that the
goddess of death again

358
00:21:26,457 --> 00:21:29,836
honors this house
in fucking Primus!

359
00:21:30,003 --> 00:21:31,713
[men cheer]

360
00:21:37,510 --> 00:21:39,178
Try not to lose the other hand.

361
00:21:39,554 --> 00:21:41,723
[men laugh]

362
00:21:45,351 --> 00:21:47,145
- [men cheer]
- Helios enters arena!

363
00:21:47,311 --> 00:21:51,858
Oh! Pray you don't leave
it upon fucking back!

364
00:21:52,025 --> 00:21:53,818
[laughter]

365
00:22:00,074 --> 00:22:02,160
We both gain position.

366
00:22:04,537 --> 00:22:05,913
Yet are to stand alone.

367
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:09,167
I give no shit to position
if it is not as champion.

368
00:22:10,626 --> 00:22:13,713
- A title Achillia has earned.
- And I have not?

369
00:22:14,422 --> 00:22:16,716
All I have ever known is
the way of the brotherhood.

370
00:22:18,092 --> 00:22:22,180
From first breath,
ludus has been my mother...

371
00:22:23,139 --> 00:22:25,058
blood my fucking milk.

372
00:22:26,142 --> 00:22:28,436
She bested Ammonius
in the arena.

373
00:22:30,354 --> 00:22:31,814
It's a feat yet
beyond your skill.

374
00:22:31,939 --> 00:22:33,232
You defend her at every turn.

375
00:22:33,399 --> 00:22:37,361
I but defend the champion
of this fucking house.

376
00:22:38,529 --> 00:22:40,156
She stands more than that.

377
00:22:41,199 --> 00:22:43,367
I see how her eyes
fall upon you.

378
00:22:44,368 --> 00:22:46,204
And yours upon her.

379
00:22:47,997 --> 00:22:50,833
I- I am your father, Tarchon.

380
00:22:51,876 --> 00:22:53,836
Yet I also stand a man.

381
00:22:56,714 --> 00:22:58,382
And you would deny me
the same comfort

382
00:22:58,549 --> 00:23:00,343
that you seek with your whore?

383
00:23:05,389 --> 00:23:07,475
Then cast off
bonds of father...

384
00:23:08,851 --> 00:23:10,561
standing only as a man.

385
00:23:12,772 --> 00:23:14,607
And call me son no more.

386
00:23:22,448 --> 00:23:24,742
The man not only
extended olive branch,

387
00:23:24,909 --> 00:23:27,495
he bestowed entire fucking tree.

388
00:23:27,662 --> 00:23:29,539
[laughs]

389
00:23:30,039 --> 00:23:31,958
My men to crowd arena,

390
00:23:32,125 --> 00:23:35,044
and Achillia to resume ascent
towards fucking heavens!

391
00:23:35,169 --> 00:23:37,463
Mwah! [laughs]

392
00:23:37,630 --> 00:23:38,756
[both laugh]

393
00:23:38,923 --> 00:23:42,385
Once more, my faith in you
proves true, Ashur.

394
00:23:43,553 --> 00:23:44,595
Ashur?

395
00:23:45,888 --> 00:23:47,849
You overreach familiarity.

396
00:23:48,558 --> 00:23:49,725
When last we laid together,

397
00:23:49,851 --> 00:23:52,645
it was your bidding
that I call you by name.

398
00:23:58,151 --> 00:23:59,735
[sighs]

399
00:24:03,156 --> 00:24:05,158
Words truly broken.

400
00:24:05,283 --> 00:24:08,327
Yet tongue and mind
were tainted with opium

401
00:24:08,494 --> 00:24:12,290
from that bitch Cornelia,
absent consent.

402
00:24:17,712 --> 00:24:20,798
[poignant music]

403
00:24:20,965 --> 00:24:22,884
Words held no meaning, then?

404
00:24:24,093 --> 00:24:27,305
Know that I hold you of
importance above all others...

405
00:24:29,098 --> 00:24:30,850
within this house.

406
00:24:32,810 --> 00:24:34,562
Yet beyond it,

407
00:24:35,897 --> 00:24:37,690
another lays claim to heart.

408
00:24:37,857 --> 00:24:40,193
[poignant music continues]

409
00:24:44,197 --> 00:24:45,323
Apologies.

410
00:24:46,365 --> 00:24:47,909
For misunderstanding.

411
00:24:49,911 --> 00:24:52,330
- Uh...
- Fetch wine.

412
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,583
And we shall think
no more upon it.

413
00:24:57,335 --> 00:24:59,962
Yes... Dominus.

414
00:25:01,214 --> 00:25:03,174
[poignant music continues]

415
00:25:08,721 --> 00:25:10,932
[sighs]

416
00:25:15,269 --> 00:25:16,771
[sighs]

417
00:25:20,149 --> 00:25:21,567
It is I who was mistaken.

418
00:25:21,734 --> 00:25:24,320
[sniffles, sighs]

419
00:25:25,363 --> 00:25:28,032
Professions of love
were conjured in error.

420
00:25:28,950 --> 00:25:30,826
How do you come by
such revelation?

421
00:25:31,285 --> 00:25:32,787
From Dominus himself.

422
00:25:34,705 --> 00:25:36,791
He holds affection
towards another.

423
00:25:38,084 --> 00:25:39,543
The daughter of Gabinius.

424
00:25:41,003 --> 00:25:43,589
I am a fool. [sniffles]

425
00:25:44,048 --> 00:25:46,425
Bitter taste of
rejection dilutes

426
00:25:46,884 --> 00:25:48,344
with passing of days.

427
00:25:52,723 --> 00:25:54,267
[sighs]

428
00:25:56,060 --> 00:25:58,020
[sniffles]

429
00:26:00,815 --> 00:26:02,608
[whispers] Apologies...

430
00:26:05,152 --> 00:26:08,155
for wounding loving
heart so carelessly.

431
00:26:08,739 --> 00:26:10,950
[sighs]

432
00:26:22,753 --> 00:26:24,422
Domina requires wine.

433
00:26:27,633 --> 00:26:29,927
Is this not what you desired?

434
00:26:35,057 --> 00:26:36,934
With all my being.

435
00:26:38,436 --> 00:26:40,896
Yet you shall never
be free of him.

436
00:26:42,148 --> 00:26:43,441
Nor I, you.

437
00:26:57,038 --> 00:26:59,123
Once again, you wander astray.

438
00:27:00,166 --> 00:27:03,627
Course was carefully chosen.

439
00:27:06,380 --> 00:27:07,423
Mmm.

440
00:27:08,132 --> 00:27:09,592
You wish to be alone?

441
00:27:11,510 --> 00:27:14,388
Attention pulls towards
troubling words

442
00:27:14,513 --> 00:27:16,098
broken with errant son.

443
00:27:17,641 --> 00:27:20,519
Are there any others
that spill from his mouth?

444
00:27:20,895 --> 00:27:23,230
You were born free.

445
00:27:24,190 --> 00:27:25,274
As was I.

446
00:27:25,775 --> 00:27:27,777
Tarchon was conceived
in bondage.

447
00:27:30,154 --> 00:27:31,155
[sighs]

448
00:27:37,453 --> 00:27:40,664
I forged the boy towards
singular purpose.

449
00:27:41,832 --> 00:27:44,210
Desire hammered and
heated in his blood

450
00:27:44,335 --> 00:27:46,629
from first fucking step -

451
00:27:47,838 --> 00:27:49,382
rise as champion.

452
00:27:50,466 --> 00:27:53,260
In ludus and arena and beyond.

453
00:27:53,803 --> 00:27:55,805
You have trained him well.

454
00:27:57,056 --> 00:27:59,183
There's no other
gladiator in this house

455
00:27:59,350 --> 00:28:01,102
that could stand against me.

456
00:28:03,020 --> 00:28:05,064
Save present company.

457
00:28:06,148 --> 00:28:09,110
I have but made him blind
to all else in life.

458
00:28:13,948 --> 00:28:17,243
And now he now counts father
as enemy obstructing ambition.

459
00:28:17,410 --> 00:28:19,578
It is the goddess of death...

460
00:28:20,496 --> 00:28:22,748
he holds guilty of
imagined offence.

461
00:28:23,749 --> 00:28:25,626
You but stand accomplice.

462
00:28:29,004 --> 00:28:30,589
I will speak to him

463
00:28:32,383 --> 00:28:33,926
and attempt to mend bridge.

464
00:28:34,885 --> 00:28:38,472
- You would do such a thing?
- I guarantee no result.

465
00:28:38,889 --> 00:28:40,349
He is thick of head...

466
00:28:42,518 --> 00:28:44,103
as is his father.

467
00:28:46,605 --> 00:28:47,940
[softly]
Gratitude.

468
00:28:51,610 --> 00:28:54,572
And how shall you show it?

469
00:28:54,905 --> 00:28:57,283
In all forms and manner...

470
00:28:58,534 --> 00:29:00,077
my goddess.

471
00:29:15,009 --> 00:29:17,178
[choral music]

472
00:29:22,933 --> 00:29:25,144
[both gasp]

473
00:29:30,983 --> 00:29:32,902
[groans]

474
00:29:33,068 --> 00:29:35,196
[gasps]

475
00:29:35,988 --> 00:29:37,865
[pants]

476
00:29:38,032 --> 00:29:40,868
[both gasp]

477
00:29:41,035 --> 00:29:43,245
[both pant]

478
00:29:48,918 --> 00:29:51,253
[choral music continues]

479
00:29:58,302 --> 00:30:01,180
- Pompey?
- He stands a consul of Rome,

480
00:30:01,347 --> 00:30:04,183
equaled in position
only by Crassus.

481
00:30:04,767 --> 00:30:08,437
The gods themselves could
not produce better match.

482
00:30:09,021 --> 00:30:10,105
But a handful of days past,

483
00:30:10,272 --> 00:30:13,067
you believed Quintus Thermus
to stand in such regard.

484
00:30:13,234 --> 00:30:14,735
Thermus points towards cause

485
00:30:14,902 --> 00:30:16,695
for union with Pompey
to be considered.

486
00:30:16,862 --> 00:30:18,656
You would trade my life

487
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,535
for more favored political
winds, absent my consent?

488
00:30:22,701 --> 00:30:25,746
What have I done to
see value so diminished?

489
00:30:25,913 --> 00:30:28,916
You stand... a woman.

490
00:30:29,333 --> 00:30:33,045
Consent is what
paterfamilias deems.

491
00:30:33,379 --> 00:30:34,547
And you deem it so?

492
00:30:34,713 --> 00:30:37,258
Honored mother
stands correct in word,

493
00:30:38,008 --> 00:30:41,262
though misguided
in father's intent.

494
00:30:42,304 --> 00:30:45,015
It is not valuation of you
that moves me.

495
00:30:45,182 --> 00:30:46,308
It is fear.

496
00:30:47,393 --> 00:30:48,686
And desperation.

497
00:30:49,436 --> 00:30:51,397
Caesar maneuvers Pompey

498
00:30:51,522 --> 00:30:54,275
towards alignment with
himself and Crassus.

499
00:30:55,234 --> 00:30:56,944
If they form triumvirate,

500
00:30:57,695 --> 00:31:01,240
republic and all within -
including beloved daughter -

501
00:31:02,241 --> 00:31:04,535
will fall to severest concern.

502
00:31:05,202 --> 00:31:06,912
Is there no other path?

503
00:31:09,790 --> 00:31:12,209
I have failed to divine one.

504
00:31:14,962 --> 00:31:17,506
As paterfamilias,
it is within my right

505
00:31:17,673 --> 00:31:19,675
to command you to
accept this union.

506
00:31:20,843 --> 00:31:22,636
Yet you have suffered much.

507
00:31:23,387 --> 00:31:26,223
And I would not add to it
by proclamations and demands.

508
00:31:26,390 --> 00:31:28,392
You turn from fucking union?

509
00:31:28,559 --> 00:31:29,560
Hold tongue.

510
00:31:30,185 --> 00:31:34,231
I but place decision in hands
that must carry burden.

511
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,235
It is a weighty decision -

512
00:31:39,653 --> 00:31:42,615
impact of which shall resound

513
00:31:42,781 --> 00:31:45,117
beyond our reckoning and years.

514
00:31:46,827 --> 00:31:48,370
Measure it with care.

515
00:31:52,207 --> 00:31:54,001
[birds call]

516
00:31:54,168 --> 00:31:56,337
[clattering]

517
00:31:58,213 --> 00:31:59,214
Tarchon.

518
00:32:00,299 --> 00:32:01,467
I would share words.

519
00:32:01,592 --> 00:32:03,344
Break them with someone
not fucking before you.

520
00:32:03,510 --> 00:32:05,763
I would see us
no longer at odds.

521
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,979
Then relinquish
title undeserved.

522
00:32:14,146 --> 00:32:15,606
How do you perceive it so?

523
00:32:15,731 --> 00:32:18,150
Did I not fight to gain it,
as everyone within this house?

524
00:32:18,317 --> 00:32:20,235
You did not gain
it through skill,

525
00:32:20,402 --> 00:32:22,988
but by novelty of cunt
standing gladiator.

526
00:32:23,155 --> 00:32:26,367
Ammonius did not give shit
towards what lay between my legs

527
00:32:26,533 --> 00:32:27,868
when I took his fucking life.

528
00:32:28,035 --> 00:32:31,497
Nor will I, when
I take yours upon a day.

529
00:32:34,416 --> 00:32:36,418
Let us come to common ground.

530
00:32:37,544 --> 00:32:39,588
-Your father does not wish--
-I have no father.

531
00:32:41,131 --> 00:32:44,009
Nor desire towards
further words with his whore.

532
00:32:46,303 --> 00:32:47,805
Do not turn from me.

533
00:32:48,180 --> 00:32:49,640
[both grunt]

534
00:32:49,807 --> 00:32:52,017
- [snarls]
- [both grunt]

535
00:32:52,184 --> 00:32:54,395
[both grunt]

536
00:32:55,187 --> 00:32:58,023
[both grunt]

537
00:32:58,190 --> 00:33:00,442
- [grunts]
- Argh!

538
00:33:04,154 --> 00:33:06,365
[pants]

539
00:33:10,994 --> 00:33:13,455
Have you lost fucking sense?

540
00:33:14,456 --> 00:33:17,543
- Apologies, Dominus-
- Fuck your apologies!

541
00:33:21,380 --> 00:33:22,881
Can she fight?

542
00:33:28,721 --> 00:33:32,057
If we yet retain medicus,
perhaps - by end of month.

543
00:33:32,224 --> 00:33:33,475
Argh!

544
00:33:34,476 --> 00:33:35,519
Dominus.

545
00:33:36,603 --> 00:33:39,314
I shall assume position
and fight as champion.

546
00:33:45,070 --> 00:33:49,158
You shall never
stand champion, boy!

547
00:33:49,324 --> 00:33:51,910
If matches were not already
posted to the aedile,

548
00:33:52,077 --> 00:33:54,747
I would see you over
the fucking cliff!

549
00:33:54,872 --> 00:33:58,083
- Dominus!
- Do not fucking speak!

550
00:34:06,216 --> 00:34:08,427
[suspenseful music]

551
00:34:14,433 --> 00:34:16,393
We must present alternative
champion to Gabinius

552
00:34:16,559 --> 00:34:20,271
and pray offering does not
tip scale back to disfavor.

553
00:34:21,565 --> 00:34:24,026
Who stands above all
others beyond Achillia

554
00:34:24,151 --> 00:34:26,945
and this fucking pup?!

555
00:34:28,070 --> 00:34:29,490
There is but one.

556
00:34:32,034 --> 00:34:34,244
[crowd clamors]

557
00:34:39,291 --> 00:34:41,460
[crowd clamors]

558
00:34:45,213 --> 00:34:47,423
Argh!

559
00:34:50,093 --> 00:34:52,095
- [thud]
- [groans]

560
00:34:52,262 --> 00:34:54,139
[cheering, whistling]

561
00:34:54,306 --> 00:34:55,599
You promise fucking moon

562
00:34:55,724 --> 00:34:57,768
and conspire to present
shadowed reflection.

563
00:34:57,935 --> 00:34:59,102
Apologies. Achillia suffered--

564
00:34:59,228 --> 00:35:01,814
These games were built
upon name of your champion,

565
00:35:02,272 --> 00:35:04,399
and now you shit
upon fucking effort.

566
00:35:05,275 --> 00:35:07,945
[crowd clamors]

567
00:35:08,111 --> 00:35:10,906
Pray the crowd does not
demand Syrian blood

568
00:35:11,031 --> 00:35:13,367
in reply to such offense.

569
00:35:14,326 --> 00:35:16,537
[crowd clamors]

570
00:35:18,330 --> 00:35:22,000
Is there any endeavor that
does not find you failure?

571
00:35:22,167 --> 00:35:25,546
[scoffs] I hold no
humor to spar with you.

572
00:35:25,712 --> 00:35:27,381
Why does Proculus yet live?

573
00:35:28,257 --> 00:35:29,508
The fault lies with you.

574
00:35:29,675 --> 00:35:33,053
The man was not produced at
appointed time, as promised.

575
00:35:33,220 --> 00:35:36,390
[scoffs] Fault is indeed mine,

576
00:35:36,557 --> 00:35:40,102
for ever laying trust
in one so beneath me.

577
00:35:41,270 --> 00:35:43,272
[gladiators grunt]

578
00:35:43,397 --> 00:35:45,232
[crowd cheers, whistles]

579
00:35:45,399 --> 00:35:47,234
[crowd clamors]

580
00:35:47,401 --> 00:35:49,194
[crowd cheers, whistles]

581
00:35:49,361 --> 00:35:51,280
- [crowd cheers]
- [sighs]

582
00:35:51,446 --> 00:35:53,615
[crowd cheers]

583
00:35:58,370 --> 00:36:00,622
[crowd cheers]

584
00:36:04,376 --> 00:36:06,587
[both grunt]

585
00:36:08,338 --> 00:36:11,174
[both grunt]

586
00:36:11,300 --> 00:36:13,594
- Argh!
- [crowd cheers]

587
00:36:15,387 --> 00:36:17,598
[both grunt]

588
00:36:19,308 --> 00:36:21,560
[crowd clamors]

589
00:36:25,397 --> 00:36:27,065
[cheering]

590
00:36:27,232 --> 00:36:30,110
- [applause, whistling]
- Your man stands victorious.

591
00:36:30,235 --> 00:36:33,196
- Mm.
- Yet you do not rejoice?

592
00:36:34,448 --> 00:36:36,783
Your father is of a mood.

593
00:36:37,367 --> 00:36:38,452
Mm.

594
00:36:39,786 --> 00:36:41,121
You must forgive it.

595
00:36:42,039 --> 00:36:45,334
Matters of gravest import
weigh upon him.

596
00:36:47,377 --> 00:36:49,421
Let us announce next
fucking contest.

597
00:36:49,588 --> 00:36:51,924
Proculus, who do you present?

598
00:36:52,257 --> 00:36:55,052
- Satyrus, thraex.
- Ah.

599
00:36:55,218 --> 00:36:58,221
Last survivor of the
deadly Brothers Ferox.

600
00:36:58,388 --> 00:37:01,767
Last? What befell his
horrible little siblings?

601
00:37:02,351 --> 00:37:03,977
Tumbled to misfortune.

602
00:37:04,895 --> 00:37:09,441
As many in Capua are wont
in these troubled times.

603
00:37:10,776 --> 00:37:13,570
- Syrian?
- Helios. Hoplomachus.

604
00:37:14,488 --> 00:37:18,283
I fear Satyrus will soon be
reunited with his brothers.

605
00:37:18,450 --> 00:37:19,368
[scoffs]

606
00:37:21,578 --> 00:37:25,415
From the House of the Syrian,
Helios - hoplomachus!

607
00:37:25,582 --> 00:37:26,333
[laughs]

608
00:37:26,500 --> 00:37:28,669
[cheering]

609
00:37:29,461 --> 00:37:32,339
Argh! [growls]

610
00:37:32,881 --> 00:37:35,467
Your dominus must be
truly displeased -

611
00:37:36,343 --> 00:37:39,972
to send a third of a man to
meet his doom upon the sands.

612
00:37:40,138 --> 00:37:43,016
I shall honor my brothers!

613
00:37:43,183 --> 00:37:46,144
And see all who hold me in doubt

614
00:37:46,311 --> 00:37:49,314
- fucked to the afterlife!
- [jeering]

615
00:37:49,481 --> 00:37:52,192
Argh! [growls]

616
00:37:52,359 --> 00:37:55,237
- Satyrus - thraex.
- [crowd boos]

617
00:37:55,404 --> 00:37:57,322
- Argh!
- [crowd boos]

618
00:37:57,489 --> 00:37:59,324
[crowd jeers]

619
00:37:59,491 --> 00:38:01,326
[laughter]

620
00:38:01,493 --> 00:38:03,161
Argh!

621
00:38:03,328 --> 00:38:05,998
- Argh!
- [laughter, jeering]

622
00:38:08,291 --> 00:38:11,169
The gods have sent
me fucking child!

623
00:38:11,962 --> 00:38:14,339
And I shall swiftly
return him to their hands!

624
00:38:14,506 --> 00:38:16,717
[cheering]

625
00:38:17,884 --> 00:38:19,011
Begin!

626
00:38:19,511 --> 00:38:20,929
[cheering]

627
00:38:22,472 --> 00:38:24,683
[growls]

628
00:38:26,476 --> 00:38:28,729
[growls]

629
00:38:31,481 --> 00:38:33,734
[both bellow]

630
00:38:35,485 --> 00:38:37,863
- Argh!
- [thud]

631
00:38:38,113 --> 00:38:39,740
[crowd gasps]

632
00:38:40,532 --> 00:38:42,743
[gasps]

633
00:38:43,535 --> 00:38:45,746
[pants]

634
00:38:49,875 --> 00:38:51,334
[grunts]

635
00:38:53,003 --> 00:38:53,754
[bellows]

636
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:57,215
- [crowd cheers]
- [both laugh]

637
00:39:02,596 --> 00:39:04,765
[growls]

638
00:39:10,145 --> 00:39:13,899
Send more of your men for
me to kill, you fucking oaf!

639
00:39:14,066 --> 00:39:15,776
[growls]

640
00:39:17,527 --> 00:39:19,112
Most unexpected result.

641
00:39:19,613 --> 00:39:23,658
Yes. Perhaps the little
man yet holds worth.

642
00:39:23,825 --> 00:39:26,036
[dramatic music]

643
00:39:31,666 --> 00:39:34,461
[cheering]

644
00:39:34,586 --> 00:39:36,463
The gods conspire
against your man,

645
00:39:37,047 --> 00:39:38,882
to see such unfortunate turn.

646
00:39:39,341 --> 00:39:43,053
It is but a day,
in an endless string of them.

647
00:39:45,430 --> 00:39:47,557
How does fire eternally burn,

648
00:39:47,974 --> 00:39:49,851
in face of grim reality?

649
00:39:51,478 --> 00:39:54,523
You yourself counsel not to
be consumed with present loss,

650
00:39:55,357 --> 00:39:57,692
yet look towards horizon
of future victories.

651
00:39:58,110 --> 00:40:01,321
Hmm. Words spoken
absent thought...

652
00:40:02,405 --> 00:40:03,865
void of meaning.

653
00:40:06,660 --> 00:40:08,286
They hold such to me.

654
00:40:13,667 --> 00:40:18,338
I... I would remove myself,
to seek shade and water.

655
00:40:26,263 --> 00:40:30,559
You remember my teachings,
and see yourself to victory.

656
00:40:31,434 --> 00:40:33,895
And perhaps a return
to Dominus' favor.

657
00:40:35,188 --> 00:40:36,398
You are the past.

658
00:40:41,027 --> 00:40:42,612
I forge my own future.

659
00:40:43,697 --> 00:40:46,449
[Gabinius]
Enter Tarchon - thraex!

660
00:40:46,616 --> 00:40:48,785
[cheering, applause]

661
00:40:54,624 --> 00:40:56,835
[cheering, applause]

662
00:40:57,669 --> 00:40:59,796
[cheering]

663
00:41:05,552 --> 00:41:07,804
[cheering continues]

664
00:41:10,348 --> 00:41:14,394
And standing for the House of
Proculus, Viction - murmillo!

665
00:41:14,561 --> 00:41:16,813
[cheering, applause]

666
00:41:17,606 --> 00:41:19,816
[growls, laughs]

667
00:41:27,574 --> 00:41:29,868
[suspenseful music]

668
00:41:30,493 --> 00:41:31,411
Begin!

669
00:41:32,704 --> 00:41:34,956
[cheering, whistling]

670
00:41:37,667 --> 00:41:39,878
[both grunt]

671
00:41:43,673 --> 00:41:46,676
[cheering]

672
00:41:46,843 --> 00:41:48,136
Stands swell to bursting.

673
00:41:48,303 --> 00:41:50,680
With equal number refused
entry beyond gates.

674
00:41:50,847 --> 00:41:54,017
Would that space presented for
all of Capua to witness display.

675
00:41:54,184 --> 00:41:56,228
You strike upon vexing truth.

676
00:41:56,394 --> 00:41:57,437
Syrian.

677
00:41:57,604 --> 00:41:58,772
Where does effort stand

678
00:41:58,939 --> 00:42:00,774
in swaying your
patron towards coin,

679
00:42:00,899 --> 00:42:03,818
in service of seeing old arena
restored to former glory?

680
00:42:03,985 --> 00:42:06,613
I labor unceasingly
towards such a day.

681
00:42:07,155 --> 00:42:09,032
I have not heard
Crassus mention it.

682
00:42:09,574 --> 00:42:12,619
Does he even recall the
Syrian yet draws breath?

683
00:42:13,119 --> 00:42:16,331
Favor holds firm and shall
produce desired results.

684
00:42:17,457 --> 00:42:19,918
[swords clash, gladiators grunt]

685
00:42:20,961 --> 00:42:23,380
You take leave while
your man yet fights?

686
00:42:23,546 --> 00:42:26,258
Excess of wine,
demanding relief.

687
00:42:26,675 --> 00:42:28,885
[crowd cheers]

688
00:42:31,638 --> 00:42:34,057
Our ranks noticeably thin.

689
00:42:35,725 --> 00:42:37,894
[both grunt]

690
00:42:40,730 --> 00:42:42,607
Argh!

691
00:42:42,774 --> 00:42:44,943
[grunts]

692
00:42:45,735 --> 00:42:47,529
Argh!

693
00:42:47,696 --> 00:42:49,906
- Yes!
- [crowd cheers]

694
00:42:51,658 --> 00:42:53,910
[crowd cheers]

695
00:42:56,705 --> 00:42:58,164
Have I offended?

696
00:42:58,957 --> 00:43:00,500
If so, give voice
to transgression,

697
00:43:00,625 --> 00:43:03,211
so I may strangle it
till void of life.

698
00:43:05,005 --> 00:43:06,715
You stand free of burden.

699
00:43:07,257 --> 00:43:08,675
Yet burden exists.

700
00:43:09,467 --> 00:43:11,094
It's never far from presence,

701
00:43:11,553 --> 00:43:15,265
for those who carry the name
of woman in the republic.

702
00:43:16,016 --> 00:43:18,101
Were you born a man...

703
00:43:18,852 --> 00:43:21,313
I fear I would turn
from softer touch.

704
00:43:21,771 --> 00:43:23,940
[both chuckle]

705
00:43:28,111 --> 00:43:30,071
Would that we were
not who we are.

706
00:43:32,324 --> 00:43:34,409
Yet still within
sphere of each other.

707
00:43:40,832 --> 00:43:42,250
[gasps]

708
00:43:45,211 --> 00:43:47,547
[whispers] Viridia, I...

709
00:43:48,465 --> 00:43:49,549
[gasps]

710
00:43:49,716 --> 00:43:51,843
[crowd roars]

711
00:43:52,010 --> 00:43:55,013
I should return to pulvinus
before absence draws question.

712
00:43:57,057 --> 00:43:58,808
What has come between us?

713
00:44:01,686 --> 00:44:03,063
Is it your mother, or--

714
00:44:03,229 --> 00:44:05,273
I have been asked
to consider marriage.

715
00:44:06,232 --> 00:44:09,069
Yes. Yes, to Quintus Thermus.

716
00:44:09,235 --> 00:44:11,029
I have already spoken
to your father against it.

717
00:44:11,154 --> 00:44:12,447
- He agrees that--
- No.

718
00:44:12,614 --> 00:44:15,450
I have been asked to consider
marriage to Pompey.

719
00:44:17,827 --> 00:44:19,037
Pompey?

720
00:44:19,204 --> 00:44:21,915
My father fears what may happen
if Crassus, Caesar and he

721
00:44:22,082 --> 00:44:24,876
were to stand united
against the republic.

722
00:44:28,088 --> 00:44:31,174
And he seeks to firmly
secure the man...

723
00:44:31,966 --> 00:44:33,301
in opposition.

724
00:44:36,721 --> 00:44:38,098
You cannot do this.

725
00:44:39,015 --> 00:44:42,644
Pompey casts wives aside with
shifting of fucking breeze.

726
00:44:42,811 --> 00:44:45,730
He but marries towards
power and position.

727
00:44:45,897 --> 00:44:47,399
What man does not?

728
00:44:52,237 --> 00:44:53,863
The one before you.

729
00:44:56,866 --> 00:44:58,159
[gasps]

730
00:45:00,370 --> 00:45:02,122
Allow me to amend.

731
00:45:03,915 --> 00:45:05,542
What Roman man?

732
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:13,716
[poignant music]

733
00:45:13,883 --> 00:45:16,010
[crowd roars]

734
00:45:20,932 --> 00:45:23,226
Presence was sorely missed.

735
00:45:23,726 --> 00:45:25,437
I am here now.

736
00:45:29,441 --> 00:45:31,526
And I stand for the republic.

737
00:45:31,693 --> 00:45:32,777
[gasps]

738
00:45:36,322 --> 00:45:39,576
Would that all fathers
were so blessed as I.

739
00:45:43,872 --> 00:45:47,083
[suspenseful music]

740
00:45:47,250 --> 00:45:48,793
You appear abandoned.

741
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:51,129
[both grunt]

742
00:45:52,881 --> 00:45:55,091
[crowd roars]

743
00:45:56,885 --> 00:45:58,303
Come on!

744
00:45:58,803 --> 00:46:00,805
- [both grunt]
- Yes!

745
00:46:00,930 --> 00:46:03,099
[both grunt]

746
00:46:05,810 --> 00:46:08,104
[crowd roars]

747
00:46:09,314 --> 00:46:10,732
Yes, Tarchon!

748
00:46:10,899 --> 00:46:13,109
[both grunt]

749
00:46:15,195 --> 00:46:16,529
Get up!

750
00:46:18,781 --> 00:46:19,824
Argh!

751
00:46:19,991 --> 00:46:23,828
[bellows]

752
00:46:23,995 --> 00:46:25,830
- [thud]
- Argh!

753
00:46:25,997 --> 00:46:27,916
- [cheering]
- [grunts]

754
00:46:28,082 --> 00:46:30,335
[screaming]

755
00:46:30,502 --> 00:46:32,170
[thud]

756
00:46:33,213 --> 00:46:34,797
Gods!

757
00:46:34,964 --> 00:46:37,133
[whimpers]

758
00:46:38,593 --> 00:46:40,845
- Halt contest!
- Guards!

759
00:46:40,970 --> 00:46:42,805
[both grunt]

760
00:46:42,972 --> 00:46:44,724
[crowd clamors]

761
00:46:44,849 --> 00:46:47,644
- [both grunt]
- Argh!

762
00:46:47,810 --> 00:46:49,187
[heartbeat thuds]

763
00:46:50,980 --> 00:46:52,690
[growls]

764
00:46:52,857 --> 00:46:54,692
- Argh!
- [crowd clamors]

765
00:46:54,817 --> 00:46:57,111
- [gasps]
- He strikes down a Roman!

766
00:46:57,278 --> 00:46:58,279
Execute the man!

767
00:46:58,446 --> 00:47:00,782
I will personally see my
gladiator put to death!

768
00:47:00,949 --> 00:47:02,784
Quickly! Move!

769
00:47:02,951 --> 00:47:05,870
[both grunt]

770
00:47:06,037 --> 00:47:07,914
[both grunt]

771
00:47:08,081 --> 00:47:09,916
[growls]

772
00:47:10,083 --> 00:47:12,210
Argh!

773
00:47:13,962 --> 00:47:16,130
- [thud]
- [crowd roars]

774
00:47:16,297 --> 00:47:17,590
[gasps]

775
00:47:20,677 --> 00:47:22,095
Reclaim seat.

776
00:47:22,470 --> 00:47:25,014
My man has seen to fucking deed.

777
00:47:27,642 --> 00:47:33,106
A Roman has been struck down,
yet justice has been meted...

778
00:47:33,731 --> 00:47:35,316
by the House of the Syrian!

779
00:47:35,483 --> 00:47:37,902
[crowd cheers]

780
00:47:38,069 --> 00:47:40,238
[triumphant music]

781
00:47:45,034 --> 00:47:46,953
Yes! Yes!

782
00:47:47,078 --> 00:47:48,830
[cheering]

783
00:47:48,997 --> 00:47:51,249
[whistling, cheering]

784
00:47:56,504 --> 00:47:59,382
You! You fucking god!

785
00:48:00,008 --> 00:48:02,552
[pants]

786
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:04,637
A victory well earned.

787
00:48:04,804 --> 00:48:08,641
I do not need your praise.
Nor seek it, champion.

788
00:48:08,975 --> 00:48:11,185
[poignant music]

789
00:48:13,229 --> 00:48:16,482
You return to Primus after too
long an absence, old friend.

790
00:48:17,650 --> 00:48:19,736
It should be Achillia
upon my place.

791
00:48:19,902 --> 00:48:22,405
Yet it is you the gods
have chosen this day.

792
00:48:23,448 --> 00:48:26,701
Honor them,
with blood and glory.

793
00:48:36,210 --> 00:48:38,838
[sighs] Primus at last arrives.

794
00:48:39,005 --> 00:48:40,798
And with it the return
of the goddess of death,

795
00:48:40,965 --> 00:48:42,258
to further excite the crowd.

796
00:48:42,383 --> 00:48:45,345
I fear they shall stand
in disappointment.

797
00:48:45,928 --> 00:48:47,597
Achillia does not
take to the sands?

798
00:48:47,722 --> 00:48:48,598
She does not.

799
00:48:48,765 --> 00:48:50,516
Then who is my
champion to face?

800
00:48:50,642 --> 00:48:52,685
A mystery yet to unfold.

801
00:48:54,854 --> 00:48:57,482
Syrian. Present contest.

802
00:48:57,649 --> 00:49:01,611
And let your voice be harbinger
of fucking dissatisfaction.

803
00:49:04,072 --> 00:49:06,324
[suspenseful music]

804
00:49:17,877 --> 00:49:23,132
Achillia, the goddess of death,
stands champion in this arena!

805
00:49:23,299 --> 00:49:25,259
[cheering]

806
00:49:30,056 --> 00:49:33,393
Not by mere name,
but by conquest!

807
00:49:33,559 --> 00:49:35,812
[cheering, whistling]

808
00:49:37,980 --> 00:49:40,566
Would you see her
face one of equal skill

809
00:49:40,733 --> 00:49:43,027
towards blood and victory?!

810
00:49:43,194 --> 00:49:45,363
[crowd cheers]

811
00:49:49,117 --> 00:49:51,911
I would see it as well.

812
00:49:53,705 --> 00:49:56,999
Yet who stands worthy
of facing her?

813
00:49:57,125 --> 00:50:00,044
Let this Primus answer question

814
00:50:00,211 --> 00:50:01,337
and see victor

815
00:50:01,504 --> 00:50:04,882
stand against the goddess
of death in future contest!

816
00:50:05,007 --> 00:50:07,802
- [jeering]
- From the House of Ashur,

817
00:50:07,969 --> 00:50:10,847
I give you a legend
in the arena.

818
00:50:11,013 --> 00:50:13,015
- [gate clanks]
- Enter Celadus!

819
00:50:13,182 --> 00:50:15,017
Dimachaerus!

820
00:50:15,184 --> 00:50:17,311
[crowd jeers]

821
00:50:19,147 --> 00:50:21,357
[crowd boos]

822
00:50:23,192 --> 00:50:25,027
[crowd boos]

823
00:50:25,194 --> 00:50:26,821
Achillia!

824
00:50:26,988 --> 00:50:30,074
- Give us Achillia!
- Where is Achillia?!

825
00:50:30,241 --> 00:50:32,410
[crowd boos]

826
00:50:33,911 --> 00:50:37,081
And from the
House of Proculus...

827
00:50:40,084 --> 00:50:43,171
I give you the Unknown Scythian.

828
00:50:43,463 --> 00:50:45,965
Again, dimachaerus.

829
00:50:46,132 --> 00:50:48,968
[cheering]

830
00:50:49,093 --> 00:50:51,345
[cheering, applause]

831
00:50:52,096 --> 00:50:54,390
[cheering, whistling]

832
00:50:57,101 --> 00:50:58,978
- [laughs]
- [gasps]

833
00:50:59,103 --> 00:51:01,481
[crowd cheers, applauds]

834
00:51:03,816 --> 00:51:05,777
You present another
fucking woman?

835
00:51:05,943 --> 00:51:06,778
Apologies.

836
00:51:06,944 --> 00:51:09,113
It is what the crowd
now demands.

837
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:11,032
[chuckles]

838
00:51:12,158 --> 00:51:14,452
[cheering, whistling]

839
00:51:20,291 --> 00:51:22,460
[intense music]

840
00:51:24,086 --> 00:51:26,380
- [roars]
- [cheering]

841
00:51:27,882 --> 00:51:29,383
[laughs]

842
00:51:31,135 --> 00:51:33,429
[cheering, whistling]

843
00:51:37,058 --> 00:51:38,351
Begin!

844
00:51:39,227 --> 00:51:41,479
[cheering, applause]

845
00:51:42,271 --> 00:51:44,148
[intense music]

846
00:51:44,315 --> 00:51:46,484
[cheering]

847
00:51:50,905 --> 00:51:52,698
[growls]

848
00:51:52,865 --> 00:51:54,450
[grunts]

849
00:51:59,330 --> 00:52:01,040
[roars]

850
00:52:01,207 --> 00:52:04,168
- [both grunt]
- Fucking kill her!

851
00:52:04,335 --> 00:52:06,170
[both grunt]

852
00:52:06,295 --> 00:52:08,464
[bellows]

853
00:52:09,298 --> 00:52:11,175
[both grunt]

854
00:52:11,300 --> 00:52:13,469
[bellows]

855
00:52:17,265 --> 00:52:19,141
[bellows]

856
00:52:19,308 --> 00:52:21,477
[crowd roars]

857
00:52:26,357 --> 00:52:28,192
[cheering]

858
00:52:28,359 --> 00:52:30,194
[both grunt]

859
00:52:30,361 --> 00:52:32,238
[swords clang]

860
00:52:32,363 --> 00:52:34,156
[both grunt]

861
00:52:34,323 --> 00:52:36,200
[shrieks]

862
00:52:36,325 --> 00:52:39,495
[grunts]

863
00:52:39,662 --> 00:52:42,999
Proculus, how did you
acquire such a specimen?

864
00:52:43,165 --> 00:52:44,458
She stands a marvel.

865
00:52:44,625 --> 00:52:48,421
At great expense to myself,
and those who dare to face her.

866
00:52:48,588 --> 00:52:50,006
Contest has only yet begun.

867
00:52:50,172 --> 00:52:52,174
And my man has
drawn first blood.

868
00:52:52,341 --> 00:52:53,384
Yes.

869
00:52:53,551 --> 00:52:56,137
I instructed her not to
end the match too quickly,

870
00:52:56,554 --> 00:52:59,348
so that the crowd
may stand satisfied.

871
00:53:00,057 --> 00:53:02,351
How absolutely delightful.

872
00:53:03,311 --> 00:53:05,563
[both grunt]

873
00:53:10,359 --> 00:53:12,737
[grunts]

874
00:53:12,904 --> 00:53:14,155
[cheering]

875
00:53:14,322 --> 00:53:17,450
- Get up!
- Regain feet old man!

876
00:53:17,617 --> 00:53:19,785
[cheering]

877
00:53:20,369 --> 00:53:22,622
[pants]

878
00:53:24,415 --> 00:53:26,167
[roars]

879
00:53:26,334 --> 00:53:28,544
[both grunt]

880
00:53:30,338 --> 00:53:32,506
[both grunt]

881
00:53:35,384 --> 00:53:37,595
[both grunt]

882
00:53:40,514 --> 00:53:43,225
Break defense and answer
fucking assault!

883
00:53:44,393 --> 00:53:46,604
[cheering]

884
00:53:52,401 --> 00:53:53,778
[roars]

885
00:53:53,903 --> 00:53:55,488
[thud]

886
00:53:56,405 --> 00:53:58,199
[grunts]

887
00:53:58,366 --> 00:54:00,242
[both grunt]

888
00:54:00,409 --> 00:54:02,578
[thud]

889
00:54:03,412 --> 00:54:04,664
Argh!

890
00:54:05,414 --> 00:54:07,583
[both grunt]

891
00:54:10,294 --> 00:54:12,546
- Argh!
- [thud]

892
00:54:13,381 --> 00:54:15,257
[both grunt]

893
00:54:15,383 --> 00:54:17,551
Argh!

894
00:54:19,428 --> 00:54:21,472
[crowd roars]

895
00:54:21,639 --> 00:54:23,724
Kill her! Fucking kill her!

896
00:54:25,393 --> 00:54:27,603
[roars]

897
00:54:29,438 --> 00:54:32,316
[both roar]

898
00:54:32,441 --> 00:54:34,318
[swords clang]

899
00:54:34,485 --> 00:54:36,320
[both grunt]

900
00:54:36,487 --> 00:54:38,614
[crowd roars]

901
00:54:39,407 --> 00:54:41,617
[all gasp]

902
00:54:44,412 --> 00:54:46,664
[both roar]

903
00:54:47,498 --> 00:54:49,625
Argh!

904
00:54:53,379 --> 00:54:55,631
- [screams]
- [roars]

905
00:54:57,425 --> 00:54:59,635
[growls]

906
00:55:03,264 --> 00:55:05,307
- [groans]
- [grunts]

907
00:55:05,433 --> 00:55:07,309
[gasps]

908
00:55:07,476 --> 00:55:09,228
[grunts]

909
00:55:09,353 --> 00:55:11,647
[crowd cheers]

910
00:55:15,484 --> 00:55:18,362
[roars]

911
00:55:18,529 --> 00:55:20,698
[gasps]

912
00:55:22,491 --> 00:55:24,368
[gasps]

913
00:55:24,535 --> 00:55:26,746
[poignant music]

914
00:55:35,046 --> 00:55:37,214
[roars]

915
00:55:43,471 --> 00:55:45,681
[both laugh]

916
00:55:46,474 --> 00:55:48,684
[grunts]

917
00:55:50,144 --> 00:55:52,313
[bellows]

918
00:55:54,899 --> 00:55:56,400
[thud]

919
00:56:01,822 --> 00:56:04,075
[cheering]

920
00:56:09,580 --> 00:56:11,791
[poignant music]

921
00:56:28,015 --> 00:56:30,267
[roars]

922
00:56:30,434 --> 00:56:32,394
- [roars]
- [laughs]

923
00:56:32,561 --> 00:56:34,772
[both laugh]

924
00:56:39,610 --> 00:56:42,863
Achillia's absence falls
to faded remembrance.

925
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:44,740
A fine showing.

926
00:56:46,492 --> 00:56:48,369
By all involved.

927
00:56:49,453 --> 00:56:51,580
Yes. Mmm.

928
00:56:51,997 --> 00:56:53,541
[roars]

929
00:56:53,666 --> 00:56:55,793
[cheering]

930
00:57:01,549 --> 00:57:03,759
[poignant music]

931
00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:18,524
Look towards horizon.

932
00:57:32,705 --> 00:57:35,624
[music builds]

933
00:57:38,335 --> 00:57:39,753
[music ends]

934
00:57:40,504 --> 00:57:45,217
[foreboding music]

935
00:57:55,436 --> 00:57:58,230
[foreboding music continues]

936
00:58:09,158 --> 00:58:11,368
[music continues]

937
00:58:16,248 --> 00:58:19,168
[music builds gradually]

938
00:58:27,468 --> 00:58:30,054
[music continues building]

939
00:58:37,561 --> 00:58:39,939
[music becomes dramatic]

940
00:58:49,573 --> 00:58:51,825
[music continues]

941
00:58:54,662 --> 00:58:56,914
[music builds]