1 00:00:15,850 --> 00:00:17,560 Wake. 2 00:00:22,857 --> 00:00:25,901 You stand but first crude brick, laying foundation 3 00:00:26,068 --> 00:00:27,903 to the rise of the house of Ashur. 4 00:00:28,070 --> 00:00:29,321 All those before me shall fall. 5 00:00:29,488 --> 00:00:31,073 Enter the brothers Ferox! 6 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:33,617 Aargh! 7 00:00:35,161 --> 00:00:37,997 That toad is pet to Marcus fucking Crassus. 8 00:00:38,164 --> 00:00:40,166 Apologies, Gabinius. We did not think. 9 00:00:40,332 --> 00:00:43,836 I shall redouble the effort to secure undiscovered spectacle 10 00:00:44,003 --> 00:00:46,297 and see rematch upon a day. 11 00:00:48,215 --> 00:00:50,551 Let us gaze upon glorious future. 12 00:00:50,676 --> 00:00:55,055 Aargh! Pledge oath, call me Dominus and fight in the arena. 13 00:00:55,181 --> 00:00:57,099 Earn your freedom upon the sands. 14 00:00:57,266 --> 00:00:59,643 - Achillia. - Dominus. 15 00:01:21,749 --> 00:01:22,917 Ay! 16 00:01:23,083 --> 00:01:25,044 Tarchon! You lower shield before you strike. 17 00:01:25,169 --> 00:01:28,756 See it raised- or your brains upon the sands. 18 00:01:28,923 --> 00:01:30,633 Yes, Doctore. 19 00:01:38,849 --> 00:01:40,100 You fight with vigor. 20 00:01:40,893 --> 00:01:43,270 Well, this house now stands absent champion- 21 00:01:43,395 --> 00:01:45,231 a position I would claim my own. 22 00:01:45,397 --> 00:01:47,191 Well, to become champion, 23 00:01:47,316 --> 00:01:50,361 you must first defeat vaunted father. 24 00:02:01,997 --> 00:02:03,999 A venture yet beyond grasp. 25 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,629 For now, you withered corpse. 26 00:02:17,972 --> 00:02:19,431 You mad fuck! 27 00:02:19,557 --> 00:02:22,393 - You lower your guard. - Towards good fucking reason. 28 00:02:54,216 --> 00:02:56,093 We have felt the sting 29 00:02:56,844 --> 00:02:58,012 of loss. 30 00:02:59,096 --> 00:03:00,222 Witnessed honored champion 31 00:03:00,389 --> 00:03:01,807 fall upon the sands of the arena 32 00:03:01,932 --> 00:03:05,227 to the ill-thriven jackals of Proculus. 33 00:03:05,978 --> 00:03:08,981 Yet, as rising sun breaks dawn, 34 00:03:09,148 --> 00:03:10,608 so too shall the House of Ashur 35 00:03:10,733 --> 00:03:13,068 dispel darkest night of indignity. 36 00:03:14,278 --> 00:03:16,739 We shall no longer be bound by the shackles of history 37 00:03:16,906 --> 00:03:18,699 or fucking tradition! 38 00:03:19,867 --> 00:03:21,952 We set foot upon uncharted course 39 00:03:22,119 --> 00:03:24,121 to satisfy the crowd's desire 40 00:03:24,622 --> 00:03:26,916 with more exotic... 41 00:03:27,541 --> 00:03:28,918 Offerings. 42 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:32,755 But how shall rising thirst be quenched? 43 00:03:33,255 --> 00:03:35,507 There stands but one capable of satiating 44 00:03:35,633 --> 00:03:37,676 such ravenous mob! 45 00:03:38,677 --> 00:03:40,054 Behold, 46 00:03:40,679 --> 00:03:42,181 Achillia. 47 00:03:43,641 --> 00:03:45,517 The Goddess of Death. 48 00:03:49,521 --> 00:03:53,025 Silence fucking tongue, and attend your Dominus! 49 00:03:56,278 --> 00:03:58,572 Return to training, you simple fucks. 50 00:04:01,784 --> 00:04:03,035 Doctore, 51 00:04:04,119 --> 00:04:05,537 see Achillia to instruction. 52 00:04:06,664 --> 00:04:10,501 Dacus, sword and shield, towards style of murmillo! 53 00:04:11,168 --> 00:04:12,586 Yes, Doctore! 54 00:04:16,173 --> 00:04:18,258 The woman bears resemblance to my mother- 55 00:04:18,425 --> 00:04:19,969 a spiteful fucking whore. 56 00:04:20,678 --> 00:04:23,305 That explains much, you witless shit. 57 00:04:26,350 --> 00:04:29,228 - A fucking woman, father. - Turn thoughts. 58 00:04:29,812 --> 00:04:31,814 And raise guard! 59 00:04:32,523 --> 00:04:33,649 Erato! 60 00:04:34,066 --> 00:04:35,192 Pair with Achillia. 61 00:04:36,193 --> 00:04:39,405 I would see cock tangle with more worthy adversary. 62 00:04:41,198 --> 00:04:43,158 Work the fucking log! 63 00:04:51,500 --> 00:04:53,335 - Ay! - Tarchon! 64 00:04:54,461 --> 00:04:56,088 Pair with Achillia. 65 00:04:58,132 --> 00:05:00,092 Yes, Doctore. 66 00:05:03,804 --> 00:05:04,972 Shall I treat her as opponent 67 00:05:05,139 --> 00:05:06,473 or something of delicate persuasion? 68 00:05:10,269 --> 00:05:12,896 A question I was of mind to pose towards you. 69 00:05:13,814 --> 00:05:16,984 See idle words give way to clash of swords. 70 00:05:27,202 --> 00:05:28,370 Begin! 71 00:05:36,211 --> 00:05:38,672 She is of a form, is she not? 72 00:05:40,841 --> 00:05:42,760 - Yes, Dominus. - Mm-hm. 73 00:06:12,623 --> 00:06:14,291 Aargh! 74 00:06:18,420 --> 00:06:21,548 You have fought before, yet not against such as I. 75 00:06:25,552 --> 00:06:27,596 Fucking shield weights intent. 76 00:06:33,477 --> 00:06:35,979 You will address me as Doctore. 77 00:06:36,730 --> 00:06:37,940 Retrieve the shield. 78 00:06:38,107 --> 00:06:40,776 It is not to my benefit, Doctore. 79 00:06:40,943 --> 00:06:43,946 You will do as commanded! 80 00:06:51,078 --> 00:06:52,412 Achillia, 81 00:06:52,955 --> 00:06:54,248 stand ground. 82 00:06:55,582 --> 00:06:57,000 And receive correction. 83 00:06:59,753 --> 00:07:01,130 Dominus. 84 00:07:17,980 --> 00:07:19,898 The moment has fucking passed. 85 00:07:22,693 --> 00:07:24,027 Resume training. 86 00:07:43,130 --> 00:07:44,339 Begin! 87 00:07:44,798 --> 00:07:46,133 Aargh! 88 00:07:46,300 --> 00:07:49,011 She does not grant respect title of Doctore demands. 89 00:07:49,136 --> 00:07:51,388 Respect is not granted; it is taken. 90 00:07:51,555 --> 00:07:53,140 Instruct Achillia in our ways 91 00:07:53,265 --> 00:07:55,225 and see bared teeth give way to averted gaze. 92 00:07:55,392 --> 00:07:58,228 A lesson not easily grasped by rabid dog. 93 00:07:58,395 --> 00:08:00,772 Then respond with lash until tongue laps at heel. 94 00:08:00,939 --> 00:08:02,524 And what if beast cannot be tamed? 95 00:08:03,108 --> 00:08:04,860 Spartacus once stood as wild. 96 00:08:05,027 --> 00:08:07,613 Yet by will and teachings of Oenomaus, 97 00:08:07,779 --> 00:08:09,281 he was domesticated 98 00:08:09,865 --> 00:08:11,992 and became champion of fucking Capua- 99 00:08:12,159 --> 00:08:13,410 a result I would see mirrored. 100 00:08:13,577 --> 00:08:16,079 She reflects but promise of disappointment. 101 00:08:17,581 --> 00:08:19,583 - Do you stand fucking Dominus? - I do not. 102 00:08:19,708 --> 00:08:23,128 Yet you bleat as if exalted title cloaks you in such regard. 103 00:08:23,253 --> 00:08:25,881 I account what eyes behold through lens of experience. 104 00:08:26,006 --> 00:08:29,968 She is but fucking clay for your hands to mold. 105 00:08:30,510 --> 00:08:31,845 Forge her in the fires of this ludus, 106 00:08:32,012 --> 00:08:33,597 hardening her to swift purpose. 107 00:08:33,764 --> 00:08:36,642 Swift? Achillia has but only commenced training. 108 00:08:37,434 --> 00:08:38,810 A thing of minor consequence. 109 00:08:39,436 --> 00:08:42,147 I would see her ready for the games of the Ludi Apollinares. 110 00:08:43,232 --> 00:08:46,443 - You have secured position? - I maneuver towards such. 111 00:08:46,610 --> 00:08:49,613 So we but clutch at fanciful dream. 112 00:08:49,780 --> 00:08:51,907 As certain as waking upon each fucking day, 113 00:08:52,032 --> 00:08:54,910 I shall see it done and claim desired contest against 114 00:08:55,077 --> 00:08:56,828 the Brothers Ferox once more. 115 00:08:57,371 --> 00:09:00,207 You wager all that crowd will not turn upon us. 116 00:09:00,916 --> 00:09:03,126 - For presenting novelty? - For breaking tradition, 117 00:09:03,293 --> 00:09:04,962 when fucking woman takes to the sands. 118 00:09:05,128 --> 00:09:07,089 Tradition is but a word revered by those 119 00:09:07,256 --> 00:09:08,548 who pursue mediocrity. 120 00:09:08,715 --> 00:09:10,717 The House of Ashur will carve its own path 121 00:09:10,884 --> 00:09:13,929 and fuck into oblivion all who stands in its way. 122 00:09:14,346 --> 00:09:17,224 Dominus, message has arrived from Rome. 123 00:09:18,350 --> 00:09:20,936 Ah! At last. 124 00:09:21,061 --> 00:09:23,897 Mighty Crassus deigns to respond. 125 00:09:24,064 --> 00:09:26,608 Apologies. It is not from Crassus. 126 00:09:26,775 --> 00:09:27,651 Who, then? 127 00:09:30,028 --> 00:09:31,989 Julius fucking Caesar. 128 00:09:32,155 --> 00:09:35,033 A man of no worth beyond name granted by slipping 129 00:09:35,158 --> 00:09:36,743 from mother's cunt. 130 00:09:36,910 --> 00:09:39,121 He stands a quaestor, does he not? A position of some note. 131 00:09:39,288 --> 00:09:40,831 Fuck position. 132 00:09:40,998 --> 00:09:43,834 Caesar flings his own shit and declares it manna from heaven. 133 00:09:49,089 --> 00:09:50,549 He breaks words of some distress? 134 00:09:51,091 --> 00:09:51,967 Some. 135 00:09:53,302 --> 00:09:55,595 He sends us and our men upon Appian Way, 136 00:09:55,762 --> 00:09:58,181 towards unsavory task. 137 00:09:58,807 --> 00:10:01,059 Do you not stand a free man, as Caesar? 138 00:10:01,226 --> 00:10:02,853 And as such, not bound by request? 139 00:10:03,020 --> 00:10:06,565 I stand free in the eye of the republic, yet not in coin. 140 00:10:06,690 --> 00:10:10,527 Crassus is honored patron and Caesar his fucking will. 141 00:10:11,236 --> 00:10:15,032 We must part lips and swallow anointed cock. 142 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:32,090 Move cart further from fucking nose. 143 00:10:55,739 --> 00:10:57,282 It is a heavy sight... 144 00:10:58,283 --> 00:11:01,787 To witness so many hearts no longer beating beneath chest. 145 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:06,666 The rebel army that shook the mighty republic 146 00:11:07,709 --> 00:11:11,046 reduced to rotten flesh beneath vengeful sun. 147 00:11:11,421 --> 00:11:14,383 Shit cock! 148 00:11:16,885 --> 00:11:20,305 We stand gladiators, not common fucking slaves. 149 00:11:20,430 --> 00:11:23,392 You stand as I fucking command! 150 00:11:28,855 --> 00:11:32,442 Creticus has mind equal to dazed child, yet breaks truth. 151 00:11:33,151 --> 00:11:35,404 A gladiator's place is upon the sands of the arena- 152 00:11:35,529 --> 00:11:38,573 it is the duty of a quaestor to tend to the Appian Way. 153 00:11:38,740 --> 00:11:41,827 Caesar's tongue yet find purchase in Crassus' ass. 154 00:11:42,536 --> 00:11:44,162 We must endure one to gain benefit of more- 155 00:11:44,287 --> 00:11:45,330 Stop! 156 00:11:49,042 --> 00:11:50,043 That mark- 157 00:11:52,546 --> 00:11:56,883 this man stood Champion of the House of Batiatus. 158 00:11:59,719 --> 00:12:00,887 Gannicus. 159 00:12:01,513 --> 00:12:04,182 Gannicus! Gannicus! Gannicus! 160 00:12:04,349 --> 00:12:06,643 I had occasion to cross paths with him once, 161 00:12:07,185 --> 00:12:08,603 after he claimed freedom in the arena, 162 00:12:08,770 --> 00:12:11,481 before he fell among Spartacus and his rebels. 163 00:12:12,190 --> 00:12:14,401 A drunken, disagreeable fellow, 164 00:12:15,694 --> 00:12:17,195 much to my liking. 165 00:12:18,363 --> 00:12:21,908 He embraced his fate, as all men must. 166 00:12:22,075 --> 00:12:23,410 His death a kindness 167 00:12:23,577 --> 00:12:27,038 to one forever haunted by past transgressions. 168 00:12:29,082 --> 00:12:31,751 - See him to fucking wagon. - Dominus. 169 00:12:39,217 --> 00:12:41,887 This man stood a god of the arena, 170 00:12:42,554 --> 00:12:46,224 his skill rivalled only by the Bringer of Rain himself. 171 00:12:47,642 --> 00:12:49,728 Two legends, birthed from our ludus. 172 00:12:50,479 --> 00:12:54,065 Yet we now stand absent even lowly position in the games. 173 00:12:55,066 --> 00:12:57,152 How far this fucking house has fallen. 174 00:12:59,446 --> 00:13:00,697 Come, come. 175 00:13:16,421 --> 00:13:18,298 You desecrate these walls? 176 00:13:20,592 --> 00:13:22,761 - I but enhance them. - Mm. 177 00:13:25,722 --> 00:13:27,015 This beast, 178 00:13:27,974 --> 00:13:29,392 he is of your homeland? 179 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:30,602 Apedemak, 180 00:13:30,936 --> 00:13:33,021 god of war and conquest. 181 00:13:35,148 --> 00:13:36,316 You pray to him? 182 00:13:38,735 --> 00:13:41,947 - He would not listen. - Then why work his image? 183 00:13:42,113 --> 00:13:44,616 - As a reminder. - Towards? 184 00:13:45,367 --> 00:13:46,618 What was lost. 185 00:13:49,996 --> 00:13:51,915 Pause labor and take water. 186 00:14:10,267 --> 00:14:12,477 - Gratitude. - None required. 187 00:14:16,147 --> 00:14:17,399 Your scars- 188 00:14:18,858 --> 00:14:20,443 how did you come by them? 189 00:14:21,861 --> 00:14:24,823 A tale not for one so soft in form. 190 00:14:25,949 --> 00:14:27,200 In battle? 191 00:14:27,951 --> 00:14:29,286 When captured by the Romans? 192 00:14:29,452 --> 00:14:30,704 I did not fall to those fucking shits. 193 00:14:30,870 --> 00:14:32,998 Marked by previous Dominus, then? 194 00:14:33,123 --> 00:14:34,165 Towards instruction of manners? 195 00:14:34,332 --> 00:14:35,875 I have never stood a slave. 196 00:14:36,042 --> 00:14:40,088 Yet here in this house, that is all you stand. 197 00:14:43,008 --> 00:14:45,677 Lay hands upon Dominus again... 198 00:14:46,761 --> 00:14:49,723 And I shall see you parted from fucking life. 199 00:14:51,641 --> 00:14:54,811 Little mouse squeaks, and I'm to shudder in fear? 200 00:14:55,437 --> 00:14:57,981 Make attempt and see talon part head from body. 201 00:14:59,482 --> 00:15:03,236 A certain end, if I were to move against you openly. 202 00:15:04,446 --> 00:15:07,574 Yet there are many ways a clever mouse 203 00:15:07,991 --> 00:15:10,493 may see vicious hawk to grass. 204 00:15:17,125 --> 00:15:19,711 You taint fucking water? 205 00:15:21,463 --> 00:15:22,631 I have not. 206 00:15:23,548 --> 00:15:26,509 Yet at any moment, I could snatch breath, 207 00:15:27,093 --> 00:15:29,304 absent suspicion. 208 00:15:33,099 --> 00:15:37,479 I shall leave you to your god, who ignores your prayers. 209 00:15:52,494 --> 00:15:54,079 Seize fucking mind! 210 00:15:54,746 --> 00:15:56,331 - Doctore! - Salvius! 211 00:16:00,377 --> 00:16:01,878 Well deserved, you fu-! 212 00:16:03,630 --> 00:16:05,965 - Enough! - Fuck! 213 00:16:06,132 --> 00:16:08,843 You fall to fucking quarrel! 214 00:16:09,803 --> 00:16:11,388 Blood boiling in ear, 215 00:16:11,554 --> 00:16:16,142 preventing voice of your Dominus to pierce thick fucking skull! 216 00:16:19,187 --> 00:16:21,606 Look upon your brothers. 217 00:16:22,023 --> 00:16:23,733 They too defy their master 218 00:16:23,858 --> 00:16:26,986 and now rot upon fucking cross. 219 00:16:29,364 --> 00:16:30,907 Continue to inflame... 220 00:16:31,825 --> 00:16:34,661 And see yourself nailed among them. 221 00:16:45,130 --> 00:16:46,589 You lose control. 222 00:16:47,215 --> 00:16:48,717 The sun overheats passions, 223 00:16:48,883 --> 00:16:51,428 already roiled by Achillia's presence. 224 00:16:53,555 --> 00:16:56,099 Fuck Jupiter's face. 225 00:16:57,058 --> 00:17:02,439 It lifts heart, to witness your men at last put to proper use. 226 00:17:06,234 --> 00:17:07,944 I but serve the republic on this day, 227 00:17:08,069 --> 00:17:10,447 at request of revered Caesar. 228 00:17:10,864 --> 00:17:12,574 Yet upon another, 229 00:17:12,741 --> 00:17:14,868 I would present latest acquisition in the arena 230 00:17:15,452 --> 00:17:19,581 and have contest revisited towards diminutive abortions. 231 00:17:19,998 --> 00:17:24,294 At least we knew our mother, you fucking cunt! 232 00:17:28,381 --> 00:17:33,261 Descend from lofty perch and broach subject of lineage again. 233 00:17:35,430 --> 00:17:39,768 Hold! We are for Pompeii, where we battle in the arena. 234 00:17:40,769 --> 00:17:44,189 Let us leave the House of Ashur to its labors- 235 00:17:44,981 --> 00:17:46,399 in the dirt. 236 00:17:46,524 --> 00:17:47,400 Form! 237 00:17:50,153 --> 00:17:51,613 Is it fear 238 00:17:51,738 --> 00:17:54,115 that stays hand from rematch upon next games in Capua? 239 00:17:54,449 --> 00:17:57,035 I welcome such entertainment. 240 00:17:57,202 --> 00:17:58,703 - Mm. - Yet station to decide 241 00:17:58,828 --> 00:18:01,790 who shall fight and who shall wallow in their own shit 242 00:18:02,373 --> 00:18:04,584 falls not to me but to good Gabinius. 243 00:18:05,710 --> 00:18:06,878 Gabinius? 244 00:18:08,171 --> 00:18:11,591 He hosts the game of the Ludi Apollinares? 245 00:18:11,716 --> 00:18:12,801 We are so honored. 246 00:18:13,593 --> 00:18:16,596 Perhaps you may entreat him towards your cause. 247 00:18:17,764 --> 00:18:19,516 Or his beloved wife. 248 00:18:23,102 --> 00:18:26,189 ♪ Blood rains down from an angry sky! ♪ 249 00:18:26,356 --> 00:18:29,651 ♪ My cock rages on! My cock rages on! ♪ 250 00:18:29,818 --> 00:18:32,529 ♪ Till death is found, my sword swinging hot! ♪ 251 00:18:32,695 --> 00:18:35,698 The gods you do not believe in shit upon us once more. 252 00:18:35,865 --> 00:18:37,617 They but present new obstacle. 253 00:18:37,951 --> 00:18:39,702 Cossutia orchestrated humiliation 254 00:18:39,869 --> 00:18:41,579 and the fall of our champion, Logas. 255 00:18:41,746 --> 00:18:45,041 She will poison husband towards granting position. 256 00:18:45,458 --> 00:18:48,002 - Uvidus may yet hold sway. - The aedile? 257 00:18:48,169 --> 00:18:52,257 The man fears Crassus and may provide necessary leverage. 258 00:18:53,258 --> 00:18:55,802 Would not equal trepidation fall towards Pompey, 259 00:18:55,969 --> 00:18:58,137 whose favor Gabinius holds? 260 00:18:58,888 --> 00:19:00,849 Set purpose towards Achillia's training. 261 00:19:01,599 --> 00:19:04,978 And leave machinations towards greater fucking minds. 262 00:19:25,081 --> 00:19:26,416 Good. 263 00:19:31,129 --> 00:19:33,756 You yet reek of rotting flesh from Appian Way. 264 00:19:34,173 --> 00:19:35,550 I but smell as a man. 265 00:19:35,967 --> 00:19:37,802 A man of piss and shit. 266 00:19:40,346 --> 00:19:41,514 Doctore! 267 00:19:42,515 --> 00:19:45,810 Perhaps the goddess of death should fall to proper contest. 268 00:19:46,311 --> 00:19:48,229 She would welcome such a diversion. 269 00:19:48,354 --> 00:19:52,025 A sentiment to be regretted. Take position. 270 00:19:56,571 --> 00:19:58,197 Dacus! Spear! 271 00:20:07,248 --> 00:20:09,709 I shall fuck salted words from mouth. 272 00:20:09,876 --> 00:20:11,711 Do you borrow cock to do so? 273 00:20:14,422 --> 00:20:15,715 Tarchon... 274 00:20:16,925 --> 00:20:18,343 Fall beside Creticus. 275 00:20:19,636 --> 00:20:21,220 I'm to face two opponents? 276 00:20:21,387 --> 00:20:22,430 Should the gods favor you towards the arena, 277 00:20:22,597 --> 00:20:23,932 you shall face three- 278 00:20:24,974 --> 00:20:26,059 the Brothers Ferox. 279 00:20:26,726 --> 00:20:31,064 Vicious half-men, pulled from the ass of a rival lanista. 280 00:20:31,230 --> 00:20:32,649 Half-men? 281 00:20:32,815 --> 00:20:34,525 I could piss and they'd thank the gods for rain. 282 00:20:34,692 --> 00:20:36,986 She does not need sword and shield, Doctore; 283 00:20:37,153 --> 00:20:39,197 she'll cut them down with fucking tongue. 284 00:20:39,322 --> 00:20:42,617 Our honor stands no fucking jest! 285 00:20:43,493 --> 00:20:45,161 Nor do the Brothers Ferox. 286 00:20:46,454 --> 00:20:48,581 Nature twisted them into knotted lump. 287 00:20:48,748 --> 00:20:50,124 And in their anger and pain, 288 00:20:50,291 --> 00:20:53,419 they torment death with aggrieved hands. 289 00:20:53,586 --> 00:20:57,674 Misjudge them, and see your life forfeit. 290 00:20:59,801 --> 00:21:01,094 Take position. 291 00:21:09,811 --> 00:21:10,937 Begin! 292 00:21:28,121 --> 00:21:31,457 Focus on the one opponent and invite fucking from the other. 293 00:21:32,959 --> 00:21:34,627 Fucking shield again prevents movement. 294 00:21:34,794 --> 00:21:38,047 You face men, shield stands all between you and the afterlife. 295 00:21:38,631 --> 00:21:39,674 Again. 296 00:21:50,059 --> 00:21:51,144 Tarchon! 297 00:21:57,817 --> 00:21:58,735 Good! 298 00:21:59,318 --> 00:22:00,695 Rid yourself of one adversary 299 00:22:00,862 --> 00:22:03,322 so you may advance upon other absent distraction. 300 00:22:07,118 --> 00:22:09,454 You have not earned position in this fucking house. 301 00:22:10,830 --> 00:22:13,458 Aargh! 302 00:22:21,883 --> 00:22:23,134 Disappointing. 303 00:22:24,010 --> 00:22:27,513 Eat! We resume training after heat of midday sun. 304 00:22:33,436 --> 00:22:35,104 She is not absent skill. 305 00:22:35,772 --> 00:22:39,984 She is absent honor, striking Creticus upon manhood. 306 00:22:40,151 --> 00:22:43,488 An unfortunate blow, yet the fault is yours. 307 00:22:44,238 --> 00:22:45,656 Mine? 308 00:22:45,823 --> 00:22:48,451 Desire towards singular victory left valued friend exposed. 309 00:22:48,618 --> 00:22:53,289 Had this been the arena, both of you would have fallen. 310 00:23:22,735 --> 00:23:25,696 That's fucking shit. 311 00:23:31,536 --> 00:23:33,204 Regain seat. 312 00:23:33,830 --> 00:23:39,001 I did not spring from your cock, nor am I bound by fucking voice. 313 00:23:40,586 --> 00:23:42,630 The man presents sharpened point. 314 00:23:45,591 --> 00:23:48,010 Your sword will not find purchase once more. 315 00:23:48,678 --> 00:23:51,681 Why, do you never intend to fight again? 316 00:23:56,269 --> 00:23:58,396 Dogs eat from fucking ground. 317 00:24:04,944 --> 00:24:05,945 Creticus! 318 00:24:06,904 --> 00:24:09,907 You do not fight unless it is upon my fucking command. 319 00:24:10,074 --> 00:24:11,325 Apologies, Doctore. 320 00:24:11,909 --> 00:24:14,871 I but remind the woman of her place. 321 00:24:15,246 --> 00:24:16,914 Return to training. 322 00:24:17,832 --> 00:24:19,167 All of you! 323 00:24:32,889 --> 00:24:36,601 Her presence incites disobedience and distraction. 324 00:24:36,767 --> 00:24:39,729 They cannot even break food without falling to quarrel. 325 00:24:39,896 --> 00:24:42,231 You pace like caged beast, 326 00:24:42,648 --> 00:24:44,942 rending tranquil mood. 327 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,779 Apologies for disturbing fucking bath. 328 00:24:48,946 --> 00:24:53,367 Perhaps inflamed passion would be cooled by soothing waters. 329 00:24:53,534 --> 00:24:55,286 I prefer to bathe in solitude. 330 00:24:55,411 --> 00:24:57,288 Yet you do not fucking stand so. 331 00:24:57,705 --> 00:25:00,291 Wet cock and douse inferno 332 00:25:00,750 --> 00:25:01,876 with wine. 333 00:25:03,878 --> 00:25:05,713 Fill cup to overflowing. 334 00:25:22,897 --> 00:25:25,441 Does sun break through fucking cloud? 335 00:25:28,027 --> 00:25:29,403 It makes attempt. 336 00:25:30,821 --> 00:25:32,990 Achillia affords rarest opportunity. 337 00:25:33,157 --> 00:25:35,868 A sight never before witnessed in the arena. 338 00:25:36,035 --> 00:25:37,286 For good reason. 339 00:25:37,453 --> 00:25:39,247 She does not belong upon such sacred ground. 340 00:25:39,413 --> 00:25:42,333 Accusation hurled at retiarius when first introduced. 341 00:25:42,750 --> 00:25:45,586 Net and trident, how they laughed. 342 00:25:45,753 --> 00:25:48,339 Yet now, not a game passes absent their presence. 343 00:25:48,506 --> 00:25:51,092 Tradition is but a novel rite, aged to maturity. 344 00:25:51,259 --> 00:25:53,386 A thing I would see Achillia become. 345 00:25:53,552 --> 00:25:55,763 She cannot triumph against the Brothers Ferox. 346 00:25:55,930 --> 00:25:57,515 No, she cannot... 347 00:25:58,599 --> 00:25:59,767 Yet. 348 00:25:59,934 --> 00:26:01,435 You hold too much faith in my instruction. 349 00:26:01,602 --> 00:26:03,562 - I hold what is necessary. - And what of the men? 350 00:26:03,729 --> 00:26:06,607 They must embrace the future or fall to memory. 351 00:26:06,774 --> 00:26:08,651 They will never welcome a woman as one of their own. 352 00:26:08,818 --> 00:26:13,114 They need not to welcome her, but they must fucking accept. 353 00:26:15,533 --> 00:26:17,368 Right. 354 00:26:17,952 --> 00:26:19,704 It is a bitter herb you entreat them swallow. 355 00:26:20,079 --> 00:26:22,331 Then let us see it honeyed with wine and whores, 356 00:26:22,498 --> 00:26:24,667 to balm injured fucking pride. 357 00:26:25,418 --> 00:26:28,129 Such a gesture would aid in calming gathering tempest. 358 00:26:28,296 --> 00:26:31,382 With promise of more, towards falling to reason. 359 00:26:32,675 --> 00:26:36,304 Apologies, Dominus. Senator Gabinius has sent messenger. 360 00:26:37,722 --> 00:26:39,015 What word did he carry? 361 00:26:39,557 --> 00:26:42,018 He insists message be delivered only to your hands. 362 00:26:42,768 --> 00:26:45,021 - Materialize the fucking man. - Yes, Dominus. 363 00:26:45,187 --> 00:26:46,981 The aedile champions our cause to Gabinius? 364 00:26:47,106 --> 00:26:49,734 I have yet opportunity to broach subject. 365 00:26:59,785 --> 00:27:02,496 - You stand Gabinius' man? - Such is my charge. 366 00:27:02,788 --> 00:27:03,956 Hand over, then. 367 00:27:17,803 --> 00:27:23,392 Um, inform honored senator what he requests is agreeable. 368 00:27:33,903 --> 00:27:37,281 Gabinius invites me to break meal at his villa! 369 00:27:37,448 --> 00:27:38,366 To what purpose? 370 00:27:38,949 --> 00:27:42,953 Unknown, yet I shall turn it to fucking advantage. 371 00:27:44,121 --> 00:27:46,207 Dominus has parted from sense. 372 00:27:46,582 --> 00:27:48,250 As Achillia parted you from yours. 373 00:27:48,417 --> 00:27:50,211 It was but luck. 374 00:27:50,586 --> 00:27:52,755 And trust fucking Nubian held thread of honor. 375 00:27:53,339 --> 00:27:55,049 You place blame where it does not sleep. 376 00:27:55,174 --> 00:27:57,134 You place fault in my efforts? 377 00:27:57,718 --> 00:27:58,594 No. 378 00:27:59,470 --> 00:28:03,057 Upon mine. I was absent thought towards all but victory, 379 00:28:03,849 --> 00:28:05,267 leaving you exposed. 380 00:28:05,434 --> 00:28:07,103 I do not need you to come to aid, you fucking shit. 381 00:28:07,269 --> 00:28:10,398 Your cock says otherwise. 382 00:28:10,564 --> 00:28:13,234 When paired in the arena, you must fight as one. 383 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:14,735 Or fall divided. 384 00:28:15,569 --> 00:28:18,656 And when were you last upon the sands, old man? 385 00:28:21,784 --> 00:28:23,994 A lifetime ago, yet I... 386 00:28:24,787 --> 00:28:25,746 Lived. 387 00:28:26,497 --> 00:28:29,375 Which is a victory I fear you may tumble well short of. 388 00:28:29,542 --> 00:28:31,794 A thing of no pressing concern. 389 00:28:32,586 --> 00:28:34,880 We are the House of Piss and Shit, 390 00:28:35,047 --> 00:28:37,383 denied opportunity of glorious death. 391 00:28:37,550 --> 00:28:38,884 Yours not so much, 392 00:28:39,051 --> 00:28:41,220 assuming opponent stood greater than small child. 393 00:28:43,055 --> 00:28:44,515 Fill air with fucking laughter, 394 00:28:45,057 --> 00:28:47,810 as Capua does upon thought of this fucking house. 395 00:28:47,977 --> 00:28:49,770 It is what we make it. 396 00:28:53,232 --> 00:28:54,775 See weighted spirits lifted. 397 00:28:55,359 --> 00:28:58,112 Your Dominus presents gift of wine and whores. 398 00:29:01,115 --> 00:29:04,118 Well, perhaps the gods yet favor this fucking House! 399 00:29:04,243 --> 00:29:05,578 Now remove yourselves 400 00:29:05,744 --> 00:29:07,872 so Achillia may bathe absent lingering gaze. 401 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:11,250 Whores! 402 00:29:11,417 --> 00:29:12,668 Wine and whores! 403 00:29:19,425 --> 00:29:22,470 He preens as if I've never witnessed cock bared and wet. 404 00:29:22,636 --> 00:29:25,389 Attend yourself and retire to cell for the night. 405 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,852 Am I not to enjoy the pleasures of wine and whores? 406 00:29:30,853 --> 00:29:32,980 Such rewards are reserved for those who bear the mark 407 00:29:33,147 --> 00:29:34,148 of the brotherhood. 408 00:29:34,732 --> 00:29:36,817 An honor you have yet to earn. 409 00:29:49,663 --> 00:29:52,625 - Perhaps this one. - You possess discerning eye. 410 00:29:52,791 --> 00:29:55,002 As I wish yours to such this night. 411 00:29:55,961 --> 00:29:59,715 I am to Gabinius' villa, not the arena. 412 00:29:59,882 --> 00:30:01,967 Does Cossutia yet stand his wife? 413 00:30:02,092 --> 00:30:04,470 As Cerberus guarding gate of the underworld, 414 00:30:04,637 --> 00:30:06,472 frothing and snapping. 415 00:30:06,639 --> 00:30:08,224 The target of my concern. 416 00:30:08,641 --> 00:30:10,935 She holds no sway, absent command of husband. 417 00:30:11,393 --> 00:30:14,438 And if she has moved him to her cause against you? 418 00:30:14,605 --> 00:30:16,482 Cheeks spread for deeper ramming. 419 00:30:16,649 --> 00:30:20,653 - Then why accept invitation? - I hold no fucking choice! 420 00:30:26,450 --> 00:30:29,119 Calm troubled thoughts and realize, 421 00:30:29,703 --> 00:30:34,375 all men of power and position underestimate Ashur at own... 422 00:30:34,792 --> 00:30:36,752 Fucking peril. 423 00:30:37,670 --> 00:30:39,463 Prepare yourself for my return. 424 00:30:40,673 --> 00:30:41,757 You as well. 425 00:30:49,598 --> 00:30:51,600 You worry over him beyond reason. 426 00:30:53,102 --> 00:30:54,562 He is our Dominus. 427 00:30:56,105 --> 00:30:58,482 Our fates tethered to his. 428 00:31:03,028 --> 00:31:04,738 Yet who worries over you? 429 00:31:05,364 --> 00:31:06,448 Hmm? 430 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,745 Turn mind to task and see linens freshened, 431 00:31:11,912 --> 00:31:14,832 in anticipation of his triumphant return. 432 00:31:27,261 --> 00:31:30,014 Senator Gabinius shall join presently. 433 00:31:44,778 --> 00:31:47,031 Ah! Here is our man. 434 00:31:47,698 --> 00:31:49,700 Gratitude for accepting invitation 435 00:31:49,867 --> 00:31:51,118 upon briefest of notice. 436 00:31:51,243 --> 00:31:53,203 I am swelled by august request. 437 00:31:53,746 --> 00:31:55,748 You are familiar with cherished wife? 438 00:31:55,873 --> 00:31:57,791 We are so acquainted. 439 00:31:57,958 --> 00:32:00,836 In passing, in the streets, if I recall. 440 00:32:01,003 --> 00:32:02,338 Apologies for our delay. 441 00:32:02,504 --> 00:32:04,131 This business with the Cilician pirates 442 00:32:04,298 --> 00:32:06,592 vexes all affected by their savage attacks. 443 00:32:06,759 --> 00:32:09,053 Locusts plaguing our beloved republic. 444 00:32:09,178 --> 00:32:11,805 I pray harsh retribution awaits. 445 00:32:12,222 --> 00:32:14,183 We are of singular mind. 446 00:32:14,683 --> 00:32:16,644 I draft motion in the Senate... 447 00:32:17,144 --> 00:32:20,564 To see menace quelled by able hand of trusted Pompey. 448 00:32:21,273 --> 00:32:22,232 Pompey? 449 00:32:22,733 --> 00:32:24,360 He takes leave from Rome with his army? 450 00:32:24,526 --> 00:32:26,987 A small portion, adequate to task. 451 00:32:27,404 --> 00:32:28,614 The remainder counterbalanced 452 00:32:28,739 --> 00:32:31,408 towards fighting men loyal to Crassus. 453 00:32:34,036 --> 00:32:36,080 May the gods usher Pompey to victory, 454 00:32:36,246 --> 00:32:38,916 as Scipio Africanus against Hannibal at the gates. 455 00:32:39,083 --> 00:32:41,251 You are schooled in our histories? 456 00:32:41,418 --> 00:32:44,338 I am but babe, crawling through dewy morn. 457 00:32:44,922 --> 00:32:46,965 Then let us see you rise upon legs of knowledge, 458 00:32:47,132 --> 00:32:50,719 and stride upright as all men in midday of life. 459 00:32:50,886 --> 00:32:53,639 Hmm. Some yet stumble upon attempt, 460 00:32:53,806 --> 00:32:57,184 skull bashed upon unforgiving ground. 461 00:32:57,351 --> 00:32:59,186 I shall strive to remain surefooted. 462 00:32:59,353 --> 00:33:01,230 As most reliable goat. 463 00:33:02,064 --> 00:33:04,400 Let us not veer towards pointed meaning. 464 00:33:04,566 --> 00:33:07,611 I would have all slights, genuine or fanciful, 465 00:33:07,778 --> 00:33:10,114 fall to past remembrance. 466 00:33:10,698 --> 00:33:13,575 - Memory has faded to obscurity. - Never to return. 467 00:33:13,742 --> 00:33:14,993 Apologies. 468 00:33:15,494 --> 00:33:16,912 Voices stirred interest. 469 00:33:17,037 --> 00:33:20,958 Viridia. It swells heart to see you stir from chambers. 470 00:33:21,083 --> 00:33:22,668 Effort rarely taken these days. 471 00:33:22,835 --> 00:33:25,254 Perhaps you might return after our esteemed guest has departed. 472 00:33:25,421 --> 00:33:26,839 Is this him? 473 00:33:27,798 --> 00:33:29,049 The Syrian? 474 00:33:29,174 --> 00:33:30,634 You are not properly dressed to receive- 475 00:33:30,759 --> 00:33:32,261 Are these the hands? 476 00:33:35,639 --> 00:33:38,642 The ones that saw Spartacus to deserved end? 477 00:33:40,227 --> 00:33:41,645 They, uh... 478 00:33:45,524 --> 00:33:47,067 T-they but aided 479 00:33:47,234 --> 00:33:48,485 in the effort. 480 00:33:48,652 --> 00:33:49,862 Gratitude. 481 00:33:51,655 --> 00:33:53,866 Rome is forever in your debt. 482 00:33:54,908 --> 00:33:57,244 - As am I. - Hour grows late. 483 00:33:58,036 --> 00:34:00,289 Retire to bath with loving mother so I may break words 484 00:34:00,456 --> 00:34:03,709 with honored guest absent distraction. 485 00:34:05,377 --> 00:34:09,131 Come. Let us leave the men to their folly. 486 00:34:12,050 --> 00:34:15,262 Forgive my daughter. She holds not herself. 487 00:34:16,221 --> 00:34:18,932 What affliction troubles her? 488 00:34:19,099 --> 00:34:22,311 The most grievous, a wounded heart. 489 00:34:22,478 --> 00:34:24,438 Her husband, much beloved, 490 00:34:25,189 --> 00:34:27,775 fell to Spartacus and his rebels at Sinuessa en Valle, 491 00:34:27,941 --> 00:34:30,569 where he broached business with Laurus, the trader. 492 00:34:30,736 --> 00:34:36,241 Such loss sees the strongest of us absent mind when in its grip. 493 00:34:36,992 --> 00:34:38,243 Well formed. 494 00:34:39,369 --> 00:34:40,329 Yet, 495 00:34:40,496 --> 00:34:42,414 let us turn from shadowed past 496 00:34:42,581 --> 00:34:44,833 in favor of more promising days. 497 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:45,918 Yes. 498 00:35:10,067 --> 00:35:12,528 You stand well satisfied, old friend? 499 00:35:12,861 --> 00:35:15,072 Oh, I stand a fucking god. 500 00:35:17,533 --> 00:35:19,535 Do not fucking stop. 501 00:35:29,503 --> 00:35:31,004 Throw dice, Salvius! 502 00:35:34,758 --> 00:35:36,635 Bow to the champion of fucking dice! 503 00:35:36,802 --> 00:35:38,345 Yet not a champion of fucking! 504 00:35:55,946 --> 00:35:58,490 Then I shall make you see the prince. 505 00:36:06,540 --> 00:36:07,958 You deprive release of hardened cock! 506 00:36:08,125 --> 00:36:09,918 Shall deprive you of fucking teeth as well. 507 00:36:10,043 --> 00:36:11,753 - Tarchon. - The girl is mine. 508 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,256 See humble offering inserted elsewhere. 509 00:36:18,093 --> 00:36:20,220 I favor more heft to ass anyway. 510 00:36:23,515 --> 00:36:27,269 Oh, Hedylus completes chore. Well, I shall swim upstream. 511 00:36:39,781 --> 00:36:42,367 You would pull me from services purchased by your Dominus? 512 00:36:42,534 --> 00:36:44,870 I would wrest you from Mars himself. 513 00:36:48,415 --> 00:36:52,669 You warm heart, Elata. As sun above the earth below. 514 00:36:54,254 --> 00:36:57,466 You flatter, as all men stiff of cock. 515 00:36:59,009 --> 00:37:02,930 I know that you're forced to lie with men outside these walls. 516 00:37:03,931 --> 00:37:08,268 Yet within them, I would have no other hands upon you but mine. 517 00:37:12,022 --> 00:37:14,024 Then lay them upon me. 518 00:38:28,140 --> 00:38:30,684 You were commanded to remain in your cell. 519 00:38:31,184 --> 00:38:32,936 Slumber eludes with all the fucking noise 520 00:38:33,103 --> 00:38:34,646 and noise of fucking. 521 00:38:41,319 --> 00:38:43,280 What do you see? 522 00:38:43,989 --> 00:38:44,948 I do not grasp meaning. 523 00:38:45,115 --> 00:38:46,908 When you strike, what do you see? 524 00:38:47,993 --> 00:38:49,536 A wooden fucking man. 525 00:38:52,664 --> 00:38:55,375 You unleash fury beyond simple form. 526 00:38:56,209 --> 00:38:59,212 What do you see, in mind's eye? 527 00:39:04,009 --> 00:39:06,011 Those who hold me unworthy. 528 00:39:06,636 --> 00:39:07,846 Within this ludus 529 00:39:08,013 --> 00:39:11,099 or upon the path that led you to such fate? 530 00:39:21,234 --> 00:39:23,945 You do not partake in the pleasure of whores denied me? 531 00:39:26,948 --> 00:39:29,868 My taste is of a more discerning nature. 532 00:39:30,035 --> 00:39:33,163 One not sated by men who accept coin, 533 00:39:33,497 --> 00:39:35,373 in exchange for loving embrace. 534 00:39:35,540 --> 00:39:39,377 Hmm. Would that I were so blessed of choice. 535 00:39:40,879 --> 00:39:41,630 Hmm. 536 00:39:46,218 --> 00:39:47,135 Drink 537 00:39:47,969 --> 00:39:50,430 and dull pain of coming days. 538 00:39:59,022 --> 00:40:02,859 You lower yourself, speaking to the Syrian as you did. 539 00:40:03,443 --> 00:40:05,403 I but expressed gratitude, keenly felt. 540 00:40:05,570 --> 00:40:09,116 You made him feel as equal, deserving of such praise. 541 00:40:09,282 --> 00:40:12,577 Does he not, for aiding in the fall of Spartacus? 542 00:40:13,245 --> 00:40:16,414 He but aided himself and desire to climb above his station. 543 00:40:16,581 --> 00:40:18,250 Should not all men seek to be so elevated? 544 00:40:18,375 --> 00:40:20,127 Yes, if they are of proper breeding. 545 00:40:20,293 --> 00:40:23,296 You froth as if personally aggrieved. 546 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,841 The man himself is of slightest note. 547 00:40:26,007 --> 00:40:27,467 It is what he represents- 548 00:40:27,634 --> 00:40:29,594 those who would pollute pure waters of the republic, 549 00:40:30,137 --> 00:40:33,181 fancying themselves upon level with storied name and position. 550 00:40:33,932 --> 00:40:36,476 He must be made example, to be taken as warning 551 00:40:36,643 --> 00:40:38,895 to all those who would mistake themselves so. 552 00:40:39,521 --> 00:40:41,022 Father appears in disagreement. 553 00:40:41,189 --> 00:40:43,859 Husband will often stray from reason, if not closely attended. 554 00:40:45,569 --> 00:40:48,822 Would that I yet had one to give such counsel. 555 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:53,743 Accept mine... 556 00:40:54,870 --> 00:40:56,246 In his place. 557 00:40:57,330 --> 00:41:00,792 Do not forfeit precious youth to grieving. 558 00:41:03,962 --> 00:41:06,381 - Wound is yet fresh. - And... 559 00:41:06,798 --> 00:41:08,008 Will never heal... 560 00:41:08,383 --> 00:41:11,803 Unless proper balm is applied. 561 00:41:12,679 --> 00:41:16,516 Life does not end when a husband falls from this world. 562 00:41:16,683 --> 00:41:18,727 Nor heart remained sundered, 563 00:41:18,894 --> 00:41:23,064 when cradled in hands of loving mother. 564 00:41:27,110 --> 00:41:28,737 Tell me, Syrian, 565 00:41:29,487 --> 00:41:32,574 were you and your family brought to Rome as slaves? 566 00:41:33,408 --> 00:41:35,577 I alone. Mother and sister fell to disease, 567 00:41:35,744 --> 00:41:39,706 long before I fled Tigranes' army and found myself, uh... 568 00:41:40,874 --> 00:41:42,584 Guest of the republic. 569 00:41:42,751 --> 00:41:44,878 And your father? 570 00:41:45,879 --> 00:41:47,088 I hold no memory of him. 571 00:41:47,505 --> 00:41:50,258 Absence of such robs a boy of proper direction. 572 00:41:51,092 --> 00:41:53,470 You must truly hold favor of your gods, 573 00:41:53,595 --> 00:41:57,349 to find yourself elevated from slave to current position 574 00:41:57,515 --> 00:41:59,559 of Dominus of own fucking house. 575 00:41:59,726 --> 00:42:02,103 I am indeed blessed, 576 00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:03,813 yet by labor of own hands 577 00:42:03,980 --> 00:42:06,399 and accomplishments beholden only to them. 578 00:42:06,566 --> 00:42:09,486 You hold no belief in the divinity guiding mortal man? 579 00:42:10,195 --> 00:42:12,572 My Dominus was known for oft-repeated refrain, 580 00:42:12,697 --> 00:42:14,950 one which I yet admire- 581 00:42:15,116 --> 00:42:16,159 "Fuck the gods." 582 00:42:18,453 --> 00:42:21,122 And to what end did such sentiment lead? 583 00:42:21,957 --> 00:42:23,291 Most unfortunate one. 584 00:42:23,875 --> 00:42:27,045 Well, one man's misfortune often falls to another's opportunity. 585 00:42:27,462 --> 00:42:29,756 How unseemly a role did your hands play 586 00:42:29,923 --> 00:42:32,133 in manufacturing such? 587 00:42:32,300 --> 00:42:33,802 I have done... 588 00:42:34,469 --> 00:42:36,179 Questionable things... 589 00:42:37,889 --> 00:42:40,225 To arrive where I now sit. 590 00:42:41,268 --> 00:42:43,645 Who of worth can claim otherwise? 591 00:42:45,438 --> 00:42:46,523 And now? 592 00:42:46,690 --> 00:42:47,816 Upon this day? 593 00:42:47,941 --> 00:42:49,901 - I walk a different path. - Oh. 594 00:42:50,735 --> 00:42:53,071 So the tiger has altered stripes? 595 00:42:53,238 --> 00:42:54,948 I am not the man I once was. 596 00:42:55,115 --> 00:42:57,409 Nor the man you yet desire to be. 597 00:42:57,534 --> 00:43:00,036 You are but faint specter, 598 00:43:00,537 --> 00:43:03,832 caught between two worlds you do not belong in. 599 00:43:04,833 --> 00:43:08,962 It is a heavy thing, is it not, to be burdened with dreams 600 00:43:09,129 --> 00:43:11,298 made sudden reality? 601 00:43:14,467 --> 00:43:16,594 I am but a humble servant of the republic. 602 00:43:16,761 --> 00:43:19,723 Why would you swear allegiance to a republic 603 00:43:19,889 --> 00:43:21,433 that despises you? 604 00:43:21,558 --> 00:43:24,978 Why lavish tongue upon those who yet hold you in naked contempt? 605 00:43:25,395 --> 00:43:28,481 You shall never stand equal in their eyes, 606 00:43:28,648 --> 00:43:33,486 forever condemned to be but rough-hewn tool to be used 607 00:43:34,154 --> 00:43:37,282 till blade is dulled by unkind years, then... 608 00:43:40,618 --> 00:43:42,037 cast aside. 609 00:43:42,871 --> 00:43:45,081 What worth is a knife... 610 00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:51,046 If it lies absent use? 611 00:43:52,964 --> 00:43:56,634 So, mighty Crassus continues to sharpen intent, then? 612 00:43:56,801 --> 00:43:58,887 All the way from where he sits, with his army, 613 00:43:59,054 --> 00:44:00,513 outside the gates of Rome? 614 00:44:00,638 --> 00:44:03,558 We are as one, via messenger upon regular basis. 615 00:44:03,725 --> 00:44:06,895 Only a fool relies upon the benevolence of the rich. 616 00:44:07,479 --> 00:44:09,856 Their whims counsel but their own reflection. 617 00:44:11,816 --> 00:44:14,361 Coin afforded by Crassus admittedly thins 618 00:44:14,527 --> 00:44:16,946 with passing of days, yet debt mounts- 619 00:44:17,113 --> 00:44:21,284 water, grain, equipment. My stock drains fortune. 620 00:44:21,868 --> 00:44:23,620 And with it, hope of grander aspiration 621 00:44:23,745 --> 00:44:26,831 towards the games in the arena. A subject I would broach- 622 00:44:26,956 --> 00:44:29,709 You refer to your gladiators as stock? 623 00:44:30,418 --> 00:44:32,379 Do they not carry title of men? 624 00:44:33,338 --> 00:44:34,923 They are but slaves. 625 00:44:35,757 --> 00:44:37,050 As you once stood. 626 00:44:37,801 --> 00:44:39,469 A distant memory. 627 00:44:39,844 --> 00:44:41,971 Yet forgotten by none. 628 00:44:46,059 --> 00:44:47,602 Let eyes fall upon it. 629 00:44:52,399 --> 00:44:53,441 Your brand, 630 00:44:54,275 --> 00:44:56,236 marking you as property of the House of Batiatus- 631 00:44:56,403 --> 00:44:57,821 I would lay eyes. 632 00:45:14,546 --> 00:45:15,797 Oh. 633 00:45:16,297 --> 00:45:17,632 Rumor proves truth. 634 00:45:18,633 --> 00:45:23,596 Crassus growls command, and loyal cur gnaws its own flesh. 635 00:45:29,102 --> 00:45:32,188 Words fell from less noble heights. 636 00:45:32,897 --> 00:45:35,150 Gaius Claudius Glaber gave command, 637 00:45:35,316 --> 00:45:38,445 before he was dispatched from this world by Spartacus himself, 638 00:45:38,570 --> 00:45:39,612 in the shadow 639 00:45:40,321 --> 00:45:41,531 of Vesuvius. 640 00:45:42,115 --> 00:45:44,909 I had occasion to break meal with Glaber upon a time. 641 00:45:45,493 --> 00:45:49,038 A most unsettling cast of eye, absent blink- 642 00:45:49,205 --> 00:45:51,791 as a lizard, encumbered with human form. 643 00:45:52,500 --> 00:45:55,587 A most uncanny assessment of the man. 644 00:45:56,379 --> 00:45:58,089 And how gauge you the measure of the one you see 645 00:45:58,256 --> 00:45:59,716 seated before you? 646 00:46:01,050 --> 00:46:02,677 No, come, hold me as friend. 647 00:46:02,802 --> 00:46:07,223 Well, as semblance of such, as the moment requires. 648 00:46:08,558 --> 00:46:12,395 I see a most noble Roman, well regarded by deed and tongue- 649 00:46:12,562 --> 00:46:14,439 Flattery is of little worth 650 00:46:14,564 --> 00:46:16,274 to one laden with coin and privilege! 651 00:46:16,399 --> 00:46:19,194 I would have from you what others withhold- 652 00:46:19,527 --> 00:46:20,904 the fucking truth! 653 00:46:29,996 --> 00:46:32,582 I see a man of fading years... 654 00:46:33,625 --> 00:46:35,043 Clinging to what time remains, 655 00:46:35,210 --> 00:46:39,339 in hopes of preserving tradition of beloved republic. 656 00:46:40,590 --> 00:46:42,008 Yet many within it increasingly 657 00:46:42,175 --> 00:46:44,052 find him more annoyance than benefit, 658 00:46:44,219 --> 00:46:47,889 save for those of low position who seek the borrowing of coin. 659 00:46:48,598 --> 00:46:52,894 I see a man possessed of serpent-tongued wife... 660 00:46:54,062 --> 00:46:57,023 Who maneuvers beyond his interests. 661 00:47:07,325 --> 00:47:09,786 Words well broken. 662 00:47:12,121 --> 00:47:16,793 Now fall from fucking sight and remain so removed. 663 00:47:38,690 --> 00:47:41,234 Form improves. 664 00:47:42,277 --> 00:47:45,029 Moves from watery shit to firm. 665 00:48:07,468 --> 00:48:09,804 Wooden man poses slight contest. 666 00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:13,891 Perhaps you would care to engage more fearsome opponent. 667 00:48:16,519 --> 00:48:18,479 I prefer larger challenge. 668 00:48:19,981 --> 00:48:21,357 Fuck what you prefer, woman. 669 00:48:30,700 --> 00:48:32,827 Stay down, you fucking cunt! 670 00:48:33,703 --> 00:48:34,954 Aargh! 671 00:48:55,642 --> 00:48:57,560 The woman at last finds her place- 672 00:48:58,227 --> 00:48:59,479 on her back, 673 00:48:59,604 --> 00:49:01,314 with legs spread. 674 00:49:08,446 --> 00:49:11,616 Hold her! You fucking cunt! 675 00:49:17,163 --> 00:49:18,915 Aargh! 676 00:49:32,345 --> 00:49:34,138 Aargh! 677 00:49:34,305 --> 00:49:35,556 Fucking bitch! 678 00:49:35,682 --> 00:49:38,184 Aargh! 679 00:49:41,521 --> 00:49:43,272 Aargh! 680 00:49:43,439 --> 00:49:45,775 Aargh! 681 00:49:51,030 --> 00:49:52,573 Aargh! 682 00:50:17,557 --> 00:50:18,891 Medicus! 683 00:50:20,226 --> 00:50:21,602 - Medicus! - The man, at last, 684 00:50:21,769 --> 00:50:24,731 finds his place-legs spread, absent cock. 685 00:50:24,897 --> 00:50:28,192 Medicus! Aargh! 686 00:50:28,651 --> 00:50:29,819 Medicus! 687 00:50:34,198 --> 00:50:37,243 Ephesius? Why is he so stained with blood? 688 00:50:37,952 --> 00:50:39,787 Give way! Give... 689 00:50:39,954 --> 00:50:41,581 Fucking... way! 690 00:50:48,254 --> 00:50:49,547 Life has fled. 691 00:50:50,548 --> 00:50:52,842 A blessing for one so rudely handled. 692 00:50:54,010 --> 00:50:56,137 What has fucking happened? 693 00:50:57,138 --> 00:50:58,222 The woman! 694 00:50:58,848 --> 00:51:00,099 She went mad! 695 00:51:00,266 --> 00:51:01,309 He breaks false words. 696 00:51:01,476 --> 00:51:02,477 I was but working palus, when they- 697 00:51:02,602 --> 00:51:04,645 I give no shit what they did. 698 00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:08,775 Only the Dominus of the house can claim life of one who stands 699 00:51:08,941 --> 00:51:10,485 among the brotherhood. 700 00:51:10,610 --> 00:51:12,278 Any man who lays hands upon me shall fall the same fate, 701 00:51:12,403 --> 00:51:13,696 regardless of fucking brand. 702 00:51:13,863 --> 00:51:16,282 - She does not belong here! - Do not speak! 703 00:51:18,159 --> 00:51:19,911 You believe you hold place among us? 704 00:51:20,453 --> 00:51:22,663 I did not ask to be in this fucking house, 705 00:51:22,830 --> 00:51:24,957 Yet I stand equal as any man within it. 706 00:51:25,124 --> 00:51:26,209 Then give proof. 707 00:51:26,626 --> 00:51:28,377 Dacus! Steel. 708 00:51:31,214 --> 00:51:33,424 We must stop this. I will alert villa guards. 709 00:51:33,549 --> 00:51:34,634 Hold. 710 00:51:34,759 --> 00:51:36,427 She makes bold claim. 711 00:51:37,553 --> 00:51:39,263 Let us see it defended. 712 00:51:43,017 --> 00:51:46,229 Doctore, should this matter not be attended by Dominus? 713 00:51:46,395 --> 00:51:47,897 Fall from fucking side. 714 00:51:50,483 --> 00:51:51,984 - Korris. - Hold ground. 715 00:51:52,151 --> 00:51:55,530 Or Dominus will hear you took wine and fell from fucking post. 716 00:52:04,163 --> 00:52:07,416 Retrieve the shield and take position. 717 00:52:14,674 --> 00:52:16,843 You stand for a man absent honor? 718 00:52:17,301 --> 00:52:18,761 I stand for the brotherhood. 719 00:52:19,554 --> 00:52:22,056 Then thank the gods I am not a part of it. 720 00:52:39,532 --> 00:52:42,660 Make her suffer the point! 721 00:52:43,619 --> 00:52:47,748 Fight her now! 722 00:52:49,834 --> 00:52:51,836 Retreat as a coward would. Coward! 723 00:52:53,546 --> 00:52:56,424 For the brotherhood! 724 00:52:57,842 --> 00:53:01,178 You have learned nothing! 725 00:53:01,345 --> 00:53:03,556 Except how to die absent honor. 726 00:53:05,766 --> 00:53:07,727 Doctore, kill her! 727 00:53:07,894 --> 00:53:09,478 Fire will not aid you! 728 00:53:23,117 --> 00:53:24,911 Aargh! 729 00:53:28,331 --> 00:53:29,624 Die! 730 00:53:35,046 --> 00:53:36,088 Yes! 731 00:53:36,255 --> 00:53:37,673 Send her to the fuckin afterlife. 732 00:53:45,056 --> 00:53:47,099 Increase advantage, Doctore! 733 00:53:55,942 --> 00:53:57,109 Finish her. 734 00:53:57,944 --> 00:53:59,403 For our brother! 735 00:54:06,827 --> 00:54:08,579 Fucking kill her! 736 00:54:10,289 --> 00:54:14,043 You fought well, yet fall short of the brotherhood. 737 00:54:38,359 --> 00:54:39,902 I stand mistaken. 738 00:54:56,168 --> 00:54:58,754 She took the life of a brother, yet you let her live? 739 00:54:58,879 --> 00:55:00,548 I am the champion of Akragas. 740 00:55:01,007 --> 00:55:04,218 Freedom won upon the sand, by my own fucking will. 741 00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:07,346 And yet this woman, absent experience, 742 00:55:07,513 --> 00:55:10,558 has achieved what none among you could dare dream of- 743 00:55:11,017 --> 00:55:12,268 she drew blood 744 00:55:13,185 --> 00:55:16,689 against opponent far outmatching her in skill and experience. 745 00:55:17,523 --> 00:55:19,275 She has earned my respect... 746 00:55:20,609 --> 00:55:22,069 If but for fleeting moment. 747 00:55:22,653 --> 00:55:26,282 And any man who lays undesired hand upon her... 748 00:55:26,949 --> 00:55:28,576 Shall feel my own... 749 00:55:28,743 --> 00:55:30,536 At fucking throat.