1 00:05:05,305 --> 00:05:08,047 And so it fell out that at Pharsalia... 2 00:05:08,266 --> 00:05:12,430 the great might and manhood of Rome met in bloody civil war... 3 00:05:12,646 --> 00:05:16,765 and Caesar's legions destroyed those of the great Pompey... 4 00:05:16,983 --> 00:05:20,521 S0 that now only Caesar stood at the head of Rome. 5 00:05:20,737 --> 00:05:25,356 But there was no joy for Caesar as in his other triumphs... 6 00:05:25,575 --> 00:05:30,695 for the dead which his legions counted and buried and burned... 7 00:05:30,956 --> 00:05:32,742 were their own countrymen. 8 00:05:34,709 --> 00:05:38,418 The smoke of burning Roman dead is just as black... 9 00:05:38,630 --> 00:05:41,998 and the stink no less. 10 00:05:42,217 --> 00:05:45,050 It was Pompey, not I, who wanted it so. 11 00:05:45,262 --> 00:05:47,879 Let what I have said be set down. 12 00:05:50,141 --> 00:05:52,052 You may stand. 13 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:59,519 Do not try and impress me by looking either too penitent or too proud. 14 00:05:59,734 --> 00:06:03,227 As field officers, you fought miserably for Pompey. 15 00:06:03,446 --> 00:06:06,905 Men under your command will be permitted to enlist in my legions... 16 00:06:07,117 --> 00:06:09,529 and returned to Rome as Romans. 17 00:06:09,744 --> 00:06:11,610 You shall have the same privilege. 18 00:06:11,830 --> 00:06:15,198 I'm not magnanimous. Your names are marked. You'll be watched. 19 00:06:15,417 --> 00:06:17,829 First sign of treachery, you'll be killed. 20 00:06:18,044 --> 00:06:20,832 What is it, Flavius? Antony? 21 00:06:21,047 --> 00:06:24,381 Oh, yes. Canidius. With news of Pompey, I hope. 22 00:06:59,002 --> 00:07:02,085 - Hail Caesar! - Drink that in my name, Canidius. 23 00:07:02,339 --> 00:07:05,832 To all Marc Antony's cavalry, Caesar's left wing and right arm. 24 00:07:06,092 --> 00:07:08,049 What news of Pompey, or what's left of him? 25 00:07:09,638 --> 00:07:11,049 Pompey's gone, Caesar. 26 00:07:11,264 --> 00:07:14,632 Slipped through our fingers, disguised as a peddler. 27 00:07:14,851 --> 00:07:18,139 - Leaving most of his merchandise. - Gone? Where? 28 00:07:18,355 --> 00:07:22,815 He has a galley waiting at the coast. Provision enough for Egypt, they say. 29 00:07:23,026 --> 00:07:28,021 Egypt. Possibly. They owe him a great deal. 30 00:07:28,239 --> 00:07:32,107 He'll ask for sanctuary. Borrow money, borrow time. 31 00:07:32,953 --> 00:07:35,945 I thought it was over. It seems it's not. 32 00:07:36,164 --> 00:07:38,997 Rufio, consult the augurers. I want to know. 33 00:07:39,209 --> 00:07:42,201 In Egypt, will Pompey face me at last? 34 00:07:44,297 --> 00:07:46,880 But surely Caesar will now return to Rome! 35 00:07:47,092 --> 00:07:48,833 I must go to Egypt in any case. 36 00:07:49,094 --> 00:07:52,303 Young King Ptolemy and his sister have a civil war of their own... 37 00:07:52,514 --> 00:07:56,758 intent on destroying each other, and in the process, Rome's wheat. 38 00:07:57,018 --> 00:07:58,725 That cannot be so urgent. 39 00:07:58,937 --> 00:08:02,100 Let the Romans welcome great Caesar properly at last... 40 00:08:02,315 --> 00:08:04,431 in this greatest of his triumphs. 41 00:08:04,651 --> 00:08:07,860 Triumph? Over what? 42 00:08:08,822 --> 00:08:11,189 Over whom? 43 00:08:11,408 --> 00:08:13,274 - Canidius. - Caesar? 44 00:08:13,535 --> 00:08:16,903 Leave me the 10th and 12th. Antony's to take the rest to Rome. 45 00:08:17,122 --> 00:08:19,329 - When can he start? - Whenever you say. 46 00:08:19,582 --> 00:08:21,414 Then at once. 47 00:08:23,294 --> 00:08:26,707 And in Rome, Marc Antony is to speak for Caesar. 48 00:08:26,965 --> 00:08:28,797 His authority is not to be questioned. 49 00:08:29,009 --> 00:08:30,875 His word will be yours. 50 00:08:31,094 --> 00:08:32,835 As always, Caesar's word is law. 51 00:08:33,054 --> 00:08:34,419 Of course. 52 00:08:34,639 --> 00:08:38,803 But remind him to keep his legions intact. They make the law legal. 53 00:08:39,060 --> 00:08:40,095 Caesar. 54 00:08:51,406 --> 00:08:55,445 And even as Caesar's galleys sailed the great sea to Egypt... 55 00:08:55,660 --> 00:08:58,698 It was happening that, just as the Romans... 56 00:08:58,913 --> 00:09:02,406 S0 the Egyptians made war, one upon the other... 57 00:09:02,667 --> 00:09:05,830 for young King Ptolemy would no longer share the throne... 58 00:09:06,087 --> 00:09:08,169 with his sister Cleopatra... 59 00:09:08,381 --> 00:09:10,964 but drove her from the city of Alexandria... 60 00:09:11,176 --> 00:09:14,294 and sought to destroy her. 61 00:10:14,239 --> 00:10:16,276 We've arrived on their market day. 62 00:10:16,533 --> 00:10:19,241 Once a week they're allowed in the royal enclosure. 63 00:10:19,452 --> 00:10:21,614 Where's the guard of honor for Caesar? 64 00:10:21,830 --> 00:10:24,413 Some representative of the royal or military? 65 00:11:11,713 --> 00:11:16,503 We have the privilege of watching Caesar battle through our marketplace. 66 00:11:18,511 --> 00:11:21,048 Marcellus, a dozen front-rank men, swords only. 67 00:11:21,306 --> 00:11:23,638 Clear a direct line to the palace steps. 68 00:11:23,850 --> 00:11:26,433 Then as many more to keep it open. 69 00:11:26,644 --> 00:11:30,808 It's precisely what they hope we'd be stupid enough to do: manhandle their people. 70 00:11:31,024 --> 00:11:34,437 No. This is their market day, we will go marketing. 71 00:11:34,652 --> 00:11:38,111 - You're not serious. - We'll shop our way to the palace. 72 00:11:38,323 --> 00:11:42,157 Have you my money? Everything is to be paid for by coin. 73 00:11:42,368 --> 00:11:45,201 Tell them to put away the swords and carry moneybags. 74 00:12:08,353 --> 00:12:11,596 Olives. Oil of olives. 75 00:12:11,814 --> 00:12:14,021 Ah, the wine of Samos. 76 00:12:14,234 --> 00:12:17,101 How much for your wine? Four drachma. 77 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:19,357 Sixty of your wine for my men. 78 00:12:19,572 --> 00:12:21,438 Pay him. 79 00:12:21,658 --> 00:12:23,615 Pay him. 80 00:12:26,996 --> 00:12:30,034 You said they'd push the people and make them angry. 81 00:12:30,250 --> 00:12:33,083 Why aren't they doing what you said they'd do? 82 00:12:33,294 --> 00:12:36,036 Your king has asked a question, Lord Chamberlain. 83 00:12:37,382 --> 00:12:41,046 The Romans have degenerated minds, Most High Majesty. 84 00:12:41,261 --> 00:12:43,468 They do the unexpected. 85 00:12:44,305 --> 00:12:46,467 Particularly one Roman. 86 00:12:46,683 --> 00:12:49,015 Master of the unexpected. 87 00:12:49,227 --> 00:12:52,094 But with so few men. 88 00:12:59,696 --> 00:13:01,437 You all look so impressive. 89 00:13:01,698 --> 00:13:03,564 Any one of you could be king. 90 00:13:03,825 --> 00:13:06,112 His Divine Majesty, my Lord Ptolemy... 91 00:13:06,327 --> 00:13:08,785 lord of the Upper and Lower regions... 92 00:13:08,997 --> 00:13:11,580 son of Ra, of Horus and of Thoth, beloved of... 93 00:13:11,791 --> 00:13:14,328 Et cetera, et cetera. You welcome me. 94 00:13:14,544 --> 00:13:17,627 And I, Gaius Julius Caesar, Pontifex Maximus... 95 00:13:17,839 --> 00:13:20,171 et cetera, et cetera, thank you. 96 00:13:20,383 --> 00:13:23,592 From the Senate and people of Rome, hail King Ptolemy. 97 00:13:23,845 --> 00:13:27,759 And his sister and co-ruler, Queen Cleopatra? 98 00:13:28,016 --> 00:13:31,509 They won't tell you so, but Cleopatra's dead. 99 00:13:31,728 --> 00:13:32,559 She tried to kill me, and we chased her into the desert. 100 00:13:32,562 --> 00:13:35,099 She tried to kill me, and we chased her into the desert. 101 00:13:35,315 --> 00:13:36,931 And there she died. 102 00:13:37,150 --> 00:13:40,438 Whereas it is true that His Majesty's sister... 103 00:13:40,695 --> 00:13:43,062 repeatedly plotted to have him killed... 104 00:13:43,281 --> 00:13:45,568 it is not true that Cleopatra is dead. 105 00:13:45,783 --> 00:13:48,741 Whereas it is true that she fled from Alexandria... 106 00:13:48,995 --> 00:13:50,952 I seem to always interrupt you... 107 00:13:51,164 --> 00:13:53,906 but the search for truth can go on and on. 108 00:13:54,125 --> 00:13:55,365 Pothinus, is it not? 109 00:13:55,626 --> 00:13:59,164 Lord Chamberlain and chief eunuch to King Ptolemy. An exalted rank. 110 00:13:59,422 --> 00:14:03,916 Obtained not without certain, shall we say, sacrifice. 111 00:14:04,135 --> 00:14:05,921 Theodotus, am I right? 112 00:14:06,137 --> 00:14:10,222 Tutor to His Majesty in history, philosophy and ambition. 113 00:14:10,433 --> 00:14:13,050 And Achillas. They say you're a good soldier. 114 00:14:13,269 --> 00:14:16,933 - As one to another, where is Cleopatra? - With her army. 115 00:14:17,190 --> 00:14:20,023 And how many of your men between her and Alexandria? 116 00:14:20,276 --> 00:14:23,064 - Enough. - May I speak? 117 00:14:23,279 --> 00:14:25,395 Surely you have come in peace. 118 00:14:25,615 --> 00:14:30,030 And we present ourselves to you in warm and respectful welcome. 119 00:14:30,244 --> 00:14:34,363 Our only problem being an internal one, of concern only to us... 120 00:14:34,624 --> 00:14:36,285 why have you come, Caesar? 121 00:14:37,043 --> 00:14:41,002 As we all know, when the father of both Ptolemy and Cleopatra died... 122 00:14:41,214 --> 00:14:44,798 he named the two of them to rule jointly over Egypt. 123 00:14:45,009 --> 00:14:49,298 Rome was appointed their guardian and the executor of his will. 124 00:14:49,514 --> 00:14:53,473 I have come in the name of Rome to ask why Cleopatra has been deposed... 125 00:14:53,684 --> 00:14:56,802 to resolve the differences between her and King Ptolemy... 126 00:14:57,021 --> 00:15:01,436 and to see that they peacefully resume their joint rule of Egypt. 127 00:15:01,651 --> 00:15:05,110 That will be difficult. Cleopatra has forfeited her right. 128 00:15:05,363 --> 00:15:07,525 I shall try to decide justly. 129 00:15:07,740 --> 00:15:11,108 Don't you see he'll send for her? He'll bring her back! 130 00:15:11,327 --> 00:15:15,036 The sun which sheds its grace upon the ruler of the two lands... 131 00:15:15,248 --> 00:15:16,955 burns too brightly perhaps. 132 00:15:17,166 --> 00:15:19,077 If Lord Ptolemy wishes to retire... 133 00:15:19,335 --> 00:15:21,042 I wish nothing of the kind! 134 00:15:21,254 --> 00:15:25,464 I won't be put out of the way until I've watched you give him that! 135 00:15:27,343 --> 00:15:30,256 A thousand pardons, I had almost forgotten. 136 00:15:30,513 --> 00:15:35,474 Lord Ptolemy wishes to enhance his welcome by a gift of some importance. 137 00:15:36,477 --> 00:15:38,184 Most generous. 138 00:15:38,771 --> 00:15:41,308 The ring. Give him Pompey's ring. 139 00:15:53,035 --> 00:15:56,323 And now the token of His Majesty's affection for Rome... 140 00:15:56,539 --> 00:15:59,031 and regard for Caesar. 141 00:16:12,013 --> 00:16:13,924 Pompey the Great. 142 00:16:18,478 --> 00:16:20,970 Dead men, they say, do not bite. 143 00:16:22,773 --> 00:16:24,889 Does it please you, Caesar? 144 00:16:25,109 --> 00:16:27,601 They said it would please you very much. 145 00:16:30,531 --> 00:16:33,865 The sun does shed its grace too brightly. 146 00:16:34,911 --> 00:16:37,824 It has become too hot here for kings. 147 00:16:38,039 --> 00:16:40,952 My Lord Ptolemy will retire. 148 00:16:56,474 --> 00:17:00,342 For His Majesty, a Roman guard of honor. 149 00:17:11,364 --> 00:17:13,901 It was not by your hand, of course. 150 00:17:14,617 --> 00:17:18,702 If, as you say, you've been told of me, you know better, Caesar. 151 00:17:21,249 --> 00:17:23,490 My men shall be properly housed and fed. 152 00:17:23,751 --> 00:17:26,038 - May I speak? - Not until you're spoken to. 153 00:17:26,254 --> 00:17:28,086 I'll require rooms in the palace. 154 00:17:28,297 --> 00:17:31,289 I shall consider myself honored to escort you. 155 00:17:31,676 --> 00:17:33,508 Anyone but you. 156 00:17:36,722 --> 00:17:38,383 Find the rest of Pompey. 157 00:17:38,599 --> 00:17:41,432 Tear out a thousand tongues, but find him. 158 00:17:41,936 --> 00:17:43,426 Have him purified... 159 00:17:43,646 --> 00:17:46,638 the coin in the mouth and the rest, honorably. 160 00:17:47,441 --> 00:17:48,931 Of course. 161 00:18:27,106 --> 00:18:29,222 For now, this is what we must hold. 162 00:18:29,442 --> 00:18:31,774 Moon gate and three others. Here, here and here. 163 00:18:31,986 --> 00:18:33,476 How are we placed? 164 00:18:33,738 --> 00:18:36,275 The 10th slingers on the moon gate. The rest in reserve. 165 00:18:36,532 --> 00:18:39,524 The 12th holding all other positions. Very thin. 166 00:18:39,785 --> 00:18:41,275 For now, deep enough. 167 00:18:41,537 --> 00:18:44,871 - Have we tested the wells? - The water's brackish, but drinkable. 168 00:18:45,082 --> 00:18:48,165 So far. Keep an eye on them. Watch the corn and wheat. 169 00:18:48,377 --> 00:18:51,210 With our supplies secure, we can hold indefinitely. 170 00:18:51,422 --> 00:18:55,882 For a week, perhaps. For the time being, time enough. 171 00:18:56,093 --> 00:18:57,549 What do you want? 172 00:19:03,684 --> 00:19:05,675 Is the man to be trusted? 173 00:19:06,896 --> 00:19:09,058 Seems someone's brought me a gift... 174 00:19:09,398 --> 00:19:11,309 from Queen Cleopatra. 175 00:19:13,653 --> 00:19:15,735 Apparently, a rug peddler. 176 00:19:15,946 --> 00:19:17,402 Flavius doubts it. 177 00:19:17,657 --> 00:19:19,739 He seems to know the palace very well. 178 00:19:19,992 --> 00:19:23,951 He appeared through a secret passage which none of the men knew. 179 00:19:24,372 --> 00:19:27,785 Pothinus might send an assassin in Cleopatra's name. 180 00:19:28,042 --> 00:19:30,079 Have the man brought in. 181 00:19:46,352 --> 00:19:49,686 Are you the one who brings a gift from Cleopatra? 182 00:19:50,272 --> 00:19:51,558 Put it down and go. 183 00:19:51,774 --> 00:19:55,768 It is the command of my queen I deliver her gift personally. 184 00:19:55,986 --> 00:19:58,102 I am Caesar. Lay it here before me. 185 00:19:58,364 --> 00:20:01,482 Forgive me, Admiral Agrippa, but you're not Caesar. 186 00:20:01,742 --> 00:20:04,325 Nor you, General Rufio. Nor you, Germanicus. 187 00:20:04,537 --> 00:20:07,245 My queen's gift is for the eyes of Caesar... 188 00:20:07,498 --> 00:20:09,080 alone. 189 00:20:09,333 --> 00:20:11,700 - It seems harmless enough. - No, Caesar! 190 00:20:11,919 --> 00:20:16,004 You can lend me your sword, Rufio. It may require some cutting. 191 00:20:24,932 --> 00:20:26,923 Odd way to carry a rug. 192 00:20:27,143 --> 00:20:29,885 Isn't it easier to sling it over your shoulder? 193 00:20:30,104 --> 00:20:32,596 It was less comfortable that way. 194 00:20:33,816 --> 00:20:36,774 - For you or the rug? - That sword, Caesar. 195 00:20:36,986 --> 00:20:40,775 The rug is such a delicate weave. If I may untie it for you. 196 00:20:40,990 --> 00:20:43,573 Turn it over first. 197 00:20:43,826 --> 00:20:47,660 - But the rug is right-side up. - I want it the wrong side up. 198 00:20:47,872 --> 00:20:50,864 - Should I flip it over with my sword? - No, no, no. 199 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:59,999 I find one can tell more about the quality of merchandise... 200 00:21:00,259 --> 00:21:03,217 by examining the back side first. 201 00:21:06,974 --> 00:21:10,387 All hail Cleopatra, kindred of Horus and Ra... 202 00:21:10,644 --> 00:21:13,727 beloved of the moon and sun, daughter to Isis... 203 00:21:13,981 --> 00:21:17,690 and of Upper and Lower Egypt, queen. 204 00:21:28,204 --> 00:21:29,786 Thank you. 205 00:21:30,039 --> 00:21:31,495 Here. 206 00:21:33,584 --> 00:21:36,246 Take this to the captain of the night watch. 207 00:21:36,462 --> 00:21:40,000 He'll see the queen's quarters are made ready to her. 208 00:21:40,424 --> 00:21:42,506 Stay where you are. 209 00:21:42,718 --> 00:21:45,961 - Have I dismissed you? - No, Your Majesty. 210 00:21:46,222 --> 00:21:48,133 This is my palace, Caesar. 211 00:21:48,390 --> 00:21:51,303 All of it is available to me at my will. 212 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:55,428 I am not your prisoner. If anything, you are my guest. 213 00:21:55,689 --> 00:21:56,724 Most kind. 214 00:21:56,941 --> 00:22:00,434 And as for having my quarters, as you put it, made ready... 215 00:22:00,694 --> 00:22:04,187 my chief handmaiden has, by now, brought the others out of hiding. 216 00:22:04,406 --> 00:22:06,192 They should almost be finished. 217 00:22:06,450 --> 00:22:08,782 Impossible. The doors are under guard. 218 00:22:08,994 --> 00:22:11,156 There are doors, and doors. 219 00:22:12,122 --> 00:22:13,578 Oh, yes. Of course. 220 00:22:13,791 --> 00:22:17,500 You must take me on a tour someday within the walls of your palace. 221 00:22:17,711 --> 00:22:20,499 - What are you waiting for? - Permission to leave. 222 00:22:20,756 --> 00:22:22,121 Granted. 223 00:22:23,092 --> 00:22:24,378 Apollodorus. 224 00:22:26,303 --> 00:22:27,964 Thank you. 225 00:22:35,145 --> 00:22:38,388 I'm pleased you received my summons and were able to... 226 00:22:38,607 --> 00:22:43,022 Summons? I'm pleased to say I received nothing of the kind. 227 00:22:43,279 --> 00:22:45,896 I'm surprised you thought I would answer one. 228 00:22:46,115 --> 00:22:48,777 Young lady, the voyage in your non-magic carpet... 229 00:22:48,951 --> 00:22:51,943 has apparently not tired you, but I'm exhausted. 230 00:22:52,246 --> 00:22:55,409 Caesar, it is essential we understand each other. 231 00:22:55,666 --> 00:22:57,998 Only through me can you hope to escape... 232 00:22:58,210 --> 00:23:01,328 the desperate situation in which you find yourself. 233 00:23:02,006 --> 00:23:03,917 I wouldn't bite into that. 234 00:23:04,592 --> 00:23:08,130 Did you bring it with you? Have you had it tasted? 235 00:23:08,345 --> 00:23:10,336 If neither, it's probably poisoned. 236 00:23:10,598 --> 00:23:15,092 At least it's another way out of the desperate situation in which I'm found. 237 00:23:17,396 --> 00:23:20,309 You're being tolerant of me, aren't you? 238 00:23:21,650 --> 00:23:24,312 Is it because you're so much older? 239 00:23:25,905 --> 00:23:29,364 Your maps are inferior. Out-of-date, compared to mine. 240 00:23:29,742 --> 00:23:32,029 They and I have aged together. 241 00:23:32,286 --> 00:23:34,698 The lakes to the west are poorly marked... 242 00:23:34,914 --> 00:23:37,747 certain important hill positions not even noted. 243 00:23:38,250 --> 00:23:42,209 I must arrange for you to address my mapmakers and general staff. 244 00:23:44,548 --> 00:23:47,290 We've gotten off to a bad start, haven't we? 245 00:23:48,135 --> 00:23:49,842 I've rubbed you the wrong way. 246 00:23:50,512 --> 00:23:54,301 I'm not sure I want to be rubbed by you at all, young lady. 247 00:23:57,394 --> 00:24:00,011 It is permissible for me to sit, is it not? 248 00:24:03,776 --> 00:24:08,270 As quickly as possible you must set me alone on the throne of Egypt. 249 00:24:08,530 --> 00:24:12,194 My mission is to put to an end the tiresome squabbling between your brother and you. 250 00:24:12,409 --> 00:24:14,741 You're not a fool. Or are you? 251 00:24:14,954 --> 00:24:17,241 Immodestly, perhaps, no. 252 00:24:17,498 --> 00:24:19,990 You've seen my brother and listened to him? 253 00:24:20,250 --> 00:24:22,912 And that truly evil man to whom he belongs? 254 00:24:24,338 --> 00:24:25,419 Yes. 255 00:24:26,882 --> 00:24:29,544 Shall we agree upon what Rome really wants... 256 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:31,546 has always wanted of Egypt? 257 00:24:31,804 --> 00:24:36,048 Corn, grain, treasure. It's the old story. 258 00:24:36,475 --> 00:24:39,638 Roman greatness built upon Egyptian riches. 259 00:24:40,104 --> 00:24:43,597 You shall have them. You shall have them all and in peace. 260 00:24:44,274 --> 00:24:46,231 But there is only one way. 261 00:24:46,485 --> 00:24:49,443 My way. Make me queen. 262 00:24:50,364 --> 00:24:52,526 That sounds very much like an ultimatum. 263 00:24:52,783 --> 00:24:54,273 There is no other way. 264 00:24:54,952 --> 00:24:57,489 For one whose assets, up to a few moments ago... 265 00:24:57,746 --> 00:25:00,408 was a devoted slave and a rolled-up carpet... 266 00:25:00,666 --> 00:25:02,703 But I have you now, Caesar. 267 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:04,701 Besides, there are my armies... 268 00:25:04,962 --> 00:25:08,330 and the simple fact that no mortal hand can destroy me. 269 00:25:09,049 --> 00:25:11,461 Yes, I recall some mention of an obsession... 270 00:25:11,677 --> 00:25:13,759 you have about your divinity. 271 00:25:14,722 --> 00:25:16,008 Isis, is it not? 272 00:25:18,475 --> 00:25:21,342 I shall have to insist that you mind what you say. 273 00:25:21,603 --> 00:25:26,018 I am Isis. I am worshiped by millions who believe it. 274 00:25:26,817 --> 00:25:28,558 Do not confuse what I am... 275 00:25:28,819 --> 00:25:31,186 with the so-called divine origin... 276 00:25:31,447 --> 00:25:35,156 that every Roman general acquires together with his shield. 277 00:25:35,409 --> 00:25:40,825 It was Venus you chose to be descended from, wasn't it? 278 00:25:41,749 --> 00:25:44,207 I must now do a little insisting of my own. 279 00:25:44,460 --> 00:25:47,248 First, your journey has tired you and you wish to retire. 280 00:25:47,504 --> 00:25:50,292 I am not your servant, Caesar. Do not dismiss me. 281 00:25:50,549 --> 00:25:52,916 Secondly, you have no armies, young lady. 282 00:25:53,177 --> 00:25:55,919 They are gone because you could not pay them. 283 00:25:56,180 --> 00:25:59,047 Egypt's riches are not available for your own use... 284 00:25:59,308 --> 00:26:02,050 much less to give away. Perhaps in a day or two... 285 00:26:02,311 --> 00:26:04,643 - we can speak again. - That may be too late... 286 00:26:04,897 --> 00:26:06,012 for both of us. 287 00:26:06,273 --> 00:26:08,935 Your safety will be my responsibility. 288 00:26:09,985 --> 00:26:12,192 And what about your own? 289 00:26:12,446 --> 00:26:15,154 I am prepared, I believe, for the time being. 290 00:26:15,991 --> 00:26:17,402 I hope so. 291 00:26:18,285 --> 00:26:21,198 I hope you are as wise, as brilliant... 292 00:26:21,455 --> 00:26:23,412 the god they say you are. 293 00:26:23,665 --> 00:26:27,158 You Roman generals become divine so quickly. 294 00:26:27,544 --> 00:26:30,832 A few victories, a few massacres. 295 00:26:31,090 --> 00:26:34,048 Only yesterday, Pompey was a god. 296 00:26:34,259 --> 00:26:37,092 - They murdered him, didn't they? - Yes. 297 00:26:37,471 --> 00:26:40,088 Because they thought it would please you. 298 00:26:40,390 --> 00:26:43,428 - It didn't, did it? - No. 299 00:26:45,312 --> 00:26:49,601 Today I found myself remembering how much my daughter loved him. 300 00:26:49,858 --> 00:26:52,600 She died trying to bear him a son. 301 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:54,981 She gave him this ring. 302 00:26:56,740 --> 00:26:59,482 Sleep well tonight, Caesar. 303 00:27:00,077 --> 00:27:02,284 These next days may be difficult for you. 304 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:04,570 Good night. 305 00:27:08,544 --> 00:27:11,912 Germanicus, a guard to escort Queen Cleopatra to her apartments. 306 00:27:12,172 --> 00:27:13,287 Guards! 307 00:27:24,059 --> 00:27:26,801 The corridors are dark, gentlemen. 308 00:27:27,312 --> 00:27:29,724 But you mustn't be afraid. I am with you. 309 00:27:43,078 --> 00:27:45,820 Haven't we covered everything we can tonight, sir? 310 00:27:46,039 --> 00:27:49,532 - Perhaps a fresh start in the morning. - No, a few more matters. 311 00:27:49,751 --> 00:27:53,085 Rufio, has it occurred to you that our maps of this area... 312 00:27:53,297 --> 00:27:55,538 are not quite what they should be? 313 00:27:55,757 --> 00:27:58,340 Why, no. What makes you think they're not? 314 00:27:58,552 --> 00:28:00,759 I have an instinct about these things. 315 00:28:09,813 --> 00:28:11,679 Actually of Macedonian descent. 316 00:28:11,940 --> 00:28:14,227 No officially-admitted Egyptian blood. 317 00:28:14,610 --> 00:28:17,728 "Reputed to be extremely intelligent and sharp of wit. 318 00:28:17,988 --> 00:28:21,447 Queen Cleopatra is widely read. Well-versed in the sciences... 319 00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:22,700 and mathematics. 320 00:28:22,993 --> 00:28:25,655 She speaks seven languages proficiently. 321 00:28:25,913 --> 00:28:29,281 Were she not a woman, she'd be considered an intellectual." 322 00:28:30,375 --> 00:28:32,742 Nothing bores me so much as an intellectual. 323 00:28:33,128 --> 00:28:35,335 Makes a better admiral of you, Agrippa. 324 00:28:36,506 --> 00:28:39,043 Here's something of more interest to the navy: 325 00:28:39,259 --> 00:28:44,095 "In obtaining her objectives, she has been known to use torture, poison... 326 00:28:44,389 --> 00:28:48,303 and even her own sexual talents, which are said to be considerable. 327 00:28:49,061 --> 00:28:53,020 Her lovers, I am told, are listed more easily by number than by name. 328 00:28:53,273 --> 00:28:56,265 It is said that she chooses in the manner of a man... 329 00:28:56,485 --> 00:28:59,318 rather than wait to be chosen after womanly fashion." 330 00:28:59,571 --> 00:29:02,063 Well, there's more reason than we thought... 331 00:29:02,324 --> 00:29:05,237 for not wanting to leave you two alone, eh, sir? 332 00:29:05,452 --> 00:29:07,238 I'm sorry, I wasn't listening. 333 00:29:07,621 --> 00:29:09,658 Are you inclined to trust Cleopatra? 334 00:29:10,207 --> 00:29:12,494 Trust? Not for a minute. 335 00:29:12,918 --> 00:29:17,253 "Trust." The word has always made me apprehensive. 336 00:29:17,506 --> 00:29:21,625 Like wine, whenever I've tried it, the aftereffects have not been good. 337 00:29:21,885 --> 00:29:23,171 So I've given up wine... 338 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:25,131 and trusting. 339 00:29:25,889 --> 00:29:28,881 Oh, it's been a long and difficult day, gentlemen. 340 00:29:29,142 --> 00:29:32,510 The next few may be even longer and more difficult. 341 00:29:32,729 --> 00:29:35,187 - Good night. - Good night. 342 00:30:13,895 --> 00:30:15,306 Flavius! 343 00:30:18,317 --> 00:30:19,899 Flavius! 344 00:32:19,896 --> 00:32:22,888 It is autumn again, my best-loved Lesbia 345 00:32:23,108 --> 00:32:28,194 Look, the torrents of Roman leaves Are falling, falling 346 00:32:28,405 --> 00:32:31,864 And lovers revive in kisses The promise of spring 347 00:32:32,075 --> 00:32:36,444 Which will end the winter world With new nightingales calling 348 00:32:36,663 --> 00:32:38,904 I taste your food, daughter of Isis... 349 00:32:39,124 --> 00:32:42,867 and if there be harm in it, let the harm fall upon me. 350 00:32:43,086 --> 00:32:45,578 But love must bring Despair one day 351 00:32:45,797 --> 00:32:48,334 As beauty, sorrow 352 00:32:53,305 --> 00:32:57,469 - Why do you stop, Phoebus? - In the corridor, there is movement. 353 00:32:58,643 --> 00:33:00,975 That's how the Romans frighten the enemy... 354 00:33:01,188 --> 00:33:05,147 - by stamping their elephant feet. - No, this is one man... 355 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,141 followed by others. 356 00:33:07,652 --> 00:33:10,815 - Caesar, I would say. - Would you? 357 00:33:14,993 --> 00:33:17,485 We must not disappoint the mighty Caesar. 358 00:33:17,704 --> 00:33:20,947 The Romans tell fabulous tales of my bath... 359 00:33:21,208 --> 00:33:23,324 and handmaidens... 360 00:33:23,585 --> 00:33:25,917 and my morals. 361 00:33:29,341 --> 00:33:31,332 Cleopatra's requested an audience with me. 362 00:33:31,551 --> 00:33:34,714 - That was yesterday, Caesar. - I've been occupied. 363 00:33:34,930 --> 00:33:39,174 The queen is occupied with her bath. Perhaps Caesar could return later... 364 00:33:39,434 --> 00:33:42,392 - or tomorrow. - I'm afraid not. Hold him. 365 00:33:42,646 --> 00:33:44,512 No, don't hurt him. 366 00:33:44,731 --> 00:33:46,517 You're a good man, Apollodorus. 367 00:33:46,733 --> 00:33:48,440 I hope you're appreciated. 368 00:33:49,569 --> 00:33:51,355 Wait here for me. 369 00:34:08,588 --> 00:34:11,421 Ah, then let us live and love Without one thought 370 00:34:11,675 --> 00:34:16,169 For the gossip of virgins Now grown old and stale 371 00:34:16,429 --> 00:34:18,170 Suns go down and may return 372 00:34:18,431 --> 00:34:20,513 But once put out Our own brief light 373 00:34:20,725 --> 00:34:23,137 We sleep through One eternal night 374 00:34:23,895 --> 00:34:26,182 An intruder! A man! 375 00:34:29,609 --> 00:34:31,316 Oh, it's you. 376 00:34:32,195 --> 00:34:34,311 You wanted to see me? 377 00:34:35,782 --> 00:34:38,615 I summoned you yesterday... 378 00:34:38,827 --> 00:34:41,159 1o an audience in my throne room. 379 00:34:41,371 --> 00:34:44,204 I was told I was not permitted to go there. 380 00:34:44,916 --> 00:34:48,784 It's too close to the quarters occupied by your brother and the rest. 381 00:34:49,212 --> 00:34:52,750 I will not be told where I can go and where I cannot go! 382 00:34:53,550 --> 00:34:55,382 Since there's nothing you want... 383 00:34:55,635 --> 00:34:58,127 Except my throne! 384 00:35:01,516 --> 00:35:04,304 At least you've dressed properly for my presence. 385 00:35:05,562 --> 00:35:07,223 Your best armor? 386 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,643 Almost, but I'm afraid it's not being worn in your honor. 387 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:13,725 I know. 388 00:35:14,279 --> 00:35:18,864 This morning, you paid a formal visit to the tomb of Alexander. 389 00:35:19,075 --> 00:35:22,739 You remained alone beside the sarcophagus for some time. 390 00:35:23,496 --> 00:35:25,487 I'd like to know how you know. 391 00:35:25,707 --> 00:35:27,914 Just staring down at him. 392 00:35:29,502 --> 00:35:31,243 And then you cried. 393 00:35:33,173 --> 00:35:34,914 Why did you cry, Caesar? 394 00:35:37,636 --> 00:35:39,377 That man recites beautifully. 395 00:35:39,596 --> 00:35:41,337 - Is he blind? - Don't you hurt him. 396 00:35:41,598 --> 00:35:45,011 I won't. Not anyone who speaks Catullus so well. 397 00:35:45,226 --> 00:35:48,844 Catullus doesn't approve of you. Why haven't you had him killed? 398 00:35:49,105 --> 00:35:51,267 Because I approve of him. 399 00:35:51,858 --> 00:35:54,941 My desire to please you, Caesar Is very slight 400 00:35:55,153 --> 00:35:58,191 Nor do I greatly care to know If you are black or white 401 00:35:58,406 --> 00:36:01,649 Achillas is moving his entire army to Alexandria. 402 00:36:02,285 --> 00:36:05,994 By tonight, he'll outnumber you 20-to-1, 30-to-1. 403 00:36:06,247 --> 00:36:09,831 He'll have the royal enclosure entirely surrounded. 404 00:36:10,043 --> 00:36:11,043 Except to the sea. 405 00:36:12,128 --> 00:36:14,460 Do you plan to sail away, great Caesar? 406 00:36:15,799 --> 00:36:17,585 Not for the time being. 407 00:36:18,093 --> 00:36:21,085 Achillas may attack tomorrow, the next day... 408 00:36:21,304 --> 00:36:23,841 - whenever it suits him! - Very probable. 409 00:36:24,432 --> 00:36:28,300 In your wildest dreams, Caesar, how can you possibly hope to hold... 410 00:36:28,561 --> 00:36:31,599 the gates of this enclosure against such odds? 411 00:36:31,856 --> 00:36:34,644 And if you say once more, "For the time being"... 412 00:36:34,859 --> 00:36:38,397 My officers say anything from a week to indefinitely. 413 00:36:38,655 --> 00:36:40,396 What would you estimate? 414 00:36:41,866 --> 00:36:43,823 Before you're without water... 415 00:36:44,035 --> 00:36:45,321 without food... 416 00:36:45,578 --> 00:36:48,616 your troops slaughtered, picked off from the rooftops... 417 00:36:48,832 --> 00:36:50,914 poisoned in the brothels? 418 00:36:51,167 --> 00:36:55,286 A few days, Caesar. At the most, a few days. 419 00:36:56,005 --> 00:36:58,212 I'm inclined to agree with you. 420 00:36:59,509 --> 00:37:01,967 Young man, do you know this of Catullus? 421 00:37:02,220 --> 00:37:05,212 Give me a thousand And a thousand kisses 422 00:37:05,432 --> 00:37:08,015 When we have many thousand more We'll scramble them 423 00:37:08,268 --> 00:37:09,804 And forget the score 424 00:37:10,019 --> 00:37:12,807 So evil envy will not know How high the count 425 00:37:13,064 --> 00:37:15,931 And cast its evil eye 426 00:37:20,196 --> 00:37:23,279 It couldn't have been as pleasant in the throne room. 427 00:37:26,953 --> 00:37:30,036 "My desire to please you, Caesar, Is very slight..." 428 00:37:30,290 --> 00:37:31,371 Be still! 429 00:37:32,459 --> 00:37:35,121 Caesar, a word. It's important. 430 00:37:37,005 --> 00:37:41,124 The Egyptian galleys in the harbor have been taking on men and armaments. 431 00:37:41,384 --> 00:37:45,343 - When will they be prepared? - Tomorrow, with the morning wind. 432 00:37:46,473 --> 00:37:48,055 Burn them tonight. 433 00:37:48,266 --> 00:37:50,132 Their ships lie close to shore. 434 00:37:50,393 --> 00:37:53,476 - The fire may spread to the city. - Let's hope it doesn't. 435 00:37:53,730 --> 00:37:55,141 I can't risk a blockade. 436 00:37:55,398 --> 00:37:58,891 Remember, not before tonight. Prepare as secretly as possible. 437 00:37:59,152 --> 00:38:01,063 I need this day. 438 00:38:01,404 --> 00:38:02,644 Good luck. 439 00:38:06,409 --> 00:38:09,947 Why not before tonight, my lord? Why does Caesar need this day? 440 00:38:10,163 --> 00:38:13,701 I can't give you that information, for the time being. 441 00:38:21,758 --> 00:38:23,294 Flavius. 442 00:38:23,885 --> 00:38:26,593 Here it is, Caesar. Just arrived. 443 00:38:26,805 --> 00:38:29,263 The gods shouldn't tantalize us so, Rufio. 444 00:38:31,976 --> 00:38:34,434 It's even better than I'd hoped. 445 00:38:34,687 --> 00:38:38,555 - Be on your way, you haven't much time. - Hail Caesar. 446 00:39:00,630 --> 00:39:05,249 It's called an epilepse because of the arching caused by muscular spasms... 447 00:39:05,510 --> 00:39:08,423 the contortions. The early Greeks considered... 448 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:12,014 those who suffered from it to be favored by the gods. 449 00:39:13,017 --> 00:39:14,928 The great Alexander, they say... 450 00:39:15,186 --> 00:39:17,518 had this falling sickness. 451 00:39:17,730 --> 00:39:21,473 And, so they say, the mighty Caesar too. 452 00:39:23,361 --> 00:39:26,069 Your Majesty, forgive me. Sosigenes, the library. 453 00:39:26,322 --> 00:39:28,814 - What are you saying? - The Romans set fire... 454 00:39:29,075 --> 00:39:31,567 - to the Egyptian fleet. - It's about time. 455 00:39:31,828 --> 00:39:34,820 Come see for yourself. The fire's spread to the city. 456 00:39:35,039 --> 00:39:37,406 - The city? - Just a few buildings... 457 00:39:37,667 --> 00:39:39,624 but the library is burning. 458 00:39:43,923 --> 00:39:46,210 The great library. 459 00:40:01,691 --> 00:40:03,898 Aristotle's manuscripts. 460 00:40:06,613 --> 00:40:10,402 The Platonic commentaries, the plays, the histories. 461 00:40:10,867 --> 00:40:12,983 The Testament of the Hebrew god. 462 00:40:13,786 --> 00:40:16,278 The Book of Books. 463 00:40:20,877 --> 00:40:25,212 - Wind blew into the merchant shipping. - Four or five burned and sank right here. 464 00:40:25,465 --> 00:40:27,172 - And our ships? - Safe and dry. 465 00:40:27,383 --> 00:40:30,125 Prisoners are surrendering in droves. I need help. 466 00:40:30,386 --> 00:40:34,095 - Not one man. I may need your sailors. - Halt! 467 00:40:35,767 --> 00:40:37,599 Take your hands off me! 468 00:40:44,901 --> 00:40:48,690 You should attack my guards more often. Battle seems to become you. 469 00:40:49,405 --> 00:40:51,988 You grow more beautiful each time I see you. 470 00:40:53,201 --> 00:40:55,238 And you grow bolder. 471 00:40:55,411 --> 00:40:56,411 And busier. 472 00:40:56,663 --> 00:41:00,327 - Actually, we're extremely busy... - Do you smell smoke? 473 00:41:01,751 --> 00:41:04,584 We found it necessary to burn the Egyptian fleet. 474 00:41:04,837 --> 00:41:06,623 The ships were in the water. 475 00:41:06,881 --> 00:41:09,964 Did you find it necessary to burn them in the streets? 476 00:41:10,218 --> 00:41:11,925 Merchant ships caught fire. 477 00:41:12,178 --> 00:41:14,169 The burning masts fell. Some houses... 478 00:41:14,430 --> 00:41:18,264 One of them, the great Library of Alexandria. 479 00:41:18,476 --> 00:41:21,059 Yes, I've been told. I'm extremely sorry. 480 00:41:21,312 --> 00:41:24,100 - Now, if you don't mind, I must ask... - I do mind. 481 00:41:24,357 --> 00:41:26,268 Are you putting the fire out? 482 00:41:26,526 --> 00:41:29,018 We're forming prisoners into fire brigades. 483 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:33,188 Oh, I see. Romans only start fires, is that it? 484 00:41:33,408 --> 00:41:36,571 Have you broken out of your nursery to come irritate the adults? 485 00:41:36,828 --> 00:41:38,318 Another time, we're working. 486 00:41:38,579 --> 00:41:43,574 - Shall we remove her for you, Caesar? - Use that Roman genius for destruction. 487 00:41:43,793 --> 00:41:46,455 Tear down pyramids, wipe out cities! 488 00:41:46,713 --> 00:41:52,129 How dare you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? 489 00:41:52,510 --> 00:41:55,548 Play conqueror all you want, mighty Caesar. 490 00:41:56,014 --> 00:42:00,053 Rape, murder, pillage thousands, millions of human beings. 491 00:42:00,268 --> 00:42:03,761 But neither you nor any other barbarian... 492 00:42:03,980 --> 00:42:06,688 has the right to destroy one human thought! 493 00:42:07,108 --> 00:42:10,692 Enough! Leave me alone with her. 494 00:42:13,656 --> 00:42:16,614 I will send for you when I finish. It won't be long. 495 00:42:21,414 --> 00:42:24,372 Swords? Javelins? 496 00:42:24,584 --> 00:42:26,666 Or are you going to set me on fire? 497 00:42:26,878 --> 00:42:30,041 The time has come for us to understand each other. 498 00:42:30,298 --> 00:42:34,257 Whatever else I may be, in your opinion, first of all, I am Caesar. 499 00:42:34,510 --> 00:42:37,093 And I am Cleopatra, queen, daughter of Isis! 500 00:42:37,346 --> 00:42:41,590 If I say so and when I say so, you are what I say you are... 501 00:42:41,851 --> 00:42:43,387 nothing more. 502 00:42:43,644 --> 00:42:45,851 Hail Caesar! 503 00:42:47,982 --> 00:42:53,398 You, descendant of inbred generations of incestuous mental defectives... 504 00:42:53,613 --> 00:42:56,275 - how dare you call anyone barbarian. - Barbarian! 505 00:42:56,491 --> 00:42:59,700 Daughter of a drunkard who bribed his way to the throne. 506 00:42:59,952 --> 00:43:04,071 - Your price was too high, remember? - I've had my fill with you pretenders... 507 00:43:04,332 --> 00:43:08,166 - parading on ruins of your past glories. - Only the future concerns me. 508 00:43:08,377 --> 00:43:11,961 - Keep out of my affairs, do as I say. - Do as you say? 509 00:43:12,215 --> 00:43:13,250 Literally? 510 00:43:13,424 --> 00:43:15,756 As if I were something you had conquered? 511 00:43:16,135 --> 00:43:18,752 If I choose to regard you as such. 512 00:43:20,348 --> 00:43:24,091 Am I to understand that you're free to do with me whatever you want... 513 00:43:24,852 --> 00:43:26,013 whenever you want? 514 00:43:26,437 --> 00:43:29,225 Yes, I want that understood. 515 00:43:33,820 --> 00:43:36,278 Won't you at least wear your laurel wreath... 516 00:43:36,531 --> 00:43:40,866 So I can be reminded it's the divine Caesar that honors me so? 517 00:43:41,577 --> 00:43:43,409 You talk too much. 518 00:43:45,665 --> 00:43:47,576 I promise you... 519 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:49,957 you won't like me this way. 520 00:43:52,380 --> 00:43:55,498 Caesar! An attack on the moon gate! 521 00:43:55,883 --> 00:43:58,466 The moon gate. An attack in force! 522 00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:08,031 Those ballistas need eliminating. 523 00:45:08,247 --> 00:45:10,204 Send out a turtle. 524 00:45:13,002 --> 00:45:15,744 Form the turtle! 525 00:46:31,622 --> 00:46:33,613 Now is the time for us to attack! 526 00:46:33,833 --> 00:46:36,120 - No. - We have a full legion in reserve. 527 00:46:36,794 --> 00:46:38,205 We hold our positions here. 528 00:46:50,766 --> 00:46:53,804 Two hours till dawn. We'll hold where we are. 529 00:46:54,020 --> 00:46:56,762 - And what happens at dawn? - I thought you knew. 530 00:46:56,981 --> 00:46:58,972 The sun comes up. 531 00:47:31,515 --> 00:47:33,301 Tell the men they've won. 532 00:47:33,559 --> 00:47:35,971 Liberty and wine for defenders of the gate. 533 00:47:36,228 --> 00:47:40,017 All reserves, cavalry, every man available, move out behind Achillas. 534 00:47:40,232 --> 00:47:43,520 - We have him in a vise. - What is the other half of this vise? 535 00:47:43,736 --> 00:47:46,979 Rufio and the armies of Mithradates. He left last night to meet them. 536 00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:49,856 Mithradates? How could he get here this fast? 537 00:47:50,117 --> 00:47:52,108 I sent him when we sailed for Egypt. 538 00:47:52,328 --> 00:47:57,073 No general in his right mind can hold Alexandria with two legions... 539 00:47:57,291 --> 00:48:00,659 as you and others have repeatedly pointed out to me. 540 00:48:24,819 --> 00:48:27,277 I taste your drink, daughter of Isis... 541 00:48:27,488 --> 00:48:31,152 and if there be harm in it, let the harm fall upon me. 542 00:48:36,831 --> 00:48:38,321 Lotus. 543 00:48:40,751 --> 00:48:45,166 You wiped the rim of the cup after you tasted it. Why? 544 00:48:45,548 --> 00:48:48,791 Why? So my mouth would not soil it. 545 00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:51,501 Lotus... 546 00:48:52,096 --> 00:48:53,336 taste it again. 547 00:49:02,481 --> 00:49:06,816 Pothinus said he would have me killed. Forgive me, Majesty. 548 00:49:07,111 --> 00:49:10,069 Forgive me. Forgive me. 549 00:49:11,031 --> 00:49:12,066 I forgive you. 550 00:49:15,911 --> 00:49:17,026 Now drink it. 551 00:49:45,733 --> 00:49:47,315 Apollodorus! 552 00:49:49,111 --> 00:49:50,852 Apollodorus! 553 00:49:56,494 --> 00:49:58,906 Great silence for Gaius Julius Caesar... 554 00:49:59,163 --> 00:50:01,370 consul of the senate of the people of Rome. 555 00:50:01,624 --> 00:50:03,740 You will all stand. 556 00:50:27,775 --> 00:50:29,686 Let what is said be recorded... 557 00:50:29,902 --> 00:50:33,941 as the judgment and decree of the Senate and people of Rome. 558 00:50:35,241 --> 00:50:37,027 There is no judgment here. 559 00:50:37,243 --> 00:50:39,780 And the decree not Rome's, but Cleopatra's. 560 00:50:40,496 --> 00:50:42,032 She has lied to you, Caesar. 561 00:50:42,248 --> 00:50:44,330 She and her slaves lie to you. 562 00:50:44,542 --> 00:50:48,501 You have not been accused, Pothinus. Thus far. 563 00:50:48,712 --> 00:50:53,457 You are now charged with inciting and abetting war against the Roman army. 564 00:50:53,676 --> 00:50:56,839 You are now charged with plotting to assassinate Queen Cleopatra. 565 00:50:57,513 --> 00:51:00,346 You are guilty of both. You are sentenced to death. 566 00:51:20,786 --> 00:51:23,995 It's too bright in here. Shut out some of the sun. 567 00:51:38,095 --> 00:51:40,257 Are you going to kill me too, Caesar? 568 00:51:40,598 --> 00:51:41,804 What am I accused of? 569 00:51:42,766 --> 00:51:46,976 King Ptolemy is hereby removed from the protective custody of Rome. 570 00:51:47,271 --> 00:51:49,137 He'll leave within the hour... 571 00:51:49,398 --> 00:51:52,265 and be conducted safely to the camp of Achillas. 572 00:51:52,610 --> 00:51:55,944 Achillas! You're going to send me back to my own troops? 573 00:51:56,196 --> 00:52:00,315 He is to be accompanied by his learned tutor, Theodotus. 574 00:52:00,576 --> 00:52:03,443 Do you hear that? You'll be saved along with me. 575 00:52:03,704 --> 00:52:06,071 Stop grinning, you little idiot. 576 00:52:06,332 --> 00:52:11,077 May I speak? You know that Achillas is trapped... 577 00:52:11,337 --> 00:52:14,546 between your own legions and the armies of Mithradates. 578 00:52:14,757 --> 00:52:18,045 To send His Majesty to fight them may mean his death. 579 00:52:18,260 --> 00:52:20,797 An occupational hazard for those who will be king. 580 00:52:21,055 --> 00:52:23,296 But then certainly not I, Caesar. 581 00:52:23,515 --> 00:52:25,677 I'm no king, nor general. What do I know of war? 582 00:52:25,893 --> 00:52:27,930 A simple scholar. 583 00:52:28,145 --> 00:52:30,386 A man of thoughts and words. 584 00:52:30,648 --> 00:52:33,731 Too many words. Enough. 585 00:52:33,984 --> 00:52:36,066 Let all be done properly as decreed. 586 00:53:00,427 --> 00:53:02,259 Flavius. 587 00:53:04,139 --> 00:53:06,756 Find Apollodorus. Return his dagger to him. 588 00:53:07,017 --> 00:53:10,806 You might clean it first. It has Pothinus all over it. 589 00:53:11,689 --> 00:53:15,182 Yes, yes, I know I'm tired. I promise I'll sleep. 590 00:53:17,152 --> 00:53:21,692 You have my apologies for what almost happened to you. 591 00:53:21,949 --> 00:53:26,034 Caesar, will you talk with me for just a minute? 592 00:53:26,453 --> 00:53:28,615 Yesterday was full. Tonight was long. 593 00:53:28,872 --> 00:53:31,113 This morning has not been uneventful. 594 00:53:31,375 --> 00:53:34,493 Did you know that Apollodorus would kill Pothinus? 595 00:53:35,129 --> 00:53:38,793 He was kind enough to wait until Rome had passed sentence of death. 596 00:53:39,591 --> 00:53:41,457 And my brother... 597 00:53:41,677 --> 00:53:43,133 and Theodotus? 598 00:53:43,387 --> 00:53:45,469 They too will be killed, possibly. 599 00:53:45,681 --> 00:53:47,513 Probably. 600 00:53:47,975 --> 00:53:49,966 Your Majesty, I'm truly weary. 601 00:53:50,686 --> 00:53:54,429 You knew all along, didn't you, that there was no real danger. 602 00:53:54,690 --> 00:53:57,853 That Mithradates was on his way to reinforce you. 603 00:53:58,110 --> 00:53:59,271 Why didn't you tell me? 604 00:53:59,445 --> 00:54:01,561 I said I was prepared. You wouldn't believe me. 605 00:54:01,780 --> 00:54:04,613 - I really must insist... - I would've believed you. 606 00:54:04,825 --> 00:54:07,487 - You didn't trust me. - Not for an instant. 607 00:54:08,245 --> 00:54:10,327 And yet, in these last few minutes... 608 00:54:10,581 --> 00:54:13,573 you have made me undisputed queen. 609 00:54:13,792 --> 00:54:16,284 The sole ruler of Egypt. Why? 610 00:54:16,503 --> 00:54:19,211 Perhaps tomorrow, later in the day, we could talk. 611 00:54:19,423 --> 00:54:21,539 - Why, Caesar? - It was best for Rome. Please. 612 00:54:21,759 --> 00:54:24,217 - Best for Egypt. - For Egypt too. 613 00:54:24,470 --> 00:54:27,132 Cleopatra, get out. I beg of you, get out. 614 00:54:52,706 --> 00:54:54,743 That will not be needed. 615 00:54:55,167 --> 00:54:58,410 It wasn't necessary for me to betray myself. 616 00:54:58,670 --> 00:55:00,627 I could have called out for Flavius. 617 00:55:00,881 --> 00:55:03,794 How many new spy-holes have you dug in the walls? 618 00:55:04,009 --> 00:55:06,546 Are we being watched even now? 619 00:55:07,429 --> 00:55:10,512 If you see Flavius, you might send him to me. 620 00:55:11,517 --> 00:55:14,555 - Still trying to dismiss me? - What is it you want? 621 00:55:14,770 --> 00:55:18,434 - What more do you want? - To be of help to you. 622 00:55:18,649 --> 00:55:21,983 There never has been help. There never will be. 623 00:55:26,406 --> 00:55:28,443 Now there is. 624 00:55:28,867 --> 00:55:31,404 One day it'll happen where I cannot hide. 625 00:55:31,620 --> 00:55:34,203 Where the world will see me fall. 626 00:55:34,414 --> 00:55:36,951 I shall tumble down before the mob... 627 00:55:37,167 --> 00:55:39,704 and foam at the mouth and make them laugh. 628 00:55:39,962 --> 00:55:42,044 And they'll tear me to pieces. 629 00:55:42,297 --> 00:55:45,415 The gods themselves had your sickness. 630 00:55:45,634 --> 00:55:49,468 Hannibal, even the great Alexander. 631 00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:51,762 And in the end, they fell. 632 00:55:51,974 --> 00:55:54,306 Were torn to pieces by the mob. 633 00:55:55,727 --> 00:55:57,434 Not you. 634 00:55:58,230 --> 00:56:00,767 I will see to that. 635 00:56:17,332 --> 00:56:22,168 In the name of the Senate and the people of Rome and by their will. 636 00:56:53,285 --> 00:56:57,995 Isis herself would surrender her place in heaven to be as beautiful as you. 637 00:56:58,206 --> 00:57:01,995 You're not supposed to look at me. No one is. 638 00:57:02,252 --> 00:57:05,210 If they aren't looking, how do they know I am? 639 00:57:06,381 --> 00:57:08,338 You should be kneeling. 640 00:57:08,675 --> 00:57:12,634 Would that do before all these visiting kings? 641 00:57:13,263 --> 00:57:16,597 Making believe they're not watching us? 642 00:57:20,228 --> 00:57:23,721 You have such bony knees. 643 00:57:23,982 --> 00:57:28,067 Not only bony, but unaccustomed to this sort of thing. 644 00:58:15,951 --> 00:58:18,318 If we're to get an early start in the morning... 645 00:58:18,537 --> 00:58:20,403 What will it be tomorrow? 646 00:58:20,664 --> 00:58:22,154 More wheat? 647 00:58:22,416 --> 00:58:25,954 What I've seen already could feed more legions than Rome ever had. 648 00:58:26,211 --> 00:58:28,122 There's enough to feed the world. 649 00:58:28,338 --> 00:58:29,920 More gold then. 650 00:58:30,173 --> 00:58:32,790 Why not buy the world? Surely you have enough. 651 00:58:33,635 --> 00:58:37,299 At least enough to pay more legions than even Rome has ever had. 652 00:58:37,556 --> 00:58:39,547 More granite, more marble... 653 00:58:39,766 --> 00:58:43,134 more millions of slaves to build whatever needs building. 654 00:58:43,437 --> 00:58:46,304 Better routes to India, shorter routes to the East. 655 00:58:46,523 --> 00:58:49,436 What can there be in Egypt that I haven't seen? 656 00:58:49,609 --> 00:58:52,818 Egypt itself. The reason for Egypt. 657 00:58:53,739 --> 00:58:55,855 My responsibility is Rome. 658 00:58:56,992 --> 00:58:59,324 Alexander understood it... 659 00:58:59,578 --> 00:59:02,741 that from Egypt he could rule the world. 660 00:59:03,957 --> 00:59:07,370 He was very young. And you, even younger. 661 00:59:07,627 --> 00:59:12,246 At your age, such dreams have a reality which grows less in time. 662 00:59:13,633 --> 00:59:15,715 Caesar no longer dreams? 663 00:59:16,344 --> 00:59:18,506 Dangerous to a man of my calling. 664 00:59:19,848 --> 00:59:22,135 Necessary, I would have thought. 665 00:59:38,867 --> 00:59:42,326 I can't stay away from Rome too long. There are problems. 666 00:59:42,537 --> 00:59:45,575 Messages from Marc Antony endlessly demanding my return. 667 00:59:45,791 --> 00:59:49,876 And on my way back, wars to be fought in the east and north. 668 00:59:50,128 --> 00:59:53,666 Even in Rome itself I'm not without opposition. 669 00:59:53,924 --> 00:59:56,541 Do to them what you did to Achillas. 670 00:59:56,760 --> 00:59:59,047 This is opposition of a different sort. 671 00:59:59,262 --> 01:00:01,879 They weave it cleverly, lightly, like a cobweb. 672 01:00:02,140 --> 01:00:06,134 You know what happens when cobwebs are not regularly swept away. 673 01:00:06,353 --> 01:00:09,391 Do you trust this Marc Antony? 674 01:00:10,732 --> 01:00:13,599 If anyone in the world, I trust Antony. 675 01:00:14,027 --> 01:00:18,237 Let him brush away the cobwebs for you and stay with me. 676 01:00:18,532 --> 01:00:20,864 You've been declared dictator for a year. 677 01:00:21,118 --> 01:00:23,234 You can do what you want with your time. 678 01:00:24,246 --> 01:00:27,034 Everything but make it stand still. 679 01:00:28,291 --> 01:00:31,033 If... When you return to Rome... 680 01:00:31,253 --> 01:00:35,042 these wars that have to be fought on the way, are they important? 681 01:00:35,215 --> 01:00:39,083 Well, there's no such thing as an unimportant war. 682 01:00:39,302 --> 01:00:43,466 I've been reading in your commentaries about your campaigns in Gaul. 683 01:00:43,682 --> 01:00:46,140 How does my writing compare with Catullus? 684 01:00:47,477 --> 01:00:49,559 Well, it's different. 685 01:00:49,813 --> 01:00:51,395 Dull. 686 01:00:51,815 --> 01:00:54,182 Perhaps a little too much description. 687 01:00:54,442 --> 01:00:57,901 You're being tactful. Some of my critics, Brutus, for one... 688 01:00:58,155 --> 01:01:02,069 tell me my Latin is not only ungrammatical, but common. 689 01:01:02,784 --> 01:01:05,993 You spared his life more than once. 690 01:01:06,204 --> 01:01:09,322 People say it's because Brutus is your son. 691 01:01:09,583 --> 01:01:10,948 Is that true? 692 01:01:11,668 --> 01:01:13,909 I have no son. 693 01:01:14,129 --> 01:01:16,871 - Calpurnia, your third wife... - Fourth. 694 01:01:17,090 --> 01:01:21,004 Married to you how long? 12 years? 695 01:01:21,303 --> 01:01:24,841 And still, Caesar has no son, no child at all. 696 01:01:25,098 --> 01:01:28,307 It is well-known that Calpurnia is barren. 697 01:01:28,602 --> 01:01:31,390 A woman who cannot bear children... 698 01:01:31,605 --> 01:01:34,814 Is like a river that is dry. 699 01:01:35,108 --> 01:01:38,317 I see no purpose in discussing the subject further. 700 01:01:39,029 --> 01:01:43,648 A woman, too, must make the barren land fruitful. 701 01:01:43,909 --> 01:01:47,948 She must make life grow where there was no life. 702 01:01:48,205 --> 01:01:53,325 Just as the Mother Nile feeds and replenishes the earth. 703 01:01:55,170 --> 01:01:57,286 I am the Nile. 704 01:02:00,717 --> 01:02:03,550 I will bear many sons. 705 01:02:04,221 --> 01:02:06,258 Isis has told me. 706 01:02:08,183 --> 01:02:12,302 My breasts are filled with love and life. 707 01:02:13,021 --> 01:02:16,480 My hips are rounded and well apart. 708 01:02:17,567 --> 01:02:19,808 Such women, they say... 709 01:02:20,070 --> 01:02:22,152 have sons. 710 01:02:44,844 --> 01:02:48,053 That first time when you stood here alone... 711 01:02:49,099 --> 01:02:51,932 why did you cry? Will you tell me now? 712 01:02:52,185 --> 01:02:54,677 Because I had lost something. 713 01:02:54,938 --> 01:02:57,396 - What? - A lifetime. 714 01:02:57,691 --> 01:02:59,898 - Mine. - Nonsense. 715 01:03:00,193 --> 01:03:03,731 Having conquered the world, he died at 32. 716 01:03:03,947 --> 01:03:05,984 I am 52. 717 01:03:06,241 --> 01:03:09,700 My remaining ambition is to keep the world from conquering me. 718 01:03:13,039 --> 01:03:16,532 Your ambitions must always have been his. 719 01:03:17,043 --> 01:03:18,875 They still must be. 720 01:03:19,129 --> 01:03:23,999 Shall I tell you something? When I was 32 in Spain... 721 01:03:24,217 --> 01:03:27,209 I came upon a statue of Alexander. 722 01:03:27,470 --> 01:03:29,507 I wept then too. 723 01:03:29,764 --> 01:03:31,380 Even then. 724 01:03:32,058 --> 01:03:35,392 I want you to have his sword to take back with you. 725 01:03:35,645 --> 01:03:37,807 - Too deeply embedded. - It can be removed. 726 01:03:38,023 --> 01:03:39,934 It's buried in time. 727 01:03:40,233 --> 01:03:43,521 - And Alexander's mantle? - Too heavy for Caesar. 728 01:03:46,448 --> 01:03:48,234 His dream then. 729 01:03:49,492 --> 01:03:52,405 Make his dream yours, Caesar. 730 01:03:52,662 --> 01:03:55,324 His grand design. 731 01:03:56,082 --> 01:03:58,790 Pick it up where he left off. 732 01:04:00,253 --> 01:04:03,666 Out of the patchwork of conquests... 733 01:04:03,882 --> 01:04:05,748 one world. 734 01:04:06,009 --> 01:04:09,297 And out of one world, one nation. 735 01:04:09,554 --> 01:04:13,923 One people on earth living in peace. 736 01:04:14,184 --> 01:04:17,518 So you have told me at last what it is you want of me. 737 01:04:17,771 --> 01:04:19,102 Of us! 738 01:04:19,356 --> 01:04:23,065 At the center, the capital of this world, one people, one nation... 739 01:04:23,276 --> 01:04:24,437 Alexandria? 740 01:04:24,694 --> 01:04:26,310 - He chose it. - I am Roman. 741 01:04:26,571 --> 01:04:30,360 He was Greek! What will it matter when we're all one people? 742 01:04:30,575 --> 01:04:33,317 I am 52. He was 32 and failed. 743 01:04:33,578 --> 01:04:35,364 We will succeed. 744 01:04:35,622 --> 01:04:39,331 Your dreams, your ambitions. 745 01:04:39,584 --> 01:04:43,703 One lifetime is not enough for such dreams, such ambitions. 746 01:04:44,672 --> 01:04:47,334 The cloak of Alexander cannot be too heavy... 747 01:04:47,550 --> 01:04:51,043 for Rome and Egypt to carry together. 748 01:04:51,304 --> 01:04:55,298 And what if his sword is too deeply embedded? 749 01:04:55,517 --> 01:04:58,009 Yours will replace it, Caesar. 750 01:04:58,311 --> 01:05:01,224 You have a way of mixing politics and passion. 751 01:05:01,439 --> 01:05:03,931 Where does one begin and the other leave off? 752 01:05:04,192 --> 01:05:08,106 That did not start, nor will it end with me. 753 01:05:08,405 --> 01:05:12,319 Cleopatra, whatever it is, however it comes out... 754 01:05:12,534 --> 01:05:14,571 leave me my destiny. 755 01:05:15,370 --> 01:05:19,705 Your destiny is no longer just yours. 756 01:05:19,958 --> 01:05:21,869 It's mine too. 757 01:05:22,585 --> 01:05:27,375 Soon, there will be someone to carry both the cloak of Alexander... 758 01:05:27,632 --> 01:05:30,875 and the sword of Caesar... 759 01:05:31,136 --> 01:05:33,218 and the name of Caesar. 760 01:05:34,472 --> 01:05:38,010 And in that name he will rule Egypt. 761 01:05:38,226 --> 01:05:42,766 And whatever part or all of the world that we give him... 762 01:05:43,022 --> 01:05:45,855 our child... 763 01:05:46,067 --> 01:05:50,026 will be a son for you, Caesar. 764 01:05:51,364 --> 01:05:53,947 By Isis, I swear it. 765 01:06:00,123 --> 01:06:03,161 Could you put off your return to Rome... 766 01:06:03,626 --> 01:06:05,537 just long enough? 767 01:06:34,449 --> 01:06:35,939 I came as quickly as I could. 768 01:06:36,201 --> 01:06:41,321 Antony is welcome to Caesar's house as often and as quickly as he likes. 769 01:06:41,623 --> 01:06:45,082 As Caesar's wife, before truth is distorted into vicious gossip... 770 01:06:45,293 --> 01:06:49,457 - I wanted you to hear... - That my husband has married Cleopatra. 771 01:06:51,424 --> 01:06:55,292 There's some fresh wine. One of your many favorites. 772 01:06:57,347 --> 01:07:01,386 The ceremony, according to vicious gossip, was in the Egyptian religion. 773 01:07:01,643 --> 01:07:04,260 Even if true, that can't be taken seriously. 774 01:07:04,479 --> 01:07:08,017 During which he was formally declared an Egyptian god. 775 01:07:08,483 --> 01:07:10,941 Officially divine, at last. 776 01:07:11,569 --> 01:07:13,685 That must have pleased Caesar. 777 01:07:13,947 --> 01:07:17,440 Calpurnia, we know Caesar, you and I. 778 01:07:17,700 --> 01:07:20,909 This so-called marriage has no validity under Roman law. 779 01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:23,157 There must be political purpose to it. 780 01:07:23,414 --> 01:07:26,623 Perhaps a symbolic ceremony to ratify Rome's alliance with Egypt. 781 01:07:26,876 --> 01:07:30,164 Perhaps merely indulging some barbaric custom. 782 01:07:30,421 --> 01:07:32,583 You've been loyal and kind. 783 01:07:32,799 --> 01:07:35,336 You came as quickly as you could. 784 01:07:35,718 --> 01:07:39,427 Unhappily, vicious gossip travels even faster than you... 785 01:07:39,639 --> 01:07:41,380 and the truth. 786 01:07:42,016 --> 01:07:46,385 Have you heard, for instance, that Cleopatra is carrying Caesar's child? 787 01:07:48,439 --> 01:07:50,555 Yes, Antony. 788 01:07:50,775 --> 01:07:52,641 We know him... 789 01:07:52,860 --> 01:07:54,942 you and I. 790 01:08:19,429 --> 01:08:21,295 There shall be... 791 01:08:21,556 --> 01:08:23,388 There shall be... 792 01:08:23,641 --> 01:08:25,507 Rome. 793 01:08:25,768 --> 01:08:28,100 Mighty and alone and unloved. 794 01:08:29,022 --> 01:08:30,262 A mistress. 795 01:08:30,523 --> 01:08:33,982 A mistress shall raise thee again from earth to heaven... 796 01:08:34,235 --> 01:08:39,355 and all the world shall know a golden age of justice and of love. 797 01:08:40,992 --> 01:08:43,324 A son shall be born to Isis! 798 01:08:44,662 --> 01:08:47,404 A son shall be born to Isis! 799 01:08:47,665 --> 01:08:50,248 Rome shall know him in cloth of gold. 800 01:08:50,501 --> 01:08:54,790 The East shall see him laden with jewels and treasure. 801 01:08:55,048 --> 01:08:58,257 A son of Egypt and of Rome! 802 01:09:03,014 --> 01:09:07,099 Here shall he find his destiny! 803 01:09:39,717 --> 01:09:42,550 Do exactly as I tell you. 804 01:09:42,929 --> 01:09:45,261 When the child is born... 805 01:09:45,515 --> 01:09:49,133 after he is anointed and named royal prince... 806 01:09:49,394 --> 01:09:51,135 take him to Caesar. 807 01:09:51,396 --> 01:09:52,636 Bring Caesar here. 808 01:09:52,897 --> 01:09:57,141 No. Exactly as I tell you. 809 01:09:57,402 --> 01:10:01,270 Take the child to Caesar, in front of his men. 810 01:10:01,489 --> 01:10:03,400 Do you understand? 811 01:10:03,700 --> 01:10:06,317 In front of all the Romans. 812 01:10:08,162 --> 01:10:11,245 Lay him at Caesar's feet. 813 01:10:11,457 --> 01:10:14,290 At Caesar's feet. 814 01:10:14,544 --> 01:10:16,751 I will do just as you say. 815 01:10:35,231 --> 01:10:37,313 Fear not. We have never lost a Caesar. 816 01:10:37,567 --> 01:10:41,151 That remark was insubordinate and in bad taste! 817 01:10:49,579 --> 01:10:51,616 Caesar, remember Roman law. 818 01:10:51,873 --> 01:10:54,740 If you pick up this child you acknowledge it's yours... 819 01:10:55,001 --> 01:10:57,493 and a citizen of Rome, as your heir. 820 01:11:22,653 --> 01:11:24,735 A son. 821 01:11:28,159 --> 01:11:30,491 I have a son! 822 01:11:30,703 --> 01:11:33,491 - Hail Caesar! - Hail Caesar! 823 01:11:40,087 --> 01:11:41,828 He's been made king of Egypt. 824 01:11:42,089 --> 01:11:44,751 They have named their bastard Caesarion. 825 01:11:44,967 --> 01:11:46,457 Prince Caesarion. 826 01:11:46,719 --> 01:11:49,757 What better name for the heir to the throne of Rome. 827 01:11:50,014 --> 01:11:51,630 There is no throne of Rome. 828 01:11:51,891 --> 01:11:54,758 Nor shall there be, nor would Caesar tolerate one. 829 01:11:55,019 --> 01:11:56,555 But a son! 830 01:11:56,813 --> 01:12:00,181 We know how much he's wanted one. I am happy for Caesar. 831 01:12:00,900 --> 01:12:03,517 Your happiness is understandable enough. 832 01:12:03,736 --> 01:12:06,524 Now that Caesar has publicly recognized a son... 833 01:12:06,739 --> 01:12:09,481 one need no longer wonder about Brutus. 834 01:12:09,742 --> 01:12:12,325 Is it a relief not to be wondered about, Casca? 835 01:12:12,578 --> 01:12:15,320 To be known openly as you are for what you are: 836 01:12:15,581 --> 01:12:17,743 Liar, swindler, bully and coward. 837 01:12:17,959 --> 01:12:21,077 Brutus, you'll turn Casca's head with your flattery. 838 01:12:21,295 --> 01:12:25,004 And Casca's head, if turned, will see Marc Antony. 839 01:12:25,925 --> 01:12:29,213 A part of Caesar more to be feared than his infant son. 840 01:12:30,638 --> 01:12:34,882 But it is for the good of Rome that Caesar has stayed so long in Egypt. 841 01:12:35,142 --> 01:12:38,351 In his absence, the people have come to worship him as a god. 842 01:12:38,563 --> 01:12:41,897 Why should he return to show himself as mortal as the rest? 843 01:12:42,149 --> 01:12:45,232 There are those who fear Caesar's ambition. 844 01:12:45,444 --> 01:12:48,653 But what is there to fear? That he will destroy the republic? 845 01:12:48,906 --> 01:12:51,273 Yes, he will. 846 01:12:51,492 --> 01:12:53,358 I promise you he will. 847 01:12:53,578 --> 01:12:56,161 Your tongue is old but sharp, Cicero. 848 01:12:56,372 --> 01:12:59,410 Be careful how you waggle it. It may cut off your head. 849 01:12:59,625 --> 01:13:01,992 It will more likely be your sword, Antony. 850 01:13:02,253 --> 01:13:05,041 "Tis just as sharp and quicker... 851 01:13:05,298 --> 01:13:07,539 and frightened of heads. 852 01:13:09,427 --> 01:13:12,795 There'll be a strong smell of wine in the Senate today. 853 01:13:13,055 --> 01:13:15,046 We must breathe with restraint. 854 01:13:20,521 --> 01:13:24,640 Octavian, this what's his name, this son of Caesar... 855 01:13:24,859 --> 01:13:26,566 does it upset you? 856 01:13:26,819 --> 01:13:28,309 No. 857 01:13:28,571 --> 01:13:30,278 You run off at the mouth so... 858 01:13:30,531 --> 01:13:33,444 one thinks your words are as precious to you as your gold. 859 01:13:33,701 --> 01:13:37,569 Like my gold, I use them where they are worth most. 860 01:13:38,372 --> 01:13:42,366 And your virtue? My friend has a friend. 861 01:13:42,919 --> 01:13:44,876 That too. 862 01:13:45,338 --> 01:13:49,172 You know, it's quite possible, Octavian, that when you die... 863 01:13:49,383 --> 01:13:53,001 you will die without ever having been alive. 864 01:14:27,713 --> 01:14:31,923 I can't leave without saying goodbye to my son and to you. 865 01:14:32,176 --> 01:14:36,135 We thought, your son and I, that if we came to you... 866 01:14:36,347 --> 01:14:39,385 we would have those few minutes more. 867 01:14:44,313 --> 01:14:46,805 A good thing to remember, my son: 868 01:14:47,274 --> 01:14:50,312 What you will not let go, no one will take from you. 869 01:14:53,781 --> 01:14:56,614 Hail and farewell, little Caesar. 870 01:15:10,881 --> 01:15:15,796 Was it a century ago when I was dropped at your feet, wrapped in a carpet? 871 01:15:17,805 --> 01:15:20,046 Or was it last night? 872 01:15:31,861 --> 01:15:34,068 When will you send for us? When? 873 01:15:34,280 --> 01:15:37,693 - Soon. - How soon? When? 874 01:15:37,908 --> 01:15:40,821 So much time must go by before even I reach Rome. 875 01:15:41,037 --> 01:15:43,369 And then how soon? 876 01:15:43,581 --> 01:15:45,743 Within reasonable time. 877 01:15:45,958 --> 01:15:47,995 Time is never reasonable. 878 01:15:48,210 --> 01:15:50,042 Time is our enemy, Caesar. 879 01:15:50,254 --> 01:15:54,418 Am I to conquer it for you? What plan of battle do you suggest? 880 01:15:55,551 --> 01:15:58,134 I must bring your son to Rome. 881 01:15:58,804 --> 01:16:01,671 Rome must see Caesar's son... 882 01:16:02,475 --> 01:16:05,638 who will one day rule over Caesar's world. 883 01:16:06,270 --> 01:16:07,726 Caesar? 884 01:16:09,440 --> 01:16:12,307 I'm afraid the tides will soon be against you. 885 01:16:28,959 --> 01:16:31,792 Not only time, but the tides. 886 01:16:32,004 --> 01:16:35,668 Even as divinities, there seems little we can do about either. 887 01:16:51,649 --> 01:16:53,481 But only after more than two years... 888 01:16:53,692 --> 01:16:57,310 and many wars in Africa and Asia Minor... 889 01:16:57,530 --> 01:17:01,865 was Caesar able to cross over to Italy and come home at last... 890 01:17:02,076 --> 01:17:06,786 to celebrate his triumphs and see to his affairs. 891 01:17:28,227 --> 01:17:31,345 "In recognition, the Senate has bestowed upon Caesar... 892 01:17:31,605 --> 01:17:36,645 the rank, privilege and title of dictator of Rome for life." 893 01:17:36,861 --> 01:17:38,977 Dictator for life! 894 01:17:39,196 --> 01:17:42,279 At long last, he is master of Rome. 895 01:17:42,491 --> 01:17:45,609 Apollodorus, everything must be made ready at once. 896 01:17:45,828 --> 01:17:48,320 - Ships, servants... - We've been ready for some time. 897 01:17:48,497 --> 01:17:51,455 Surely now nothing can prevent his sending for us... 898 01:17:51,667 --> 01:17:54,534 if only to attend his coronation as he did mine. 899 01:17:54,753 --> 01:17:57,996 - Your Majesty... - Three long, wasted years! 900 01:17:58,215 --> 01:18:00,673 Why should the Senate have taken so long... 901 01:18:00,885 --> 01:18:03,673 to recognize what the world has already known? 902 01:18:03,888 --> 01:18:07,097 That Caesar was master of Rome. 903 01:18:07,641 --> 01:18:10,133 Rufio wishes to speak. 904 01:18:10,352 --> 01:18:12,389 Your Majesty seems to misunderstand. 905 01:18:12,605 --> 01:18:17,395 It seems quite clear. Caesar has been declared dictator of Rome for life. 906 01:18:17,610 --> 01:18:19,271 True. However, to the Roman... 907 01:18:19,445 --> 01:18:22,733 there is a vast difference between dictator and master. 908 01:18:23,199 --> 01:18:25,281 No man can call himself master of Rome. 909 01:18:25,492 --> 01:18:27,278 Why not? 910 01:18:27,494 --> 01:18:31,283 It has a meaning far too close to a word no Roman will tolerate: 911 01:18:31,498 --> 01:18:32,954 King. 912 01:18:40,132 --> 01:18:43,045 And to be dictator of Rome for life? 913 01:18:43,260 --> 01:18:47,675 Is to be granted the lifelong respect and honor of the Roman people. 914 01:18:47,890 --> 01:18:50,882 And the dictates of the dictator? 915 01:18:51,101 --> 01:18:55,470 Must in each case, of course, be approved by the Senate of Rome. 916 01:18:57,358 --> 01:18:59,224 Thank you, Rufio. 917 01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:08,692 The enemy! The enemy! The enemy! 918 01:19:21,298 --> 01:19:23,005 Sosigenes. 919 01:19:25,552 --> 01:19:30,217 You must think it odd that I propose an invitation to Queen Cleopatra. 920 01:19:30,432 --> 01:19:31,763 Do you? 921 01:19:32,017 --> 01:19:35,726 Egypt, after all, has been officially declared ally of Rome. 922 01:19:35,980 --> 01:19:40,019 Still, I confess I was surprised at some of those who voted in favor. 923 01:19:40,276 --> 01:19:41,391 Were you? 924 01:19:41,610 --> 01:19:46,525 May I express my gratitude for being permitted to attend today's session? 925 01:19:46,740 --> 01:19:48,526 It was truly inspiring... 926 01:19:48,742 --> 01:19:52,861 to witness the free will of free men so fearlessly expressed. 927 01:19:54,790 --> 01:19:56,906 He seemed most anxious to be present. 928 01:19:57,126 --> 01:20:00,039 - I saw no harm in granting him permission. - Didn't you? 929 01:20:00,296 --> 01:20:05,416 After today, never again shall I doubt the extent of Egypt's wealth. 930 01:20:05,676 --> 01:20:07,667 I don't like Cicero's implication. 931 01:20:07,928 --> 01:20:11,637 There's not enough gold in Egypt to buy the honor of a Roman senator. 932 01:20:11,849 --> 01:20:15,763 More than enough, it seems, to buy his vote. 933 01:20:18,188 --> 01:20:20,099 How was it now? 934 01:20:20,316 --> 01:20:24,731 "Rome will know him in cloth of gold." 935 01:20:43,630 --> 01:20:47,464 According to reports, the reception in the streets has been extraordinary. 936 01:20:47,676 --> 01:20:51,010 The queen has instructed the procession to move slowly... 937 01:20:51,263 --> 01:20:53,550 for the people's enjoyment. 938 01:20:53,807 --> 01:20:58,802 I might almost believe Cleopatra set out to capture the citizens of Rome. 939 01:20:59,021 --> 01:21:02,480 One would have every reason for believing exactly that. 940 01:26:29,142 --> 01:26:33,010 Nothing like this has come into Rome since Romulus and Remus. 941 01:27:27,033 --> 01:27:29,525 How unafraid he is. 942 01:27:29,911 --> 01:27:32,448 How unafraid he is. 943 01:29:40,375 --> 01:29:43,117 Your queen has conquered the people of Rome. 944 01:29:43,336 --> 01:29:45,794 The people, yes. 945 01:29:57,726 --> 01:30:01,014 Now then, walk like a king. Head up. 946 01:30:01,229 --> 01:30:03,061 Listen to them cheer. 947 01:30:03,273 --> 01:30:05,105 Take your throne. 948 01:30:05,317 --> 01:30:07,729 Bow to the right, left. 949 01:30:07,944 --> 01:30:11,153 Now an angry glance at someone who's displeased you. 950 01:30:12,324 --> 01:30:15,612 Very good. I tremble. See me tremble? 951 01:30:16,745 --> 01:30:18,486 No, don't smile. 952 01:30:18,747 --> 01:30:21,409 Not when they're trembling. It makes them stop. 953 01:30:21,666 --> 01:30:24,829 Now the prisoners are dragged before you, one by one. 954 01:30:25,086 --> 01:30:28,374 This one has no power anywhere, therefore means nothing. 955 01:30:28,632 --> 01:30:32,876 But you wish to be known as a noble ruler. What do you say? 956 01:30:33,678 --> 01:30:36,045 I pardon you. 957 01:30:36,306 --> 01:30:39,389 Louder, boy. You pardon somebody, you want it known. 958 01:30:39,643 --> 01:30:43,056 I pardon youl! 959 01:30:45,690 --> 01:30:47,476 Ah, now, who comes here? 960 01:30:47,734 --> 01:30:52,149 Once your friend. You trusted him, and he turned against you. 961 01:30:52,405 --> 01:30:54,567 He has power, wealth and family. 962 01:30:54,824 --> 01:30:57,942 He kneels. He begs you to be his friend again. 963 01:30:58,161 --> 01:31:00,152 To have you trust him again. 964 01:31:00,372 --> 01:31:02,864 And then? What then, little king? 965 01:31:11,800 --> 01:31:15,134 Caesar must wish what needs commanding. 966 01:31:15,345 --> 01:31:18,508 To drain the Pontine Marshes. To free Rome from malaria. 967 01:31:18,723 --> 01:31:20,464 To fill my belly. 968 01:31:20,725 --> 01:31:23,308 To control the Tiber's floods. 969 01:31:23,520 --> 01:31:27,388 To improve the harbor at Ostia. To please my ambition. 970 01:31:27,649 --> 01:31:31,267 And must I wish roads to be built, libraries for public use? 971 01:31:31,528 --> 01:31:34,441 The free men of Italy to be equal citizens to those of Rome? 972 01:31:34,656 --> 01:31:37,569 Many of these have merits and merit our approval. 973 01:31:37,784 --> 01:31:41,994 "Merit your approval." Is Caesar to come before the Senate each day... 974 01:31:42,247 --> 01:31:45,285 like a schoolboy with his lessons, now passing, now failing? 975 01:31:45,500 --> 01:31:49,494 Do you suggest the Senate no longer deliberate the welfare of Rome? 976 01:31:49,713 --> 01:31:51,795 To end the process of Roman law? 977 01:31:52,007 --> 01:31:56,467 I must be the law! And my word must be the welfare of Rome. 978 01:31:57,721 --> 01:32:02,306 Else, take from me this meaningless title of dictator. 979 01:32:03,059 --> 01:32:05,221 I've carried a sword for too long. 980 01:32:05,478 --> 01:32:08,766 I cannot now pretend with an empty scabbard. 981 01:32:10,942 --> 01:32:14,355 Surely Caesar recalls the symbolic nature of the title "dictator"... 982 01:32:14,571 --> 01:32:16,482 at the time it was conferred. 983 01:32:16,698 --> 01:32:19,030 It was to honor Caesar above all men... 984 01:32:19,284 --> 01:32:22,993 and to indicate Rome's gratitude for Caesar's triumphs in its name. 985 01:32:24,039 --> 01:32:28,158 Brutus, I recall them well, those triumphs. 986 01:32:28,376 --> 01:32:29,912 Do you? 987 01:32:30,170 --> 01:32:33,128 Pharsalia, for one. You trembled in Antony's hand... 988 01:32:33,339 --> 01:32:36,331 when Antony was hot to separate you from your head... 989 01:32:36,593 --> 01:32:38,004 with just cause. 990 01:32:38,845 --> 01:32:40,927 My command spared your life. 991 01:32:41,139 --> 01:32:44,677 There was no deliberating body. It was not my wish, but my command. 992 01:32:44,893 --> 01:32:49,353 By my dictate that you stand here dribbling virtue out of your mouth. 993 01:32:49,564 --> 01:32:51,100 Sit down. 994 01:32:52,108 --> 01:32:56,022 No, I want no more meaningless privileges and considerations. 995 01:32:56,237 --> 01:32:59,104 No more honors designed to pacify me. 996 01:32:59,324 --> 01:33:02,487 I would rather have nothing. Remain what I am at heart. 997 01:33:02,702 --> 01:33:05,694 A humble man, anxious only to serve. 998 01:33:08,041 --> 01:33:11,534 Why are the eyes of a statue always without life? 999 01:33:13,922 --> 01:33:16,289 Have any of you here seen the Nile? 1000 01:33:16,508 --> 01:33:18,795 Spare yourselves the journey. 1001 01:33:19,010 --> 01:33:21,752 She carries it within her eyes. 1002 01:33:22,889 --> 01:33:25,256 I suggest, Caesar, that the hour is late. 1003 01:33:25,475 --> 01:33:27,386 Very late for Rome. 1004 01:33:27,602 --> 01:33:29,593 I was speaking, Cassius! I was... 1005 01:33:33,358 --> 01:33:34,723 Now, where was 1? 1006 01:33:34,984 --> 01:33:36,895 "Anxious to serve." 1007 01:33:38,321 --> 01:33:42,360 Yes, I've served. Served for all of my life. 1008 01:33:42,575 --> 01:33:45,567 I've won for Rome more than half of the world. 1009 01:33:45,787 --> 01:33:48,825 Most of you owe your honors and fortunes to me. 1010 01:33:49,040 --> 01:33:52,829 And now I want you to do as I say. 1011 01:33:53,670 --> 01:33:55,752 You will appoint me... 1012 01:33:55,964 --> 01:33:58,456 emperor of Rome. 1013 01:34:04,264 --> 01:34:06,596 There is no need to resume your seats. 1014 01:34:07,267 --> 01:34:11,261 On behalf of all, thank you, Majesty, for your hospitality. 1015 01:34:13,439 --> 01:34:14,929 Good night. 1016 01:34:18,778 --> 01:34:21,190 Thank you and good night. 1017 01:34:30,498 --> 01:34:35,243 They resent being summoned here for meetings properly held in the Senate. 1018 01:34:35,461 --> 01:34:37,668 Resent it, do they? 1019 01:34:38,882 --> 01:34:41,123 I cannot understand... 1020 01:34:41,384 --> 01:34:46,003 that the eyes of a statue should be always without life. 1021 01:34:51,019 --> 01:34:52,680 They resent me. 1022 01:34:52,937 --> 01:34:55,520 To flaunt me like this. 1023 01:34:55,773 --> 01:34:59,141 They'll use it to keep from you that which is already yours. 1024 01:35:00,528 --> 01:35:03,737 By divine right, is that not so? 1025 01:35:05,575 --> 01:35:07,862 Yes. ltis. 1026 01:35:09,621 --> 01:35:12,079 By divine right. 1027 01:35:12,582 --> 01:35:17,292 We shall have the Senate, in its deliberations, deliberate that. 1028 01:35:26,221 --> 01:35:28,804 Are you quite sure what it is you want... 1029 01:35:29,057 --> 01:35:30,388 S0 desperately? 1030 01:35:30,600 --> 01:35:33,262 I've always been sure. 1031 01:35:34,437 --> 01:35:35,598 And Caesar? 1032 01:35:37,482 --> 01:35:39,348 Does anyone speak for him? 1033 01:35:42,237 --> 01:35:43,773 No. 1034 01:35:44,572 --> 01:35:46,062 Good night. 1035 01:35:52,497 --> 01:35:56,411 Tell me, Brutus, is it proper to stand before this new goddess... 1036 01:35:56,668 --> 01:36:00,286 - Caesar has set here in the temple? - Or must we, as Romans, kneel? 1037 01:36:00,505 --> 01:36:04,669 Not yet. See there, where room has been left for another deity? 1038 01:36:04,926 --> 01:36:08,840 When the god Caesar stands beside the goddess Cleopatra... 1039 01:36:09,013 --> 01:36:11,004 then Rome will crawl before them. 1040 01:36:11,182 --> 01:36:12,889 When that day comes, if it comes. 1041 01:36:13,142 --> 01:36:17,101 - He demanded we make him emperor. - Once. That one night, it was his sickness. 1042 01:36:17,272 --> 01:36:20,060 His sickness grows worse. In the end, it will kill us. 1043 01:36:20,275 --> 01:36:24,360 He asked once to be made emperor, but he's since decreed himself a god! 1044 01:36:24,570 --> 01:36:29,155 Emperor and god. No longer just king, but emperor and god! 1045 01:36:29,367 --> 01:36:32,905 - Brutus, open your eyes! - What do you want of me? 1046 01:36:33,121 --> 01:36:35,738 When the people think upon the honor of Rome... 1047 01:36:35,999 --> 01:36:38,161 they think upon one man: He is Brutus. 1048 01:36:38,376 --> 01:36:41,243 By that honor and by the responsibility you carry... 1049 01:36:41,462 --> 01:36:43,999 Brutus, save Rome from Caesar! 1050 01:36:44,215 --> 01:36:46,707 You cannot ask me to destroy him. 1051 01:36:46,926 --> 01:36:50,089 Then let Caesar destroy Rome. 1052 01:37:07,530 --> 01:37:11,774 Antony has just come from a meeting of my friends with good news. 1053 01:37:11,993 --> 01:37:16,328 Tomorrow at the Senate, Lucius Cotta will move that I be made king. 1054 01:37:16,539 --> 01:37:18,450 It will pass. 1055 01:37:19,000 --> 01:37:21,617 But I don't understand. 1056 01:37:21,836 --> 01:37:23,952 King and emperor. 1057 01:37:24,172 --> 01:37:25,788 And it will pass? 1058 01:37:26,049 --> 01:37:28,541 The last few months, I've been enjoying... 1059 01:37:28,760 --> 01:37:31,297 one of the few privileges of being dictator. 1060 01:37:31,512 --> 01:37:33,423 I have been appointing senators. 1061 01:37:33,639 --> 01:37:37,849 Slightly more than half the Senate has been appointed by me. 1062 01:37:38,478 --> 01:37:41,687 Once again, the army of Mithradates... 1063 01:37:41,898 --> 01:37:44,230 on its way all the time. 1064 01:37:44,442 --> 01:37:45,773 It will pass. 1065 01:37:46,027 --> 01:37:49,110 Tomorrow, the ides of March, a day to be remembered... 1066 01:37:49,322 --> 01:37:51,939 the Senate will declare me king of Rome. 1067 01:37:52,158 --> 01:37:54,240 King, yes, but not of Rome. 1068 01:37:55,161 --> 01:37:57,949 Not of Rome? What are you saying? 1069 01:37:58,206 --> 01:38:01,449 They'll offer you king of the Roman Empire, outside Italy. 1070 01:38:03,419 --> 01:38:06,411 They're afraid, Caesar. Even your friends. 1071 01:38:06,631 --> 01:38:08,292 Afraid of the people. 1072 01:38:08,508 --> 01:38:12,502 - Perhaps in time... - To be afraid of the people. 1073 01:38:12,720 --> 01:38:14,677 To waste time on the people. 1074 01:38:14,889 --> 01:38:17,802 King of all but Rome? 1075 01:38:18,059 --> 01:38:21,302 What is there? The huts of Gaul? The caves of Britain? 1076 01:38:21,562 --> 01:38:24,645 The whole of the empire outside Italy. 1077 01:38:25,358 --> 01:38:27,190 I will not accept. 1078 01:38:27,443 --> 01:38:30,561 They mean it to be an empty gesture. 1079 01:38:30,780 --> 01:38:33,943 Another title to please your fancy, flatter your ego. 1080 01:38:34,200 --> 01:38:35,611 Nothing more. 1081 01:38:37,120 --> 01:38:39,157 And it will pass. 1082 01:38:40,581 --> 01:38:42,572 Then accept it, Caesar. 1083 01:38:42,959 --> 01:38:45,417 I have never settled for half a victory. 1084 01:38:45,670 --> 01:38:49,163 Nor will you now. Caesar, mighty Caesar... 1085 01:38:49,382 --> 01:38:52,090 all I can say is what you've taught me: 1086 01:38:52,343 --> 01:38:56,712 Take a little, then a little more until finally you have it all. 1087 01:38:57,598 --> 01:38:59,589 Let them declare you king. 1088 01:38:59,809 --> 01:39:02,847 Even if it's only of a tree in Asia Minor. 1089 01:39:03,104 --> 01:39:04,811 The rest will come to you. 1090 01:39:05,064 --> 01:39:08,227 To redo once more everything I have already done? 1091 01:39:08,443 --> 01:39:13,404 It's what you have never done, what you never conquered that waits for you. 1092 01:39:13,614 --> 01:39:18,484 The great legions of Rome in the outer empire that will become your legions. 1093 01:39:18,703 --> 01:39:22,742 The gold, the power of Egypt. Your Egypt. 1094 01:39:22,957 --> 01:39:27,372 Caesar, you can conquer and hold the world as your own. 1095 01:39:27,587 --> 01:39:30,204 Won't you understand? 1096 01:39:30,423 --> 01:39:34,462 Kings are not elected. Gods are not elected. 1097 01:39:34,677 --> 01:39:38,796 Why, not only Rome but all of Italy upon which Rome stands... 1098 01:39:39,056 --> 01:39:41,718 must fall in your hands like a drop of sweat. 1099 01:39:41,934 --> 01:39:43,891 Let them make you what they choose. 1100 01:39:44,145 --> 01:39:46,557 I'll serve with you. My legions with yours. 1101 01:39:46,772 --> 01:39:51,892 Together we'll conquer a world beyond the wildest dreams of even Alexander. 1102 01:39:52,111 --> 01:39:54,944 Rome. What was Rome when Sulla died... 1103 01:39:55,198 --> 01:39:58,156 when Crassus lost the armies in Parthia? 1104 01:39:58,409 --> 01:40:01,151 These same men came after me through the streets... 1105 01:40:01,412 --> 01:40:05,076 howling like frightened dogs, "Caesar, save us!" 1106 01:40:05,291 --> 01:40:07,578 They would've made me king then. 1107 01:40:07,793 --> 01:40:10,251 I wouldn't let them then. 1108 01:40:20,640 --> 01:40:24,099 He was thrown over the wall. It's not a pretty sight. 1109 01:40:24,477 --> 01:40:26,514 Titus, the moneylender. 1110 01:40:26,771 --> 01:40:30,264 Why should he be killed savagely and brought here? 1111 01:40:30,483 --> 01:40:33,396 Obviously, I am being warned. 1112 01:40:33,611 --> 01:40:35,443 Perhaps I am next. 1113 01:40:35,655 --> 01:40:37,817 They dare to threaten you? 1114 01:40:38,074 --> 01:40:40,907 - Caesarion. Where was my son...? - Not far away. 1115 01:40:41,118 --> 01:40:43,075 It frightened him. 1116 01:40:49,460 --> 01:40:53,419 - Lepidus, how many legions has he now? - Fifteen. Perhaps more. 1117 01:40:53,631 --> 01:40:55,417 - Where? - Scythia. 1118 01:40:55,675 --> 01:40:58,007 You and I will dine with Lepidus tonight. 1119 01:40:58,219 --> 01:41:02,087 We'll talk of armies and battlefields and lists of men to die. 1120 01:41:02,348 --> 01:41:06,683 Tomorrow in the Senate, let them offer the sands of Libya as my kingdom... 1121 01:41:06,894 --> 01:41:08,851 I will accept. 1122 01:41:48,936 --> 01:41:51,394 This is great Caesar... 1123 01:41:51,647 --> 01:41:53,684 beloved by Rome... 1124 01:41:54,567 --> 01:41:57,104 and at least one of us... 1125 01:41:57,320 --> 01:42:00,608 who must die so that Rome may live. 1126 01:42:00,865 --> 01:42:05,575 If it must be done, then let us do it unashamed and unafraid. 1127 01:42:06,078 --> 01:42:09,742 If the world is to know that it is Rome that will not have a king... 1128 01:42:09,957 --> 01:42:14,167 then let us make it the honorable act of free men in the light of day. 1129 01:42:14,378 --> 01:42:16,540 In the light of what day, Brutus? 1130 01:42:16,756 --> 01:42:18,497 Tomorrow? 1131 01:42:19,675 --> 01:42:23,293 In the curia of the Senate? 1132 01:42:24,221 --> 01:42:27,259 And shall we be armed, all of us? 1133 01:42:32,647 --> 01:42:37,266 Decimus, come to Caesar's villa early tomorrow to escort him to the Senate. 1134 01:42:37,485 --> 01:42:41,774 Cimber, Marc Antony must not enter the curia with Caesar. 1135 01:42:41,989 --> 01:42:46,608 On a pretext, lead him aside to speak of what you heard at Lepidus' house. 1136 01:42:46,827 --> 01:42:49,319 I remember something odd. 1137 01:42:49,538 --> 01:42:52,121 At one point, Caesar asked of each of us... 1138 01:42:52,333 --> 01:42:55,121 what manner of death we would choose. 1139 01:42:55,378 --> 01:42:58,962 And Caesar, when it came to him, looked straight at me and said: 1140 01:42:59,173 --> 01:43:01,039 "Sudden." 1141 01:43:02,968 --> 01:43:05,005 Odd, isn't it? 1142 01:43:28,244 --> 01:43:30,485 I was afraid I'd find you still asleep. 1143 01:43:30,746 --> 01:43:34,034 Caesarion is. He was awake most of the night. 1144 01:43:34,250 --> 01:43:36,036 Did the storm frighten him? 1145 01:43:36,252 --> 01:43:40,211 He said not, but it did. I could tell. 1146 01:43:40,423 --> 01:43:42,209 Have you time to come in? 1147 01:43:42,425 --> 01:43:47,090 Decimus awaits. He came by expressly to accompany me to the Senate. 1148 01:43:47,304 --> 01:43:49,762 Decimus? Has he done this before? 1149 01:43:50,015 --> 01:43:51,597 A shrewd politician. 1150 01:43:51,851 --> 01:43:55,435 He hopes to benefit by arriving with me, this day of days. 1151 01:43:55,646 --> 01:43:58,058 Keep Antony close by. 1152 01:43:59,984 --> 01:44:01,850 You too? 1153 01:44:02,069 --> 01:44:05,027 The ladies of Rome seem to have caught each other's fears this morning. 1154 01:44:05,239 --> 01:44:07,025 Like a head cold. 1155 01:44:07,241 --> 01:44:10,450 Calpurnia pleaded with me not to go to the Senate at all. 1156 01:44:10,661 --> 01:44:14,074 Why? Why would she not want you to go? 1157 01:44:14,331 --> 01:44:16,538 Oh, the bad night. Nothing else. 1158 01:44:16,792 --> 01:44:20,251 She awoke screaming in her sleep. The thunder, the lightning. 1159 01:44:20,463 --> 01:44:24,673 She dreamed that she saw me murdered. That she saw me... 1160 01:44:24,925 --> 01:44:27,087 or a statue of me covered in blood. 1161 01:44:27,344 --> 01:44:30,837 The servants told her of seeing men of fire in the heavens... 1162 01:44:31,056 --> 01:44:33,047 odd happenings and so forth. 1163 01:44:33,267 --> 01:44:35,975 Strange birds were seen in the Forum. 1164 01:44:36,187 --> 01:44:41,273 One flew into the Senate carrying a sprig of laurel which it dropped... 1165 01:44:41,525 --> 01:44:44,062 at the base of Pompey's statue. 1166 01:44:44,361 --> 01:44:45,943 Pompey? 1167 01:44:47,281 --> 01:44:51,650 - Caesar, I'm afraid. - You must not tell me to stay away. 1168 01:44:51,911 --> 01:44:54,073 Shall I too be afraid? 1169 01:44:54,330 --> 01:44:58,540 Can it be said of Caesar, he gave up the world because of a thunderstorm? 1170 01:44:58,751 --> 01:45:02,619 That such divinity that was in him ran before mortal superstition? 1171 01:45:03,464 --> 01:45:05,546 I feel you need me now... 1172 01:45:05,758 --> 01:45:07,544 and I cannot help you. 1173 01:45:07,802 --> 01:45:12,922 Then help me to live as I have lived, always differently from the rest. 1174 01:45:13,307 --> 01:45:17,471 The others, for whom life is merely an endless fear of dying. 1175 01:45:19,063 --> 01:45:20,770 Your gods... 1176 01:45:20,981 --> 01:45:23,894 and mine go with you, Caesar. 1177 01:45:25,986 --> 01:45:30,275 The world, except for you, is filled with little men. 1178 01:46:36,682 --> 01:46:38,764 Fire burns. 1179 01:46:39,018 --> 01:46:41,680 Fire burns. 1180 01:46:42,479 --> 01:46:45,187 The winds of destruction blow. 1181 01:46:46,942 --> 01:46:48,899 Rome... 1182 01:46:49,153 --> 01:46:53,147 mighty and alone, the winds of destruction blow down upon thee! 1183 01:46:53,365 --> 01:46:55,572 Storms and hail shall cut down wheat... 1184 01:46:55,784 --> 01:46:58,651 shall cut down birds and living things of earth. 1185 01:46:58,871 --> 01:47:01,078 The heavens... 1186 01:47:01,373 --> 01:47:04,035 and the gods themselves. 1187 01:49:17,009 --> 01:49:19,546 My son! 1188 01:49:34,818 --> 01:49:36,274 Caesar! Caesar! 1189 01:49:36,528 --> 01:49:38,439 Caesar! Caesar! 1190 01:52:23,487 --> 01:52:25,649 I would've come sooner. There was much to do. 1191 01:52:25,822 --> 01:52:28,689 And it seems you have done it extremely well. 1192 01:52:31,203 --> 01:52:33,319 Is that where...? 1193 01:52:33,580 --> 01:52:34,945 Yes. 1194 01:52:37,960 --> 01:52:42,670 In Egypt, we build eternal monuments to our dead heroes. 1195 01:52:43,006 --> 01:52:45,873 Here, you burn them like rubbish. 1196 01:52:46,134 --> 01:52:47,249 Goodbye. 1197 01:52:47,469 --> 01:52:50,587 I've brought the 10th Legion and Rufio. You have nothing to fear. 1198 01:52:51,932 --> 01:52:55,550 Nothing to fear? That's no reason for staying. 1199 01:52:56,937 --> 01:52:59,178 So much has happened so quickly. 1200 01:52:59,398 --> 01:53:02,686 Suddenly I have the pieces of a broken world to pick up: 1201 01:53:02,943 --> 01:53:05,776 Caesar, you running off at night like this. 1202 01:53:05,988 --> 01:53:07,945 Do you suggest that I stay? Why? 1203 01:53:08,156 --> 01:53:11,990 Don't ask me to be clear about my feelings right now. I'm tired. 1204 01:53:12,452 --> 01:53:15,615 And with you, it's never easy to say my meaning. 1205 01:53:16,373 --> 01:53:19,411 But you speak so well, Antony. 1206 01:53:19,626 --> 01:53:22,869 I've been told how excitingly you read Caesar's will... 1207 01:53:23,088 --> 01:53:27,127 to the sobbing, murdering, free citizens of Rome. 1208 01:53:27,342 --> 01:53:31,836 Naming as his heir his great nephew, Octavian! 1209 01:53:32,306 --> 01:53:34,593 I knew Caesar's will and the reasons for it. 1210 01:53:34,808 --> 01:53:36,719 If Octavian hadn't been named... 1211 01:53:36,977 --> 01:53:40,060 how many hours or minutes would you and your son have survived? 1212 01:53:41,523 --> 01:53:44,060 And if Caesar had become truly king... 1213 01:53:44,276 --> 01:53:47,314 do you believe he would still have named Octavian? 1214 01:53:49,656 --> 01:53:51,772 In any case, it's over. 1215 01:53:51,992 --> 01:53:53,653 Caesar... 1216 01:53:53,910 --> 01:53:56,902 and the dream that was murdered with him. 1217 01:53:57,622 --> 01:54:00,034 First Alexander's... 1218 01:54:01,084 --> 01:54:03,166 then Caesar's. 1219 01:54:03,378 --> 01:54:05,415 Now over. Finished. 1220 01:54:05,630 --> 01:54:08,247 - First, Rome must be put in order. - Rome again. 1221 01:54:08,467 --> 01:54:11,175 Brutus, Cassius and the others must be found and killed. 1222 01:54:11,428 --> 01:54:12,793 - Then? - Then in death... 1223 01:54:13,055 --> 01:54:17,094 Caesar must be granted the power and title he was denied in life. Deified, even. 1224 01:54:17,309 --> 01:54:21,177 A dead king, a dead god. Safe enough even for Rome. 1225 01:54:21,438 --> 01:54:26,524 Caesarion as Caesar's son could claim both the title of king and his deification. 1226 01:54:27,194 --> 01:54:31,153 And to what court of law would my son and I take our claim? 1227 01:54:31,365 --> 01:54:34,653 I will present it to the Roman Senate myself. 1228 01:54:37,037 --> 01:54:39,654 I believe you would. 1229 01:54:39,998 --> 01:54:43,286 And after the noble senators have stopped laughing... 1230 01:54:43,502 --> 01:54:46,745 do my son and I then declare war on Rome? 1231 01:54:46,963 --> 01:54:51,457 No. For this, a Caesar would be needed. 1232 01:54:51,676 --> 01:54:54,259 You have very little time. 1233 01:54:56,598 --> 01:54:58,635 Another Caesar. 1234 01:54:59,017 --> 01:55:03,477 But thank you. I shall remember your kindness to us. 1235 01:55:03,688 --> 01:55:06,555 - You give up too easily. - Do I? 1236 01:55:07,567 --> 01:55:10,434 Let me come to Alexandria and talk more with you. 1237 01:55:10,695 --> 01:55:14,689 - Whenever you like. - Now. Tonight, if I could. 1238 01:55:17,077 --> 01:55:19,284 In any case, try to remember. 1239 01:59:47,555 --> 01:59:51,844 For more than two years did Antony seek out the assassins of Caesar. 1240 01:59:52,060 --> 01:59:53,846 At last, at Philippi... 1241 01:59:54,104 --> 01:59:58,223 he was able to set against them his legions and those of Octavian... 1242 01:59:58,441 --> 02:00:00,603 who was Caesar's heir. 1243 02:00:00,819 --> 02:00:02,901 Cassius was the first to die... 1244 02:00:03,113 --> 02:00:05,104 by his own hand. 1245 02:00:05,323 --> 02:00:08,315 Then Brutus and the others. 1246 02:01:46,174 --> 02:01:48,632 Hail Antony! 1247 02:01:48,843 --> 02:01:50,959 Hail Antony! 1248 02:01:54,349 --> 02:01:57,637 Hail Antony's legion! 1249 02:02:10,114 --> 02:02:12,276 You remember Philippi. 1250 02:02:12,909 --> 02:02:14,365 He won it. 1251 02:02:15,870 --> 02:02:17,326 My lord. 1252 02:02:18,206 --> 02:02:21,540 - This way. - But my tent is this way. 1253 02:02:24,462 --> 02:02:28,126 Later. I'll see him later. Octavian depresses me. 1254 02:02:29,092 --> 02:02:30,628 You promised. 1255 02:02:40,895 --> 02:02:43,853 Well, the fighting's over. We've won it all. 1256 02:02:44,107 --> 02:02:46,064 Your health should improve quickly now. 1257 02:02:46,317 --> 02:02:49,105 Even if I die, my place is with you on the field. 1258 02:02:49,320 --> 02:02:51,903 - You were wrong to prevent me. - Caesar was ill. 1259 02:02:52,115 --> 02:02:55,608 Caesar? Ah, yes. I keep forgetting. 1260 02:02:55,827 --> 02:02:58,535 I have inherited the name. I have made it mine. 1261 02:02:58,746 --> 02:03:02,740 Why not? You'll never be confused with the other one. 1262 02:03:03,209 --> 02:03:06,577 At least your troops fought bravely, under my command. 1263 02:03:06,796 --> 02:03:09,538 Agrippa has kept me fully informed. 1264 02:03:09,799 --> 02:03:11,335 What were you doing there? 1265 02:03:11,551 --> 02:03:15,340 The battle was fought on land, between men, not wood bumping on water. 1266 02:03:15,555 --> 02:03:18,798 Why did you bring Agrippa? Were you expecting rain? 1267 02:03:19,017 --> 02:03:21,975 Shall we choose a piece of land, just you and 1? 1268 02:03:22,228 --> 02:03:24,686 Be quiet. There are matters to talk about. 1269 02:03:24,898 --> 02:03:27,731 Have you an objection to Agrippa remaining? 1270 02:03:28,651 --> 02:03:32,770 I object to Agrippa at all times. 1271 02:03:38,077 --> 02:03:39,988 Lying here, indisposed... 1272 02:03:40,246 --> 02:03:43,329 you must have had time to consider the problem. 1273 02:03:43,583 --> 02:03:46,666 I think it is best to continue the Triumvirate. 1274 02:03:46,878 --> 02:03:50,087 You and I and Lepidus. 1275 02:03:50,298 --> 02:03:51,959 Very well. 1276 02:03:52,300 --> 02:03:56,168 Lepidus shall have Africa and the islands. You, Spain and Gaul. 1277 02:03:56,387 --> 02:04:00,506 Rome and Italy to be administered by the three of us, jointly. 1278 02:04:00,767 --> 02:04:03,304 - And you? - All the rest. 1279 02:04:04,479 --> 02:04:07,813 Then, with Lepidus in Africa and you in the East... 1280 02:04:08,024 --> 02:04:11,142 bringing order to Rome and Italy will be my problem. 1281 02:04:11,361 --> 02:04:13,853 - So it seems. - Spain and Gaul aren't enough. 1282 02:04:14,113 --> 02:04:15,399 I'll need money. 1283 02:04:15,657 --> 02:04:18,649 - There have been tax riots in Rome. - So I've heard. 1284 02:04:20,703 --> 02:04:21,738 Done. 1285 02:04:25,416 --> 02:04:26,998 And done. 1286 02:04:51,234 --> 02:04:53,271 Would Caesar approve, do you think? 1287 02:04:53,486 --> 02:04:57,855 Definitely. Perhaps the veil of Isis would have bothered him a bit. 1288 02:04:58,074 --> 02:04:59,940 Three years... 1289 02:05:00,159 --> 02:05:04,073 and Rome remembers him only by the image on a gold coin. 1290 02:05:04,288 --> 02:05:06,871 Are they those I brought back with me? 1291 02:05:07,083 --> 02:05:09,040 When Octavian had them struck off... 1292 02:05:09,252 --> 02:05:12,244 it was to commemorate Caesar's deification. 1293 02:05:12,463 --> 02:05:17,173 So that he could inherit Caesar's divinity together with all the rest. 1294 02:05:17,427 --> 02:05:20,215 Even a dead god cannot rewrite his will. 1295 02:05:20,471 --> 02:05:23,429 Antony did present Caesarion's claims to the Senate. 1296 02:05:23,641 --> 02:05:26,349 He kept that much of his promise. 1297 02:05:27,061 --> 02:05:29,223 And he will keep the rest of it. 1298 02:05:29,439 --> 02:05:32,397 After almost three years since Caesar's death... 1299 02:05:32,608 --> 02:05:34,599 more than a year since Philippi? 1300 02:05:34,819 --> 02:05:38,187 Antony will come. He will need Egypt. 1301 02:05:38,406 --> 02:05:40,568 Egypt is you. 1302 02:05:40,783 --> 02:05:45,198 That's what I meant, of course. Antony will need me. 1303 02:05:50,960 --> 02:05:53,418 Finances! My head hurts when you talk of money. 1304 02:05:53,671 --> 02:05:55,207 Change the subject. 1305 02:05:55,423 --> 02:05:58,961 All right. News from Rome. 1306 02:05:59,218 --> 02:06:02,927 Octavian has forced Lepidus out of his command and into exile. 1307 02:06:07,268 --> 02:06:11,683 I wish I hadn't... I wish I had not drunk so much today. 1308 02:06:11,898 --> 02:06:13,764 Sodol. 1309 02:06:14,525 --> 02:06:17,108 Do I trouble you, Rufio? 1310 02:06:17,737 --> 02:06:19,398 Yes, you do. 1311 02:06:22,075 --> 02:06:25,739 I'll wager Caesar was never befuddled by wine. Nothing befuddled Caesar 1312 02:06:25,995 --> 02:06:28,362 The campaign against Parthia won't be easy. 1313 02:06:28,623 --> 02:06:31,581 - How many legions have we left? - It's hard to tell. 1314 02:06:31,793 --> 02:06:34,876 - S0 many desertions. - Desertions? 1315 02:06:35,088 --> 02:06:37,546 They haven't been paid in months. 1316 02:06:39,634 --> 02:06:41,966 You remember when we started into Greece? 1317 02:06:42,178 --> 02:06:45,261 I lived with them, ate with them. I was one of them. 1318 02:06:45,473 --> 02:06:48,966 They seem distant to me now, as if they were a memory. 1319 02:06:53,147 --> 02:06:55,935 We must find the gold to pay them... 1320 02:06:56,150 --> 02:07:00,109 the wheat to feed them, supplies, ships, armor. 1321 02:07:00,363 --> 02:07:03,606 And where do you suggest we look for all these? 1322 02:07:03,908 --> 02:07:06,741 - I thought perhaps further to the east. - Syria? 1323 02:07:07,787 --> 02:07:10,279 - Perhaps more to the south. - Ethiopia? 1324 02:07:11,207 --> 02:07:12,242 To the north... 1325 02:07:12,458 --> 02:07:14,244 - I forbid you to mention her! - I didn't. 1326 02:07:14,460 --> 02:07:17,293 I won't crawl to her! Why hasn't she offered assistance? 1327 02:07:17,547 --> 02:07:19,959 - She may not know. - She knows everything. 1328 02:07:20,174 --> 02:07:23,292 - If only out of gratitude... - Perhaps she'll express it in person. 1329 02:07:23,553 --> 02:07:26,295 Then let her come to me. Am I so much less than Caesar? 1330 02:07:26,514 --> 02:07:29,848 Nor is she less than Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, and you promised... 1331 02:07:30,059 --> 02:07:32,767 Queen. Strip them naked, they're no longer queens. 1332 02:07:32,979 --> 02:07:36,347 It is also difficult to tell the rank of a naked general. 1333 02:07:37,024 --> 02:07:40,312 And generals without armies are naked, indeed. 1334 02:07:41,279 --> 02:07:44,397 All right. I'll meet her halfway. 1335 02:07:44,657 --> 02:07:46,147 I'll send you to her. 1336 02:07:46,367 --> 02:07:50,156 - You order her to come. - If I am to order her, I need not journey. 1337 02:07:50,413 --> 02:07:51,995 - Then summon her. - Even worse. 1338 02:07:52,206 --> 02:07:55,039 Then beg, entreat, cajole, find the word you like... 1339 02:07:55,293 --> 02:07:59,503 pour perfume, whinny like a stallion. But see that she comes to me. 1340 02:08:00,298 --> 02:08:02,881 I understand your position, Rufio. 1341 02:08:03,134 --> 02:08:05,466 Surely you must understand mine. 1342 02:08:05,678 --> 02:08:09,216 I do not intend to join that long list of queens... 1343 02:08:09,432 --> 02:08:12,970 who have quivered happily at being summoned by Lord Antony. 1344 02:08:13,227 --> 02:08:15,343 But surely I didn't say "summoned." 1345 02:08:15,563 --> 02:08:18,772 You said "invite." He meant "summon." 1346 02:08:19,025 --> 02:08:22,234 In any case, I am the queen of Egypt. 1347 02:08:22,445 --> 02:08:25,608 And I choose to remain on Egyptian soil. 1348 02:08:25,865 --> 02:08:29,233 Tarsus is not the other end of the world, Your Majesty. 1349 02:08:29,493 --> 02:08:32,827 If it were one step from Egypt, that would be too far. 1350 02:08:34,165 --> 02:08:37,658 I will meet with Lord Antony... 1351 02:08:38,794 --> 02:08:41,286 but only on Egyptian soil. 1352 02:08:42,423 --> 02:08:46,633 My lady, a way must be found, a time, a place to satisfy you both. 1353 02:08:47,178 --> 02:08:48,760 Must it, Rufio? 1354 02:10:05,298 --> 02:10:07,335 Cleopatra. 1355 02:10:31,157 --> 02:10:33,194 Cleopatra! 1356 02:10:37,830 --> 02:10:39,537 Itis. 1357 02:10:39,790 --> 02:10:41,531 It must be. 1358 02:10:59,185 --> 02:11:01,472 She said never, except on Egyptian soil. 1359 02:11:01,729 --> 02:11:04,221 "Never." Something women say to begin with. 1360 02:11:04,482 --> 02:11:06,644 Welcome Queen Cleopatra on my behalf. 1361 02:11:06,817 --> 02:11:10,026 Extend my invitation to a banquet in her honor. 1362 02:11:10,237 --> 02:11:12,945 - Don't you think...? - Still not convinced Rufio? 1363 02:11:13,157 --> 02:11:16,866 Hurry back, there's much to be done. Have the cooks sent to me. 1364 02:11:53,614 --> 02:11:57,198 Forgive me, noble Rufio. It is you who do not understand. 1365 02:11:57,410 --> 02:12:02,029 Queen Cleopatra, at present in her chamber, is on Egyptian territory... 1366 02:12:02,248 --> 02:12:03,989 and intends to remain on it. 1367 02:12:04,208 --> 02:12:06,791 Most learned Sosigenes, forgive me... 1368 02:12:07,044 --> 02:12:09,206 but this is Tarsus, not Alexandria. 1369 02:12:09,422 --> 02:12:13,211 You are on Tarsus, noble Rufio. I am on Egypt. 1370 02:12:13,509 --> 02:12:17,924 Tonight and tomorrow night, if Lord Antony desires to meet Her Majesty... 1371 02:12:18,139 --> 02:12:21,302 he will come to her, to Egypt. 1372 02:12:23,144 --> 02:12:26,728 I shall do my best, learned friend, to prevail upon Lord Antony to attend. 1373 02:14:23,055 --> 02:14:25,843 Marc Antony, how prompt you are. 1374 02:14:26,058 --> 02:14:28,846 If I had not been, it would be unforgivable of me. 1375 02:14:29,061 --> 02:14:32,144 I had hoped to be here to welcome you as you came aboard. 1376 02:14:32,356 --> 02:14:35,018 If you had been, it would be unforgivable of me. 1377 02:14:35,276 --> 02:14:39,019 Be more tolerant. Forgive yourself now and then. 1378 02:14:41,198 --> 02:14:44,782 Almost three years. Have you possibly become more beautiful? 1379 02:14:45,035 --> 02:14:47,697 Almost three? That long? 1380 02:14:47,913 --> 02:14:49,870 The time has passed so quickly. 1381 02:14:50,040 --> 02:14:53,954 Your necklace. It seems to be made of gold coins. 1382 02:14:54,211 --> 02:14:56,794 Coins of Caesar. 1383 02:14:57,047 --> 02:14:59,664 - Do you find it attractive? - Very. 1384 02:14:59,883 --> 02:15:03,046 And I find what you're wearing most becoming. 1385 02:15:03,304 --> 02:15:04,465 Greek, isn't it? 1386 02:15:04,722 --> 02:15:07,384 I have a fondness for almost all Greek things. 1387 02:15:07,600 --> 02:15:11,685 As an almost all-Greek thing, I'm flattered. 1388 02:15:16,400 --> 02:15:18,482 An unusual necklace. 1389 02:15:18,736 --> 02:15:21,068 Nothing but gold coins of Caesar. 1390 02:15:21,280 --> 02:15:23,897 - How did you come by it? - I had it made. 1391 02:15:24,199 --> 02:15:26,281 I wear it always. 1392 02:16:26,387 --> 02:16:28,253 A fabulous feast. 1393 02:16:28,972 --> 02:16:32,181 One is so limited when one travels by ship. 1394 02:16:32,476 --> 02:16:34,183 This fabulous ship... 1395 02:16:34,478 --> 02:16:37,641 together with its queen, the fabulous Cleopatra. 1396 02:16:39,274 --> 02:16:43,393 The name of Marc Antony is not exactly unknown to the world. 1397 02:16:43,654 --> 02:16:47,363 - In the last year or so since we met... - Almost three. 1398 02:16:47,866 --> 02:16:51,860 By now you have become one-third the master of Rome. 1399 02:16:52,663 --> 02:16:55,325 You don't permit yourself to forget him, is that it? 1400 02:16:55,999 --> 02:16:59,333 That's an odd way of putting it. "Don't permit myself"? 1401 02:16:59,545 --> 02:17:02,162 Is it necessary to wear him around your neck? 1402 02:17:03,090 --> 02:17:06,503 You forget, Antony, in these almost three years... 1403 02:17:06,802 --> 02:17:08,918 how full your own life has been. 1404 02:17:09,555 --> 02:17:13,514 They can't have been uneventful for you. You rule Egypt alone. 1405 02:17:13,726 --> 02:17:16,388 Oh, they have been busy, but not full. 1406 02:17:16,687 --> 02:17:18,098 There's a difference. 1407 02:17:18,355 --> 02:17:22,019 There cannot be enough hours in the days of a queen... 1408 02:17:22,234 --> 02:17:24,350 and her nights have too many. 1409 02:17:24,820 --> 02:17:27,733 - So I fill them with memories. - Of Caesar? 1410 02:17:28,115 --> 02:17:29,947 And of a dream... 1411 02:17:30,242 --> 02:17:31,949 that almost came true. 1412 02:17:32,202 --> 02:17:33,533 You may remember. 1413 02:17:33,829 --> 02:17:37,948 I remember that night in Rome, saying it could still come true. 1414 02:17:38,459 --> 02:17:42,248 You said so much that night to so many. 1415 02:17:58,353 --> 02:17:59,764 Let me get rid of them all. 1416 02:18:00,063 --> 02:18:02,725 Why? I have arranged an entertainment. 1417 02:18:02,941 --> 02:18:06,980 A dance in the Greek fashion to welcome the god Bacchus. 1418 02:18:07,237 --> 02:18:10,605 If I make a great show of going, they'll have to leave too. 1419 02:18:10,866 --> 02:18:13,358 Then I can return... 1420 02:18:13,577 --> 02:18:16,911 and we can talk alone, you and I. 1421 02:18:17,247 --> 02:18:21,411 - When would you return? - In an hour, no more than two. 1422 02:18:21,627 --> 02:18:26,246 - How long would you stay? - Until we had nothing more to say. 1423 02:18:27,132 --> 02:18:31,467 Are you a strong swimmer? We sail at sunrise. 1424 02:18:33,180 --> 02:18:35,012 I don't understand. 1425 02:18:35,265 --> 02:18:38,974 Home to Alexandria, to Egypt. 1426 02:18:39,311 --> 02:18:43,270 You've come all this way for one night. All to make a fool of me. 1427 02:18:44,441 --> 02:18:46,603 Perhaps you would feel less a fool... 1428 02:18:46,777 --> 02:18:49,439 if you stayed the night with me, is that it? 1429 02:18:52,199 --> 02:18:54,406 I've told you before. 1430 02:18:54,618 --> 02:18:57,781 With you, words do not come easily to me. 1431 02:18:57,996 --> 02:19:00,613 There is too much unsaid within me that I cannot say. 1432 02:19:00,833 --> 02:19:02,540 Then I cannot know it. 1433 02:19:02,793 --> 02:19:04,784 There is much unsaid within you too. 1434 02:19:05,003 --> 02:19:07,711 That is probably true of everybody. 1435 02:19:07,965 --> 02:19:10,127 Stay for a while. 1436 02:19:10,300 --> 02:19:14,840 I have known you so long but so little. Give me time. 1437 02:19:15,055 --> 02:19:17,968 Not I. Not Egypt and Rome together. 1438 02:19:18,141 --> 02:19:22,351 Not even the gods have time to give you. 1439 02:19:22,980 --> 02:19:25,472 But, Antony, use what you have. 1440 02:19:25,691 --> 02:19:30,481 Don't waste it by playing at god here in Tarsus... 1441 02:19:30,737 --> 02:19:35,322 while Octavian in Rome becomes a god. 1442 02:22:54,941 --> 02:22:57,399 The dance, I take it, is over. 1443 02:22:58,028 --> 02:22:59,564 Sit up. 1444 02:22:59,863 --> 02:23:03,401 I want to see whether you sleep with your memories. 1445 02:23:08,872 --> 02:23:11,864 With so much left unsaid within you... 1446 02:23:12,084 --> 02:23:15,202 it must be a relief to break and tear things. 1447 02:23:15,754 --> 02:23:19,372 - I want to say something now. - Perhaps some other time. 1448 02:23:19,674 --> 02:23:20,709 Now! 1449 02:23:23,553 --> 02:23:25,544 Caesar. 1450 02:23:27,390 --> 02:23:29,802 Conquer and conquer. 1451 02:23:30,060 --> 02:23:32,597 Bring the world to its knees. 1452 02:23:32,896 --> 02:23:36,105 "You're not a Caesar. Did you know that?" 1453 02:23:37,484 --> 02:23:39,066 Be braver than the bravest... 1454 02:23:39,319 --> 02:23:42,562 stronger than the strongest. Still no Caesar. 1455 02:23:42,781 --> 02:23:46,820 Caesar's done it first and better. Ruled better, loved better, fought better. 1456 02:23:47,077 --> 02:23:50,411 Run where you will, you can't get out. There's no way out. 1457 02:23:50,622 --> 02:23:55,116 The shadow of Caesar will cover you and cover the universe for all of time. 1458 02:23:59,923 --> 02:24:02,085 "Whenever you like," you said in Rome. 1459 02:24:02,300 --> 02:24:04,587 "Come to Alexandria whenever you like." 1460 02:24:04,845 --> 02:24:06,427 "Now, tonight," I said. 1461 02:24:06,721 --> 02:24:09,759 To bow to the throne upon which Caesar put you. 1462 02:24:09,975 --> 02:24:13,434 To talk of a new treaty. Caesar's can't be improved. Copy it. 1463 02:24:13,645 --> 02:24:17,855 Of Caesar's son. Of the dream you shared with Caesar that still fills your life. 1464 02:24:18,108 --> 02:24:22,853 Alexander's design for a world to be ruled by you and Caesar. 1465 02:24:23,947 --> 02:24:25,437 Where is Antony? 1466 02:24:25,740 --> 02:24:27,526 Where is Marc Antony? 1467 02:24:27,784 --> 02:24:30,947 Antony the Great! The divine Antony! 1468 02:24:31,329 --> 02:24:32,945 Here. 1469 02:24:33,248 --> 02:24:35,034 He's... 1470 02:24:35,292 --> 02:24:36,999 here. 1471 02:24:37,252 --> 02:24:40,995 One step behind Caesar. At the right hand of Caesar. 1472 02:24:41,256 --> 02:24:44,465 In the shadow of Caesar. 1473 02:24:45,302 --> 02:24:48,385 Tell me, how many have loved you since him? 1474 02:24:48,638 --> 02:24:51,551 One? Ten? Anyone? No one? 1475 02:24:51,808 --> 02:24:55,972 Have they kissed you with Caesar's lips? Is it his name you cry out in the dark? 1476 02:24:56,146 --> 02:24:59,810 Afterwards, has he reproached you and have you begged forgiveness? 1477 02:25:01,151 --> 02:25:05,315 You've come here, then, running over with wine and self-pity... 1478 02:25:05,488 --> 02:25:07,479 to conquer Caesar. 1479 02:25:07,699 --> 02:25:11,988 For so long now, you've filled my life... 1480 02:25:12,579 --> 02:25:17,369 like a great noise I hear everywhere in my heart. 1481 02:25:18,168 --> 02:25:21,536 I want to be free of you, of wanting you... 1482 02:25:21,838 --> 02:25:23,294 of being afraid. 1483 02:25:25,884 --> 02:25:28,922 Yet, Caesar would not permit it. 1484 02:25:50,075 --> 02:25:52,191 But I will never... 1485 02:25:53,036 --> 02:25:54,902 be free of you. 1486 02:26:10,762 --> 02:26:12,878 From the first instant I saw you... 1487 02:26:13,139 --> 02:26:16,382 entering Rome on that monstrous stone beast... 1488 02:26:16,601 --> 02:26:19,093 shining in the sun... 1489 02:26:19,354 --> 02:26:22,221 like a little gold toy. 1490 02:26:22,440 --> 02:26:24,397 How I envied Caesar. 1491 02:26:24,609 --> 02:26:26,475 Went suddenly sick with it. 1492 02:26:26,736 --> 02:26:28,773 Not his conquests or his triumphs. 1493 02:26:28,989 --> 02:26:31,606 Not his titles or the roaring of the mob. 1494 02:26:32,284 --> 02:26:34,571 I envied him you. 1495 02:26:37,664 --> 02:26:41,077 When we first met in Rome, I remembered you. 1496 02:26:41,376 --> 02:26:43,993 I wondered that I could ever have forgotten. 1497 02:26:44,254 --> 02:26:46,120 Remembered me? 1498 02:26:46,381 --> 02:26:49,089 Years ago, when you were a young cavalry officer... 1499 02:26:49,301 --> 02:26:53,135 Stationed at the palace in Alexandria under that fat Roman general. 1500 02:26:53,430 --> 02:26:56,092 - What was his name? - Gabinius. 1501 02:26:56,266 --> 02:26:57,506 Gabinius. 1502 02:26:59,144 --> 02:27:03,012 I was 12 years old, and I loved you. 1503 02:27:03,273 --> 02:27:05,605 - Nonsense. - It's true. 1504 02:27:05,817 --> 02:27:09,606 Lovers always want so much never to have loved before. 1505 02:27:11,114 --> 02:27:12,479 It's possible, you know. 1506 02:27:12,699 --> 02:27:15,316 It becomes a game. Who loved whom first? 1507 02:27:15,535 --> 02:27:17,117 I did. 1508 02:27:18,455 --> 02:27:22,995 If you noticed me at all then, you were probably terrified of me. 1509 02:27:23,460 --> 02:27:27,124 With good reason. Everybody knows Romans cut up little children... 1510 02:27:27,339 --> 02:27:29,626 and feed them to their horses. 1511 02:27:34,471 --> 02:27:37,213 We'll make this our beginning. 1512 02:27:37,474 --> 02:27:39,465 Beginning with tonight... 1513 02:27:39,642 --> 02:27:42,179 you must never envy Caesar... 1514 02:27:42,437 --> 02:27:46,305 Or anyone, anything again. 1515 02:27:55,325 --> 02:27:57,191 After all... 1516 02:27:57,494 --> 02:27:59,735 this is nothing new. 1517 02:27:59,996 --> 02:28:01,828 For so many years... 1518 02:28:02,040 --> 02:28:04,156 Antony has fed upon the crumbs... 1519 02:28:04,334 --> 02:28:07,827 that fell from Julius Caesar's table. 1520 02:28:09,214 --> 02:28:11,000 I say... 1521 02:28:11,341 --> 02:28:13,833 they are deserving of each other. 1522 02:28:14,094 --> 02:28:16,051 Let him stay in Egypt. 1523 02:28:16,262 --> 02:28:18,344 Let him fritter away his life as he chooses... 1524 02:28:18,515 --> 02:28:22,179 but not the possessions and the empire of the Roman people! 1525 02:28:22,477 --> 02:28:24,969 The Roman people! 1526 02:28:25,355 --> 02:28:28,893 The Roman people. What are glory and possessions to them? 1527 02:28:29,109 --> 02:28:32,101 Is their Antony content? 1528 02:28:32,362 --> 02:28:35,354 Then so are they. 1529 02:28:36,199 --> 02:28:39,112 Does their Antony sweep their empire... 1530 02:28:39,369 --> 02:28:42,202 under Cleopatra's bed? 1531 02:28:42,580 --> 02:28:47,700 His adoring Romans sigh and remain content. 1532 02:28:48,253 --> 02:28:51,712 Let him stay however distant for however long... 1533 02:28:51,923 --> 02:28:54,039 with never a thought of them. 1534 02:28:54,259 --> 02:28:57,377 The Roman people hold him close to their hearts. 1535 02:28:57,554 --> 02:28:59,386 Distant? 1536 02:28:59,639 --> 02:29:02,597 Perhaps from Rome but not from Caesar, I think. 1537 02:29:02,809 --> 02:29:04,220 Nor from Caesar's son. 1538 02:29:04,436 --> 02:29:07,224 Germanicus, do you speak of me? 1539 02:29:07,439 --> 02:29:09,225 No, Octavian, I speak of Caesar. 1540 02:29:10,275 --> 02:29:12,312 I am Caesar. 1541 02:29:13,069 --> 02:29:15,231 Only while Antony remains... 1542 02:29:15,530 --> 02:29:17,521 distant from Rome. 1543 02:29:20,326 --> 02:29:22,112 Antony! 1544 02:29:22,328 --> 02:29:25,741 Stay not too long in Alexandria! 1545 02:29:28,585 --> 02:29:30,576 Germanicus... 1546 02:29:31,129 --> 02:29:34,087 stay not too long in Rome. 1547 02:29:55,111 --> 02:29:58,320 - How much of this is known to Antony? - All of it and more. 1548 02:29:58,615 --> 02:30:02,984 I've written him regularly. Letters, dispatches by personal messenger. 1549 02:30:03,203 --> 02:30:05,194 And what has he answered? 1550 02:30:05,455 --> 02:30:09,164 He wrote he was no longer interested in the matters I described. 1551 02:30:09,375 --> 02:30:11,457 That he would not return to Rome. 1552 02:30:11,628 --> 02:30:15,667 That he understood quite clearly what was at stake, what he would lose. 1553 02:30:15,882 --> 02:30:17,998 But that he would not leave you. 1554 02:30:38,112 --> 02:30:39,648 Let's try the goat. 1555 02:30:44,494 --> 02:30:48,032 Let's have that goat again. There. Not too much. 1556 02:30:48,331 --> 02:30:49,617 There. 1557 02:30:51,376 --> 02:30:53,743 The milk of a cow... 1558 02:30:54,003 --> 02:30:57,871 of a goat and of an ass. Which is best for softening the beard? 1559 02:30:58,633 --> 02:31:01,842 Is it true Octavian shaves but once a week? 1560 02:31:02,762 --> 02:31:06,426 Even then, he has merely to face the wind and let the fuzz blow away. 1561 02:31:06,766 --> 02:31:10,225 You knew, didn't you, Germanicus was here from Rome? 1562 02:31:10,520 --> 02:31:12,010 Yes. 1563 02:31:12,272 --> 02:31:16,015 Have you strong feelings about beards? I had one. Bright red. 1564 02:31:16,234 --> 02:31:18,020 Why haven't you seen him? 1565 02:31:25,660 --> 02:31:27,947 When you go... 1566 02:31:28,580 --> 02:31:30,412 must it be for very long? 1567 02:31:31,082 --> 02:31:34,245 I must take some of these with me. They don't have them. 1568 02:31:34,460 --> 02:31:36,701 At least, they didn't when I was last... 1569 02:31:37,213 --> 02:31:38,874 iln Rome. 1570 02:31:46,723 --> 02:31:50,466 While they were digging the foundation of my tomb... 1571 02:31:50,727 --> 02:31:53,389 the workers found an old wall. 1572 02:31:53,605 --> 02:31:58,224 Someone had scratched on it hundreds of years ago: 1573 02:31:58,568 --> 02:32:02,812 "You were not here last night, and I could not sleep. 1574 02:32:03,239 --> 02:32:05,697 Will you be here tonight?" 1575 02:32:07,577 --> 02:32:10,945 Do you suppose they ever met again? 1576 02:32:12,290 --> 02:32:16,249 Everything that I shall ever want to hold or look upon or have or be... 1577 02:32:16,419 --> 02:32:19,081 is here now with you. 1578 02:32:19,756 --> 02:32:22,214 I must not be sorry for myself. 1579 02:32:22,425 --> 02:32:26,965 Queens are sometimes no better at that than kings, or even princes. 1580 02:32:29,474 --> 02:32:31,761 It doesn't seem fair. 1581 02:32:32,977 --> 02:32:38,097 What I feel I should have felt long ago when I was very young. 1582 02:32:38,316 --> 02:32:41,775 When I could say to myself that this was how love was... 1583 02:32:41,986 --> 02:32:44,227 and how it would be. 1584 02:32:44,447 --> 02:32:49,442 But to have waited so long, to know so suddenly... 1585 02:32:49,619 --> 02:32:51,360 this late... 1586 02:32:51,621 --> 02:32:56,161 how it hurts. How love can stab the heart. 1587 02:33:05,468 --> 02:33:08,460 Be careful with Octavian. 1588 02:33:08,763 --> 02:33:10,800 Let him be careful with me. 1589 02:33:11,015 --> 02:33:14,178 The Romans want no war between the two of you. 1590 02:33:14,394 --> 02:33:17,011 In any case, you are not ready yet. 1591 02:33:17,271 --> 02:33:20,809 War? The world is filled with love. There'll be no more wars. 1592 02:33:20,983 --> 02:33:23,020 You must have your share. 1593 02:33:23,277 --> 02:33:27,020 Your titles and powers must be spelled out exactly. 1594 02:33:27,281 --> 02:33:30,990 There can be no question of your complete authority in the East. 1595 02:33:33,788 --> 02:33:35,904 Antony, how will I live? 1596 02:33:36,874 --> 02:33:38,706 The same as I. 1597 02:33:39,836 --> 02:33:42,203 One breath upon the other. 1598 02:33:42,422 --> 02:33:44,163 Each bringing us... 1599 02:33:44,424 --> 02:33:47,837 one breath closer. 1600 02:33:48,010 --> 02:33:51,924 You take so much of me with you so far. 1601 02:33:52,181 --> 02:33:55,014 Remember, remember. They'll want you to forget. 1602 02:33:55,184 --> 02:33:58,802 - Please... - Forget? How? 1603 02:33:59,689 --> 02:34:02,351 I can never be more far away from you... 1604 02:34:03,693 --> 02:34:05,400 than this. 1605 02:34:16,873 --> 02:34:18,830 He will come first to Brindisium. 1606 02:34:19,041 --> 02:34:23,956 Agrippa and I plan to welcome his arrival with a great ceremony. 1607 02:34:24,213 --> 02:34:28,707 Antony must see how dear to the hearts of the Romans, of us all... 1608 02:34:28,885 --> 02:34:30,626 he is and has been. 1609 02:34:30,887 --> 02:34:34,346 He has been away for a very long time. 1610 02:34:34,557 --> 02:34:38,391 Perhaps we can persuade him to stay with us even longer. 1611 02:34:38,603 --> 02:34:42,972 Perhaps, Octavia, if you came to Brindisium, you could help. 1612 02:34:43,232 --> 02:34:46,395 You may have forgotten. It is only six months since... 1613 02:34:46,611 --> 02:34:49,729 Begging the pardon of Agrippa and our ancestors... 1614 02:34:49,906 --> 02:34:53,399 I do not agree that a young widow must retire from life. 1615 02:34:53,743 --> 02:34:56,986 You haven't left my house since your husband died. 1616 02:34:57,246 --> 02:35:01,911 If only for the sake of your health, the change alone... 1617 02:35:04,295 --> 02:35:08,380 Then, begging the pardon of Lord Agrippa and our ancestors... 1618 02:35:08,591 --> 02:35:11,925 I would look forward very much to the change. 1619 02:35:14,180 --> 02:35:18,595 Nothing, no one, could possibly shine more brightly in the sun. 1620 02:35:18,893 --> 02:35:20,475 Not only Antony. 1621 02:35:20,686 --> 02:35:24,270 I know of no man who would not hold out his greedy fists for Octavia. 1622 02:35:24,482 --> 02:35:27,691 After all, what greater pledge could I offer... 1623 02:35:27,944 --> 02:35:30,106 0f my goodwill toward him? 1624 02:35:30,404 --> 02:35:33,942 And how could Antony better show his love of peace and Rome... 1625 02:35:34,200 --> 02:35:35,782 than by accepting? 1626 02:35:35,952 --> 02:35:37,784 And Cleopatra? 1627 02:35:39,163 --> 02:35:42,451 Are you suggesting we invite her to the wedding? 1628 02:35:42,667 --> 02:35:45,159 You remember when Julius Caesar returned... 1629 02:35:45,461 --> 02:35:47,953 and those months while she was in Rome? 1630 02:35:48,130 --> 02:35:51,168 There was a poison in his heart, in his brain. 1631 02:35:51,425 --> 02:35:54,793 Yes, the falling sickness. But more than that. 1632 02:35:55,012 --> 02:35:57,800 - Cleopatra. - I remember well. 1633 02:35:58,057 --> 02:36:01,971 - Antony is no Caesar. - I am grateful for that. 1634 02:36:02,645 --> 02:36:06,730 Granted that he marries Octavia, will he forget Cleopatra? 1635 02:36:06,983 --> 02:36:11,318 - Will she permit him to forget? - Most probably not. 1636 02:36:57,408 --> 02:36:59,991 - Have I permission to speak? - Tell me, quickly. 1637 02:37:00,828 --> 02:37:03,570 A galley came to Pelusium with news from Rome. 1638 02:37:03,789 --> 02:37:06,656 Antony and Octavian have sealed a great pact. 1639 02:37:06,876 --> 02:37:10,460 Antony has 10 more legions and all of the East for his domain. 1640 02:37:10,671 --> 02:37:12,708 Egypt will be declared ally of Rome. 1641 02:37:12,924 --> 02:37:14,585 It is done. 1642 02:37:16,510 --> 02:37:19,548 - There is more. - No. No more, my lord. 1643 02:37:19,764 --> 02:37:22,597 - He's afraid. - Is there anything more? 1644 02:37:24,143 --> 02:37:27,977 Forgive me, Divine Majesty. There has been a marriage. 1645 02:37:28,981 --> 02:37:30,688 A marriage of state. 1646 02:37:31,859 --> 02:37:35,022 Between Octavia, the sister of Caesar... 1647 02:37:35,863 --> 02:37:37,570 and Lord Antony. 1648 02:37:42,620 --> 02:37:44,486 Anything more? 1649 02:37:45,039 --> 02:37:46,495 They're presently in Athens. 1650 02:37:46,707 --> 02:37:50,416 Sometime within the year, Lady Octavia is to return to Rome. 1651 02:37:50,628 --> 02:37:55,043 Antony will come Alexandria to negotiate the alliance of Rome and Egypt. 1652 02:38:09,814 --> 02:38:11,725 Leave me. 1653 02:38:15,069 --> 02:38:16,525 No. 1654 02:38:18,572 --> 02:38:20,904 Completely alone. 1655 02:38:54,859 --> 02:38:57,851 Antony! 1656 02:41:36,312 --> 02:41:38,178 Do you find it pleasing, my lord? 1657 02:41:40,941 --> 02:41:42,602 Oh, yes. Very. 1658 02:41:42,818 --> 02:41:44,855 It was made here in Athens. 1659 02:41:45,112 --> 02:41:48,275 Not as practical as our Roman ones, of course. 1660 02:41:48,490 --> 02:41:51,528 The Greeks have such a weakness for beauty. 1661 02:42:04,423 --> 02:42:07,211 Does the dinner not please you, my lord? 1662 02:42:07,468 --> 02:42:09,800 Very much. I'm not particularly hungry. 1663 02:42:10,054 --> 02:42:12,637 If anything would please you more... 1664 02:42:13,182 --> 02:42:15,139 Believe me, I am pleased. 1665 02:42:17,311 --> 02:42:20,929 The gods know you do nothing but please me... 1666 02:42:21,148 --> 02:42:23,435 in every way. 1667 02:42:29,865 --> 02:42:31,526 Word from Domitius? 1668 02:42:31,784 --> 02:42:33,741 He never even reached the palace. 1669 02:42:33,953 --> 02:42:36,991 He was not permitted through the city gate. 1670 02:42:41,710 --> 02:42:44,077 If I may be excused. 1671 02:42:44,838 --> 02:42:46,579 There's no need for you to go. 1672 02:42:46,840 --> 02:42:49,923 When I hear matters of state discussed by men... 1673 02:42:50,135 --> 02:42:52,752 invariably I find myself wondering about... 1674 02:42:52,972 --> 02:42:55,589 why the wine has gone sour. 1675 02:42:55,808 --> 02:42:57,640 Good night, Rufio. 1676 02:42:58,352 --> 02:43:00,138 Good night, my lord. 1677 02:43:08,445 --> 02:43:11,153 Domitius turned away at the gate. 1678 02:43:11,365 --> 02:43:13,527 That makes how many? 1679 02:43:13,784 --> 02:43:17,243 Five of your ambassadors turned away within this year. 1680 02:43:17,496 --> 02:43:21,285 - If you'd gone when... - It was the only favor I ever asked of you. 1681 02:43:21,542 --> 02:43:22,873 You granted it. 1682 02:43:23,752 --> 02:43:27,711 The treaty with Egypt must be made. We've received no wheat, no gold... 1683 02:43:27,923 --> 02:43:30,665 I cannot go to her to negotiate a treaty! 1684 02:43:30,926 --> 02:43:33,088 She'll have no one else. 1685 02:43:34,013 --> 02:43:35,924 And what if she should... 1686 02:43:36,181 --> 02:43:37,637 turn me away? 1687 02:43:39,310 --> 02:43:41,267 That would be quite impossible. 1688 02:43:44,982 --> 02:43:46,768 Have you ever really left her? 1689 02:43:49,445 --> 02:43:51,027 No. 1690 02:44:05,919 --> 02:44:08,832 Three days I've waited for an audience with you alone. 1691 02:44:09,089 --> 02:44:10,625 What is the purpose? 1692 02:44:10,841 --> 02:44:12,923 Get out, all of you. I'll see her privately. 1693 02:44:13,177 --> 02:44:15,839 - You're before the throne of Egypt. - I know where I am! 1694 02:44:16,055 --> 02:44:17,511 State your purpose! 1695 02:44:17,723 --> 02:44:19,839 Matters I won't discuss publicly. 1696 02:44:20,100 --> 02:44:24,264 I do not grant private audiences to unidentified persons. 1697 02:44:26,148 --> 02:44:28,765 I am Marcus Antonius. 1698 02:44:28,984 --> 02:44:32,943 I know who you are. What are you, at the moment? 1699 02:44:33,155 --> 02:44:37,991 Envoy of Rome, proconsul of all the Roman Empire to the east of Italy. 1700 02:44:38,243 --> 02:44:39,904 An impressive title. 1701 02:44:40,120 --> 02:44:42,487 Worthy, perhaps, of a private audience? 1702 02:44:42,706 --> 02:44:45,038 Without a treaty of alliance with Egypt... 1703 02:44:45,250 --> 02:44:49,960 you could not hold the territories under your command. True? 1704 02:44:50,547 --> 02:44:51,787 Possibly. 1705 02:44:52,049 --> 02:44:55,462 Then, Lord Antony, you come before me as a suppliant. 1706 02:44:55,719 --> 02:44:58,552 - If you choose to regard me as such. - I do. 1707 02:44:59,473 --> 02:45:04,218 You will therefore assume the position of a suppliant before this throne. 1708 02:45:04,478 --> 02:45:06,060 You will kneel. 1709 02:45:07,981 --> 02:45:12,225 - I will what? - On your knees. 1710 02:45:13,445 --> 02:45:16,733 You dare ask the proconsul of the Roman Empire... 1711 02:45:16,949 --> 02:45:19,281 I asked it of Julius Caesar. 1712 02:45:19,535 --> 02:45:22,573 I demand it of you! 1713 02:45:33,841 --> 02:45:35,081 Now... 1714 02:45:35,467 --> 02:45:38,459 you may have the treaty you asked for... 1715 02:45:38,720 --> 02:45:40,836 on the following conditions: 1716 02:45:41,098 --> 02:45:43,931 By your authority as proconsul of Rome... 1717 02:45:44,143 --> 02:45:47,761 you will cede to Egypt immediately the following territories: 1718 02:45:47,980 --> 02:45:52,269 Judea, Jordan, Armenia, Phoenicia, the provinces of Sinai and Arabia... 1719 02:45:52,526 --> 02:45:55,814 the islands of Cyprus and Crete. 1720 02:45:57,906 --> 02:46:00,648 You ask for one-third of the Roman Empire! 1721 02:46:01,034 --> 02:46:02,820 Put it another way. 1722 02:46:03,078 --> 02:46:05,866 I give to you two-thirds. 1723 02:46:08,083 --> 02:46:09,699 Most generous. 1724 02:46:09,918 --> 02:46:11,909 I cannot accept. 1725 02:46:12,504 --> 02:46:15,542 I suggest you deliberate further. 1726 02:46:15,799 --> 02:46:20,214 Perhaps consult with your superior in Rome. 1727 02:46:20,429 --> 02:46:21,669 My superior? 1728 02:46:21,889 --> 02:46:23,880 Octavian. 1729 02:46:24,099 --> 02:46:26,136 Caesar Octavian? 1730 02:46:33,108 --> 02:46:35,099 You have not been dismissed! 1731 02:46:40,282 --> 02:46:42,319 You are now dismissed. 1732 02:47:33,877 --> 02:47:38,337 Outside, all of you. Her Majesty and I will speak in private. 1733 02:47:38,715 --> 02:47:41,833 Out! Before I chop you up and feed you to my horses. 1734 02:47:42,344 --> 02:47:45,086 That's how Romans frighten little girls. 1735 02:47:45,347 --> 02:47:48,760 They like to frighten little girls. Wait outside. 1736 02:48:00,362 --> 02:48:02,945 I married Octavia at her brother's insistence... 1737 02:48:03,156 --> 02:48:06,148 as a gesture of faith, of peace. A bargain sealed. 1738 02:48:06,410 --> 02:48:10,699 With a kiss? Or did you simply shake hands on your wedding night? 1739 02:48:10,914 --> 02:48:15,283 Rome was celebrating the marriage even before I arrived. How could I refuse? 1740 02:48:15,544 --> 02:48:17,251 By saying no. 1741 02:48:17,462 --> 02:48:20,170 As you have said no to all my demands. 1742 02:48:20,382 --> 02:48:24,091 They're unreasonable! The kind laid down for a helpless enemy! 1743 02:48:24,344 --> 02:48:26,460 You're not helpless... yet. 1744 02:48:26,680 --> 02:48:31,550 I can't cede the territories. It would lead to a break between Rome and me. 1745 02:48:32,352 --> 02:48:34,343 Why do you think I asked for them? 1746 02:48:34,563 --> 02:48:37,430 It would be playing into Octavian's hands, what he hopes for. 1747 02:48:37,691 --> 02:48:39,227 It would not be wise! 1748 02:48:39,484 --> 02:48:41,316 What is wise? 1749 02:48:41,528 --> 02:48:44,862 To hand over Rome, Italy, the world to Octavian? 1750 02:48:45,115 --> 02:48:47,903 To grovel publicly before his authority? 1751 02:48:48,160 --> 02:48:51,027 Take his sister to wed and to bed. 1752 02:48:51,246 --> 02:48:53,032 As if to beg forgiveness... 1753 02:48:53,248 --> 02:48:57,583 for having stayed so long with your Egyptian harlot. 1754 02:49:03,091 --> 02:49:06,129 What has angered you? That I dealt with Octavian how I could... 1755 02:49:06,386 --> 02:49:09,799 or that I married his sister to do it? Jealousy or politics? Which? 1756 02:49:10,057 --> 02:49:13,516 Both! And damn you for not understanding either. 1757 02:49:13,769 --> 02:49:15,760 I wouldn't look to you for instruction. 1758 02:49:15,979 --> 02:49:19,438 Which is why you have come back chained to Octavian like a slave. 1759 02:49:19,650 --> 02:49:23,109 - Slave! - And with such exquisite chains. 1760 02:49:23,362 --> 02:49:26,980 So softly spoken, so virtuous. 1761 02:49:27,199 --> 02:49:31,158 She sleeps, I hear, fully clothed. 1762 02:49:33,789 --> 02:49:36,372 I come back. That's all that should concern you. 1763 02:49:36,625 --> 02:49:37,660 Should it? 1764 02:49:37,876 --> 02:49:42,996 How long before your master snaps his finger and you run back to him, or her? 1765 02:49:45,967 --> 02:49:48,049 I have only one master. 1766 02:49:48,637 --> 02:49:50,674 My love for you. 1767 02:49:50,931 --> 02:49:52,638 No. 1768 02:49:52,891 --> 02:49:55,553 Your master must not be love. 1769 02:49:56,019 --> 02:49:58,511 Never love. 1770 02:49:58,730 --> 02:50:02,439 Give yourself to love and you give yourself to forgetfulness... 1771 02:50:02,651 --> 02:50:06,519 of what you are and who you are and what you want. 1772 02:50:06,738 --> 02:50:09,981 And what you want is worth so much more? 1773 02:50:10,951 --> 02:50:13,739 I will not have love as my master. 1774 02:50:13,995 --> 02:50:17,158 - Then you will not have love. - Nor will I have Octavian. 1775 02:50:19,167 --> 02:50:23,001 - Never fear. - How confident you are. 1776 02:50:23,213 --> 02:50:25,580 And has Octavian a master? 1777 02:50:25,799 --> 02:50:29,258 His ambition: to rule the Roman world as emperor and god. 1778 02:50:29,511 --> 02:50:32,173 The Roman world, to begin with. 1779 02:50:32,431 --> 02:50:34,968 And what stands in his way? 1780 02:50:35,475 --> 02:50:38,308 - You and I. - And my son! 1781 02:50:38,562 --> 02:50:42,351 The rightful heir to the name and glory of great Caesar. 1782 02:50:42,566 --> 02:50:47,686 Octavian has already stolen those and he will now destroy... 1783 02:50:47,988 --> 02:50:50,821 in the name of his sister, the love Rome has for you. 1784 02:50:51,074 --> 02:50:53,406 And by your marriage to her... 1785 02:50:53,660 --> 02:50:57,619 he has made of me, unmistakably, your whore. 1786 02:50:57,873 --> 02:51:00,911 Never fear Octavian? 1787 02:51:01,209 --> 02:51:06,329 It is he, now, who I think must be unafraid. 1788 02:51:10,427 --> 02:51:12,759 Show me a city and I'll tell you how to take it. 1789 02:51:13,013 --> 02:51:16,256 I'll find an army's weak points and hit them hard where they are. 1790 02:51:16,600 --> 02:51:20,594 But make me to sit down and talk in whispers of this and that... 1791 02:51:20,812 --> 02:51:25,648 with an emphasis here and a shrug there, and I'm soon confounded and defeated. 1792 02:51:27,027 --> 02:51:29,610 Meaning to do the best... 1793 02:51:30,113 --> 02:51:32,980 I suppose I could not have done worse. 1794 02:51:37,996 --> 02:51:40,237 There is still time. 1795 02:51:41,082 --> 02:51:44,291 Let someone ask me what I want: 1796 02:51:44,544 --> 02:51:47,753 To live with you in peace and love. 1797 02:51:48,131 --> 02:51:50,042 Do you have... 1798 02:51:50,300 --> 02:51:53,167 conditions for total surrender? 1799 02:51:53,428 --> 02:51:56,090 First, as did Caesar... 1800 02:51:56,389 --> 02:51:59,848 you will marry me according to Egyptian ritual. 1801 02:52:00,185 --> 02:52:02,426 That's not a condition, that's a reward. 1802 02:52:02,687 --> 02:52:05,054 You'll declare, by your authority... 1803 02:52:05,273 --> 02:52:07,640 Caesarion to be king of Egypt... 1804 02:52:07,901 --> 02:52:10,609 and we will rule together in his name. 1805 02:52:10,862 --> 02:52:12,773 Happily granted. 1806 02:52:13,031 --> 02:52:17,776 You will cede to Egypt all the territories I have demanded. 1807 02:52:20,413 --> 02:52:22,279 You must. 1808 02:52:22,541 --> 02:52:26,034 If only to assert your own authority and power. 1809 02:52:26,294 --> 02:52:30,288 Otherwise, inevitably, in time we will lose everything. 1810 02:52:30,674 --> 02:52:33,006 Can't you see that? 1811 02:52:34,719 --> 02:52:36,756 I can see nothing... 1812 02:52:37,222 --> 02:52:38,838 but you. 1813 02:52:45,021 --> 02:52:47,604 I am no longer content to forgive Antony! 1814 02:52:47,816 --> 02:52:50,899 To marry this Egyptian according to their barbaric rites! 1815 02:52:51,111 --> 02:52:54,069 Meaningless under Roman law! Great Caesar himself... 1816 02:52:54,281 --> 02:52:58,024 Yes. Bit by bit, Antony crawls behind his memory. 1817 02:52:58,243 --> 02:52:59,950 But tell us this, Germanicus: 1818 02:53:00,161 --> 02:53:03,950 Did great Caesar also toss one-third of the Roman Empire... 1819 02:53:04,207 --> 02:53:07,575 into Cleopatra's undoubtedly deserving lap? 1820 02:53:07,836 --> 02:53:11,750 The territories in dispute were subjugated by Julius Caesar. 1821 02:53:11,965 --> 02:53:16,004 The right to rule over them is the heritage of his son. 1822 02:53:16,261 --> 02:53:20,346 And in the name of the mighty Caesar I grant to King Ptolemy Caesarion... 1823 02:53:20,599 --> 02:53:22,385 that right. 1824 02:53:24,352 --> 02:53:28,220 Let it be known the greatness of Rome lies not in what she takes... 1825 02:53:28,481 --> 02:53:30,518 but in what she gives. 1826 02:53:34,696 --> 02:53:38,485 "Rome's greatness lies in what she gives," he says. 1827 02:53:38,742 --> 02:53:41,609 Then calmly gives what is not his. 1828 02:53:41,828 --> 02:53:44,820 And Cleopatra takes... 1829 02:53:45,081 --> 02:53:46,742 and will take more. 1830 02:53:46,958 --> 02:53:49,290 And war will come. 1831 02:53:50,003 --> 02:53:52,290 She knows and I know... 1832 02:53:52,547 --> 02:53:54,754 that war will come. 1833 02:53:55,133 --> 02:53:57,465 But I will not speak for it... 1834 02:53:57,677 --> 02:54:00,965 nor will I speak against Antony. 1835 02:54:02,307 --> 02:54:05,140 I must be forced into war. 1836 02:54:05,393 --> 02:54:08,761 The people of Rome must force this war upon me. 1837 02:54:08,980 --> 02:54:13,565 They must storm the doors of the Senate, crying for it. 1838 02:54:13,818 --> 02:54:17,436 If we move quickly, the Romans won't know we've crossed the Mediterranean... 1839 02:54:17,697 --> 02:54:19,279 until we land in Greece. 1840 02:54:19,491 --> 02:54:22,324 You and General Rufio will start embarking the troops at once. 1841 02:54:22,535 --> 02:54:24,321 Yes, Your Majesty. 1842 02:54:25,830 --> 02:54:28,492 If it is decided to move our armies into Greece. 1843 02:54:28,708 --> 02:54:30,494 It has been decided. 1844 02:54:30,710 --> 02:54:32,451 My men do not... 1845 02:54:32,671 --> 02:54:33,911 travel well by sea. 1846 02:54:34,130 --> 02:54:36,838 They fight on land. They move on land. 1847 02:54:37,050 --> 02:54:39,838 Your men will do as they are told, as mine will. 1848 02:54:40,053 --> 02:54:43,717 My men will do as they're told by me. They have not yet become... 1849 02:54:46,935 --> 02:54:48,926 They are still Roman. 1850 02:54:50,146 --> 02:54:52,103 However... 1851 02:54:52,357 --> 02:54:54,769 since I do as I'm told... 1852 02:54:55,610 --> 02:54:58,773 The final decision will, of course, be Lord Antony's. 1853 02:54:58,989 --> 02:55:02,778 And I'm sure that in time he will make it. 1854 02:55:03,034 --> 02:55:04,445 That is all. 1855 02:55:11,793 --> 02:55:16,879 It would be wiser not to disagree in the presence of our officers. 1856 02:55:17,090 --> 02:55:19,172 Your officers. 1857 02:55:19,551 --> 02:55:22,589 What final decision have you decided I am to make? 1858 02:55:22,846 --> 02:55:26,089 Why do you oppose transporting our armies to Greece? 1859 02:55:26,307 --> 02:55:28,765 Because I do not want war against Rome. 1860 02:55:28,977 --> 02:55:32,140 One hundred thousand men led by Marc Antony. 1861 02:55:32,355 --> 02:55:35,143 Octavian is no fool. He won't fight. 1862 02:55:35,400 --> 02:55:38,563 He'll have to, instantly, on the spot where they land. 1863 02:55:38,820 --> 02:55:41,778 Rome will not declare war against you. 1864 02:55:42,073 --> 02:55:43,734 I do not agree. 1865 02:55:44,868 --> 02:55:47,075 I have not asked for your opinion. 1866 02:55:47,454 --> 02:55:48,865 Not for some time. 1867 02:55:49,122 --> 02:55:52,831 Not since I doubted the necessity of building 300 ships. 1868 02:55:53,043 --> 02:55:56,456 The way to prevent war is to be ready for it. 1869 02:55:56,671 --> 02:56:00,289 Have 300 warships ever been built for war without war? 1870 02:56:00,550 --> 02:56:03,838 We shall have what we want without it. 1871 02:56:04,054 --> 02:56:06,716 Your Majesty, please hear me. 1872 02:56:06,973 --> 02:56:10,261 I think we are very near the edge. 1873 02:56:10,477 --> 02:56:12,969 Strings are being pulled, and not by us. 1874 02:56:13,813 --> 02:56:17,056 We are being managed and maneuvered without our choosing. 1875 02:56:17,317 --> 02:56:20,309 The deputation sent on behalf of Lady Octavia... 1876 02:56:20,570 --> 02:56:23,904 chosen from the most highly revered men of Rome. 1877 02:56:24,157 --> 02:56:29,243 Why? They can take back to their people nothing but Lord Antony's... 1878 02:56:29,579 --> 02:56:34,244 forgive me, insulting and unnecessary divorce of her... 1879 02:56:34,459 --> 02:56:36,700 and his rejection of them. 1880 02:56:38,713 --> 02:56:42,877 It was done at my bidding. The responsibility is mine. 1881 02:56:45,178 --> 02:56:46,714 The doing was mine. 1882 02:56:50,100 --> 02:56:51,340 What do you propose? 1883 02:56:51,559 --> 02:56:55,598 Let me go to Rome and approach Octavian, possibly the Roman people... 1884 02:56:55,855 --> 02:56:58,597 and assure them that we want peace. 1885 02:57:00,944 --> 02:57:02,605 Go then. 1886 02:57:03,113 --> 02:57:04,524 Go to Rome. 1887 02:57:17,418 --> 02:57:19,500 Sosigenes! 1888 02:57:21,798 --> 02:57:23,664 Take care. 1889 02:57:28,513 --> 02:57:30,129 He's very dear to you, that old man. 1890 02:57:30,348 --> 02:57:33,136 Your concern and worry are written all over you. 1891 02:57:33,351 --> 02:57:36,935 Forgive me, but it's a kind of love that you're showing. 1892 02:57:37,147 --> 02:57:40,765 Let them talk. Let them negotiate all they want. 1893 02:57:40,984 --> 02:57:44,397 Time is on our side. We can only grow stronger. 1894 02:57:59,252 --> 02:58:02,119 These walls must not believe their ears... 1895 02:58:02,338 --> 02:58:05,797 to hear such silence... 1896 02:58:06,718 --> 02:58:08,925 from the right... 1897 02:58:10,013 --> 02:58:12,471 from the left. 1898 02:58:12,724 --> 02:58:15,967 The call of the Roman people can be clearly heard... 1899 02:58:16,186 --> 02:58:18,644 yet the Roman Senate... 1900 02:58:18,855 --> 02:58:21,643 has no answer. 1901 02:58:22,483 --> 02:58:26,442 Shall we then just sit... 1902 02:58:26,738 --> 02:58:28,729 and listen? 1903 02:58:29,741 --> 02:58:34,611 There is not one of us that would not willingly make war upon Cleopatra. 1904 02:58:35,580 --> 02:58:37,070 But how... 1905 02:58:37,290 --> 02:58:39,907 without also making war upon Marc Antony... 1906 02:58:40,126 --> 02:58:42,993 loved by Rome and loving Rome? 1907 02:58:43,213 --> 02:58:47,081 "Loved by Rome and loving Rome." 1908 02:58:48,176 --> 02:58:52,090 I have here the last will and testament... 1909 02:58:52,305 --> 02:58:55,639 of Antony, who so loves Rome. 1910 02:58:58,686 --> 02:59:00,597 Read for yourselves... 1911 02:59:00,813 --> 02:59:04,522 how dearly Antony loves you, loves Rome... 1912 02:59:04,734 --> 02:59:08,944 in this, his last will under his seal. 1913 02:59:10,990 --> 02:59:13,277 Only lately brought from Egypt... 1914 02:59:13,493 --> 02:59:17,532 and deposited in our holy temple at Antony's request... 1915 02:59:17,747 --> 02:59:20,114 by the distinguished Sosigenes. 1916 02:59:20,333 --> 02:59:23,701 An extraordinary mission for an extraordinary man. 1917 02:59:23,920 --> 02:59:28,164 So wise, so close to Cleopatra, so trusted by her. 1918 02:59:29,050 --> 02:59:31,758 Read in Antony's will... 1919 02:59:31,970 --> 02:59:33,802 at the end. 1920 02:59:34,013 --> 02:59:38,348 Commit to memory the last request of your beloved Antony. 1921 02:59:38,559 --> 02:59:42,393 It bears witness to his love for Rome. 1922 02:59:48,653 --> 02:59:52,897 When he is dead, it says... 1923 02:59:53,116 --> 02:59:56,654 when Marc Antony has died... 1924 02:59:56,869 --> 03:00:00,203 It is his wish to be buried... 1925 03:00:00,415 --> 03:00:04,454 In his beloved Alexandria! 1926 03:00:05,837 --> 03:00:07,373 In Egypt! 1927 03:00:07,588 --> 03:00:09,920 Among Egyptians. 1928 03:00:10,174 --> 03:00:13,508 Beside his Egyptian whore! 1929 03:00:16,597 --> 03:00:19,259 Is what I say the truth? 1930 03:00:19,475 --> 03:00:22,638 Do I speak the truth? 1931 03:00:30,320 --> 03:00:32,061 - Warl! - Warl! 1932 03:00:32,238 --> 03:00:35,447 War! War! War! 1933 03:01:10,985 --> 03:01:15,104 I hold before you the Golden Spear of War. 1934 03:01:15,406 --> 03:01:18,273 Placed into my hands without dissent... 1935 03:01:18,534 --> 03:01:22,118 by the command and will of the Senate of Rome. 1936 03:01:22,330 --> 03:01:27,450 And now it is you, the people of Rome, who must direct me. 1937 03:01:27,668 --> 03:01:30,080 Where is the enemy? 1938 03:01:30,296 --> 03:01:33,584 Where is Egypt? Show me the way! 1939 03:01:41,849 --> 03:01:43,180 No! 1940 03:01:43,810 --> 03:01:45,050 No! 1941 03:01:46,270 --> 03:01:48,011 There! 1942 03:01:48,272 --> 03:01:50,388 There is Egypt. 1943 03:02:08,960 --> 03:02:12,919 And so once more, the Romans warred upon each other. 1944 03:02:13,131 --> 03:02:15,498 And just as Antony had foretold... 1945 03:02:15,758 --> 03:02:18,420 the forces of Octavian came to meet them... 1946 03:02:18,636 --> 03:02:20,968 on the spot where they landed... 1947 03:02:21,180 --> 03:02:25,014 which was at Actium, in Greece. 1948 03:02:25,852 --> 03:02:28,014 Action begins with the rise of the sun. 1949 03:02:28,271 --> 03:02:31,263 Your plan is brave and simple. It's possible on land... 1950 03:02:31,524 --> 03:02:34,016 but we debate its wisdom upon the sea. 1951 03:02:34,235 --> 03:02:38,149 I have an enemy on land with fewer troops, on sea with fewer ships. 1952 03:02:38,364 --> 03:02:40,480 Let him debate the wisdom of his position. 1953 03:02:40,700 --> 03:02:45,069 I have a happy choice. To destroy him wet or dry. I have chosen wet. 1954 03:02:47,999 --> 03:02:52,493 I think it best, Euphranor, you report to Cleopatra aboard her vessel in the harbor. 1955 03:02:52,712 --> 03:02:54,623 There you may point out to her... 1956 03:02:54,839 --> 03:02:59,208 the reasons why my brave simplicity has failed. 1957 03:02:59,427 --> 03:03:02,715 In any case, you are relieved of your battle command. 1958 03:03:14,066 --> 03:03:18,025 This final commitment of yourself, your ships, of all of us... 1959 03:03:18,279 --> 03:03:20,691 to fight at sea, when did you decide? 1960 03:03:21,908 --> 03:03:24,991 - Forgive me. I had... - We've worked hard for many months. 1961 03:03:25,244 --> 03:03:29,363 We've trained an army of 200,000 men from 20 countries. 1962 03:03:29,624 --> 03:03:32,992 - They won't be wasted... - Of which, tonight, 20,000 of them... 1963 03:03:33,252 --> 03:03:37,792 will be herded onto those ships and dragged out to sea, puking and afraid. 1964 03:03:38,007 --> 03:03:41,841 - Why, my lord? Why? - Because I have decided it will be so! 1965 03:03:42,970 --> 03:03:44,335 I consider it an honor... 1966 03:03:44,555 --> 03:03:48,423 to fight beside Lord Antony at any time, anywhere. 1967 03:03:49,227 --> 03:03:51,184 Spoken like a Roman, Ramos. 1968 03:03:53,147 --> 03:03:56,606 And you shall fight at my side, in Rufio's place. 1969 03:03:57,860 --> 03:04:01,148 Rufio, you will remain with Her Majesty aboard her vessel. 1970 03:04:02,740 --> 03:04:03,980 As you command. 1971 03:04:04,283 --> 03:04:06,991 Canidius, you will remain with the land forces... 1972 03:04:07,245 --> 03:04:09,612 cheering from the hilltop, if you like. 1973 03:04:11,165 --> 03:04:14,157 - As you command. - Exactly. 1974 03:04:14,377 --> 03:04:16,994 As I command. 1975 03:04:19,507 --> 03:04:21,373 You're all dismissed. 1976 03:04:39,902 --> 03:04:40,983 Antony. 1977 03:04:44,532 --> 03:04:46,239 What has happened? 1978 03:04:46,701 --> 03:04:48,283 To me? 1979 03:04:49,453 --> 03:04:51,615 You have happened to me. 1980 03:05:36,167 --> 03:05:38,204 Do the lookouts have Octavian's insignia? 1981 03:05:38,419 --> 03:05:42,913 - A golden eagle. Sighted at sunrise. - By sunset we'll have those gold feathers. 1982 03:05:45,593 --> 03:05:47,630 Let Octavian know we're coming! 1983 03:05:48,387 --> 03:05:53,132 Let the enemy hear the voice of Antony's legions! 1984 03:06:17,375 --> 03:06:19,867 He's on his way. Signal my lord Caesar's ship. 1985 03:06:20,127 --> 03:06:21,834 Does it fly his insignia? 1986 03:06:22,088 --> 03:06:25,046 My orders are to be followed exactly as issued. 1987 03:06:29,887 --> 03:06:34,222 And may the gods grant that Antony has not changed his plan of battle. 1988 03:06:41,190 --> 03:06:42,931 There he goes... 1989 03:06:43,150 --> 03:06:46,939 as he's done 100 times on land. Straight for the center. 1990 03:06:47,279 --> 03:06:51,113 If only it were on land, and we were there to protect his flanks. 1991 03:06:51,325 --> 03:06:52,565 But we're not. 1992 03:06:57,540 --> 03:06:59,656 This and all dispositions are to be signaled... 1993 03:06:59,834 --> 03:07:02,041 to Admiral Euphranor aboard Cleopatra's barge. 1994 03:07:02,294 --> 03:07:04,080 But Euphranor's in command of... 1995 03:07:04,338 --> 03:07:08,002 In command of moving toy ships on a painted ocean... 1996 03:07:09,218 --> 03:07:13,257 S0 that Egypt's queen can more clearly follow her war upon water... 1997 03:07:13,472 --> 03:07:17,386 to which she has committed Marc Antony and 20,000 Romans. 1998 03:07:27,445 --> 03:07:29,061 Just as he said he would. 1999 03:07:29,321 --> 03:07:32,734 Antony and his escorts, by themselves, are after Octavian. 2000 03:07:32,992 --> 03:07:36,030 - He's already broken through their center. - They let him through. 2001 03:07:36,287 --> 03:07:38,119 They Roman line will close behind him. 2002 03:07:38,289 --> 03:07:40,030 Not if we engage, as Antony said. 2003 03:07:40,291 --> 03:07:45,127 They won't engage. Agrippa will pull them back and back, behind Antony... 2004 03:07:45,379 --> 03:07:47,290 as Antony chases Octavian. 2005 03:07:50,092 --> 03:07:51,378 What report? 2006 03:07:51,594 --> 03:07:55,758 Lord Antony is already through the center of the Roman line. 2007 03:07:58,058 --> 03:08:03,053 He is now deep within the Roman fleet, in pursuit of Octavian. 2008 03:08:14,658 --> 03:08:17,025 Faster! Faster! 2009 03:08:28,589 --> 03:08:32,207 They've increased their own speed. We're too heavy to catch them. 2010 03:08:32,426 --> 03:08:34,963 Then we'll slow them down. 2011 03:08:35,179 --> 03:08:38,171 Start the ballistas. Javelin throwers. 2012 03:08:38,390 --> 03:08:41,428 Aim high. Overshoot rather than under. 2013 03:08:45,606 --> 03:08:47,688 Ballistas. Javelins. 2014 03:08:52,530 --> 03:08:55,192 Ballistas! 2015 03:09:05,876 --> 03:09:09,790 Octavian's ships are so much faster than our Egyptian tubs. 2016 03:09:10,047 --> 03:09:13,335 Why doesn't Agrippa keep him away from Antony's ballistas? 2017 03:09:28,482 --> 03:09:29,813 Ballistas! 2018 03:09:49,420 --> 03:09:50,660 Ballista! 2019 03:10:00,055 --> 03:10:02,137 Ballista! 2020 03:10:02,850 --> 03:10:05,091 My lord! My lord! 2021 03:10:05,352 --> 03:10:08,515 A direct hit on the enemy! A bank of oars has been destroyed! 2022 03:10:12,151 --> 03:10:14,734 He's coming around broadside. 2023 03:10:14,987 --> 03:10:16,318 We've got him! 2024 03:10:16,530 --> 03:10:20,273 Collision course. We'll ram him, board and destroy him. 2025 03:11:16,048 --> 03:11:17,755 Octavian! 2026 03:11:20,594 --> 03:11:24,053 Octavian! Now is your time to be a Caesar! 2027 03:11:49,790 --> 03:11:53,909 - Where is he hiding? - My Lord Octavian is not on board. 2028 03:11:57,548 --> 03:11:59,755 And now we close the trap. 2029 03:11:59,967 --> 03:12:03,335 Now we hit my Lord Antony with everything we have. 2030 03:12:25,617 --> 03:12:27,528 No word of Lord Antony? 2031 03:12:27,786 --> 03:12:31,279 By now he must have Octavian. You said he rammed Octavian's ship. 2032 03:12:31,498 --> 03:12:35,366 It may be Lord Antony rammed a ship flying Octavian's insignia. 2033 03:12:35,586 --> 03:12:38,795 But if it is Octavian's ship, if Octavian is on board... 2034 03:12:39,006 --> 03:12:43,591 If he finds and kills Octavian, he's still surrounded by the Roman fleet. 2035 03:12:43,844 --> 03:12:46,506 - Then send him help. - I've none to send. 2036 03:12:50,350 --> 03:12:52,717 They're pulling our ships apart now. 2037 03:12:52,978 --> 03:12:55,219 They've got Antony alone and cut off... 2038 03:12:55,481 --> 03:12:59,566 closing in on him like a pack of dogs on a wounded bear. 2039 03:14:21,108 --> 03:14:23,941 - Lord Antony's ship? - Gone. 2040 03:14:25,696 --> 03:14:28,984 - And Octavian's ship? - Burning, helpless. 2041 03:14:37,916 --> 03:14:40,123 Would you say, admiral... 2042 03:14:41,670 --> 03:14:44,082 that Lord Antony is dead? 2043 03:14:56,059 --> 03:14:57,891 How is the wind for Egypt? 2044 03:14:58,312 --> 03:14:59,848 Fair. 2045 03:15:04,651 --> 03:15:06,016 We'll sail at once. 2046 03:15:15,245 --> 03:15:19,534 Man the oar banks. Hoist anchor. We sail for Egypt! 2047 03:15:51,990 --> 03:15:53,856 My Lord Canidius! 2048 03:16:08,882 --> 03:16:13,126 Remember always, that after the battle of Actium... 2049 03:16:13,345 --> 03:16:18,090 with Octavian dead and Antony dead... 2050 03:16:18,308 --> 03:16:20,345 you saw the victor... 2051 03:16:20,560 --> 03:16:23,894 sail away on her golden barge. 2052 03:16:33,031 --> 03:16:34,738 She's going. 2053 03:16:35,575 --> 03:16:36,815 Cleopatra's going! 2054 03:16:41,999 --> 03:16:43,364 Leaving me! 2055 03:16:43,709 --> 03:16:45,245 My lord. 2056 03:16:45,502 --> 03:16:48,915 My lord, our casualties are heavy. We have little armor left. 2057 03:16:49,131 --> 03:16:52,044 Our men need regrouping, someone to give them courage. 2058 03:16:52,259 --> 03:16:55,718 The dying are calling for you. The living need your help. 2059 03:16:55,971 --> 03:16:57,882 You can't leave them. 2060 03:16:58,307 --> 03:17:00,594 Listen to me! 2061 03:17:31,340 --> 03:17:32,796 Help! 2062 03:17:35,260 --> 03:17:36,842 Help! 2063 03:17:56,573 --> 03:17:58,155 Caesar, news! 2064 03:17:58,408 --> 03:18:01,992 Great news! Cleopatra is leaving the battle. Antony is following her. 2065 03:18:02,204 --> 03:18:04,616 We have won a great victory. 2066 03:18:14,591 --> 03:18:18,084 Weigh oars! 2067 03:19:48,935 --> 03:19:52,849 Her Majesty is most anxious to see you. Will you come below? 2068 03:19:55,442 --> 03:19:58,104 Perhaps if you wish to remain here, she will come to you. 2069 03:20:00,572 --> 03:20:03,485 Shall I send you food? Wine? 2070 03:20:09,122 --> 03:20:11,454 Her Majesty's orders. 2071 03:20:11,791 --> 03:20:13,702 She's afraid you might... 2072 03:20:13,960 --> 03:20:15,997 harm yourself. 2073 03:21:59,649 --> 03:22:01,310 Please. 2074 03:22:03,903 --> 03:22:08,613 Octavian has crossed from Syria into Egypt. 2075 03:22:09,117 --> 03:22:11,358 He can be here in a matter of weeks. 2076 03:22:11,745 --> 03:22:14,658 There are two full legions here in Alexandria... 2077 03:22:14,914 --> 03:22:16,996 who have remained loyal to you. 2078 03:22:17,876 --> 03:22:20,618 They and their officers... 2079 03:22:20,837 --> 03:22:23,750 are waiting for you to command them. 2080 03:22:24,924 --> 03:22:29,043 If not to me, won't you speak to Rufio at least... 2081 03:22:29,262 --> 03:22:32,800 or to anyone you choose? 2082 03:22:33,433 --> 03:22:37,722 Antony, just say what you want done and it will be. 2083 03:22:40,815 --> 03:22:44,934 It's been so long since you've looked at me. Don't turn away... 2084 03:22:45,195 --> 03:22:47,687 even like this... 2085 03:22:47,947 --> 03:22:50,939 with your eyes filled with hate. 2086 03:22:51,660 --> 03:22:54,072 How they burn with hate. 2087 03:22:57,123 --> 03:22:59,160 Why, Antony? Why? 2088 03:23:00,126 --> 03:23:02,117 Because I ran away? 2089 03:23:02,337 --> 03:23:05,125 They told me you were dead! 2090 03:23:08,343 --> 03:23:09,583 What... 2091 03:23:09,844 --> 03:23:11,801 could I do? 2092 03:23:13,348 --> 03:23:15,555 Where could I go... 2093 03:23:15,809 --> 03:23:19,097 in a world suddenly without you... 2094 03:23:20,146 --> 03:23:23,434 except to my son and my country... 2095 03:23:23,650 --> 03:23:26,187 Caesarion and Egypt? 2096 03:23:26,653 --> 03:23:29,736 I wanted to save them from Octavian. 2097 03:23:30,407 --> 03:23:32,865 You would have wanted me to go. 2098 03:23:33,243 --> 03:23:35,405 You would have commanded me to go. 2099 03:23:36,705 --> 03:23:39,117 Tell me you would have! 2100 03:23:43,878 --> 03:23:47,041 They told me you were dead. 2101 03:23:47,882 --> 03:23:51,466 They told me you were dead. 2102 03:23:59,769 --> 03:24:01,851 You were quite right. 2103 03:24:02,480 --> 03:24:04,141 I am dead. 2104 03:24:35,597 --> 03:24:37,508 The armies of Gaius Julius Caesar... 2105 03:24:37,766 --> 03:24:40,849 are advancing without opposition upon Alexandria. 2106 03:24:41,102 --> 03:24:44,015 Gaius Julius Caesar? 2107 03:24:44,230 --> 03:24:47,268 So now Octavian has stolen all of the name. 2108 03:24:47,484 --> 03:24:52,194 Caesar wishes it known he has no quarrel with Cleopatra of Egypt. 2109 03:24:52,405 --> 03:24:55,739 Then let him take his armies out of here and go home. 2110 03:24:55,992 --> 03:24:59,656 He has charged me to say that the choice of war or peace... 2111 03:24:59,871 --> 03:25:01,157 now rests with Egypt. 2112 03:25:01,414 --> 03:25:04,748 And that for himself, he desires only peace. 2113 03:25:05,460 --> 03:25:09,749 And what are his terms for this unconditional peace? 2114 03:25:10,006 --> 03:25:12,418 A small token. 2115 03:25:12,675 --> 03:25:15,758 A demonstration. A gesture. 2116 03:25:16,012 --> 03:25:19,425 An indication of Queen Cleopatra's goodwill and good faith. 2117 03:25:19,641 --> 03:25:21,973 What does Octavian want? 2118 03:25:23,228 --> 03:25:24,844 Marc Antony. 2119 03:25:28,024 --> 03:25:29,435 The... 2120 03:25:30,026 --> 03:25:31,892 head of Marc Antony? 2121 03:25:49,546 --> 03:25:52,914 Take this to him as my answer. 2122 03:25:54,634 --> 03:25:56,875 Egyptian generosity. 2123 03:25:57,136 --> 03:26:01,004 Octavian may have two heads for the price of one. 2124 03:26:01,224 --> 03:26:03,306 Either two... 2125 03:26:03,560 --> 03:26:04,971 0r none. 2126 03:26:53,735 --> 03:26:55,567 I'm told you come here to sleep. 2127 03:26:57,322 --> 03:26:58,904 Not to sleep. 2128 03:26:59,574 --> 03:27:01,235 To pass the night then. 2129 03:27:01,576 --> 03:27:03,112 I'm not alone. 2130 03:27:05,079 --> 03:27:08,197 The old boy and I exchange memories of life. 2131 03:27:08,458 --> 03:27:12,167 It's like having a roommate, or should I say, "tomb-mate"? 2132 03:27:12,962 --> 03:27:16,125 If he were in your place, would I find Caesar here? 2133 03:27:16,382 --> 03:27:20,250 Hidden away, wrapped in moonlight and endless self-pity? 2134 03:27:20,511 --> 03:27:23,424 Self-pity again! You repeat yourself! Find new reproaches! 2135 03:27:23,640 --> 03:27:26,758 Until now it has just been a part of your being drunk. 2136 03:27:27,018 --> 03:27:29,134 Singing sad songs for Antony. 2137 03:27:29,395 --> 03:27:33,730 Your time would be better spent negotiating with Octavian. 2138 03:27:35,276 --> 03:27:38,439 Why did you not give my head to Agrippa? It's no great loss to me. 2139 03:27:38,655 --> 03:27:42,569 Dying the second time is painless and possibly an advantage to you. 2140 03:27:42,784 --> 03:27:45,401 The basis, perhaps, of a great new alliance with Rome. 2141 03:27:45,620 --> 03:27:48,408 I do not want a great new alliance with Rome. 2142 03:27:48,873 --> 03:27:50,614 What do you want? 2143 03:27:51,918 --> 03:27:54,125 I have come for Marc Antony. 2144 03:27:54,337 --> 03:27:57,125 What is left of his army, Rufio, my son and I... 2145 03:27:57,340 --> 03:28:00,549 all of Egypt are waiting for him. 2146 03:28:00,760 --> 03:28:03,127 There is little time. 2147 03:28:03,596 --> 03:28:05,257 Marc Antony? 2148 03:28:06,516 --> 03:28:08,974 There is no one here by that name... 2149 03:28:09,811 --> 03:28:11,472 alive. 2150 03:28:30,665 --> 03:28:32,656 Time for what? 2151 03:28:33,960 --> 03:28:36,702 For Marc Antony to appear in shiny armor... 2152 03:28:36,963 --> 03:28:39,079 swords flashing in both hands? 2153 03:28:39,340 --> 03:28:41,081 Agrippa. Octavian. 2154 03:28:41,300 --> 03:28:45,840 Stand back! Rejoice! Marc Antony will save the day! 2155 03:28:52,353 --> 03:28:54,219 Antony, you say? 2156 03:28:54,480 --> 03:28:56,767 He died at Actium... 2157 03:28:57,025 --> 03:28:58,811 running away. 2158 03:28:59,444 --> 03:29:01,981 He tried to run on the water, the story goes... 2159 03:29:02,155 --> 03:29:04,442 but you weren't there to hold his hand! 2160 03:29:10,163 --> 03:29:13,622 Rufio, my legions, waiting. 2161 03:29:13,875 --> 03:29:15,491 For what? 2162 03:29:16,294 --> 03:29:18,626 To ask me what they carry in their eyes... 2163 03:29:18,880 --> 03:29:21,372 in their hearts, in their sleep, as I have in mine. 2164 03:29:21,632 --> 03:29:24,465 Why are you not dead? 2165 03:29:24,719 --> 03:29:26,756 Why do you live? How can you live? 2166 03:29:26,971 --> 03:29:30,054 Why do you not lie in the deepest hole of the sea... 2167 03:29:30,266 --> 03:29:34,225 bloodless and bloated and at peace with honorable death? 2168 03:29:42,403 --> 03:29:46,442 You begged forgiveness from me for running away. 2169 03:29:46,699 --> 03:29:50,784 You wept and gave your reason. A mother to her child, a queen to her country. 2170 03:29:50,995 --> 03:29:53,862 Where and how can I weep and beg? From whom? 2171 03:29:54,082 --> 03:29:57,620 The thousands and thousands who can no longer hear me? 2172 03:30:00,213 --> 03:30:01,999 Shall I give my reason? 2173 03:30:02,924 --> 03:30:05,837 Shall I say simply, I loved? 2174 03:30:07,261 --> 03:30:09,127 When I saw you go, I saw nothing. 2175 03:30:09,347 --> 03:30:12,180 Felt, heard, thought nothing except your going. 2176 03:30:12,391 --> 03:30:15,099 Not the dying and dead, not Rome, not Egypt... 2177 03:30:15,311 --> 03:30:18,053 not victory or defeat, honor or disgrace... 2178 03:30:18,314 --> 03:30:21,557 only that my love was going and I must be with her. 2179 03:30:21,776 --> 03:30:24,359 That my love, my master, called. 2180 03:30:25,113 --> 03:30:26,649 And I followed. 2181 03:30:27,031 --> 03:30:29,238 And that only then... 2182 03:30:29,450 --> 03:30:32,283 I looked back... 2183 03:30:32,620 --> 03:30:34,952 and I saw. 2184 03:30:46,509 --> 03:30:48,591 How right you were. 2185 03:30:49,554 --> 03:30:53,639 "Have as your master anyone, anything... 2186 03:30:54,892 --> 03:30:56,633 but never love." 2187 03:30:58,020 --> 03:30:59,806 How wrong. 2188 03:31:00,064 --> 03:31:02,476 How wrong I was. 2189 03:31:03,359 --> 03:31:07,148 Antony, the love you followed is here. 2190 03:31:08,072 --> 03:31:10,404 To be had upon payment of an empire. 2191 03:31:10,616 --> 03:31:13,108 Without you, Antony... 2192 03:31:13,369 --> 03:31:15,986 this is not a world I want to live in... 2193 03:31:16,622 --> 03:31:19,159 much less conquer. 2194 03:31:20,877 --> 03:31:23,244 Because for me... 2195 03:31:23,504 --> 03:31:26,872 there would be no love anywhere. 2196 03:31:28,718 --> 03:31:32,177 Do you want me to die with you? I will. 2197 03:31:33,723 --> 03:31:36,340 Or do you want me to live with you? 2198 03:31:38,561 --> 03:31:40,427 Whatever you choose. 2199 03:31:54,493 --> 03:31:58,361 Are we too late, do you think, if we choose to live? 2200 03:31:58,956 --> 03:32:00,867 Better too late... 2201 03:32:01,334 --> 03:32:03,166 than never. 2202 03:33:03,562 --> 03:33:06,350 My lady, there is disturbing news from the city. 2203 03:33:06,565 --> 03:33:10,854 The people are frightened. Some are beginning to leave their homes. 2204 03:33:11,112 --> 03:33:14,730 During the night, hundreds of notices were secretly posted everywhere. 2205 03:33:14,949 --> 03:33:17,611 They were found stuck up in the marketplace. 2206 03:33:17,827 --> 03:33:20,444 Even painted on temples and other holy places. 2207 03:33:20,705 --> 03:33:25,825 Signed by Octavian Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus... 2208 03:33:26,419 --> 03:33:30,208 promising the Egyptian people peace if they surrender to him... 2209 03:33:30,464 --> 03:33:32,455 and destruction if they do not. 2210 03:33:32,675 --> 03:33:36,168 I've had all of the notices removed and I've ordered the death penalty... 2211 03:33:36,387 --> 03:33:40,802 for anyone who spreads the false rumors that Antony's men might desert him. 2212 03:33:41,726 --> 03:33:45,765 And what penalty if the rumors might come true? 2213 03:33:47,398 --> 03:33:49,309 How do you know? 2214 03:33:49,567 --> 03:33:51,604 I know the Romans. 2215 03:33:51,861 --> 03:33:54,944 There is only one commander they will never desert. 2216 03:33:55,156 --> 03:33:57,614 His name is "Victory." 2217 03:33:58,326 --> 03:34:02,240 But yet, just now, you let Lord Antony go as if... 2218 03:34:06,792 --> 03:34:10,911 If you could have seen him, how proud he was... 2219 03:34:11,172 --> 03:34:13,083 unafraid... 2220 03:34:14,342 --> 03:34:16,208 as he used to be. 2221 03:34:17,720 --> 03:34:21,839 All of my attendants, have they been given their freedom? Have they gone? 2222 03:34:22,099 --> 03:34:24,966 Yes. They wanted once more to tidy up. 2223 03:34:25,186 --> 03:34:27,894 Octavian can do his own housecleaning. 2224 03:34:28,105 --> 03:34:32,394 The captain of the guards and three of his best men are to report to me... 2225 03:34:32,610 --> 03:34:34,396 disguised as merchants. 2226 03:34:34,653 --> 03:34:38,112 They are to escort Caesarion out of Egypt... 2227 03:34:39,075 --> 03:34:40,816 for the time being. 2228 03:34:41,369 --> 03:34:42,905 And you? 2229 03:34:43,329 --> 03:34:45,616 Your Majesty, please reconsider. 2230 03:34:45,831 --> 03:34:49,040 There are two of Euphranor's ships, very fast, in the east harbor. 2231 03:34:49,251 --> 03:34:52,289 And would you roll me on board in a carpet? 2232 03:34:52,922 --> 03:34:54,378 No. 2233 03:34:54,965 --> 03:34:59,710 There are no more Caesars to go to, at least not for me. 2234 03:35:00,262 --> 03:35:04,426 - Then it is still your intention... - To remain in Alexandria. 2235 03:35:04,683 --> 03:35:07,721 In the last possible place anyone would look. 2236 03:35:08,646 --> 03:35:12,514 Literally, the last possible place. 2237 03:35:12,733 --> 03:35:15,976 Your Majesty, I have never questioned your decisions. 2238 03:35:16,237 --> 03:35:18,069 This is not the time to begin. 2239 03:35:18,280 --> 03:35:19,862 Let me stay with you. 2240 03:35:20,074 --> 03:35:22,532 Charmian and Eiras will look after me. 2241 03:35:22,785 --> 03:35:24,617 If Lord Antony should... 2242 03:35:26,956 --> 03:35:30,165 When Lord Antony returns... 2243 03:35:30,418 --> 03:35:33,376 you will be here to tell him where to find me... 2244 03:35:33,671 --> 03:35:35,662 waiting for him. 2245 03:35:36,841 --> 03:35:39,048 Together, we will then do... 2246 03:35:39,301 --> 03:35:41,292 what he thinks best. 2247 03:35:41,554 --> 03:35:42,794 Is that clear? 2248 03:35:45,933 --> 03:35:50,052 - Yes, my lady. - Was there anything more? 2249 03:35:51,480 --> 03:35:53,812 I have always loved you. 2250 03:35:55,151 --> 03:35:57,358 And I have always known. 2251 03:36:09,874 --> 03:36:14,289 Rome has never known such an army. We should be taking on all of Asia. 2252 03:36:14,545 --> 03:36:18,880 It seems a waste to slaughter what's left of Antony's army and Antony. 2253 03:36:19,133 --> 03:36:22,967 There will be no slaughter. I doubt there will be even bloodshed. 2254 03:36:23,179 --> 03:36:28,015 Has a battle ever been won without a blow being struck? I wonder. 2255 03:36:28,267 --> 03:36:31,350 At any rate, let me make it clear once more. 2256 03:36:31,604 --> 03:36:35,598 I want Antony alive, and I want her alive. 2257 03:36:35,816 --> 03:36:38,433 She must be taken alive. 2258 03:36:41,238 --> 03:36:44,196 Queen Cleopatra's second procession into Rome... 2259 03:36:44,450 --> 03:36:46,782 will surpass her first. 2260 03:36:59,507 --> 03:37:01,999 The ring your father gave you. 2261 03:37:03,427 --> 03:37:05,338 It is yours now... 2262 03:37:05,554 --> 03:37:07,295 to keep. 2263 03:37:07,515 --> 03:37:11,179 Wear it with pride and with honor. 2264 03:37:11,810 --> 03:37:13,392 I'm afraid. 2265 03:37:13,646 --> 03:37:15,762 I know I shouldn't be. 2266 03:37:16,357 --> 03:37:18,064 Who told you that? 2267 03:37:18,317 --> 03:37:20,228 All kings... 2268 03:37:20,486 --> 03:37:23,478 and especially queens, are afraid. 2269 03:37:23,697 --> 03:37:26,735 They just manage not to show it. 2270 03:37:26,951 --> 03:37:30,364 Something ordinary people cannot do. 2271 03:38:28,512 --> 03:38:32,096 Hail Antony! 2272 03:38:53,746 --> 03:38:57,034 - How near is Octavian? - Very near. Over that low ridge. 2273 03:38:57,291 --> 03:39:01,285 As it grows darker, the glow from his campfires will light up the sky. 2274 03:39:06,675 --> 03:39:09,838 Our troops must find it attractive to watch. 2275 03:39:11,055 --> 03:39:12,545 Inviting, even. 2276 03:39:12,765 --> 03:39:15,723 Antony's legions warm themselves at their own fires. 2277 03:39:15,976 --> 03:39:17,683 Yes. 2278 03:39:17,936 --> 03:39:21,099 I could feel the warmth as I rode by. 2279 03:39:22,399 --> 03:39:24,436 - How many legions has he? - Twenty. 2280 03:39:24,652 --> 03:39:27,360 - And we? - Two. The 12th and one made up... 2281 03:39:27,613 --> 03:39:30,071 Made up from what was left of the others. 2282 03:39:30,282 --> 03:39:35,277 As I remember it, Caesar held Alexandria with two. 2283 03:39:38,749 --> 03:39:41,332 How are they deployed? Rufio. 2284 03:39:44,630 --> 03:39:48,874 Cavalry to the left, cavalry to the right, infantry to the center. 2285 03:39:49,134 --> 03:39:53,924 Three elephants deployed to stamp out a fly. 2286 03:39:54,598 --> 03:39:58,637 My lords Octavian and Agrippa have all the strategic brilliance... 2287 03:39:58,894 --> 03:40:00,931 of two vestal virgins. 2288 03:40:01,438 --> 03:40:03,600 We can draw back here to softer ground... 2289 03:40:03,774 --> 03:40:06,391 too soft for cavalry and make our stand against their infantry. 2290 03:40:06,610 --> 03:40:10,649 Stand? And let them stamp on us? No. Let the elephants stand. 2291 03:40:10,906 --> 03:40:14,240 We flies will bite and buzz and tickle. 2292 03:40:14,702 --> 03:40:16,693 At the first light of day... 2293 03:40:16,954 --> 03:40:20,743 while Octavian's glow still lights up the sky... 2294 03:40:21,166 --> 03:40:22,531 we will attack. 2295 03:40:25,671 --> 03:40:28,914 By sunset, both our loyal legions will have grown larger... 2296 03:40:29,174 --> 03:40:31,381 and even more loyal, I promise you. 2297 03:40:33,011 --> 03:40:34,297 Good night. 2298 03:40:43,814 --> 03:40:46,727 Rufio, tell the guards, please... 2299 03:40:46,984 --> 03:40:49,316 I am to be awakened just before dawn. 2300 03:40:49,528 --> 03:40:50,689 Of course. 2301 03:40:50,946 --> 03:40:52,436 And, Rufio... 2302 03:40:53,699 --> 03:40:58,819 if, for whatever reason, the guards should forget or misjudge the time... 2303 03:40:59,079 --> 03:41:00,820 will you, yourself, wake me? 2304 03:41:01,206 --> 03:41:02,696 The guards will wake you. 2305 03:41:05,753 --> 03:41:08,620 - But if they don't? - Then I will. Never fear. 2306 03:41:09,381 --> 03:41:11,088 I never fear. 2307 03:41:16,680 --> 03:41:18,512 Not anymore. 2308 03:42:18,283 --> 03:42:19,648 Rufio! 2309 03:43:33,817 --> 03:43:35,524 Rufio. 2310 03:45:58,754 --> 03:46:00,040 Fight! 2311 03:46:02,340 --> 03:46:03,796 Fight! 2312 03:46:10,348 --> 03:46:11,383 Fight! 2313 03:46:16,480 --> 03:46:18,596 Why don't you fight? 2314 03:46:43,340 --> 03:46:46,173 Is there no one who would grant Antony... 2315 03:46:46,426 --> 03:46:49,168 an honorable way to die? 2316 03:47:11,535 --> 03:47:13,446 Before me... 2317 03:47:13,995 --> 03:47:18,660 this was carried by another Roman killed by Rome. 2318 03:47:18,875 --> 03:47:20,536 Another... 2319 03:47:21,169 --> 03:47:23,035 Caesar. 2320 03:47:32,389 --> 03:47:33,675 No. 2321 03:47:34,683 --> 03:47:37,015 We will have him. 2322 03:47:37,727 --> 03:47:40,560 We will have them both together. 2323 03:49:21,581 --> 03:49:23,163 Where is she? 2324 03:49:24,960 --> 03:49:26,371 Where is she? 2325 03:49:27,921 --> 03:49:30,083 Her Majesty said to tell you... 2326 03:49:30,298 --> 03:49:34,838 she can be found in the last possible place anyone would look. 2327 03:49:37,013 --> 03:49:40,472 Literally, the last possible place. 2328 03:49:46,231 --> 03:49:47,767 She might have waited. 2329 03:49:48,358 --> 03:49:50,690 Once more, it seems... 2330 03:49:51,194 --> 03:49:54,858 Cleopatra is out of reach... 2331 03:49:55,323 --> 03:49:57,906 and I must hurry after. 2332 03:49:58,159 --> 03:50:00,150 Throughout life... 2333 03:50:00,412 --> 03:50:02,198 and now beyond. 2334 03:50:02,455 --> 03:50:06,665 One woman, one love! 2335 03:50:09,838 --> 03:50:11,954 Nothing changes... 2336 03:50:12,632 --> 03:50:14,873 except life into death. 2337 03:50:24,185 --> 03:50:25,846 Will you help me? 2338 03:50:31,526 --> 03:50:33,267 Help me to die, Apollodorus! 2339 03:50:33,528 --> 03:50:35,269 I want to! 2340 03:50:36,239 --> 03:50:37,821 But I can't. 2341 03:50:52,922 --> 03:50:56,165 I've always envied Rufio... 2342 03:50:56,426 --> 03:50:59,088 his long arms. 2343 03:51:17,280 --> 03:51:19,817 The ultimate desertion: 2344 03:51:20,075 --> 03:51:22,362 I from myself. 2345 03:51:22,619 --> 03:51:27,534 Else, how could I have missed what I must have aimed for all my life? 2346 03:51:28,750 --> 03:51:30,741 Will you finish me now? 2347 03:51:32,170 --> 03:51:35,913 Where is my sword? I beg you to finish me. 2348 03:51:36,174 --> 03:51:39,087 I lied to you. I let you think the queen is dead. 2349 03:51:39,302 --> 03:51:42,044 But she's alive in her tomb, waiting for you. 2350 03:51:44,224 --> 03:51:46,431 Cleopatra waiting? 2351 03:51:47,894 --> 03:51:51,853 There will be just enough time... 2352 03:51:52,065 --> 03:51:53,931 if you'll help me. 2353 03:52:53,460 --> 03:52:56,873 Perhaps, my lady, if we were to bind his wounds tightly... 2354 03:52:57,088 --> 03:53:01,924 It would only give him pain. Let him sleep. 2355 03:53:13,688 --> 03:53:15,554 Sleep. 2356 03:53:16,483 --> 03:53:18,815 Will you come tonight... 2357 03:53:19,777 --> 03:53:21,734 S0 that I can sleep? 2358 03:53:23,031 --> 03:53:25,489 The dark sleep. 2359 03:53:28,203 --> 03:53:31,036 They did meet after all... 2360 03:53:31,247 --> 03:53:33,409 the lovers. 2361 03:53:33,833 --> 03:53:35,824 They will always meet. 2362 03:53:37,420 --> 03:53:39,707 Be lonely for me. 2363 03:53:40,256 --> 03:53:42,588 But not for very long. 2364 03:53:42,842 --> 03:53:44,879 I promise. 2365 03:53:47,263 --> 03:53:49,755 I thought always I would die... 2366 03:53:49,974 --> 03:53:52,762 so well... 2367 03:53:53,478 --> 03:53:55,469 as becomes a soldier. 2368 03:53:57,815 --> 03:54:00,182 A soldier's death. 2369 03:54:01,903 --> 03:54:04,895 I lived always as I saw fit. 2370 03:54:07,784 --> 03:54:09,775 Unfittingly. 2371 03:54:09,994 --> 03:54:13,658 I would make it up, I thought, in death. 2372 03:54:14,207 --> 03:54:16,198 I expected... 2373 03:54:17,001 --> 03:54:19,663 I expected too much of me in death... 2374 03:54:20,547 --> 03:54:22,629 as in life. 2375 03:54:23,049 --> 03:54:25,211 Are you holding me? 2376 03:54:25,426 --> 03:54:27,793 Never so closely. 2377 03:54:28,012 --> 03:54:30,128 Even closer. 2378 03:54:32,600 --> 03:54:35,342 You and I will prove death... 2379 03:54:35,562 --> 03:54:38,475 S0 much less than love. 2380 03:54:40,567 --> 03:54:42,558 You and I, we will... 2381 03:54:43,278 --> 03:54:45,315 We'll make of dying... 2382 03:54:45,905 --> 03:54:48,613 nothing more than one... 2383 03:54:49,367 --> 03:54:51,358 last... 2384 03:54:52,036 --> 03:54:53,902 embrace. 2385 03:54:59,252 --> 03:55:00,583 A kiss... 2386 03:55:03,006 --> 03:55:05,589 to take my breath away. 2387 03:55:25,486 --> 03:55:28,228 There has never been... 2388 03:55:28,781 --> 03:55:31,239 such a silence. 2389 03:56:15,745 --> 03:56:17,531 Turn him over. 2390 03:56:23,920 --> 03:56:27,959 Strange people. Poisons that smell like perfume. 2391 03:56:28,174 --> 03:56:32,543 Find more. Have it analyzed. Test it on one of the badly wounded. 2392 03:56:38,309 --> 03:56:41,347 My lord, they have found Queen Cleopatra. 2393 03:56:41,562 --> 03:56:44,145 She is locked in a building, that is to say, a tomb. 2394 03:56:44,357 --> 03:56:45,893 Hurry. 2395 03:56:51,698 --> 03:56:56,113 Oh, Marc Antony is with her, they say. He's dead. 2396 03:56:58,329 --> 03:57:01,321 - What? - Lord Antony is dead. 2397 03:57:03,584 --> 03:57:06,121 Is that how one says it? 2398 03:57:07,213 --> 03:57:09,454 As simply as that. 2399 03:57:10,800 --> 03:57:12,962 Marc Antony is dead. 2400 03:57:14,470 --> 03:57:16,757 Lord Antony is dead. 2401 03:57:18,933 --> 03:57:22,517 The soup is hot. The soup is cold. 2402 03:57:22,729 --> 03:57:26,563 Antony is living. Antony is dead. 2403 03:57:28,609 --> 03:57:32,147 Shake with terror when such words pass your lips... 2404 03:57:32,363 --> 03:57:36,527 for fear they be untrue and Antony cut out your tongue for the lie! 2405 03:57:36,743 --> 03:57:38,450 And if true... 2406 03:57:38,828 --> 03:57:41,115 for your lifetime boast... 2407 03:57:41,330 --> 03:57:45,540 that you were honored to speak his name even in death. 2408 03:57:45,918 --> 03:57:48,660 The dying of such a man... 2409 03:57:48,880 --> 03:57:51,372 must be shouted. 2410 03:57:51,591 --> 03:57:53,377 Screamed. 2411 03:57:53,634 --> 03:57:58,049 It must echo back from the corners of the universe. 2412 03:57:59,056 --> 03:58:01,798 Antony is dead! 2413 03:58:02,435 --> 03:58:07,430 Marc Antony of Rome lives no more! 2414 03:58:28,669 --> 03:58:31,582 You needn't lower your head before Caesar. 2415 03:58:32,089 --> 03:58:34,126 I never did. 2416 03:58:34,342 --> 03:58:36,834 But if he were here, I'd be happy to. 2417 03:58:37,053 --> 03:58:39,511 I am Caesar. 2418 03:58:39,722 --> 03:58:41,929 If it pleases you, Octavian. 2419 03:58:43,518 --> 03:58:45,304 Look at me. 2420 03:58:45,520 --> 03:58:47,056 If it pleases you. 2421 03:58:50,233 --> 03:58:53,726 After all this time and all that has happened... 2422 03:58:53,986 --> 03:58:57,854 I suppose you are still beautiful, in a way. 2423 03:58:58,324 --> 03:58:59,780 You flatter me. 2424 03:58:59,992 --> 03:59:03,451 My interest is impersonal. Should you have any intention... 2425 03:59:03,704 --> 03:59:05,615 Now you flatter yourself. 2426 03:59:05,832 --> 03:59:08,415 The fighting is over. 2427 03:59:08,626 --> 03:59:12,620 Your country, your possessions and you are mine by right of conquest. 2428 03:59:12,880 --> 03:59:17,420 I will permit you to rule Egypt as a Roman province and return your possessions. 2429 03:59:17,677 --> 03:59:21,887 There is one condition. You will first accompany me to Rome. 2430 03:59:22,723 --> 03:59:24,555 Behind your chariot? 2431 03:59:24,767 --> 03:59:26,257 Look at me! 2432 03:59:32,942 --> 03:59:36,810 Would the proud citizens of Rome wait for hours in the hot sun... 2433 03:59:37,029 --> 03:59:40,317 to see my dead body dragged through the Forum? 2434 03:59:40,575 --> 03:59:42,486 I'll have you closely watched. 2435 03:59:44,453 --> 03:59:46,285 Octavian... 2436 03:59:46,497 --> 03:59:49,410 when I am ready to die... 2437 03:59:50,293 --> 03:59:52,955 I will die. 2438 04:00:05,725 --> 04:00:08,217 What if I promise no harm will come to you... 2439 04:00:08,436 --> 04:00:10,677 that you will be returned safely to Alexandria? 2440 04:00:11,188 --> 04:00:13,179 Look at me! 2441 04:00:15,610 --> 04:00:17,601 What more could you ask? 2442 04:00:21,866 --> 04:00:23,607 You have not spoken... 2443 04:00:23,826 --> 04:00:25,066 of my son. 2444 04:00:26,037 --> 04:00:29,280 Your son. I'd forgotten him. 2445 04:00:29,540 --> 04:00:30,905 Where is he? 2446 04:00:31,125 --> 04:00:32,991 Safe. 2447 04:00:35,463 --> 04:00:38,626 If I go with you to Rome... 2448 04:00:39,634 --> 04:00:42,501 would you permit my son to rule Egypt? 2449 04:00:43,012 --> 04:00:44,719 And his sons? 2450 04:00:44,972 --> 04:00:46,633 And theirs? 2451 04:00:46,849 --> 04:00:48,806 I'll do everything I can. 2452 04:00:49,393 --> 04:00:51,634 Do I have your word... 2453 04:00:51,896 --> 04:00:54,137 as a Roman emperor and god? 2454 04:00:57,151 --> 04:00:58,733 Yes. 2455 04:01:00,863 --> 04:01:02,900 When will you require me to go? 2456 04:01:03,115 --> 04:01:04,651 As soon as possible. 2457 04:01:06,994 --> 04:01:10,612 At the moment, I am very tired and would like to rest. 2458 04:01:10,873 --> 04:01:12,204 If you'll leave me now. 2459 04:01:12,667 --> 04:01:15,329 Do I have your word... 2460 04:01:15,544 --> 04:01:18,286 that you will not harm yourself in any way? 2461 04:01:19,340 --> 04:01:21,581 I swear it. 2462 04:01:23,219 --> 04:01:25,381 On the life of my son. 2463 04:01:35,523 --> 04:01:38,015 Must the guards remain inside? 2464 04:01:38,234 --> 04:01:40,145 I have sworn... 2465 04:01:40,403 --> 04:01:42,019 after all... 2466 04:01:43,155 --> 04:01:46,443 on the life of my son. 2467 04:01:56,919 --> 04:01:59,957 And now I must make ready to go. 2468 04:02:00,172 --> 04:02:01,628 There's little to do. 2469 04:02:02,967 --> 04:02:05,800 First, I shall want something to eat. 2470 04:02:07,221 --> 04:02:10,680 Something to sustain me on my way. 2471 04:02:10,891 --> 04:02:12,598 Some fruit, perhaps? 2472 04:02:12,810 --> 04:02:14,141 Bring it to me. 2473 04:02:16,731 --> 04:02:18,517 Charmian. 2474 04:02:21,569 --> 04:02:23,526 You then, Eiras. 2475 04:02:24,655 --> 04:02:27,272 You have never been without us. 2476 04:02:28,242 --> 04:02:29,824 You cannot leave us behind. 2477 04:02:31,078 --> 04:02:33,115 Perhaps... 2478 04:02:33,664 --> 04:02:36,247 there may be enough for us all. 2479 04:02:36,959 --> 04:02:39,291 Bring me a tablet to write on. 2480 04:02:39,545 --> 04:02:41,661 I want a message brought to Octavian. 2481 04:02:41,881 --> 04:02:44,418 Words are wasted on such a man. 2482 04:02:44,675 --> 04:02:48,543 I have wasted so many on so many men. 2483 04:02:48,846 --> 04:02:51,588 A few more. One last request. 2484 04:02:51,849 --> 04:02:54,386 Will he grant it, do you think? 2485 04:02:54,727 --> 04:02:56,513 I may never know. 2486 04:02:59,607 --> 04:03:01,894 In this case... 2487 04:03:02,860 --> 04:03:04,817 I think I shall. 2488 04:03:12,870 --> 04:03:15,658 I will serve Her Majesty as always. 2489 04:03:15,915 --> 04:03:17,747 I have always served her. 2490 04:03:17,958 --> 04:03:20,245 You will both wait... 2491 04:03:20,461 --> 04:03:22,953 to dress me for my travels. 2492 04:03:23,589 --> 04:03:25,250 I will wear... 2493 04:03:27,218 --> 04:03:30,051 I want to be as Antony first saw me. 2494 04:03:30,429 --> 04:03:32,545 The dress of gold? 2495 04:03:33,099 --> 04:03:34,589 He must know at once... 2496 04:03:35,351 --> 04:03:37,763 even from a great distance... 2497 04:03:38,020 --> 04:03:39,852 thatitis I. 2498 04:03:41,315 --> 04:03:43,727 This will be the last thing you do. 2499 04:03:43,984 --> 04:03:47,352 Drop this to one of the guards outside for Octavian. 2500 04:03:48,739 --> 04:03:51,106 But be sure to wait. 2501 04:04:10,302 --> 04:04:14,421 And now let me see if the figs are as they should be. 2502 04:04:41,876 --> 04:04:44,709 The taste of these, they say, is sharp... 2503 04:04:44,920 --> 04:04:47,207 and swiftly over. 2504 04:04:52,720 --> 04:04:55,758 How strangely awake I feel. 2505 04:04:56,557 --> 04:05:00,141 As if living had been just a long dream. 2506 04:05:01,812 --> 04:05:04,099 Someone else's dream. 2507 04:05:04,940 --> 04:05:07,853 Now finished at last. 2508 04:05:13,324 --> 04:05:15,565 But then now... 2509 04:05:15,784 --> 04:05:17,866 will begin... 2510 04:05:18,871 --> 04:05:21,203 a dream of my own... 2511 04:05:23,334 --> 04:05:25,371 which will never end. 2512 04:05:28,547 --> 04:05:30,163 Antony? 2513 04:05:33,636 --> 04:05:35,798 Antony, wait. 2514 04:05:49,360 --> 04:05:52,102 From the Egyptian queen, a message for Caesar. 2515 04:05:52,363 --> 04:05:56,652 Read it. Whatever she wants will be granted upon her arrival in Rome. 2516 04:05:56,867 --> 04:06:00,405 We will discuss it as she walks beside my chariot. 2517 04:06:01,538 --> 04:06:02,903 What is it? 2518 04:06:03,123 --> 04:06:06,161 "My one wish, which I implore you to grant... 2519 04:06:06,418 --> 04:06:09,831 Is to be buried at the site of Antony and to remain there... 2520 04:06:10,089 --> 04:06:12,080 until all things end." 2521 04:07:05,853 --> 04:07:08,595 Was this well done of your lady? 2522 04:07:10,899 --> 04:07:13,186 Extremely well. 2523 04:07:13,569 --> 04:07:15,276 As befitting... 2524 04:07:15,487 --> 04:07:18,195 the last of so many noble... 2525 04:07:19,325 --> 04:07:21,316 rulers. 2526 04:07:27,458 --> 04:07:29,665 And the Roman asked: 2527 04:07:29,877 --> 04:07:32,790 "Was this well done of your lady?" 2528 04:07:33,630 --> 04:07:35,917 And the servant answered: 2529 04:07:36,383 --> 04:07:39,045 "Extremely well. 2530 04:07:39,261 --> 04:07:41,423 As befitting the last... 2531 04:07:41,680 --> 04:07:45,924 0f so many noble rulers."