1 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:04,080 Thank you. 2 00:02:22,410 --> 00:02:23,410 Not here, Mira. 3 00:02:23,470 --> 00:02:25,190 Why? You be so prosaic. 4 00:02:25,650 --> 00:02:30,850 A soul lacks poetry, Artie. How can I make you understand that love and poetry 5 00:02:30,850 --> 00:02:32,370 know not time and place? 6 00:02:32,790 --> 00:02:34,650 I like it when you say I'm your muse. 7 00:02:34,930 --> 00:02:36,290 Your inspiration, too. 8 00:02:36,630 --> 00:02:37,810 How often must I say it? 9 00:02:38,550 --> 00:02:40,450 Well, I'll tell you one thing. You're my Circe. 10 00:02:41,070 --> 00:02:42,190 Did you tell your wife that? 11 00:02:43,550 --> 00:02:45,410 Octavia inspires me to one thing only. What? 12 00:02:46,550 --> 00:02:47,550 That death is beauty. 13 00:02:48,030 --> 00:02:49,530 Oh, but let's not talk of her now. 14 00:02:50,470 --> 00:02:51,990 We'll be leaving soon and... 15 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:53,880 I took a license. Wait for us. 16 00:03:02,860 --> 00:03:04,080 Have you news for us? 17 00:03:04,980 --> 00:03:08,500 Pardon this intrusion, Claudius Nero, but the Emperor orders you to come to 18 00:03:08,500 --> 00:03:09,500 palace immediately. 19 00:03:11,180 --> 00:03:12,300 Duty calls, my dearest. 20 00:04:00,010 --> 00:04:02,310 Claudius Nero is here to see you, Divine Caesar. 21 00:04:02,530 --> 00:04:03,970 Show him in. Show him in. 22 00:04:32,010 --> 00:04:33,010 of the court. 23 00:04:33,030 --> 00:04:34,550 I'm here to command, Divine One. 24 00:04:34,850 --> 00:04:36,570 Oh, yes, I had forgotten. 25 00:05:09,770 --> 00:05:12,450 I would never worry about your mother, you know. 26 00:05:13,110 --> 00:05:15,950 My sister tells me that she plots against me. 27 00:05:16,170 --> 00:05:18,810 You think this is true, don't tell me you know not. 28 00:05:19,770 --> 00:05:20,770 My throne. 29 00:05:21,550 --> 00:05:24,070 Your loving mother is ambitious for you. 30 00:05:27,930 --> 00:05:28,930 Father. 31 00:05:30,590 --> 00:05:34,030 Britannica, you always come first. How proud I am of you. 32 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:35,740 I find my boy well. 33 00:05:36,140 --> 00:05:37,680 Come, light of my life. 34 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:42,220 Come on, come on. 35 00:05:51,220 --> 00:05:55,220 Nero, why don't you recite some poetry for us? You can see how Britannicus is 36 00:05:55,220 --> 00:05:56,220 depressed today. 37 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:00,160 Could you think of nothing to hear us? Go on, sing. 38 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:02,060 Sing us one of your songs. 39 00:06:16,270 --> 00:06:21,650 Oh, she -wolf of Rome, who suckled up for thee. 40 00:06:24,570 --> 00:06:30,110 Thou art a true mother, the goddess of all. 41 00:06:32,030 --> 00:06:38,530 You were a glorious life, were everyone's mother and nobody's wife. 42 00:06:40,150 --> 00:06:42,510 Now I'm no more than a statue. 43 00:06:44,170 --> 00:06:50,510 That stands upon capital. You began all this struggle and strife. 44 00:06:51,870 --> 00:06:54,970 You gave me the mystery of eternity to conjure. 45 00:06:56,690 --> 00:06:59,070 The heaven sent sun in the sky. 46 00:07:00,150 --> 00:07:01,670 And the dark of the night. 47 00:07:02,610 --> 00:07:04,210 Poor little Paulina. 48 00:07:08,290 --> 00:07:12,270 What a shame your head contained the ambitious idea that you could stand in 49 00:07:12,270 --> 00:07:13,270 way. 50 00:07:30,700 --> 00:07:34,140 Lucano dared to say that Lolia Paulina had the whitest teeth in Rome. 51 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:46,460 Let the dogs feed on her now. 52 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:48,080 Out! Get out, all of you! 53 00:07:52,060 --> 00:07:53,160 Does that include me? 54 00:07:53,660 --> 00:07:55,420 No, of course not, Nero. Come here. 55 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:57,400 Nearer. 56 00:07:58,640 --> 00:07:59,860 What troubles your dear heart? 57 00:08:01,620 --> 00:08:03,640 I'm in the grips of a dark depression, Mother. 58 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:07,860 Oh, no, I don't feel like nibbling your nipples now. Why not? 59 00:08:10,540 --> 00:08:17,220 I feel low because I was humiliated to find that Lolia 60 00:08:17,220 --> 00:08:19,360 Paulina had indeed wider teeth than mine. 61 00:08:21,060 --> 00:08:23,600 I, too, have been humiliated, Mother. 62 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:28,420 stupid husband of yours and his son. They laughed at my composition. 63 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,400 How outrageous of them. 64 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:35,580 Orpheus himself is envious of your music, little copperbeard. It's really 65 00:08:35,580 --> 00:08:41,140 inspired. Those two Philistines could never appreciate the art of a true poet. 66 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:45,400 You alone appreciate my work, mother. 67 00:08:47,380 --> 00:08:48,900 But I want to be recognized. 68 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,760 I leave tomorrow for Attica, an exile of choice. 69 00:08:55,859 --> 00:08:59,780 Exile? You're not going anywhere. Your place is here in Rome. 70 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:02,160 My plans for your future are here. 71 00:09:02,500 --> 00:09:04,180 Soon you will be emperor. 72 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:32,540 The Seven Hills will be all yours. 73 00:09:32,940 --> 00:09:33,940 Yes. 74 00:09:34,420 --> 00:09:35,680 All yours. 75 00:09:35,940 --> 00:09:38,460 Yes. I promise. Yes. 76 00:11:03,660 --> 00:11:04,579 guard effect. 77 00:11:04,580 --> 00:11:08,520 This distillation of wild mushroom juice would kill even a bull, Divine One. 78 00:11:08,780 --> 00:11:09,780 I hope you're right. 79 00:11:09,980 --> 00:11:10,980 Fear not, lady. 80 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,960 Go now, Lacusta. If I have further need of your services, I'll have you brought 81 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:16,960 here. 82 00:11:31,850 --> 00:11:33,550 Sweet dreams, little copper -bearded son. 83 00:12:29,469 --> 00:12:31,070 Summer is drawing near. 84 00:12:31,910 --> 00:12:34,110 Soon the heat of Rome will be unbearable. 85 00:12:34,630 --> 00:12:40,370 So I have decided, my dear wife, to send you away to a place far up in the hill 86 00:12:40,370 --> 00:12:41,830 where you will be cool. 87 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:43,320 Be protected. 88 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,160 Is it his husband or emperor you ordered? 89 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:49,060 His emperor. 90 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:05,760 I've had them prepare what you most 91 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:08,100 prefer. It'll put you in a good humor. 92 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:11,340 Ah, wild mushrooms. 93 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:14,360 what I dream. 94 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:08,340 take me to Attica with you? 95 00:14:08,560 --> 00:14:11,920 No. My august mother is made of the plans. 96 00:14:45,930 --> 00:14:47,930 Uncle Tiberius, then my brother Caligula. 97 00:14:48,310 --> 00:14:51,590 And now my dearest husband Claudius has met his end. 98 00:14:55,370 --> 00:14:59,310 I warned him that one day the mushrooms he so adored would do him harm. 99 00:15:00,210 --> 00:15:02,530 But you know how willful he was, Britannicus. 100 00:15:03,330 --> 00:15:06,630 Your father could never resist a plate of wild mushrooms. 101 00:15:10,730 --> 00:15:14,270 Nobody outside the palace must find out what's happened to the emperor. 102 00:15:14,780 --> 00:15:17,500 Call me musicians to perform in his honor, if you please. 103 00:15:18,020 --> 00:15:19,500 And in honor of his successor. 104 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:49,880 No. 105 00:16:27,060 --> 00:16:30,780 May I be allowed to offer you a taste of this wine that was grown for you? 106 00:16:31,180 --> 00:16:33,240 It is truly a nectar of the gods. 107 00:16:33,980 --> 00:16:36,260 Accept the offer of this humbled wine. 108 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:37,920 It must be good. 109 00:16:56,270 --> 00:16:57,270 Traitor to the lion. 110 00:17:08,050 --> 00:17:11,369 Hail to thee, Claudius Nero Emperor. 111 00:17:50,890 --> 00:17:52,150 Why don't you come and have a swim with us? 112 00:17:52,390 --> 00:17:53,390 Join my little fishes. 113 00:17:54,290 --> 00:17:56,010 Your mother's waiting to see you, Nero. 114 00:17:57,070 --> 00:17:58,070 My mother? 115 00:17:58,410 --> 00:17:59,590 My mother. 116 00:18:00,650 --> 00:18:02,510 Never leave me in peace for a single second. 117 00:18:11,890 --> 00:18:15,170 My faithful Atte, I want you to come to my room tonight. 118 00:18:15,530 --> 00:18:17,170 And I want you ready, willing, and able. 119 00:18:49,430 --> 00:18:50,430 On your head. 120 00:18:52,410 --> 00:18:53,990 At least for as long as I don't want them to. 121 00:18:56,690 --> 00:18:58,230 I want you with me at the arena tomorrow. 122 00:18:58,850 --> 00:19:00,130 We'll give them a show to please everyone. 123 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:42,980 the Chancellor in place of Narcissus. 124 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:45,240 As you wish. 125 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:50,480 Here we have a nomination to the Imperial Council for Senafonte. 126 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:52,840 Yes, Mother. 127 00:19:53,940 --> 00:19:56,340 And this decree condemns that court as an... 128 00:20:12,110 --> 00:20:14,550 must understand the workings of the state. 129 00:20:15,550 --> 00:20:17,250 You must consider your wife. 130 00:20:17,730 --> 00:20:20,050 You cannot prefer a concubine. 131 00:20:20,650 --> 00:20:23,670 The mere idea of sleeping with that fleabag Octavia makes me sick. 132 00:20:24,370 --> 00:20:28,750 But she is the Empress and you, my son, are Emperor. 133 00:20:29,950 --> 00:20:31,510 Well, that's just what I'm getting at. 134 00:20:35,110 --> 00:20:40,430 Come to my arms, little copperbeard. 135 00:20:40,940 --> 00:20:42,020 Allow me to comfort you. 136 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:44,140 That nickname is reserved. 137 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:46,780 Only my dear mother is permitted to call me that. 138 00:20:48,260 --> 00:20:49,760 She made up the name. 139 00:20:50,020 --> 00:20:52,560 And I won't allow anybody else to use it, not even you. 140 00:20:55,220 --> 00:20:56,880 Isn't my Nero feeling well? 141 00:20:57,980 --> 00:20:59,340 I'm not your Nero. 142 00:20:59,940 --> 00:21:01,180 I know what's the matter. 143 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:02,800 You've seen your mother. 144 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:04,980 She suffocates me. 145 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:08,420 I'm just an instrument in Mother's hand. 146 00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:10,360 That's true. 147 00:21:10,670 --> 00:21:13,710 Your mother keeps a heavy hand on you. 148 00:21:14,610 --> 00:21:15,790 Snuggle up to me. 149 00:21:16,310 --> 00:21:20,070 Artie will protect you and make you feel good. 150 00:21:56,910 --> 00:21:57,910 party today, Nero. 151 00:22:04,650 --> 00:22:06,710 What did you say, Mother? 152 00:22:07,510 --> 00:22:08,510 Nothing. 153 00:22:14,070 --> 00:22:15,070 Britannica. 154 00:22:16,450 --> 00:22:18,870 We saw your father's assassins and knew them all. 155 00:22:20,950 --> 00:22:22,270 You recognize them. 156 00:22:23,970 --> 00:22:24,970 Deny it. 157 00:22:25,930 --> 00:22:27,050 It was the man you executed. 158 00:22:27,350 --> 00:22:28,350 He was responsible. 159 00:22:32,030 --> 00:22:33,770 Varus killed a corpse, no more. 160 00:22:34,590 --> 00:22:36,410 He was murdered before that. 161 00:22:40,630 --> 00:22:41,230 I 162 00:22:41,230 --> 00:22:49,050 am 163 00:22:49,050 --> 00:22:50,130 awaiting your answer. 164 00:22:51,830 --> 00:22:53,630 Santa Fantia is often mentioned. 165 00:22:59,050 --> 00:23:00,050 Your order, sir. 166 00:23:01,130 --> 00:23:05,090 Sigillinus, you must arrest Cenefonte and Palante. 167 00:23:06,170 --> 00:23:09,670 Their servants, their friends, their children, and their slaves. 168 00:23:11,830 --> 00:23:13,410 Put Cenefonte under arrest. 169 00:23:17,210 --> 00:23:22,190 No, Caesar, no. I'm a doctor. I swear on Hippocrates, I have nothing to do with 170 00:23:22,190 --> 00:23:23,190 it. 171 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:34,780 Thank you, Britannicus. I am indebted to you. 172 00:23:40,940 --> 00:23:41,300 How 173 00:23:41,300 --> 00:23:49,800 could 174 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,140 he do this to his own mother? I who gave him the empire. 175 00:23:52,380 --> 00:23:54,880 I'm sure it's to spite me he had Xenophon decastrated. 176 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:56,820 How do you think I feel? 177 00:23:57,820 --> 00:24:01,200 A married woman, four years, and still a virgin. 178 00:24:04,270 --> 00:24:05,270 He's unfaithful. 179 00:24:05,530 --> 00:24:09,250 He'll regret he treated me like this. I'll have him paid dearly. 180 00:24:10,570 --> 00:24:11,970 You think what I'm thinking? 181 00:24:12,290 --> 00:24:13,810 He dreams of Attica. 182 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,180 Are you not the daughter of divine Claudius, Octavia? 183 00:24:38,460 --> 00:24:41,020 Praetorian guard in the army worship you. 184 00:24:42,020 --> 00:24:43,780 And the Romans adore you. 185 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,080 Not to mention how I feel. 186 00:24:55,630 --> 00:24:58,650 Over the city an eagle takes wing. 187 00:24:58,930 --> 00:25:02,710 While down in the circus an emperor will sing. 188 00:25:03,110 --> 00:25:09,350 While holding his harp and plucking the string, he studies his subjects 189 00:25:09,350 --> 00:25:11,410 doing their thing. 190 00:25:12,350 --> 00:25:17,250 No, I get no inspiration from anyone knowing you are all traitors deep down 191 00:25:17,250 --> 00:25:18,049 your hearts. 192 00:25:18,050 --> 00:25:23,230 You must not think such things, Nero. Pindar, Saffel, even Homer himself would 193 00:25:23,230 --> 00:25:24,230 have been proud. 194 00:25:24,940 --> 00:25:28,680 to have penned verses of such splendor. 195 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:31,040 I'm grateful. 196 00:25:32,540 --> 00:25:34,780 I know your compliments are sincere. 197 00:25:36,820 --> 00:25:43,800 But if Venus herself is unable to inspire me, what other muse may I turn 198 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:44,800 to? 199 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:48,520 Oh, life's a bore. 200 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:50,720 Why, yes, there's more. 201 00:25:51,260 --> 00:25:53,620 Huh? Did you lead us? 202 00:25:54,410 --> 00:25:57,670 Caesar, I want you to kill that creature. 203 00:25:57,910 --> 00:26:00,930 His dreary lovemaking is getting monotonous. 204 00:26:03,950 --> 00:26:07,370 To Jelena's, do it slowly. I want to study it. 205 00:28:14,210 --> 00:28:15,390 Yes, yes. 206 00:28:17,530 --> 00:28:19,090 What time will you be? 207 00:28:21,550 --> 00:28:28,370 What form will you take when you creep into the room that 208 00:28:28,370 --> 00:28:29,730 leads to the tomb? 209 00:28:31,910 --> 00:28:33,590 No, no. 210 00:28:34,390 --> 00:28:36,790 Not even death can inspire me. 211 00:28:38,730 --> 00:28:41,010 Yet I'm on the threshold of creation. 212 00:28:42,630 --> 00:28:44,510 Yes, I think birth is near. 213 00:28:46,010 --> 00:28:50,410 I shall soon give birth to a creation, a masterpiece at posterity. 214 00:28:56,010 --> 00:28:59,970 No. Did you mean this? Take that filthy thing away. Do it to the dog. 215 00:29:01,350 --> 00:29:02,350 No. 216 00:29:02,730 --> 00:29:03,730 No. 217 00:29:07,710 --> 00:29:09,170 Where can I find inspiration? 218 00:29:11,170 --> 00:29:12,170 From the gods. 219 00:29:14,830 --> 00:29:17,810 Tomorrow we'll all go to the temple of Vesa. 220 00:29:19,590 --> 00:29:20,590 I'm sure. 221 00:29:20,990 --> 00:29:24,450 The sacred vestal rubria will give me inspiration. 222 00:29:43,710 --> 00:29:45,050 What's wrong, Nero? It's no good. 223 00:29:45,610 --> 00:29:49,890 Making love on a nuptial bed gives me no satisfaction anymore. 224 00:29:52,490 --> 00:29:55,610 You always called me your nymph because I gave you such satisfaction. 225 00:29:56,750 --> 00:30:01,870 The satisfaction you gave me is finished. You don't inspire me anymore, 226 00:30:03,910 --> 00:30:06,750 I feel the need for divine sex. 227 00:30:08,530 --> 00:30:11,590 If only I could copulate with a goddess. 228 00:30:12,430 --> 00:30:14,970 And then at last I could finish an ode. 229 00:30:16,850 --> 00:30:17,850 But Nero. 230 00:30:19,090 --> 00:30:20,090 That'll do. 231 00:30:21,030 --> 00:30:23,700 I don't want you. to ever come to my bedchamber again. 232 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,160 I think I'll have you exiled, Addy. 233 00:30:29,740 --> 00:30:31,400 But today I'm in a good mood. 234 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:34,380 I'll turn you over to my eunuch. 235 00:30:35,620 --> 00:30:40,220 But you're never to have sex with anyone else at all. 236 00:30:41,860 --> 00:30:42,860 Get out of here. 237 00:30:43,340 --> 00:30:44,620 I feel the call of Morpheus. 238 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:37,300 benevolent protection over the glorious fire of Vesta so that the eternal flame 239 00:31:37,300 --> 00:31:40,600 will forever illuminate the sacred hills of the city. 240 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,780 The goddess Vesta be with you, divine one. 241 00:31:52,100 --> 00:31:54,560 But you should know that I am descended of the gods. 242 00:31:55,260 --> 00:31:59,420 I am not the one to say. The divine origins of Caesar are known to the gods. 243 00:32:03,139 --> 00:32:07,220 If I'm a god, then I must surely copulate with a version of Vesta. The 244 00:32:07,220 --> 00:32:09,740 virgins are sacred. They maintain the fire of Venus. 245 00:32:10,820 --> 00:32:13,400 Even to touch one would be a sacrilege, divine one. 246 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:15,640 But you tell me that I'm a god. 247 00:32:15,940 --> 00:32:19,040 How then can I, a god, be sacrilegious to myself? 248 00:32:19,860 --> 00:32:20,860 Tell me that. 249 00:33:28,030 --> 00:33:30,370 Thank you. 250 00:35:20,970 --> 00:35:22,090 at his Cinefonte, son. 251 00:35:22,710 --> 00:35:23,710 St. 252 00:35:28,370 --> 00:35:29,370 Helena's. 253 00:35:30,190 --> 00:35:32,430 What do you think if I were to... 254 00:36:10,380 --> 00:36:14,180 is it not the reincarnation of Venus, you see? Indeed, Venus would die of 255 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:18,460 He's a beauty, but... I want to marry him, Seneca. 256 00:36:19,140 --> 00:36:20,740 I will make him my new empress. 257 00:36:21,020 --> 00:36:24,480 I don't think the Senate would ever permit you to do that, Seneca. 258 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:29,100 Oh, that bunch of middle -aged fools will have to wake up their ideas, 259 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:31,700 Consider what the populace will say. 260 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:38,280 The populace. The populace. It's absurd that an emperor must listen to the 261 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:39,280 crowd. 262 00:36:40,490 --> 00:36:43,050 I'm always bound to the will of the people. 263 00:36:43,630 --> 00:36:44,890 It's extremely unfair. 264 00:36:45,690 --> 00:36:49,710 How can the spirit of a talented artist survive in the role of an emperor? 265 00:36:50,910 --> 00:36:52,670 I'm the soul of an estate. 266 00:36:55,270 --> 00:36:58,690 The ancient laws of Rome say you can only marry a woman, Caesar. 267 00:37:01,070 --> 00:37:04,710 And these stupid laws are the only things that stand in my way. 268 00:37:05,070 --> 00:37:06,070 Yes, they are. 269 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:26,120 medicine in the empire, Roman, Jewish, even Chaldean, to get together. 270 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:31,340 Give this their thought and find a solution so that I can have him. 271 00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:35,780 And that's an order. 272 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:41,760 Sing to me, boy. Oh, Sporus, your joy will be mine when you're mine. 273 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:48,600 And the pain will be naught but a sacrifice wrought and forgotten when we 274 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:50,120 the wine, the wine. 275 00:37:52,230 --> 00:37:53,230 blood divine. 276 00:38:04,650 --> 00:38:11,450 Oh, Sporus, your sex will be no longer that of a boy. We can 277 00:38:11,450 --> 00:38:12,450 marry. 278 00:39:37,870 --> 00:39:40,090 Have you come here to spoil my feast, mother? 279 00:39:41,290 --> 00:39:43,910 If my presence upsets you, I can easily move. 280 00:39:44,150 --> 00:39:45,430 Go, stay as long as you wish. 281 00:40:04,529 --> 00:40:06,670 That one there 282 00:40:19,530 --> 00:40:20,530 of Rufio Crispino. 283 00:40:21,090 --> 00:40:23,750 Is that her lover? The one she's with? 284 00:40:24,070 --> 00:40:25,190 No, Caesar. 285 00:40:25,970 --> 00:40:27,850 That's her husband, Rufio. 286 00:40:30,290 --> 00:40:31,290 Oh. 287 00:40:33,690 --> 00:40:37,530 Myrtle Fidelity makes me feel absolutely nauseated. 288 00:40:41,290 --> 00:40:48,270 Tomorrow, we will transfer the entire court to our residence at 289 00:40:48,270 --> 00:40:52,850 Andes. Where we'll be purified and make sacrifices to the gods. 290 00:40:54,710 --> 00:40:55,950 Farewell, mother dear. 291 00:41:13,270 --> 00:41:14,270 Britannicus. 292 00:41:17,250 --> 00:41:18,270 Dearest brother. 293 00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,800 Sit yourself down here on my throne. 294 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,120 Sit down. Go on. 295 00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:37,440 And now, mother, kiss the face of my successor. 296 00:42:01,660 --> 00:42:03,900 Thank you. 297 00:42:21,350 --> 00:42:24,650 You still believe I was involved in the murder of your father? 298 00:42:25,090 --> 00:42:27,750 Such a suspicion never entered my head for a minute. 299 00:42:28,710 --> 00:42:30,870 You saw how Nero behaved at the field. 300 00:42:31,950 --> 00:42:33,750 He wants to see both of us dead. 301 00:42:34,090 --> 00:42:35,069 Both of us? 302 00:42:35,070 --> 00:42:36,850 The emperors matter every day. 303 00:42:37,590 --> 00:42:41,950 The legions are searching everywhere for a successor to place on his throne. 304 00:42:42,990 --> 00:42:44,450 What then is your plan? 305 00:42:46,450 --> 00:42:50,150 Nero is about to take his entire court down to Anzio. 306 00:42:50,790 --> 00:42:51,790 Yes, I know. 307 00:42:55,710 --> 00:42:58,450 He is to purify himself and pray there. 308 00:42:58,970 --> 00:43:03,190 My son is superstitious, and he wants no one near him when he communes with his 309 00:43:03,190 --> 00:43:04,490 gods. He's so easy. 310 00:43:55,839 --> 00:43:58,640 Thank you. 311 00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:06,860 Repeat after me. 312 00:45:07,100 --> 00:45:10,460 I take this man for my noble husband. 313 00:45:11,500 --> 00:45:16,560 I take this man for my noble husband. 314 00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:11,140 I know not, I swear to you. He's not been seen here at Island Seal by anyone. 315 00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:13,140 You're lying. No, it's the truth, I swear. 316 00:46:13,420 --> 00:46:14,600 I swear it on the gods. 317 00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:19,960 Greatest. 318 00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:21,840 My mother wanted me dead. 319 00:46:23,100 --> 00:46:24,940 You understand, faithful Petronius? 320 00:46:25,700 --> 00:46:27,700 She wanted to kill her own son. 321 00:46:31,240 --> 00:46:35,060 I'm forced to make the greatest, the most... 322 00:46:37,610 --> 00:46:38,770 My entire life. 323 00:46:42,070 --> 00:46:43,470 Tigellinus, at your service, sir. 324 00:46:55,250 --> 00:47:00,590 Um, Tigellinus, I am pursued to end my mother's life. 325 00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,400 He hesitated to carry out your orders. 326 00:47:29,100 --> 00:47:32,900 I might find I can dispense with his valuable services. 327 00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:38,200 But of the people I have around the court, I admit I had hoped he'd fit in. 328 00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:43,680 This will be a chance to prove whose side he's on. 329 00:48:09,740 --> 00:48:10,740 Here they come now. 330 00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:21,740 The precept of the Praetorian Guard requests audience, August Jampres. 331 00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:25,640 So I'm in at once. 332 00:48:31,300 --> 00:48:33,600 Sigillinus, please be with you. 333 00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:36,500 I'm so glad to see you. 334 00:49:36,490 --> 00:49:38,950 Called out to me as she was dying. 335 00:49:40,250 --> 00:49:44,450 Yes diviner Oh 336 00:49:44,450 --> 00:49:50,110 Poor mother 337 00:49:50,110 --> 00:49:56,810 Did you Linus your willow my sister bring my tear glass to me 338 00:50:13,610 --> 00:50:14,610 I said it for you. 339 00:50:17,590 --> 00:50:19,550 And I expect one from you, Tigellinus. 340 00:50:23,630 --> 00:50:25,670 And another from me. 341 00:50:29,290 --> 00:50:30,490 Go now, Tigellinus. 342 00:50:31,430 --> 00:50:33,170 And leave me alone with my sorrow. 343 00:51:15,500 --> 00:51:16,500 Punish me, Mother. 344 00:51:16,540 --> 00:51:18,400 Mother, punish me. 345 00:51:19,820 --> 00:51:20,820 Punish me, Mother. 346 00:51:59,990 --> 00:52:00,990 Mother. 347 00:52:05,670 --> 00:52:06,670 Good son. 348 00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:03,300 Mother, let's continue all of my life. 349 00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:03,520 I find everyone hostile. 350 00:55:06,380 --> 00:55:08,160 I am betrayed on all sides. 351 00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:14,240 Let us drink, Britannicus. 352 00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:19,540 Let us drink to the name of my mother, the Empress Augusta. Let's fill the cup. 353 00:56:05,730 --> 00:56:08,110 You refuse my toast to drink to my mother? 354 00:56:08,510 --> 00:56:09,510 Well, I, uh... 355 00:56:30,220 --> 00:56:31,500 Yes, I'm sure you've taken an antidote. 356 00:56:36,420 --> 00:56:37,420 Yes, you have. 357 00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:39,580 I'm taking medicine to protect you from Caesar. 358 00:57:09,290 --> 00:57:13,770 He refuses to confess to anyone with blood less noble than his own. It's no 359 00:57:13,770 --> 00:57:15,450 so than mine. 360 00:57:31,990 --> 00:57:34,530 Well, little brother, have you nothing to tell me? 361 00:57:43,210 --> 00:57:44,510 Affront to his person. 362 00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:22,360 You think it's amusing? 363 00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:27,340 As soon as his bladder's full, he'll be like a toad with his belly. 364 00:59:04,330 --> 00:59:06,630 To give me love and inspiration. 365 00:59:07,290 --> 00:59:10,110 You have only to give me the order and I'll bring you all the best of virgins 366 00:59:10,110 --> 00:59:11,110 you desire, Caesar. 367 00:59:12,730 --> 00:59:14,330 No, no, no, no. 368 00:59:18,070 --> 00:59:24,070 But tonight, we'll go out on a hunt and we'll give some matron a night she'll 369 00:59:24,070 --> 00:59:25,070 never forget. 370 01:01:20,810 --> 01:01:23,770 sympathize with you, too, because they adore you. 371 01:01:25,590 --> 01:01:27,470 How was I to know it was Nero? 372 01:01:27,770 --> 01:01:28,770 What do you mean? 373 01:01:31,410 --> 01:01:35,730 If you'd recognized him, you would have allowed him to continue. 374 01:01:36,050 --> 01:01:37,450 You feed me to the lions. 375 01:01:39,910 --> 01:01:42,010 I'll go and throw myself on his mercy. 376 01:01:42,730 --> 01:01:43,730 No. 377 01:01:44,050 --> 01:01:45,050 I'll go. 378 01:01:45,670 --> 01:01:47,050 I'd be eternally grateful. 379 01:01:48,300 --> 01:01:50,560 Does it not bother you that he may want something in exchange? 380 01:01:51,240 --> 01:01:52,300 Surely he wouldn't. 381 01:01:52,820 --> 01:01:55,200 He is above such things. Isn't he divine? 382 01:01:55,480 --> 01:01:56,480 So he is. 383 01:01:57,340 --> 01:02:00,600 In the name of divinity, anything is possible. 384 01:02:37,770 --> 01:02:40,690 Caesar, the noble Poppaea wishes an audience with you. 385 01:02:42,230 --> 01:02:43,230 What did you say? 386 01:02:43,830 --> 01:02:45,690 Poppaea Sabina wants to see you. 387 01:02:45,910 --> 01:02:46,970 Is she with her husband? 388 01:02:47,370 --> 01:02:48,370 No, she is alone. 389 01:02:49,190 --> 01:02:54,650 Ah, well, in that case, accompany her to my rooms, where I will receive her. 390 01:02:54,670 --> 01:02:55,670 Keep my guests occupied. 391 01:02:56,110 --> 01:02:58,130 I'm busy, I'm busy, I'm busy at last. 392 01:02:59,410 --> 01:03:00,970 Make way. 393 01:03:01,170 --> 01:03:03,290 I am to replace Caesar in his absence. 394 01:03:09,450 --> 01:03:10,450 My divine one. 395 01:03:10,870 --> 01:03:15,270 So, at last, Aphrodite has deigned to come down from Olympus to see me. 396 01:03:15,590 --> 01:03:20,910 I wanted to be certain that no serious harm had befallen you. What are you 397 01:03:20,910 --> 01:03:21,910 trying to say? 398 01:03:22,670 --> 01:03:24,710 If only I had recognized you, Caesar. 399 01:03:26,250 --> 01:03:31,130 My husband, Rufio, is afraid he may have struck your sacred person, Caesar. 400 01:03:32,030 --> 01:03:36,090 I'm sure Rufio knows full well who it was he struck, and yet he still lives on 401 01:03:36,090 --> 01:03:37,049 to recount it. 402 01:03:37,050 --> 01:03:38,530 Oh, please forgive him, Caesar. 403 01:03:39,040 --> 01:03:41,400 Or the heart that lies in this tender breast will burst. 404 01:03:42,780 --> 01:03:44,760 You may feel how fast it's beating. 405 01:03:45,980 --> 01:03:47,740 I will be magnanimous. 406 01:03:48,420 --> 01:03:50,440 And have him exiled to Lusitania. 407 01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:54,780 But you will remain in the palace as my guest. 408 01:03:55,560 --> 01:03:59,320 As your concubine, you mean? I'd rather commit suicide. Oh, perish the thought. 409 01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:02,640 Divine one, what are you doing? 410 01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:06,560 Oh, just seeking inspiration for a poem I'm composing. 411 01:04:06,840 --> 01:04:07,840 Oh, let me hear it. 412 01:04:24,430 --> 01:04:27,630 If Octavia has left her island exile and returns tomorrow to Rome, I don't give 413 01:04:27,630 --> 01:04:28,630 a fig for what she does. 414 01:04:29,710 --> 01:04:30,710 Poppaea, don't leave me. 415 01:04:32,030 --> 01:04:33,910 If your wife returns, what use am I here? 416 01:04:34,450 --> 01:04:36,890 The divine Octavia has been away so long. 417 01:04:37,390 --> 01:04:39,950 And it is she who deserves your favor, Caesar. 418 01:04:40,330 --> 01:04:41,330 I'll leave you now. 419 01:04:41,610 --> 01:04:42,610 Tigellinus! 420 01:04:43,270 --> 01:04:44,390 May I serve you, Caesar? 421 01:04:46,650 --> 01:04:50,410 Tigellinus, I want you to arrange an apartment for the noble Poppaea near me 422 01:04:50,410 --> 01:04:51,410 the palace. 423 01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:55,540 and send her vile husband, Rufrio, to Lusitania. 424 01:04:56,560 --> 01:04:57,640 Do you understand? 425 01:05:00,700 --> 01:05:04,060 I must think of some reason to put away Octavia. 426 01:05:04,520 --> 01:05:06,360 She is beginning to offend us. 427 01:05:09,060 --> 01:05:11,960 The people love her, and I love Poppea. 428 01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:13,740 I'll put an end to her seizure. 429 01:05:13,980 --> 01:05:18,520 I don't advise it. The legions in Gaul, Germany, and Spain would revolt at once. 430 01:05:24,590 --> 01:05:25,590 situation anymore. 431 01:05:29,550 --> 01:05:31,450 Perhaps I could accuse her of sterility. 432 01:05:31,770 --> 01:05:32,770 No. 433 01:05:32,970 --> 01:05:35,290 Octavia is known throughout Rome as a virgin. 434 01:05:36,310 --> 01:05:38,730 Besides, it might work both ways. 435 01:05:39,550 --> 01:05:44,130 The Romans might begin to doubt your virility, Caesar. 436 01:05:44,510 --> 01:05:46,150 No. No, never. 437 01:05:48,210 --> 01:05:49,590 She needs a lover. Of course. 438 01:05:54,570 --> 01:05:56,890 I know who, so let's not gather moths. 439 01:05:57,950 --> 01:06:00,350 I'm sure you must like this. Oh, wonderful. 440 01:06:00,910 --> 01:06:03,690 I see fingers up and down my spine. 441 01:06:04,870 --> 01:06:08,930 Are you beginning to like your emperor a little? 442 01:06:10,030 --> 01:06:13,150 Well, my emperor is still tied to his Octavia. 443 01:06:16,590 --> 01:06:17,590 Antrobus. 444 01:06:19,190 --> 01:06:20,750 With you desire, ma 'am. 445 01:06:21,250 --> 01:06:23,710 One of these days, I'll really have your balls cut off. 446 01:06:24,200 --> 01:06:25,540 Could you be so cruel, Lord? 447 01:06:26,140 --> 01:06:28,040 I might not. Might not? 448 01:06:29,760 --> 01:06:34,500 I might not. 449 01:06:36,820 --> 01:06:39,620 A way to save you from such a fate does exist. 450 01:07:27,440 --> 01:07:30,640 By Jove and all the deities in heaven, I thought you were a eunuch. 451 01:07:31,400 --> 01:07:33,940 No, I am not, mistress. 452 01:07:37,520 --> 01:07:40,180 Well, in that case, I can find more for you to do than this. 453 01:07:41,320 --> 01:07:44,260 Take me in your arms and kiss me. 454 01:07:45,080 --> 01:07:46,080 That's an order. 455 01:08:01,840 --> 01:08:02,840 are so powerful. 456 01:08:03,320 --> 01:08:04,320 Take me. 457 01:08:04,720 --> 01:08:08,560 Take me and satisfy my longing and my desire. 458 01:08:08,960 --> 01:08:10,040 As you will, Your Majesty. 459 01:08:11,860 --> 01:08:14,820 Mount me as the wild bull mounted Parsifal. 460 01:08:15,200 --> 01:08:19,920 Give me that joy I have after a teller. But now, now, I'm yours. 461 01:08:22,720 --> 01:08:27,380 Don't you see how much simpler it is to open the floodgates of desire and permit 462 01:08:27,380 --> 01:08:29,540 her to do the rest? There, look. 463 01:08:31,840 --> 01:08:33,060 Hold tight, milady. 464 01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:36,439 What are you waiting for, Caesar? 465 01:08:37,380 --> 01:08:38,460 Punish her for adultery. 466 01:08:38,760 --> 01:08:39,760 Or shall I do it? 467 01:08:41,399 --> 01:08:44,160 Oh, it seems a pity to interrupt such a spectacle. 468 01:08:45,540 --> 01:08:47,359 A savage coupled with Aphrodite? 469 01:08:49,920 --> 01:08:51,100 Go get me my lyre. 470 01:09:25,069 --> 01:09:26,590 You're my first and only lover. 471 01:09:27,410 --> 01:09:29,970 Tell me that you'll always be mine from now on. 472 01:09:30,350 --> 01:09:31,609 I'll always be yours. 473 01:09:32,090 --> 01:09:37,750 Oh, you give me such great joy. 474 01:09:40,010 --> 01:09:42,330 Even when I have to endure my husband's mercy. 475 01:09:44,109 --> 01:09:45,109 No! 476 01:09:49,750 --> 01:09:50,750 Sacrilege! 477 01:09:51,310 --> 01:09:54,170 Sacrilege! You dare to insult the greatest power in the world? 478 01:09:55,089 --> 01:09:58,230 Caesar. Have you forgotten all I've done for you? 479 01:09:58,510 --> 01:10:00,990 Loved and protected you as a devoted husband should. 480 01:10:01,210 --> 01:10:03,090 And now you betray me with such words. 481 01:10:04,950 --> 01:10:07,050 I'm sorry. My intentions were good. 482 01:10:07,430 --> 01:10:08,990 I don't care. 483 01:10:10,030 --> 01:10:14,610 What you do with your slaves, that's your own business. But I will not 484 01:10:14,610 --> 01:10:16,250 you insulting the greatest poet in the world. 485 01:10:19,310 --> 01:10:22,150 But I was only telling it. 486 01:10:22,390 --> 01:10:25,140 Your words have offended even... ears of the gods. 487 01:10:25,760 --> 01:10:31,200 The immortal Olympians are filled with abhorrence at your attitude towards 488 01:10:31,200 --> 01:10:35,520 poetry. How can I ever forgive you for this betrayal of my art? 489 01:10:35,740 --> 01:10:39,920 Did you lead us? Oh, listen to your emperor's words. 490 01:10:41,000 --> 01:10:46,800 I hereby accuse Octavia of sedition and blasphemy, and I want you to cut off my 491 01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:47,800 heart! 492 01:11:08,880 --> 01:11:09,880 You have excelled yourself. 493 01:11:11,280 --> 01:11:13,060 What do you think, Petronius? 494 01:11:13,580 --> 01:11:17,880 A poem worthy only to be consigned to the fire it describes. 495 01:11:19,960 --> 01:11:23,140 What do you find wrong with it? How can you ask me that? 496 01:11:23,720 --> 01:11:25,240 Are you so blind to it? 497 01:11:26,080 --> 01:11:30,240 Virgil or Ovid or even Homer could have conceived of this or something like it. 498 01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:33,800 But we expect a lot more of you. 499 01:11:34,720 --> 01:11:37,300 I don't know what it lacks exactly. 500 01:11:38,470 --> 01:11:39,930 But there are no real flames in it. 501 01:11:42,170 --> 01:11:46,470 You, my dear Nero, are able to produce marvelous poetry. 502 01:11:47,450 --> 01:11:49,050 I have to agree with you. 503 01:11:50,970 --> 01:11:57,290 There's no reality in my poem about the burning of the city of Troy. 504 01:11:59,490 --> 01:12:05,230 Petronius, were you upset about the destruction of that city? 505 01:12:06,090 --> 01:12:07,510 Well, I must answer, no. 506 01:12:09,710 --> 01:12:11,150 Must have been a wonderful spectacle. 507 01:12:11,610 --> 01:12:12,750 I wish I'd witnessed it. 508 01:12:13,790 --> 01:12:15,150 Good, I'm glad you said that. 509 01:12:16,750 --> 01:12:19,430 There are no values outside poetry and art. 510 01:12:21,410 --> 01:12:27,430 How happy I'd be to observe a whole city hurled down into the abyss. 511 01:12:31,750 --> 01:12:36,470 Some way, I'll see such things on my own. 512 01:12:58,830 --> 01:13:01,930 The summer is almost upon us. 513 01:13:02,570 --> 01:13:04,370 I'm not going to stay here in Rome. 514 01:13:05,090 --> 01:13:06,530 It's hot as a stew. 515 01:13:09,330 --> 01:13:10,610 And filthy. 516 01:13:12,130 --> 01:13:14,630 We'll take the whole court down to Anzio. 517 01:13:16,730 --> 01:13:21,290 I want to be always surrounded with people who are bright and gay. 518 01:13:23,190 --> 01:13:25,170 And sleep well at night. 519 01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:28,680 You think too much. 520 01:13:29,420 --> 01:13:31,580 And that can be very dangerous. 521 01:13:34,500 --> 01:13:36,100 You have nothing to fear. 522 01:13:36,720 --> 01:13:38,720 I want only to be your friend. 523 01:13:39,060 --> 01:13:43,520 You realize that one nod from me and you'd lose that pretty head of yours. 524 01:13:45,740 --> 01:13:50,360 My head, like my body, divine one, are yours to do with as you wish. 525 01:13:53,040 --> 01:13:54,040 You're home. 526 01:15:27,310 --> 01:15:29,530 Okay, huh? Okay. 527 01:16:53,230 --> 01:16:54,209 reconstruct Rome. 528 01:16:54,210 --> 01:16:59,510 It'll be the world's most exciting city. Indeed, the eighth wonder of the world. 529 01:16:59,710 --> 01:17:01,370 So modern, yet immortal. 530 01:17:02,170 --> 01:17:03,170 Truly a wonder. 531 01:17:04,990 --> 01:17:06,290 A great monument. 532 01:17:06,850 --> 01:17:10,230 A great metropolis such as this must have a name as great. 533 01:17:11,390 --> 01:17:12,810 Let's call it Neronica. 534 01:17:13,530 --> 01:17:17,050 Yes, I think that would suit it admirably. What a splendid idea. 535 01:17:17,290 --> 01:17:18,290 No. 536 01:17:18,530 --> 01:17:20,390 I want it to bear the name 537 01:17:21,550 --> 01:17:22,550 Neuropolis. 538 01:18:04,010 --> 01:18:05,010 I want you to leave us. 539 01:18:05,410 --> 01:18:07,070 If I need you, I'll summon you. 540 01:18:19,630 --> 01:18:22,270 Androverse, come and teach me how to stay afloat in the water. 541 01:18:23,170 --> 01:18:24,170 That is an order! 542 01:18:28,870 --> 01:18:31,930 Take off your long glow. 543 01:18:32,330 --> 01:18:34,010 After all, what is a unit to hide? 544 01:18:44,070 --> 01:18:47,190 Oh, I must say, that's a real one. 545 01:18:47,630 --> 01:18:49,590 I never saw one that size. 546 01:18:50,650 --> 01:18:55,370 How fortunate to find one after all these years. It's quite the most 547 01:18:55,370 --> 01:18:56,370 and cute. 548 01:20:23,050 --> 01:20:26,790 I see the flames and fires among them. 549 01:20:27,430 --> 01:20:28,430 Divine one. 550 01:20:29,910 --> 01:20:30,910 Divine organ. 551 01:20:32,870 --> 01:20:33,890 Well, what is it? 552 01:20:34,890 --> 01:20:35,890 Forgive me, Caesar. 553 01:20:36,250 --> 01:20:39,890 Rome is on fire. The center and the palatine are consumed with flames. 554 01:20:40,350 --> 01:20:42,190 Oh, you bring good news. A fire. 555 01:20:42,750 --> 01:20:45,490 It's what I've been waiting for. At last, I can write my poem. 556 01:20:47,110 --> 01:20:48,290 Where do you get the best news? 557 01:20:48,830 --> 01:20:51,650 Caesar, the city's ablaze with smoke and fire. 558 01:20:52,360 --> 01:20:54,020 People are being burned alive. 559 01:20:54,900 --> 01:20:58,240 These buildings are being razed to the ground, piles of rubble. 560 01:20:58,580 --> 01:20:59,740 Cattle are being destroyed. 561 01:21:01,320 --> 01:21:02,320 Freedom. 562 01:22:19,820 --> 01:22:21,760 Don't you realize that Rome's on fire? 563 01:22:22,340 --> 01:22:26,380 Anyone who doesn't watch the glorious death throes of Rome is a fool. 564 01:23:11,790 --> 01:23:13,710 It's a marvelous spectacle. 565 01:23:14,410 --> 01:23:17,070 How more exciting than I ever imagined. 566 01:23:18,090 --> 01:23:19,090 It's wonderful. 567 01:23:19,930 --> 01:23:21,750 Wonderful. Oh. 568 01:23:27,830 --> 01:23:30,150 Oh, all the citizens are running away. 569 01:23:31,230 --> 01:23:32,670 Nobody's staying to watch. 570 01:23:33,010 --> 01:23:36,370 What use is there ruling if there's no one left to rule? 571 01:23:37,250 --> 01:23:39,530 Oh, my dear glass, did you leave us? 572 01:23:42,090 --> 01:23:43,650 an emperor with no robe. 573 01:23:44,330 --> 01:23:46,210 Give me my lyre. 574 01:23:52,370 --> 01:23:59,290 Ah, the city is flaming. The populace bleeds. The fire is 575 01:23:59,290 --> 01:24:00,290 gaining. 576 01:24:15,310 --> 01:24:16,950 Far more pink than orange. 577 01:24:19,530 --> 01:24:20,850 You're ungrateful! 578 01:24:21,510 --> 01:24:25,050 Unworthy! Save us! 579 01:24:25,330 --> 01:24:26,510 Save us! 580 01:24:27,270 --> 01:24:28,530 Fight for us! 581 01:24:28,810 --> 01:24:29,810 Fight for us! 582 01:24:30,590 --> 01:24:35,230 You hear that? 583 01:24:35,930 --> 01:24:37,070 The cranes! 584 01:24:37,930 --> 01:24:39,250 What have I done? 585 01:24:39,550 --> 01:24:41,910 They think it's my fault all this fire and... 586 01:25:13,420 --> 01:25:14,660 to escape to Greece, Caesar. 587 01:25:15,320 --> 01:25:17,980 It's easy to leave, but difficult to return. 588 01:25:18,620 --> 01:25:21,080 We could return with the legions from the Middle East. 589 01:25:22,340 --> 01:25:24,200 And that's what we'll do. 590 01:25:25,540 --> 01:25:27,420 I consider it inadvisable, Caesar. 591 01:25:27,640 --> 01:25:30,040 Civil war will break out before you can reach Austria. 592 01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:33,400 That ungrateful mob! 593 01:25:34,660 --> 01:25:39,680 Did I not give you flour and abundance to cook your miserable bread? 594 01:25:59,310 --> 01:26:05,910 In posterity, those words came spontaneously from my lips. 595 01:26:07,250 --> 01:26:10,290 Did you hear the wisdom of it? They'll court you in the history books. 596 01:26:12,410 --> 01:26:14,590 That mob is thirsting for revenge. 597 01:26:17,330 --> 01:26:21,910 Let's tell them that Rome was set on fire by slaves. 598 01:26:22,130 --> 01:26:23,510 No one will believe us. 599 01:26:34,600 --> 01:26:35,620 Tutelina's too lovely. 600 01:26:36,180 --> 01:26:37,360 You know I do, Caesar. 601 01:26:38,340 --> 01:26:40,720 Then you could sacrifice yourself for me. 602 01:26:41,880 --> 01:26:45,660 You realize that the Praetorian Guard would rebel if I took the 603 01:26:46,020 --> 01:26:49,440 Don't forget, Caesar, that they know perfectly well that I acted on your 604 01:26:50,300 --> 01:26:53,020 You hear that, Petronius? I've nurtured a viper! 605 01:27:04,590 --> 01:27:09,830 One scapegoat for the mass is not enough. You need many thousands. 606 01:27:10,770 --> 01:27:15,350 Surely you must have heard about that mysterious group here who worship the 607 01:27:15,350 --> 01:27:16,350 god and call themselves... 608 01:28:17,730 --> 01:28:19,350 Special torchlight that I wanted. 609 01:28:19,630 --> 01:28:20,810 Everything is as you wish. 610 01:34:58,220 --> 01:34:59,220 when I'm in need of him. 611 01:35:01,300 --> 01:35:03,340 And where is my Praetorian God? 612 01:35:05,960 --> 01:35:07,620 They've all left you at last. 613 01:35:08,440 --> 01:35:09,760 You and I are alone. 614 01:35:10,980 --> 01:35:12,080 One and one. 615 01:35:12,780 --> 01:35:15,900 That makes just the two of us. I'll stay with you. 616 01:35:16,240 --> 01:35:18,500 You will? Of course, if you want me. 617 01:35:19,400 --> 01:35:21,600 You were the one who suggested I had the Christians killed. 618 01:35:22,660 --> 01:35:23,840 What is that, Madame? 619 01:35:24,420 --> 01:35:27,560 We must enjoy the few moments that are left. 620 01:35:27,790 --> 01:35:28,790 Thank you so much. 621 01:39:50,350 --> 01:39:51,350 live like an emperor. 622 01:39:52,130 --> 01:39:53,750 You must at least die like one.