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I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus..

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Nero Germanicus..

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this-that-and-the-other...

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who was once, and not so long ago,

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better known to my friends
and relatives as Claudius the Idiot,

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or That Fool Claudius,

7
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or Claudius the Stammered...

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am now about to write
this strange history of my life.

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Are you there?

10
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Yes you're there. I can feel it

11
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I can feel your presence yes

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I knew you would come
the moment I began to write.

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Yes it was inevitable.

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it was prophesied by the Sibyl

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Spies. Spies everywhere
spying on me.

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In my bed at my prayers
on the street..

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Even in the lavatory. Spies!

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I'll cheat them every one.

19
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it was prophesied by the Sibyl

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I went to Cumae many years ago
to consult her.

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She was most famous

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Her prophecies had achieved
worldwide renown

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and she did not consent
to see everyone.

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Unexpectedly,
she consented to see me.

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I was terrified.

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"Oh Sibyl", I said

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"I've c-come to question you
about Rome's fate and mine."

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"Hear me Cl-Cl-Claudius, "
she answered mocking my stammer.

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"Apollo speaks to you through me.

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"Listen closely."

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(WOMAN) What groans
beneath the Punic Curse

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And strangles
in the strings of purse

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Before she mends must sicken worse.

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Ten years, 50 days and three
Clau-Clau-Claudius shall given be

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A gift that all desire but he.

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But when he's dumb and no more here

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Nineteen hundred year or near,

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Clau-Clau-Claudius
shall speak clear.

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Yes That's what it means

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In nineteen hundred years from now
they'll hear me.

41
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Not before.

42
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No.

43
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A box. I need a box.

44
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I'll put it all in here. My story.

45
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My history of the family. Yes

46
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And the end of the Republic Yes

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When I've finished I'll seal it
and bury it where no one will find it

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No. No one.

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Not for nineteen hundred years
or more.

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Then it will turn up suddenly.

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People will read it
They'll know the truth.

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My voice as the Sibyl said
as she prophesied

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for them -
not for these fools in Rome

54
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but for them out there
in remote posterity.

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For you.

56
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Yes. It will all be in here sealed.

57
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You will find it, I promise you.

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I, Claudius,

59
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am now about to begin
this strange history of my life...

60
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of my family.

61
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Of Livia my grandmother.

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Of Augustus Caesar.
Of Marcus Agrippa.

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Yes And his hatred for Marcellus

64
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Excellent! Excellent!

65
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Thallus!

66
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See they’re well taken care of.
They were splendid.

67
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- Yes, Caesar.
- And sea they’re properly fed.

68
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They’ll eat better
than the kitchen staff, Caesar.

69
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There's no need to go that far.
Better than us will be sufficient.

70
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You know, Marcus,
I like to eat sparingly.

71
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There's too much gluttony in Rome.

72
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But this one day is very special
I like to make an exception.

73
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And I've got a surprise for you.
Two, as a matter of fact.

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Thallus!

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- Bring in the cake.

76
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- But it's for the end of the meal
- I want the family to sea it.

77
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Aristarchus of Athens is in Rome.

78
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Oh, Marcus. They say that he's
the greatest orator of our time,

79
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and he's going to prepare an oration

80
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for the anniversary
of the battle of Actium.

81
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- Oh, no!

82
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- We had one last year.
- That was last year.

83
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Anyway, the speaker was dull
This man, they say he's wonderful

84
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"Seven years today sank Antony
and his hopes in the harbour of Actium."

85
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How the young mock
the battle scars of their elders.

86
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- Battle scars!
- A lot of good men died there,

87
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and a lot of good men got scarred.
It's not right to make light of it.

88
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- He's just being provocative.
- No.

89
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I think we exaggerate
its significance.

90
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Now, Marcellus, let's not argue.
Marcus...

91
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No. Let's hear
what the young genius has to say.

92
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- Well?.
- Look! Here is the cake.

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- Do we get one each?
- Julia, for heaven's sake!

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- Marcus, do you recognise it?.
- It's my ship.

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- You made it your headquarters.
- She was a fine ship.

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That must be you, Marcus.
The candied cherry in the prow.

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(AUGUSTUS LAUGHS)

98
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Marcellus, please.
These things mean something to us.

99
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We're taking ourselves
a little seriously.

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(MARCUS) Not seriously enough.

101
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Livia, isn't that a wonderful cake?

102
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- Wonderful
- Don't you like it?.

103
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Bring in the Greek. If you keep him
waiting longer, he'll need a shave.

104
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As a matter of fact he's bearded.

105
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Thallus, bring in the Greek.

106
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- Leave the cake.
- Take the cake.

107
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Marcus, they say
that he writes a sort of prose hymn.

108
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What can that mean?
It's a form I've never heard of.

109
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One of these new Greek inventions.

110
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They’re always inventing.
Why are they so clever?.

111
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If they’re so clever, why are they
our province instead of vice versa?

112
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- Ah, Aristarchus, welcome.
- Hail. Caesar.

113
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I hope we haven't kept you waiting.

114
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Come. We're ready now.

115
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Give us your piece.

116
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Give me your peace, Caesar,
and I shall gladly give you mine.

117
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Yes, of course. I'm sorry. Thallus.

118
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Caesar calls for silence!

119
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What a voice.
Perhaps we should change places?

120
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Only the Romans can afford ushers
with a voice like that.

121
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- Did you have it trained?
- I was an actor, sir.

122
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That explains it. Resting, are you?

123
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No, sir. I've given it up.

124
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Everyone's an actor in Rome.
There isn't enough work.

125
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And what there is goes to friends.
It's the same everywhere.

126
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The theatre isn't what it was.

127
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No. And I'll tell you
something else.

128
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It never was what it was.

129
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Thallus, please discuss your
personal problems in your own time.

130
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Today is a day to drink and dance!

131
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Let us rival the priests of Mars

132
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with feats to dock
the couches of the Gods.

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Seven summers past,

134
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the wild queen, Cleopatra,

135
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dreaming her dreams of ruin
on your lovely Empire,

136
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sailed her hopes
into the harbour of Actium,

137
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and there, with noble Antony,
spa curses on the ships of Caesar

138
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and cried, "Sink Rome!
And all her minions.

139
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"Egypt's not for conquests!"

140
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But words do not kill
and curses sink no ships.

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Before she could catch her
scented breath, mighty Agrippa...

142
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(CLAUDIUS)
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.

143
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Old friend and commander
of the armies of Augustus -

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Emperor of Rome
and most remarkable man.

145
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But even more remarkable
was Livia his second wife.

146
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If Augustus ruled the world,
Livia ruled Augustus.

147
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Octavia - Augustus’ sister...

148
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mother of Marcellus

149
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And next to him, Julia
his wife - Augustus' only daughter.

150
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Augustus was now clearly
preferring Marcellus over Agrippa.

151
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And Agrippa knew it

152
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And Antony, once proud Antony,

153
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fearing to be last,

154
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chased her to the very gates
of heaven!

155
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Romans! Remember them!

156
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Their fateful deaths grace
your lives today with living legend.

157
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Your names and theirs...

158
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in history,
will be forever intertwined.

159
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Wonderful

160
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Wonderful

161
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What a gift you Greeks have.

162
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Incidentally, the battle
wasn't like that.

163
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- No?
- No, not at all

164
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But you described it poetically.
I understand that.

165
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It was poetic licence.
I'm used to that.

166
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I write a little poetry myself.
Could I show it to you sometime?

167
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- I'd be honoured, Caesar.
- It's nothing professional.

168
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but it's not bad,
though I say it myself.

169
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Ah, Thallus has found a place
for you.

170
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We'll talk some more later.

171
00:13:07,087 --> 00:13:09,203
Wasn't that beautiful?.

172
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He doesn't know about naval battles.

173
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(MARCELLUS) Well. it wasn't
much of a battle, was it?.

174
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I beg your pardon?

175
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One wine-soaked lover
and his Egyptian whore?

176
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I could have put up
a better show myself.

177
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Now, now, Marcellus.

178
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- Let's not fool ourselves.
- You know all about it, do you?

179
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Yes. I've studied that battle
and I'm not impressed.

180
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It wasn't a famous victory.
The result was a foregone conclusion.

181
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- Let's watch the acrobats...
- Just a minute!

182
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I won't be taught my kids who've
only just learned to piss in a pot.

183
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When you've actually done something,
come back and talk to me again.

184
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- If you'll excuse me.
- Marcus, it's early.

185
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It seams late to me. Too late.

186
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Perhaps that's because
I'm such an old man!

187
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Thallus!

188
00:14:08,727 --> 00:14:10,558
Oh, get rid of them!

189
00:14:11,047 --> 00:14:12,844
Marcus!

190
00:14:14,127 --> 00:14:15,719
Marcus!

191
00:14:26,327 --> 00:14:29,399
My grandmother Livia.

192
00:14:29,567 --> 00:14:34,083
Her mind always turning.
Always scheming.

193
00:14:36,287 --> 00:14:38,847
And I - Claudius?

194
00:14:39,007 --> 00:14:41,396
You ask, where am I?

195
00:14:42,167 --> 00:14:46,399
I am not yet born,
but will be soon.

196
00:14:47,767 --> 00:14:51,999
Now I must continue with the story
of the rivalry between Marcellus and Agrippa.

197
00:14:54,687 --> 00:14:56,279
(KNOCKING)

198
00:14:56,447 --> 00:14:58,085
(LIVIA) Yes?

199
00:15:04,527 --> 00:15:07,405
- Yes?
- Caesar is asking for you, Lady.

200
00:15:07,567 --> 00:15:10,684
- Yes. I'll come soon.
- He says at once.

201
00:15:10,847 --> 00:15:13,236
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
is with him.

202
00:15:25,647 --> 00:15:27,638
You'd better come down.

203
00:15:28,567 --> 00:15:30,364
And wait outside.

204
00:15:31,207 --> 00:15:33,596
I don't understand you.

205
00:15:33,767 --> 00:15:36,918
You want to leave Rome,
but you won't say why.

206
00:15:37,087 --> 00:15:41,160
- You don't need me here anymore.
- Let me be the judge of that.

207
00:15:41,327 --> 00:15:45,798
Appoint me Governor of Syria
and I'll deal with that Parthian king.

208
00:15:45,967 --> 00:15:49,084
- It's time someone did.
- He wants to leave Rome.

209
00:15:49,247 --> 00:15:53,525
- Why, Marcus?
- He doesn't need me in Rome.

210
00:15:53,687 --> 00:15:56,759
That's not the reason.
You're not being straight with me.

211
00:15:56,927 --> 00:16:01,125
Not straight?.
Oh, no, don't say that to me.

212
00:16:01,367 --> 00:16:05,758
If one man has bean straight with you,
it's Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.

213
00:16:08,527 --> 00:16:11,041
- Is it Marcellus?
- Marcellus?

214
00:16:11,207 --> 00:16:13,960
- What's he got to do with it?.
- I don't know.

215
00:16:14,127 --> 00:16:17,085
Do you object to my
appointing him City Magistrate?

216
00:16:17,247 --> 00:16:19,556
It's got nothing to do
with Marcellus.

217
00:16:20,487 --> 00:16:24,116
He's a capable man - another
reason why you don't need me here.

218
00:16:24,287 --> 00:16:27,120
Look, Marcus, we're old friends.

219
00:16:27,287 --> 00:16:30,916
We've shared a lot of campaigns.
If Marcellus has upset you...

220
00:16:31,087 --> 00:16:34,557
Lady, talk to him. It's not Marcellus.
I'm very fond of the boy.

221
00:16:34,727 --> 00:16:36,046
We all are.

222
00:16:36,207 --> 00:16:40,166
His friends can be high-handed,
but I was young once and had friends.

223
00:16:40,327 --> 00:16:43,080
Yes. The greatest friend
a man aver had.

224
00:16:43,247 --> 00:16:47,001
- Marcus...
- I'm not a man to hide my feelings.

225
00:16:47,167 --> 00:16:49,362
- You know I feel the same.
- Of course.

226
00:16:49,527 --> 00:16:51,995
I'd have gone long ago
if I hadn't thought that.

227
00:16:52,167 --> 00:16:56,445
That's why I can say to you now
that I've got nothing against Marcellus.

228
00:16:57,207 --> 00:16:58,526
Nothing.

229
00:16:59,887 --> 00:17:02,242
He's a very gifted young man.

230
00:17:03,487 --> 00:17:07,400
If you've advanced him ahead
of his years, that's only natural

231
00:17:07,567 --> 00:17:11,162
I'm very relieved to hear it.
I know there's bean friction.

232
00:17:11,327 --> 00:17:15,605
Not between you and him,
but between his followers and yours.

233
00:17:15,767 --> 00:17:18,281
Followers? Who has followers?

234
00:17:18,447 --> 00:17:22,360
Oh, he may have followers.
Such things don't come within my notice.

235
00:17:22,527 --> 00:17:26,315
But me? I have followers? Show me.
Where are my followers?

236
00:17:27,087 --> 00:17:29,043
Lady, do you sea any?.

237
00:17:29,207 --> 00:17:32,040
Not followers,
but people like to make factions,

238
00:17:32,207 --> 00:17:35,244
and that makes bad feeling
faster than boiled asparagus.

239
00:17:35,407 --> 00:17:37,921
There's no bad feeling.

240
00:17:38,287 --> 00:17:42,075
You've put my mind at rest.
If you feel you have to leave Rome...

241
00:17:42,247 --> 00:17:44,283
I don't feel I have to leave.

242
00:17:44,447 --> 00:17:46,802
I just think I could be more use
in the East.

243
00:17:52,407 --> 00:17:55,956
Of course, if you feel
you really need me in Rome...

244
00:17:56,127 --> 00:17:59,005
No, no, I'm sure you're right.
You usually are.

245
00:17:59,167 --> 00:18:01,442
Your instincts are always
very sound.

246
00:18:02,847 --> 00:18:04,758
When will you leave?

247
00:18:09,127 --> 00:18:10,958
In a few days.

248
00:18:11,127 --> 00:18:14,483
Then we'll have all Rome at Ostia
to sea you off.

249
00:18:15,127 --> 00:18:18,039
"For the Senate
and the People of Rome," eh?

250
00:18:18,207 --> 00:18:20,277
For the Senate
and the People of Rome!

251
00:18:23,487 --> 00:18:25,557
Goodbye, old friend.

252
00:18:26,927 --> 00:18:28,246
Goodbye.

253
00:18:40,687 --> 00:18:43,884
Damn him! What does he think he is?

254
00:18:44,047 --> 00:18:46,880
We know whom he thinks he is.
Your successor.

255
00:18:47,047 --> 00:18:50,278
He's too old!
I need to groom a younger man.

256
00:18:51,207 --> 00:18:54,005
We can't do without Marcus Agrippa.

257
00:18:54,167 --> 00:18:56,886
Give him five months,
then call him back.

258
00:18:57,047 --> 00:18:58,958
- No.
- Do it, my dear.

259
00:18:59,127 --> 00:19:02,756
Better to call him back when you
don't need him than when you do.

260
00:19:02,927 --> 00:19:05,441
No! I know what I'm doing.

261
00:19:08,287 --> 00:19:12,565
My son is waiting outside to pay
his respects. Will you sea him?

262
00:19:13,647 --> 00:19:15,080
Of course.

263
00:19:24,687 --> 00:19:28,362
Ah, Tiberius. You're off
to join our troops in Germany?.

264
00:19:28,527 --> 00:19:31,325
- Yes, Caesar.
- I'm sure you'll do well for us.

265
00:19:31,487 --> 00:19:33,637
Remember that we need good generals.

266
00:19:33,807 --> 00:19:36,241
The Empire won't hold together
without.

267
00:19:36,407 --> 00:19:40,241
Write to me. I like to have views
from all sides.

268
00:19:40,407 --> 00:19:43,205
It helps me to make up my mind
about things.

269
00:19:43,367 --> 00:19:44,766
Yes.

270
00:19:44,927 --> 00:19:47,043
And now I have things to do.

271
00:19:47,207 --> 00:19:48,959
Yes, yes, many things.

272
00:19:49,927 --> 00:19:53,920
Well. the best of luck go with you,
and all the Muses.

273
00:20:01,887 --> 00:20:04,037
I could have saved myself
the trouble.

274
00:20:04,207 --> 00:20:07,244
Oh, you're so keen
to save yourself trouble.

275
00:20:07,407 --> 00:20:10,319
Did that cost you so much -
a hail and farewell?.

276
00:20:10,487 --> 00:20:14,241
- He doesn't like me.
- Well. we can't all be lovable,

277
00:20:14,407 --> 00:20:16,363
though we could try a bit harder.

278
00:20:16,527 --> 00:20:18,358
It's my nature. I can't change it.

279
00:20:18,527 --> 00:20:22,440
And wouldn't if you could.
You've a mighty high opinion of yourself.

280
00:20:22,607 --> 00:20:25,838
I wonder you didn't transfer
your hopes to my brother.

281
00:20:26,007 --> 00:20:28,475
I might have done that long ago

282
00:20:28,647 --> 00:20:32,765
if he didn't share the idiotic hopes
your father had of another Republic.

283
00:20:32,927 --> 00:20:36,078
Besides, I took the auspices
when you were born

284
00:20:36,247 --> 00:20:38,158
and they were very favourable.

285
00:20:38,327 --> 00:20:40,841
Not that old chicken story again.

286
00:20:41,007 --> 00:20:43,316
You may sneer all you like,

287
00:20:43,487 --> 00:20:46,797
but I marked a Zodiac
on the floor of the hen-house

288
00:20:46,967 --> 00:20:50,403
and a chicken came down
and rested on your birth sign.

289
00:20:50,567 --> 00:20:54,560
I took its egg and warmed it
in my hands and it hatched -

290
00:20:54,727 --> 00:20:59,676
a young cock chick, and it already
had a fine comb on its head.

291
00:21:01,487 --> 00:21:03,603
You haven't much patience, have you?

292
00:21:03,767 --> 00:21:05,997
You want everything at once.

293
00:21:07,767 --> 00:21:11,476
Twenty years ago,
Augustus ruled with Mark Antony,

294
00:21:11,647 --> 00:21:17,085
but I could sea that wouldn't last -
I could sea one man would be king.

295
00:21:18,007 --> 00:21:22,285
So I divorced your father
and married Augustus and waited.

296
00:21:22,847 --> 00:21:26,999
Now where would I be now
if I'd wanted everything at once, eh?

297
00:21:27,167 --> 00:21:29,283
And where would you be?

298
00:21:29,447 --> 00:21:33,565
Where am I now for all your patience
and your prophetic chickens?

299
00:21:33,727 --> 00:21:37,481
You are my son and I am Augustus'
wife - that's where you are.

300
00:21:37,647 --> 00:21:41,322
And in the long run, that's better
than being anybody else,

301
00:21:41,487 --> 00:21:43,364
even Marcellus or Marcus Agrippa.

302
00:21:46,287 --> 00:21:48,721
Now you may kiss me
and take your leave.

303
00:21:54,487 --> 00:21:57,206
Remember my prophetic chickens
and have patience.

304
00:21:59,447 --> 00:22:03,520
Do well on the Rhine. Your brother
is covering himself with glory.

305
00:22:03,687 --> 00:22:06,724
- We mustn't fall behind.
- Have I aver?.

306
00:22:06,887 --> 00:22:08,320
No.

307
00:22:08,487 --> 00:22:12,765
In the less imaginative arts,
you are certainly to be relied upon.

308
00:22:15,407 --> 00:22:18,956
And now my grandmother's mind
turned more and more

309
00:22:19,127 --> 00:22:21,277
towards the removal of Marcellus

310
00:22:23,847 --> 00:22:27,522
Good day, Mother.
You look a little piqued. Are you feeling well?.

311
00:22:28,407 --> 00:22:31,205
- Lady.
- I slept badly last night.

312
00:22:31,367 --> 00:22:35,519
There's so much noise in the streets
at night. Can't we do something?

313
00:22:35,687 --> 00:22:37,598
The traffic must move sometime.

314
00:22:37,767 --> 00:22:40,486
Would you have it move
during the day?.

315
00:22:40,647 --> 00:22:44,959
There's too many people in Rome.
They keep coming in from everywhere.

316
00:22:45,127 --> 00:22:47,322
Syria, Gaul. Germany.

317
00:22:47,487 --> 00:22:50,559
They’re the life blood.
They make Rome what it is.

318
00:22:50,727 --> 00:22:53,321
Noisy, garish and uninhabitable!

319
00:22:53,487 --> 00:22:56,797
It shall be even worse
when the Games begin.

320
00:22:56,967 --> 00:22:59,765
Look at that! Isn't it a beauty.

321
00:22:59,927 --> 00:23:01,838
- Off your tree?
- Of course.

322
00:23:02,007 --> 00:23:05,317
You know, you should eat more pears,
Livia.

323
00:23:05,487 --> 00:23:07,557
How can I? You pick them all

324
00:23:07,727 --> 00:23:10,400
I'll have some more sent
from the country.

325
00:23:10,567 --> 00:23:13,206
Marcellus, we must talk
about these games.

326
00:23:13,367 --> 00:23:17,121
- Yes. I want to do something new.
- That sounds familiar.

327
00:23:17,287 --> 00:23:21,644
I want to really celebrate
my appointment as City Magistrate.

328
00:23:21,807 --> 00:23:24,765
What earth quaking innovations
are we to sea?

329
00:23:24,927 --> 00:23:27,202
Giraffes riding elephants?

330
00:23:27,367 --> 00:23:30,040
I want to tent in all the theatres.

331
00:23:30,207 --> 00:23:34,246
Turn the whole marketplace
into a gigantic multi-coloured marquee.

332
00:23:34,407 --> 00:23:36,204
- Cover it.
- That's all?.

333
00:23:36,367 --> 00:23:38,642
No. I have an idea for a battle

334
00:23:38,807 --> 00:23:42,163
between 50 Germans
and 50 blacks from Morocco.

335
00:23:42,327 --> 00:23:44,761
Yes. And who's going to pay
for all this?

336
00:23:44,927 --> 00:23:46,918
I am, for part.

337
00:23:47,327 --> 00:23:50,683
- And so are you.
- Yes, that's what I thought.

338
00:23:51,487 --> 00:23:56,083
Come on. Would you consider 20
Germans against 20 black Moroccans?

339
00:23:56,247 --> 00:23:58,317
He spoils him.

340
00:23:58,487 --> 00:24:02,366
It would be hard not to.
He has such winning ways.

341
00:24:02,527 --> 00:24:04,757
Oh, yes, he has winning ways
all right.

342
00:24:04,927 --> 00:24:07,919
People fall over themselves
to do things for him.

343
00:24:08,087 --> 00:24:10,840
I must go in. It's too hot.

344
00:24:11,527 --> 00:24:14,200
Come, Antonia, I think
you should lie down.

345
00:24:14,367 --> 00:24:15,880
Coming, Mother.

346
00:24:17,847 --> 00:24:21,965
I hear there was opposition in the Senate
to Marcellus' appointment.

347
00:24:22,127 --> 00:24:25,358
Nothing to speak of.
Just some friends of Agrippa.

348
00:24:26,927 --> 00:24:31,000
They’re always ready to remind your father
there are no kings in Rome.

349
00:24:31,167 --> 00:24:34,239
I don't know why he puts up
with the Senate at all

350
00:24:34,407 --> 00:24:37,763
Your father observes the forms.
It's very important.

351
00:24:37,927 --> 00:24:40,760
Romans like to believe
they govern themselves.

352
00:24:40,927 --> 00:24:44,715
The older ones do perhaps,
but I don't think it matters to us.

353
00:24:44,887 --> 00:24:48,038
You should hear Marcellus' friends talk.

354
00:24:48,207 --> 00:24:50,163
He's very popular, isn't he?

355
00:24:50,327 --> 00:24:52,318
- Yes.
- With you too?

356
00:24:52,487 --> 00:24:56,275
- Why do you ask?
- Well. there are no children yet.

357
00:24:57,247 --> 00:24:59,761
There's no issue
between you and Father

358
00:24:59,927 --> 00:25:02,919
and you've bean married
for 20 years.

359
00:25:03,807 --> 00:25:08,562
True. Still. I'm very happy
with your father.

360
00:25:08,727 --> 00:25:10,365
And I am with Marcellus.

361
00:25:10,527 --> 00:25:13,917
I'm pleased. There's no substitute
for a happy marriage.

362
00:25:14,087 --> 00:25:15,520
No.

363
00:25:16,807 --> 00:25:20,641
Mind you, they seam to be few
and far between these days.

364
00:25:22,407 --> 00:25:25,763
I always thought Tiberius
was lucky with his Vipsania.

365
00:25:25,927 --> 00:25:29,522
Yes. Yes, they’re very much in love.

366
00:25:31,207 --> 00:25:34,916
You know, when I first married
your father,

367
00:25:35,087 --> 00:25:38,716
you and Tiberius were children
and you used to play together.

368
00:25:38,887 --> 00:25:41,162
- Do you remember?.
- Yes, I remember.

369
00:25:41,327 --> 00:25:45,843
And when you grew up, you seamed
so fond of one another.

370
00:25:46,487 --> 00:25:48,398
I once had hopes...

371
00:25:49,087 --> 00:25:51,123
Yes, I used to adore him.

372
00:25:53,047 --> 00:25:55,515
How foolish one is
when one is young.

373
00:25:58,447 --> 00:26:00,438
(HUM OF A CROWD)

374
00:26:00,607 --> 00:26:03,201
I wish to await the arrival
of Marcellus.

375
00:26:22,767 --> 00:26:26,316
You're not going to read letters
during the performance?

376
00:26:26,487 --> 00:26:29,479
I sea no reason to sit
doing nothing while we wait.

377
00:26:29,647 --> 00:26:32,036
- It looks so bad.
- These are urgent.

378
00:26:32,207 --> 00:26:35,916
My great uncle Julius used to do it.
The crowd never liked it.

379
00:26:44,927 --> 00:26:48,966
Wait till you sea what Marcellus has
arranged. He's got a rhinoceros.

380
00:26:49,127 --> 00:26:51,595
- What's that?.
- An extraordinary beast.

381
00:26:51,767 --> 00:26:53,598
It's got a horn on its nose.

382
00:26:53,767 --> 00:26:56,361
So has Scipio's wife.
He could have used her.

383
00:27:00,007 --> 00:27:03,966
Ah, Marcellus. We've bean waiting
for you. Julia. Octavia.

384
00:27:04,567 --> 00:27:06,080
Marcellus!

385
00:27:22,607 --> 00:27:25,565
(CROWD ROARS)

386
00:27:25,927 --> 00:27:28,236
I told you he was popular.

387
00:27:45,687 --> 00:27:47,837
(CROWD ROARS)

388
00:27:53,927 --> 00:27:57,044
(TUMULTUOUS CHEERING)

389
00:28:01,127 --> 00:28:04,119
(FANFARE)

390
00:28:08,127 --> 00:28:11,597
Let the Games begin!

391
00:28:11,767 --> 00:28:13,917
(CROWD ROARS)

392
00:28:25,847 --> 00:28:27,565
Are you all right?.

393
00:28:28,407 --> 00:28:31,126
- I have a headache.
- What a shame.

394
00:28:31,287 --> 00:28:34,120
The games are wonderful
Can't you come back?

395
00:28:35,087 --> 00:28:37,555
- No.
- Marcellus is a huge success.

396
00:28:38,327 --> 00:28:40,682
Yes. Yes, I could sea that.

397
00:28:42,247 --> 00:28:43,885
Yes, well..

398
00:28:44,967 --> 00:28:47,037
I'll go back to the Games.

399
00:28:50,687 --> 00:28:53,599
You're not worried about me leaving,
are you?

400
00:28:53,767 --> 00:28:56,440
You'll have Marcellus.
He can do all my work.

401
00:28:57,567 --> 00:28:59,603
How long will you be gone?

402
00:29:00,527 --> 00:29:02,518
About four or five months.

403
00:29:02,687 --> 00:29:05,804
I haven't bean to the Eastern
provinces for years.

404
00:29:07,007 --> 00:29:08,963
Will you sea Agrippa?

405
00:29:09,127 --> 00:29:12,756
No, why should I? He never
got any further than Lesbos.

406
00:29:12,927 --> 00:29:16,442
He sent his deputy to govern Syria.
He's got a nerve.

407
00:29:16,607 --> 00:29:18,802
Well. I can manage without him now.

408
00:29:18,967 --> 00:29:21,800
He can sea that. Now let him stew.

409
00:29:22,727 --> 00:29:24,445
I don't need him.

410
00:29:26,687 --> 00:29:28,678
Are you sure you're all right?.

411
00:29:31,407 --> 00:29:34,240
Well. I'll go back to the Games.

412
00:29:38,647 --> 00:29:40,797
(DOOR CLOSES)

413
00:29:45,807 --> 00:29:48,367
(CROWD ROARS)

414
00:29:56,047 --> 00:29:58,003
(KNOCKING)
Yes.

415
00:30:03,287 --> 00:30:05,164
Are there letters from the Emperor?.

416
00:30:05,327 --> 00:30:08,444
No, Lady, but one has arrived
for my lord Marcellus.

417
00:30:08,607 --> 00:30:12,600
When you take it to him, would you
ask him to sea me before dinner?.

418
00:30:12,767 --> 00:30:15,406
There are some names here
I want to discuss.

419
00:30:15,567 --> 00:30:19,799
He already has the letter, but it
seams my lord Marcellus is in bed.

420
00:30:19,967 --> 00:30:23,516
- What's the matter with him?
- A chill on the stomach.

421
00:30:24,607 --> 00:30:27,440
It's a pity his wife and mother
went away.

422
00:30:37,647 --> 00:30:39,080
(KNOCKING)

423
00:30:39,247 --> 00:30:43,286
- Yes?
- The Lady Livia has called, master.

424
00:30:43,447 --> 00:30:45,358
Ask her to come in.

425
00:30:49,407 --> 00:30:52,001
I can't stay in bed.
I've got too much to do.

426
00:30:52,167 --> 00:30:55,477
If you get up now,
you'll be in bed all tomorrow.

427
00:30:55,647 --> 00:30:58,002
Wise, Musar, wise.

428
00:30:58,967 --> 00:31:00,798
Marcellus!

429
00:31:00,967 --> 00:31:03,959
It's nothing, Lady.
A summer chill on the stomach.

430
00:31:04,127 --> 00:31:07,039
- I've worked through worse.
- Have you eaten?

431
00:31:07,207 --> 00:31:10,677
He can't keep anything down.
It's perfectly natural

432
00:31:10,847 --> 00:31:13,077
Only if the food
doesn't agree with him.

433
00:31:13,247 --> 00:31:18,162
I nursed Augustus last summer and he
ate everything I prepared for him.

434
00:31:18,327 --> 00:31:20,363
I'll be well tomorrow.

435
00:31:20,527 --> 00:31:25,317
These chills can be dangerous.
Augustus was nearly carried off.

436
00:31:26,447 --> 00:31:28,756
I'm not so easily disposed of.

437
00:31:28,927 --> 00:31:32,203
I'd never forgive myself
if anything happened to you.

438
00:31:32,367 --> 00:31:35,484
What can happen to me?
I wouldn't think of it.

439
00:31:35,647 --> 00:31:39,640
- My mother and Julia will..
- Exactly. Your mother and Julia.

440
00:31:39,807 --> 00:31:43,595
And how should I face them
if anything did happen?

441
00:31:43,767 --> 00:31:45,837
Oh, there, there.

442
00:31:48,727 --> 00:31:51,002
I shall move my room next to yours

443
00:31:51,167 --> 00:31:54,318
and I shall prepare
all your food myself.

444
00:31:54,487 --> 00:31:58,196
You'll sea what can be served up
to tempt a weak apatite.

445
00:31:58,367 --> 00:32:01,325
But it's a chill. nothing more.
Musar assures me.

446
00:32:01,487 --> 00:32:03,876
I wouldn't pay too much attention
to Musar.

447
00:32:04,047 --> 00:32:07,756
He thinks he cured Augustus,
but it was my nursing that did it.

448
00:32:07,927 --> 00:32:09,758
- And I shall nurse you.
- Lady...

449
00:32:09,927 --> 00:32:12,202
No. No arguments.

450
00:32:12,367 --> 00:32:15,006
- Why go to this trouble?
- I insist.

451
00:32:16,887 --> 00:32:19,640
- It's very good of you.
- No, no, my dear.

452
00:32:19,807 --> 00:32:22,196
Goodness has nothing to do with it.

453
00:32:33,287 --> 00:32:35,323
It's Musar, Lady.

454
00:32:36,127 --> 00:32:38,846
He's getting worse. Much worse.

455
00:32:40,127 --> 00:32:43,802
(LIVIA) Yes. I'll come soon.

456
00:32:45,487 --> 00:32:50,083
We ought to inform his wife
and his mother. They should be here.

457
00:32:50,967 --> 00:32:53,720
No. You exaggerate.

458
00:32:54,567 --> 00:32:57,559
Things have to get worse
before they get better.

459
00:32:57,727 --> 00:33:01,276
But he keeps nothing down. Nothing.

460
00:33:04,207 --> 00:33:06,323
It is worrying.

461
00:33:08,167 --> 00:33:11,557
He's bringing up green slime.

462
00:33:12,407 --> 00:33:14,921
I've never sea anything like it.

463
00:33:16,247 --> 00:33:20,001
- Green, you say?.
- Yes. Have you sea it before?

464
00:33:20,167 --> 00:33:21,646
No.

465
00:33:21,807 --> 00:33:24,116
No, I've never sea green before.

466
00:33:25,567 --> 00:33:27,683
Perhaps it's a good sign.

467
00:33:29,647 --> 00:33:31,319
Forgive me, Lady.

468
00:33:47,487 --> 00:33:49,125
You're thinner.

469
00:33:49,287 --> 00:33:52,597
You look better. The life
of the legions agrees with you.

470
00:33:52,767 --> 00:33:57,636
Have I aver complained? I'd as soon
be in camp on the Rhine as here.

471
00:34:00,847 --> 00:34:02,997
I had to call you back.

472
00:34:03,167 --> 00:34:07,240
Augustus is still in Greece touring
the provinces and Marcellus...

473
00:34:07,407 --> 00:34:11,525
- How is he?
- I think he may die.

474
00:34:11,687 --> 00:34:14,759
- Has Augustus bean told?
- Yes, of course.

475
00:34:14,927 --> 00:34:17,316
As soon as it began to look serious.

476
00:34:17,487 --> 00:34:20,763
- When did he fall ill?.
- About a month ago.

477
00:34:20,927 --> 00:34:25,079
Musar said it was just a chill.
but I could sea it was more serious,

478
00:34:25,247 --> 00:34:27,397
so I decided I'd nurse him myself.

479
00:34:28,647 --> 00:34:31,161
Well. his wife and mother were away.

480
00:34:31,327 --> 00:34:34,125
I've bean at his side day and night.

481
00:34:34,287 --> 00:34:37,643
I prepare all his food myself
and I sea that he eats it.

482
00:34:38,567 --> 00:34:42,116
I wouldn't have thought you'd care
whether he lived or died.

483
00:34:42,287 --> 00:34:45,359
I care very much
whether he lives or dies.

484
00:34:46,647 --> 00:34:49,798
- Do Julia and his mother know?.
- Yes. They’re with him now.

485
00:34:49,967 --> 00:34:52,640
Julia is being hysterical.
of course,

486
00:34:52,807 --> 00:34:55,116
and his mother never stops praying.

487
00:34:55,487 --> 00:34:59,036
- Let's hope her prayers are heard.
- Yes, indeed.

488
00:34:59,207 --> 00:35:01,243
And mine too.

489
00:35:01,447 --> 00:35:02,880
Tell me...

490
00:35:04,807 --> 00:35:06,798
what do you think of Julia?

491
00:35:06,967 --> 00:35:09,037
Nothing. Why?.

492
00:35:09,207 --> 00:35:12,279
Nobody could accuse you
of being devious.

493
00:35:13,167 --> 00:35:16,204
- She thinks well of you.
- What's that supposed to mean?

494
00:35:16,367 --> 00:35:19,165
Nothing. She likes you, that's all
Always has.

495
00:35:19,327 --> 00:35:24,526
Mother, I'm a happily married man.
Julia doesn't interest me.

496
00:35:24,687 --> 00:35:28,043
Not even if you hung her naked
from the ceiling above my bed.

497
00:35:28,207 --> 00:35:30,596
She might even do that
if I asked her!

498
00:35:30,887 --> 00:35:33,117
Aren't you forgetting something?

499
00:35:33,287 --> 00:35:36,199
She's married to Marcellus
and he's not dead yet.

500
00:35:36,367 --> 00:35:39,757
When I start to forget things,
you may light my funeral pyre

501
00:35:39,927 --> 00:35:42,361
and put me on it - dead or alive.

502
00:35:42,527 --> 00:35:45,803
Don't ask me to divorce Vipsania
because I won't do it.

503
00:35:45,967 --> 00:35:48,435
Oh, what a lover we have here!

504
00:35:48,607 --> 00:35:51,121
Did you bring back poems
from the Rhine?

505
00:35:51,287 --> 00:35:54,404
Vipsania's the only thing
that means anything to me.

506
00:35:54,567 --> 00:35:57,081
I thought a boy's mother
meant something.

507
00:35:57,247 --> 00:36:00,159
Well. you do mean something,
but so does she,

508
00:36:00,327 --> 00:36:02,716
so don't ask me to push her aside.

509
00:36:02,887 --> 00:36:05,640
I may ask more than that
before I finish.

510
00:36:07,487 --> 00:36:09,523
Where does all this get us?

511
00:36:09,687 --> 00:36:14,363
There's Marcellus and Agrippa,
and Augustus proffers them both to me.

512
00:36:14,527 --> 00:36:16,563
(WOMAN SCREAMS)

513
00:36:16,727 --> 00:36:18,240
Ye Gods!

514
00:36:19,007 --> 00:36:20,406
What's that?.

515
00:36:22,127 --> 00:36:25,164
It sounds as if there is now
only Agrippa.

516
00:36:25,367 --> 00:36:27,119
- He's dead!
- Julia!

517
00:36:27,287 --> 00:36:29,881
- He's dead!
- Julia!

518
00:36:31,167 --> 00:36:33,362
Julia! Julia.

519
00:36:36,967 --> 00:36:38,480
Control yourself!

520
00:36:43,367 --> 00:36:45,881
That's no way for a Roman woman
to behave!

521
00:36:46,047 --> 00:36:47,924
But he's dead.

522
00:36:48,087 --> 00:36:51,875
He gave a great cry and then
he rolled over and fell on the bed.

523
00:36:52,047 --> 00:36:55,437
- He's dead! He's dead!
- Come along. Wait here.

524
00:36:55,607 --> 00:36:58,360
- He's dead.
- Tiberius, take care of Julia.

525
00:36:58,527 --> 00:37:01,325
This is very grave.
We must send to Augustus.

526
00:37:04,727 --> 00:37:06,080
Tiberius!

527
00:37:06,247 --> 00:37:08,556
I said take care of Julia!

528
00:37:17,247 --> 00:37:19,681
I did everything I could.

529
00:37:20,527 --> 00:37:22,006
Everything.

530
00:37:24,087 --> 00:37:26,043
I did everything I could.

531
00:37:26,207 --> 00:37:30,200
Everything I did for Augustus I did
for him, but it made no difference.

532
00:37:30,367 --> 00:37:32,483
He's dead? You're sure he's dead?

533
00:37:34,687 --> 00:37:38,566
My son is dead. You can be sure.

534
00:37:40,287 --> 00:37:43,916
Poor Augustus. His heart will break.

535
00:37:44,087 --> 00:37:46,396
It must have bean food poisoning.

536
00:37:46,567 --> 00:37:48,683
What do you mean, food poisoning?

537
00:37:49,407 --> 00:37:53,639
Well. the summer's bean so hot.
These things happen.

538
00:37:56,887 --> 00:38:01,403
Yes. Yes, of course.
Well. there has bean a lot of it about.

539
00:38:02,127 --> 00:38:06,678
I thought it was a chill.
but I was wrong. Wrong!

540
00:38:08,447 --> 00:38:11,007
It must have bean something he ate.

541
00:38:26,567 --> 00:38:29,161
There ought to be an inquest,
I suppose.

542
00:38:29,327 --> 00:38:32,399
No. There's no need of that.
We know what he died of.

543
00:38:33,287 --> 00:38:35,755
- Do we?
- Food poisoning!

544
00:38:36,287 --> 00:38:38,357
You said so yourself!

545
00:38:39,407 --> 00:38:40,726
Yes.

546
00:38:45,207 --> 00:38:47,801
I couldn't swear to it.

547
00:38:47,967 --> 00:38:49,286
No...

548
00:38:50,407 --> 00:38:51,999
but I could.

549
00:38:56,487 --> 00:38:59,638
Tiberius, take Julia to her room
and comfort her.

550
00:39:05,407 --> 00:39:07,477
Stay with her a while.

551
00:39:13,487 --> 00:39:16,365
I'll send word to your wife
what keeps you.

552
00:39:23,607 --> 00:39:25,359
"My dear Augustus...

553
00:39:25,887 --> 00:39:31,120
"a most unfortunate
and tragic thing has happened...

554
00:39:31,687 --> 00:39:34,201
"Marcellus, your adopted some,

555
00:39:34,367 --> 00:39:37,439
"has unaccountably died
after a short illness

556
00:39:37,607 --> 00:39:42,283
"No one is certain of the cause,
but food poisoning is suspected..

557
00:39:42,447 --> 00:39:47,157
"I must say that does seem to me
the most likely explanation."

558
00:39:48,207 --> 00:39:50,846
(ANGRY SHOUTING)

559
00:39:51,007 --> 00:39:52,998
(CLAUDIUS) Rome erupted into fury.

560
00:39:53,167 --> 00:39:57,285
Marcellus' death led to demands
for a return of the Republic -

561
00:39:57,447 --> 00:39:59,563
the last thing my grandmother wanted.

562
00:39:59,727 --> 00:40:01,718
(FAINT SHOUTING)

563
00:40:01,887 --> 00:40:05,323
They’re rampaging through
the streets, looting the shops.

564
00:40:05,487 --> 00:40:07,478
All the City Watchmen are out.

565
00:40:07,647 --> 00:40:10,241
They’re no use!
Turn the Guard out on them!

566
00:40:10,407 --> 00:40:12,318
I won't answer for the consequences.

567
00:40:12,487 --> 00:40:16,480
Oh, you drooping lily! Do you want
us all to be murdered in our beds?

568
00:40:16,647 --> 00:40:19,400
- Go and talk to them, then.
- Are you mad?

569
00:40:19,567 --> 00:40:23,879
No. And I'm not frightened
of that rabble either.

570
00:40:25,847 --> 00:40:27,803
Out of my way!

571
00:40:35,727 --> 00:40:37,558
What do you want?.

572
00:40:37,727 --> 00:40:39,206
(ANGRY SHOUTING)

573
00:40:39,367 --> 00:40:44,122
A Republic?.
The Republic was all humbug!

574
00:40:44,287 --> 00:40:47,404
Do you want civil wars
all over again?

575
00:40:48,207 --> 00:40:50,118
Do you want famine in the streets?

576
00:40:50,287 --> 00:40:53,438
Do you want Gauls and Huns
knocking on your doors?

577
00:40:53,607 --> 00:40:56,485
You're all crying for the moon!

578
00:40:56,647 --> 00:40:58,797
Go on back to your homes and...

579
00:41:00,087 --> 00:41:03,443
Rabble! You call yourselves Romans?!

580
00:41:09,207 --> 00:41:12,199
You wait till my husband gets home!

581
00:41:18,527 --> 00:41:22,361
I wish, just for once, you would
behave like a normal woman!

582
00:41:22,527 --> 00:41:25,678
To be a normal woman
you need normal men around you.

583
00:41:28,807 --> 00:41:33,039
We must get Agrippa back. He's the only one
who speaks their language.

584
00:41:33,967 --> 00:41:37,880
Whatever Augustus thinks,
he must patch up this quarrel

585
00:41:38,047 --> 00:41:40,163
and get Agrippa back at any price.

586
00:41:40,327 --> 00:41:42,204
I'm going to write to him at once.

587
00:41:43,047 --> 00:41:46,437
Meanwhile, order the Guards
onto the streets!

588
00:41:51,287 --> 00:41:53,084
Marcus.

589
00:41:54,607 --> 00:41:56,279
Marcus!

590
00:41:57,887 --> 00:42:00,765
Oh, it's bean too long, too long.

591
00:42:00,927 --> 00:42:03,077
I wouldn't have had it so.

592
00:42:03,247 --> 00:42:06,683
Marcus, what silly things
get in the way of friendship.

593
00:42:06,847 --> 00:42:10,840
- You could have come sooner.
- How could I have come?

594
00:42:11,007 --> 00:42:14,522
I'd have come to you.
Just one word - a hint, that's all

595
00:42:14,687 --> 00:42:17,918
Would I have stayed away
if I'd bean sure of my welcome?

596
00:42:18,087 --> 00:42:20,726
It's pride, stupid pride.

597
00:42:23,407 --> 00:42:25,363
Did you have a good journey?.

598
00:42:25,527 --> 00:42:28,325
The sea was rough,
but I didn't really notice it.

599
00:42:28,487 --> 00:42:31,604
I was thinking of when
we were young together.

600
00:42:31,767 --> 00:42:34,201
It's too painful
to think of one's youth.

601
00:42:34,367 --> 00:42:37,518
- We've come a long way together.
- Not always together.

602
00:42:37,687 --> 00:42:40,520
Marcus, you were always
in my thoughts.

603
00:42:40,687 --> 00:42:43,759
It wasn't always obvious.
No, be just with me.

604
00:42:43,927 --> 00:42:46,805
There were times -
oh, I can remember them -

605
00:42:46,967 --> 00:42:49,686
when that young man -
and I'm sorry he's dead...

606
00:42:50,607 --> 00:42:53,804
When that young man
went out of his way to insult me

607
00:42:53,967 --> 00:42:57,801
with never a word of reproof from you.
From my old friend, not a word.

608
00:42:57,967 --> 00:43:01,118
Marcus, he was like a son to me.

609
00:43:02,047 --> 00:43:04,800
You have children.
You know what it's like.

610
00:43:04,967 --> 00:43:07,925
Perhaps I was foolish.
Perhaps I did indulge him.

611
00:43:08,847 --> 00:43:12,840
But it seamed like high spirits,
that's all - a little horseplay.

612
00:43:13,007 --> 00:43:15,919
- Haven't we all bean guilty of it?.
- Maybe.

613
00:43:17,127 --> 00:43:19,004
I'm sorry he's dead.

614
00:43:19,167 --> 00:43:22,000
I wouldn't have wished it,
though he was no friend.

615
00:43:22,167 --> 00:43:23,520
Yes.

616
00:43:27,247 --> 00:43:29,681
I need my old friend again.

617
00:43:30,647 --> 00:43:33,923
Now Marcellus is gone,
you need Agrippa.

618
00:43:34,087 --> 00:43:36,078
No, no, no, you must believe me.

619
00:43:36,247 --> 00:43:38,522
I'd already made up my mind
to sea you.

620
00:43:38,687 --> 00:43:42,680
Would I pass Lesbos without calling in?
It's unthinkable.

621
00:43:45,127 --> 00:43:48,756
No, Marcus, I need you back in Rome.

622
00:43:50,727 --> 00:43:54,845
I don't know. I don't know
if I'm up to it anymore.

623
00:43:59,127 --> 00:44:01,004
Things are bad there, I hear.

624
00:44:01,167 --> 00:44:05,365
Oh, there's bean a little trouble.
That's not why I want you back.

625
00:44:05,527 --> 00:44:08,485
I want you back
because that's where you belong.

626
00:44:08,647 --> 00:44:11,400
My old friend should be in Rome
with me.

627
00:44:11,567 --> 00:44:13,876
I need that strong right arm again.

628
00:44:15,607 --> 00:44:17,563
What do you say?.

629
00:44:24,047 --> 00:44:25,560
It's yours!

630
00:44:25,727 --> 00:44:27,365
Marcus!

631
00:44:29,207 --> 00:44:30,606
But err...

632
00:44:32,367 --> 00:44:33,766
But?.

633
00:44:33,927 --> 00:44:37,806
Let's seal this bond tighter
than it's aver bean before.

634
00:44:37,967 --> 00:44:39,286
How?.

635
00:44:39,447 --> 00:44:41,563
What's closer than a family tie?

636
00:44:41,727 --> 00:44:45,845
To be related is a declaration
of what we mean to each other.

637
00:44:46,567 --> 00:44:50,560
- You're thinking of your children?
- No. I'm thinking of myself.

638
00:44:51,247 --> 00:44:54,796
- I don't get on with my wife.
- I didn't know that.

639
00:44:54,967 --> 00:44:57,083
We haven't slept together for years.

640
00:44:57,247 --> 00:45:01,399
I'm speaking a little soon, I know,
and one must observe the decencies,

641
00:45:01,567 --> 00:45:03,762
but Julia's a young woman.

642
00:45:03,927 --> 00:45:07,317
She'll get married again soon.
Well. why not to me?

643
00:45:09,127 --> 00:45:11,641
- To you?
- Well. why not?.

644
00:45:13,687 --> 00:45:16,724
Don't tell me I'm not good enough
for your family.

645
00:45:24,367 --> 00:45:26,119
Why not?.

646
00:45:26,287 --> 00:45:30,644
It's a deal You'll be my son-in-law,
have you thought of that?.

647
00:45:30,807 --> 00:45:33,002
I've thought of nothing else!

648
00:45:33,167 --> 00:45:34,839
(LIVIA) Why?

649
00:45:35,007 --> 00:45:37,362
Why did you agree to it?.

650
00:45:37,527 --> 00:45:39,757
Because he wanted it.
It was his price.

651
00:45:39,927 --> 00:45:42,122
- His price!
- What could I say?.

652
00:45:42,287 --> 00:45:44,164
You could have said no!

653
00:45:44,327 --> 00:45:47,125
No, I could not!
I saw no reason to say no.

654
00:45:47,287 --> 00:45:50,962
- I understood why he wanted it.
- So could anyone!

655
00:45:51,127 --> 00:45:54,164
- What would you have done?
- I could have handled him.

656
00:45:54,327 --> 00:45:55,680
How?.

657
00:45:55,847 --> 00:45:59,362
I would have reminded him
that he's a man of no background

658
00:45:59,527 --> 00:46:02,599
and that he cannot assume
to enter the Julian family.

659
00:46:02,767 --> 00:46:05,076
- And you would have lost him!
- I would not!

660
00:46:05,247 --> 00:46:07,715
Lost him as quick
as boiled asparagus.

661
00:46:07,887 --> 00:46:10,242
That is the most foolish expression.

662
00:46:10,407 --> 00:46:12,921
It's my expression!
I'll use it when I like!

663
00:46:16,207 --> 00:46:19,961
Why are you so opposed to this
marriage? I sea no reason for it.

664
00:46:20,127 --> 00:46:23,403
It gives him more than he deserves.

665
00:46:23,567 --> 00:46:25,558
There's another reason. What is it?.

666
00:46:25,727 --> 00:46:27,957
There is no other reason!

667
00:46:29,327 --> 00:46:32,319
Except... Except...

668
00:46:32,487 --> 00:46:34,842
You might have consulted Julia first.

669
00:46:35,007 --> 00:46:37,840
Are we now to ignore the wishes
of our children

670
00:46:38,007 --> 00:46:40,919
and sell them
as if they were solves?

671
00:46:42,087 --> 00:46:44,078
Have you no feelings?

672
00:46:53,207 --> 00:46:55,198
But she got her way in the end.

673
00:46:57,727 --> 00:47:01,879
Nine years passed before Agrippa's
services could be spared.

674
00:47:02,647 --> 00:47:06,959
Then he died - poisoned by Livia.

675
00:47:08,007 --> 00:47:11,682
Tiberius divorced his wife
and married Julia.

676
00:47:11,847 --> 00:47:13,838
(BALL BOUNCES)

677
00:47:15,607 --> 00:47:17,882
Drusus, my father -

678
00:47:18,047 --> 00:47:20,277
Tiberius’ beloved brother..

679
00:47:20,847 --> 00:47:25,637
But then everybody loved my father,
except Livia...his mother.

680
00:47:26,887 --> 00:47:28,559
Wicked woman.

681
00:47:29,767 --> 00:47:31,644
You're getting soft.

682
00:47:32,687 --> 00:47:36,726
You wouldn't last a five-hour march
in the army. Throw it!

683
00:47:37,087 --> 00:47:39,282
Oh, come on! Throw it!

684
00:47:41,047 --> 00:47:43,117
Antonia throws harder than that.

685
00:47:43,727 --> 00:47:45,638
Shut up! Throw the ball

686
00:47:48,687 --> 00:47:51,247
If you lost some of that stomach
of yours...

687
00:47:53,527 --> 00:47:55,757
Now we'll sea who's hard.

688
00:48:39,087 --> 00:48:41,806
- Death or surrender?.
- Oh, get off.

689
00:48:42,287 --> 00:48:43,606
Ha!

690
00:48:45,087 --> 00:48:47,920
I never thought I'd sea you
in such a condition.

691
00:48:48,087 --> 00:48:50,681
Spend ten years in Rome
and sea how you feel

692
00:48:57,047 --> 00:48:58,400
Hay...

693
00:48:59,007 --> 00:49:01,123
What's this, eh? Sulks?

694
00:49:01,967 --> 00:49:05,846
You're lucky. You go back
to the army tomorrow.

695
00:49:07,047 --> 00:49:09,641
That's the only decent life
for a Roman.

696
00:49:11,007 --> 00:49:14,124
Marching, fighting, building forts.

697
00:49:15,887 --> 00:49:18,082
Those were the best years
of my life.

698
00:49:18,247 --> 00:49:20,477
You made the army's life
bloody hell

699
00:49:20,647 --> 00:49:24,925
I drilled them hard, but I was fair.
I'll boot they say I was fair.

700
00:49:25,087 --> 00:49:28,523
- Do you know what they really say?.
- What?.

701
00:49:30,287 --> 00:49:34,041
They say that your drills
were bloodless battles...

702
00:49:35,167 --> 00:49:37,635
and your battles were bloody drills.

703
00:49:40,647 --> 00:49:44,242
- Is that what they say?. Really?.
- Yes.

704
00:49:46,487 --> 00:49:50,321
You know, that army I took
across the Alps, they were men.

705
00:49:50,487 --> 00:49:54,719
- You've never had men like that.
- We've won some victories too.

706
00:49:54,887 --> 00:49:58,357
I know, I know.
But those two legions...

707
00:49:58,527 --> 00:50:00,518
The twelfth and the sixteenth?

708
00:50:00,687 --> 00:50:02,598
You'll never sea their like again.

709
00:50:02,767 --> 00:50:05,964
Nothing bothered them -
the heat, the cold...

710
00:50:07,127 --> 00:50:08,799
the marching.

711
00:50:08,967 --> 00:50:11,561
Oh, I cursed them
and I flogged them,

712
00:50:11,727 --> 00:50:14,321
but I cursed and flogged
their officers too.

713
00:50:14,487 --> 00:50:16,762
If there weren't any tents
for the men,

714
00:50:16,927 --> 00:50:19,157
I slept out in the open with them.

715
00:50:20,327 --> 00:50:22,887
You'll have to take the field again.

716
00:50:24,167 --> 00:50:27,239
- He won't let me.
- Who, Augustus?

717
00:50:28,927 --> 00:50:31,395
He keeps me here as his work donkey.

718
00:50:32,447 --> 00:50:36,201
Says he can't spare me.
I'm his chief errand boy.

719
00:50:37,767 --> 00:50:42,363
I spend my time investigating
the level of unemployment.

720
00:50:47,087 --> 00:50:49,920
Or reorganising
the city fire brigade.

721
00:50:51,207 --> 00:50:56,327
Added to that, there's that bitch
Julia they made me marry.

722
00:50:59,327 --> 00:51:04,162
Oh, he's just impossible.
Sometimes he doesn't speak to me for days.

723
00:51:04,327 --> 00:51:08,400
He was always very broody,
according to Drusus, even as a child.

724
00:51:08,567 --> 00:51:10,558
Drusus can always make him laugh.

725
00:51:10,727 --> 00:51:14,720
Drusus only knows him as a brother.
He ought to be married to him.

726
00:51:15,687 --> 00:51:17,962
You know, Antonia,
I'm very easygoing.

727
00:51:18,127 --> 00:51:20,322
Do you want that toe to drop off?. !

728
00:51:20,487 --> 00:51:22,603
There's a stiffness in the joint.

729
00:51:22,767 --> 00:51:25,679
There wasn't before you
started to work on it.

730
00:51:25,847 --> 00:51:29,681
They daydream. They’ll spend all day
massaging a toe if you let them.

731
00:51:29,847 --> 00:51:33,442
- She's probably in love.
- I hope she has better luck than me.

732
00:51:33,607 --> 00:51:36,485
- What was I talking about?.
- About Tiberius.

733
00:51:36,647 --> 00:51:39,115
He never wanted to divorce Vipsania.

734
00:51:39,287 --> 00:51:42,245
That stalk of a thing?
I don't know what he saw in her.

735
00:51:42,407 --> 00:51:44,557
She's as thin as a stick.

736
00:51:44,727 --> 00:51:48,083
He used to spend half of every night
in bed looking for her!

737
00:51:48,247 --> 00:51:50,124
- Julia!
- It's true.

738
00:51:50,287 --> 00:51:54,166
If the sheets got a bit crumpled,
she disappeared until morning.

739
00:51:54,327 --> 00:51:57,160
He was lucky if they found her
when they made the bed.

740
00:51:57,327 --> 00:52:00,603
- She's not that thin!
- I don't know what you call thin,

741
00:52:00,767 --> 00:52:04,237
but I saw old Valerius
after he starved himself to death

742
00:52:04,407 --> 00:52:06,443
and he looks better than she looks!

743
00:52:07,687 --> 00:52:09,643
I could never sea the attraction.

744
00:52:09,807 --> 00:52:13,846
After ten years, I'd have thought
he'd be glad to sea the back of her.

745
00:52:14,007 --> 00:52:17,841
That's the trouble. He was
always glad to sea the back of her.

746
00:52:20,167 --> 00:52:24,160
- Julia, what on earth do you mean?
- Well. he's very strange.

747
00:52:25,527 --> 00:52:28,837
You're too sensitive a person
for me to go into details.

748
00:52:29,007 --> 00:52:30,645
Julia, he doesn't...?

749
00:52:30,807 --> 00:52:33,924
Oh, I could put up with that.

750
00:52:34,687 --> 00:52:38,646
I'm not like you. I could probably
teach him a thing or two.

751
00:52:38,807 --> 00:52:40,843
But it's the coldness.

752
00:52:41,007 --> 00:52:46,240
I can't get near him. Even snow will
melt on a warm day, but not him.

753
00:52:46,407 --> 00:52:49,922
- I had no idea.
- And he hates Gaius and Lucius.

754
00:52:50,087 --> 00:52:54,046
- He hates my boys. They’re sweet.
- Very sweet.

755
00:52:55,727 --> 00:53:00,118
And to think I was once mad about him.
What fools we women are.

756
00:53:00,287 --> 00:53:03,643
Augustus should never
have insisted on the marriage.

757
00:53:03,807 --> 00:53:07,766
Don't blame my father. Blame Livia.
If anyone insisted, she did.

758
00:53:07,927 --> 00:53:12,159
She tried the same thing ten years ago,
but Agrippa got in first.

759
00:53:12,327 --> 00:53:15,319
- I didn't know that.
- No. You were too young.

760
00:53:16,287 --> 00:53:18,357
That's all right. I've had enough.

761
00:53:19,287 --> 00:53:22,757
When Marcellus died,
she had everything planned.

762
00:53:22,927 --> 00:53:26,886
She knew how I felt about Tiberius
and she wanted us to marry,

763
00:53:27,047 --> 00:53:29,242
but Agrippa had the same idea,

764
00:53:29,407 --> 00:53:34,003
and Augustus needed him more than he
needed her son, so she had to wait.

765
00:53:34,167 --> 00:53:37,921
And can she wait! Ye Gods,
time means nothing to her!

766
00:53:38,487 --> 00:53:41,684
- Poor Marcellus.
- That must have bean terrible.

767
00:53:41,847 --> 00:53:43,599
To tell you the truth...

768
00:53:44,767 --> 00:53:46,564
Leave us. I'll call you.

769
00:53:48,687 --> 00:53:51,201
Off you go. Go.

770
00:53:56,127 --> 00:53:57,845
To tell you the truth,

771
00:53:58,007 --> 00:54:01,682
it's crossed my mind that Livia
might have had a hand in that.

772
00:54:01,847 --> 00:54:03,485
Julia!

773
00:54:03,647 --> 00:54:06,957
I might be wrong, but he was
a strong, healthy man,

774
00:54:07,127 --> 00:54:11,120
and he never had a serious illness
until she got her hands on him.

775
00:54:11,287 --> 00:54:13,198
I often wonder about that woman.

776
00:54:16,127 --> 00:54:20,245
Antonia, you're so innocent!

777
00:54:20,407 --> 00:54:24,639
Hah! Not so innocent. Ask Drusus.

778
00:54:26,647 --> 00:54:30,959
I might just do that one of these
days if I get him in the mood!

779
00:54:31,127 --> 00:54:32,719
He's very attractive.

780
00:54:34,727 --> 00:54:38,800
Why is it that when I come in here
with you, I cover myself up,

781
00:54:38,967 --> 00:54:40,685
but normally I don't bother?.

782
00:54:40,847 --> 00:54:44,601
Well. you should. I don't approve
of all this nakedness.

783
00:54:46,767 --> 00:54:49,327
Oh, Antonia!

784
00:54:49,487 --> 00:54:52,240
I shall miss you
when you leave tomorrow.

785
00:54:52,407 --> 00:54:53,965
Not so hard.

786
00:54:54,127 --> 00:54:56,118
The dirt's ingrained in the skin.

787
00:54:56,287 --> 00:54:59,962
- It goes deeper than that.
- Your gloom is magnificent.

788
00:55:00,527 --> 00:55:03,041
Not so hard
or I'll get my men to do it.

789
00:55:03,207 --> 00:55:05,721
I can't think why
you won't let them anyway.

790
00:55:05,887 --> 00:55:09,118
A man should keep himself clean,
not have slaves do it.

791
00:55:09,287 --> 00:55:11,960
How's he supposed to scrape
his own back?

792
00:55:12,127 --> 00:55:15,324
- He gets his brother to do it.
- If he hasn't a brother?.

793
00:55:15,487 --> 00:55:17,239
- Gets his son.
- If he hasn't a son?

794
00:55:17,407 --> 00:55:19,762
- Gets his friend.
- If he hasn't a friend?

795
00:55:19,927 --> 00:55:21,963
Then he should go and hang himself.

796
00:55:22,127 --> 00:55:25,881
I've tried it. It's better
to have a slave scrape your back.

797
00:55:27,927 --> 00:55:30,236
You know, I shall miss you.

798
00:55:31,567 --> 00:55:35,560
- You don't have any dark thoughts.
- Nonsense. We all have them.

799
00:55:35,727 --> 00:55:38,366
Not like me. Not like me.

800
00:55:38,527 --> 00:55:40,518
You're no worse than the rest of us.

801
00:55:40,687 --> 00:55:42,678
I'll tell you something, Drusus.

802
00:55:42,847 --> 00:55:48,843
Sometimes I so hate myself, I can't
bear the thought of me anymore.

803
00:55:51,727 --> 00:55:54,685
You don't know anything
about darkness, do you?

804
00:55:55,327 --> 00:55:59,002
Inside darkness. Blackness.

805
00:55:59,167 --> 00:56:02,284
Stop bragging! I could match you
black for black.

806
00:56:02,447 --> 00:56:05,405
Not you. Not you.

807
00:56:05,567 --> 00:56:09,879
The Claudian tree produces two kinds
of apples - the sweet and the sour.

808
00:56:10,047 --> 00:56:12,515
That was never more true
than you and me.

809
00:56:12,687 --> 00:56:14,803
And what of our mother,
which is she?

810
00:56:14,967 --> 00:56:16,480
- Livia?
- Mmm.

811
00:56:16,647 --> 00:56:19,957
They say a snake bit her once
and died.

812
00:56:20,367 --> 00:56:23,165
Hay, that's no longer funny.

813
00:56:26,647 --> 00:56:29,445
I've only cared for three people
in my life.

814
00:56:29,607 --> 00:56:32,075
- One was our father.
- The noblest of us all

815
00:56:32,247 --> 00:56:33,999
Yes. The other was Vipsania.

816
00:56:34,167 --> 00:56:37,443
Yes. I was sorry about that.
Why did you divorce her?.

817
00:56:37,607 --> 00:56:41,361
Livia insisted on it. Julia wanted it.
Augustus insisted on it.

818
00:56:41,527 --> 00:56:45,156
All the same, you were so happy,
you might have refused.

819
00:56:47,047 --> 00:56:50,164
Do you think the monarchy
will survive Augustus?

820
00:56:53,607 --> 00:56:59,398
No, I don't. Rome will be
a republic again, I promise you that.

821
00:57:01,207 --> 00:57:03,721
Then perhaps I did it all for nothing.

822
00:57:10,887 --> 00:57:12,878
Is that why you did it?.

823
00:57:13,927 --> 00:57:15,883
Is that really?.

824
00:57:17,327 --> 00:57:20,956
But there are Julia's sons.
They’ll come before you anyway.

825
00:57:25,687 --> 00:57:27,484
My poor brother.

826
00:57:28,687 --> 00:57:32,396
- So ambitious.
- Our mother makes me so.

827
00:57:37,087 --> 00:57:39,760
Oh, God, I miss her so!

828
00:57:39,927 --> 00:57:41,406
Vipsania.

829
00:57:47,167 --> 00:57:49,362
What did they make me do?

830
00:57:49,927 --> 00:57:51,440
Tiberius.

831
00:57:54,767 --> 00:57:56,917
What's done is done.

832
00:58:00,247 --> 00:58:01,919
Yes.

833
00:58:02,967 --> 00:58:04,844
Yes, it's done.

834
00:58:06,727 --> 00:58:08,558
I must forget her.

835
00:58:10,927 --> 00:58:14,886
Vipsania was the second
and she's gone.

836
00:58:17,887 --> 00:58:19,718
You're the third.

837
00:58:19,887 --> 00:58:22,242
Well. you know I feel the same way.

838
00:58:23,607 --> 00:58:26,883
You should have my nature
and I yours.

839
00:58:27,047 --> 00:58:30,642
- Why?.
- I'm older. I should protect you.

840
00:58:30,807 --> 00:58:32,798
Well. we'll protect each other.

841
00:58:33,727 --> 00:58:35,524
I don't know what from.

842
00:58:37,087 --> 00:58:39,521
There are many things
you don't know.

843
00:58:41,487 --> 00:58:44,797
- If anything happens to you...
- What could happen?

844
00:58:46,567 --> 00:58:48,558
You could be killed in battle.

845
00:58:49,407 --> 00:58:51,796
- Or you could fall sick and die.
- Yes.

846
00:58:51,967 --> 00:58:56,757
And you could cut your throat shaving
or choke on a plum stone.

847
00:58:57,767 --> 00:59:00,839
Tiberius, none of us
is guaranteed a time.

848
00:59:04,167 --> 00:59:05,486
No.

849
00:59:09,607 --> 00:59:12,041
You're my lifeline into the light.

850
00:59:16,767 --> 00:59:18,359
Six again!

851
00:59:19,287 --> 00:59:22,836
One, two, three, four, five, six

852
00:59:23,007 --> 00:59:24,804
Now what will you do?

853
00:59:25,687 --> 00:59:29,123
I'll put two legions in the port
and stop the corn supply.

854
00:59:29,287 --> 00:59:32,484
Not bad.
Rome can't live without corn.

855
00:59:32,647 --> 00:59:37,038
You've got your back to the sea
and that's not good. It's your decision.

856
00:59:37,207 --> 00:59:39,004
Lucius, your turn.

857
00:59:41,367 --> 00:59:45,201
- Six!
- These dice have nothing but sixes.

858
00:59:45,367 --> 00:59:49,724
One, two, three, four, five, six
Belgica, Belgic's mine.

859
00:59:49,887 --> 00:59:51,718
Go on, throw again.

860
00:59:53,847 --> 00:59:55,166
Two.

861
00:59:57,007 --> 01:00:01,876
- One, two. I'll take Britain.
- You've only got three legions.

862
01:00:04,207 --> 01:00:07,040
- Julius did it.
- He didn't stay long though.

863
01:00:07,727 --> 01:00:09,718
Yes, what is it?.

864
01:00:10,607 --> 01:00:14,122
Caesar, your stepson Drusus Nero
begs to take his leave.

865
01:00:14,287 --> 01:00:17,962
- Yes, you can come with me.
- Can't we finish the game?

866
01:00:18,127 --> 01:00:21,358
Later. We have a duty
and duty comes before pleasure.

867
01:00:21,527 --> 01:00:25,520
Come and say goodbye to the man
who commands all our armies in Germany.

868
01:00:25,687 --> 01:00:30,283
Come on, come on. No sulks.
That's not the Roman way.

869
01:00:37,567 --> 01:00:40,001
- So you're leaving us?
- Yes, Caesar.

870
01:00:40,167 --> 01:00:41,486
And glad to go?

871
01:00:41,647 --> 01:00:45,276
I go where I'm sent, Caesar,
but, yes, I am glad to go.

872
01:00:45,447 --> 01:00:48,837
When I was your age,
I wanted to be with the army too.

873
01:00:49,007 --> 01:00:51,567
I brought Gaius and Lucius
to say goodbye.

874
01:00:51,727 --> 01:00:55,766
We've bean playing Empire.
I've already lost Egypt and Syria.

875
01:00:55,927 --> 01:00:58,316
- May I ask Drusus a question?
- Go ahead.

876
01:00:58,487 --> 01:01:00,637
How many legions
could invade Britain?

877
01:01:03,087 --> 01:01:07,444
Four. Yes. And a great deal
of auxiliary cavalry as well

878
01:01:07,607 --> 01:01:10,167
Not three? They’re very uncivilised.

879
01:01:10,327 --> 01:01:11,999
It's not worth the risk.

880
01:01:12,167 --> 01:01:15,762
On a fresh venture,
you must hit hard and quickly.

881
01:01:15,927 --> 01:01:19,522
Sending for reinforcements
gives the enemy breathing space.

882
01:01:21,007 --> 01:01:22,599
I'll do it one day.

883
01:01:22,767 --> 01:01:24,837
I doubt it's worth it.

884
01:01:25,007 --> 01:01:28,636
There's nothing of value there
and the people make poor slaves.

885
01:01:30,087 --> 01:01:32,647
Say goodbye
and wait for me upstairs.

886
01:01:32,807 --> 01:01:34,718
- Goodbye, then.
- Goodbye.

887
01:01:34,887 --> 01:01:36,240
Goodbye.

888
01:01:37,967 --> 01:01:41,516
Read Julius' commentaries
on his campaign in Britain.

889
01:01:41,687 --> 01:01:44,155
- I've read it twice.
- So have I. Goodbye.

890
01:01:46,047 --> 01:01:50,040
Don't move the tokens
while I'm gone. I know where they are.

891
01:01:51,207 --> 01:01:54,358
They’re good boys.
We'll have need of them one day.

892
01:01:54,527 --> 01:01:57,724
Come and walk with me
in the garden a moment.

893
01:01:57,887 --> 01:02:00,799
- Is Antonia travelling with you?
- Yes.

894
01:02:00,967 --> 01:02:03,435
- That's all right in her condition?
- Yes.

895
01:02:03,607 --> 01:02:07,361
I didn't realise she was expecting
again. Julia told me.

896
01:02:07,527 --> 01:02:10,963
- It's a bit close to the others.
- Well. what can you do?

897
01:02:11,127 --> 01:02:14,961
True. Anyway, we need more children,
especially among the nobility.

898
01:02:15,127 --> 01:02:18,244
People aren't getting married
early enough.

899
01:02:18,407 --> 01:02:20,443
I must do something about that.

900
01:02:23,167 --> 01:02:25,727
Have you said goodbye to Livia?

901
01:02:25,887 --> 01:02:28,276
She's with the Parthian ambassador.

902
01:02:28,447 --> 01:02:32,838
Oh, yes. She works so hard for me.
Your mother is a very fine woman.

903
01:02:33,007 --> 01:02:35,885
I'd have given up long ago
if it weren't for her.

904
01:02:36,047 --> 01:02:39,722
It's an immense burden to place
on the shoulders of one man.

905
01:02:39,887 --> 01:02:43,323
Yes, it is. It's really too much.

906
01:02:43,487 --> 01:02:47,366
I sometimes have a longing
to be just a private citizen again.

907
01:02:47,527 --> 01:02:50,564
It's bean 20 years now
since Mark Antony died

908
01:02:50,727 --> 01:02:54,197
and I took it all on my own.
I blame him, you know.

909
01:02:54,367 --> 01:02:58,155
What a fool that man was. The whole
of the Eastern Empire was his.

910
01:02:58,327 --> 01:03:02,320
If he'd bean a proper husband
to my sister, things would be different.

911
01:03:02,487 --> 01:03:04,239
- Is it too late...?
- Yes?

912
01:03:04,407 --> 01:03:08,525
Is it too late to lay down
the burdens of office?

913
01:03:08,687 --> 01:03:10,882
- And let the Senate rule?
- Yes.

914
01:03:11,047 --> 01:03:15,006
You're just like your father.
Always wanting the Republic.

915
01:03:16,167 --> 01:03:18,317
He was my enemy too at one time.

916
01:03:21,007 --> 01:03:22,838
I'll never be that.

917
01:03:23,327 --> 01:03:24,680
No.

918
01:03:24,847 --> 01:03:29,443
No, I didn't mean that. Be like him,
you couldn't do better.

919
01:03:31,287 --> 01:03:34,438
I did him wrong once, you know.
Oh, yes, yes.

920
01:03:35,447 --> 01:03:37,597
I took your mother from him

921
01:03:37,767 --> 01:03:41,123
and that has weighed with me
over the years.

922
01:03:43,207 --> 01:03:45,562
Still. we're a family,

923
01:03:45,727 --> 01:03:50,323
and we all work together
for the greater good of Rome.

924
01:03:52,727 --> 01:03:54,445
My brother...

925
01:03:54,607 --> 01:03:56,916
Yes, yes, Tiberius.

926
01:03:57,087 --> 01:03:59,840
He's a puzzle to me,
like the Sphinx

927
01:04:00,007 --> 01:04:03,841
He's like a large dog watching
everything and saying nothing.

928
01:04:04,007 --> 01:04:08,000
- He wants to leave Rome.
- I know. But I need him here.

929
01:04:08,167 --> 01:04:10,442
What would I do without him?

930
01:04:10,607 --> 01:04:14,839
- Still. an unwilling horse...
- Is more trouble than walking.

931
01:04:15,007 --> 01:04:18,079
But we're not horses.
We can't all do what we want.

932
01:04:18,247 --> 01:04:21,637
And what does he want?. He wants
to sit on a rock all day -

933
01:04:21,807 --> 01:04:24,241
Rhodes or Capri -
and throw stones at the sea.

934
01:04:24,407 --> 01:04:27,399
Why?. I don't know.
No. We can't have it.

935
01:04:27,567 --> 01:04:29,319
Ah, here's your mother.

936
01:04:30,607 --> 01:04:33,121
- You're off again?
- Yes, Mother.

937
01:04:33,287 --> 01:04:38,077
You read the dispatches?
The Corusci are giving trouble again.

938
01:04:38,247 --> 01:04:39,999
I'll give them trouble enough.

939
01:04:40,167 --> 01:04:42,044
Shall we aver civilise the Germans?

940
01:04:42,207 --> 01:04:44,243
- I doubt it.
- You know how I feel

941
01:04:44,407 --> 01:04:47,126
When we conquer a people,
we must be temperate,

942
01:04:47,287 --> 01:04:51,246
but when agreements are broken,
punishments must be severe.

943
01:04:52,407 --> 01:04:54,284
What do the Parthians want?.

944
01:04:54,447 --> 01:04:56,597
They want a Roman god to worship.

945
01:04:56,767 --> 01:04:59,440
They want to dedicate a temple
to you.

946
01:04:59,607 --> 01:05:01,359
I won't have it.

947
01:05:01,527 --> 01:05:05,440
We've abolished kings in Rome.
Would you give us living gods?

948
01:05:05,607 --> 01:05:08,075
They won't be in Rome.
They’ll be in Syria.

949
01:05:08,247 --> 01:05:11,842
What harm is a temple built in your name
where primitive people...?

950
01:05:12,007 --> 01:05:17,127
No, it makes me uneasy, Livia.
I feel in my heart it's not right.

951
01:05:18,207 --> 01:05:22,325
We may offend those gods that look
after us and oversee our destiny.

952
01:05:22,487 --> 01:05:24,955
- But...
- No. You must tell them no.

953
01:05:26,607 --> 01:05:29,565
I must get back to the boys
and finish the game.

954
01:05:29,727 --> 01:05:33,276
Look after Antonia. No accidents.

955
01:05:33,447 --> 01:05:36,405
Who knows what great Roman
she may be carrying.

956
01:05:39,247 --> 01:05:41,238
The gods go with you.

957
01:05:44,047 --> 01:05:46,242
I shall ask the boys to dine
with us.

958
01:05:46,407 --> 01:05:49,843
They can listen to the discussion
with the ambassadors.

959
01:05:52,367 --> 01:05:56,246
Leave him alone. Don't encourage him
to step down from office.

960
01:05:56,407 --> 01:06:01,003
Mother, do you really want us
to drift into a hereditary monarchy?.

961
01:06:01,167 --> 01:06:04,045
Become corrupt
like the Eastern potentates?

962
01:06:04,207 --> 01:06:07,040
Rome will never be a republic again.

963
01:06:09,967 --> 01:06:12,117
Well. we needn't quarrel about it.

964
01:06:13,647 --> 01:06:15,638
Let me kiss you and say goodbye.

965
01:06:19,847 --> 01:06:22,486
You know, you mustn't mind
if you dislike me.

966
01:06:26,607 --> 01:06:29,440
A mother can't love
all her children.

967
01:06:36,807 --> 01:06:40,880
You shouldn't have come here.
It's wrong. It's wrong.

968
01:06:41,047 --> 01:06:43,641
Don't send me away.
Please, Vipsania.

969
01:06:43,807 --> 01:06:46,082
Do you want to make trouble for me?

970
01:06:46,247 --> 01:06:48,238
No. No.

971
01:06:48,407 --> 01:06:51,956
Then go away. It's dangerous.

972
01:06:53,287 --> 01:06:57,041
Open the shutter.
Let me look at you again.

973
01:07:04,647 --> 01:07:07,684
Please, please go away!

974
01:07:09,527 --> 01:07:11,404
Is it true?

975
01:07:13,407 --> 01:07:15,875
Yes. Yes, it's true.

976
01:07:16,687 --> 01:07:19,042
- You're getting married again.
- Yes.

977
01:07:21,527 --> 01:07:24,041
I won't have it. I won't have it!

978
01:07:24,607 --> 01:07:29,123
I'll kill you! You're mine!
You're my wife!

979
01:07:30,967 --> 01:07:34,243
I am not your wife. You divorced me.

980
01:07:36,287 --> 01:07:38,755
Don't... Don't.

981
01:07:38,927 --> 01:07:41,122
Please, you must leave me alone.

982
01:07:42,047 --> 01:07:44,083
We mustn't sea each other again.

983
01:07:44,247 --> 01:07:46,203
- Do you love him?
- Do you love her?.

984
01:07:46,367 --> 01:07:48,358
No. No, I hate her.

985
01:07:51,327 --> 01:07:55,559
- He's very kind to me.
- But why must you marry again?

986
01:07:55,727 --> 01:08:00,084
I must put an end to your following me!
To your coming to sea me!

987
01:08:00,247 --> 01:08:02,238
Your mother's spies are everywhere.

988
01:08:03,207 --> 01:08:05,004
I don't care about that!

989
01:08:05,167 --> 01:08:07,601
You're married to Augustus' daughter.

990
01:08:07,767 --> 01:08:09,598
You can't treat her like no one.

991
01:08:11,287 --> 01:08:14,518
Don't get married again, I beg you.

992
01:08:15,367 --> 01:08:17,119
I couldn't bear it.

993
01:08:17,287 --> 01:08:19,596
And spend the rest of my life alone?

994
01:08:19,767 --> 01:08:23,601
You wouldn't be alone,
I promise you.

995
01:08:23,767 --> 01:08:29,125
Tiberius, it was not my doing.
I didn't divorce you, you divorced me!

996
01:08:29,287 --> 01:08:31,118
I didn't want to.

997
01:08:32,087 --> 01:08:35,682
- They made me do it.
- They couldn't have made me!

998
01:08:38,687 --> 01:08:41,724
I'm sorry. I didn't mean that.
I didn't mean that.

999
01:08:44,607 --> 01:08:46,916
It was hard for you, I know.

1000
01:08:47,087 --> 01:08:49,965
Harder for you
than it would have bean for me.

1001
01:08:50,127 --> 01:08:54,279
I shouldn't have done it.
I should have killed myself first.

1002
01:08:54,447 --> 01:08:56,881
It's done now.
There's no going back.

1003
01:09:01,327 --> 01:09:03,318
Let's die together.

1004
01:09:05,607 --> 01:09:07,518
Let's kill ourselves.

1005
01:09:07,687 --> 01:09:11,805
Let's go into our bathroom,
open our veins,

1006
01:09:11,967 --> 01:09:16,882
and when they find us, our blood
will be mingling in the water.

1007
01:09:17,047 --> 01:09:21,723
Oh, my baby, my baby.
It's too late. It's too late.

1008
01:09:21,887 --> 01:09:26,961
I'm lost. I'm lost.
I go from darkness into darkness.

1009
01:09:27,127 --> 01:09:28,958
You'll come through it
and so will I.

1010
01:09:29,127 --> 01:09:33,723
How will I? I'm afraid
of what I'll become without you.

1011
01:09:33,887 --> 01:09:37,357
- Why should you be afraid?
- Because of your sweetness.

1012
01:09:38,967 --> 01:09:43,279
We had a delegation here six months
ago from Palmyra.

1013
01:09:43,447 --> 01:09:45,677
And Augustus refused, I remember.

1014
01:09:46,927 --> 01:09:50,442
The thought of deification
makes him uneasy.

1015
01:09:50,607 --> 01:09:52,723
It might make us all uneasy.

1016
01:09:52,887 --> 01:09:55,685
- We're not all worthy of it.
- No, of course.

1017
01:09:56,607 --> 01:09:58,643
But his mind is made up?

1018
01:09:59,527 --> 01:10:02,166
Yes, but so is mine.

1019
01:10:02,687 --> 01:10:06,680
I cannot allow his natural modesty

1020
01:10:06,847 --> 01:10:09,315
to interfere
with his political judgement.

1021
01:10:09,487 --> 01:10:13,765
If the Senate thought that his
deification were politically useful.

1022
01:10:13,927 --> 01:10:16,157
he would not be displeased.

1023
01:10:17,367 --> 01:10:21,645
But he will exert no pressure
nor be present at the debates.

1024
01:10:21,807 --> 01:10:23,399
Of course.

1025
01:10:24,247 --> 01:10:26,158
There will be some opposition.

1026
01:10:27,007 --> 01:10:30,556
- But I'll take the line...
- I'll tell you what line to take.

1027
01:10:30,727 --> 01:10:33,366
You were sea!
And in broad daylight!

1028
01:10:33,527 --> 01:10:37,486
Going in and coming out. I won't
have it! It's not the first time!

1029
01:10:38,727 --> 01:10:40,558
I went to congratulate her.

1030
01:10:40,727 --> 01:10:44,606
Don't congratulate her! Leave her be!
You didn't go for that reason!

1031
01:10:44,767 --> 01:10:48,203
You'll treat my daughter
with respect! Do you hear me?!

1032
01:10:48,367 --> 01:10:50,961
I didn't ask for this marriage,
you asked for it!

1033
01:10:51,127 --> 01:10:53,197
I won't have it made a mockery of!

1034
01:10:53,367 --> 01:10:56,598
He's bean seeing his former wife,
if you please!

1035
01:10:56,767 --> 01:10:59,839
- I think you exaggerate.
- I exaggerate nothing!

1036
01:11:00,007 --> 01:11:03,124
He met her on the street.
Yes, you did. I heard about it.

1037
01:11:03,287 --> 01:11:05,755
I hear everything.
Nothing escapes me.

1038
01:11:05,927 --> 01:11:07,838
He didn't dare speak to her,

1039
01:11:08,007 --> 01:11:12,364
but he followed her
like a moonstruck calf for everyone to sea!

1040
01:11:13,847 --> 01:11:16,520
You will not make a laughing stock
of my family

1041
01:11:16,687 --> 01:11:20,157
or as quick as boiled asparagus,
I'll have you out! Out!

1042
01:11:25,967 --> 01:11:27,764
You listen to me.

1043
01:11:28,767 --> 01:11:30,997
Mark Antony was twice
the man you are,

1044
01:11:31,167 --> 01:11:33,044
but when he spa on my sister,

1045
01:11:33,207 --> 01:11:37,200
he learned a lesson he didn't
live long enough to profit from.

1046
01:11:37,727 --> 01:11:39,479
Julia and I don't get on.

1047
01:11:39,647 --> 01:11:42,400
Damn you! You'll get on
whether you like it or not!

1048
01:11:42,567 --> 01:11:44,797
And you'll leave that woman alone!

1049
01:11:44,967 --> 01:11:46,958
Let me go away. Let me leave Rome.

1050
01:11:48,287 --> 01:11:50,278
What am I to do with him?

1051
01:11:50,447 --> 01:11:54,440
Tell me. You're his mother, speak
to him. It's Agrippa all over again.

1052
01:11:54,607 --> 01:11:57,167
He doesn't mean it.
He doesn't want to go.

1053
01:11:57,327 --> 01:11:59,204
Didn't you hear what he said?!

1054
01:11:59,367 --> 01:12:02,040
He's unhappy. He didn't mean it.

1055
01:12:03,247 --> 01:12:07,365
It's not unnatural for a man
to sea his former wife now and then.

1056
01:12:07,527 --> 01:12:12,555
I saw his father several times
after you and I were married.

1057
01:12:12,727 --> 01:12:14,877
- That was different.
- Not so different.

1058
01:12:15,047 --> 01:12:17,880
And you saw Julia's mother
from time to time.

1059
01:12:18,047 --> 01:12:21,642
- Yes, but not in secret!
- I don't remember being present.

1060
01:12:21,807 --> 01:12:24,082
Maybe not, but it was not in secret!

1061
01:12:24,247 --> 01:12:27,717
Well. how secret was this?
I knew about it.

1062
01:12:31,527 --> 01:12:36,078
- You knew about it?.
- Of course. He told me.

1063
01:12:36,247 --> 01:12:38,124
You never said anything to me.

1064
01:12:38,287 --> 01:12:40,960
Have you so little
to occupy your time

1065
01:12:41,127 --> 01:12:44,085
that I must tell you
about everyone in the household?

1066
01:12:45,007 --> 01:12:49,285
You're always complaining that
you have too much to think about.

1067
01:12:49,447 --> 01:12:52,757
Perhaps you'd care to sea
the laundry lists in future?

1068
01:13:05,607 --> 01:13:07,882
All right. I was hasty.

1069
01:13:08,447 --> 01:13:12,122
But you understand
I felt I had cause!

1070
01:13:14,647 --> 01:13:17,957
Tiberius, listen. I'm not blind.

1071
01:13:18,127 --> 01:13:22,279
I know that you and Julia aren't
the most perfectly-matched couple,

1072
01:13:22,447 --> 01:13:25,041
but what can you do?
These things happen.

1073
01:13:25,207 --> 01:13:27,960
We can't cut the knot every time
we quarrel

1074
01:13:28,127 --> 01:13:32,325
Especially us. We have to set
an example. Livia, you'll back me.

1075
01:13:32,487 --> 01:13:37,083
Of course. We have duties which far
outweigh our private feelings.

1076
01:13:37,247 --> 01:13:38,600
Exactly.

1077
01:13:40,847 --> 01:13:46,240
Now, Tiberius, you play fair
with me, eh? Don't sulk.

1078
01:13:48,407 --> 01:13:52,685
If it's a little thing on the side -
I'm not encouraging - who's to know?.

1079
01:13:52,847 --> 01:13:57,841
Forgetting that your mother's here -
if that's aver possible!

1080
01:13:58,847 --> 01:14:02,522
Yes. Well. we can wink at it
between men.

1081
01:14:03,407 --> 01:14:04,965
But Vipsania...

1082
01:14:05,127 --> 01:14:08,164
I don't like it, do you understand?
It's not right.

1083
01:14:09,007 --> 01:14:13,205
You play fair with me
and you'll sea I can be generous too.

1084
01:14:15,727 --> 01:14:17,126
Good.

1085
01:14:18,847 --> 01:14:20,200
Good.

1086
01:14:22,687 --> 01:14:25,565
If there's one thing I hate,
it's a family row.

1087
01:14:25,727 --> 01:14:29,640
What does it cost to be kind?
To be sympathetic and understanding.

1088
01:14:30,167 --> 01:14:31,520
Yes?

1089
01:14:31,687 --> 01:14:34,121
A messenger has arrived
from Germany, Caesar.

1090
01:14:34,287 --> 01:14:35,800
Send him in.

1091
01:14:39,607 --> 01:14:42,599
A dispatch from Drusus Nero
for his noble brother.

1092
01:14:42,767 --> 01:14:45,679
Tiberius, let's hear what he says.

1093
01:14:55,527 --> 01:15:01,204
"My dear Tiberius, a period of enforced rest
due to a slight head wound

1094
01:15:01,367 --> 01:15:06,361
"has given me much time to reflect
on the state of our beloved Rome."

1095
01:15:06,527 --> 01:15:09,519
- He's wounded. Not seriously?.
- He says slight.

1096
01:15:10,847 --> 01:15:15,363
"Such was the extent
of the corruption that I found in..."

1097
01:15:18,807 --> 01:15:20,206
Go on.

1098
01:15:22,727 --> 01:15:24,604
The handwriting is...

1099
01:15:25,287 --> 01:15:27,755
Surely you can read more than that?.

1100
01:15:27,927 --> 01:15:31,397
Yes. Well. he goes on to say err...

1101
01:15:33,767 --> 01:15:35,086
Well?.

1102
01:15:36,527 --> 01:15:39,325
Honestly, sir,
it's not worth reading.

1103
01:15:39,487 --> 01:15:43,116
I think my brother was perhaps
not himself when he wrote it.

1104
01:16:02,407 --> 01:16:06,116
"..The corruption and petty place
seeking that I found in Rome.

1105
01:16:06,287 --> 01:16:09,962
"I have come to the conclusion
that it is the consequence

1106
01:16:10,127 --> 01:16:13,642
"of the continued exercise
of supreme power by Augustus.

1107
01:16:16,807 --> 01:16:21,517
"Could we not persuade him,
even compel him to retire?

1108
01:16:22,687 --> 01:16:25,201
"I firmly believe
he is ready to do this,

1109
01:16:25,367 --> 01:16:28,643
"but for the stubbornness
of our mother Livia,

1110
01:16:28,807 --> 01:16:30,798
"who derives such satisfaction

1111
01:16:31,087 --> 01:16:34,079
"from the exercise of supreme power
through him..."

1112
01:16:37,247 --> 01:16:40,717
There's more.
Do you want to read it?.

1113
01:16:42,087 --> 01:16:44,078
The letter's clearly treasonable.

1114
01:16:44,247 --> 01:16:48,445
No, no. He feels strongly about it.
I understand that.

1115
01:16:48,607 --> 01:16:52,043
He's wrong, but I understand it.

1116
01:16:55,567 --> 01:16:58,684
Then again, perhaps he's right.

1117
01:16:59,847 --> 01:17:03,760
Perhaps I should retire.
I've said so often enough.

1118
01:17:06,727 --> 01:17:09,036
Will you allow him to insult me?

1119
01:17:09,207 --> 01:17:11,038
He's your son, not mine!

1120
01:17:12,487 --> 01:17:16,799
His wound might have affected him.
He speaks of giddiness at the end.

1121
01:17:17,847 --> 01:17:19,166
Yes.

1122
01:17:21,567 --> 01:17:24,206
Yes. That's it.

1123
01:17:25,847 --> 01:17:27,838
He's a little bit deranged.

1124
01:17:28,967 --> 01:17:31,561
Those German forests
can affect a man.

1125
01:17:33,047 --> 01:17:36,756
I'll call him back for a rest.
It'll be good to sea him again.

1126
01:17:36,927 --> 01:17:39,361
Yes, you're right.
We should have him back.

1127
01:17:39,527 --> 01:17:41,995
I'll send a doctor with the letter.

1128
01:17:42,167 --> 01:17:45,045
- He's got a doctor.
- Army doctors! What do they know?.

1129
01:17:45,207 --> 01:17:48,882
I'll send my own.
He'll know how to take care of him.

1130
01:17:55,567 --> 01:17:56,966
Easy.

1131
01:17:57,127 --> 01:17:59,357
That's right. Fetch the doctor.

1132
01:18:00,087 --> 01:18:02,726
- Which one?
- Ours, of course, and hurry.

1133
01:18:02,887 --> 01:18:07,085
Lift him onto the table and be
careful or I'll make eunuchs of you!

1134
01:18:07,767 --> 01:18:11,442
You blockheads!
Right. Get this away.

1135
01:18:13,047 --> 01:18:14,878
I'll have the lot of you crucified.

1136
01:18:16,567 --> 01:18:18,478
It's all right. It's all right.

1137
01:18:18,647 --> 01:18:20,080
All right. Clear out.

1138
01:18:21,607 --> 01:18:23,438
It feels terrible.

1139
01:18:23,607 --> 01:18:26,201
It's a mess. We'll get it cleaned.

1140
01:18:26,847 --> 01:18:28,644
Hurry up with that water!

1141
01:18:30,807 --> 01:18:32,286
What happened?

1142
01:18:32,447 --> 01:18:34,756
My horse fell on me.
I couldn't get out.

1143
01:18:34,927 --> 01:18:38,920
It crushed my leg on a rock,
then tore it to shreds getting up.

1144
01:18:39,687 --> 01:18:43,396
- The doctor's coming.
- What did they mean - "Which one"?

1145
01:18:43,567 --> 01:18:47,196
One arrived from Rome.
He's your mother's personal physician.

1146
01:18:49,687 --> 01:18:54,283
That was kind of her. He'll have
more to look at. Where is he?

1147
01:18:54,447 --> 01:18:57,280
We found him a room.
He doesn't look too happy.

1148
01:18:57,447 --> 01:19:00,120
He's already missing
the comforts of home.

1149
01:19:04,847 --> 01:19:06,883
This will probably hurt.

1150
01:19:12,927 --> 01:19:15,680
He brought a letter with him
from Caesar.

1151
01:19:15,847 --> 01:19:18,964
- Where is it?.
- I'll give it to you after.

1152
01:19:19,127 --> 01:19:21,083
Give it to me now!

1153
01:19:29,127 --> 01:19:30,526
Rufus?

1154
01:19:32,567 --> 01:19:35,684
- What happened?
- A horse fell and crushed his leg.

1155
01:19:43,207 --> 01:19:45,767
- Oh...
- No, no, I'm all right.

1156
01:19:47,967 --> 01:19:50,879
I've bean invited, politely,
back to Rome.

1157
01:19:51,047 --> 01:19:54,756
- Why?.
- I'm not sure, but I can guess.

1158
01:19:56,567 --> 01:19:59,081
Oh! Get out of here!

1159
01:20:05,687 --> 01:20:09,760
You'll not be moving far on that leg,
if I'm any judge of wounds.

1160
01:20:12,767 --> 01:20:14,803
I don't understand it.

1161
01:20:15,727 --> 01:20:17,445
A simple fall

1162
01:20:17,607 --> 01:20:21,282
- How could it happen?
- They can be bad sometimes.

1163
01:20:21,447 --> 01:20:26,077
- To bring him to death's door.
- It's an excuse for not returning.

1164
01:20:26,247 --> 01:20:28,044
Why do you say that?.

1165
01:20:28,207 --> 01:20:31,483
I've heard such reasons before.
Don't raise your voice to me.

1166
01:20:31,647 --> 01:20:34,480
- What reason could he have?
- Who knows?

1167
01:20:34,647 --> 01:20:37,957
We know he has the whole
of the western armies at his back.

1168
01:20:38,127 --> 01:20:40,163
He'll come when it suits him.

1169
01:20:41,727 --> 01:20:43,399
I must go to my brother.

1170
01:20:43,567 --> 01:20:47,480
He's 500 miles away.
He could be dead even now.

1171
01:20:47,647 --> 01:20:49,638
All the same, I must go to him.

1172
01:20:50,687 --> 01:20:53,360
I'll make a sacrifice
and offer prayers.

1173
01:20:53,527 --> 01:20:55,802
Perhaps he won't be taken from us.

1174
01:20:56,407 --> 01:20:58,125
Take him our love.

1175
01:21:00,247 --> 01:21:02,397
Well. go, go quickly!

1176
01:21:09,487 --> 01:21:13,366
The Senate today voted
to make me a god in Palmyra.

1177
01:21:14,367 --> 01:21:17,040
They’ll put a little statue to me
in the temple

1178
01:21:17,207 --> 01:21:20,358
and people will bring offerings
asking me to bring rain

1179
01:21:20,527 --> 01:21:22,757
or cure their father's gout.

1180
01:21:23,847 --> 01:21:28,682
Tell me, Livia, if I'm a god -
even in Palmyra...

1181
01:21:29,807 --> 01:21:31,843
how do I cure gout?.

1182
01:21:38,967 --> 01:21:43,245
What is it, my love? What do you want?.

1183
01:21:46,247 --> 01:21:48,807
Fetch the children.

1184
01:21:50,007 --> 01:21:53,716
Yes. Yes, of course.

1185
01:21:55,127 --> 01:21:57,004
I'll bring them.

1186
01:22:04,607 --> 01:22:06,837
He wants me to fetch the children.

1187
01:22:21,567 --> 01:22:24,604
- Is he...?
- No. But it's near.

1188
01:22:36,927 --> 01:22:39,964
- What is it?.
- Gangrene.

1189
01:22:41,007 --> 01:22:43,999
It crept slowly up.
Nothing seamed to stop it.

1190
01:22:45,367 --> 01:22:47,198
Where's the staff surgeon?

1191
01:22:47,367 --> 01:22:52,077
He wasn't allowed near him.
He took the case out of his hands.

1192
01:23:10,047 --> 01:23:11,366
Musar.

1193
01:23:12,847 --> 01:23:14,838
It was just a simple fall

1194
01:23:16,087 --> 01:23:18,362
What happened to your skill?.

1195
01:23:18,527 --> 01:23:21,360
I...I came too late.

1196
01:23:21,527 --> 01:23:25,520
His condition was too far gone.
I came too late.

1197
01:23:34,807 --> 01:23:36,160
Drusus?

1198
01:23:36,327 --> 01:23:38,238
Drusus, look at me.

1199
01:23:38,407 --> 01:23:42,844
Drusus, it's I, Tiberius.

1200
01:23:48,287 --> 01:23:51,563
You and your damned plum stones.

1201
01:23:55,767 --> 01:23:57,644
She read the letter.

1202
01:23:58,727 --> 01:24:00,524
I couldn't stop her.

1203
01:24:01,927 --> 01:24:03,918
She was there when I got it.

1204
01:24:05,087 --> 01:24:08,284
I couldn't think
it would have anything in it.

1205
01:24:10,927 --> 01:24:14,283
Rome has a severe mother.

1206
01:24:16,607 --> 01:24:20,122
And Gaius and Lucius...

1207
01:24:22,287 --> 01:24:24,357
a cruel stepmother.

1208
01:24:33,687 --> 01:24:35,279
Drusus...?

1209
01:24:36,767 --> 01:24:38,086
Drusus...?

1210
01:24:38,727 --> 01:24:40,046
Drusus!

1211
01:24:41,607 --> 01:24:43,165
No.

1212
01:24:44,167 --> 01:24:45,520
No.

1213
01:24:46,847 --> 01:24:48,644
(BABY CRIES)

1214
01:24:53,527 --> 01:24:55,563
You didn't wait.

1215
01:24:56,607 --> 01:24:58,404
You didn't wait.

1216
01:24:58,567 --> 01:25:02,116
Look. I brought you little Claudius.

1217
01:25:05,647 --> 01:25:07,524
And you didn't wait.

1218
01:25:16,727 --> 01:25:20,083
Shouldn't have died
and that's a fact

1219
01:25:21,047 --> 01:25:24,278
Somebody blundered,
and that's a fact

1220
01:25:25,007 --> 01:25:27,077
(KNOCKING)

1221
01:25:27,247 --> 01:25:28,680
Come.

1222
01:25:31,487 --> 01:25:33,717
Your meal is ready, Caesar.

1223
01:25:58,607 --> 01:26:01,280
Will you have it now
or shall I take it away?.

1224
01:26:34,847 --> 01:26:38,362
Very good. I think the cook's
on form today, for a change.

1225
01:26:38,527 --> 01:26:40,040
Try that.

1226
01:26:41,727 --> 01:26:43,206
There.

1227
01:26:50,727 --> 01:26:53,195
The garlic's overdone for my taste.

1228
01:26:53,367 --> 01:26:56,564
You're always complaining
about the g-garlic.

1229
01:26:56,727 --> 01:26:58,126
Go on.

1230
01:27:05,007 --> 01:27:07,157
A good swallow now.

1231
01:27:15,607 --> 01:27:19,600
Yes, I know this one. It's from
the north. About five years old.

1232
01:27:19,767 --> 01:27:23,521
They had a bad summer.
The grapes had less sugar in them.

1233
01:27:23,727 --> 01:27:28,562
Oh, stop showing off.
Well. fill it up, then you can go.

1234
01:27:28,727 --> 01:27:30,240
I'm very busy.

1235
01:27:30,407 --> 01:27:32,637
- Another history, Caesar?.
- Yes.

1236
01:27:32,807 --> 01:27:36,356
- Of the Etruscans again?
- No, of my family.

1237
01:27:38,487 --> 01:27:41,320
Did you aver read my history
of the Etruscans?

1238
01:27:41,487 --> 01:27:46,277
No. I got it down from the library once,
but I couldn't get into it.

1239
01:27:46,447 --> 01:27:49,086
Very well written, of course.
Very well

1240
01:27:49,967 --> 01:27:51,958
Is something the matter, Caesar?.

1241
01:27:52,127 --> 01:27:56,484
The fact is, when you know that
someone's trying to poison you,

1242
01:27:56,647 --> 01:27:59,957
nothing tastes right,
absolutely nothing.

1243
01:28:00,127 --> 01:28:02,721
Come now, who would want
to poison you, Caesar?.

1244
01:28:02,887 --> 01:28:06,084
Don't butter me up! You know
who'd want to poison me.

1245
01:28:06,247 --> 01:28:09,717
My wife, that's who,
and that slimy son of hers.

1246
01:28:10,687 --> 01:28:13,201
For all I know,
you're in league with them.

1247
01:28:14,327 --> 01:28:19,196
In my opinion, the only person
likely to poison us is the cook.

1248
01:28:19,367 --> 01:28:21,437
I wish you'd let me get rid of him.

1249
01:28:21,607 --> 01:28:26,965
He's a Greek and the only thing
he does is stuff vine leaves.

1250
01:28:27,127 --> 01:28:29,436
Will you take it away?.
I'm not hungry.

1251
01:28:35,327 --> 01:28:38,603
May I ask how the current work
is coming?

1252
01:28:38,767 --> 01:28:40,439
Well enough.

1253
01:28:47,447 --> 01:28:50,086
May I ask how far you've got?.

1254
01:28:50,247 --> 01:28:51,999
The death of my father.

1255
01:28:52,167 --> 01:28:54,237
Ah, the noble Drusus.

1256
01:28:54,407 --> 01:28:58,116
A tragedy that one should lose
one's father so young.

1257
01:28:58,287 --> 01:29:00,562
- Yes!
- Yes.

1258
01:29:11,687 --> 01:29:13,723
A tragedy for us all

1259
01:29:13,887 --> 01:29:16,117
Yes, and for Rome.

1260
01:29:16,287 --> 01:29:18,642
And especially for my uncle.

1261
01:29:18,807 --> 01:29:21,002
He was never the same again.

1262
01:29:21,167 --> 01:29:23,362
(MELANCHOLY PIPE PLAYS)

1263
01:30:13,207 --> 01:30:17,041
Well. sons of Agrippa...

1264
01:30:18,447 --> 01:30:21,678
The daylight's fled
and stars are out.

1265
01:30:22,847 --> 01:30:28,683
It's time for decent people
to lock their doors and go to sleep.

1266
01:30:29,527 --> 01:30:31,006
Come.

1267
01:30:31,167 --> 01:30:34,762
Come on. You can sea me to my bed...

1268
01:30:36,127 --> 01:30:38,038
and then go to your own.

1269
01:30:45,927 --> 01:30:48,725
Yes, we've eaten well
and drunk well

1270
01:30:49,607 --> 01:30:51,723
Too well perhaps.

1271
01:30:58,087 --> 01:31:01,875
Poor Julia. She can't take the wine
as she used to.

1272
01:31:03,087 --> 01:31:06,238
And even dear Antonia nods a little.

1273
01:31:06,407 --> 01:31:07,806
What...?

1274
01:31:08,887 --> 01:31:11,401
What were you thinking tonight,
my dear?.

1275
01:31:12,567 --> 01:31:15,206
Ah, of poor Drusus.

1276
01:31:16,327 --> 01:31:21,321
Yes, yes, I was thinking of him
tonight too.

1277
01:31:24,047 --> 01:31:27,483
Rome cannot afford such a loss.

1278
01:31:31,487 --> 01:31:37,801
I pray to the Gods that these boys
will be as noble and virtuous as he was.

1279
01:31:40,847 --> 01:31:44,317
You mustn't dwell on it.
A year has gone by.

1280
01:31:44,487 --> 01:31:46,762
That's quite long enough for grief.

1281
01:31:46,927 --> 01:31:50,681
More is not the Roman way, you know.

1282
01:31:54,487 --> 01:31:56,796
Musicians, play us out.

1283
01:31:56,967 --> 01:31:59,879
Let us have music to take us
to our sleep.

1284
01:32:04,367 --> 01:32:05,800
A year?.

1285
01:32:07,647 --> 01:32:09,683
Is that all it is?

1286
01:32:12,167 --> 01:32:14,044
One little year?.

1287
01:32:22,487 --> 01:32:24,079
Goodnight, Lady.

1288
01:32:26,847 --> 01:32:29,486
(JULIA SNORES)

1289
01:32:35,447 --> 01:32:37,358
Pretty sight, isn't she?

1290
01:32:39,727 --> 01:32:44,118
I must get away from her.
I must leave Rome.

1291
01:32:45,287 --> 01:32:46,879
You'll stay.

1292
01:32:47,967 --> 01:32:51,437
You'll have patience, as I have.

1293
01:32:51,767 --> 01:32:54,361
Where has your patience got you?

1294
01:32:54,527 --> 01:32:57,041
You've lost him, Mother.

1295
01:32:57,967 --> 01:33:01,676
You've lost him to those two boys.

1296
01:33:01,967 --> 01:33:08,600
If you leave Rome, I'll wash my hands
of you once and for all

1297
01:33:08,767 --> 01:33:11,964
and shed not a single tear.

1298
01:33:12,127 --> 01:33:17,326
That's not surprising.
I saw you shed none for my brother.

1299
01:33:43,327 --> 01:33:45,238
Have they all gone?

1300
01:33:50,287 --> 01:33:54,200
Oh, Tiberius, I was having
such a beautiful dream.

1301
01:33:58,647 --> 01:34:00,638
Tiberius...

1302
01:34:02,767 --> 01:34:06,680
Sleep with me tonight.
I'll be so loving to you.

1303
01:34:08,047 --> 01:34:09,605
Be nice to me.

1304
01:34:09,767 --> 01:34:12,725
Oh, just tonight.

1305
01:34:12,887 --> 01:34:16,675
Let me go, you fat drunken cow!

1306
01:34:16,927 --> 01:34:18,360
Fat?. !

1307
01:34:18,527 --> 01:34:19,960
Fat?. !

1308
01:34:20,367 --> 01:34:24,804
I'm fat where a woman should be fat,
not skinny like a boy!

1309
01:34:24,967 --> 01:34:27,959
Go to bed, my dear,
and I'll send you one up.

1310
01:34:28,127 --> 01:34:31,802
He's very pretty, I promise you.
I've had him myself.

1311
01:34:33,887 --> 01:34:36,685
He reminds me of your ex-wife.

1312
01:34:36,967 --> 01:34:40,926
Not a hair on his body
and his even skinnier behind!

1313
01:34:41,687 --> 01:34:43,723
There'll be no divorce. None!

1314
01:34:43,887 --> 01:34:46,321
I don't care what he is.
You married him.

1315
01:34:46,487 --> 01:34:48,842
Look what your son did
to my daughter.

1316
01:34:49,007 --> 01:34:52,363
What kind of a man is that?.
I've never liked him, never.

1317
01:34:52,527 --> 01:34:55,166
He's your son,
but I've never liked him.

1318
01:34:55,327 --> 01:34:58,239
- I want a divorce!
- No divorce!

1319
01:34:58,407 --> 01:35:00,796
You've bean married three times
already!

1320
01:35:00,967 --> 01:35:03,356
That's not my fault!
I was widowed twice!

1321
01:35:03,527 --> 01:35:05,916
How can a woman get herself
widowed twice?

1322
01:35:06,087 --> 01:35:08,965
- That's not fair!
- It shows damn poor judgment!

1323
01:35:09,127 --> 01:35:10,879
I never asked to marry Agrippa!

1324
01:35:11,047 --> 01:35:13,436
Well. you asked to marry this one!

1325
01:35:13,607 --> 01:35:16,440
That husband of yours
can clear out of Rome.

1326
01:35:16,607 --> 01:35:19,405
Tell him to go.
I don't even want to sea him.

1327
01:35:19,567 --> 01:35:21,956
I don't want his name mentioned
in this house!

1328
01:35:22,127 --> 01:35:25,403
How am I supposed to live,
neither married nor divorced?

1329
01:35:25,567 --> 01:35:27,797
You'll live as befits
a Roman matron.

1330
01:35:27,967 --> 01:35:29,958
And heaven help you if you don't!

1331
01:35:33,967 --> 01:35:35,764
Oh, I don't know.

1332
01:35:37,447 --> 01:35:41,122
Why can't they get on?
What do they want from life?

1333
01:35:41,287 --> 01:35:45,166
I'm supposed to rule an empire
and I can't rule my own family.

1334
01:35:46,207 --> 01:35:49,643
Thank God for these boys.
You'll help me, won't you?

1335
01:35:49,807 --> 01:35:54,722
What would we do without Agrippa's
sons, Livia? They’re our one hope.

1336
01:35:57,407 --> 01:36:02,276
In three or four years, they’ll be
able to take some of this burden.

1337
01:36:03,007 --> 01:36:06,716
They’re promising, all right.
Aren't you, my beauties?

1338
01:36:06,887 --> 01:36:08,479
Very promising.

1339
01:36:09,767 --> 01:36:13,919
Still. you've a long way to go,
haven't you?

1340
01:36:14,087 --> 01:36:17,284
A long, long way.

1341
01:36:19,127 --> 01:36:21,800
We must take good care of them,
Augustus.

1342
01:36:21,967 --> 01:36:24,356
And we shall. I promise you.

1343
01:36:24,527 --> 01:36:27,087
The very best of care.

1344
01:36:28,327 --> 01:36:31,364
Ah, that's how it should be.

1345
01:36:31,527 --> 01:36:34,121
Stay like that a moment.
What a picture you make.

1346
01:36:34,287 --> 01:36:37,438
It expresses the true spirit
of the Roman family.


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