1 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,299 In the last century before the birth... 2 00:07:53,300 --> 00:07:56,000 of the new faith called Christianity... 3 00:07:56,100 --> 00:07:59,000 which was destined to overthrow the pagan tyranny of Rome... 4 00:07:59,100 --> 00:08:01,300 and bring about a new society... 5 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:06,200 the Roman republics toodat the very centre of the civilized world. 6 00:08:06,300 --> 00:08:08,900 ' "Of all things fairest, '" sang the poet... 7 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:13,600 '"first among cities and home of the gods is golden Rome. '" 8 00:08:13,700 --> 00:08:16,400 Yet even at the zenith of her pride and power... 9 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:19,800 the Republic lay fatally stricken with a disease called... 10 00:08:19,900 --> 00:08:22,100 human slavery. 11 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:24,699 The age of the dictator was at hand... 12 00:08:24,700 --> 00:08:28,700 waiting in the shadows for the event to bring it forth. 13 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:30,900 In that same century... 14 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,700 in the conquered Greek province of Thrace... 15 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:37,100 an illiterate slave woman added to her master's wealth... 16 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:41,599 by giving birth to a son whom she named Spartacus. 17 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,000 A proud, rebellious son... 18 00:08:44,100 --> 00:08:47,100 who was sold to living death in the mines of Libya... 19 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:50,200 before his thirteenth birthday. 20 00:08:50,300 --> 00:08:53,100 There, under whip and chain and sun... 21 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,899 he lived out his youth and his young manhood... 22 00:08:56,900 --> 00:08:59,300 dreaming the death of slavery... 23 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,900 2,000 years before it finally would die. 24 00:09:45,700 --> 00:09:49,200 Back to work! 25 00:09:55,100 --> 00:09:58,800 Get up, Spartacus, you Thracian dog! 26 00:09:58,900 --> 00:10:01,200 Come on, get up! 27 00:10:01,300 --> 00:10:04,700 My ankle, my ankle! 28 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:06,800 My ankle! 29 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,300 Spartacus again? This time he dies. 30 00:10:20,900 --> 00:10:23,500 Back to work, all of you! 31 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:46,500 - Welcome, Lentulus Batiatus. - Welcome, indeed, my dear captain. 32 00:10:51,900 --> 00:10:54,400 Eleven miles through the disastrous heat... 33 00:10:54,500 --> 00:10:58,400 and the cost of hiring an escort... ruinous. 34 00:10:58,500 --> 00:11:02,600 Even so, I warrant you have nothing fit to sell me, have you, Captain? 35 00:11:02,700 --> 00:11:06,399 I've wasted my time and my money. Tell me the truth. 36 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:08,600 I think we have a few you might be interested in. 37 00:11:08,700 --> 00:11:13,499 What, these? Carrion! The buzzards are late. 38 00:11:13,500 --> 00:11:16,200 This one here's not bad. He's a Gaul. 39 00:11:16,300 --> 00:11:19,000 I don't like Gauls. Hairy. 40 00:11:20,900 --> 00:11:24,500 - Can he come down from there unassisted? - Come down, you! 41 00:11:25,300 --> 00:11:27,400 Come down! 42 00:11:31,300 --> 00:11:33,599 Be good enough to show me the teeth. 43 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,600 - Open your mouth! - Thank you. 44 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,399 Yes. As the teeth go, so go the bones. 45 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:45,900 This mouth is really impermissible. 46 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,900 - The fellow's made of chalk. - We have others. Many others! 47 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,800 The sun's over there. I have to pay these people. 48 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:02,300 Who's that? 49 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:06,099 This one's a Thracian. I'm making an example of him. 50 00:12:06,100 --> 00:12:09,100 - How? - Starve him to death. 51 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,400 It's the only thing impresses slaves. 52 00:12:11,500 --> 00:12:13,600 What a pity. 53 00:12:16,300 --> 00:12:21,200 He reacts. Good muscle tone. Can I see his teeth? 54 00:12:21,300 --> 00:12:24,200 Open your mouth, Spartacus! 55 00:12:24,300 --> 00:12:26,900 You smell like a rhinoceros. 56 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:33,999 Captain, you asked him to open his mouth. He doesn't obey you? 57 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,100 His teeth are the best thing about him. 58 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,700 He hamstrung a guard with them not more than an hour ago. 59 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:41,300 Hamstrung? How marvellous! I wish I'd been here. 60 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,100 I'll take him. Let's look at some of the others. 61 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:53,700 Come along! 62 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:59,800 In spite of sickness and death, we will profit 11,000 sesterces! 63 00:13:59,900 --> 00:14:02,100 Including your commission, of course. 64 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,500 No, sir. Without my commission. 65 00:14:08,300 --> 00:14:10,400 Marcellus, there they are. 66 00:14:10,500 --> 00:14:13,000 They're a dirty-looking lot, but it's the best I could find. 67 00:14:13,100 --> 00:14:15,700 No one else could have made so fine a choice. 68 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:22,500 Slaves... 69 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:26,800 you have arrived at the gladiatorial school of Lentulus Batiatus. 70 00:14:26,900 --> 00:14:31,000 Here you will be trained by experts to fight in pairs to the death. 71 00:14:31,100 --> 00:14:33,900 Obviously, you won't be required to fight to the death here. 72 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,100 That will only be after you've been sold... 73 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:38,300 and then for ladies and gentlemen of quality... 74 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:40,900 those who appreciate a fine kill. 75 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:45,700 A gladiator's like a stallion: He must be pampered. 76 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:47,999 You'll be oiled, bathed... 77 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:52,100 shaved, massaged, taught to use your heads. 78 00:14:53,300 --> 00:14:56,900 A good body with a dull brain is as cheap as life itself! 79 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,100 You'll be given your ceremonial caudas. 80 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:01,300 Marcellus, please. There. 81 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:04,600 Be proud of them. 82 00:15:04,700 --> 00:15:08,400 On certain special occasions, those of you who please me... 83 00:15:08,500 --> 00:15:12,100 will even be given the companionship of a young lady. 84 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:15,899 Approximately half our graduates... 85 00:15:15,900 --> 00:15:18,900 live for five, ten... ten years. 86 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,300 Some of them even attain freedom... 87 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:24,200 and become trainers themselves. 88 00:15:24,300 --> 00:15:26,300 Marcellus. 89 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:31,000 I congratulate you. And may fortune smile on most of you. 90 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:39,100 Marcellus, watch the second from the right. 91 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,799 He's a Thracian. They were going to kill him for hamstringing a guard. 92 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:46,300 - We'll break him of that. - Don't overdo it. He has quality. 93 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:54,200 Next. 94 00:16:00,500 --> 00:16:02,400 Next. 95 00:16:09,300 --> 00:16:11,400 I like you. 96 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:14,700 I want you to be my friend. 97 00:16:16,100 --> 00:16:18,200 I want to be your friend. 98 00:16:18,900 --> 00:16:22,600 All I ask is that you get along with me. 99 00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:26,900 What's your name, slave? 100 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:28,700 Spartacus. 101 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:32,600 I feel you don't like me. 102 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:41,200 Give him your sword. 103 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:46,300 Take it! 104 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:56,100 I have a feeling you want to kill me. 105 00:16:57,500 --> 00:17:00,300 This is the only chance you'll ever get. 106 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:02,300 Kill me! 107 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:05,900 Don't be afraid, slave. 108 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,200 You have that sword. 109 00:17:08,300 --> 00:17:11,100 I only have this piece of wood! 110 00:17:13,100 --> 00:17:15,500 Are you going to disobey me? 111 00:17:20,500 --> 00:17:22,400 Take his sword. 112 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:25,700 You're not as stupid as I thought. 113 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:28,300 You might even be intelligent. 114 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:30,799 That's dangerous for slaves. 115 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:32,900 You just remember... 116 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:36,500 from now on, everything you do, I'll be watching. 117 00:18:08,500 --> 00:18:10,900 You did the right thing. 118 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:15,300 Every once in a while, Marcellus likes to kill a man as an example. 119 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:19,200 I think he's picked you. Better watch him. 120 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:25,500 - How long have you been here? - Six months. 121 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:27,700 I wish he'd pick me. 122 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:31,000 I want one chance at that pig before they carry me out! 123 00:18:31,100 --> 00:18:33,500 Quiet! No talking down there. 124 00:18:35,100 --> 00:18:38,400 You'll get us all in trouble, just like in the mines. 125 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:47,100 What's your name? 126 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,500 You don't want to know my name. 127 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,200 I don't want to know your name. 128 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:55,000 Just a friendly question. 129 00:18:55,100 --> 00:18:57,600 Gladiators don't make friends. 130 00:18:57,700 --> 00:19:00,300 If we're ever matched in the arena together... 131 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:02,500 I'll have to kill you. 132 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:33,000 Helena... 133 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:36,500 with Galino. 134 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:42,300 Patricia... 135 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:45,900 Crixus. 136 00:19:48,100 --> 00:19:50,100 Priscilla... 137 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:54,200 David. 138 00:19:57,900 --> 00:19:59,800 Claudia... 139 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:02,500 Pharox. 140 00:20:06,900 --> 00:20:08,900 Varinia... 141 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:12,800 - Dionysius. - No, no. Spartacus. 142 00:20:15,500 --> 00:20:17,400 Spartacus. 143 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,100 Felicia... 144 00:21:32,100 --> 00:21:34,300 I've never had a woman. 145 00:21:59,500 --> 00:22:02,700 You have one now, Spartacus. You must take her. 146 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:04,900 - Go away. - What will she think of you? 147 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,100 Indeed, what will I think of you? 148 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,300 Go away. 149 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:13,700 Come, come. Be generous. We must learn to share our pleasures. 150 00:22:15,500 --> 00:22:17,900 I'm not an animal! 151 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,199 You're not trying to escape, by any chance? 152 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,000 Direct your courage to the girl, Spartacus. 153 00:22:26,700 --> 00:22:28,800 I'm not an animal! 154 00:22:34,300 --> 00:22:38,000 - I'm not an animal. - Neither am l. 155 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:16,500 What's your name? 156 00:23:19,100 --> 00:23:20,700 Varinia. 157 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,300 You'll have to take her out of here, Marcellus. 158 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,500 You may not be an animal, Spartacus... 159 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,100 but this sorry show gives me very little hope... 160 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,100 that you'll ever be a man. 161 00:25:18,300 --> 00:25:20,400 First rule: 162 00:25:20,500 --> 00:25:22,599 You get an instant kill on the red. 163 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,200 Here. Here. 164 00:25:26,500 --> 00:25:28,599 Always remember: Go for the red first... 165 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,600 because if you don't, your opponent will. 166 00:25:31,700 --> 00:25:33,900 In the blue, you get a cripple. 167 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,800 Here, here... 168 00:25:36,900 --> 00:25:38,800 here and here. 169 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,100 Second rule: 170 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,699 Go for the cripple before the slow kill. 171 00:25:44,700 --> 00:25:46,800 Here's a slow kill on the yellow. 172 00:25:48,100 --> 00:25:50,800 Here, here... 173 00:25:50,900 --> 00:25:52,600 and here. 174 00:25:52,700 --> 00:25:54,300 Remember... 175 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,800 A slow kill may have enough left in him to kill you before he dies. 176 00:25:57,900 --> 00:26:00,000 With a cripple, you know you've got him... 177 00:26:00,100 --> 00:26:01,900 if you keep your distance and wear him down. 178 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,099 The rest is all right for a public spectacle in Rome... 179 00:26:05,100 --> 00:26:08,500 but here at Capua we expect more than simple butchery... 180 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,600 and we get it. 181 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,900 Spartacus, why are you looking at that girl? 182 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,000 Varinia! Stand still. 183 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,100 Since all he can do is look at girls... 184 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,200 all right, slave, go ahead and look. 185 00:26:33,700 --> 00:26:35,500 I said look! 186 00:27:16,300 --> 00:27:19,200 No. No, this one goes to the Spaniard. 187 00:27:26,900 --> 00:27:29,000 Have a good night's rest, Spartacus. 188 00:27:36,100 --> 00:27:37,900 In there. 189 00:28:21,900 --> 00:28:24,100 Woman! 190 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,300 I've warned you about this kind of thing. 191 00:28:31,500 --> 00:28:33,600 All right, bring them in. 192 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,500 No talking! Move along there. 193 00:29:59,500 --> 00:30:01,600 Did they hurt you? 194 00:30:07,900 --> 00:30:09,900 No. 195 00:30:52,100 --> 00:30:54,000 That's a kill. 196 00:30:54,100 --> 00:30:56,299 One, two... 197 00:30:56,300 --> 00:30:59,300 three, four, five. 198 00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:03,700 One, two, three, four. 199 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,000 We have visitors. Tremendous visitors! 200 00:32:02,100 --> 00:32:05,400 Two simply enormous Roman lords on the hill. 201 00:32:05,500 --> 00:32:07,600 How easily impressed you are, Ramon. 202 00:32:07,700 --> 00:32:09,799 Just 'cause they're Romans, I suppose they're enormous. 203 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:11,999 Tell them to wait for me when they arrive. 204 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,299 - Master, you don't understand! - How enormous do these Roman lords get? 205 00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:18,300 One of them is Marcus Licinius Crassus. 206 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,400 What? Wait a minute. 207 00:32:20,500 --> 00:32:23,900 Crassus here? Varinia, my red toga with the acorns. 208 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,899 And some chairs in the atrium. Second-best wine. 209 00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:29,899 No, the best, but small goblets. 210 00:32:29,900 --> 00:32:32,000 Gracchus! You know how Crassus loathes him. 211 00:32:33,300 --> 00:32:36,000 Take him away. 212 00:32:36,100 --> 00:32:39,600 - I can't lift it. - Use your imagination! Cover him. 213 00:32:39,700 --> 00:32:42,199 Tell Marcellus to get the men ready. 214 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,600 Crassus has expensive taste. He'll want a show of some sort. 215 00:32:44,700 --> 00:32:46,800 Forgive me, Gracchus. 216 00:33:11,700 --> 00:33:14,000 Marcus Licinius Crassus... 217 00:33:14,100 --> 00:33:16,000 most noble radiance... 218 00:33:16,100 --> 00:33:18,400 first general of the Republic... 219 00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:21,200 father and defender of Rome... 220 00:33:21,300 --> 00:33:24,800 honour my house. Bless it with your presence. 221 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:38,500 Wine! Sweetmeats! Can't you see that Their Honours are exhausted? 222 00:33:41,900 --> 00:33:44,200 Have the goodness to sit. 223 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,500 Is anything wrong, Your Nobility? 224 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,400 No. 225 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,600 Welcome to the Lady Claudia Maria... 226 00:33:57,700 --> 00:34:01,400 former wife of Lucius Caius Marius... 227 00:34:01,500 --> 00:34:05,600 whose recent execution touched us all so deeply. 228 00:34:05,700 --> 00:34:07,700 Honour to the Lady Helena... 229 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,400 daughter of the late Septimus Optimus Glabrus... 230 00:34:10,500 --> 00:34:14,100 whose fame shall live on forever in the person of his son... 231 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:19,400 your brother, Marcus Publius Glabrus... 232 00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:21,600 hero of the Eastern Wars. 233 00:34:21,700 --> 00:34:24,000 How very much he knows. 234 00:34:24,100 --> 00:34:26,400 Allow me to bring you up to date. 235 00:34:26,500 --> 00:34:30,300 We're here to celebrate the marriage of my brother to the Lady Claudia. 236 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,100 A mating of eagles, Your Sanctity! 237 00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,400 Fan His Magnitude. He sweats. 238 00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:38,900 My young friends desire a private showing of two pairs. 239 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,199 Two pairs. Oh, yes. 240 00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:44,199 I think I have something that would please them. 241 00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:48,300 - Two pairs to the death. - To the death, Your Ladyship? 242 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:53,200 Surely you don't think we came all the way to Capua for gymnastics? 243 00:34:54,100 --> 00:34:56,200 But I beg Your Honours. 244 00:34:56,300 --> 00:35:00,000 Here in Capua we train the finest gladiators in all Italy. 245 00:35:00,100 --> 00:35:02,200 We can give you a display of swordsmanship... 246 00:35:02,300 --> 00:35:05,000 which is better than anything you can see in Rome at any cost. 247 00:35:05,100 --> 00:35:07,900 When they're sold, their new masters may do with them as they wish... 248 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,400 but here, no, we never fight them to the death. 249 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,900 Crassus. 250 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,099 Today is an exception. 251 00:35:16,100 --> 00:35:20,200 But the ill feeling it would spread through the whole school. 252 00:35:20,300 --> 00:35:23,400 And then the cost. The cost! 253 00:35:23,500 --> 00:35:25,600 Name your price. 254 00:35:27,300 --> 00:35:30,300 25,000 sesterces. 255 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,200 Arrange it. 256 00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:35,800 Are you serious, sir? 257 00:35:37,100 --> 00:35:39,000 Arrange it immediately. 258 00:35:40,500 --> 00:35:43,200 Of course, we shall want to choose them ourselves. 259 00:35:43,300 --> 00:35:46,500 You do have a certain variety, don't you? 260 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:48,500 Yes. Inexhaustible. 261 00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:59,300 Spartacus, there's going to be a fight to the death. 262 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,100 - To the death? - How do you know? 263 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,500 I heard Marcellus tell one of his guards. 264 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,700 - Who fights? - I don't know. 265 00:36:08,700 --> 00:36:10,800 To the death. 266 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,700 What if they matched you and me? 267 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,700 They won't. 268 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,000 What if they did? 269 00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:23,200 Would you fight? 270 00:36:25,300 --> 00:36:27,600 I'd have to. So would you. 271 00:36:28,500 --> 00:36:30,600 Would you try to kill me? 272 00:36:32,300 --> 00:36:34,400 Yes, I'd kill. 273 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:36,600 I'd try to save... 274 00:36:36,700 --> 00:36:39,700 I'd try to stay alive and so would you. 275 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,699 All gladiators up to the training area. 276 00:36:42,700 --> 00:36:45,300 Some visitors want to admire you. 277 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,199 Form a line right here in front of me. 278 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:56,500 Would Your Excellencies care to make your selection now? 279 00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:00,200 Claudia. 280 00:37:09,100 --> 00:37:11,299 They're magnificent. 281 00:37:11,300 --> 00:37:13,400 For you, Lady Helena... 282 00:37:13,500 --> 00:37:16,600 may I suggest Praxus? 283 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:19,500 A veritable tiger. 284 00:37:20,900 --> 00:37:23,000 I don't like him. 285 00:37:29,100 --> 00:37:31,200 - I prefer that one. - Which one? 286 00:37:32,300 --> 00:37:34,200 David? 287 00:37:34,300 --> 00:37:37,700 Crixus, yes. 288 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,800 Marcellus, Crixus for the short sword. 289 00:37:45,300 --> 00:37:47,500 Have you ever seen such a pair of shoulders? Dionysius! 290 00:37:49,700 --> 00:37:53,400 I admit he's small, but he's very compact and extremely strong. 291 00:37:53,500 --> 00:37:55,400 In fact, he looks... 292 00:37:55,500 --> 00:37:59,300 He looks smaller here than he does in the actual arena. 293 00:38:01,100 --> 00:38:03,000 Optical. 294 00:38:03,900 --> 00:38:06,800 - Give me that one. - Galino. 295 00:38:06,900 --> 00:38:08,900 Yes, yes. Galino. 296 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:13,200 You have a shrewd eye, Your Pulchritude, if I may permit myself the... 297 00:38:15,500 --> 00:38:19,900 Practically every man in this school is an expert with a Thracian sword... 298 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,100 but the trident is something very rare these days. 299 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,500 May I suggest... 300 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,500 the Ethiopian? 301 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:33,299 There are very few Ethiopians in the country. 302 00:38:33,300 --> 00:38:37,300 Ethiopians are recognized as masters of the trident. 303 00:38:43,500 --> 00:38:45,600 I'll take him. 304 00:38:45,700 --> 00:38:49,199 Draba? Oh, no. For you I want only the best... 305 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,199 I want the most beautiful. 306 00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,300 I'll take the big black one. 307 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:56,800 Very good. 308 00:38:59,100 --> 00:39:01,200 Only one man in the entire school... 309 00:39:01,300 --> 00:39:06,500 stands a chance with the Thracian knife against the trident. 310 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:08,700 There. 311 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,400 - Over there, Lady Helena. - He's impertinent! 312 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:16,900 - I'll take him. - Impertinent, and a coward to boot. 313 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,000 Have him flogged! 314 00:39:19,100 --> 00:39:23,000 Over there, Lady Helena. The beast of Libya. 315 00:39:23,500 --> 00:39:26,500 I prefer the coward. 316 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,500 If both men are down and refuse to continue to fight... 317 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:34,700 your trainer will slit their throats like chickens. 318 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:38,300 - We want no tricks. - Tricks? At the school of Batiatus? 319 00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:42,400 You heard the instruction, Marcellus? Remember it. 320 00:39:42,500 --> 00:39:45,800 I feel so sorry for the poor things in all this heat. 321 00:39:45,900 --> 00:39:48,500 Don't put them in those suffocating tunics. 322 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,200 Let them wear just enough for modesty. 323 00:39:51,300 --> 00:39:54,700 Whatever they wear, Lady, they'll bless your name. 324 00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,099 Back, the rest of you! 325 00:39:58,100 --> 00:40:01,200 - Our choosing has bored you? - No. 326 00:40:01,300 --> 00:40:03,400 Most exciting. I tingle. 327 00:40:03,500 --> 00:40:05,599 Do let's get out of the sun. 328 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:09,400 May I conduct Your Magnificences to the gallery now? 329 00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,800 An eavesdropper. Oh, the god! 330 00:40:25,900 --> 00:40:29,000 How far from Rome must I go to avoid that cunning face? 331 00:40:29,100 --> 00:40:32,400 Crassus, don't talk about Gracchus. He's so hateful. 332 00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:35,000 For Gracchus, hatred of the patrician class is a profession... 333 00:40:35,100 --> 00:40:37,100 and not such a bad one, either. 334 00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,500 How else can one become master of the mob... 335 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:41,900 and first senator of Rome? 336 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,600 Crassus, it's so boring. 337 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,100 I believe that girl smells of perfume. 338 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:55,900 Whatever it is, she smells most delectable. 339 00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:59,600 You can't keep slaves from stealing these days unless you chain them. 340 00:40:59,700 --> 00:41:02,700 When a slave's as pretty as she is, she doesn't have to steal. 341 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,100 An arrangement is made. 342 00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:07,900 If her ankles are good... 343 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,100 you could be sure an arrangement was made! 344 00:41:14,100 --> 00:41:17,000 - Master! - Good heavens, a catastrophe! 345 00:41:17,100 --> 00:41:19,300 - I've been anointed! - You trollop! 346 00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:23,000 - I believe you did that on purpose. - It was an accident. Come here, girl. 347 00:41:27,900 --> 00:41:30,399 Don't be frightened. 348 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:33,500 - What country are you from? - Britannia. 349 00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,400 How long have you been a slave? 350 00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:40,900 Since I was thirteen. 351 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,300 You have a certain education. 352 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,500 My first master had me tutored for his children. 353 00:41:54,700 --> 00:41:58,600 I like her. She has spirit. 354 00:41:58,700 --> 00:42:01,500 - I'll buy her. - Buy her, Your Magnificence? 355 00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,000 I have spent quite a lot of money on her. 356 00:42:04,100 --> 00:42:06,400 Yes, I've no doubt of it. Two thousand sesterces. 357 00:42:06,500 --> 00:42:08,800 Two thou... She'll be waiting at your litter. 358 00:42:08,900 --> 00:42:11,300 No, I don't want her feet spoilt by walking. 359 00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:16,100 Send her to Rome with your steward the next time he has to go there. 360 00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,200 He leaves tomorrow and the girl with him. 361 00:42:18,300 --> 00:42:22,500 More wine. And thank your gods! 362 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,100 You provoke me, Crassus. I shan't be nice to you any more! 363 00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:28,300 - Why distress me so much? - You're horribly rich. 364 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,499 Yet you're the only one of my brother's friends... 365 00:42:30,500 --> 00:42:33,700 who hasn't given him a wedding present. 366 00:42:37,500 --> 00:42:40,300 I was saving it for a more suitable moment. 367 00:42:41,100 --> 00:42:43,400 Here. Give it to him, child. 368 00:42:43,500 --> 00:42:45,400 What is it? 369 00:42:45,500 --> 00:42:49,200 As from this moment, your husband is commander of the garrison of Rome. 370 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:52,900 Wonderful! 371 00:42:55,300 --> 00:42:58,200 I don't know how I shall ever be able to repay you. 372 00:42:58,300 --> 00:43:00,400 Time will solve that mystery. 373 00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:05,900 - The garrison of Rome. - Yes. 374 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,800 The only power in Rome strong enough to checkmate Gracchus and his senate. 375 00:43:09,900 --> 00:43:12,000 You are clever! 376 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:25,700 Open up. 377 00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:48,700 Through that door. 378 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,100 But you will have to watch him, Claudia. 379 00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,700 Father almost disinherited him because of slave girls. 380 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,500 The marriage contract absolutely forbids a harem. 381 00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,700 What about your litter bearers? 382 00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,000 After all, every one of them is under 20... 383 00:44:17,100 --> 00:44:19,200 and taller than they should be. 384 00:44:19,300 --> 00:44:21,800 She sets rather a high standard for you, does she? 385 00:44:21,900 --> 00:44:24,600 Your pleasure, Your Highness. 386 00:44:25,500 --> 00:44:30,600 To you, my dear, shall go the honour of starting this poetic drama. 387 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,000 Open up! 388 00:44:41,700 --> 00:44:44,000 First pair: Crixus and Galino! 389 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:05,500 Those who are about to die salute you. 390 00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:45,500 Crixus. 391 00:46:55,300 --> 00:46:57,200 Next pair! 392 00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,000 Those who are about to die, salute you. 393 00:48:16,500 --> 00:48:18,400 Your Thracian's doing well. 394 00:48:18,500 --> 00:48:22,000 How were you able to get my appointment without Gracchus knowing? 395 00:48:22,100 --> 00:48:25,900 I fought fire with oil. I purchased the senate behind his back. 396 00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,500 I still think the trident's going to win. 397 00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:58,300 - Why doesn't he kill him? - Kill him. 398 00:49:59,900 --> 00:50:02,000 What's the matter now? 399 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:06,900 - Kill him! - Kill him, you imbecile! 400 00:51:55,100 --> 00:51:57,400 He'll hang there till he rots. 401 00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,100 Take a last look, Spartacus. 402 00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:36,100 She's going to Rome. She's been sold. 403 00:53:39,300 --> 00:53:41,400 She's been sold? 404 00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:46,100 No talking in the kitchen, slave. 405 00:54:39,900 --> 00:54:43,899 There's trouble in the mess hall. They killed Marcellus and maybe others. 406 00:54:43,900 --> 00:54:46,000 Call out the guard! 407 00:54:46,100 --> 00:54:48,300 Move, move! 408 00:54:49,900 --> 00:54:53,100 On second thoughts, I'll deliver the girl personally. 409 00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:56,400 Ride to Capua. Call out the garrison. I don't trust this lot. 410 00:54:56,500 --> 00:54:59,000 - I hold you responsible. - Yes, sir. 411 00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:57,500 Around Capua, they ravaged the countryside... 412 00:57:57,600 --> 00:57:59,900 forcing other slaves to join them. 413 00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:03,599 Looting, robbing, burning everything... 414 00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:09,400 while they make their camp in the escarpments of Vesuvius. 415 00:58:09,500 --> 00:58:12,899 Each day swells their numbers. 416 00:58:12,900 --> 00:58:16,000 The situation presently lies in the hands... 417 00:58:16,100 --> 00:58:18,200 of this august body. 418 00:58:21,300 --> 00:58:23,400 Where's the mighty Crassus? 419 00:58:24,500 --> 00:58:26,600 - Out of the city. - At least you're here. 420 00:58:26,700 --> 00:58:30,100 No need to fear for Rome as long as Glabrus is with us. 421 00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:35,000 Let me add: Over 1 00 estates have been burned... 422 00:58:35,100 --> 00:58:38,099 among them, gentlemen, my own... 423 00:58:38,100 --> 00:58:42,700 burned to the ground and three million sesterces lost. 424 00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:47,300 I propose the immediate recall of Pompey and his legions from Spain. 425 00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:51,200 - I could bring them in with 500 men! - Don't make a fool of yourself. 426 00:58:51,300 --> 00:58:55,400 Why call back the legions... 427 00:58:55,500 --> 00:58:58,100 when the garrison of Rome has nothing to do... 428 00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:02,100 but to defend us from sausage makers? 429 00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:04,300 Let's send Glabrus against these scoundrels! 430 00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:06,500 Give 'em a taste of Roman steel. 431 00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:13,500 I protest. I most strongly protest. 432 00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:15,700 There are more slaves in Rome than Romans. 433 00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:20,400 With the garrison absent, what's to prevent them from rising too? 434 00:59:20,500 --> 00:59:23,700 I did not say the whole garrison. 435 00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:26,300 Six cohorts will more than do the job. 436 00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:30,100 The rest can stay in Rome to save you from your housemaids. 437 00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:34,400 Will you accept such a charge, Glabrus? 438 00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:42,300 I accept the charge of the senate... 439 00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:45,100 if the senate truly charges me. 440 00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:49,200 The garrison of Rome stands ready. 441 00:59:54,200 --> 00:59:56,600 Slave hunting's a dirty business. 442 00:59:56,700 --> 00:59:58,900 It takes a brave commander to consent to it. 443 00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:01,099 I propose we turn the city out tomorrow... 444 01:00:01,100 --> 01:00:03,900 in tribute to Glabrus as he marches through. 445 01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:08,700 And... 446 01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:12,000 for temporary command of the garrison during his absence... 447 01:00:12,100 --> 01:00:15,700 I propose Caius Julius Caesar. 448 01:00:31,100 --> 01:00:34,999 You don't look very happy over the new job. 449 01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:37,800 It's not a serious disturbance. Glabrus will be back. 450 01:00:37,900 --> 01:00:40,299 Maybe. 451 01:00:40,300 --> 01:00:42,400 At least it gives me a chance... 452 01:00:42,500 --> 01:00:45,100 to separate Glabrus from Crassus for a while. 453 01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:50,100 You know, this republic of ours is something like a rich widow. 454 01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:52,400 Most Romans love her as their mother. 455 01:00:52,500 --> 01:00:56,400 But Crassus dreams of marrying the old girl, to put it politely. 456 01:00:57,400 --> 01:00:59,800 Hail Glabrus! Hail Glabrus! 457 01:01:05,700 --> 01:01:09,400 - God be with you, Glabrus. - And with you too. 458 01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:18,800 I hope he returns to such applause. 459 01:01:18,900 --> 01:01:21,500 One fat one, Fimbria! 460 01:01:26,900 --> 01:01:29,600 No, keep the change. Give it to your wife. 461 01:01:29,700 --> 01:01:33,700 - May the gods adore you. - Only through your prayers. 462 01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:38,200 Let's make an old-fashioned sacrifice for Glabrus' success. 463 01:01:38,300 --> 01:01:40,300 I thought you had reservations about the gods. 464 01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:42,700 Privately I believe in none of them. Neither do you. 465 01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:44,899 Publicly I believe in them all. 466 01:01:44,900 --> 01:01:47,300 Greetings, Marcus Clodius Flavius! 467 01:02:16,700 --> 01:02:18,800 Is Marcus Glabrus in attendance? 468 01:02:18,900 --> 01:02:21,100 - He awaits you in the atrium, sir. - Excellent. 469 01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:25,300 What have we here? 470 01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:27,700 A gift from the governor of Sicily, sir. 471 01:02:42,600 --> 01:02:44,700 Antoninus. 472 01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:47,700 Sicilian, age 26. 473 01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:50,200 Singer of songs. 474 01:02:50,300 --> 01:02:52,800 For whom did you practice this wondrous talent? 475 01:02:52,900 --> 01:02:55,299 For the children of my master... 476 01:02:55,300 --> 01:02:57,500 whom I also taught the classics. 477 01:02:57,600 --> 01:02:59,900 Classics, indeed. 478 01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:05,000 What position have we, I wonder, for a boy of such varied gifts? 479 01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:08,500 You shall be my body servant. Instruct him. 480 01:03:08,600 --> 01:03:10,600 All of you, come with me. 481 01:03:25,700 --> 01:03:27,800 Are you on guard duty? 482 01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:33,100 My dear Crassus, congratulate me. 483 01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:36,800 Or better still, let us congratulate each other. 484 01:03:37,300 --> 01:03:39,400 I congratulate us. 485 01:03:39,500 --> 01:03:41,900 Tomorrow I lead six cohorts of the garrison... 486 01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:44,100 against the slaves on Vesuvius. 487 01:03:44,200 --> 01:03:46,600 The whole city is turning out to see us off. 488 01:03:46,700 --> 01:03:49,200 Great merciful bloodstained gods! 489 01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:52,100 Your pardon. 490 01:03:52,200 --> 01:03:55,999 I always address heaven in moments of triumph. 491 01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:58,900 Did Gracchus have something to do with this brilliant affair? 492 01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:02,499 Yes, he even proposed it. Rather decently, too. 493 01:04:02,500 --> 01:04:05,300 And you? Do you think I made you commander of the garrison... 494 01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:08,800 to control some rock patch on Vesuvius? 495 01:04:08,900 --> 01:04:11,000 It was to control the streets of Rome! 496 01:04:11,100 --> 01:04:14,900 I only take six cohorts. The rest of the garrison remains. 497 01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:17,400 - Under whose command? - Under Caesar's. 498 01:04:17,500 --> 01:04:20,300 Excellent, excellent! 499 01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:22,800 Finding Gracchus in control of the mob and the senate... 500 01:04:22,900 --> 01:04:26,500 you felt compelled to hand over the garrison to him also. 501 01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:29,700 I see. 502 01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:33,400 I'll refuse. I'll withdraw from the expedition. 503 01:04:33,500 --> 01:04:35,600 One of the disadvantages of being a patrician... 504 01:04:35,700 --> 01:04:38,300 is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one. 505 01:04:38,400 --> 01:04:40,500 You pledged the senate to go, and go you must. 506 01:04:40,600 --> 01:04:42,900 If Gracchus should decide to move against you... 507 01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:45,200 He won't! Has no need to. 508 01:04:45,300 --> 01:04:49,000 He has, with your assistance, immobilized me altogether. 509 01:04:50,300 --> 01:04:52,800 Your legions are still in camp outside the city walls? 510 01:04:54,300 --> 01:04:56,400 My legions? 511 01:04:56,500 --> 01:04:59,000 Do you truly believe I'd order my legions to enter Rome? 512 01:04:59,100 --> 01:05:01,700 I only point out that you can if you have to. 513 01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:04,300 Are you not aware of Rome's most ancient law... 514 01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:07,599 that no general may enter the city at the head of his armed legions? 515 01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:11,500 - Sulla did. - Sulla? To the infamy of his name! 516 01:05:11,600 --> 01:05:14,200 To the utter damnation of his line! 517 01:05:15,400 --> 01:05:17,500 No, my young friend. 518 01:05:18,600 --> 01:05:22,600 One day I shall cleanse this Rome which my fathers bequeathed me. 519 01:05:22,700 --> 01:05:27,300 I shall restore all the traditions that made her great. 520 01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:30,200 It follows, then, that I cannot come to power or even defend myself... 521 01:05:30,300 --> 01:05:34,400 by an act which betrays the most sacred tradition of them all. 522 01:05:34,500 --> 01:05:38,200 I shall not bring my legions within these walls. 523 01:05:38,900 --> 01:05:42,099 I shall not violate Rome... 524 01:05:42,100 --> 01:05:44,400 at the moment of possessing her. 525 01:05:47,700 --> 01:05:49,000 Go. 526 01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:52,500 Prepare your troops at once. 527 01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:56,900 March out of Rome tonight, but the city tribute is impossible. 528 01:05:57,000 --> 01:06:01,100 We've already been made to look a fool. Let's not add the trappings of a clown. 529 01:06:01,200 --> 01:06:05,200 Leave by unfrequented streets, without fanfare, without even a drum! 530 01:06:06,700 --> 01:06:08,800 Sneak out. 531 01:06:10,200 --> 01:06:12,300 As you wish. 532 01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:14,799 And for heaven's sake, my young friend... 533 01:06:14,800 --> 01:06:18,300 try and see to it that you don't have to sneak back again. 534 01:06:19,300 --> 01:06:21,100 Farewell. 535 01:08:45,600 --> 01:08:47,700 Come on, fat boy! 536 01:09:32,500 --> 01:09:34,500 Noble Romans... 537 01:09:34,600 --> 01:09:37,000 fighting each other like animals! 538 01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:40,400 Your new masters, betting to see who'll die first. 539 01:09:43,900 --> 01:09:46,000 Drop your swords. 540 01:09:52,600 --> 01:09:56,400 I want to see their blood right over here where Draba died! 541 01:09:58,600 --> 01:10:00,800 When I fight matched pairs, they fight to the death. 542 01:10:03,200 --> 01:10:05,800 I made myself a promise, Crixus. 543 01:10:05,900 --> 01:10:07,900 I swore that if I ever got out of this place... 544 01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:11,500 I'd die before I'd watch two men fight to the death again. 545 01:10:14,900 --> 01:10:17,200 Draba made that promise too. 546 01:10:18,500 --> 01:10:20,600 He kept it. 547 01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:22,700 So will l. 548 01:10:26,500 --> 01:10:28,900 Go on. Get out! 549 01:10:32,100 --> 01:10:34,200 What are we, Crixus? 550 01:10:34,300 --> 01:10:36,900 What are we becoming? Romans? 551 01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:39,600 Have we learned nothing? What's happening to us? 552 01:10:39,700 --> 01:10:42,300 We look for wine when we should be hunting bread. 553 01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:45,300 When you've got wine, you don't need bread! 554 01:10:46,700 --> 01:10:49,500 You can't just be a gang of drunken raiders. 555 01:10:49,600 --> 01:10:53,499 - What else can we be? - Gladiators! 556 01:10:53,500 --> 01:10:55,900 An army of gladiators. 557 01:10:56,000 --> 01:10:58,199 There's never been an army like that. 558 01:10:58,200 --> 01:11:01,000 One gladiator's worth any two Roman soldiers that ever lived. 559 01:11:01,100 --> 01:11:03,499 We beat the Roman guards, but a Roman army's a different thing. 560 01:11:03,500 --> 01:11:05,600 They fight different than we do too. 561 01:11:05,700 --> 01:11:09,600 We can beat anything they send against us if we really want to. 562 01:11:09,700 --> 01:11:12,500 - It takes a big army for that. - We'll have a big army. 563 01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:14,600 Once we're on the march... 564 01:11:14,700 --> 01:11:16,900 we'll free every slave in every town and village. 565 01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:19,100 Can anybody get a bigger army than that? 566 01:11:19,200 --> 01:11:21,100 Once we cross the Alps, we're safe! 567 01:11:21,200 --> 01:11:24,600 Nobody can cross the Alps. Every pass is defended by its own legion. 568 01:11:24,700 --> 01:11:27,600 There's only one way to get out of this country. 569 01:11:28,100 --> 01:11:29,700 The sea. 570 01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:32,600 What good is the sea if you have no ships? 571 01:11:32,700 --> 01:11:35,300 The Cilician pirates have ships. 572 01:11:35,400 --> 01:11:37,900 They're at war with Rome. 573 01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:41,100 Every Roman galley that sails out of Brundusium pays tribute to them. 574 01:11:41,200 --> 01:11:43,299 They've got the biggest fleet in the world. 575 01:11:43,300 --> 01:11:46,500 I was a galley slave with them. They'll take you anywhere for enough gold. 576 01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:48,499 We haven't got enough gold. 577 01:11:48,500 --> 01:11:50,900 Take every Roman we capture and warm his back a little. 578 01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:54,600 - We'll have gold, all right. - Spartacus is right! 579 01:11:55,900 --> 01:11:59,000 Let's hire these pirates and march straight to Brundusium! 580 01:12:45,900 --> 01:12:48,800 Come join us. All of you, come join us. 581 01:13:06,600 --> 01:13:08,900 Come on and join us! 582 01:13:33,900 --> 01:13:36,000 Back to Vesuvius! 583 01:13:56,600 --> 01:13:58,500 Varinia. 584 01:14:03,900 --> 01:14:06,800 I thought I'd never see you again. 585 01:14:20,700 --> 01:14:23,100 Everything's so different. 586 01:14:29,000 --> 01:14:31,300 The last time I saw you... 587 01:14:32,400 --> 01:14:36,100 you were waiting in the arena to... 588 01:14:43,400 --> 01:14:45,600 I thought you were in Rome. 589 01:14:50,500 --> 01:14:52,400 How'd you escape? 590 01:14:55,100 --> 01:14:57,100 I jumped out of the cart... 591 01:14:57,200 --> 01:14:59,300 and Batiatus was so fat... 592 01:15:10,300 --> 01:15:13,000 I flew out of the cart... 593 01:15:14,300 --> 01:15:16,800 and Batiatus was so fat... 594 01:15:16,900 --> 01:15:19,000 that he couldn't catch me. 595 01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:22,000 He couldn't catch up with me. 596 01:15:22,700 --> 01:15:24,799 Do you realize... 597 01:15:24,800 --> 01:15:27,900 nobody can ever sell you again? 598 01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:30,099 Nobody can sell you. 599 01:15:30,100 --> 01:15:32,400 - Or give you away. - Or give you away. 600 01:15:32,500 --> 01:15:34,699 Nobody can ever make you stay with anybody. 601 01:15:34,700 --> 01:15:37,700 Nobody can make you stay with anybody. 602 01:15:40,200 --> 01:15:43,000 I love you, Spartacus. 603 01:15:46,500 --> 01:15:49,500 I love you. 604 01:15:52,500 --> 01:15:55,200 I still can't believe it. 605 01:15:57,100 --> 01:16:01,200 Forbid me ever to leave you. 606 01:16:07,100 --> 01:16:09,200 I do forbid you. 607 01:16:10,700 --> 01:16:12,700 I forbid you. 608 01:16:43,100 --> 01:16:46,100 It was funny at the time. I wish he'd heard it. 609 01:16:46,200 --> 01:16:48,500 How good you are to me, if I may say so. 610 01:16:48,600 --> 01:16:51,100 - You may. - Thank you. 611 01:16:51,200 --> 01:16:53,300 Don't just eye those birds. Eat them. 612 01:16:53,400 --> 01:16:56,300 There's no need to be on your best behaviour here. 613 01:16:56,400 --> 01:16:59,000 May I remind you... 614 01:16:59,100 --> 01:17:01,199 you've been very good to me in the past? 615 01:17:01,200 --> 01:17:03,300 I've been good to you? 616 01:17:03,400 --> 01:17:09,300 Yes. You've sold me slaves at an extremely reasonable price. 617 01:17:09,400 --> 01:17:13,499 And you arranged private gladiatorial jousts at cost, or practically. 618 01:17:13,500 --> 01:17:15,900 On the whole, you are both ethical in business matters... 619 01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:19,900 and certainly farsighted socially. 620 01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:22,300 Zenobia's put on a little weight since I last saw her. 621 01:17:22,400 --> 01:17:25,500 - Yes, hasn't she? I like it. - So do l. 622 01:17:26,700 --> 01:17:29,000 You and I have a tendency towards corpulence. 623 01:17:29,100 --> 01:17:32,899 Corpulence makes a man reasonable, pleasant and phlegmatic. 624 01:17:32,900 --> 01:17:37,300 Have you noticed the nastiest of tyrants are invariably thin? 625 01:17:38,700 --> 01:17:43,000 In spite of your vices, you are the most generous Roman of our time. 626 01:17:43,100 --> 01:17:45,200 Vices? 627 01:17:46,500 --> 01:17:48,400 The ladies. 628 01:17:51,400 --> 01:17:54,000 Ladies! Since when are they a vice? 629 01:17:54,100 --> 01:17:57,900 Perhaps I used the wrong word. An eccentricity, a foible. 630 01:17:58,000 --> 01:18:00,400 I hope I pronounced that word... 631 01:18:00,500 --> 01:18:03,500 It's well-known that even your groom and your butler are women. 632 01:18:03,600 --> 01:18:06,300 I'm the most virtuous man in Rome. 633 01:18:06,400 --> 01:18:09,800 I keep these women out of my respect for Roman morality. 634 01:18:09,900 --> 01:18:12,800 That morality, which has made Rome strong enough to steal... 635 01:18:12,900 --> 01:18:15,000 two-thirds of the world from its rightful owners... 636 01:18:15,100 --> 01:18:18,200 founded on the sanctity of Roman marriage and family. 637 01:18:18,300 --> 01:18:20,400 I happen to like women. 638 01:18:20,500 --> 01:18:22,899 I have a promiscuous nature... 639 01:18:22,900 --> 01:18:25,420 and, unlike these aristocrats, I will not take a marriage vow... 640 01:18:25,500 --> 01:18:27,700 which I know my nature will prevent me from keeping. 641 01:18:27,800 --> 01:18:31,400 You have too great a respect for the purity of womankind. 642 01:18:31,500 --> 01:18:33,600 Exactly. 643 01:18:33,700 --> 01:18:37,800 It must be tantalizing to be surrounded by so much purity. 644 01:18:41,300 --> 01:18:43,299 It is. 645 01:18:43,300 --> 01:18:47,600 Now, let's mix business with pleasure. How may I help you? 646 01:18:49,500 --> 01:18:52,500 Great Gracchus, I find it difficult to hate... 647 01:18:52,600 --> 01:18:54,640 but there's one man I can't think of without fuming. 648 01:18:54,700 --> 01:18:56,599 - Who's that? - Crassus. 649 01:18:56,600 --> 01:19:00,500 - You've grown ambitious in your hatred. - Do you blame me? 650 01:19:00,600 --> 01:19:03,100 There I was, better than a millionaire in the morning... 651 01:19:03,200 --> 01:19:05,300 and a penniless refugee by nightfall... 652 01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:07,600 with nothing but these rags and my poor flesh to call my own. 653 01:19:07,700 --> 01:19:11,000 All because Crassus decides to break his journey at Capua... 654 01:19:11,100 --> 01:19:14,400 with a couple of capricious, over-painted nymphs! 655 01:19:14,500 --> 01:19:18,699 These two daughters of Venus had to taunt the gladiators... 656 01:19:18,700 --> 01:19:21,800 force them to fight to the death, and before I knew what had happened... 657 01:19:21,900 --> 01:19:25,200 revolution on my hands! 658 01:19:25,300 --> 01:19:27,300 What revenge have you in mind? 659 01:19:28,900 --> 01:19:31,200 I sold Crassus this woman, Varinia. 660 01:19:31,300 --> 01:19:35,100 - Whom? - Varinia. May the gods give her wings. 661 01:19:35,200 --> 01:19:38,300 There was no contract, but she was clearly his slave... 662 01:19:38,400 --> 01:19:40,500 as soon as the deal was made. 663 01:19:40,600 --> 01:19:43,000 Now she's off with Spartacus killing people in their beds. 664 01:19:43,100 --> 01:19:47,300 And Crassus... No mention of money, no! 665 01:19:47,400 --> 01:19:49,500 You never offered me this woman. Why not? 666 01:19:50,800 --> 01:19:53,499 Well, she's not remotely your type, Gracchus. 667 01:19:53,500 --> 01:19:56,900 - She is very thin and... - Look around you. 668 01:19:57,000 --> 01:20:00,100 You'll see women of all sizes. 669 01:20:01,500 --> 01:20:04,200 Five hundred sesterces deposit on Varinia. 670 01:20:04,300 --> 01:20:06,900 Since he hasn't paid, this gives me first call over Crassus... 671 01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:09,100 when she's caught and auctioned. 672 01:20:09,200 --> 01:20:12,099 May the gods adore you! 673 01:20:12,100 --> 01:20:14,200 Why would you buy a woman you've never even seen? 674 01:20:14,300 --> 01:20:16,300 To annoy Crassus, of course, and to help you. 675 01:20:24,400 --> 01:20:26,500 Fetch a stool, Antoninus. 676 01:20:32,700 --> 01:20:34,700 In here with it. 677 01:20:41,300 --> 01:20:43,200 That will do. 678 01:20:49,800 --> 01:20:51,800 Do you steal, Antoninus? 679 01:20:51,900 --> 01:20:53,800 No, master. 680 01:20:54,300 --> 01:20:56,400 Do you lie? 681 01:20:56,800 --> 01:20:58,900 Not if I can avoid it. 682 01:21:00,200 --> 01:21:03,600 Have you ever dishonoured the gods? 683 01:21:03,700 --> 01:21:05,600 No, master. 684 01:21:06,400 --> 01:21:11,200 Do you refrain from these vices out of respect for the moral virtues? 685 01:21:11,300 --> 01:21:13,200 Yes, master. 686 01:21:16,900 --> 01:21:19,300 Do you eat oysters? 687 01:21:19,400 --> 01:21:21,500 When I have them, master. 688 01:21:22,200 --> 01:21:24,300 Do you eat snails? 689 01:21:24,900 --> 01:21:26,800 No, master. 690 01:21:28,400 --> 01:21:30,600 Do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral... 691 01:21:30,700 --> 01:21:33,300 and the eating of snails to be immoral? 692 01:21:35,200 --> 01:21:37,400 No, master. 693 01:21:37,500 --> 01:21:39,600 Of course not. 694 01:21:42,200 --> 01:21:45,200 It is all a matter of taste, isn't it? 695 01:21:45,300 --> 01:21:47,100 Yes, master. 696 01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:51,100 And taste is not the same as appetite... 697 01:21:51,200 --> 01:21:54,700 and therefore not a question of morals, is it? 698 01:22:00,200 --> 01:22:03,000 It could be argued so, master. 699 01:22:05,800 --> 01:22:08,900 That will do. My robe, Antoninus. 700 01:22:25,200 --> 01:22:27,300 My taste includes... 701 01:22:28,300 --> 01:22:31,100 both snails and oysters. 702 01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:42,100 Antoninus, look. 703 01:22:43,100 --> 01:22:45,200 Across the river. 704 01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:48,300 There is something you must see. 705 01:22:52,600 --> 01:22:55,800 There, boy, is Rome! 706 01:22:57,000 --> 01:22:59,600 The might, the majesty... 707 01:23:00,400 --> 01:23:02,700 the terror of Rome. 708 01:23:05,000 --> 01:23:09,300 There is the power that bestrides the known world like a colossus. 709 01:23:10,400 --> 01:23:12,600 No man can withstand Rome. 710 01:23:13,700 --> 01:23:15,900 No nation can withstand her. 711 01:23:17,600 --> 01:23:19,500 How much less... 712 01:23:20,100 --> 01:23:22,000 a boy! 713 01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:31,500 There's only one way to deal with Rome, Antoninus. 714 01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:34,900 You must serve her. 715 01:23:36,200 --> 01:23:39,300 You must abase yourself before her. 716 01:23:41,200 --> 01:23:43,800 You must grovel at her feet. 717 01:23:45,700 --> 01:23:47,600 You must... 718 01:23:48,200 --> 01:23:50,300 love her. 719 01:23:54,000 --> 01:23:56,100 Isn't that so, Antoninus? 720 01:25:39,200 --> 01:25:41,700 - Take your time! - How are they coming? 721 01:25:41,800 --> 01:25:45,200 Good. Give me another thousand like them and we can march on Rome. 722 01:25:45,300 --> 01:25:47,400 Come on, once again. 723 01:26:02,900 --> 01:26:04,900 Here on Vesuvius, we're safe from attack... 724 01:26:05,000 --> 01:26:07,600 while we organize ourselves into an army. 725 01:26:07,700 --> 01:26:10,500 It may take six months. It may take a year. We don't know. 726 01:26:10,600 --> 01:26:13,999 Once we're strong, we're gonna fight our way south to the sea. 727 01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:17,000 We're going to arrange for ships with the Cilician pirates. 728 01:26:17,100 --> 01:26:20,299 Then the sea will be a road back home for all of us. 729 01:26:20,300 --> 01:26:22,700 If you agree, you may join us. 730 01:26:22,800 --> 01:26:26,700 If you don't agree, go back before your escape is discovered. 731 01:26:28,100 --> 01:26:30,100 Too many women. 732 01:26:30,200 --> 01:26:32,300 What's wrong with women? 733 01:26:32,400 --> 01:26:34,599 Where would you be now, you lout... 734 01:26:34,600 --> 01:26:36,900 if some woman hadn't fought all the pains of hell... 735 01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:39,100 to get you into this accursed world? 736 01:26:39,200 --> 01:26:42,300 I can handle a knife in the dark as well as anyone. 737 01:26:42,400 --> 01:26:44,600 I can cast spells and brew poisons. 738 01:26:44,700 --> 01:26:48,300 I have made the death shrouds for seven Roman masters in my time. 739 01:26:49,500 --> 01:26:52,300 - You lout! I want to see Spartacus. - All right, grandmother. 740 01:26:52,400 --> 01:26:55,100 I'm Spartacus. Stay with us. 741 01:26:55,200 --> 01:26:58,000 We'll need a million Roman shrouds before we're through. 742 01:27:01,100 --> 01:27:03,200 Where do you people come from? 743 01:27:03,300 --> 01:27:06,100 Most of us come from the estate of Lillius. 744 01:27:06,200 --> 01:27:09,500 - What kind of work did you do there? - Sixteen years a carpenter and mason. 745 01:27:09,600 --> 01:27:12,400 Good. We can use carpenters. 746 01:27:14,200 --> 01:27:16,600 - What kind of work did you do? - I was a chief steward. 747 01:27:16,700 --> 01:27:20,400 You'll help with the food supplies. You'll report to the man Patullus. 748 01:27:20,500 --> 01:27:22,600 What kind of work did you do? 749 01:27:23,400 --> 01:27:25,500 Singer of songs. 750 01:27:26,600 --> 01:27:30,700 Singer of songs? But what work did you do? 751 01:27:30,800 --> 01:27:33,700 That's my work. I also juggle. 752 01:27:33,800 --> 01:27:36,400 Juggle. What else do you do? 753 01:27:36,500 --> 01:27:38,799 I can do feats of magic. 754 01:27:38,800 --> 01:27:41,200 Magic? 755 01:27:41,300 --> 01:27:43,800 Maybe he can make the Romans disappear. 756 01:29:11,300 --> 01:29:16,000 I'll need one volunteer, man or woman. How about you? 757 01:29:16,900 --> 01:29:19,100 Here we have a likely subject. 758 01:29:20,600 --> 01:29:23,800 You'll notice there is nothing in my hand, true? 759 01:29:23,900 --> 01:29:25,900 - How many fingers do you see? - Three. 760 01:29:26,000 --> 01:29:28,199 - How many fingers do you see? - Three! 761 01:29:28,200 --> 01:29:30,300 I make a bowl. 762 01:29:30,400 --> 01:29:33,200 My hand is upside down, and I ask you to blow at it. 763 01:29:33,300 --> 01:29:35,500 No, not hard enough. Hard! 764 01:29:36,600 --> 01:29:38,500 Thank you. 765 01:29:45,500 --> 01:29:47,600 Would you like to try? 766 01:29:51,000 --> 01:29:53,600 Hit it against the rock, gently. 767 01:30:01,000 --> 01:30:04,900 Poet, I haven't had an egg in days. 768 01:30:05,000 --> 01:30:07,200 You haven't? 769 01:30:10,200 --> 01:30:12,400 - Here. - Thank you. 770 01:30:12,500 --> 01:30:14,600 I'm not going to let mine get away. 771 01:30:34,900 --> 01:30:38,100 - Sing us a song. - Sing us a song, Antoninus. 772 01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:41,100 Sing, Antoninus. 773 01:30:43,700 --> 01:30:47,000 When the blazing sun hangs low in the western sky... 774 01:30:49,100 --> 01:30:51,800 when the wind dies away on the mountain... 775 01:30:54,400 --> 01:30:57,500 when the song of the meadow lark turns still... 776 01:31:00,200 --> 01:31:03,300 when the field locust clicks no more in the field... 777 01:31:05,300 --> 01:31:09,000 and the sea foam sleeps like a maiden at rest... 778 01:31:09,100 --> 01:31:12,999 and twilight touches the shape of the wandering earth... 779 01:31:13,000 --> 01:31:15,800 I turn home. 780 01:31:15,900 --> 01:31:19,200 Through blue shadows and purple woods... 781 01:31:19,300 --> 01:31:21,100 I turn home. 782 01:31:22,500 --> 01:31:25,000 I turn to the place that I was born... 783 01:31:25,100 --> 01:31:29,000 to the mother who bore me and the father who taught me... 784 01:31:29,100 --> 01:31:31,600 Long ago, long ago... 785 01:31:31,700 --> 01:31:33,900 Long ago. 786 01:31:35,100 --> 01:31:39,500 Alone am l now, lost and alone, in a far, wide, wandering world. 787 01:31:41,200 --> 01:31:44,500 Yet still when the blazing sun hangs low... 788 01:31:46,700 --> 01:31:50,000 when the wind dies away and the sea foam sleeps... 789 01:31:51,300 --> 01:31:54,200 and twilight touches the wandering earth... 790 01:31:56,000 --> 01:31:58,300 I turn home. 791 01:32:03,600 --> 01:32:05,800 Where'd you learn that song? 792 01:32:06,400 --> 01:32:08,900 My father taught it to me. 793 01:32:09,600 --> 01:32:12,000 I was wrong about you, poet. 794 01:32:12,100 --> 01:32:14,200 You won't learn to kill. You'll teach us songs. 795 01:32:14,300 --> 01:32:16,500 I came here to fight. 796 01:32:18,200 --> 01:32:21,100 Anyone can learn to fight. 797 01:32:21,200 --> 01:32:23,200 I joined to fight! 798 01:32:26,700 --> 01:32:29,800 - What's your name? - Antoninus. 799 01:32:33,900 --> 01:32:37,600 There's a time for fighting, and there's a time for singing. 800 01:32:37,700 --> 01:32:40,100 Now you teach us to sing. 801 01:32:40,200 --> 01:32:42,300 Sing, Antoninus. 802 01:32:48,500 --> 01:32:52,400 When the blazing sun hangs low in the western sky... 803 01:32:53,400 --> 01:32:55,500 You like him, don't you? 804 01:32:59,800 --> 01:33:01,900 Who wants to fight? 805 01:33:04,500 --> 01:33:07,000 An animal can learn to fight. 806 01:33:10,200 --> 01:33:13,000 But to sing beautiful things... 807 01:33:14,100 --> 01:33:16,200 and make people believe them... 808 01:33:26,400 --> 01:33:28,500 What are you thinking about? 809 01:33:36,000 --> 01:33:38,100 I'm free. 810 01:33:39,700 --> 01:33:41,800 And what do I know? 811 01:33:42,300 --> 01:33:44,300 I don't even know how to read. 812 01:33:47,100 --> 01:33:49,400 You know things that can't be taught. 813 01:33:52,100 --> 01:33:54,200 I know nothing. 814 01:33:54,600 --> 01:33:56,600 Nothing! 815 01:33:59,100 --> 01:34:01,100 And I want to know. 816 01:34:01,600 --> 01:34:03,400 I want to... 817 01:34:05,300 --> 01:34:07,400 I want to know. 818 01:34:08,600 --> 01:34:10,500 Know what? 819 01:34:14,200 --> 01:34:15,800 Everything. 820 01:34:19,100 --> 01:34:22,699 Why a star falls and a bird doesn't. 821 01:34:22,700 --> 01:34:25,499 Where the sun goes at night. 822 01:34:25,500 --> 01:34:28,000 Why the moon changes shape. 823 01:34:32,600 --> 01:34:35,200 I want to know where the wind comes from. 824 01:34:42,400 --> 01:34:45,800 The wind begins in a cave. 825 01:34:45,900 --> 01:34:50,600 Far to the north, a young god sleeps in that cave. 826 01:34:50,700 --> 01:34:53,000 He dreams of a girl... 827 01:34:53,100 --> 01:34:55,699 and he sighs... 828 01:34:55,700 --> 01:34:59,700 and the night wind stirs with his breath. 829 01:35:08,000 --> 01:35:10,800 I want to know all about you. 830 01:35:14,000 --> 01:35:16,000 Every line... 831 01:35:16,900 --> 01:35:19,000 every curve. 832 01:35:22,200 --> 01:35:25,000 I want to know every part of you. 833 01:35:27,700 --> 01:35:29,900 Every beat of your heart. 834 01:35:55,500 --> 01:35:58,300 Go on about the city of Metapontum. 835 01:35:58,400 --> 01:36:00,700 What garrisons will we find there? 836 01:36:02,200 --> 01:36:05,300 There are two legions in the garrison. Some have been sent south... 837 01:36:05,400 --> 01:36:07,500 Set the litter down there. 838 01:36:23,900 --> 01:36:27,500 Where is this slave general? 839 01:36:31,300 --> 01:36:33,700 Dionysius, get the litter bearers out of the rain. 840 01:36:33,800 --> 01:36:36,400 Give them food, bread, and their freedom. 841 01:36:38,000 --> 01:36:40,300 - All right, follow me. - We'll pay you for them. 842 01:36:41,200 --> 01:36:44,200 We have no slaves in this camp. 843 01:36:49,200 --> 01:36:51,600 Tigranes Levantus at your service. 844 01:36:52,200 --> 01:36:54,300 My credentials. 845 01:36:58,900 --> 01:37:00,800 Come in. 846 01:37:03,400 --> 01:37:06,000 "To the general of the Italian slaves called Spartacus... 847 01:37:06,100 --> 01:37:09,300 from Ibar M'hali, Cilician governor of the island of Delos." 848 01:37:09,400 --> 01:37:11,400 - Sit down. - "Greetings. 849 01:37:11,500 --> 01:37:14,100 Word has been received that you wish to embark your armies... 850 01:37:14,200 --> 01:37:18,300 on the Cilician ships from the Italian port of Brundusium. 851 01:37:18,400 --> 01:37:21,500 - Receive now my agent, Tigranes..." - Levantus. 852 01:37:21,600 --> 01:37:23,900 "who bargains in my name. 853 01:37:24,000 --> 01:37:27,999 May Isis and Serapis bring victory to your cause. The governor of Delos." 854 01:37:28,000 --> 01:37:31,400 - Who are Isis and Serapis? - Gods of the east. 855 01:37:31,500 --> 01:37:34,500 Why should they want us to win? 856 01:37:35,800 --> 01:37:38,099 Because they favour Cilicia... 857 01:37:38,100 --> 01:37:40,200 and Cilicia, like you, fights against the Romans. 858 01:37:45,000 --> 01:37:47,400 Would you like some wine? 859 01:37:47,500 --> 01:37:50,600 I drink only after the bargain has been concluded... 860 01:37:50,700 --> 01:37:52,700 never before. 861 01:38:00,100 --> 01:38:02,699 How many ships do these Cilicians have? 862 01:38:02,700 --> 01:38:05,000 Five hundred at least. 863 01:38:05,100 --> 01:38:07,200 But no deal is too small, I assure you. 864 01:38:07,300 --> 01:38:09,500 We'll need them all. 865 01:38:09,600 --> 01:38:12,500 - All? - What is the price? 866 01:38:13,600 --> 01:38:18,300 Price is 1 00,000 sesterces per ship. 867 01:38:19,300 --> 01:38:22,000 For 500 ships that would be... 868 01:38:23,100 --> 01:38:25,700 50 million sesterces. 869 01:38:27,000 --> 01:38:31,400 - You have such a sum? - We will have. 870 01:38:34,900 --> 01:38:37,000 See for yourself. 871 01:38:40,100 --> 01:38:42,700 - Beautiful. - When will the ships be ready? 872 01:38:42,800 --> 01:38:46,900 Beautiful. I love to see such beauty. 873 01:38:47,000 --> 01:38:49,100 When will the ships be ready? 874 01:38:50,000 --> 01:38:52,100 My friend... 875 01:38:52,200 --> 01:38:54,800 when will you be ready? 876 01:38:54,900 --> 01:38:57,300 How long will it take you... 877 01:38:59,000 --> 01:39:01,100 to cross one-third the length of Italy... 878 01:39:01,200 --> 01:39:03,799 fighting a major battle in every town? 879 01:39:03,800 --> 01:39:06,300 One year? Two years? 880 01:39:06,400 --> 01:39:08,500 If we're not in Brundusium seven months from now... 881 01:39:08,600 --> 01:39:11,000 we'll never be there. 882 01:39:13,100 --> 01:39:15,100 What if we assemble the ships... 883 01:39:16,700 --> 01:39:20,600 and there is no longer a slave army to board them? 884 01:39:20,700 --> 01:39:24,200 We'll give you a chest of treasure now, the rest when we get to Brundusium. 885 01:39:25,100 --> 01:39:27,400 - This one? - Yes. 886 01:39:28,700 --> 01:39:32,100 Done! Seven months from now, the ships will be assembled. 887 01:39:34,400 --> 01:39:37,299 Arrange to have the chest loaded. 888 01:39:37,300 --> 01:39:41,200 Now, with your permission, I should like to have the wine you offered me. 889 01:39:41,300 --> 01:39:43,300 - Will you join me? - I will. 890 01:39:43,400 --> 01:39:45,300 Excellent workmanship. 891 01:39:45,400 --> 01:39:47,800 It came from the estate of a wealthy nobleman. 892 01:39:47,900 --> 01:39:50,900 I've heard that you are of noble birth yourself. 893 01:39:51,000 --> 01:39:53,200 I'm the son and grandson of slaves. 894 01:39:53,300 --> 01:39:57,300 I knew that when I saw you couldn't read. 895 01:39:57,400 --> 01:40:01,200 Of course, it pleases Roman vanity to think that you are noble. 896 01:40:01,300 --> 01:40:03,900 They shrink from the idea of fighting mere slaves... 897 01:40:04,000 --> 01:40:06,200 especially a man like Crassus. 898 01:40:07,800 --> 01:40:12,600 - You know him? - I entertained him one afternoon. 899 01:40:12,700 --> 01:40:15,100 - You? - In the arena. 900 01:40:18,000 --> 01:40:20,100 Excellent wine. 901 01:40:23,300 --> 01:40:26,400 - May I ask you something? - You can ask. 902 01:40:26,500 --> 01:40:30,000 Surely you know you're going to lose, don't you? 903 01:40:31,400 --> 01:40:33,300 You have no chance. 904 01:40:33,400 --> 01:40:36,000 At this very moment, six cohorts of the garrison of Rome... 905 01:40:36,100 --> 01:40:38,300 are approaching this position. 906 01:40:41,000 --> 01:40:44,000 What are you going to do? 907 01:40:48,200 --> 01:40:50,700 We'll decide that when they get here. 908 01:40:55,200 --> 01:40:57,300 Let me put it differently. 909 01:40:57,400 --> 01:41:00,700 If you looked into a magic crystal... 910 01:41:00,800 --> 01:41:05,000 and you saw your army destroyed and yourself dead... 911 01:41:05,100 --> 01:41:07,800 if you saw that in the future... 912 01:41:07,900 --> 01:41:09,900 as I'm sure you're seeing it now... 913 01:41:10,000 --> 01:41:12,000 would you continue to fight? 914 01:41:13,500 --> 01:41:15,800 - Yes. - Knowing that you must lose? 915 01:41:17,900 --> 01:41:20,800 Knowing we can. 916 01:41:20,900 --> 01:41:24,099 All men lose when they die and all men die. 917 01:41:24,100 --> 01:41:26,700 But a slave and a free man lose different things. 918 01:41:26,800 --> 01:41:28,600 They both lose life. 919 01:41:28,800 --> 01:41:32,600 When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. 920 01:41:33,700 --> 01:41:36,200 A slave loses his pain. 921 01:41:37,500 --> 01:41:40,500 Death is the only freedom a slave knows. 922 01:41:40,600 --> 01:41:42,700 That's why he's not afraid of it. 923 01:41:44,800 --> 01:41:46,100 That's why we'll win. 924 01:42:15,400 --> 01:42:18,200 Spartacus, that pirate was right. 925 01:42:20,100 --> 01:42:23,000 The garrison of Rome, they're setting up camp. 926 01:42:24,200 --> 01:42:26,500 - How many are there? - About six cohorts. 927 01:42:27,600 --> 01:42:29,700 - Where? - At the mouth of the valley... 928 01:42:29,800 --> 01:42:31,900 against the cliffs. 929 01:42:33,800 --> 01:42:37,300 - Strong camp? - They have no stockade. 930 01:42:39,100 --> 01:42:42,000 No stockade? Are you sure? 931 01:42:42,100 --> 01:42:46,100 - I'm very sure. - This campaign is great sport for them. 932 01:42:46,200 --> 01:42:48,300 The Romans are having a picnic. 933 01:42:49,400 --> 01:42:52,200 - Did they see you? - No! We were hidden. 934 01:42:55,000 --> 01:42:57,400 Maybe we ought to join this Roman picnic. 935 01:42:57,500 --> 01:42:59,700 Form your men. 936 01:43:05,300 --> 01:43:07,200 Six cohorts. 937 01:43:08,000 --> 01:43:10,900 A lot of arms and weapons... 938 01:43:11,000 --> 01:43:13,100 to build our army with. 939 01:43:40,500 --> 01:43:43,300 Crixus always wanted to march on Rome. 940 01:43:44,100 --> 01:43:46,200 Now he doesn't have to. 941 01:43:47,000 --> 01:43:49,100 Rome's come to us. 942 01:44:55,100 --> 01:44:57,800 Half this way! The rest over there. 943 01:45:18,300 --> 01:45:21,900 Stand up, the way a noble Roman should! 944 01:45:22,000 --> 01:45:24,000 That's Roman pride for you! 945 01:45:30,700 --> 01:45:32,600 That's better. 946 01:45:33,000 --> 01:45:34,800 What's your name? 947 01:45:36,300 --> 01:45:38,900 Marcus Glabrus. 948 01:45:41,000 --> 01:45:43,600 Commander of the garrison of Rome! 949 01:45:43,700 --> 01:45:45,000 Commander? 950 01:45:45,100 --> 01:45:49,100 He was commanding it on his belly when we found him, playing dead! 951 01:45:52,700 --> 01:45:55,900 You disappoint me, Marcus Glabrus. 952 01:45:56,000 --> 01:45:58,100 Playing dead. 953 01:45:59,300 --> 01:46:01,400 You afraid to die? 954 01:46:02,900 --> 01:46:05,100 It's easy to die. 955 01:46:05,200 --> 01:46:07,600 Haven't you seen enough gladiators in the arena... 956 01:46:07,700 --> 01:46:09,700 to see how easy it is to die? 957 01:46:09,800 --> 01:46:12,200 Of course you have. 958 01:46:14,600 --> 01:46:16,900 What are you going to do to me? 959 01:46:17,000 --> 01:46:19,100 I don't know. 960 01:46:20,200 --> 01:46:24,500 - What should we do with him? - Let's have a matched pair, him and me. 961 01:46:26,500 --> 01:46:28,900 I'll not fight like a gladiator! 962 01:46:33,900 --> 01:46:36,600 You keep staring at this. 963 01:46:36,700 --> 01:46:38,800 Do you recognize this baton? 964 01:46:39,900 --> 01:46:43,500 - Yes! - You should! It was in your tent. 965 01:46:46,000 --> 01:46:48,100 The symbol of the senate. 966 01:46:48,200 --> 01:46:50,700 All the power of Rome! 967 01:46:52,400 --> 01:46:54,200 That's the power of Rome! 968 01:46:58,000 --> 01:47:00,400 Take that back to your senate. 969 01:47:00,500 --> 01:47:04,500 Tell them you and that broken stick is all that's left of the garrison of Rome! 970 01:47:04,600 --> 01:47:07,400 Tell them we want nothing from Rome. 971 01:47:07,500 --> 01:47:10,100 Nothing except our freedom! 972 01:47:10,200 --> 01:47:13,100 All we want is to get out of this damn country! 973 01:47:13,200 --> 01:47:15,300 We're marching south to the sea. 974 01:47:15,400 --> 01:47:17,899 And we'll smash every army they send against us. 975 01:47:17,900 --> 01:47:20,400 Put him on a horse! 976 01:50:19,400 --> 01:50:23,300 Their leader said their hatred of Rome was such... 977 01:50:23,400 --> 01:50:26,500 that all they wished was to escape from her rule. 978 01:50:26,600 --> 01:50:30,699 If unopposed, he promised a peaceful march to the sea. 979 01:50:30,700 --> 01:50:34,199 If opposed, he threatens to ravage the countryside... 980 01:50:34,200 --> 01:50:36,500 and destroy every legion sent against him. 981 01:50:36,600 --> 01:50:38,699 And once they get to the sea? 982 01:50:38,700 --> 01:50:42,799 They plan to take ship with Cilician pirates and return to their homes. 983 01:50:42,800 --> 01:50:45,499 From which port do they propose to embark? 984 01:50:45,500 --> 01:50:47,500 I don't know. 985 01:50:47,600 --> 01:50:50,400 But city garrisons can't stand up to them. 986 01:50:50,500 --> 01:50:53,200 If they are to be intercepted, it's work for the legions! 987 01:50:53,300 --> 01:50:57,200 What sort of a man is this leader of the slaves? 988 01:50:57,300 --> 01:50:59,300 I don't know. 989 01:50:59,400 --> 01:51:01,600 I think they called him Spartacus. 990 01:51:04,900 --> 01:51:07,000 Is that name familiar to you? 991 01:51:09,400 --> 01:51:12,300 Yes, it does seem to be. 992 01:51:12,400 --> 01:51:14,200 I can't place it. 993 01:51:14,300 --> 01:51:16,500 After he talked to you, what happened then? 994 01:51:18,100 --> 01:51:21,300 I was tied to a horse and lashed out of camp. 995 01:51:23,200 --> 01:51:26,400 How many of your company escaped? 996 01:51:26,500 --> 01:51:28,799 Fourteen have reported thus far. 997 01:51:28,800 --> 01:51:31,799 I myself was taken prisoner in my own command tent. 998 01:51:31,800 --> 01:51:36,100 The camp was thoroughly infiltrated before an alarm could be sounded. 999 01:51:37,300 --> 01:51:41,700 Did you surround your camp with moat and stockade? 1000 01:51:49,100 --> 01:51:50,100 No. 1001 01:51:52,200 --> 01:51:56,300 We arrived after sunset. Sentries were posted every ten paces. 1002 01:51:56,400 --> 01:51:59,900 There was no reason to expect an attack by night. 1003 01:52:00,000 --> 01:52:03,200 Then again, well, they... 1004 01:52:05,500 --> 01:52:07,200 Continue. 1005 01:52:09,800 --> 01:52:11,900 They were only slaves. 1006 01:52:14,900 --> 01:52:16,300 I see. 1007 01:52:19,300 --> 01:52:23,600 I submit that Publius Marcus Glabrus has disgraced the arms of Rome. 1008 01:52:24,900 --> 01:52:27,500 Let the punishment of the senate be pronounced. 1009 01:52:32,600 --> 01:52:35,899 If we punished every commander who made a fool of himself... 1010 01:52:35,900 --> 01:52:39,000 we wouldn't have anyone left above the rank of centurion. 1011 01:52:40,700 --> 01:52:43,499 But this is a case of criminal carelessness! 1012 01:52:43,500 --> 01:52:46,900 Six cohorts have been slaughtered. 1013 01:52:47,000 --> 01:52:49,400 Crassus sponsored this young man. 1014 01:52:49,500 --> 01:52:51,600 Let him pronounce sentence. 1015 01:52:55,100 --> 01:52:57,200 The punishment is well-known! 1016 01:53:00,000 --> 01:53:02,100 Let Publius Marcus Glabrus be denied... 1017 01:53:02,200 --> 01:53:04,300 fire, water, food and shelter... 1018 01:53:04,400 --> 01:53:07,800 for a distance of 400 miles in all directions from the city of Rome. 1019 01:53:12,800 --> 01:53:15,000 One thing more. 1020 01:53:15,100 --> 01:53:19,000 Glabrus is my friend, and I will not dissociate myself from his disgrace. 1021 01:53:19,100 --> 01:53:22,200 I now lay down the command of my legions... 1022 01:53:22,300 --> 01:53:24,300 and retire to private life. 1023 01:53:37,000 --> 01:53:38,900 Good-bye, Crassus. 1024 01:53:40,800 --> 01:53:44,500 This is no time for a man of honour to withdraw from public affairs! 1025 01:53:44,600 --> 01:53:47,600 - Shame, shame! - Sit down. 1026 01:53:48,300 --> 01:53:51,799 This sort of heroic public behaviour is nothing new! 1027 01:53:51,800 --> 01:53:54,440 I've seen it before... we all have... And I know the meaning of it! 1028 01:53:54,500 --> 01:53:58,900 - Crassus acted on a point of honour! - Patrician honour! 1029 01:53:59,000 --> 01:54:01,099 No matter how noble this looks from the outside... 1030 01:54:01,100 --> 01:54:03,200 I don't like the colour of it. 1031 01:54:03,300 --> 01:54:05,400 Crassus is the only man in Rome... 1032 01:54:05,500 --> 01:54:09,500 who hasn't yielded to republican corruption, and never will! 1033 01:54:09,600 --> 01:54:13,600 I'll take some republican corruption along with some republican freedom... 1034 01:54:13,700 --> 01:54:15,600 but I won't take... 1035 01:54:15,700 --> 01:54:20,200 the dictatorship of Crassus and no freedom at all! 1036 01:54:22,400 --> 01:54:24,700 That's what he's out for... 1037 01:54:24,800 --> 01:54:26,900 and that's why he'll be back. 1038 01:58:18,000 --> 01:58:21,100 To the mother that bore me... 1039 01:58:22,400 --> 01:58:24,600 to the father that taught me... 1040 01:58:26,800 --> 01:58:28,900 to the god... 1041 01:58:31,600 --> 01:58:34,900 To the blue woods and the purple shadows, l... 1042 01:58:35,000 --> 01:58:38,499 To blue shadows and purple woods. 1043 01:58:38,500 --> 01:58:42,400 - Spartacus, you frightened me! - I'm sorry. 1044 01:58:44,600 --> 01:58:47,300 - How long have you been there? - A little while. 1045 01:58:48,400 --> 01:58:50,499 Why didn't you say something? 1046 01:58:50,500 --> 01:58:52,700 You seemed so happy. I didn't want to bother you. 1047 01:58:52,800 --> 01:58:54,900 I am happy. 1048 01:58:55,000 --> 01:58:59,099 Spartacus, I've been trying to remember the song that Antoninus sang. 1049 01:58:59,100 --> 01:59:01,500 Is it blue shadows and purple woods? 1050 01:59:01,600 --> 01:59:04,600 Or is it purple woods and blue shadows, or what is it? 1051 01:59:04,700 --> 01:59:07,000 I want to make love to my wife! 1052 01:59:09,500 --> 01:59:11,500 Spartacus, put me down. I'm... 1053 01:59:11,600 --> 01:59:13,500 I don't care. 1054 01:59:13,600 --> 01:59:16,399 - You've got, you've... - Yes? 1055 01:59:16,400 --> 01:59:19,700 - You have to be gentle with me. - Why? 1056 01:59:19,800 --> 01:59:21,699 Why, darling? 1057 01:59:21,700 --> 01:59:25,000 I'm going to have a baby. Now put me down. 1058 01:59:27,600 --> 01:59:29,200 What? 1059 01:59:31,700 --> 01:59:34,000 A baby. 1060 01:59:37,700 --> 01:59:39,800 A baby? When? 1061 01:59:42,400 --> 01:59:43,800 In the spring. 1062 01:59:46,400 --> 01:59:51,100 - How? I mean, how do you know? - I know. 1063 01:59:52,200 --> 01:59:54,300 A baby in the spring. 1064 01:59:56,500 --> 01:59:59,100 - I'm gonna have a son. - But it might be a daughter. 1065 01:59:59,200 --> 02:00:01,400 - Why didn't you tell me? - I just did. 1066 02:00:01,500 --> 02:00:04,000 You're cold. Here, get underneath this. 1067 02:00:05,000 --> 02:00:07,100 - Did I hurt you? - No, you didn't. 1068 02:00:07,200 --> 02:00:10,200 - I didn't mean to be so rough. - Why don't you kiss me? 1069 02:00:10,300 --> 02:00:13,100 This is the first time I was ever going to have a baby. 1070 02:00:18,600 --> 02:00:20,900 A baby. 1071 02:00:21,000 --> 02:00:24,200 I'm just the same as I ever was, Spartacus. 1072 02:00:34,300 --> 02:00:36,400 I won't break. 1073 02:01:05,600 --> 02:01:10,000 These slaves have already cost us a thousand million sesterces. 1074 02:01:10,100 --> 02:01:13,000 If now they want to relieve us of their unwelcome presence... 1075 02:01:13,100 --> 02:01:15,200 in the name of all the gods, let them go! 1076 02:01:15,300 --> 02:01:18,600 Impossible! They've already infected half of Italy with this uprising. 1077 02:01:18,700 --> 02:01:20,500 If we permit them to escape now... 1078 02:01:20,600 --> 02:01:23,100 this condition will spread throughout the entire empire. 1079 02:01:29,800 --> 02:01:33,000 The Republic... 1080 02:01:33,100 --> 02:01:36,400 is still weak from 20 years of civil strife. 1081 02:01:36,500 --> 02:01:39,400 We're engaged in two wars: 1082 02:01:39,500 --> 02:01:42,900 one in Spain and the other in Asia. 1083 02:01:43,000 --> 02:01:46,999 Pirates have cut off our Egyptian grain supply... 1084 02:01:47,000 --> 02:01:51,800 and Spartacus raids the commerce of all south Italy. 1085 02:01:51,900 --> 02:01:56,700 Half the precincts of Rome are without bread! 1086 02:01:56,800 --> 02:01:59,600 The city is close to panic. 1087 02:02:00,900 --> 02:02:03,900 There are two things we must do immediately! 1088 02:02:04,000 --> 02:02:07,800 Confirm Caesar as permanent commander of the garrison... 1089 02:02:11,800 --> 02:02:14,000 and assign two legions... 1090 02:02:14,100 --> 02:02:19,400 to intercept and destroy Spartacus at the city of Metapontum! 1091 02:03:25,600 --> 02:03:28,000 If we could only have had Batiatus in the other pot! 1092 02:03:28,100 --> 02:03:31,600 - Now you're talking! - Varinia, wonderful meal. 1093 02:03:32,500 --> 02:03:36,200 A small piece of land with a few goats on it. 1094 02:03:37,900 --> 02:03:39,900 The best wine in the world. 1095 02:03:40,000 --> 02:03:44,500 For wine you've got to go to Aquitania. The sweetest grapes on earth. 1096 02:03:44,600 --> 02:03:47,900 Come to Lidya for wine. That's the best. 1097 02:03:48,000 --> 02:03:52,000 The best wine comes from Greece. Everybody knows that. Even the Romans! 1098 02:03:52,100 --> 02:03:54,700 No, Lidya! 1099 02:03:55,600 --> 02:03:58,300 You're all wrong! 1100 02:03:58,400 --> 02:04:00,799 The best wine comes from home, wherever it is. 1101 02:04:00,800 --> 02:04:02,700 I agree with you. 1102 02:04:24,500 --> 02:04:26,400 Gentlemen. 1103 02:04:26,800 --> 02:04:30,000 - Are there reports on Metapontum? - Heralds are crying the news now. 1104 02:04:30,100 --> 02:04:33,400 We lost 1 9,000 men, including Commodius and his officers. 1105 02:04:33,500 --> 02:04:35,700 Nineteen thousand? 1106 02:04:37,800 --> 02:04:40,000 Have you estates in Metapontum? 1107 02:04:40,100 --> 02:04:43,300 No. A son with Commodius. 1108 02:04:44,300 --> 02:04:46,500 With your permission, good day. 1109 02:04:49,000 --> 02:04:52,500 We take five years to train a legion. 1110 02:04:52,600 --> 02:04:56,800 How can this Spartacus train an army in seven months? 1111 02:04:56,900 --> 02:05:00,300 There's something wrong, something very wrong. 1112 02:05:00,400 --> 02:05:03,399 - We should have an investigation. - By all means, an investigation. 1113 02:05:03,400 --> 02:05:07,700 - Where is Spartacus now? - He's nearing the seaport of Brundusium. 1114 02:05:07,800 --> 02:05:10,500 I need a few moments of the commander's time. 1115 02:05:10,600 --> 02:05:12,700 Will you excuse us? 1116 02:05:17,600 --> 02:05:22,600 I hear you've taken a house in the fourth ward. 1117 02:05:22,800 --> 02:05:25,299 Not a very splendid house either. 1118 02:05:25,300 --> 02:05:28,100 And you feasted 1 1,000 plebeians in the field of Mars. 1119 02:05:28,200 --> 02:05:30,400 It scarcely could've been called a feast. 1120 02:05:31,500 --> 02:05:33,500 For 200 years, your family and mine have been members... 1121 02:05:33,600 --> 02:05:36,800 of the Equestrian Order and the Patrician Party. 1122 02:05:36,900 --> 02:05:39,900 Servants and rulers of Rome. 1123 02:05:40,000 --> 02:05:42,400 Why have you left us for Gracchus and the mob? 1124 02:05:42,500 --> 02:05:45,600 I've left no one, least of all Rome. 1125 02:05:45,700 --> 02:05:49,500 But this much I've learned from Gracchus: Rome is the mob. 1126 02:05:49,600 --> 02:05:51,700 No! 1127 02:05:51,800 --> 02:05:55,400 Rome is an eternal thought in the mind of God. 1128 02:05:55,500 --> 02:05:57,600 I had no idea you'd grown religious. 1129 02:05:58,200 --> 02:06:00,200 That doesn't matter. 1130 02:06:00,300 --> 02:06:02,700 If there were no gods at all, I'd revere them. 1131 02:06:02,800 --> 02:06:06,100 If there were no Rome, I'd dream of her... 1132 02:06:06,200 --> 02:06:08,300 as I want you to do. 1133 02:06:09,700 --> 02:06:12,100 I want you to come back to your own kind. 1134 02:06:12,800 --> 02:06:14,700 I beg you to. 1135 02:06:15,500 --> 02:06:17,600 Is it me you want or is it the garrison? 1136 02:06:19,100 --> 02:06:22,300 Both. Tell me frankly. 1137 02:06:22,400 --> 02:06:25,200 If you were l, would you take the field against Spartacus? 1138 02:06:25,300 --> 02:06:27,400 - Of course. - Why? 1139 02:06:27,500 --> 02:06:30,300 We have no other choice if we're to save Rome. 1140 02:06:30,400 --> 02:06:32,099 Caesar! 1141 02:06:32,100 --> 02:06:33,800 Which Rome? 1142 02:06:33,900 --> 02:06:35,699 Theirs... 1143 02:06:35,700 --> 02:06:37,700 or ours? 1144 02:06:40,600 --> 02:06:43,100 You know Gracchus is my friend. 1145 02:06:44,900 --> 02:06:47,000 I won't betray him. 1146 02:06:48,500 --> 02:06:50,300 Caesar. 1147 02:06:53,800 --> 02:06:56,500 Which is worse: to betray a friend or to betray Rome herself? 1148 02:06:56,600 --> 02:06:58,800 My dear Crassus, I face no such choice. 1149 02:06:58,900 --> 02:07:01,800 You will, sooner than you think. 1150 02:07:03,400 --> 02:07:06,200 Good afternoon, Crassus. I've been looking for you all day. 1151 02:07:06,300 --> 02:07:08,200 Your new master. 1152 02:07:11,300 --> 02:07:14,200 The senate's been in session all day over this business of Spartacus. 1153 02:07:14,300 --> 02:07:18,099 We've got eight legions to march against him and no one to lead them. 1154 02:07:18,100 --> 02:07:20,300 The minute you offer the generals command... 1155 02:07:20,400 --> 02:07:22,600 they start wheezing like winded mules. 1156 02:07:22,700 --> 02:07:25,100 I've seen such epidemics before, haven't you? 1157 02:07:25,200 --> 02:07:27,500 - How's your health? - Excellent, as you know. 1158 02:07:27,600 --> 02:07:30,200 I take it the senate's now offering command of the legions to me. 1159 02:07:30,300 --> 02:07:32,700 - You've been expecting it. - I have. 1160 02:07:32,800 --> 02:07:35,100 But have you thought how costly my services might be? 1161 02:07:35,200 --> 02:07:37,500 We buy everything else these days. 1162 02:07:37,600 --> 02:07:41,000 No reason why we shouldn't be charged for patriotism. What's your fee? 1163 02:07:43,200 --> 02:07:47,900 My election as first consul, command of all the legions of Italy... 1164 02:07:48,000 --> 02:07:50,600 and the abolition of senatorial authority over the courts. 1165 02:07:51,500 --> 02:07:53,600 Dictatorship. 1166 02:07:54,500 --> 02:07:56,100 Order. 1167 02:07:57,900 --> 02:08:00,200 - Advise me if my terms are acceptable. - I can tell you now. 1168 02:08:00,300 --> 02:08:02,800 - They're unacceptable. - Yes, I know. 1169 02:08:02,900 --> 02:08:06,300 For the present perhaps, but times change, and so does the senate. 1170 02:08:06,400 --> 02:08:08,400 When that day comes, I shall be ready. 1171 02:08:08,500 --> 02:08:10,800 - Convey my respects to your wife. - With pleasure. 1172 02:08:13,600 --> 02:08:15,700 He's right, you know. 1173 02:08:15,800 --> 02:08:18,400 If something isn't done about Spartacus, the senate will change. 1174 02:08:18,500 --> 02:08:21,199 And Crassus will move in and save Rome from the slave army... 1175 02:08:21,200 --> 02:08:23,300 by assuming dictatorship. 1176 02:08:25,900 --> 02:08:28,999 But that, like everything else, depends on which way Spartacus jumps. 1177 02:08:29,000 --> 02:08:31,200 Just now, he's trying to get out of Italy. 1178 02:08:31,300 --> 02:08:33,800 If he succeeds, the crisis is over... 1179 02:08:33,900 --> 02:08:37,000 and Crassus may stay in retirement indefinitely. 1180 02:08:37,100 --> 02:08:40,400 I've arranged for Spartacus to escape from Italy. 1181 02:08:40,500 --> 02:08:41,800 You've done what? 1182 02:08:41,900 --> 02:08:45,099 I've made a little deal with the Cilician pirates. 1183 02:08:45,100 --> 02:08:47,200 I've assured them that we won't interfere... 1184 02:08:47,300 --> 02:08:50,200 if they transport Spartacus and his slaves out of Italy. 1185 02:08:52,600 --> 02:08:57,000 So now we deal with pirates. We bargain with criminals! 1186 02:08:57,100 --> 02:09:01,699 Don't you be so stiff-necked about it. Politics is a practical profession. 1187 02:09:01,700 --> 02:09:06,000 If a criminal has what you want, you do business with him. 1188 02:09:42,400 --> 02:09:45,100 How far are we from Brundusium? 1189 02:09:45,200 --> 02:09:47,700 About 20 miles. 1190 02:09:47,800 --> 02:09:51,799 Our army will have to camp here tonight. They're still about six hours behind us. 1191 02:09:51,800 --> 02:09:55,999 Patullus, ride ahead to Brundusium. Bring Tigranes here. 1192 02:09:56,000 --> 02:09:58,900 Marco, report back to Spartacus. 1193 02:09:59,000 --> 02:10:01,900 Tell him we camp tonight by the sea! 1194 02:10:43,500 --> 02:10:47,500 If all goes well, my estimate is we can load 1 50 ships a day. 1195 02:10:47,600 --> 02:10:50,400 That's your job, Dionysius. Work with the Cilician pirates. 1196 02:10:50,500 --> 02:10:54,500 - That oughta keep him busy. - Saves me finding someplace to sleep. 1197 02:10:54,600 --> 02:10:56,600 Crixus, keep giving me reports on Pompey. 1198 02:10:56,700 --> 02:10:58,800 There won't be any surprises. 1199 02:10:58,900 --> 02:11:01,900 I still want patrols of the back country until we board ship. 1200 02:11:02,000 --> 02:11:03,899 I'll get them together now. 1201 02:11:03,900 --> 02:11:07,100 Spartacus, the harbour district in Brundusium has food warehouses... 1202 02:11:07,200 --> 02:11:09,800 but not enough to provide for the whole fleet. 1203 02:11:09,900 --> 02:11:11,800 The countryside's filled with cattle. 1204 02:11:11,900 --> 02:11:13,999 And we've more than enough salt to preserve them. 1205 02:11:14,000 --> 02:11:15,900 I'll handle it. 1206 02:11:16,000 --> 02:11:19,500 Find out how many men we have in camp who were galley slaves or sailors. 1207 02:11:19,600 --> 02:11:21,500 Tigranes Levantus. 1208 02:11:24,400 --> 02:11:26,500 - My dear general. - Welcome, Tigranes! 1209 02:11:26,600 --> 02:11:30,099 No, no. You needn't look for litter bearers to emancipate. 1210 02:11:30,100 --> 02:11:32,000 I rode a horse. 1211 02:11:32,100 --> 02:11:35,799 Your gods Isis and Serapis must've been good to us. 1212 02:11:35,800 --> 02:11:39,800 The balance of the 50 million sesterces we owe you. 1213 02:11:40,700 --> 02:11:42,800 General... 1214 02:11:42,900 --> 02:11:46,500 I bear a heavy burden of evil tidings. 1215 02:11:48,700 --> 02:11:50,600 What is it? 1216 02:11:52,400 --> 02:11:55,800 Pompey and his army has landed in Italy. 1217 02:11:55,900 --> 02:11:58,800 At the border of Rhegium three days ago. 1218 02:11:58,900 --> 02:12:01,199 We get complete reports on their movements. 1219 02:12:01,200 --> 02:12:03,200 But do you also know... 1220 02:12:03,300 --> 02:12:05,600 that a Roman fleet carrying Lucullus and his army... 1221 02:12:05,700 --> 02:12:07,800 arrives tomorrow at Brundusium? 1222 02:12:10,400 --> 02:12:13,600 - Lucullus here? - You have no ships. 1223 02:12:17,400 --> 02:12:19,500 I saw them in the harbour. 1224 02:12:21,100 --> 02:12:25,200 The Cilician fleet, out of strategic necessity... 1225 02:12:25,300 --> 02:12:27,700 has been obliged to withdraw. 1226 02:12:28,900 --> 02:12:32,400 - Withdraw? - There are no ships at all? 1227 02:12:40,500 --> 02:12:44,800 Cilician pirates can destroy any Roman fleet that ever sailed. 1228 02:12:44,900 --> 02:12:47,020 If they run away now, it's not because they're afraid! 1229 02:12:47,100 --> 02:12:49,200 You better give me a better reason. 1230 02:12:49,300 --> 02:12:51,400 I'm as desolated as you are, General. 1231 02:12:51,500 --> 02:12:53,500 Stand up. Up! 1232 02:12:54,900 --> 02:12:56,800 On your toes. 1233 02:13:00,300 --> 02:13:04,400 - You'll cut the skin. - Why did the Cilicians run away? 1234 02:13:04,500 --> 02:13:06,600 They were paid. 1235 02:13:06,700 --> 02:13:08,800 And who paid them? 1236 02:13:08,900 --> 02:13:10,800 Who? 1237 02:13:10,900 --> 02:13:12,700 Crassus. 1238 02:13:18,500 --> 02:13:20,800 Crassus won't fight us himself. 1239 02:13:20,900 --> 02:13:24,200 The reports say he won't take the command of an army. 1240 02:13:24,300 --> 02:13:27,600 Why would he bribe your pirates to keep us from escaping? 1241 02:13:27,700 --> 02:13:30,400 I don't know. How can I answer when there is no answer? 1242 02:13:30,500 --> 02:13:32,900 I've been betrayed, just as you have! 1243 02:13:33,000 --> 02:13:35,900 There is an answer. 1244 02:13:36,000 --> 02:13:38,400 There must be an answer to everything. 1245 02:13:40,000 --> 02:13:42,500 We're five miles from Brundusium. 1246 02:13:44,100 --> 02:13:46,799 Here's Rhegium. 1247 02:13:46,800 --> 02:13:49,799 Pompey's march must have brought him to about here. 1248 02:13:49,800 --> 02:13:53,000 He's four days away, maybe more. 1249 02:13:54,400 --> 02:13:57,600 Lucullus lands at Brundusium tomorrow. 1250 02:13:57,700 --> 02:13:59,900 If we engage Lucullus... 1251 02:14:00,000 --> 02:14:03,200 Pompey will have enough time to march against our rear. 1252 02:14:04,500 --> 02:14:08,600 If we turn west to meet Pompey... 1253 02:14:08,700 --> 02:14:11,400 Lucullus will march against our rear. 1254 02:14:12,600 --> 02:14:17,100 The only other army in all of Italy is here! 1255 02:14:17,200 --> 02:14:18,800 Rome. 1256 02:14:19,500 --> 02:14:21,700 Yes, of course! 1257 02:14:21,800 --> 02:14:24,300 Crassus is inviting us to march on Rome... 1258 02:14:24,400 --> 02:14:26,599 so he can take the field against us. 1259 02:14:26,600 --> 02:14:29,400 You mean Crassus wants us to march on Rome? 1260 02:14:29,500 --> 02:14:32,099 He's forcing us to. He knows I won't let myself be trapped... 1261 02:14:32,100 --> 02:14:35,200 between two armies with my back to the sea. 1262 02:14:35,300 --> 02:14:37,900 He knows my only other choice is Rome. 1263 02:14:39,500 --> 02:14:42,100 Somewhere on the way, we meet. 1264 02:14:42,200 --> 02:14:45,400 If he beats us, he becomes the saviour of Rome... 1265 02:14:45,500 --> 02:14:47,600 and there's his final victory over the senate. 1266 02:14:47,700 --> 02:14:52,900 General, allow me to redeem myself in your eyes. 1267 02:14:53,000 --> 02:14:54,900 For a very small commission... 1268 02:14:55,000 --> 02:14:59,499 I can arrange for you, your family and your leaders, of course... 1269 02:14:59,500 --> 02:15:02,600 to be smuggled out of Italy and transported to an eastern country... 1270 02:15:02,700 --> 02:15:05,499 where men of substance like you are welcome and appreciated. 1271 02:15:05,500 --> 02:15:08,200 You can live there like kings for the rest of your lives. 1272 02:15:08,300 --> 02:15:10,300 What do you think, General? 1273 02:15:11,100 --> 02:15:13,200 Go away. 1274 02:15:13,300 --> 02:15:15,700 Go away? 1275 02:15:28,900 --> 02:15:31,500 Tell the trumpeters to sound assembly. 1276 02:15:39,600 --> 02:15:43,700 Tonight a Roman army lands in the harbour of Brundusium. 1277 02:15:44,800 --> 02:15:47,799 Another army is approaching us from the west. 1278 02:15:47,800 --> 02:15:50,800 Between them, they hope to trap us here... 1279 02:15:50,900 --> 02:15:53,000 against the sea. 1280 02:15:53,100 --> 02:15:56,700 The Cilician pirates have betrayed us. We have no ships. 1281 02:15:56,800 --> 02:15:59,700 "By order of the senate... 1282 02:15:59,800 --> 02:16:03,400 be it known that we have this day elected... 1283 02:16:03,500 --> 02:16:06,200 Marcus Licinius Crassus... 1284 02:16:06,300 --> 02:16:09,200 first consul of the Republic... 1285 02:16:09,300 --> 02:16:13,800 and commander in chief of the armies of Rome." 1286 02:16:13,900 --> 02:16:17,100 Hail Crassus! 1287 02:16:17,200 --> 02:16:21,200 Rome will not allow us to escape from Italy. 1288 02:16:22,500 --> 02:16:26,000 We have no choice but to march against Rome herself... 1289 02:16:26,100 --> 02:16:30,300 and end this war the only way it could have ended: 1290 02:16:30,400 --> 02:16:34,100 by freeing every slave in Italy. 1291 02:16:34,200 --> 02:16:36,700 I promise you... 1292 02:16:36,800 --> 02:16:39,100 a new Rome... 1293 02:16:39,200 --> 02:16:41,300 a new Italy and a new empire. 1294 02:16:42,400 --> 02:16:45,000 I promise the destruction of the slave army... 1295 02:16:46,000 --> 02:16:48,700 and the restoration of order... 1296 02:16:48,800 --> 02:16:50,900 throughout all our territories. 1297 02:16:51,000 --> 02:16:55,200 I'd rather be here, a free man among brothers... 1298 02:16:55,300 --> 02:16:58,700 facing a long march and a hard fight... 1299 02:16:58,800 --> 02:17:02,199 than to be the richest citizen of Rome... 1300 02:17:02,200 --> 02:17:05,200 fat with food he didn't work for... 1301 02:17:05,300 --> 02:17:07,400 and surrounded by slaves. 1302 02:17:07,500 --> 02:17:11,000 I promise the living body of Spartacus... 1303 02:17:11,100 --> 02:17:14,499 for whatever punishment you may deem fit. 1304 02:17:14,500 --> 02:17:17,900 That or his head. 1305 02:17:18,800 --> 02:17:23,300 This I vow by the spirits of all my forefathers. 1306 02:17:23,400 --> 02:17:26,100 This I have sworn... 1307 02:17:26,200 --> 02:17:28,800 in the temple that guards their bones. 1308 02:17:30,500 --> 02:17:32,800 Hail Crassus! 1309 02:17:32,900 --> 02:17:36,300 We've travelled a long ways together. 1310 02:17:36,400 --> 02:17:41,100 We've fought many battles and won great victories. 1311 02:17:41,200 --> 02:17:45,700 Now, instead of taking ship for our homes across the sea... 1312 02:17:45,800 --> 02:17:48,800 we must fight again. 1313 02:17:48,900 --> 02:17:51,700 Maybe there's no peace in this world... 1314 02:17:51,800 --> 02:17:55,100 for us or for anyone else. I don't know. 1315 02:17:56,200 --> 02:17:58,300 But I do know... 1316 02:17:58,400 --> 02:18:00,700 that as long as we live... 1317 02:18:00,800 --> 02:18:04,200 we must stay true to ourselves. 1318 02:18:05,600 --> 02:18:10,200 I do know that we're brothers, and I know that we're free. 1319 02:18:17,200 --> 02:18:19,300 We march tonight! 1320 02:19:53,200 --> 02:19:55,900 Hail Crassus! 1321 02:19:56,000 --> 02:19:58,100 Greetings to you, Crassus. 1322 02:19:58,200 --> 02:20:00,500 Caius. Gentlemen. 1323 02:20:01,700 --> 02:20:03,800 Have your dispositions been made? 1324 02:20:03,900 --> 02:20:08,300 Each maniple knows its position in line, sir, and exactly what's expected. 1325 02:20:08,400 --> 02:20:12,300 Every legion commander has been given his battle orders. 1326 02:20:12,400 --> 02:20:15,100 Excellent. All positions will now be changed. 1327 02:20:15,200 --> 02:20:17,100 Changed? 1328 02:20:17,200 --> 02:20:20,300 Spartacus takes too keen an interest in our plans, I fear. 1329 02:20:21,700 --> 02:20:25,000 New battle orders will be issued in a short while. 1330 02:20:27,700 --> 02:20:31,599 Spartacus has every reason to believe that he has outdistanced... 1331 02:20:31,600 --> 02:20:35,399 the pursuing armies of Pompey and of Lucullus. 1332 02:20:35,400 --> 02:20:38,600 However, there are passes through the Apennine Mountains... 1333 02:20:38,700 --> 02:20:41,000 unknown to any map. 1334 02:20:42,500 --> 02:20:46,700 It may fortify your courage to know... 1335 02:20:46,800 --> 02:20:51,000 that Pompey is at this moment encamped some 20 miles to the west of us... 1336 02:20:51,100 --> 02:20:53,900 and that the army of Lucullus approaches from the south... 1337 02:20:54,000 --> 02:20:56,100 by forced night march. 1338 02:20:56,200 --> 02:21:00,300 Sir, allow us to pledge you the most glorious victory of your career. 1339 02:21:02,400 --> 02:21:04,500 I'm not after glory! 1340 02:21:05,400 --> 02:21:07,500 I'm after Spartacus. 1341 02:21:08,600 --> 02:21:11,000 And, gentlemen, I mean to have him. 1342 02:21:12,500 --> 02:21:16,800 However, this campaign is not alone to kill Spartacus. 1343 02:21:16,900 --> 02:21:20,000 It is to kill the legend of Spartacus. 1344 02:21:21,900 --> 02:21:23,900 You may go, gentlemen. 1345 02:21:24,000 --> 02:21:25,900 Hail Crassus. 1346 02:21:28,700 --> 02:21:30,800 Lentulus Batiatus awaits Your Excellency. 1347 02:21:30,900 --> 02:21:33,100 - Who? - The lanista, sir. 1348 02:21:34,600 --> 02:21:36,700 Admit him. 1349 02:21:39,000 --> 02:21:41,500 Most Blessed Highness, as soon as I received your message... 1350 02:21:41,600 --> 02:21:43,600 I hurried into your distinguished presence. 1351 02:21:43,700 --> 02:21:46,500 I'm glad you were able to spare the time. Sit down. 1352 02:21:47,700 --> 02:21:49,600 How gracious. 1353 02:21:50,400 --> 02:21:53,500 I understand... I'm informed... 1354 02:21:53,600 --> 02:21:56,000 That Spartacus once trained under your auspices. 1355 02:21:56,100 --> 02:21:58,200 Yes! In fact... 1356 02:21:58,300 --> 02:22:00,900 if it isn't too subversive to say so... 1357 02:22:01,000 --> 02:22:04,200 I made him what he is today. 1358 02:22:04,300 --> 02:22:06,699 You're to be congratulated indeed. 1359 02:22:06,700 --> 02:22:10,800 I, too, as it happens, since you're so admirably qualified to give me... 1360 02:22:10,900 --> 02:22:13,399 what up to now I've not been able to obtain: 1361 02:22:13,400 --> 02:22:15,699 a physical description of Spartacus. 1362 02:22:15,700 --> 02:22:16,800 Yes. 1363 02:22:17,400 --> 02:22:19,600 But you saw him. 1364 02:22:21,300 --> 02:22:23,400 - What? - In the ring. 1365 02:22:24,800 --> 02:22:26,799 When? 1366 02:22:26,800 --> 02:22:30,500 When you visited my school with those two charming ladies. 1367 02:22:32,100 --> 02:22:34,300 What? 1368 02:22:34,400 --> 02:22:36,799 I trust they're both in good health. 1369 02:22:36,800 --> 02:22:40,100 They selected him to fight against Draba, the Negro. 1370 02:22:40,200 --> 02:22:43,200 - I remember the Negro. - You had good cause to, if I remember... 1371 02:22:43,300 --> 02:22:45,500 If I may say so, Your Excellency. 1372 02:22:45,600 --> 02:22:48,000 A brilliant dagger thrust. Difficult angle. 1373 02:22:48,100 --> 02:22:50,100 - Spartacus was the opponent? - Yes. 1374 02:22:53,100 --> 02:22:55,500 What did he look like? 1375 02:22:55,600 --> 02:22:58,300 That's a matter of some importance to Your Highness? 1376 02:22:58,400 --> 02:23:02,999 Yes, to every man who loves Rome and wishes to see her strong. 1377 02:23:03,000 --> 02:23:05,100 We're both Roman patriots, sir. 1378 02:23:05,200 --> 02:23:07,600 You're a great one. I, of course, smaller. 1379 02:23:07,700 --> 02:23:10,299 But we both believe in Roman fair play. 1380 02:23:10,300 --> 02:23:12,400 If you want something from me... 1381 02:23:12,500 --> 02:23:15,500 I would be lacking in respect for my own conscience... 1382 02:23:15,600 --> 02:23:17,700 if I did not say that I wish something from you. 1383 02:23:17,800 --> 02:23:19,900 Name your price. 1384 02:23:20,000 --> 02:23:22,200 If... no... 1385 02:23:22,300 --> 02:23:24,900 When you win your victory tomorrow... 1386 02:23:25,000 --> 02:23:27,700 presumably the survivors will be auctioned off... 1387 02:23:27,800 --> 02:23:31,100 in order to pay for the expenses of this heroic expedition. 1388 02:23:32,500 --> 02:23:35,300 Could not the agent for that sale be he... 1389 02:23:35,400 --> 02:23:39,600 who shares this tiny moment of history with Your Honour? 1390 02:23:41,200 --> 02:23:45,200 I authorize you to be the agent for the sale of all survivors. 1391 02:23:46,000 --> 02:23:48,900 In return, you will remain here with us until after the battle... 1392 02:23:49,000 --> 02:23:51,100 and aid me in identifying Spartacus. 1393 02:23:51,200 --> 02:23:53,100 After the battle? 1394 02:23:53,200 --> 02:23:55,900 You misunderstand me. I'm a civilian. 1395 02:23:56,000 --> 02:23:59,300 I'm even more of a civilian than most civilians. 1396 02:24:00,100 --> 02:24:02,200 If you wish to remain so... 1397 02:24:02,300 --> 02:24:05,599 I should strongly advise you to stay here and be our guest. 1398 02:24:05,600 --> 02:24:07,100 Guard! 1399 02:24:12,700 --> 02:24:17,500 My dear, all-conquering Marcus Licinius Crassus... 1400 02:24:18,400 --> 02:24:20,700 what if it is Spartacus who crosses the battlefield... 1401 02:24:20,800 --> 02:24:22,700 looking for you? 1402 02:24:24,900 --> 02:24:27,700 In such circumstances, I have no doubt... 1403 02:24:27,800 --> 02:24:30,100 you will be helping him. 1404 02:24:30,200 --> 02:24:32,999 This fellow remains with us until after the battle. 1405 02:24:33,000 --> 02:24:37,200 Make him comfortable. Don't let him feel lonely. 1406 02:26:10,200 --> 02:26:12,800 Mommy? Mommy? 1407 02:26:15,600 --> 02:26:18,200 When do we go home? 1408 02:26:22,700 --> 02:26:24,800 Go to sleep, dear. 1409 02:26:58,200 --> 02:27:00,500 No pains yet? 1410 02:27:00,600 --> 02:27:03,200 He's a bad child, though. He hits me with his fist. 1411 02:27:03,300 --> 02:27:05,600 He wants to see his mother. Can you blame him? 1412 02:27:06,600 --> 02:27:08,600 Can you feel it? 1413 02:27:09,900 --> 02:27:11,899 No, I don't. 1414 02:27:11,900 --> 02:27:14,400 I hope he waits till we get to Rome. 1415 02:27:17,900 --> 02:27:19,700 Rome! 1416 02:27:21,400 --> 02:27:23,600 They've never beaten us yet. 1417 02:27:26,300 --> 02:27:28,600 No. 1418 02:27:30,200 --> 02:27:33,100 But no matter how many times we beat them... 1419 02:27:33,200 --> 02:27:37,100 they still seem to have another army to send against us. 1420 02:27:37,200 --> 02:27:39,100 And another. 1421 02:27:41,500 --> 02:27:45,300 Varinia, it just seems like we've started something... 1422 02:27:46,200 --> 02:27:48,200 that has no ending! 1423 02:27:48,300 --> 02:27:51,800 If it ended tomorrow, it would be worth it. 1424 02:27:59,100 --> 02:28:03,300 Varinia, don't make me weak. 1425 02:28:03,900 --> 02:28:06,900 You're strong enough to be weak. 1426 02:28:11,700 --> 02:28:14,000 I love you more than my life. 1427 02:28:16,200 --> 02:28:20,200 Yet, sometimes, even with you here sleeping beside me... 1428 02:28:22,100 --> 02:28:24,200 I feel so alone. 1429 02:28:25,800 --> 02:28:29,100 I imagine a god for slaves... 1430 02:28:29,200 --> 02:28:31,900 and I pray. 1431 02:28:32,000 --> 02:28:34,100 What do you pray for? 1432 02:28:35,600 --> 02:28:38,700 I pray for a son who'll be born free. 1433 02:28:40,400 --> 02:28:42,700 I pray for the same thing. 1434 02:28:47,700 --> 02:28:49,800 Take care of my son, Varinia. 1435 02:28:51,400 --> 02:28:53,500 If he never knows me... 1436 02:28:53,600 --> 02:28:57,200 tell him who I was and what we dreamed of. 1437 02:28:57,300 --> 02:29:00,700 Tell him the truth. There will be plenty of others to tell him lies. 1438 02:29:00,800 --> 02:29:02,900 I can't live without you, Spartacus! 1439 02:29:16,000 --> 02:29:18,900 For you and me there can be no farewells. 1440 02:29:23,400 --> 02:29:26,200 As long as one of us lives... 1441 02:29:26,300 --> 02:29:28,400 we all live. 1442 02:29:29,300 --> 02:29:32,300 I felt it! Did you feel it? 1443 02:29:32,400 --> 02:29:35,300 - Yes, I did. - That was so strong. Does it hurt you? 1444 02:29:36,400 --> 02:29:38,500 That was so strong. 1445 02:36:00,500 --> 02:36:03,000 Lucullus and Pompey. 1446 02:39:41,500 --> 02:39:43,500 Have we a count of prisoners? 1447 02:39:43,600 --> 02:39:46,300 We haven't made the final count, sir. 1448 02:39:46,400 --> 02:39:49,400 I bring a message from your master... 1449 02:39:49,500 --> 02:39:52,900 Marcus Licinius Crassus... 1450 02:39:53,000 --> 02:39:55,400 commander of Italy. 1451 02:39:55,500 --> 02:39:59,400 By command of His Most Merciful Excellency... 1452 02:39:59,500 --> 02:40:02,000 your lives are to be spared. 1453 02:40:05,200 --> 02:40:07,100 Slaves you were... 1454 02:40:07,200 --> 02:40:09,300 and slaves you remain. 1455 02:40:09,400 --> 02:40:12,800 But the terrible penalty of crucifixion... 1456 02:40:12,900 --> 02:40:15,000 has been set aside... 1457 02:40:15,100 --> 02:40:19,300 on the single condition that you identify the body... 1458 02:40:19,400 --> 02:40:24,200 or the living person of the slave called Spartacus. 1459 02:40:36,700 --> 02:40:39,400 - I'm Spartacus! - I'm Spartacus! 1460 02:41:24,300 --> 02:41:27,499 Forgive me for being one of the last to congratulate you, Your Nobility. 1461 02:41:27,500 --> 02:41:30,400 There's an ugly rumour going round the camp... 1462 02:41:30,500 --> 02:41:33,200 that the prisoners are to be crucified. 1463 02:41:33,900 --> 02:41:35,800 That is true. 1464 02:41:37,200 --> 02:41:39,300 Perhaps this is the moment to remind Your Highness... 1465 02:41:39,400 --> 02:41:42,900 that yesterday you promised me I could be the agent in their auctioning. 1466 02:41:43,000 --> 02:41:46,799 Last night you promised Spartacus to me! Where is he? 1467 02:41:46,800 --> 02:41:48,920 In return, I promised you the sale of the survivors... 1468 02:41:49,000 --> 02:41:51,200 and there will be none! 1469 02:42:16,300 --> 02:42:18,799 - It's Varinia. - Yes, I remember. 1470 02:42:18,800 --> 02:42:21,200 You're the woman of Spartacus? 1471 02:42:21,300 --> 02:42:23,400 I'm his wife. 1472 02:42:23,500 --> 02:42:25,600 And this is his child? 1473 02:42:27,000 --> 02:42:28,200 Yes. 1474 02:42:28,800 --> 02:42:30,600 Where is Spartacus? 1475 02:42:34,800 --> 02:42:36,500 Dead. 1476 02:42:37,100 --> 02:42:39,200 Did you see him killed? 1477 02:42:44,000 --> 02:42:45,300 Yes. 1478 02:42:47,100 --> 02:42:50,700 You're lying. Where is he? 1479 02:42:55,500 --> 02:42:57,800 At least here is someone worth selling, Your Enormity. 1480 02:42:57,900 --> 02:43:00,700 I'll even take the child as an investment. 1481 02:43:02,100 --> 02:43:04,600 - How many women have been taken? - Under forty, sir. 1482 02:43:04,700 --> 02:43:07,800 Most of those who weren't killed have run to the hills with their children. 1483 02:43:07,900 --> 02:43:10,200 You may sell all the others, but not this woman. 1484 02:43:10,300 --> 02:43:12,300 But you haven't seen the others, Your Magnitude. 1485 02:43:12,400 --> 02:43:15,300 They're of surpassing ugliness! A genius wouldn't be able to sell them! 1486 02:43:15,400 --> 02:43:18,300 Flog that scoundrel out of camp. 1487 02:43:18,400 --> 02:43:21,900 This woman and her child are to be conveyed to my house in Rome. 1488 02:43:36,100 --> 02:43:38,200 - Halt them! - Halt! 1489 02:43:42,900 --> 02:43:44,200 Antoninus? 1490 02:44:01,800 --> 02:44:02,900 Tribune! 1491 02:44:09,400 --> 02:44:12,800 Slaves are to be crucified along the roadside... 1492 02:44:12,900 --> 02:44:17,000 the whole distance between here and the gates of Rome. 1493 02:44:20,200 --> 02:44:22,200 Hold this man till the end. 1494 02:44:25,600 --> 02:44:27,500 And that man too. 1495 02:44:35,100 --> 02:44:37,200 - March on. - March on! 1496 02:45:31,100 --> 02:45:33,800 I've more stripes on my back than a zebra! 1497 02:45:33,900 --> 02:45:36,700 Every time I touch my wounds... 1498 02:45:37,400 --> 02:45:40,300 they sing like larks. 1499 02:45:40,400 --> 02:45:42,500 But in spite of that, I think I've found something... 1500 02:45:42,600 --> 02:45:45,300 - I never had before with all my wealth. - What is that? 1501 02:45:46,500 --> 02:45:49,400 Don't laugh at me, but I believe it to be dignity. 1502 02:45:49,500 --> 02:45:52,100 In Rome, dignity shortens life... 1503 02:45:52,200 --> 02:45:54,699 even more surely than disease. 1504 02:45:54,700 --> 02:45:57,200 The gods must be saving you for some great enterprise. 1505 02:45:57,800 --> 02:45:59,900 You think so? 1506 02:46:00,000 --> 02:46:04,400 Anyone who believes I'll turn informer for nothing is a fool. 1507 02:46:04,500 --> 02:46:07,000 I bore the whip without complaint. 1508 02:46:07,100 --> 02:46:11,099 Yes, indeed, that sounds like a bad attack of dignity. 1509 02:46:11,100 --> 02:46:13,500 I hope, however, this will not deflect you... 1510 02:46:13,600 --> 02:46:15,900 from the revenge you were going to take on Crassus. 1511 02:46:16,000 --> 02:46:18,700 No, on the contrary. It only strengthens my resolve. 1512 02:46:18,800 --> 02:46:21,600 I'm glad to learn that. 1513 02:46:23,800 --> 02:46:27,399 This woman Varinia is in his house. All Rome knows about it. 1514 02:46:27,400 --> 02:46:29,500 Malicious tongues even say... 1515 02:46:29,600 --> 02:46:32,800 that he's in love for the first time in his life. 1516 02:46:36,700 --> 02:46:39,499 I noticed a strange look in his eye when he first saw her. 1517 02:46:39,500 --> 02:46:41,900 It would take a great woman... 1518 02:46:42,000 --> 02:46:45,100 to make Crassus fall out of love with himself. 1519 02:46:45,200 --> 02:46:47,299 I'll be honest with you, Gracchus. 1520 02:46:47,300 --> 02:46:50,500 She's not as unattractive as I told you she was. 1521 02:46:50,600 --> 02:46:54,600 Dignity and honesty in one afternoon! I hardly recognize you. 1522 02:46:55,300 --> 02:46:58,099 - But she is an impossible woman. - Beautiful? 1523 02:46:58,100 --> 02:47:00,500 Beautiful? Well, beautiful. 1524 02:47:00,600 --> 02:47:03,200 The more chains you put on her, the less like a slave she looks. 1525 02:47:03,300 --> 02:47:05,400 - Proud? - Proud, proud. 1526 02:47:05,500 --> 02:47:08,200 You'd feel that she would surrender to the right man... 1527 02:47:08,300 --> 02:47:10,600 which is irritating. 1528 02:47:11,400 --> 02:47:15,500 I like Crassus. Let's save him from his agony. 1529 02:47:15,600 --> 02:47:17,700 Let's steal this woman. 1530 02:47:18,800 --> 02:47:21,200 Steal the woman? Why? 1531 02:47:21,300 --> 02:47:23,600 I can no longer hurt Crassus in the senate... 1532 02:47:23,700 --> 02:47:27,400 but I can hurt him where he'll feel it most: in his pride. 1533 02:47:27,500 --> 02:47:29,700 Attack our enemy from within. 1534 02:47:29,800 --> 02:47:31,700 The scheme is excellent... 1535 02:47:31,800 --> 02:47:34,800 but I hope you're not suggesting that I steal the woman! 1536 02:47:34,900 --> 02:47:37,100 Yes. 1537 02:47:37,200 --> 02:47:40,300 Buy some horses and a cart with a canopy. 1538 02:47:40,400 --> 02:47:42,500 Bring her here by nightfall. 1539 02:47:44,400 --> 02:47:48,200 Add courage to your newfound virtues. 1540 02:47:50,200 --> 02:47:53,600 Would half a million sesterces make you brave? 1541 02:47:56,400 --> 02:47:58,500 Half a million? 1542 02:48:02,400 --> 02:48:07,400 Crassus does seem to dwindle in the mind, but... 1543 02:48:07,500 --> 02:48:10,400 Let's reduce him still further. A round million! 1544 02:48:11,600 --> 02:48:13,700 A million. 1545 02:48:13,800 --> 02:48:16,000 For such a sum, I could bribe Jupiter himself! 1546 02:48:17,100 --> 02:48:19,200 With a lesser sum, I have. 1547 02:48:25,600 --> 02:48:27,400 Forgive the intrusion. 1548 02:48:27,500 --> 02:48:30,100 You know I'm not in the habit of coming into your house uninvited. 1549 02:48:30,200 --> 02:48:32,300 You've always been welcome here... 1550 02:48:32,400 --> 02:48:34,500 as a pupil. 1551 02:48:38,400 --> 02:48:41,100 - You're not alone. - No. 1552 02:48:42,900 --> 02:48:45,800 This time you've come to teach. 1553 02:48:47,400 --> 02:48:49,500 You've joined Crassus? 1554 02:48:50,500 --> 02:48:52,800 - Am I arrested? - No. 1555 02:48:52,900 --> 02:48:55,700 But I must ask you to come with me to the senate immediately. 1556 02:48:58,000 --> 02:49:00,400 What I do, I do not for myself... 1557 02:49:01,300 --> 02:49:03,600 but for Rome. 1558 02:49:03,700 --> 02:49:06,400 Poor helpless Rome! 1559 02:49:06,500 --> 02:49:10,800 Let's go and hear more about Rome from Crassus! 1560 02:49:15,800 --> 02:49:18,100 Did you truly believe 500 years of Rome... 1561 02:49:18,200 --> 02:49:22,000 could so easily be delivered into the clutches of a mob? 1562 02:49:25,400 --> 02:49:29,400 Already the bodies of 6,000 crucified slaves... 1563 02:49:29,500 --> 02:49:31,899 Line the Appian Way. 1564 02:49:31,900 --> 02:49:34,900 Tomorrow the last of their companions will fight to the death... 1565 02:49:35,000 --> 02:49:39,000 in the temple of my fathers as a sacrifice to them. 1566 02:49:39,100 --> 02:49:42,800 As those slaves have died, so will your rabble... 1567 02:49:42,900 --> 02:49:48,000 if they falter one instant in loyalty to the new order of affairs. 1568 02:49:48,100 --> 02:49:51,200 The enemies of the state are known. 1569 02:49:51,300 --> 02:49:55,300 Arrests are in progress. The prisons begin to fill. 1570 02:49:55,400 --> 02:49:59,900 In every city and province, lists of the disloyal have been compiled. 1571 02:50:00,000 --> 02:50:04,700 Tomorrow they will learn the cost of their terrible folly... 1572 02:50:05,500 --> 02:50:07,200 their treason. 1573 02:50:08,700 --> 02:50:10,699 Where does my name appear... 1574 02:50:10,700 --> 02:50:14,000 on the list of disloyal enemies of the state? 1575 02:50:14,100 --> 02:50:15,900 First. 1576 02:50:17,900 --> 02:50:21,500 Yet upon you I have no desire for vengeance. 1577 02:50:22,300 --> 02:50:24,800 Your property shall not be touched. 1578 02:50:24,900 --> 02:50:28,499 You will retain the rank and title of Roman senator. 1579 02:50:28,500 --> 02:50:30,600 A house... 1580 02:50:30,700 --> 02:50:35,000 a farmhouse in Picenum has been provided for your exile. 1581 02:50:35,100 --> 02:50:37,100 You may take your women with you. 1582 02:50:39,200 --> 02:50:43,200 Why am I to be left so conspicuously alive? 1583 02:50:43,300 --> 02:50:47,000 Your followers are deluded enough to trust you. 1584 02:50:47,100 --> 02:50:50,100 I intend that you shall speak to them tomorrow for their own good... 1585 02:50:50,200 --> 02:50:53,600 their peaceful and profitable future. 1586 02:50:53,700 --> 02:50:56,400 From time to time thereafter, I may find it useful... 1587 02:50:56,500 --> 02:50:59,699 to bring you back to Rome to continue your duty to her... 1588 02:50:59,700 --> 02:51:02,600 to calm the envious spirit... 1589 02:51:02,700 --> 02:51:04,900 and the troubled mind. 1590 02:51:05,000 --> 02:51:10,300 You will persuade them to accept destiny and order... 1591 02:51:10,400 --> 02:51:12,600 and trust the gods! 1592 02:51:16,900 --> 02:51:18,800 You may go. 1593 02:51:29,600 --> 02:51:31,500 Halt! 1594 02:52:17,400 --> 02:52:20,600 Now, why hide behind that stola? 1595 02:52:25,600 --> 02:52:27,699 That's better. 1596 02:52:27,700 --> 02:52:31,100 That dress took some weeks of a woman's life. 1597 02:52:31,200 --> 02:52:35,700 You, above all people, should respect the work of slaves and wear it proudly. 1598 02:52:35,800 --> 02:52:37,700 Come here. 1599 02:52:51,900 --> 02:52:54,000 This belonged to a queen... 1600 02:52:55,500 --> 02:52:57,600 the queen of Persia. 1601 02:52:58,200 --> 02:53:00,300 It's heavy. 1602 02:53:01,800 --> 02:53:04,100 In time you will wear it lightly enough. 1603 02:53:17,600 --> 02:53:19,500 Sit down. 1604 02:53:22,600 --> 02:53:25,800 Will you have some squab and honey? 1605 02:53:27,300 --> 02:53:28,799 No. 1606 02:53:28,800 --> 02:53:30,900 You'll enjoy it. 1607 02:53:32,200 --> 02:53:34,300 And a piece of melon? 1608 02:53:38,500 --> 02:53:40,600 And some wine, of course. 1609 02:53:42,500 --> 02:53:44,200 Eat. 1610 02:53:49,800 --> 02:53:51,800 I did not command you to eat. 1611 02:53:51,900 --> 02:53:54,000 I invited you. 1612 02:53:55,500 --> 02:53:57,900 You find the richness of your surroundings... 1613 02:53:58,000 --> 02:54:00,100 makes conversation difficult? 1614 02:54:02,900 --> 02:54:05,000 Why am I here? 1615 02:54:08,300 --> 02:54:10,700 Good question. 1616 02:54:10,800 --> 02:54:13,500 A woman's question. 1617 02:54:13,600 --> 02:54:17,300 I wish the answer could be as good and straightforward. 1618 02:54:21,300 --> 02:54:24,899 - The infant... it thrives? - He thrives. 1619 02:54:24,900 --> 02:54:27,200 I purchased a wet nurse for him yesterday. 1620 02:54:27,300 --> 02:54:29,500 I hope milk agrees with him. 1621 02:54:32,500 --> 02:54:34,900 I sent her away. 1622 02:54:35,000 --> 02:54:37,700 I prefer to nurse the child myself. 1623 02:54:38,900 --> 02:54:41,000 I'm not sure I approve. 1624 02:54:42,200 --> 02:54:45,199 It ties you to the old life. 1625 02:54:45,200 --> 02:54:48,800 I want you to begin to look forward to the new. 1626 02:54:51,100 --> 02:54:53,999 I don't care about my new life here. 1627 02:54:54,000 --> 02:54:56,900 You care about the life of your child, don't you? 1628 02:54:58,600 --> 02:55:01,700 Why do you threaten me with my baby? 1629 02:55:01,800 --> 02:55:04,400 I belong to you. You can take me anytime you wish. 1630 02:55:05,000 --> 02:55:07,700 But I don't want to take you. 1631 02:55:08,600 --> 02:55:10,900 I want you to give. 1632 02:55:12,500 --> 02:55:14,600 I want your love, Varinia. 1633 02:55:18,800 --> 02:55:21,200 You think by threatening to kill my child... 1634 02:55:21,300 --> 02:55:23,399 you'll make me love you? 1635 02:55:23,400 --> 02:55:26,800 I did not threaten to kill your child. 1636 02:55:33,800 --> 02:55:36,900 I'm sorry, Varinia. 1637 02:55:43,200 --> 02:55:45,500 One shouldn't grieve forever. 1638 02:55:46,500 --> 02:55:48,600 I'm not grieving. 1639 02:55:48,700 --> 02:55:50,799 I'm remembering. 1640 02:55:50,800 --> 02:55:53,100 Do I interfere with your memories? 1641 02:55:54,300 --> 02:55:56,400 No. 1642 02:55:58,500 --> 02:56:00,600 You tread the ridge between truth and insult... 1643 02:56:00,700 --> 02:56:02,800 with the skill of a mountain goat! 1644 02:56:07,200 --> 02:56:10,200 What do you remember when you think about Spartacus? 1645 02:56:13,000 --> 02:56:15,200 It doesn't distress you to talk about him? 1646 02:56:15,300 --> 02:56:16,300 No. 1647 02:56:18,400 --> 02:56:20,300 Well, then... 1648 02:56:22,000 --> 02:56:24,700 what sort of a man was he... 1649 02:56:25,400 --> 02:56:27,000 really? 1650 02:56:31,300 --> 02:56:34,299 He was a man who began all alone... 1651 02:56:34,300 --> 02:56:36,799 Like an animal. 1652 02:56:36,800 --> 02:56:38,900 Yet on the day he died... 1653 02:56:39,000 --> 02:56:42,500 thousands and thousands would gladly have died in his place. 1654 02:56:44,200 --> 02:56:46,800 What was he? Was he a god? 1655 02:56:48,400 --> 02:56:50,500 He wasn't a god. 1656 02:56:51,200 --> 02:56:53,399 He was a simple man. 1657 02:56:53,400 --> 02:56:55,400 A slave. 1658 02:56:58,000 --> 02:56:59,800 I loved him. 1659 02:57:00,900 --> 02:57:03,300 He was an outlaw! A murderer! 1660 02:57:03,400 --> 02:57:07,200 An enemy to everything fine and decent that Rome ever built! 1661 02:57:08,700 --> 02:57:10,800 Damn you! You tell me. 1662 02:57:10,900 --> 02:57:13,200 - Why did you love him? - I can't tell you. 1663 02:57:14,400 --> 02:57:16,800 I can't tell you things you can never understand. 1664 02:57:18,800 --> 02:57:21,600 But I want to understand. 1665 02:57:22,400 --> 02:57:26,600 Don't you see? I must understand. 1666 02:57:35,100 --> 02:57:37,500 You're afraid of him, aren't you? 1667 02:57:41,700 --> 02:57:44,000 That's why you want his wife... 1668 02:57:44,100 --> 02:57:48,000 to soothe your fear by having something he had. 1669 02:57:50,100 --> 02:57:53,900 When you're so afraid, nothing can help. 1670 02:57:54,000 --> 02:57:55,900 Nothing. 1671 02:58:03,800 --> 02:58:05,400 We shall see. 1672 02:58:30,700 --> 02:58:33,000 Could we have won, Spartacus? 1673 02:58:35,200 --> 02:58:37,300 Could we ever have won? 1674 02:58:41,800 --> 02:58:44,500 Just by fighting them, we won something. 1675 02:58:47,900 --> 02:58:51,300 When just one man says, "No, I won't"... 1676 02:58:51,400 --> 02:58:53,500 Rome begins to fear. 1677 02:58:58,500 --> 02:59:01,100 And we were tens of thousands who said no. 1678 02:59:02,400 --> 02:59:05,199 That was the wonder of it. 1679 02:59:05,200 --> 02:59:08,800 To have seen slaves lift their heads from the dust... 1680 02:59:11,000 --> 02:59:13,800 to see them rise from their knees... 1681 02:59:14,500 --> 02:59:16,600 stand tall... 1682 02:59:18,700 --> 02:59:20,800 with a song on their lips... 1683 02:59:22,500 --> 02:59:24,400 to hear them... 1684 02:59:25,400 --> 02:59:29,000 storm through the mountains shouting... 1685 02:59:31,300 --> 02:59:34,100 to hear them sing along the plains. 1686 02:59:37,700 --> 02:59:40,000 And now they're dead. 1687 02:59:42,500 --> 02:59:44,200 Dead. 1688 02:59:50,500 --> 02:59:52,200 Varinia... 1689 02:59:55,600 --> 02:59:57,200 dead. 1690 03:00:01,200 --> 03:00:03,300 And the baby. 1691 03:00:16,000 --> 03:00:17,700 All of them. 1692 03:00:28,700 --> 03:00:31,200 Are you afraid to die, Spartacus? 1693 03:00:34,200 --> 03:00:36,500 No more than I was to be born. 1694 03:00:48,000 --> 03:00:50,100 Are you afraid? 1695 03:00:52,900 --> 03:00:55,000 Yes. 1696 03:01:07,100 --> 03:01:09,099 Hail Counsel! 1697 03:01:09,100 --> 03:01:11,700 Guards, fall in. 1698 03:01:11,800 --> 03:01:14,800 - Where are the gladiators? - Over there, sir. 1699 03:01:39,200 --> 03:01:43,500 Antoninus, the night passes slowly, doesn't it? 1700 03:02:01,800 --> 03:02:03,700 You are he... 1701 03:02:04,600 --> 03:02:06,300 aren't you? 1702 03:02:09,300 --> 03:02:13,600 Gladiator, I'm Marcus Licinius Crassus. 1703 03:02:16,800 --> 03:02:21,500 You must answer when I speak to you. 1704 03:02:44,200 --> 03:02:45,900 Centurion! 1705 03:02:48,800 --> 03:02:52,500 Let them fight now. Unchain them. 1706 03:02:52,600 --> 03:02:54,999 The entire city's been told they'll fight tomorrow... 1707 03:02:55,000 --> 03:02:57,000 in the temple of your ancestors. 1708 03:02:57,100 --> 03:03:00,400 They will fight now, for me. Here! 1709 03:03:00,500 --> 03:03:02,300 And to the death. 1710 03:03:02,400 --> 03:03:04,400 And the victor shall be crucified. 1711 03:03:04,500 --> 03:03:08,800 We will test this myth of slave brotherhood. 1712 03:03:08,900 --> 03:03:10,300 Unchain them! 1713 03:03:17,900 --> 03:03:19,900 Form a circle. 1714 03:03:36,200 --> 03:03:38,200 Don't give them the pleasure of a contest. 1715 03:03:38,300 --> 03:03:40,400 Lower your guard. I'll kill you on the first rush. 1716 03:03:40,500 --> 03:03:43,700 - I won't let them crucify you! - It's my last order. Obey it! 1717 03:03:43,800 --> 03:03:45,600 Let them begin. 1718 03:04:22,300 --> 03:04:24,500 I won't let them crucify you. 1719 03:04:35,300 --> 03:04:37,799 Do you realize how long it takes to die on the cross? 1720 03:04:37,800 --> 03:04:39,600 I don't care! 1721 03:04:56,400 --> 03:04:58,600 Forgive me, Antoninus. 1722 03:05:08,800 --> 03:05:13,000 I love you, Spartacus, as I loved my own father. 1723 03:05:13,700 --> 03:05:15,900 I love you... 1724 03:05:16,000 --> 03:05:18,500 Like my son that I'll never see. 1725 03:05:22,900 --> 03:05:25,000 Go to sleep. 1726 03:05:58,800 --> 03:06:00,900 Here's your victory. 1727 03:06:02,900 --> 03:06:05,000 He'll come back. 1728 03:06:05,100 --> 03:06:07,700 He'll come back and he'll be millions! 1729 03:06:12,600 --> 03:06:15,700 I wonder what Spartacus would say... 1730 03:06:15,800 --> 03:06:19,400 if he knew that the woman, Varinia, and her child... 1731 03:06:20,300 --> 03:06:22,700 are slaves in my household? 1732 03:06:35,500 --> 03:06:37,300 Yes. 1733 03:06:45,200 --> 03:06:47,100 Crucify him! 1734 03:07:06,100 --> 03:07:08,700 I want no grave for him. No marker. 1735 03:07:08,800 --> 03:07:12,300 His body's to be burnt and his ashes scattered in secret. 1736 03:07:22,200 --> 03:07:24,500 Did you fear him, Crassus? 1737 03:07:24,600 --> 03:07:26,700 Not when I fought him. 1738 03:07:26,800 --> 03:07:28,800 I knew he could be beaten. 1739 03:07:28,900 --> 03:07:32,799 But now I fear him, even more than I fear you. 1740 03:07:32,800 --> 03:07:35,800 - Me? - Yes, my dear Caesar. 1741 03:07:35,900 --> 03:07:37,600 You! 1742 03:07:38,800 --> 03:07:41,900 I don't see the letter here to the leader of the senate. 1743 03:07:43,400 --> 03:07:46,200 Julia, I don't like the sound of weeping. 1744 03:07:46,300 --> 03:07:48,900 This is a happy house. Please stop it. 1745 03:07:50,100 --> 03:07:53,200 There you are. Go away, Julia! Where have you been all this time? 1746 03:07:53,300 --> 03:07:55,700 The city is full of Crassus' legions. We've been hiding. 1747 03:07:55,800 --> 03:07:58,399 I don't know Rome as well as I know Capua. 1748 03:07:58,400 --> 03:08:00,700 They're arresting everyone! 1749 03:08:10,100 --> 03:08:12,100 So this is the woman... 1750 03:08:12,200 --> 03:08:14,499 it took Crassus' eight Roman legions to conquer! 1751 03:08:14,500 --> 03:08:17,900 I wish I had time to make your acquaintance, my dear. 1752 03:08:18,000 --> 03:08:21,599 Unfortunately, we all have to make journeys... 1753 03:08:21,600 --> 03:08:23,700 to different destinations. 1754 03:08:23,800 --> 03:08:27,400 - Where are we going? - You're going to Aquitania. 1755 03:08:27,500 --> 03:08:30,100 The governor's one of my innumerable cousins. 1756 03:08:30,200 --> 03:08:32,560 Here's a senatorial pass. It's valid in all the known world. 1757 03:08:32,600 --> 03:08:34,699 Why do I have to go to Aquitania? 1758 03:08:34,700 --> 03:08:36,800 'Cause I ask you to. 1759 03:08:36,900 --> 03:08:39,300 It's very good of you, Gracchus, but I'd rather... 1760 03:08:39,400 --> 03:08:43,300 Double the money I promised you. Here's two million sesterces. 1761 03:08:43,400 --> 03:08:45,800 Two million? 1762 03:08:45,900 --> 03:08:48,900 Here. Articles of Freedom for the woman. 1763 03:08:50,000 --> 03:08:52,300 And here's a smaller document that I've prepared... 1764 03:08:52,400 --> 03:08:55,800 for the child befitting its size. 1765 03:09:01,100 --> 03:09:03,000 Where are you going? 1766 03:09:05,400 --> 03:09:07,300 To Picenum. 1767 03:09:07,400 --> 03:09:10,400 Picenum? That's the dreariest town in Italy. 1768 03:09:10,500 --> 03:09:12,400 Will you please leave me? 1769 03:09:13,900 --> 03:09:15,800 Come with us. 1770 03:09:15,900 --> 03:09:18,100 See to it that I don't misuse the money. 1771 03:09:18,200 --> 03:09:20,300 Don't be ridiculous. I'm a senator. 1772 03:09:20,400 --> 03:09:24,000 Will you please go before the soldiers come here? 1773 03:09:31,400 --> 03:09:35,000 This would really make Crassus jealous. 1774 03:09:36,300 --> 03:09:38,400 Go and make my joy complete. 1775 03:09:38,500 --> 03:09:41,600 Save your tears now. Save them for the journey. 1776 03:09:52,300 --> 03:09:54,300 Prettier. 1777 03:10:13,200 --> 03:10:14,800 Halt! 1778 03:10:19,700 --> 03:10:21,700 Identify yourselves, please. 1779 03:10:23,300 --> 03:10:26,600 - Lentulus Batiatus. - Climb down and identify yourselves. 1780 03:10:26,700 --> 03:10:29,500 - I object to that tone. - I've got my orders. 1781 03:10:29,600 --> 03:10:32,100 Come down and identify yourselves, please. 1782 03:10:40,100 --> 03:10:43,600 As I told you, I'm Lentulus Batiatus, the lanista from Capua. 1783 03:10:43,700 --> 03:10:47,800 This... My sister-in-law. 1784 03:10:51,000 --> 03:10:52,900 Lady, please. 1785 03:10:53,900 --> 03:10:56,600 She's travelling... 1786 03:10:56,700 --> 03:11:00,700 with her child to Aquitania on a senatorial pass. 1787 03:11:00,800 --> 03:11:04,200 - Take a look through his baggage. - Not a word, please. 1788 03:11:10,200 --> 03:11:12,100 What did you say? 1789 03:11:55,100 --> 03:11:58,300 - Tell the lady no loitering's allowed. - Instantly. 1790 03:11:58,400 --> 03:12:00,700 Move on! 1791 03:12:04,600 --> 03:12:06,700 This is your son. 1792 03:12:08,300 --> 03:12:10,400 He's free, Spartacus! 1793 03:12:11,100 --> 03:12:13,000 Free! 1794 03:12:15,100 --> 03:12:17,100 He's free. 1795 03:12:22,400 --> 03:12:24,500 He'll remember you, Spartacus. 1796 03:12:25,500 --> 03:12:27,600 Because I'll tell him. 1797 03:12:28,600 --> 03:12:32,000 I'll tell him who his father was and what he dreamed of! 1798 03:12:35,300 --> 03:12:38,800 Varinia, have mercy on us. Get in the wagon. 1799 03:12:39,900 --> 03:12:42,000 My love, my life. 1800 03:12:44,600 --> 03:12:47,300 Please die. Die. 1801 03:12:47,400 --> 03:12:50,799 Please, please die, my love. 1802 03:12:50,800 --> 03:12:53,099 Oh, God! Why can't you die? 1803 03:12:53,100 --> 03:12:55,100 Come on. 1804 03:13:11,200 --> 03:13:14,200 Good-bye, my love, my life. 1805 03:13:14,300 --> 03:13:15,900 Good-bye, good-bye.