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