1 00:00:15,850 --> 00:00:17,560 Wake. 2 00:00:22,850 --> 00:00:25,900 You stand but first crude brick, laying foundation 3 00:00:26,060 --> 00:00:27,900 to the rise of the house of Ashur. 4 00:00:28,070 --> 00:00:29,320 All those before me shall fall. 5 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:31,070 Enter the brothers Ferox! 6 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:33,610 Aargh! 7 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:37,990 That toad is pet to Marcus fucking Crassus. 8 00:00:38,160 --> 00:00:40,160 Apologies, Gabinius. We did not think. 9 00:00:40,330 --> 00:00:43,830 I shall redouble the effort to secure undiscovered spectacle 10 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,290 and see rematch upon a day. 11 00:00:48,210 --> 00:00:50,550 Let us gaze upon glorious future. 12 00:00:50,670 --> 00:00:55,050 Aargh! Pledge oath, call me Dominus and fight in the arena. 13 00:00:55,180 --> 00:00:57,090 Earn your freedom upon the sands. 14 00:00:57,260 --> 00:00:59,640 - Achillia. - Dominus. 15 00:01:21,740 --> 00:01:22,910 Ay! 16 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:25,040 Tarchon! You lower shield before you strike. 17 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:28,750 See it raised- or your brains upon the sands. 18 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:30,630 Yes, Doctore. 19 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:40,100 You fight with vigor. 20 00:01:40,890 --> 00:01:43,270 Well, this house now stands absent champion- 21 00:01:43,390 --> 00:01:45,230 a position I would claim my own. 22 00:01:45,390 --> 00:01:47,190 Well, to become champion, 23 00:01:47,310 --> 00:01:50,360 you must first defeat vaunted father. 24 00:02:01,990 --> 00:02:03,990 A venture yet beyond grasp. 25 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,620 For now, you withered corpse. 26 00:02:17,970 --> 00:02:19,430 You mad fuck! 27 00:02:19,550 --> 00:02:22,390 - You lower your guard. - Towards good fucking reason. 28 00:02:54,210 --> 00:02:56,090 We have felt the sting 29 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:58,010 of loss. 30 00:02:59,090 --> 00:03:00,220 Witnessed honored champion 31 00:03:00,380 --> 00:03:01,800 fall upon the sands of the arena 32 00:03:01,930 --> 00:03:05,220 to the ill-thriven jackals of Proculus. 33 00:03:05,970 --> 00:03:08,980 Yet, as rising sun breaks dawn, 34 00:03:09,140 --> 00:03:10,600 so too shall the House of Ashur 35 00:03:10,730 --> 00:03:13,060 dispel darkest night of indignity. 36 00:03:14,270 --> 00:03:16,730 We shall no longer be bound by the shackles of history 37 00:03:16,900 --> 00:03:18,690 or fucking tradition! 38 00:03:19,860 --> 00:03:21,950 We set foot upon uncharted course 39 00:03:22,110 --> 00:03:24,120 to satisfy the crowd's desire 40 00:03:24,620 --> 00:03:26,910 with more exotic... 41 00:03:27,540 --> 00:03:28,910 offerings. 42 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:32,750 But how shall rising thirst be quenched? 43 00:03:33,250 --> 00:03:35,500 There stands but one capable of satiating 44 00:03:35,630 --> 00:03:37,670 such ravenous mob! 45 00:03:38,670 --> 00:03:40,050 Behold, 46 00:03:40,670 --> 00:03:42,180 Achillia. 47 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:45,510 The Goddess of Death. 48 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:53,020 Silence fucking tongue, and attend your Dominus! 49 00:03:56,270 --> 00:03:58,570 Return to training, you simple fucks. 50 00:04:01,780 --> 00:04:03,030 Doctore, 51 00:04:04,110 --> 00:04:05,530 see Achillia to instruction. 52 00:04:06,660 --> 00:04:10,500 Dacus, sword and shield, towards style of murmillo! 53 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:12,580 Yes, Doctore! 54 00:04:16,170 --> 00:04:18,250 The woman bears resemblance to my mother- 55 00:04:18,420 --> 00:04:19,960 a spiteful fucking whore. 56 00:04:20,670 --> 00:04:23,300 That explains much, you witless shit. 57 00:04:26,350 --> 00:04:29,220 - A fucking woman, father. - Turn thoughts. 58 00:04:29,810 --> 00:04:31,810 And raise guard! 59 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:33,640 Erato! 60 00:04:34,060 --> 00:04:35,190 Pair with Achillia. 61 00:04:36,190 --> 00:04:39,400 I would see cock tangle with more worthy adversary. 62 00:04:41,190 --> 00:04:43,150 Work the fucking log! 63 00:04:51,500 --> 00:04:53,330 - Ay! - Tarchon! 64 00:04:54,460 --> 00:04:56,080 Pair with Achillia. 65 00:04:58,130 --> 00:05:00,090 Yes, Doctore. 66 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:04,970 Shall I treat her as opponent 67 00:05:05,130 --> 00:05:06,470 or something of delicate persuasion? 68 00:05:10,260 --> 00:05:12,890 A question I was of mind to pose towards you. 69 00:05:13,810 --> 00:05:16,980 See idle words give way to clash of swords. 70 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:28,370 Begin! 71 00:05:36,210 --> 00:05:38,670 She is of a form, is she not? 72 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:42,760 - Yes, Dominus. - Mm-hm. 73 00:06:12,620 --> 00:06:14,290 Aargh! 74 00:06:18,420 --> 00:06:21,540 You have fought before, yet not against such as I. 75 00:06:25,550 --> 00:06:27,590 Fucking shield weights intent. 76 00:06:33,470 --> 00:06:35,970 You will address me as Doctore. 77 00:06:36,730 --> 00:06:37,940 Retrieve the shield. 78 00:06:38,100 --> 00:06:40,770 It is not to my benefit, Doctore. 79 00:06:40,940 --> 00:06:43,940 You will do as commanded! 80 00:06:51,070 --> 00:06:52,410 Achillia, 81 00:06:52,950 --> 00:06:54,240 stand ground. 82 00:06:55,580 --> 00:06:57,000 And receive correction. 83 00:06:59,750 --> 00:07:01,130 Dominus. 84 00:07:17,980 --> 00:07:19,890 The moment has fucking passed. 85 00:07:22,690 --> 00:07:24,020 Resume training. 86 00:07:43,130 --> 00:07:44,330 Begin! 87 00:07:44,790 --> 00:07:46,130 Aargh! 88 00:07:46,300 --> 00:07:49,010 She does not grant respect title of Doctore demands. 89 00:07:49,130 --> 00:07:51,380 Respect is not granted; it is taken. 90 00:07:51,550 --> 00:07:53,140 Instruct Achillia in our ways 91 00:07:53,260 --> 00:07:55,220 and see bared teeth give way to averted gaze. 92 00:07:55,390 --> 00:07:58,220 A lesson not easily grasped by rabid dog. 93 00:07:58,390 --> 00:08:00,770 Then respond with lash until tongue laps at heel. 94 00:08:00,930 --> 00:08:02,520 And what if beast cannot be tamed? 95 00:08:03,100 --> 00:08:04,860 Spartacus once stood as wild. 96 00:08:05,020 --> 00:08:07,610 Yet by will and teachings of Oenomaus, 97 00:08:07,770 --> 00:08:09,280 he was domesticated 98 00:08:09,860 --> 00:08:11,990 and became champion of fucking Capua- 99 00:08:12,150 --> 00:08:13,410 a result I would see mirrored. 100 00:08:13,570 --> 00:08:16,070 She reflects but promise of disappointment. 101 00:08:17,580 --> 00:08:19,580 - Do you stand fucking Dominus? - I do not. 102 00:08:19,700 --> 00:08:23,120 Yet you bleat as if exalted title cloaks you in such regard. 103 00:08:23,250 --> 00:08:25,880 I account what eyes behold through lens of experience. 104 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,960 She is but fucking clay for your hands to mold. 105 00:08:30,510 --> 00:08:31,840 Forge her in the fires of this ludus, 106 00:08:32,010 --> 00:08:33,590 hardening her to swift purpose. 107 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,640 Swift? Achillia has but only commenced training. 108 00:08:37,430 --> 00:08:38,810 A thing of minor consequence. 109 00:08:39,430 --> 00:08:42,140 I would see her ready for the games of the Ludi Apollinares. 110 00:08:43,230 --> 00:08:46,440 - You have secured position? - I maneuver towards such. 111 00:08:46,610 --> 00:08:49,610 So we but clutch at fanciful dream. 112 00:08:49,780 --> 00:08:51,900 As certain as waking upon each fucking day, 113 00:08:52,030 --> 00:08:54,910 I shall see it done and claim desired contest against 114 00:08:55,070 --> 00:08:56,820 the Brothers Ferox once more. 115 00:08:57,370 --> 00:09:00,200 You wager all that crowd will not turn upon us. 116 00:09:00,910 --> 00:09:03,120 - For presenting novelty? - For breaking tradition, 117 00:09:03,290 --> 00:09:04,960 when fucking woman takes to the sands. 118 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,080 Tradition is but a word revered by those 119 00:09:07,250 --> 00:09:08,540 who pursue mediocrity. 120 00:09:08,710 --> 00:09:10,710 The House of Ashur will carve its own path 121 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:13,920 and fuck into oblivion all who stands in its way. 122 00:09:14,340 --> 00:09:17,220 Dominus, message has arrived from Rome. 123 00:09:18,350 --> 00:09:20,930 Ah! At last. 124 00:09:21,060 --> 00:09:23,890 Mighty Crassus deigns to respond. 125 00:09:24,060 --> 00:09:26,600 Apologies. It is not from Crassus. 126 00:09:26,770 --> 00:09:27,650 Who, then? 127 00:09:30,020 --> 00:09:31,980 Julius fucking Caesar. 128 00:09:32,150 --> 00:09:35,030 A man of no worth beyond name granted by slipping 129 00:09:35,150 --> 00:09:36,740 from mother's cunt. 130 00:09:36,910 --> 00:09:39,120 He stands a quaestor, does he not? A position of some note. 131 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:40,830 Fuck position. 132 00:09:40,990 --> 00:09:43,830 Caesar flings his own shit and declares it manna from heaven. 133 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:50,540 He breaks words of some distress? 134 00:09:51,090 --> 00:09:51,960 Some. 135 00:09:53,300 --> 00:09:55,590 He sends us and our men upon Appian Way, 136 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:58,180 towards unsavory task. 137 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,050 Do you not stand a free man, as Caesar? 138 00:10:01,220 --> 00:10:02,850 And as such, not bound by request? 139 00:10:03,020 --> 00:10:06,560 I stand free in the eye of the republic, yet not in coin. 140 00:10:06,690 --> 00:10:10,520 Crassus is honored patron and Caesar his fucking will. 141 00:10:11,230 --> 00:10:15,030 We must part lips and swallow anointed cock. 142 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:32,090 Move cart further from fucking nose. 143 00:10:55,730 --> 00:10:57,280 It is a heavy sight... 144 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:01,780 to witness so many hearts no longer beating beneath chest. 145 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:06,660 The rebel army that shook the mighty republic 146 00:11:07,700 --> 00:11:11,040 reduced to rotten flesh beneath vengeful sun. 147 00:11:11,420 --> 00:11:14,380 Shit cock! 148 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:20,300 We stand gladiators, not common fucking slaves. 149 00:11:20,430 --> 00:11:23,390 You stand as I fucking command! 150 00:11:28,850 --> 00:11:32,440 Creticus has mind equal to dazed child, yet breaks truth. 151 00:11:33,150 --> 00:11:35,400 A gladiator's place is upon the sands of the arena- 152 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:38,570 it is the duty of a quaestor to tend to the Appian Way. 153 00:11:38,740 --> 00:11:41,820 Caesar's tongue yet find purchase in Crassus' ass. 154 00:11:42,530 --> 00:11:44,160 We must endure one to gain benefit of more- 155 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:45,330 Stop! 156 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:50,040 That mark- 157 00:11:52,540 --> 00:11:56,880 this man stood Champion of the House of Batiatus. 158 00:11:59,710 --> 00:12:00,880 Gannicus. 159 00:12:01,510 --> 00:12:04,180 Gannicus! Gannicus! Gannicus! 160 00:12:04,340 --> 00:12:06,640 I had occasion to cross paths with him once, 161 00:12:07,180 --> 00:12:08,600 after he claimed freedom in the arena, 162 00:12:08,770 --> 00:12:11,480 before he fell among Spartacus and his rebels. 163 00:12:12,190 --> 00:12:14,400 A drunken, disagreeable fellow, 164 00:12:15,690 --> 00:12:17,190 much to my liking. 165 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:21,900 He embraced his fate, as all men must. 166 00:12:22,070 --> 00:12:23,410 His death a kindness 167 00:12:23,570 --> 00:12:27,030 to one forever haunted by past transgressions. 168 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,750 - See him to fucking wagon. - Dominus. 169 00:12:39,210 --> 00:12:41,880 This man stood a god of the arena, 170 00:12:42,550 --> 00:12:46,220 his skill rivalled only by the Bringer of Rain himself. 171 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:49,720 Two legends, birthed from our ludus. 172 00:12:50,470 --> 00:12:54,060 Yet we now stand absent even lowly position in the games. 173 00:12:55,060 --> 00:12:57,150 How far this fucking house has fallen. 174 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:00,690 Come, come. 175 00:13:16,420 --> 00:13:18,290 You desecrate these walls? 176 00:13:20,590 --> 00:13:22,760 - I but enhance them. - Mm. 177 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:27,010 This beast, 178 00:13:27,970 --> 00:13:29,390 he is of your homeland? 179 00:13:29,550 --> 00:13:30,600 Apedemak, 180 00:13:30,930 --> 00:13:33,020 god of war and conquest. 181 00:13:35,140 --> 00:13:36,310 You pray to him? 182 00:13:38,730 --> 00:13:41,940 - He would not listen. - Then why work his image? 183 00:13:42,110 --> 00:13:44,610 - As a reminder. - Towards? 184 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:46,610 What was lost. 185 00:13:49,990 --> 00:13:51,910 Pause labor and take water. 186 00:14:10,260 --> 00:14:12,470 - Gratitude. - None required. 187 00:14:16,140 --> 00:14:17,390 Your scars- 188 00:14:18,850 --> 00:14:20,440 how did you come by them? 189 00:14:21,860 --> 00:14:24,820 A tale not for one so soft in form. 190 00:14:25,940 --> 00:14:27,200 In battle? 191 00:14:27,950 --> 00:14:29,280 When captured by the Romans? 192 00:14:29,450 --> 00:14:30,700 I did not fall to those fucking shits. 193 00:14:30,870 --> 00:14:32,990 Marked by previous Dominus, then? 194 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:34,160 Towards instruction of manners? 195 00:14:34,330 --> 00:14:35,870 I have never stood a slave. 196 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:40,080 Yet here in this house, that is all you stand. 197 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,670 Lay hands upon Dominus again... 198 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:49,720 and I shall see you parted from fucking life. 199 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,810 Little mouse squeaks, and I'm to shudder in fear? 200 00:14:55,430 --> 00:14:57,980 Make attempt and see talon part head from body. 201 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:03,230 A certain end, if I were to move against you openly. 202 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:07,570 Yet there are many ways a clever mouse 203 00:15:07,990 --> 00:15:10,490 may see vicious hawk to grass. 204 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:19,710 You taint fucking water? 205 00:15:21,460 --> 00:15:22,630 I have not. 206 00:15:23,540 --> 00:15:26,500 Yet at any moment, I could snatch breath, 207 00:15:27,090 --> 00:15:29,300 absent suspicion. 208 00:15:33,090 --> 00:15:37,470 I shall leave you to your god, who ignores your prayers. 209 00:15:52,490 --> 00:15:54,070 Seize fucking mind! 210 00:15:54,740 --> 00:15:56,330 - Doctore! - Salvius! 211 00:16:00,370 --> 00:16:01,870 Well deserved, you fu-! 212 00:16:03,630 --> 00:16:05,960 - Enough! - Fuck! 213 00:16:06,130 --> 00:16:08,840 You fall to fucking quarrel! 214 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:11,380 Blood boiling in ear, 215 00:16:11,550 --> 00:16:16,140 preventing voice of your Dominus to pierce thick fucking skull! 216 00:16:19,180 --> 00:16:21,600 Look upon your brothers. 217 00:16:22,020 --> 00:16:23,730 They too defy their master 218 00:16:23,850 --> 00:16:26,980 and now rot upon fucking cross. 219 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:30,900 Continue to inflame... 220 00:16:31,820 --> 00:16:34,660 and see yourself nailed among them. 221 00:16:45,130 --> 00:16:46,580 You lose control. 222 00:16:47,210 --> 00:16:48,710 The sun overheats passions, 223 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:51,420 already roiled by Achillia's presence. 224 00:16:53,550 --> 00:16:56,090 Fuck Jupiter's face. 225 00:16:57,050 --> 00:17:02,430 It lifts heart, to witness your men at last put to proper use. 226 00:17:06,230 --> 00:17:07,940 I but serve the republic on this day, 227 00:17:08,060 --> 00:17:10,440 at request of revered Caesar. 228 00:17:10,860 --> 00:17:12,570 Yet upon another, 229 00:17:12,740 --> 00:17:14,860 I would present latest acquisition in the arena 230 00:17:15,450 --> 00:17:19,580 and have contest revisited towards diminutive abortions. 231 00:17:19,990 --> 00:17:24,290 At least we knew our mother, you fucking cunt! 232 00:17:28,380 --> 00:17:33,260 Descend from lofty perch and broach subject of lineage again. 233 00:17:35,430 --> 00:17:39,760 Hold! We are for Pompeii, where we battle in the arena. 234 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:44,180 Let us leave the House of Ashur to its labors- 235 00:17:44,980 --> 00:17:46,390 in the dirt. 236 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:47,400 Form! 237 00:17:50,150 --> 00:17:51,610 Is it fear 238 00:17:51,730 --> 00:17:54,110 that stays hand from rematch upon next games in Capua? 239 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,030 I welcome such entertainment. 240 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:58,700 - Mm. - Yet station to decide 241 00:17:58,820 --> 00:18:01,790 who shall fight and who shall wallow in their own shit 242 00:18:02,370 --> 00:18:04,580 falls not to me but to good Gabinius. 243 00:18:05,710 --> 00:18:06,870 Gabinius? 244 00:18:08,170 --> 00:18:11,590 He hosts the game of the Ludi Apollinares? 245 00:18:11,710 --> 00:18:12,800 We are so honored. 246 00:18:13,590 --> 00:18:16,590 Perhaps you may entreat him towards your cause. 247 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:19,510 Or his beloved wife. 248 00:18:23,100 --> 00:18:26,180 ♪ Blood rains down from an angry sky! ♪ 249 00:18:26,350 --> 00:18:29,650 ♪ My cock rages on! My cock rages on! ♪ 250 00:18:29,810 --> 00:18:32,520 ♪ Till death is found, my sword swinging hot! ♪ 251 00:18:32,690 --> 00:18:35,690 The gods you do not believe in shit upon us once more. 252 00:18:35,860 --> 00:18:37,610 They but present new obstacle. 253 00:18:37,950 --> 00:18:39,700 Cossutia orchestrated humiliation 254 00:18:39,860 --> 00:18:41,570 and the fall of our champion, Logas. 255 00:18:41,740 --> 00:18:45,040 She will poison husband towards granting position. 256 00:18:45,450 --> 00:18:48,000 - Uvidus may yet hold sway. - The aedile? 257 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:52,250 The man fears Crassus and may provide necessary leverage. 258 00:18:53,250 --> 00:18:55,800 Would not equal trepidation fall towards Pompey, 259 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:58,130 whose favor Gabinius holds? 260 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:00,840 Set purpose towards Achillia's training. 261 00:19:01,590 --> 00:19:04,970 And leave machinations towards greater fucking minds. 262 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:26,410 Good. 263 00:19:31,120 --> 00:19:33,750 You yet reek of rotting flesh from Appian Way. 264 00:19:34,170 --> 00:19:35,550 I but smell as a man. 265 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:37,800 A man of piss and shit. 266 00:19:40,340 --> 00:19:41,510 Doctore! 267 00:19:42,510 --> 00:19:45,810 Perhaps the goddess of death should fall to proper contest. 268 00:19:46,310 --> 00:19:48,220 She would welcome such a diversion. 269 00:19:48,350 --> 00:19:52,020 A sentiment to be regretted. Take position. 270 00:19:56,570 --> 00:19:58,190 Dacus! Spear! 271 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:09,700 I shall fuck salted words from mouth. 272 00:20:09,870 --> 00:20:11,710 Do you borrow cock to do so? 273 00:20:14,420 --> 00:20:15,710 Tarchon... 274 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:18,340 fall beside Creticus. 275 00:20:19,630 --> 00:20:21,220 I'm to face two opponents? 276 00:20:21,380 --> 00:20:22,430 Should the gods favor you towards the arena, 277 00:20:22,590 --> 00:20:23,930 you shall face three- 278 00:20:24,970 --> 00:20:26,050 the Brothers Ferox. 279 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:31,060 Vicious half-men, pulled from the ass of a rival lanista. 280 00:20:31,230 --> 00:20:32,640 Half-men? 281 00:20:32,810 --> 00:20:34,520 I could piss and they'd thank the gods for rain. 282 00:20:34,690 --> 00:20:36,980 She does not need sword and shield, Doctore; 283 00:20:37,150 --> 00:20:39,190 she'll cut them down with fucking tongue. 284 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,610 Our honor stands no fucking jest! 285 00:20:43,490 --> 00:20:45,160 Nor do the Brothers Ferox. 286 00:20:46,450 --> 00:20:48,580 Nature twisted them into knotted lump. 287 00:20:48,740 --> 00:20:50,120 And in their anger and pain, 288 00:20:50,290 --> 00:20:53,410 they torment death with aggrieved hands. 289 00:20:53,580 --> 00:20:57,670 Misjudge them, and see your life forfeit. 290 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:01,090 Take position. 291 00:21:09,810 --> 00:21:10,930 Begin! 292 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:31,450 Focus on the one opponent and invite fucking from the other. 293 00:21:32,950 --> 00:21:34,620 Fucking shield again prevents movement. 294 00:21:34,790 --> 00:21:38,040 You face men, shield stands all between you and the afterlife. 295 00:21:38,630 --> 00:21:39,670 Again. 296 00:21:50,050 --> 00:21:51,140 Tarchon! 297 00:21:57,810 --> 00:21:58,730 Good! 298 00:21:59,310 --> 00:22:00,690 Rid yourself of one adversary 299 00:22:00,860 --> 00:22:03,320 so you may advance upon other absent distraction. 300 00:22:07,110 --> 00:22:09,450 You have not earned position in this fucking house. 301 00:22:10,830 --> 00:22:13,450 Aargh! 302 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:23,130 Disappointing. 303 00:22:24,010 --> 00:22:27,510 Eat! We resume training after heat of midday sun. 304 00:22:33,430 --> 00:22:35,100 She is not absent skill. 305 00:22:35,770 --> 00:22:39,980 She is absent honor, striking Creticus upon manhood. 306 00:22:40,150 --> 00:22:43,480 An unfortunate blow, yet the fault is yours. 307 00:22:44,230 --> 00:22:45,650 Mine? 308 00:22:45,820 --> 00:22:48,450 Desire towards singular victory left valued friend exposed. 309 00:22:48,610 --> 00:22:53,280 Had this been the arena, both of you would have fallen. 310 00:23:22,730 --> 00:23:25,690 That's fucking shit. 311 00:23:31,530 --> 00:23:33,200 Regain seat. 312 00:23:33,830 --> 00:23:39,000 I did not spring from your cock, nor am I bound by fucking voice. 313 00:23:40,580 --> 00:23:42,630 The man presents sharpened point. 314 00:23:45,590 --> 00:23:48,010 Your sword will not find purchase once more. 315 00:23:48,670 --> 00:23:51,680 Why, do you never intend to fight again? 316 00:23:56,260 --> 00:23:58,390 Dogs eat from fucking ground. 317 00:24:04,940 --> 00:24:05,940 Creticus! 318 00:24:06,900 --> 00:24:09,900 You do not fight unless it is upon my fucking command. 319 00:24:10,070 --> 00:24:11,320 Apologies, Doctore. 320 00:24:11,900 --> 00:24:14,870 I but remind the woman of her place. 321 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:16,910 Return to training. 322 00:24:17,830 --> 00:24:19,160 All of you! 323 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:36,600 Her presence incites disobedience and distraction. 324 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,720 They cannot even break food without falling to quarrel. 325 00:24:39,890 --> 00:24:42,230 You pace like caged beast, 326 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:44,940 rending tranquil mood. 327 00:24:45,350 --> 00:24:48,770 Apologies for disturbing fucking bath. 328 00:24:48,940 --> 00:24:53,360 Perhaps inflamed passion would be cooled by soothing waters. 329 00:24:53,530 --> 00:24:55,280 I prefer to bathe in solitude. 330 00:24:55,410 --> 00:24:57,280 Yet you do not fucking stand so. 331 00:24:57,700 --> 00:25:00,290 Wet cock and douse inferno 332 00:25:00,750 --> 00:25:01,870 with wine. 333 00:25:03,870 --> 00:25:05,710 Fill cup to overflowing. 334 00:25:22,890 --> 00:25:25,440 Does sun break through fucking cloud? 335 00:25:28,020 --> 00:25:29,400 It makes attempt. 336 00:25:30,820 --> 00:25:32,990 Achillia affords rarest opportunity. 337 00:25:33,150 --> 00:25:35,860 A sight never before witnessed in the arena. 338 00:25:36,030 --> 00:25:37,280 For good reason. 339 00:25:37,450 --> 00:25:39,240 She does not belong upon such sacred ground. 340 00:25:39,410 --> 00:25:42,330 Accusation hurled at retiarius when first introduced. 341 00:25:42,750 --> 00:25:45,580 Net and trident, how they laughed. 342 00:25:45,750 --> 00:25:48,330 Yet now, not a game passes absent their presence. 343 00:25:48,500 --> 00:25:51,090 Tradition is but a novel rite, aged to maturity. 344 00:25:51,250 --> 00:25:53,380 A thing I would see Achillia become. 345 00:25:53,550 --> 00:25:55,760 She cannot triumph against the Brothers Ferox. 346 00:25:55,930 --> 00:25:57,510 No, she cannot... 347 00:25:58,590 --> 00:25:59,760 yet. 348 00:25:59,930 --> 00:26:01,430 You hold too much faith in my instruction. 349 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:03,560 - I hold what is necessary. - And what of the men? 350 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,600 They must embrace the future or fall to memory. 351 00:26:06,770 --> 00:26:08,650 They will never welcome a woman as one of their own. 352 00:26:08,810 --> 00:26:13,110 They need not to welcome her, but they must fucking accept. 353 00:26:15,530 --> 00:26:17,360 Right. 354 00:26:17,950 --> 00:26:19,700 It is a bitter herb you entreat them swallow. 355 00:26:20,070 --> 00:26:22,330 Then let us see it honeyed with wine and whores, 356 00:26:22,490 --> 00:26:24,660 to balm injured fucking pride. 357 00:26:25,410 --> 00:26:28,120 Such a gesture would aid in calming gathering tempest. 358 00:26:28,290 --> 00:26:31,380 With promise of more, towards falling to reason. 359 00:26:32,670 --> 00:26:36,300 Apologies, Dominus. Senator Gabinius has sent messenger. 360 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:39,010 What word did he carry? 361 00:26:39,550 --> 00:26:42,010 He insists message be delivered only to your hands. 362 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,020 - Materialize the fucking man. - Yes, Dominus. 363 00:26:45,180 --> 00:26:46,980 The aedile champions our cause to Gabinius? 364 00:26:47,100 --> 00:26:49,730 I have yet opportunity to broach subject. 365 00:26:59,780 --> 00:27:02,490 - You stand Gabinius' man? - Such is my charge. 366 00:27:02,780 --> 00:27:03,950 Hand over, then. 367 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:23,390 Um, inform honored senator what he requests is agreeable. 368 00:27:33,900 --> 00:27:37,280 Gabinius invites me to break meal at his villa! 369 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:38,360 To what purpose? 370 00:27:38,940 --> 00:27:42,950 Unknown, yet I shall turn it to fucking advantage. 371 00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:46,200 Dominus has parted from sense. 372 00:27:46,580 --> 00:27:48,250 As Achillia parted you from yours. 373 00:27:48,410 --> 00:27:50,210 It was but luck. 374 00:27:50,580 --> 00:27:52,750 And trust fucking Nubian held thread of honor. 375 00:27:53,330 --> 00:27:55,040 You place blame where it does not sleep. 376 00:27:55,170 --> 00:27:57,130 You place fault in my efforts? 377 00:27:57,710 --> 00:27:58,590 No. 378 00:27:59,470 --> 00:28:03,050 Upon mine. I was absent thought towards all but victory, 379 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:05,260 leaving you exposed. 380 00:28:05,430 --> 00:28:07,100 I do not need you to come to aid, you fucking shit. 381 00:28:07,260 --> 00:28:10,390 Your cock says otherwise. 382 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,230 When paired in the arena, you must fight as one. 383 00:28:13,350 --> 00:28:14,730 Or fall divided. 384 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,650 And when were you last upon the sands, old man? 385 00:28:21,780 --> 00:28:23,990 A lifetime ago, yet I... 386 00:28:24,780 --> 00:28:25,740 lived. 387 00:28:26,490 --> 00:28:29,370 Which is a victory I fear you may tumble well short of. 388 00:28:29,540 --> 00:28:31,790 A thing of no pressing concern. 389 00:28:32,580 --> 00:28:34,880 We are the House of Piss and Shit, 390 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,380 denied opportunity of glorious death. 391 00:28:37,550 --> 00:28:38,880 Yours not so much, 392 00:28:39,050 --> 00:28:41,220 assuming opponent stood greater than small child. 393 00:28:43,050 --> 00:28:44,510 Fill air with fucking laughter, 394 00:28:45,050 --> 00:28:47,810 as Capua does upon thought of this fucking house. 395 00:28:47,970 --> 00:28:49,770 It is what we make it. 396 00:28:53,230 --> 00:28:54,770 See weighted spirits lifted. 397 00:28:55,350 --> 00:28:58,110 Your Dominus presents gift of wine and whores. 398 00:29:01,110 --> 00:29:04,110 Well, perhaps the gods yet favor this fucking House! 399 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:05,570 Now remove yourselves 400 00:29:05,740 --> 00:29:07,870 so Achillia may bathe absent lingering gaze. 401 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:11,250 Whores! 402 00:29:11,410 --> 00:29:12,660 Wine and whores! 403 00:29:19,420 --> 00:29:22,470 He preens as if I've never witnessed cock bared and wet. 404 00:29:22,630 --> 00:29:25,380 Attend yourself and retire to cell for the night. 405 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,850 Am I not to enjoy the pleasures of wine and whores? 406 00:29:30,850 --> 00:29:32,980 Such rewards are reserved for those who bear the mark 407 00:29:33,140 --> 00:29:34,140 of the brotherhood. 408 00:29:34,730 --> 00:29:36,810 An honor you have yet to earn. 409 00:29:49,660 --> 00:29:52,620 - Perhaps this one. - You possess discerning eye. 410 00:29:52,790 --> 00:29:55,000 As I wish yours to such this night. 411 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,710 I am to Gabinius' villa, not the arena. 412 00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:01,960 Does Cossutia yet stand his wife? 413 00:30:02,090 --> 00:30:04,470 As Cerberus guarding gate of the underworld, 414 00:30:04,630 --> 00:30:06,470 frothing and snapping. 415 00:30:06,630 --> 00:30:08,220 The target of my concern. 416 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,930 She holds no sway, absent command of husband. 417 00:30:11,390 --> 00:30:14,430 And if she has moved him to her cause against you? 418 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:16,480 Cheeks spread for deeper ramming. 419 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:20,650 - Then why accept invitation? - I hold no fucking choice! 420 00:30:26,450 --> 00:30:29,110 Calm troubled thoughts and realize, 421 00:30:29,700 --> 00:30:34,370 all men of power and position underestimate Ashur at own... 422 00:30:34,790 --> 00:30:36,750 fucking peril. 423 00:30:37,670 --> 00:30:39,460 Prepare yourself for my return. 424 00:30:40,670 --> 00:30:41,750 You as well. 425 00:30:49,590 --> 00:30:51,600 You worry over him beyond reason. 426 00:30:53,100 --> 00:30:54,560 He is our Dominus. 427 00:30:56,100 --> 00:30:58,480 Our fates tethered to his. 428 00:31:03,020 --> 00:31:04,730 Yet who worries over you? 429 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:06,440 Hmm? 430 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,740 Turn mind to task and see linens freshened, 431 00:31:11,910 --> 00:31:14,830 in anticipation of his triumphant return. 432 00:31:27,260 --> 00:31:30,010 Senator Gabinius shall join presently. 433 00:31:44,770 --> 00:31:47,030 Ah! Here is our man. 434 00:31:47,690 --> 00:31:49,700 Gratitude for accepting invitation 435 00:31:49,860 --> 00:31:51,110 upon briefest of notice. 436 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,200 I am swelled by august request. 437 00:31:53,740 --> 00:31:55,740 You are familiar with cherished wife? 438 00:31:55,870 --> 00:31:57,790 We are so acquainted. 439 00:31:57,950 --> 00:32:00,830 In passing, in the streets, if I recall. 440 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,330 Apologies for our delay. 441 00:32:02,500 --> 00:32:04,130 This business with the Cilician pirates 442 00:32:04,290 --> 00:32:06,590 vexes all affected by their savage attacks. 443 00:32:06,750 --> 00:32:09,050 Locusts plaguing our beloved republic. 444 00:32:09,170 --> 00:32:11,800 I pray harsh retribution awaits. 445 00:32:12,220 --> 00:32:14,180 We are of singular mind. 446 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:16,640 I draft motion in the Senate... 447 00:32:17,140 --> 00:32:20,560 to see menace quelled by able hand of trusted Pompey. 448 00:32:21,270 --> 00:32:22,230 Pompey? 449 00:32:22,730 --> 00:32:24,360 He takes leave from Rome with his army? 450 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:26,980 A small portion, adequate to task. 451 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:28,610 The remainder counterbalanced 452 00:32:28,730 --> 00:32:31,400 towards fighting men loyal to Crassus. 453 00:32:34,030 --> 00:32:36,080 May the gods usher Pompey to victory, 454 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,910 as Scipio Africanus against Hannibal at the gates. 455 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,250 You are schooled in our histories? 456 00:32:41,410 --> 00:32:44,330 I am but babe, crawling through dewy morn. 457 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:46,960 Then let us see you rise upon legs of knowledge, 458 00:32:47,130 --> 00:32:50,710 and stride upright as all men in midday of life. 459 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,630 Hmm. Some yet stumble upon attempt, 460 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,180 skull bashed upon unforgiving ground. 461 00:32:57,350 --> 00:32:59,180 I shall strive to remain surefooted. 462 00:32:59,350 --> 00:33:01,230 As most reliable goat. 463 00:33:02,060 --> 00:33:04,400 Let us not veer towards pointed meaning. 464 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,610 I would have all slights, genuine or fanciful, 465 00:33:07,770 --> 00:33:10,110 fall to past remembrance. 466 00:33:10,690 --> 00:33:13,570 - Memory has faded to obscurity. - Never to return. 467 00:33:13,740 --> 00:33:14,990 Apologies. 468 00:33:15,490 --> 00:33:16,910 Voices stirred interest. 469 00:33:17,030 --> 00:33:20,950 Viridia. It swells heart to see you stir from chambers. 470 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:22,660 Effort rarely taken these days. 471 00:33:22,830 --> 00:33:25,250 Perhaps you might return after our esteemed guest has departed. 472 00:33:25,420 --> 00:33:26,830 Is this him? 473 00:33:27,790 --> 00:33:29,040 The Syrian? 474 00:33:29,170 --> 00:33:30,630 You are not properly dressed to receive- 475 00:33:30,750 --> 00:33:32,260 Are these the hands? 476 00:33:35,630 --> 00:33:38,640 The ones that saw Spartacus to deserved end? 477 00:33:40,220 --> 00:33:41,640 They, uh... 478 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:47,060 T-they but aided 479 00:33:47,230 --> 00:33:48,480 in the effort. 480 00:33:48,650 --> 00:33:49,860 Gratitude. 481 00:33:51,650 --> 00:33:53,860 Rome is forever in your debt. 482 00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:57,240 - As am I. - Hour grows late. 483 00:33:58,030 --> 00:34:00,280 Retire to bath with loving mother so I may break words 484 00:34:00,450 --> 00:34:03,700 with honored guest absent distraction. 485 00:34:05,370 --> 00:34:09,130 Come. Let us leave the men to their folly. 486 00:34:12,050 --> 00:34:15,260 Forgive my daughter. She holds not herself. 487 00:34:16,220 --> 00:34:18,930 What affliction troubles her? 488 00:34:19,090 --> 00:34:22,310 The most grievous, a wounded heart. 489 00:34:22,470 --> 00:34:24,430 Her husband, much beloved, 490 00:34:25,180 --> 00:34:27,770 fell to Spartacus and his rebels at Sinuessa en Valle, 491 00:34:27,940 --> 00:34:30,560 where he broached business with Laurus, the trader. 492 00:34:30,730 --> 00:34:36,240 Such loss sees the strongest of us absent mind when in its grip. 493 00:34:36,990 --> 00:34:38,240 Well formed. 494 00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:40,320 Yet, 495 00:34:40,490 --> 00:34:42,410 let us turn from shadowed past 496 00:34:42,580 --> 00:34:44,830 in favor of more promising days. 497 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:45,910 Yes. 498 00:35:10,060 --> 00:35:12,520 You stand well satisfied, old friend? 499 00:35:12,860 --> 00:35:15,070 Oh, I stand a fucking god. 500 00:35:17,530 --> 00:35:19,530 Do not fucking stop. 501 00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:31,000 Throw dice, Salvius! 502 00:35:34,750 --> 00:35:36,630 Bow to the champion of fucking dice! 503 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:38,340 Yet not a champion of fucking! 504 00:35:55,940 --> 00:35:58,490 Then I shall make you see the prince. 505 00:36:06,540 --> 00:36:07,950 You deprive release of hardened cock! 506 00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:09,910 Shall deprive you of fucking teeth as well. 507 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:11,750 - Tarchon. - The girl is mine. 508 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,250 See humble offering inserted elsewhere. 509 00:36:18,090 --> 00:36:20,220 I favor more heft to ass anyway. 510 00:36:23,510 --> 00:36:27,260 Oh, Hedylus completes chore. Well, I shall swim upstream. 511 00:36:39,780 --> 00:36:42,360 You would pull me from services purchased by your Dominus? 512 00:36:42,530 --> 00:36:44,870 I would wrest you from Mars himself. 513 00:36:48,410 --> 00:36:52,660 You warm heart, Elata. As sun above the earth below. 514 00:36:54,250 --> 00:36:57,460 You flatter, as all men stiff of cock. 515 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,930 I know that you're forced to lie with men outside these walls. 516 00:37:03,930 --> 00:37:08,260 Yet within them, I would have no other hands upon you but mine. 517 00:37:12,020 --> 00:37:14,020 Then lay them upon me. 518 00:38:28,140 --> 00:38:30,680 You were commanded to remain in your cell. 519 00:38:31,180 --> 00:38:32,930 Slumber eludes with all the fucking noise 520 00:38:33,100 --> 00:38:34,640 and noise of fucking. 521 00:38:41,310 --> 00:38:43,280 What do you see? 522 00:38:43,980 --> 00:38:44,940 I do not grasp meaning. 523 00:38:45,110 --> 00:38:46,900 When you strike, what do you see? 524 00:38:47,990 --> 00:38:49,530 A wooden fucking man. 525 00:38:52,660 --> 00:38:55,370 You unleash fury beyond simple form. 526 00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:59,210 What do you see, in mind's eye? 527 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,010 Those who hold me unworthy. 528 00:39:06,630 --> 00:39:07,840 Within this ludus 529 00:39:08,010 --> 00:39:11,090 or upon the path that led you to such fate? 530 00:39:21,230 --> 00:39:23,940 You do not partake in the pleasure of whores denied me? 531 00:39:26,940 --> 00:39:29,860 My taste is of a more discerning nature. 532 00:39:30,030 --> 00:39:33,160 One not sated by men who accept coin, 533 00:39:33,490 --> 00:39:35,370 in exchange for loving embrace. 534 00:39:35,540 --> 00:39:39,370 Hmm. Would that I were so blessed of choice. 535 00:39:40,870 --> 00:39:41,630 Hmm. 536 00:39:46,210 --> 00:39:47,130 Drink 537 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,430 and dull pain of coming days. 538 00:39:59,020 --> 00:40:02,850 You lower yourself, speaking to the Syrian as you did. 539 00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:05,400 I but expressed gratitude, keenly felt. 540 00:40:05,570 --> 00:40:09,110 You made him feel as equal, deserving of such praise. 541 00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:12,570 Does he not, for aiding in the fall of Spartacus? 542 00:40:13,240 --> 00:40:16,410 He but aided himself and desire to climb above his station. 543 00:40:16,580 --> 00:40:18,250 Should not all men seek to be so elevated? 544 00:40:18,370 --> 00:40:20,120 Yes, if they are of proper breeding. 545 00:40:20,290 --> 00:40:23,290 You froth as if personally aggrieved. 546 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,840 The man himself is of slightest note. 547 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,460 It is what he represents- 548 00:40:27,630 --> 00:40:29,590 those who would pollute pure waters of the republic, 549 00:40:30,130 --> 00:40:33,180 fancying themselves upon level with storied name and position. 550 00:40:33,930 --> 00:40:36,470 He must be made example, to be taken as warning 551 00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:38,890 to all those who would mistake themselves so. 552 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:41,020 Father appears in disagreement. 553 00:40:41,180 --> 00:40:43,850 Husband will often stray from reason, if not closely attended. 554 00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,820 Would that I yet had one to give such counsel. 555 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:53,740 Accept mine... 556 00:40:54,870 --> 00:40:56,240 in his place. 557 00:40:57,330 --> 00:41:00,790 Do not forfeit precious youth to grieving. 558 00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:06,380 - Wound is yet fresh. - And... 559 00:41:06,790 --> 00:41:08,000 will never heal... 560 00:41:08,380 --> 00:41:11,800 unless proper balm is applied. 561 00:41:12,670 --> 00:41:16,510 Life does not end when a husband falls from this world. 562 00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:18,720 Nor heart remained sundered, 563 00:41:18,890 --> 00:41:23,060 when cradled in hands of loving mother. 564 00:41:27,110 --> 00:41:28,730 Tell me, Syrian, 565 00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,570 were you and your family brought to Rome as slaves? 566 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,570 I alone. Mother and sister fell to disease, 567 00:41:35,740 --> 00:41:39,700 long before I fled Tigranes' army and found myself, uh... 568 00:41:40,870 --> 00:41:42,580 guest of the republic. 569 00:41:42,750 --> 00:41:44,870 And your father? 570 00:41:45,870 --> 00:41:47,080 I hold no memory of him. 571 00:41:47,500 --> 00:41:50,250 Absence of such robs a boy of proper direction. 572 00:41:51,090 --> 00:41:53,470 You must truly hold favor of your gods, 573 00:41:53,590 --> 00:41:57,340 to find yourself elevated from slave to current position 574 00:41:57,510 --> 00:41:59,550 of Dominus of own fucking house. 575 00:41:59,720 --> 00:42:02,100 I am indeed blessed, 576 00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:03,810 yet by labor of own hands 577 00:42:03,980 --> 00:42:06,390 and accomplishments beholden only to them. 578 00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,480 You hold no belief in the divinity guiding mortal man? 579 00:42:10,190 --> 00:42:12,570 My Dominus was known for oft-repeated refrain, 580 00:42:12,690 --> 00:42:14,950 one which I yet admire- 581 00:42:15,110 --> 00:42:16,150 "Fuck the gods." 582 00:42:18,450 --> 00:42:21,120 And to what end did such sentiment lead? 583 00:42:21,950 --> 00:42:23,290 Most unfortunate one. 584 00:42:23,870 --> 00:42:27,040 Well, one man's misfortune often falls to another's opportunity. 585 00:42:27,460 --> 00:42:29,750 How unseemly a role did your hands play 586 00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:32,130 in manufacturing such? 587 00:42:32,300 --> 00:42:33,800 I have done... 588 00:42:34,460 --> 00:42:36,170 questionable things... 589 00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,220 to arrive where I now sit. 590 00:42:41,260 --> 00:42:43,640 Who of worth can claim otherwise? 591 00:42:45,430 --> 00:42:46,520 And now? 592 00:42:46,690 --> 00:42:47,810 Upon this day? 593 00:42:47,940 --> 00:42:49,900 - I walk a different path. - Oh. 594 00:42:50,730 --> 00:42:53,070 So the tiger has altered stripes? 595 00:42:53,230 --> 00:42:54,940 I am not the man I once was. 596 00:42:55,110 --> 00:42:57,400 Nor the man you yet desire to be. 597 00:42:57,530 --> 00:43:00,030 You are but faint specter, 598 00:43:00,530 --> 00:43:03,830 caught between two worlds you do not belong in. 599 00:43:04,830 --> 00:43:08,960 It is a heavy thing, is it not, to be burdened with dreams 600 00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:11,290 made sudden reality? 601 00:43:14,460 --> 00:43:16,590 I am but a humble servant of the republic. 602 00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,720 Why would you swear allegiance to a republic 603 00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:21,430 that despises you? 604 00:43:21,550 --> 00:43:24,970 Why lavish tongue upon those who yet hold you in naked contempt? 605 00:43:25,390 --> 00:43:28,480 You shall never stand equal in their eyes, 606 00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:33,480 forever condemned to be but rough-hewn tool to be used 607 00:43:34,150 --> 00:43:37,280 till blade is dulled by unkind years, then... 608 00:43:40,610 --> 00:43:42,030 cast aside. 609 00:43:42,870 --> 00:43:45,080 What worth is a knife... 610 00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:51,040 if it lies absent use? 611 00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:56,630 So, mighty Crassus continues to sharpen intent, then? 612 00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:58,880 All the way from where he sits, with his army, 613 00:43:59,050 --> 00:44:00,510 outside the gates of Rome? 614 00:44:00,630 --> 00:44:03,550 We are as one, via messenger upon regular basis. 615 00:44:03,720 --> 00:44:06,890 Only a fool relies upon the benevolence of the rich. 616 00:44:07,470 --> 00:44:09,850 Their whims counsel but their own reflection. 617 00:44:11,810 --> 00:44:14,360 Coin afforded by Crassus admittedly thins 618 00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:16,940 with passing of days, yet debt mounts- 619 00:44:17,110 --> 00:44:21,280 water, grain, equipment. My stock drains fortune. 620 00:44:21,860 --> 00:44:23,620 And with it, hope of grander aspiration 621 00:44:23,740 --> 00:44:26,830 towards the games in the arena. A subject I would broach- 622 00:44:26,950 --> 00:44:29,700 You refer to your gladiators as stock? 623 00:44:30,410 --> 00:44:32,370 Do they not carry title of men? 624 00:44:33,330 --> 00:44:34,920 They are but slaves. 625 00:44:35,750 --> 00:44:37,050 As you once stood. 626 00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:39,460 A distant memory. 627 00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:41,970 Yet forgotten by none. 628 00:44:46,050 --> 00:44:47,600 Let eyes fall upon it. 629 00:44:52,390 --> 00:44:53,440 Your brand, 630 00:44:54,270 --> 00:44:56,230 marking you as property of the House of Batiatus- 631 00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:57,820 I would lay eyes. 632 00:45:14,540 --> 00:45:15,790 Oh. 633 00:45:16,290 --> 00:45:17,630 Rumor proves truth. 634 00:45:18,630 --> 00:45:23,590 Crassus growls command, and loyal cur gnaws its own flesh. 635 00:45:29,100 --> 00:45:32,180 Words fell from less noble heights. 636 00:45:32,890 --> 00:45:35,150 Gaius Claudius Glaber gave command, 637 00:45:35,310 --> 00:45:38,440 before he was dispatched from this world by Spartacus himself, 638 00:45:38,570 --> 00:45:39,610 in the shadow 639 00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:41,530 of Vesuvius. 640 00:45:42,110 --> 00:45:44,900 I had occasion to break meal with Glaber upon a time. 641 00:45:45,490 --> 00:45:49,030 A most unsettling cast of eye, absent blink- 642 00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:51,790 as a lizard, encumbered with human form. 643 00:45:52,500 --> 00:45:55,580 A most uncanny assessment of the man. 644 00:45:56,370 --> 00:45:58,080 And how gauge you the measure of the one you see 645 00:45:58,250 --> 00:45:59,710 seated before you? 646 00:46:01,050 --> 00:46:02,670 No, come, hold me as friend. 647 00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:07,220 Well, as semblance of such, as the moment requires. 648 00:46:08,550 --> 00:46:12,390 I see a most noble Roman, well regarded by deed and tongue- 649 00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:14,430 Flattery is of little worth 650 00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:16,270 to one laden with coin and privilege! 651 00:46:16,390 --> 00:46:19,190 I would have from you what others withhold- 652 00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:20,900 the fucking truth! 653 00:46:29,990 --> 00:46:32,580 I see a man of fading years... 654 00:46:33,620 --> 00:46:35,040 clinging to what time remains, 655 00:46:35,210 --> 00:46:39,330 in hopes of preserving tradition of beloved republic. 656 00:46:40,590 --> 00:46:42,000 Yet many within it increasingly 657 00:46:42,170 --> 00:46:44,050 find him more annoyance than benefit, 658 00:46:44,210 --> 00:46:47,880 save for those of low position who seek the borrowing of coin. 659 00:46:48,590 --> 00:46:52,890 I see a man possessed of serpent-tongued wife... 660 00:46:54,060 --> 00:46:57,020 who maneuvers beyond his interests. 661 00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:09,780 Words well broken. 662 00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:16,790 Now fall from fucking sight and remain so removed. 663 00:47:38,690 --> 00:47:41,230 Form improves. 664 00:47:42,270 --> 00:47:45,020 Moves from watery shit to firm. 665 00:48:07,460 --> 00:48:09,800 Wooden man poses slight contest. 666 00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:13,890 Perhaps you would care to engage more fearsome opponent. 667 00:48:16,510 --> 00:48:18,470 I prefer larger challenge. 668 00:48:19,980 --> 00:48:21,350 Fuck what you prefer, woman. 669 00:48:30,700 --> 00:48:32,820 Stay down, you fucking cunt! 670 00:48:33,700 --> 00:48:34,950 Aargh! 671 00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:57,560 The woman at last finds her place- 672 00:48:58,220 --> 00:48:59,470 on her back, 673 00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:01,310 with legs spread. 674 00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:11,610 Hold her! You fucking cunt! 675 00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:18,910 Aargh! 676 00:49:32,340 --> 00:49:34,130 Aargh! 677 00:49:34,300 --> 00:49:35,550 Fucking bitch! 678 00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:38,180 Aargh! 679 00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:43,270 Aargh! 680 00:49:43,430 --> 00:49:45,770 Aargh! 681 00:49:51,030 --> 00:49:52,570 Aargh! 682 00:50:17,550 --> 00:50:18,890 Medicus! 683 00:50:20,220 --> 00:50:21,600 - Medicus! - The man, at last, 684 00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:24,730 finds his place- legs spread, absent cock. 685 00:50:24,890 --> 00:50:28,190 Medicus! Aargh! 686 00:50:28,650 --> 00:50:29,810 Medicus! 687 00:50:34,190 --> 00:50:37,240 Ephesius? Why is he so stained with blood? 688 00:50:37,950 --> 00:50:39,780 Give way! Give... 689 00:50:39,950 --> 00:50:41,580 fucking... way! 690 00:50:48,250 --> 00:50:49,540 Life has fled. 691 00:50:50,540 --> 00:50:52,840 A blessing for one so rudely handled. 692 00:50:54,010 --> 00:50:56,130 What has fucking happened? 693 00:50:57,130 --> 00:50:58,220 The woman! 694 00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:00,090 She went mad! 695 00:51:00,260 --> 00:51:01,300 He breaks false words. 696 00:51:01,470 --> 00:51:02,470 I was but working palus, when they- 697 00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:04,640 I give no shit what they did. 698 00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:08,770 Only the Dominus of the house can claim life of one who stands 699 00:51:08,940 --> 00:51:10,480 among the brotherhood. 700 00:51:10,610 --> 00:51:12,270 Any man who lays hands upon me shall fall the same fate, 701 00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:13,690 regardless of fucking brand. 702 00:51:13,860 --> 00:51:16,280 - She does not belong here! - Do not speak! 703 00:51:18,150 --> 00:51:19,910 You believe you hold place among us? 704 00:51:20,450 --> 00:51:22,660 I did not ask to be in this fucking house, 705 00:51:22,830 --> 00:51:24,950 Yet I stand equal as any man within it. 706 00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:26,200 Then give proof. 707 00:51:26,620 --> 00:51:28,370 Dacus! Steel. 708 00:51:31,210 --> 00:51:33,420 We must stop this. I will alert villa guards. 709 00:51:33,540 --> 00:51:34,630 Hold. 710 00:51:34,750 --> 00:51:36,420 She makes bold claim. 711 00:51:37,550 --> 00:51:39,260 Let us see it defended. 712 00:51:43,010 --> 00:51:46,220 Doctore, should this matter not be attended by Dominus? 713 00:51:46,390 --> 00:51:47,890 Fall from fucking side. 714 00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:51,980 - Korris. - Hold ground. 715 00:51:52,150 --> 00:51:55,530 Or Dominus will hear you took wine and fell from fucking post. 716 00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:07,410 Retrieve the shield and take position. 717 00:52:14,670 --> 00:52:16,840 You stand for a man absent honor? 718 00:52:17,300 --> 00:52:18,760 I stand for the brotherhood. 719 00:52:19,550 --> 00:52:22,050 Then thank the gods I am not a part of it. 720 00:52:39,530 --> 00:52:42,660 Make her suffer the point! 721 00:52:43,610 --> 00:52:47,740 Fight her now! 722 00:52:49,830 --> 00:52:51,830 Retreat as a coward would. Coward! 723 00:52:53,540 --> 00:52:56,420 For the brotherhood! 724 00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:01,170 You have learned nothing! 725 00:53:01,340 --> 00:53:03,550 Except how to die absent honor. 726 00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:07,720 Doctore, kill her! 727 00:53:07,890 --> 00:53:09,470 Fire will not aid you! 728 00:53:23,110 --> 00:53:24,910 Aargh! 729 00:53:28,330 --> 00:53:29,620 Die! 730 00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:36,080 Yes! 731 00:53:36,250 --> 00:53:37,670 Send her to the fuckin afterlife. 732 00:53:45,050 --> 00:53:47,090 Increase advantage, Doctore! 733 00:53:55,940 --> 00:53:57,100 Finish her. 734 00:53:57,940 --> 00:53:59,400 For our brother! 735 00:54:06,820 --> 00:54:08,570 Fucking kill her! 736 00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:14,040 You fought well, yet fall short of the brotherhood. 737 00:54:38,350 --> 00:54:39,900 I stand mistaken. 738 00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:58,750 She took the life of a brother, yet you let her live? 739 00:54:58,870 --> 00:55:00,540 I am the champion of Akragas. 740 00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:04,210 Freedom won upon the sand, by my own fucking will. 741 00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:07,340 And yet this woman, absent experience, 742 00:55:07,510 --> 00:55:10,550 has achieved what none among you could dare dream of- 743 00:55:11,010 --> 00:55:12,260 she drew blood 744 00:55:13,180 --> 00:55:16,680 against opponent far outmatching her in skill and experience. 745 00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:19,270 She has earned my respect... 746 00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:22,060 if but for fleeting moment. 747 00:55:22,650 --> 00:55:26,280 And any man who lays undesired hand upon her... 748 00:55:26,940 --> 00:55:28,570 shall feel my own... 749 00:55:28,740 --> 00:55:30,530 at fucking throat.