1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today 2 00:01:21,281 --> 00:01:24,250 (Men Laughing) 3 00:01:27,554 --> 00:01:29,522 (Dice Rattling] 4 00:01:30,690 --> 00:01:31,884 By Apis! 5 00:01:31,991 --> 00:01:33,481 Persian, thy gods are good to thee. 6 00:01:33,593 --> 00:01:36,061 Try yet again, O Captain. Double or quits. 7 00:01:36,162 --> 00:01:38,392 No more. I'm not in the vein. 8 00:01:47,807 --> 00:01:51,038 Captain! A stranger approaches! 9 00:01:52,378 --> 00:01:54,573 Stand! Who goes there? 10 00:01:54,681 --> 00:01:56,649 The bearer of evil tidings. 11 00:01:56,749 --> 00:01:59,479 (Captain] Pass him in! 12 00:02:10,864 --> 00:02:13,332 (Laughing] 13 00:02:18,404 --> 00:02:21,464 Who art thou that laughest in the house of Cleopatra the queen... 14 00:02:21,574 --> 00:02:24,065 and in the teeth of Belzanor, the captain of her guard? 15 00:02:24,177 --> 00:02:27,169 I am Bel Affris, descended from the gods. 16 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,078 - Hail, cousin. - (Others) Hail, cousin! 17 00:02:30,183 --> 00:02:35,177 (Laughs) All the queen's guards are descended from the gods... save myself. 18 00:02:35,288 --> 00:02:38,849 I am a Persian descended from many kings. 19 00:02:38,958 --> 00:02:40,926 Hail, cousins. 20 00:02:41,027 --> 00:02:42,324 Hail, mortal. 21 00:02:42,428 --> 00:02:46,296 You have been in battle, Bel Affris, and you are a soldier among soldiers. 22 00:02:46,399 --> 00:02:50,130 You will not let the queen's women have the first of your tidings. 23 00:02:50,236 --> 00:02:52,204 I have no tidings... 24 00:02:53,306 --> 00:02:57,003 except that we shall all have our throats cut presently... 25 00:02:57,110 --> 00:02:59,840 women, soldiers and all. 26 00:02:59,946 --> 00:03:01,914 I thought so. Tell us what befell. 27 00:03:02,015 --> 00:03:04,108 - Aye! Tell us! - Tell us! Tell us! 28 00:03:05,151 --> 00:03:09,144 Know then that I serve in the guard of the temple of Ra here in Memphis. 29 00:03:09,255 --> 00:03:11,416 We went to Alexandria to inquire of King Ptolemy... 30 00:03:11,524 --> 00:03:13,856 how we of Egypt should deal with the Roman, Pompey... 31 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:16,724 newly come to our shores after his defeat by Caesar at Pharsalia. 32 00:03:16,829 --> 00:03:20,458 Caesar defeated Pompey? Does Roman, then, fight Roman? 33 00:03:20,567 --> 00:03:23,058 Even as Egyptian fights Egyptian. 34 00:03:23,169 --> 00:03:26,969 What did you learn from the queen's brother, Ptolemy the pretender? 35 00:03:27,073 --> 00:03:31,339 We learnt that Caesar is coming also in hot pursuit of his foe... 36 00:03:31,444 --> 00:03:33,844 and that Ptolemy has slain Pompey. 37 00:03:33,947 --> 00:03:36,108 Nay, more. We found that Caesar is already come. 38 00:03:36,216 --> 00:03:38,047 For we had not made half a day's journey on our way back... 39 00:03:38,151 --> 00:03:41,120 when we came upon a city rabble fiying from his legions. 40 00:03:41,221 --> 00:03:45,123 And ye the temple guard... did you not withstand these legions? 41 00:03:45,225 --> 00:03:47,853 What men could, that we did. 42 00:03:47,961 --> 00:03:50,156 But this Caesar throws a legion at you where you are weakest... 43 00:03:50,263 --> 00:03:52,163 as he throws a stone from a catapult. 44 00:03:52,265 --> 00:03:57,362 And that legion is as a man with one head, a thousand arms... and no religion. 45 00:03:57,470 --> 00:03:59,995 - I have fought against them, and I know. - (Soldiers Chortling) 46 00:04:00,106 --> 00:04:02,131 - Were you frightened, cousin? - (Laughing) 47 00:04:02,242 --> 00:04:05,905 - No, cousin, but I was beaten. - (Laughing) 48 00:04:06,012 --> 00:04:08,674 - Could you not die? - There was no time. 49 00:04:08,781 --> 00:04:10,373 All was over in a moment. 50 00:04:10,483 --> 00:04:14,283 But now I am come to warn you that you must open your gates to Caesar... 51 00:04:14,387 --> 00:04:16,514 for his advance guard is scarce an hour behind me... 52 00:04:16,623 --> 00:04:19,183 and there is not an Egyptian warrior left standing between you and his legions. 53 00:04:19,292 --> 00:04:22,193 - Woe! Alas! - Nail him to the door! Quick! 54 00:04:23,663 --> 00:04:27,190 Now this news will run through the palace like fire through stubble. 55 00:04:27,300 --> 00:04:29,598 What shall we do to save the women from the Romans? 56 00:04:29,702 --> 00:04:32,762 - Why not kill them? - Because we should have to pay blood money. 57 00:04:32,872 --> 00:04:35,636 Better let the Romans kill them. It's cheaper. 58 00:04:35,742 --> 00:04:38,609 - O subtle one. O serpent. - But your queen. 59 00:04:38,711 --> 00:04:41,976 True. We must carry off Cleopatra. I will take her on the crupper of my horse. 60 00:04:42,081 --> 00:04:44,879 - (Women Screaming) - Fly! Fly! 61 00:04:44,984 --> 00:04:49,387 - What's the matter now? - The sacred white cat has been stolen! 62 00:04:49,489 --> 00:04:52,083 (Screaming, Shouting) 63 00:04:53,559 --> 00:04:57,689 (Blowing Horn) 64 00:05:16,816 --> 00:05:19,284 (Hammer Ringing On Anvil) 65 00:05:26,426 --> 00:05:29,395 (Men Chattering) 66 00:06:31,691 --> 00:06:33,682 Hail, Sphinx. 67 00:06:33,793 --> 00:06:35,886 Salutation from Julius Caesar. 68 00:06:37,630 --> 00:06:41,122 I have wandered in many lands seeking the lost region... 69 00:06:41,234 --> 00:06:44,533 from which my birth into this world exiled me... 70 00:06:44,637 --> 00:06:47,435 and the company of creatures such as I myself. 71 00:06:48,641 --> 00:06:52,702 I found fiocks and pastures, men and cities... 72 00:06:52,812 --> 00:06:54,871 but no other Caesar... 73 00:06:54,981 --> 00:06:58,610 no air native to me, no man kindred to me... 74 00:06:58,718 --> 00:07:02,882 none who can do my day's deed or think my night's thought. 75 00:07:02,989 --> 00:07:05,549 In the little world yonder, Sphinx... 76 00:07:05,658 --> 00:07:09,116 my place is as high as yours in this great desert. 77 00:07:09,228 --> 00:07:13,562 Only I wander, and you sit still. 78 00:07:13,666 --> 00:07:16,260 I conquer, and you endure. 79 00:07:16,369 --> 00:07:18,394 I work and wonder. 80 00:07:18,504 --> 00:07:20,438 You watch and wait. 81 00:07:21,541 --> 00:07:25,341 Sphinx, you and I... strangers to the race of men... 82 00:07:25,445 --> 00:07:27,913 are no strangers to one another. 83 00:07:28,014 --> 00:07:32,144 Have I not been conscious of you and of this place since I was born? 84 00:07:32,251 --> 00:07:34,651 Rome is a madman's dream. 85 00:07:35,988 --> 00:07:39,424 This is my reality. 86 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:43,654 My way hither was the way of destiny... 87 00:07:43,763 --> 00:07:46,789 for I am he of whose genius you are the symbol- 88 00:07:46,899 --> 00:07:50,335 part brute, part woman... 89 00:07:51,370 --> 00:07:53,463 and part god. 90 00:07:53,573 --> 00:07:55,939 Nothing of man in me at all. 91 00:07:57,443 --> 00:07:59,434 Have I read your riddle, Sphinx? 92 00:07:59,545 --> 00:08:02,537 (Woman] Old gentleman. 93 00:08:02,648 --> 00:08:04,946 Immortal gods. 94 00:08:05,051 --> 00:08:07,019 Old gentleman, don't run away. 95 00:08:08,488 --> 00:08:11,423 "Old gentleman, don't run away"? 96 00:08:11,524 --> 00:08:14,152 - This toJulius Caesar? - Old gentleman. 97 00:08:19,098 --> 00:08:21,589 Sphinx, you presume on your centuries. 98 00:08:21,701 --> 00:08:25,865 I'm younger than you, though your voice is but a girl's voice as yet. 99 00:08:25,972 --> 00:08:29,100 Climb up here, quickly, or the Romans will come and eat you. 100 00:08:33,045 --> 00:08:35,275 A child at its breast. 101 00:08:35,381 --> 00:08:37,713 A divine child. 102 00:08:37,817 --> 00:08:39,717 Come up, quickly. 103 00:08:39,819 --> 00:08:42,185 You must get up at its side and creep round. 104 00:08:46,392 --> 00:08:48,292 Who are you? 105 00:08:48,394 --> 00:08:50,692 Cleopatra, queen of Egypt. 106 00:08:52,565 --> 00:08:54,465 Queen of the Gypsies, you mean. 107 00:08:54,567 --> 00:08:58,333 You mustn't be disrespectful to me, or the sphinx will let the Romans eat you. 108 00:08:58,437 --> 00:09:01,406 Come up. It's quite cozy here. 109 00:09:04,310 --> 00:09:06,278 What a dream. 110 00:09:06,379 --> 00:09:08,643 What a magnifiicent dream. 111 00:09:08,748 --> 00:09:11,148 Only let me not wake. (Laughs) 112 00:09:11,250 --> 00:09:13,150 Take care. 113 00:09:14,487 --> 00:09:17,354 Ah. That's right. Now sit down. 114 00:09:19,492 --> 00:09:22,188 You may have the other paw. 115 00:09:22,295 --> 00:09:24,525 It is very powerful and will protect us... 116 00:09:24,630 --> 00:09:27,497 but it wouldn't take any notice of me or keep me company. 117 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:31,036 I'm glad you've come. I was very lonely. 118 00:09:31,137 --> 00:09:33,196 Did you happen to see a white cat anywhere? 119 00:09:33,306 --> 00:09:35,001 Have you lost one? 120 00:09:35,107 --> 00:09:37,940 Yes. The sacred white cat. Isn't it dreadful? 121 00:09:38,044 --> 00:09:40,069 I brought him here to sacrifice him to the sphinx. 122 00:09:40,179 --> 00:09:42,704 But when we got a little way from the city, a black cat called him... 123 00:09:42,815 --> 00:09:45,045 and he jumped out of my arms and ran away to it. 124 00:09:46,085 --> 00:09:48,952 Do you think that the black cat can have been... 125 00:09:49,055 --> 00:09:51,785 my great-great-great-grandmother? 126 00:09:51,891 --> 00:09:55,349 Your great-great-great-grandmother? 127 00:09:55,461 --> 00:09:58,294 Well, why not? Nothing would surprise me on this night of nights. 128 00:09:58,397 --> 00:10:00,661 I think it must have been. 129 00:10:00,766 --> 00:10:02,666 My great-great-grandmother's great-grandmother... 130 00:10:02,768 --> 00:10:05,168 was a black kitten of the sacred white cat. 131 00:10:05,271 --> 00:10:07,933 And my blood is made with Nile water. 132 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:09,940 That is why my hair is so wavy. 133 00:10:11,277 --> 00:10:13,438 What are you doing here this time of night? 134 00:10:13,546 --> 00:10:16,982 - Do you live here? - Of course not. I am the queen. 135 00:10:17,083 --> 00:10:21,144 And I shall live in the palace of Alexandria when I've killed my brother who drove me out of it. 136 00:10:21,253 --> 00:10:23,244 When I'm old enough, I shall do just what I like. 137 00:10:23,356 --> 00:10:26,018 I shall be able to poison the slaves and see them wriggle... 138 00:10:26,125 --> 00:10:31,290 and pretend to Ftatateeta, my nurse, that she's to be put into the fiery furnace. 139 00:10:31,397 --> 00:10:35,197 Meanwhile, why are you not at home and in bed? 140 00:10:35,301 --> 00:10:37,929 Because the Romans are coming to eat us all. 141 00:10:38,037 --> 00:10:41,063 - You aren't at home in bed either. - Oh, yes, I am. 142 00:10:41,173 --> 00:10:46,338 I live in a tent, and I am now in that tent fast asleep and dreaming. 143 00:10:46,445 --> 00:10:50,381 Do you suppose I believe you are real, you impossible little dream witch? 144 00:10:50,483 --> 00:10:54,078 You are a funny old gentleman. I like you. 145 00:10:54,186 --> 00:10:56,654 That spoils the dream. 146 00:10:56,756 --> 00:10:58,656 Why don't you dream that I'm young? 147 00:10:58,758 --> 00:11:02,455 I wish you were. Only I think I should be more afraid of you. 148 00:11:02,561 --> 00:11:06,657 I like men, especially young men with round, strong arms. 149 00:11:06,766 --> 00:11:08,666 But I'm afraid of them. 150 00:11:08,768 --> 00:11:11,498 You are old and rather wrinkly. 151 00:11:11,604 --> 00:11:15,040 But you have a nice voice, and I like to have someone to talk to. 152 00:11:15,141 --> 00:11:17,302 Though I think you are a little mad. 153 00:11:17,410 --> 00:11:20,470 It is the moon that makes you talk to yourself in that silly way. 154 00:11:20,579 --> 00:11:22,479 Oh, you heard that, did you? 155 00:11:22,581 --> 00:11:24,811 I was saying my prayers to the Great Sphinx. 156 00:11:24,917 --> 00:11:27,818 - But this isn't the Great Sphinx. - What? 157 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:29,911 This is only a dear little kitten of the sphinx. 158 00:11:30,022 --> 00:11:33,514 Why, the Great Sphinx is so big, it has a temple between its paws. 159 00:11:33,626 --> 00:11:36,151 This is my pet sphinx. 160 00:11:36,262 --> 00:11:38,856 Tell me. Do you think the Romans have any sorcerers... 161 00:11:38,964 --> 00:11:40,989 who could take us away from the sphinx by magic? 162 00:11:41,100 --> 00:11:43,068 Why? Are you afraid of the Romans? 163 00:11:43,169 --> 00:11:46,832 Oh, they would eat us if they caught us. They are barbarians. 164 00:11:46,939 --> 00:11:48,736 Their chief is called Julius Caesar. 165 00:11:48,841 --> 00:11:51,071 His father was a tiger and his mother a burning mountain... 166 00:11:51,177 --> 00:11:53,077 and his nose is like an elephant's trunk. 167 00:11:53,179 --> 00:11:56,876 They all have long noses and ivory tusks and little tails... 168 00:11:56,982 --> 00:11:59,382 and seven arms with a hundred arrows in each. 169 00:11:59,485 --> 00:12:02,852 And they live on human fiesh. 170 00:12:02,955 --> 00:12:04,855 Would you like me to show you a real Roman? 171 00:12:04,957 --> 00:12:08,188 No. Oh, you're frightening me. 172 00:12:08,294 --> 00:12:11,161 No matter. This is only a dream. 173 00:12:11,263 --> 00:12:14,232 - It is not a dream. It is not a dream. See? - (Yelps) 174 00:12:14,333 --> 00:12:16,631 How dare you! 175 00:12:16,736 --> 00:12:19,330 You said you were dreaming. I... I only wanted to show you. 176 00:12:19,438 --> 00:12:21,406 Oh, come, come. Don't cry. 177 00:12:21,507 --> 00:12:24,408 - (Sniffiing) - A queen mustn't cry. 178 00:12:28,114 --> 00:12:31,208 Cleopatra, can you see my face well? 179 00:12:31,317 --> 00:12:33,444 Yes. 180 00:12:33,552 --> 00:12:35,520 It is so white in the moonlight. 181 00:12:35,621 --> 00:12:37,987 Are you sure it is the moonlight... 182 00:12:38,090 --> 00:12:40,524 that makes me look whiter than an Egyptian? 183 00:12:40,626 --> 00:12:45,654 Do you notice that I have a rather long nose? 184 00:12:45,765 --> 00:12:47,926 - It is a Roman nose, Cleopatra. - (Screams) 185 00:12:48,033 --> 00:12:51,628 (Shrieking) Bite him in two, sphinx! Bite him in two! 186 00:12:51,737 --> 00:12:54,535 I meant to sacrifice the white cat. Indeed I did. Indeed! 187 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:58,633 Cleopatra, shall I show you a way to prevent Caesar from eating you? 188 00:12:58,744 --> 00:13:02,009 Do, do, do. I will steal the crown jewels and give them to you. 189 00:13:02,114 --> 00:13:04,776 I will make the river Nile water your lands twice a year. 190 00:13:04,884 --> 00:13:07,352 My child, your gods are afraid of the Romans. 191 00:13:07,453 --> 00:13:11,549 You see? The sphinx dare not bite me nor prevent me carrying you off toJulius Caesar. 192 00:13:11,657 --> 00:13:14,455 You won't. You won't. You said you wouldn't. 193 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:18,496 Caesar never eats women, but he eats girls and cats. 194 00:13:18,597 --> 00:13:22,499 Now, you're a silly little girl, and you're descended from the black kitten. 195 00:13:22,601 --> 00:13:24,262 You're both a girl and a cat. 196 00:13:24,370 --> 00:13:27,066 - And will he... eat me? - Yes. 197 00:13:28,174 --> 00:13:31,075 Unless you make him believe that you're a woman. 198 00:13:31,177 --> 00:13:35,637 Oh. Then you must get a sorcerer to make a woman of me. 199 00:13:35,748 --> 00:13:37,943 - Are you a sorcerer? - Perhaps. 200 00:13:38,050 --> 00:13:42,111 But it'll take a long time, and this very night in the palace of your fathers... 201 00:13:42,221 --> 00:13:44,246 you must stand face-to-face with Caesar. 202 00:13:44,356 --> 00:13:45,755 No, no. I daren't! 203 00:13:45,858 --> 00:13:49,555 Whatever dread may be in your soul, however terrible Caesar may be to you... 204 00:13:49,662 --> 00:13:53,120 you must confront him as a brave woman and a great queen. 205 00:13:53,232 --> 00:13:55,132 And you must feel no fear. 206 00:13:55,234 --> 00:13:57,930 If your hand shakes, if your voice quavers... 207 00:13:58,037 --> 00:14:00,403 - Then night and death. - (Sighs) 208 00:14:00,506 --> 00:14:02,531 But if he thinks you worthy to rule... 209 00:14:02,641 --> 00:14:07,806 he will set you on the throne by his side and make you the real ruler of Egypt. 210 00:14:07,913 --> 00:14:11,144 No. He will find me out. He will find me out. 211 00:14:11,250 --> 00:14:13,844 He is easily deceived by women. 212 00:14:13,953 --> 00:14:17,980 - Their eyes dazzle him. - Then we will cheat him. 213 00:14:18,090 --> 00:14:20,558 If you do that, he will eat you at one mouthful. 214 00:14:20,659 --> 00:14:22,456 Oh, no, no. Please. I will be good. I will do whatever you tell me. 215 00:14:22,561 --> 00:14:24,119 - ** (Horn Blowing] - I will be your slave. 216 00:14:24,230 --> 00:14:26,960 - Hark. - What was that? 217 00:14:27,066 --> 00:14:29,364 Caesar's voice. 218 00:14:29,468 --> 00:14:31,527 Let us run away. Come! Oh, come! 219 00:14:31,637 --> 00:14:34,834 You are safe with me until you stand on your throne to receive Caesar. 220 00:14:34,940 --> 00:14:37,306 - Lead me to your palace in the desert. - Oh, I will. I will. 221 00:14:37,409 --> 00:14:39,309 Come, come, come. The gods are angry. 222 00:14:39,411 --> 00:14:42,244 - Do you not feel the earth shaking? - It is the tread of Caesar's legions. 223 00:14:42,348 --> 00:14:44,646 This way, quickly. And let us look for the white cat as we go. 224 00:14:44,750 --> 00:14:46,877 It is he who has turned you into a Roman. 225 00:14:48,687 --> 00:14:51,315 Incorrigible. 226 00:14:51,423 --> 00:14:53,391 Oh, incorrigible. 227 00:14:53,492 --> 00:14:55,392 Come! Oh, come! 228 00:15:08,540 --> 00:15:10,235 (Whimpering Yelp) 229 00:15:48,948 --> 00:15:50,848 Ftatateeta? 230 00:15:57,456 --> 00:15:59,048 What place is this? 231 00:15:59,158 --> 00:16:02,321 This is where I sit when I'm allowed to wear my crown and robes. 232 00:16:03,362 --> 00:16:04,590 Ftatateeta! 233 00:16:04,697 --> 00:16:07,723 (Whimpering] 234 00:16:13,405 --> 00:16:15,930 Order the slave to light the lamps. 235 00:16:16,041 --> 00:16:18,908 - Do you think I may? - Of course. 236 00:16:19,011 --> 00:16:21,912 You're the queen. Go on. 237 00:16:22,014 --> 00:16:25,074 Light all the lamps. 238 00:16:25,184 --> 00:16:27,152 (Woman] Stop! 239 00:16:31,724 --> 00:16:33,749 Who is this you have with you? 240 00:16:33,859 --> 00:16:37,260 How dare you order the lamps to be lighted without my permission? 241 00:16:37,363 --> 00:16:39,024 (Caesar] Who is she? 242 00:16:39,131 --> 00:16:41,065 - Ftatateeta. - Chief Nurse to... 243 00:16:41,166 --> 00:16:43,964 I speak to the queen. Be silent. 244 00:16:44,069 --> 00:16:47,766 Is this how your servants know their place? Send her away. 245 00:16:47,873 --> 00:16:50,433 Do as the queen has bid you. 246 00:16:50,542 --> 00:16:54,444 You are the queen. Send her away. 247 00:16:54,546 --> 00:16:58,642 Ftatateeta, dear, you must go away. just for a little. 248 00:16:58,751 --> 00:17:01,219 You're not commanding her to go. You're begging her. 249 00:17:02,354 --> 00:17:05,187 You're no queen. You'll be eaten. Farewell. 250 00:17:05,290 --> 00:17:07,918 No, no, no! Don't leave me. 251 00:17:08,027 --> 00:17:11,394 A Roman does not stay with queens who are afraid of their slaves. 252 00:17:11,497 --> 00:17:15,024 I am not afraid. Indeed, I am not afraid. 253 00:17:15,134 --> 00:17:17,102 We shall see who is afraid here. 254 00:17:18,237 --> 00:17:20,034 - Cleopatra... - On your knees, woman! 255 00:17:20,139 --> 00:17:22,835 Am I also a child that you dare trifle with me? 256 00:17:22,941 --> 00:17:25,171 Slave. 257 00:17:26,812 --> 00:17:29,474 Can you cut off a head? 258 00:17:35,387 --> 00:17:36,854 Yes. 259 00:17:39,925 --> 00:17:41,722 Have you remembered yourself, mistress? 260 00:17:43,662 --> 00:17:47,758 O Queen, forget not thy servant in the days of thy greatness. 261 00:17:48,801 --> 00:17:51,497 Go! Begone! 262 00:17:51,603 --> 00:17:53,070 Go away! 263 00:17:54,173 --> 00:17:56,437 Give me something to beat her with. 264 00:17:58,377 --> 00:18:01,437 - (Ftatateeta Squeals) - So, you scratch, kitten, do you? 265 00:18:01,547 --> 00:18:03,538 I must beat somebody. 266 00:18:03,649 --> 00:18:05,549 (Whimpering) 267 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:09,019 I will beat him. 268 00:18:09,121 --> 00:18:11,089 - (Whimpering) - There! 269 00:18:11,190 --> 00:18:14,318 There! There! There! 270 00:18:14,426 --> 00:18:16,860 (Cleopatra Shrieking) 271 00:18:16,962 --> 00:18:18,862 I am a queen at last. 272 00:18:18,964 --> 00:18:21,558 A real, real queen. 273 00:18:22,701 --> 00:18:26,262 Cleopatra, the queen. 274 00:18:26,371 --> 00:18:28,601 Oh, I love you for making me a queen. 275 00:18:28,707 --> 00:18:30,607 But queens love only kings. 276 00:18:30,709 --> 00:18:32,609 I will make all the men I love kings. 277 00:18:32,711 --> 00:18:36,203 I will have many young kings with round, strong arms. 278 00:18:36,315 --> 00:18:39,773 And when I am tired of them, I shall whip them to death. 279 00:18:39,885 --> 00:18:41,785 But you will always be my king... 280 00:18:41,887 --> 00:18:46,085 my nice, kind, wise, good old king. 281 00:18:46,191 --> 00:18:48,250 Oh, my wrinkles. 282 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:51,488 You will be the most dangerous of all Caesar's conquests. 283 00:18:51,597 --> 00:18:54,031 Caesar? I forgot Caesar. 284 00:18:54,133 --> 00:18:57,000 You will tell him that I'm a queen, won't you? A real queen. 285 00:18:58,337 --> 00:19:00,100 Listen. 286 00:19:00,205 --> 00:19:02,435 Let us run away and hide until Caesar is gone. 287 00:19:02,541 --> 00:19:05,567 If you fear Caesar, you are no true queen. 288 00:19:05,677 --> 00:19:07,872 And though you were to hide beneath a pyramid... 289 00:19:07,980 --> 00:19:10,813 he would go straight to it and lift it with one hand. 290 00:19:10,916 --> 00:19:12,611 - And then... (Chomps) - (Yelps) 291 00:19:12,718 --> 00:19:14,913 Be afraid if you dare. 292 00:19:15,020 --> 00:19:18,956 ** (Horns Blow] 293 00:19:19,057 --> 00:19:22,686 - Caesar approaches the palace of Cleopatra. - Oh! 294 00:19:22,794 --> 00:19:24,694 Come. 295 00:19:24,796 --> 00:19:26,764 Take your place. 296 00:19:35,274 --> 00:19:37,174 Ho there, Teetatota. 297 00:19:38,577 --> 00:19:40,477 How do you call your slaves? 298 00:19:40,579 --> 00:19:42,672 Clap your hands. 299 00:19:49,721 --> 00:19:51,814 Totateeta. 300 00:19:51,924 --> 00:19:54,484 Bring the queen's robes and her crown and her women. 301 00:19:54,593 --> 00:19:55,753 And prepare. 302 00:19:55,861 --> 00:19:57,988 Yes, the crown, Ftatateeta. I shall wear the crown. 303 00:19:58,096 --> 00:20:00,189 For whom must the queen put on her state? 304 00:20:00,299 --> 00:20:03,097 For a citizen of Rome. A king of kings. 305 00:20:03,202 --> 00:20:05,670 How dare you ask questions! 306 00:20:05,771 --> 00:20:07,671 Go and do as you are told. 307 00:20:12,678 --> 00:20:15,647 ** (Horns Blowing] 308 00:20:26,191 --> 00:20:28,921 Of all the queen's women, these two alone are left. 309 00:20:29,027 --> 00:20:31,393 - The rest are fied. - (Caesar) Two are enough. 310 00:20:31,496 --> 00:20:33,589 Poor Caesar generally has to dress himself. 311 00:20:33,699 --> 00:20:36,463 The queen of Egypt is not a Roman barbarian. 312 00:20:38,770 --> 00:20:42,433 Be brave, my nursling. Hold up your head before this stranger. 313 00:20:43,709 --> 00:20:45,700 Are you trembling? 314 00:20:45,811 --> 00:20:49,679 No, I... I... 315 00:20:49,781 --> 00:20:52,045 You must tell Caesar that I am the queen. 316 00:20:52,150 --> 00:20:54,118 He will not ask me. 317 00:20:58,123 --> 00:21:02,150 He will know Cleopatra by her pride, her courage... 318 00:21:02,261 --> 00:21:04,229 her majesty and her beauty. 319 00:21:15,073 --> 00:21:18,736 Is it sweet or bitter to be a queen, Cleopatra? 320 00:21:18,844 --> 00:21:20,311 Bitter. 321 00:21:20,412 --> 00:21:23,939 Cast out fear and you will conquer Caesar. 322 00:21:24,049 --> 00:21:25,573 (Horns Blowing) 323 00:21:25,684 --> 00:21:28,744 Halt! Forward, sentinel! 324 00:21:28,854 --> 00:21:31,414 Fly! Fly! 325 00:21:31,523 --> 00:21:34,686 Fly! The Romans are in the courtyard! 326 00:21:34,793 --> 00:21:37,125 - The Romans are in the courtyard! - (Attendant) We are lost! 327 00:21:37,229 --> 00:21:40,824 (Attendants Shrieking, Shouting) 328 00:21:40,932 --> 00:21:43,992 The queen must face Caesar alone. 329 00:21:44,102 --> 00:21:45,569 Answer "So be it." 330 00:21:45,671 --> 00:21:47,571 So be it. 331 00:21:47,673 --> 00:21:49,766 - Good. - (Soldiers In Distance, Indistinct] 332 00:21:49,875 --> 00:21:52,605 (Cleopatra Shrieks, Whimpers] 333 00:21:52,711 --> 00:21:55,043 You are my nursling. You have said "So be it." 334 00:21:55,147 --> 00:21:58,014 And if you die for it, you must make the queen's word good. 335 00:21:59,651 --> 00:22:01,812 (Soldier] Forward march! 336 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:05,879 Now, if you quail... 337 00:22:21,707 --> 00:22:23,607 Hail, Caesar! 338 00:22:27,479 --> 00:22:29,310 (All) Hail, Caesar! 339 00:22:35,921 --> 00:22:37,445 (Squeals) 340 00:23:04,249 --> 00:23:08,015 (Man Singing Out, Indistinct) 341 00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:10,020 (MAN Ripe fiigs! 342 00:23:10,122 --> 00:23:12,215 (Continues, Indistinct) 343 00:23:13,825 --> 00:23:17,886 Fresh mackerel! 344 00:23:17,996 --> 00:23:21,397 Fresh mackerel! 345 00:23:21,500 --> 00:23:25,095 Fresh mackerel! 346 00:23:25,203 --> 00:23:27,933 Fresh mackerel! 347 00:23:28,039 --> 00:23:30,132 Fresh mackerel! 348 00:23:30,242 --> 00:23:33,678 (Woman] The Romans! The Romans! 349 00:23:33,779 --> 00:23:36,680 - They're coming! - ** (Drums Beating March In Distance] 350 00:23:36,782 --> 00:23:39,842 - They're coming! - (Crowd) The Romans are coming! 351 00:23:39,951 --> 00:23:41,942 (Crowd Shouting, Screaming) 352 00:23:42,053 --> 00:23:45,352 - (Man] What are you running away from? - My children! My children! 353 00:23:45,457 --> 00:23:47,220 The Romans won't eat them. 354 00:23:47,325 --> 00:23:49,384 They're as civilized as you or I. 355 00:23:49,494 --> 00:23:51,724 - (Crowd Screaming) - (Drums Beating) 356 00:24:00,172 --> 00:24:02,640 (Screaming Continues) 357 00:24:33,438 --> 00:24:36,100 (Soldier) Halt! 358 00:24:36,208 --> 00:24:38,836 (Drums Stop) 359 00:24:38,944 --> 00:24:42,846 - Attention! - (Drum Tattoo) 360 00:24:42,948 --> 00:24:46,213 We wait here for our second in command, Rufio. 361 00:24:47,252 --> 00:24:49,413 This city is Alexandria. 362 00:24:49,521 --> 00:24:53,548 Remember that... Alexandria, the capital of Egypt. 363 00:24:53,658 --> 00:24:56,024 You've got to behave yourselves here. 364 00:24:56,127 --> 00:24:59,096 Be stiffish with the men, but you may fraternize with the women. 365 00:24:59,197 --> 00:25:02,496 - (All Laughing) - Silence! 366 00:25:02,601 --> 00:25:05,001 Silence, I tell you! 367 00:25:05,103 --> 00:25:07,071 ** (Trumpet Fanfare] 368 00:25:07,172 --> 00:25:09,231 That is Rufio. 369 00:25:09,341 --> 00:25:11,241 Attention! 370 00:25:11,343 --> 00:25:12,708 Half turn left! 371 00:25:12,811 --> 00:25:14,779 - (Soldier) Half turn left! - (Soldier 372 00:25:23,154 --> 00:25:24,121 - Centurion. - Sir! 373 00:25:24,222 --> 00:25:26,213 See that building? That's the royal palace. 374 00:25:26,324 --> 00:25:28,519 Caesar's in there. I'm going now to join him. 375 00:25:28,627 --> 00:25:31,425 Keep a platoon of picked men within call. They may be wanted. 376 00:25:31,530 --> 00:25:33,395 - Picked men. You understand. - Yes, sir. 377 00:25:33,498 --> 00:25:37,059 - What are these Romans? Peasants brought up to scare crows. - (Centurion] Number three, fall out! 378 00:25:37,168 --> 00:25:39,568 - Sons of smiths, millers and tanners. - (Centurion Calling Out Men] 379 00:25:39,671 --> 00:25:43,004 And are we not nobles consecrated to arms, descended from the gods? 380 00:25:43,108 --> 00:25:45,804 The gods are not always good to their poor relations. 381 00:25:45,911 --> 00:25:48,744 O subtle one. O serpent. 382 00:25:48,847 --> 00:25:52,339 (Centurion] ...1 6, 1 8, 2 4- 383 00:25:52,450 --> 00:25:54,975 Let us wait and take sides with the winner. 384 00:25:55,086 --> 00:25:56,747 - Ptolemy. - Cleopatra. 385 00:25:56,855 --> 00:26:00,689 Cleopatra... or Ptolemy. 386 00:26:00,792 --> 00:26:04,751 - (Crowd Chattering] - (Man] The king of Egypt has a word to speak. 387 00:26:04,863 --> 00:26:07,889 Peace! For the king's word. 388 00:26:08,967 --> 00:26:11,197 Take notice of this, all of you! 389 00:26:11,303 --> 00:26:15,364 I am the first-born son of Auletes the Flute Blower... 390 00:26:15,473 --> 00:26:17,373 who was your king. 391 00:26:17,475 --> 00:26:21,002 My sister Berenice drove him from his throne... 392 00:26:21,112 --> 00:26:25,481 and reigned in this stead, but... but... 393 00:26:25,584 --> 00:26:27,552 - "The gods would not suffer"... - Yes. 394 00:26:27,652 --> 00:26:30,678 The gods would not suff... 395 00:26:30,789 --> 00:26:32,757 - The gods... - (Man, Prompting] "Impiety. " 396 00:26:34,092 --> 00:26:35,889 I forget what the gods would not suffer. 397 00:26:35,994 --> 00:26:40,590 The king wished to say the gods would not suffer the impiety of his sister to go unpunished. 398 00:26:40,699 --> 00:26:43,293 (Ptolemy) Yes, yes. I remember the rest of it. 399 00:26:43,401 --> 00:26:47,838 Therefore, the gods sent a stranger... one Mark Antony... 400 00:26:47,939 --> 00:26:51,705 a Roman captain of horsemen across the sands of the desert... 401 00:26:51,810 --> 00:26:55,906 and he set my father again upon the throne. 402 00:26:56,014 --> 00:26:56,912 (Prompting] 'And now"- 403 00:26:57,015 --> 00:26:59,313 And now that my father is dead... 404 00:26:59,417 --> 00:27:02,147 my sister Cleopatra would snatch the kingdom from me... 405 00:27:02,253 --> 00:27:04,153 and reign in my place. 406 00:27:04,255 --> 00:27:07,156 - But the gods would not suffer- - "Will not maintain"... 407 00:27:07,258 --> 00:27:11,024 Oh, yes. Will not maintain such iniquity. 408 00:27:11,129 --> 00:27:13,791 But with the help of the witch Ftatateeta... 409 00:27:13,898 --> 00:27:17,231 she has cast a spell on the Roman Julius Caesar... 410 00:27:17,335 --> 00:27:20,600 to uphold her false pretense to rule Egypt. 411 00:27:20,705 --> 00:27:24,141 Take notice then that I will not suffer... 412 00:27:24,242 --> 00:27:27,473 that I will not suffer... 413 00:27:27,579 --> 00:27:30,980 What is it that I will not suffer now? 414 00:27:31,082 --> 00:27:33,380 (Ornaments Jangle) 415 00:27:33,485 --> 00:27:38,149 The king will not suffer a foreigner to take from him the throne of our Egypt. 416 00:27:38,256 --> 00:27:40,952 (Crowd Clamoring) 417 00:27:41,059 --> 00:27:46,361 Tell the king, Achillas, how many soldiers and horsemen follow Julius Caesar. 418 00:27:46,464 --> 00:27:48,864 But two Roman legions, O King. 419 00:27:48,967 --> 00:27:52,960 3,000 soldiers and scarce a thousand horsemen. 420 00:27:53,071 --> 00:27:55,835 (Crowd Laughing) 421 00:28:00,545 --> 00:28:02,513 Peace, ho! 422 00:28:02,614 --> 00:28:05,014 (Laughter Stops] 423 00:28:05,116 --> 00:28:07,016 Caesar approaches. 424 00:28:14,125 --> 00:28:17,356 The king permits the Roman commander to enter. 425 00:28:31,976 --> 00:28:34,274 Which is the king... the man or the boy? 426 00:28:34,379 --> 00:28:37,439 I am Pothinus, the guardian of my lord the king. 427 00:28:38,516 --> 00:28:40,916 So you're the king. 428 00:28:41,019 --> 00:28:43,419 Dull work at your age, eh? 429 00:28:43,521 --> 00:28:45,421 Your servant, Pothinus. 430 00:28:47,125 --> 00:28:49,855 - And this gentleman? - Achillas, the king's general. 431 00:28:49,961 --> 00:28:51,861 Ah. A general. 432 00:28:51,963 --> 00:28:54,557 I am a general myself, but I began too old. 433 00:28:54,666 --> 00:28:56,497 Health and many victories, Achillas. 434 00:28:56,601 --> 00:28:58,728 As the gods will, Caesar. 435 00:28:58,837 --> 00:28:59,997 And you, sir, are... 436 00:29:00,105 --> 00:29:02,300 Theodotus, the king's tutor. 437 00:29:02,407 --> 00:29:06,138 So, you teach men how to be kings, Theodotus. 438 00:29:06,244 --> 00:29:08,212 That is very clever of you. 439 00:29:10,582 --> 00:29:12,482 And, uh, this place? 440 00:29:12,584 --> 00:29:15,644 The council chamber of the chancellors of the king's treasury, Caesar. 441 00:29:15,754 --> 00:29:18,552 That reminds me. I want some money. 442 00:29:18,656 --> 00:29:21,022 The king's treasury is poor, Caesar. 443 00:29:21,126 --> 00:29:23,219 Yes. I noticed there is but one chair in it. 444 00:29:23,328 --> 00:29:25,558 Bring a chair there, some of you, for Caesar. 445 00:29:25,663 --> 00:29:29,121 - Caesar. - Oh, no, no, my boy. 446 00:29:29,234 --> 00:29:31,134 That is your chair of state. 447 00:29:31,236 --> 00:29:33,704 Sit down. Sit down. 448 00:29:36,608 --> 00:29:38,576 - (Toots) - (Clicks Tongue) 449 00:29:38,676 --> 00:29:40,644 A chair for Caesar. 450 00:29:46,651 --> 00:29:49,211 (Crowd Murmuring) 451 00:29:50,822 --> 00:29:53,382 - Sacrilege. - (Crowd Gasping, Murmuring] 452 00:29:53,491 --> 00:29:55,618 Sit on that, Caesar. 453 00:29:57,529 --> 00:30:01,989 Oh, I forgot. I had not made my companions known to you, Pothinus. 454 00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:05,900 This gentleman is Rufio, my comrade-in-arms. 455 00:30:06,004 --> 00:30:08,165 - This is Britannus, my secretary. - How do you do? 456 00:30:08,273 --> 00:30:10,537 He is an islander from the western end of the world. 457 00:30:10,642 --> 00:30:12,542 (Random Notes) 458 00:30:14,345 --> 00:30:16,836 (Melody) 459 00:30:16,948 --> 00:30:20,475 - (Clears Throat) - (Plays Melody Badly) 460 00:30:26,157 --> 00:30:28,057 (Whispering) Caesar, the tax returns. 461 00:30:28,159 --> 00:30:30,127 A surplus, as you predicted. 462 00:30:32,397 --> 00:30:33,887 Now, Pothinus, to business. 463 00:30:33,998 --> 00:30:35,693 I want 1 6,000 talents. 464 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,564 - (Crowd Gasping) - Impossible. 465 00:30:38,670 --> 00:30:40,729 There is not so much money in the king's treasury. 466 00:30:40,839 --> 00:30:43,364 The royal taxes have not been collected for a whole year. 467 00:30:43,474 --> 00:30:45,339 Oh, yes, they have, Pothinus. 468 00:30:45,443 --> 00:30:47,809 My officers have been collecting them all morning. 469 00:30:47,912 --> 00:30:50,472 - (Sputters) - (Crowd Muttering] 470 00:30:51,583 --> 00:30:54,780 Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world... 471 00:30:54,886 --> 00:30:59,619 can find time to occupy himself with such a trifie as our taxes? 472 00:30:59,724 --> 00:31:04,058 My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world. 473 00:31:04,162 --> 00:31:05,857 You must pay, Pothinus. 474 00:31:05,964 --> 00:31:10,958 But in return for your bounty, I will settle this dispute about the throne for you, if you will. 475 00:31:11,069 --> 00:31:13,537 You say the matter has been at issue for a year. 476 00:31:13,638 --> 00:31:16,801 - May I have 1 0 minutes at it? - You will do as you please doubtless. 477 00:31:16,908 --> 00:31:18,603 Good. 478 00:31:19,811 --> 00:31:22,439 But first let us have Cleopatra here. 479 00:31:22,547 --> 00:31:25,072 Cleopatra? She is not in Alexandria. 480 00:31:25,183 --> 00:31:27,583 I think she is. Call Totateeta. 481 00:31:27,685 --> 00:31:29,812 Ho there, Teetatota! 482 00:31:34,359 --> 00:31:38,420 Who pronounces the name of Ftatateeta, the queen's chief nurse? 483 00:31:38,529 --> 00:31:41,521 (Caesar) No one can pronounce it, Tota, except yourself. 484 00:31:44,636 --> 00:31:46,536 Where's your mistress? 485 00:31:46,638 --> 00:31:48,731 - (Giggles) - (Crowd Murmuring] 486 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:52,105 Will the queen favor us with her presence for a moment? 487 00:31:52,210 --> 00:31:54,804 Am I to behave like a queen? 488 00:31:54,913 --> 00:31:56,380 Yes. 489 00:31:56,481 --> 00:31:58,676 You may go, Ftatateeta. 490 00:32:07,759 --> 00:32:09,784 (Crowd Gasping] 491 00:32:09,894 --> 00:32:13,830 Caesar! This is how she treats me always! 492 00:32:13,932 --> 00:32:18,096 If I am king, why is she allowed to take everything from me? (Crying) 493 00:32:18,202 --> 00:32:20,898 You are not to be king, you little crybaby. 494 00:32:21,005 --> 00:32:22,905 You are to be eaten by the Romans. 495 00:32:23,007 --> 00:32:25,134 Come here, my boy, and stand by me. 496 00:32:35,253 --> 00:32:37,949 Take your throne. I don't want it. 497 00:32:38,056 --> 00:32:40,388 Go this instant and sit down in your place! 498 00:32:43,995 --> 00:32:46,930 Go, Ptolemy. Always take a throne when it's offered you. 499 00:32:49,801 --> 00:32:52,167 - Now, Pothinus... - Aren't you going to speak to me? 500 00:32:52,270 --> 00:32:54,932 Be quiet. Open your mouth again before I give you leave... 501 00:32:55,039 --> 00:32:56,939 and you shall be eaten. 502 00:32:57,041 --> 00:33:00,533 I am not afraid. A queen must not be afraid. 503 00:33:00,645 --> 00:33:03,239 Eat my husband there if you like. He's afraid. 504 00:33:03,348 --> 00:33:06,749 - Your husband? What do you mean? - That little thing. 505 00:33:08,419 --> 00:33:09,886 Husband? 506 00:33:09,988 --> 00:33:13,446 Caesar, you're a stranger here and do not know our laws. 507 00:33:13,558 --> 00:33:18,154 The kings and queens of Egypt may not marry except with our own royal blood. 508 00:33:18,262 --> 00:33:21,288 Ptolemy and Cleopatra are born king and consort... 509 00:33:21,399 --> 00:33:23,424 just as they're born brother and sister. 510 00:33:23,534 --> 00:33:26,162 Caesar, this is not proper. 511 00:33:26,270 --> 00:33:29,637 - Not proper? - I say it is a scandal. 512 00:33:29,741 --> 00:33:33,802 Scandal or not, my friend, it opens the gates of peace. 513 00:33:36,647 --> 00:33:38,171 Hear then what I propose. 514 00:33:38,282 --> 00:33:39,874 Hear Caesar there! 515 00:33:39,984 --> 00:33:43,943 Ptolemy and Cleopatra shall reign jointly in Egypt. 516 00:33:44,055 --> 00:33:46,023 - (Crowd Gasps] - (Pothinus] Monstrous! 517 00:33:50,161 --> 00:33:52,891 Peace with honor, Pothinus? 518 00:33:52,997 --> 00:33:55,329 - (Man] What conceit! - (Pothinus) A Roman trick! 519 00:33:55,433 --> 00:33:56,900 No! We will not have it! 520 00:33:57,001 --> 00:33:59,162 (Crowd Shouting) No! No! 521 00:33:59,270 --> 00:34:01,738 (Shouting Continues] 522 00:34:03,808 --> 00:34:06,504 Caesar, be honest! 523 00:34:06,611 --> 00:34:09,011 The money you are demanding is the price of our freedom. 524 00:34:09,113 --> 00:34:11,877 Take it and leave us to settle our own affairs. 525 00:34:11,983 --> 00:34:14,850 - Yes. Go back to your own country. - (Crowd Clamoring) 526 00:34:14,952 --> 00:34:16,977 Egypt belongs to us, not to you. 527 00:34:17,088 --> 00:34:18,885 Egypt for the Egyptians! 528 00:34:18,990 --> 00:34:20,753 (Crowd Shouting) Egypt for the Egyptians! 529 00:34:20,858 --> 00:34:22,689 Egypt for the Egyptians! 530 00:34:22,794 --> 00:34:25,490 (Rufio) Egypt for the Egyptians? 531 00:34:25,596 --> 00:34:28,394 Do you forget there's a Roman army of occupation here... 532 00:34:28,499 --> 00:34:31,730 left by Aulus Gabinius when he set up your toy king for you? 533 00:34:31,836 --> 00:34:34,532 And now under my command. 534 00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:37,437 I am the Roman general here, Caesar. 535 00:34:39,510 --> 00:34:41,842 And also the Egyptian general, eh? 536 00:34:41,946 --> 00:34:43,470 That is so, Caesar. 537 00:34:43,581 --> 00:34:46,482 So you can make war on the Egyptians in the name of Rome... 538 00:34:46,584 --> 00:34:49,712 and on the Romans... on me if necessary... in the name of Egypt. 539 00:34:49,821 --> 00:34:51,721 That is so, Caesar. 540 00:34:51,823 --> 00:34:55,259 And which side are you on at present, if I may presume to ask, General? 541 00:34:55,359 --> 00:34:58,726 On the side of the right... and of the gods. 542 00:34:58,830 --> 00:35:01,594 Mmm. How many men have you? 543 00:35:01,699 --> 00:35:03,963 That will appear when I take the field. 544 00:35:04,068 --> 00:35:07,697 Are your men Romans? If not, it doesn't matter how many there are. 545 00:35:07,805 --> 00:35:10,330 - (Pothinus] Insolence! - We shall see, my friend. 546 00:35:10,441 --> 00:35:13,604 (Laughs) It is useless to try to bluff us, Rufio. 547 00:35:13,711 --> 00:35:17,943 Caesar has been defeated before, and he may be defeated again. 548 00:35:19,050 --> 00:35:22,747 - What can you do with 4,000 men? - (Crowd Laughing) 549 00:35:22,854 --> 00:35:26,415 And what can you do without money? Away with you! 550 00:35:26,524 --> 00:35:28,424 (Crowd Clamoring) 551 00:35:28,526 --> 00:35:31,427 - Go back to your deaths. - Away with Caesar! 552 00:35:31,529 --> 00:35:33,463 (Crowd) Away with Caesar! 553 00:35:33,564 --> 00:35:37,261 - (Pothinus] Away with you! Out of our country! - (Crowd Shouting) Away with Caesar! 554 00:35:40,471 --> 00:35:44,464 Caesar, why do you let them talk to you like that? 555 00:35:44,575 --> 00:35:45,974 Are you afraid? 556 00:35:46,077 --> 00:35:48,238 Well, my dear, what they say is quite true. 557 00:35:48,346 --> 00:35:50,610 But if you go away, I shall not be queen. 558 00:35:50,715 --> 00:35:53,445 I shall not go away until you are queen. 559 00:35:57,255 --> 00:35:58,722 (Hisses) 560 00:35:59,757 --> 00:36:03,693 - (Women Gasping, Whispering] - What is she doing? 561 00:36:07,265 --> 00:36:09,130 Achillas, if you are not a fool... 562 00:36:09,233 --> 00:36:12,202 you will take that girl while she is under your hand. 563 00:36:12,303 --> 00:36:14,362 Why not take Caesar as well, Achillas? 564 00:36:14,472 --> 00:36:16,064 Well said, Rufio. Why not? 565 00:36:16,174 --> 00:36:17,835 (Scoffs) Try it, Achillas. Try it. 566 00:36:17,942 --> 00:36:20,809 - Let us take Caesar and hold him! - (Crowd Clamoring) 567 00:36:22,246 --> 00:36:24,806 (Clamoring Continues) 568 00:36:25,950 --> 00:36:28,009 (Rufio) Guards! Guards there! 569 00:36:28,119 --> 00:36:30,019 (Crowd Gasping, Clamoring) 570 00:36:38,062 --> 00:36:40,257 (Britannus) Peace, Egyptians! 571 00:36:40,364 --> 00:36:43,663 You are Caesar's prisoners, all of you. 572 00:36:43,768 --> 00:36:45,963 Oh, no, no. By no means. 573 00:36:46,070 --> 00:36:47,867 Caesar's guests, gentlemen. 574 00:36:47,972 --> 00:36:50,736 Caesar's guests. 575 00:36:50,841 --> 00:36:52,741 Won't you cut their heads off? 576 00:36:52,843 --> 00:36:54,743 What, cut off your brother's head? 577 00:36:54,845 --> 00:36:57,643 Why not? He'd cut off mine if he got the chance. 578 00:36:57,748 --> 00:37:00,717 - Wouldn't you, Ptolemy? - I would. 579 00:37:00,818 --> 00:37:02,786 I will, too, when I grow up. 580 00:37:04,589 --> 00:37:06,056 (Sneers) 581 00:37:06,157 --> 00:37:10,253 - Caesar, if you attempt to detain us... - (Rufiio] He will succeed, Egyptian. 582 00:37:10,361 --> 00:37:12,056 Make up your mind to that. 583 00:37:12,163 --> 00:37:15,997 The road to Rome is open, and you shall travel it if Caesar chooses. 584 00:37:16,100 --> 00:37:19,592 I could do no less, Pothinus, to secure the retreat of my own soldiers. 585 00:37:19,704 --> 00:37:21,569 I am accountable for every life among them. 586 00:37:21,672 --> 00:37:23,572 I am the king's guardian. 587 00:37:23,674 --> 00:37:26,234 I stand on my right here. Where is your right? 588 00:37:26,344 --> 00:37:29,108 It is in Rufio's scabbard, my friend. 589 00:37:29,213 --> 00:37:31,113 I may not be able to keep it there much longer. 590 00:37:31,215 --> 00:37:33,740 - (Crowd Muttering) - And this is Roman justice. 591 00:37:33,851 --> 00:37:36,285 Not Roman gratitude, I hope. 592 00:37:36,387 --> 00:37:40,949 Is Caesar's life of so little account to him that he forgets that we have saved it? 593 00:37:41,058 --> 00:37:43,356 My life? Is that all? 594 00:37:43,461 --> 00:37:47,522 Your life, your laurels, your future. 595 00:37:47,632 --> 00:37:50,362 I can call a witness to prove that but for us... 596 00:37:50,468 --> 00:37:54,837 the Roman army of occupation led by Pompey... the greatest soldier in the world... 597 00:37:54,939 --> 00:37:56,964 would now have Caesar at its mercy. 598 00:37:57,074 --> 00:38:00,271 Ho there, Lucius Septimius! 599 00:38:00,378 --> 00:38:03,211 Come forth and testify before Caesar. 600 00:38:03,314 --> 00:38:05,544 No. No. 601 00:38:05,650 --> 00:38:09,609 Yes, I say. Let the military tribune bear witness. 602 00:38:11,222 --> 00:38:13,486 (Theodotus] Lucius Septimius. 603 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,225 Bear witness, Lucius Septimius. 604 00:38:25,336 --> 00:38:28,464 Caesar came to Egypt in pursuit of his foe. 605 00:38:28,572 --> 00:38:30,506 Did we shelter his foe? 606 00:38:30,608 --> 00:38:33,543 As Pompey's foot touched the Egyptian shore... 607 00:38:33,644 --> 00:38:36,112 his head fell by the stroke of my sword. 608 00:38:36,213 --> 00:38:39,808 We have given you a full and sweet measure of vengeance. 609 00:38:39,917 --> 00:38:42,852 Vengeance? If I could stoop to vengeance... 610 00:38:42,953 --> 00:38:47,014 what would I not exact from you as the price of this murdered man's blood? 611 00:38:48,059 --> 00:38:51,358 Was he not my son-in-law, my ancient friend? 612 00:38:51,462 --> 00:38:53,987 Am I Julius Caesar, or am I a wild beast... 613 00:38:54,098 --> 00:38:57,158 that you fiing to me the gray head of the old soldier, the laureled conqueror... 614 00:38:57,268 --> 00:38:59,793 and then claim my gratitude for it? 615 00:38:59,904 --> 00:39:02,065 Oh, begone. You fill me with horror. 616 00:39:03,574 --> 00:39:06,600 (Septimius, Scoffiirg] You have seen severed heads before, Caesar. 617 00:39:06,711 --> 00:39:09,646 And severed right hands, too, I think... 618 00:39:09,747 --> 00:39:14,047 some thousands of them after you vanquished the king of the Gauls. 619 00:39:14,151 --> 00:39:18,281 Did you spare him with all your clemency? Was that vengeance? 620 00:39:18,389 --> 00:39:20,789 Would that it had been. 621 00:39:20,891 --> 00:39:22,791 Vengeance, at least, is human. 622 00:39:23,928 --> 00:39:26,692 No, by the gods. 623 00:39:26,797 --> 00:39:28,287 Those severed right hands... 624 00:39:28,399 --> 00:39:32,563 and the brave king of the Gauls basely strangled in a vault beneath the Capitol... 625 00:39:32,670 --> 00:39:34,604 were a wise severity... 626 00:39:34,705 --> 00:39:39,005 a necessary protection to the commonwealth, a duty of statesmanship... 627 00:39:39,110 --> 00:39:42,546 follies and fictions 1 0 times bloodier than honest vengeance. 628 00:39:44,682 --> 00:39:46,650 What a fool I was then. 629 00:39:47,685 --> 00:39:51,917 To think that men's lives should be at the mercy of such fools. 630 00:40:08,205 --> 00:40:10,366 Lucius Septimius, pardon me. 631 00:40:10,474 --> 00:40:14,069 Why should the slayer of the king of the Gauls rebuke the slayer of Pompey? 632 00:40:16,781 --> 00:40:18,715 You are free to go, all here in this palace. 633 00:40:18,816 --> 00:40:22,013 Free? Achillas's army... renegades and all? 634 00:40:22,119 --> 00:40:24,087 Free, Rufio. 635 00:40:24,188 --> 00:40:26,748 Lucius Septimius, you're free to go with the rest. 636 00:40:26,857 --> 00:40:30,554 Or stay if you will, and I'll find a place for you in my service. 637 00:40:30,661 --> 00:40:32,993 The odds are against you, Caesar. 638 00:40:34,432 --> 00:40:35,558 I go. 639 00:40:42,606 --> 00:40:44,130 Farewell. 640 00:40:44,241 --> 00:40:48,075 Come, Pothinus, Achillas, whilst there is yet time. 641 00:41:01,392 --> 00:41:04,327 Do you suppose he'd let us go if he had our heads in his hands? 642 00:41:04,428 --> 00:41:07,261 Caesar, this is not good sense. 643 00:41:07,364 --> 00:41:10,822 Your duty to Rome demands that her enemies should be prevented from doing further mischief. 644 00:41:10,935 --> 00:41:14,735 It's no use talking to him, Britannus. You may save your breath to cool your porridge. 645 00:41:14,839 --> 00:41:17,399 But mark this, Caesar. Clemency's very well for you. 646 00:41:17,508 --> 00:41:19,942 But what is it for your soldiers who have to fight tomorrow... 647 00:41:20,044 --> 00:41:22,171 the men you spared yesterday? 648 00:41:22,279 --> 00:41:26,010 You may give what orders you please, but l, for one, will take no prisoners. 649 00:41:26,116 --> 00:41:28,016 I'll kill my enemies in the field. 650 00:41:28,118 --> 00:41:30,484 Then I shall never have to fight them again. 651 00:41:30,588 --> 00:41:34,752 (Sighs) Now, with your leave, I'll see these gentry off the premises. 652 00:41:34,859 --> 00:41:37,453 What? Have they left the boy alone? 653 00:41:37,561 --> 00:41:39,256 Shame. Shame. 654 00:41:41,665 --> 00:41:43,565 Come, Your Majesty. 655 00:41:51,642 --> 00:41:54,907 Is he... Is he turning me out of my palace? 656 00:41:55,012 --> 00:41:56,536 You're welcome to stay if you wish. 657 00:41:56,647 --> 00:41:58,308 Go, my boy. I'll not harm you. 658 00:41:58,415 --> 00:42:00,349 But you'll be safer away among your friends. 659 00:42:00,451 --> 00:42:02,146 Here, you're in the lion's mouth. 660 00:42:02,253 --> 00:42:06,189 It's not the lion I fear, but the jackal. 661 00:42:06,290 --> 00:42:08,986 - (Rufio Chuckling) - Brave boy. 662 00:42:09,093 --> 00:42:12,824 Little silly! You think that very clever. 663 00:42:12,930 --> 00:42:15,023 Britannus, attend the king. 664 00:42:15,132 --> 00:42:17,225 Give him in charge of that Pothinus fellow. 665 00:42:22,673 --> 00:42:26,006 And this piece of goods... what's to be done with her? 666 00:42:27,878 --> 00:42:30,847 However, I suppose I may leave that to you. 667 00:42:32,650 --> 00:42:35,380 Did you mean me to go with the rest? 668 00:42:35,486 --> 00:42:38,216 You're free to do just as you please, Cleopatra. 669 00:42:38,322 --> 00:42:41,189 Then you don't care whether I stay or not. 670 00:42:41,292 --> 00:42:43,385 Of course, I'd rather you stayed. 671 00:42:43,494 --> 00:42:45,621 Much, much rather? 672 00:42:46,664 --> 00:42:49,497 Much, much rather. 673 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:53,092 Then I consent to stay... because I am asked. 674 00:42:53,203 --> 00:42:55,171 But I do not want to, mind. 675 00:43:03,714 --> 00:43:06,148 That is quite understood. 676 00:43:06,250 --> 00:43:09,083 - Totateeta! - (Giggles) 677 00:43:09,186 --> 00:43:12,349 Her name is not Totateeta. 'Tis Ftatateeta. 678 00:43:12,456 --> 00:43:16,051 Well, Tafiatafeeta will forgive the erring tongue of a Roman. 679 00:43:18,162 --> 00:43:21,689 Tota, the queen will hold state here in Alexandria. 680 00:43:21,799 --> 00:43:24,597 Engage women to attend upon her and do all that is needful. 681 00:43:24,702 --> 00:43:27,136 Am I then the mistress of the queen's household? 682 00:43:27,237 --> 00:43:31,105 No. I am mistress of the queen's household. 683 00:43:31,208 --> 00:43:35,702 Go and do as you are told, or I will have you thrown into the Nile this very afternoon... 684 00:43:35,813 --> 00:43:37,974 to poison the poor crocodiles. 685 00:43:38,082 --> 00:43:41,142 Oh, no, no, no. 686 00:43:41,251 --> 00:43:43,742 Oh, yes, yes, yes. 687 00:43:44,989 --> 00:43:47,583 You are very sentimental, Caesar. 688 00:43:47,691 --> 00:43:50,057 But you are clever. 689 00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,060 And if you do as I tell you... 690 00:43:52,162 --> 00:43:55,598 you will soon learn how to govern. 691 00:44:01,672 --> 00:44:04,641 (Crowd Cheering) 692 00:44:12,883 --> 00:44:14,874 (Man) Pothinus! 693 00:44:14,985 --> 00:44:18,386 (Crowd) Hail! Hail, Pothinus! 694 00:44:18,489 --> 00:44:21,481 - Achillas! - Lucius Septimius! 695 00:44:21,592 --> 00:44:24,288 Egypt for the Egyptians! 696 00:44:24,395 --> 00:44:27,990 (Crowd) Egypt for the Egyptians! 697 00:44:28,098 --> 00:44:32,194 Egypt for the Egyptians! 698 00:44:32,302 --> 00:44:34,862 (Crowd Clamoring) 699 00:44:43,147 --> 00:44:45,047 (Laughs) 700 00:44:47,551 --> 00:44:49,519 (No Audible Dialogue) 701 00:45:30,794 --> 00:45:32,989 - What? - Your barley water, Caesar. 702 00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:18,665 Ftatateeta! 703 00:46:19,877 --> 00:46:21,845 Ftatateeta! 704 00:46:25,149 --> 00:46:28,016 Get up, child. You must be bathed this morning. 705 00:46:28,118 --> 00:46:31,679 No. I had my month's bath the day before yesterday. 706 00:46:31,789 --> 00:46:33,654 In future, you must have a bath every day. 707 00:46:33,757 --> 00:46:35,725 No, no. I should die of it. 708 00:46:35,826 --> 00:46:37,953 You must. Your life is changed. 709 00:46:38,061 --> 00:46:42,555 You are still my child, but to all others you are now a grown woman and a queen. 710 00:46:42,666 --> 00:46:45,328 Yes. I am a queen. 711 00:46:45,435 --> 00:46:48,268 Ftata, what will Caesar do with me? 712 00:46:48,372 --> 00:46:50,340 Ask rather what you will do with him. 713 00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:54,774 Ah. My child, you have charmed him. You are safe. You are powerful. 714 00:46:54,878 --> 00:46:57,642 I will guide you until you learn how to guide yourself. 715 00:46:57,748 --> 00:46:59,215 Fear nothing. 716 00:46:59,316 --> 00:47:02,114 Who could fear Caesar? He is not great and terrible. 717 00:47:02,219 --> 00:47:04,119 He's only an elderly gentleman. 718 00:47:04,221 --> 00:47:07,452 Rather sad-looking and wrinkled, but very kind. 719 00:47:07,558 --> 00:47:13,326 He is a magician, and magicians can change their shapes as they please. 720 00:47:13,430 --> 00:47:15,330 Everything about him is magical. 721 00:47:15,432 --> 00:47:17,263 He would not sleep in the golden chamber... 722 00:47:17,367 --> 00:47:20,564 but made his soldiers bring a bare stretcher from the camp and put it in his study. 723 00:47:20,671 --> 00:47:25,165 Even then, he did not sleep in it, but sat up working like a slave all night. 724 00:47:25,275 --> 00:47:28,938 Yet, everyone obeys him as if he were a god. 725 00:47:29,046 --> 00:47:31,537 I think he is a god in disguise. 726 00:47:31,648 --> 00:47:34,082 For he has changed your nature, has he not? 727 00:47:34,184 --> 00:47:36,948 Oh, yes, he has. That is true. 728 00:47:37,054 --> 00:47:39,750 Ftatateeta, before he came... 729 00:47:39,857 --> 00:47:42,883 I was afraid of you more than anyone else on earth. 730 00:47:42,993 --> 00:47:47,453 And now... I'm not afraid of you at all. 731 00:47:47,564 --> 00:47:50,795 Tell me. What must I do to begin with now that I'm really a queen? 732 00:47:50,901 --> 00:47:54,166 You must begin by having a bath every day. 733 00:47:54,271 --> 00:47:56,762 - Oh. - Come, child, and get it over. 734 00:47:56,874 --> 00:48:00,366 - You will soon get used to it and love it. - Never. It is too dreadful. 735 00:48:00,477 --> 00:48:03,674 Oh, well, if I must be washed again so soon, Ftatateeta, it must be a scented bath. 736 00:48:03,780 --> 00:48:07,045 - Have you scented it? - No. Caesar hates perfumes. 737 00:48:07,150 --> 00:48:10,119 And if you redden your lips, he will not kiss you. Come on. 738 00:48:27,204 --> 00:48:29,399 He must indeed be a god. 739 00:48:31,575 --> 00:48:34,601 (Sighs) For only a god could be so unlike a man. 740 00:48:49,059 --> 00:48:52,654 - No! - (Guards Laughing] 741 00:49:12,115 --> 00:49:16,779 Cleopatra, I really think I must eat you after all. 742 00:49:16,887 --> 00:49:19,515 You mustn't talk to me now as if I were a child. 743 00:49:19,623 --> 00:49:22,649 You have been growing up since the sphinx introduced us that night. 744 00:49:22,759 --> 00:49:24,727 You think you know more than I do already. 745 00:49:24,828 --> 00:49:27,160 No. That would be very silly of me. 746 00:49:27,264 --> 00:49:31,496 Of course I know that, but... Are you angry with me? 747 00:49:31,601 --> 00:49:34,331 - No. - Then why are you so thoughtful? 748 00:49:36,306 --> 00:49:38,433 I have work to do. 749 00:49:38,542 --> 00:49:40,703 Work? What nonsense. 750 00:49:40,811 --> 00:49:43,609 You must remember you are a king now. I have made you one. 751 00:49:43,714 --> 00:49:46,706 - Kings don't work. - And who told you that, little kitten, eh? 752 00:49:46,817 --> 00:49:49,308 My father was king of Egypt, and he never worked. 753 00:49:49,419 --> 00:49:52,820 Well, he lost his throne. And how did he get it back again? 754 00:49:52,923 --> 00:49:57,724 I will tell you. A beautiful young man with strong, round arms... 755 00:49:57,828 --> 00:50:02,822 came over the desert with many horsemen and gave my father back his throne. 756 00:50:02,933 --> 00:50:04,833 I was only 1 2 then. 757 00:50:04,935 --> 00:50:07,631 Oh, I wish he would come again now that I am a queen. 758 00:50:07,738 --> 00:50:09,638 I would make him my husband. 759 00:50:09,740 --> 00:50:11,435 It might be managed perhaps... 760 00:50:11,541 --> 00:50:14,510 for it was I who sent that beautiful young man to help your father. 761 00:50:14,611 --> 00:50:16,977 You know him? Has he come with you? 762 00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:19,344 Oh, I wish he had. 763 00:50:19,449 --> 00:50:21,349 I wish he had. 764 00:50:26,623 --> 00:50:29,922 He is many, many years younger than you, is he not? 765 00:50:30,961 --> 00:50:32,986 He is somewhat younger. 766 00:50:33,096 --> 00:50:35,496 Would he be my husband, do you think, if I asked him? 767 00:50:35,599 --> 00:50:39,194 - Very likely. - But I shouldn't like to ask him. 768 00:50:39,302 --> 00:50:42,362 Could you... Could you not persuade him to ask me... 769 00:50:42,472 --> 00:50:44,633 without knowing that I wanted him to? 770 00:50:44,741 --> 00:50:47,209 My poor child. 771 00:50:47,310 --> 00:50:49,471 Why do you say that as if you were sorry for me? 772 00:50:49,579 --> 00:50:53,640 - Does he love anyone else? - I'm afraid so. 773 00:50:53,750 --> 00:50:55,980 Then I shall not be his first love. 774 00:50:56,086 --> 00:51:00,489 Not quite the first. He is greatly admired by women. 775 00:51:00,590 --> 00:51:03,616 Oh, I wish I would be the first. 776 00:51:03,727 --> 00:51:07,493 But if he loves me, I will make him kill all the rest. 777 00:51:07,597 --> 00:51:10,088 Tell me. Is he still beautiful? 778 00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:13,829 Do his round, strong arms shine in the sun like marble? 779 00:51:13,937 --> 00:51:17,373 He is in excellent condition considering how much he eats and drinks. 780 00:51:17,474 --> 00:51:19,442 (Groans) 781 00:51:19,543 --> 00:51:21,773 You mustn't say common, earthly things about him. 782 00:51:21,878 --> 00:51:24,642 I love him. He is a god. 783 00:51:25,949 --> 00:51:30,579 - What is his name? - His name is Mark Antony. 784 00:51:30,687 --> 00:51:32,587 Mark Antony. 785 00:51:33,990 --> 00:51:35,958 Mark Antony. 786 00:51:37,194 --> 00:51:40,595 Mark Antony. 787 00:51:40,697 --> 00:51:43,689 - What a beautiful name. - (Chuckles) 788 00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:46,428 Oh, I love you for sending him to help my father. 789 00:51:46,536 --> 00:51:49,004 (Crowd Clamoring] 790 00:51:50,407 --> 00:51:52,841 You must run away for a little, and send my secretary to me. 791 00:51:52,943 --> 00:51:55,639 Oh, no, no, no. I want to stay and hear you talk about Mark Antony. 792 00:51:55,745 --> 00:51:57,770 But if I don't get to work, Pothinus and the rest of them... 793 00:51:57,881 --> 00:52:00,941 will cut us off from the harbor, and then the road to Rome will be blocked. 794 00:52:01,051 --> 00:52:04,248 No matter. I don't want you to go back to Rome. 795 00:52:04,354 --> 00:52:06,345 But you want Mark Antony to come from it. 796 00:52:06,456 --> 00:52:09,721 Oh, yes, yes, yes. I forgot. Go quickly, Caesar. 797 00:52:09,826 --> 00:52:14,320 And keep the way over the sea open for my Mark Antony. 798 00:52:14,431 --> 00:52:18,731 (Crowd Clamoring] 799 00:52:18,835 --> 00:52:21,804 (Clamoring Continues) 800 00:52:39,256 --> 00:52:41,315 - What now? - This, Caesar. 801 00:52:41,424 --> 00:52:43,949 - And two of my comrades killed in the marketplace. - Why? 802 00:52:44,060 --> 00:52:46,824 There's an army come to Alexandria calling itself the Roman army. 803 00:52:46,930 --> 00:52:49,262 - The Roman army of occupation. - Commanded by one Achillas. 804 00:52:49,366 --> 00:52:52,335 - Well? - The citizens rose against us when the army entered the gates. 805 00:52:52,435 --> 00:52:56,895 - They set upon us. I cut my way out. - Good. I'm glad to see you alive. 806 00:52:57,007 --> 00:52:58,975 - Rufio, we're besieged. - What, already? 807 00:52:59,075 --> 00:53:01,339 - Caesar! Caesar! - Yes, yes. I know. 808 00:53:01,444 --> 00:53:03,503 Comrade, give the word to turn out on the beach and stand with the boats. 809 00:53:03,613 --> 00:53:05,638 Get your wound attended to. Britannus, go with him. 810 00:53:05,749 --> 00:53:07,717 Rufio. 811 00:53:09,553 --> 00:53:12,147 - We have some ships in the west harbor. Burn them. - Burn them? 812 00:53:12,255 --> 00:53:15,986 Take every boat we have in the east harbor and seize the Pharos... that island with the lighthouse. 813 00:53:16,092 --> 00:53:18,959 Leave half our men behind to hold the beach and the quay outside this palace. 814 00:53:19,062 --> 00:53:20,962 That's the way home to Rome. 815 00:53:21,064 --> 00:53:23,624 For the rest, Egypt for the Egyptians. 816 00:53:23,733 --> 00:53:25,633 Well, you know best, I suppose. Is that all? 817 00:53:25,735 --> 00:53:27,828 That's all. Those ships burnt yet? 818 00:53:27,938 --> 00:53:29,735 Be easy. I shall waste no time. 819 00:53:29,839 --> 00:53:31,807 Caesar, Pothinus demands speech with you. 820 00:53:31,908 --> 00:53:33,808 - Where is he? - Waits in the council chamber. 821 00:53:33,910 --> 00:53:37,209 In my opinion, he needs a lesson. His manner is most insolent. 822 00:53:44,421 --> 00:53:48,255 - Well, Pothinus? - I have brought you our ultimatum, Caesar. 823 00:53:48,358 --> 00:53:50,918 Ultimatum? The door was open. 824 00:53:51,027 --> 00:53:53,086 You should have gone out through it before you declared war. 825 00:53:53,196 --> 00:53:56,324 - You're my prisoner now. - I your prisoner? 826 00:53:56,433 --> 00:53:58,128 Do you know that King Ptolemy... 827 00:53:58,235 --> 00:54:00,931 with an army outnumbering your little troop by a hundred to one... 828 00:54:01,037 --> 00:54:03,028 is in possession of Alexandria? 829 00:54:03,139 --> 00:54:05,107 Well, get out of here if you can. 830 00:54:05,208 --> 00:54:08,507 And tell your friends not to kill any more Romans in the marketplace. 831 00:54:08,612 --> 00:54:11,843 Otherwise my soldiers, who do not share my celebrated clemency... 832 00:54:11,948 --> 00:54:13,848 will probably kill you. 833 00:54:13,950 --> 00:54:17,010 Pass the word to the guard. Pothinus is now prisoner. 834 00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:19,554 Britannus, fetch my armor. 835 00:54:23,793 --> 00:54:25,988 (Crowd Clamoring Outside] 836 00:54:26,096 --> 00:54:28,428 Caesar! See there. 837 00:54:35,705 --> 00:54:38,333 (Caesar] What? The ships ablaze already? Impossible. 838 00:54:38,441 --> 00:54:40,341 (Rufiio] It's not my doing. The Egyptians have saved me the trouble. 839 00:54:40,443 --> 00:54:43,503 - They have captured the west harbor. - And the east harbor? The lighthouse, Rufio. 840 00:54:43,613 --> 00:54:45,706 Can I embark a legion in five minutes? 841 00:54:45,815 --> 00:54:49,546 The first cohort's already on the quay. If you want faster work, come and do it yourself. 842 00:54:49,653 --> 00:54:51,416 Patience, Rufio. Patience. 843 00:54:51,521 --> 00:54:53,421 Patience. Who's impatient here... you or I? 844 00:54:53,523 --> 00:54:56,185 Forgive me, Rufio, and hurry them as much as you can. 845 00:54:56,293 --> 00:54:58,454 (Man] Help! Help! Help! 846 00:54:58,561 --> 00:55:00,495 Help! Woe! Alas! 847 00:55:00,597 --> 00:55:02,929 Woe! Alas! 848 00:55:03,033 --> 00:55:05,763 - Help! Woe! Woe! - What? 849 00:55:05,869 --> 00:55:08,337 - Woe! Woe! Woe! - What? 850 00:55:08,438 --> 00:55:10,668 Help. Help. Help. 851 00:55:10,774 --> 00:55:12,799 - Who is slain? - Slain? 852 00:55:12,909 --> 00:55:15,707 Worse than the death of 1 0,000 men. 853 00:55:15,812 --> 00:55:17,871 Loss irreparable to mankind. 854 00:55:17,981 --> 00:55:19,073 What's happened, man? 855 00:55:19,182 --> 00:55:21,116 The fire has spread from your ships. 856 00:55:21,217 --> 00:55:24,015 - The library of Alexandria is in fiames. - Oh, is that all? 857 00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:27,180 Rufio, is Britannus asleep? I sent him for my armor an hour ago. 858 00:55:27,290 --> 00:55:30,726 - Britannus! Britannicus! - (Rufiio] Britannus! 859 00:55:30,827 --> 00:55:34,627 Caesar, will you go down to posterity as a barbarous soldier... 860 00:55:34,731 --> 00:55:36,858 too ignorant to know the value of books? 861 00:55:36,966 --> 00:55:39,491 Oh, Theodotus, I'm an author myself. 862 00:55:41,237 --> 00:55:42,704 Good. 863 00:55:47,410 --> 00:55:50,174 What is burning there is the memory of mankind! 864 00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:52,510 A shameful memory. Let it burn. 865 00:55:52,615 --> 00:55:54,708 Would you destroy the past? 866 00:55:54,818 --> 00:55:57,013 Aye, and build the future with its ruins. 867 00:55:58,054 --> 00:56:00,614 Hearken to me, Theodotus, teacher of kings. 868 00:56:00,724 --> 00:56:03,124 I cannot spare you a man nor a bucket of water just now... 869 00:56:03,226 --> 00:56:05,217 - But you shall pass freely out of the palace. - Oh! 870 00:56:05,328 --> 00:56:08,388 Away with you to Achillas. Borrow his legions to put out the fire. 871 00:56:08,498 --> 00:56:11,433 Caesar, posterity will bless you. 872 00:56:11,534 --> 00:56:15,026 Will you stay to talk whilst the memory of mankind is burning? 873 00:56:15,138 --> 00:56:18,403 Sentry! Pass Theodotus out. Away with you! Away with you! 874 00:56:18,508 --> 00:56:20,874 I must save the library! 875 00:56:22,278 --> 00:56:25,111 What's this? You let him go? More clemency. 876 00:56:25,215 --> 00:56:27,342 I have let him go to save the library. 877 00:56:27,450 --> 00:56:31,045 - We must respect literature, Rufio. - Folly on folly's head. 878 00:56:31,154 --> 00:56:33,122 Besides, every Egyptian we imprison... 879 00:56:33,223 --> 00:56:37,353 means imprisoning two good Roman soldiers to guard him, eh? 880 00:56:37,460 --> 00:56:41,658 I might have known there was some fox's trick behind your fine talking. 881 00:56:41,765 --> 00:56:44,325 (Laughing) 882 00:56:44,434 --> 00:56:45,901 (Rufio) All ready there? 883 00:56:46,002 --> 00:56:49,267 - All ready! - We await for Caesar! 884 00:56:49,372 --> 00:56:52,341 Tell them Caesar is coming. The rogues. 885 00:56:52,442 --> 00:56:54,706 Ho, Caesar's guard there! Push off. 886 00:56:54,811 --> 00:56:58,406 All except the longboat. Stand by it to embark. 887 00:57:04,788 --> 00:57:07,120 I am going to dress you, Caesar. Sit down. 888 00:57:07,223 --> 00:57:09,623 Caesar, this is not proper. 889 00:57:09,726 --> 00:57:12,524 These Roman helmets are so becoming. 890 00:57:16,399 --> 00:57:19,368 Oh! (Laughing) 891 00:57:19,469 --> 00:57:21,369 What are you laughing at? 892 00:57:21,471 --> 00:57:23,371 You're bald! 893 00:57:23,473 --> 00:57:27,910 - Cleopatra. - So that's why you wear the wreath... to hide it. 894 00:57:28,011 --> 00:57:29,239 Peace, Egyptian. 895 00:57:29,345 --> 00:57:31,176 They are the bays of the conqueror. 896 00:57:31,281 --> 00:57:34,148 - Peace, thou... islander. - (Blusters) 897 00:57:34,250 --> 00:57:38,209 You should rub your head with strong spirits of sugar, Caesar. 898 00:57:38,321 --> 00:57:39,515 That will make it grow. 899 00:57:39,622 --> 00:57:42,318 Cleopatra, do you like to be reminded that you're very young? 900 00:57:42,425 --> 00:57:43,892 No. 901 00:57:43,993 --> 00:57:47,326 Neither do I like to be reminded that I'm... middle-aged. 902 00:57:48,364 --> 00:57:50,264 Now. 903 00:57:57,106 --> 00:57:59,233 Oh. How nice. 904 00:58:00,376 --> 00:58:03,004 You look only about 50 in it. 905 00:58:03,112 --> 00:58:05,342 You mustn't speak in that manner to Caesar. 906 00:58:05,448 --> 00:58:09,282 Is it true that when Caesar caught you on that island... 907 00:58:09,385 --> 00:58:11,353 you were painted all over blue? 908 00:58:11,454 --> 00:58:14,685 Blue is the color worn by all Britons of good standing. 909 00:58:14,791 --> 00:58:16,691 In war, we stain our bodies blue... 910 00:58:16,793 --> 00:58:20,661 so that, though our enemies may strip us of our clothes and our lives... 911 00:58:20,763 --> 00:58:23,254 they cannot strip us of our respectability. 912 00:58:23,366 --> 00:58:24,765 (Giggling] 913 00:58:24,868 --> 00:58:27,302 Oh. Let me hang this on. 914 00:58:38,815 --> 00:58:40,715 Now. 915 00:58:40,817 --> 00:58:42,842 You look splendid. 916 00:58:42,952 --> 00:58:44,419 Now, Caesar! 917 00:58:44,521 --> 00:58:46,489 (Sighs) Have you done talking? 918 00:58:46,589 --> 00:58:49,285 The longboat awaits you. The others race to the lighthouse. 919 00:58:49,392 --> 00:58:52,259 Is this well set today, Britannicus? 920 00:58:52,362 --> 00:58:54,694 At Pharsalia, it was as blunt as a barrel hoop. 921 00:58:54,797 --> 00:58:57,095 It'll split one of the Egyptian's hairs today, Caesar. 922 00:58:57,200 --> 00:58:58,497 I've set it myself. 923 00:58:58,601 --> 00:59:01,900 Oh! You're not really going into battle to be killed? 924 00:59:02,005 --> 00:59:04,371 No, Cleopatra. No man goes into battle to be killed. 925 00:59:04,474 --> 00:59:07,500 Oh, but they do get killed. My sister's husband was killed in battle. 926 00:59:07,610 --> 00:59:10,135 You mustn't go. 927 00:59:10,246 --> 00:59:13,113 - Let him go. - (Caesar, Britannus Laughing) 928 00:59:13,216 --> 00:59:15,241 Please. Please don't go. 929 00:59:15,351 --> 00:59:17,876 What will happen to me if you never come back? 930 00:59:17,987 --> 00:59:21,388 - Are you afraid? - No. 931 00:59:21,491 --> 00:59:24,517 Come to the balcony and you shall see us take the Pharos. 932 00:59:24,627 --> 00:59:26,424 You must learn to look on battles. 933 00:59:26,529 --> 00:59:29,191 Then take me with you. Let me come with you to the Pharos. 934 00:59:29,299 --> 00:59:32,029 No, no, my child. You must stay here till I return. 935 00:59:33,536 --> 00:59:35,436 That is well. 936 00:59:35,538 --> 00:59:38,063 - Now, Rufio, march. - Oh! 937 00:59:38,174 --> 00:59:41,166 - You won't be able to go. - Why? What now? 938 00:59:41,277 --> 00:59:42,904 They're drying up the harbor with buckets. 939 00:59:43,012 --> 00:59:44,502 A multitude of soldiers. Over there. 940 00:59:44,614 --> 00:59:46,844 They're dipping up the water. 941 00:59:50,687 --> 00:59:54,214 This is your accursed clemency, Caesar. Theodotus has brought them. 942 00:59:54,324 --> 00:59:57,816 I meant him to, Rufio. They've come to put out the fire. 943 00:59:57,927 --> 01:00:01,294 The library will keep them busy whilst we seize the lighthouse, eh? 944 01:00:01,397 --> 01:00:03,297 (Chuckles) More foxing. 945 01:00:08,137 --> 01:00:10,571 Caesar. 946 01:00:10,673 --> 01:00:14,769 Cleopatra, if all goes well, I shall be back this evening. 947 01:00:23,519 --> 01:00:25,817 - (Soldier] All aboard! - Good-bye! 948 01:00:28,524 --> 01:00:30,355 (Cleopatra) Good-bye. 949 01:00:30,460 --> 01:00:32,553 (Soldiers] Hail, Caesar! 950 01:00:32,662 --> 01:00:34,562 Give way there! 951 01:00:39,602 --> 01:00:42,833 Good-bye, my Caesar. Come back safe. 952 01:00:43,973 --> 01:00:46,203 Good-bye. 953 01:00:58,021 --> 01:01:00,683 (Crowd Chattering) 954 01:01:12,335 --> 01:01:15,168 - (Man) Who goes there, eh? - (Soldier) Stand! 955 01:01:15,271 --> 01:01:17,535 Who are you? 956 01:01:17,640 --> 01:01:20,040 Centurion, I am Apollodorus the Sicilian. 957 01:01:20,143 --> 01:01:23,237 My calling is to choose beautiful things for beautiful queens. 958 01:01:23,346 --> 01:01:25,906 Carpets for the queen's apartments in the palace. 959 01:01:26,015 --> 01:01:29,746 The queen? Oh, yes, yes. Pass him in. 960 01:01:29,852 --> 01:01:33,117 Pass all these bazaar people in to the queen with their goods. 961 01:01:33,222 --> 01:01:35,850 But mind you pass no one out that you have not passed in... 962 01:01:35,958 --> 01:01:38,791 not even the queen herself. 963 01:01:38,895 --> 01:01:40,954 (Laughing) 964 01:01:41,064 --> 01:01:43,897 I have brought my caravan past three sentinels... 965 01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:46,833 all so busy staring at the lighthouse that not one of them challenged me. 966 01:01:46,936 --> 01:01:50,804 - Is this your Roman discipline? - We're not here to watch the land, but the sea. 967 01:01:50,907 --> 01:01:53,239 Who's this piece of Egyptian crockery? 968 01:01:53,342 --> 01:01:55,572 Apollodorus, rebuke this Roman dog! 969 01:01:55,678 --> 01:01:59,136 And bid him bridle his tongue in the presence of the mistress of the queen's household. 970 01:01:59,248 --> 01:02:02,274 This is a great lady who stands high with Caesar. 971 01:02:02,385 --> 01:02:03,784 Ftatateeta! 972 01:02:03,886 --> 01:02:05,649 What are you dreaming of? 973 01:02:05,755 --> 01:02:07,950 Ftatateeta! 974 01:02:08,057 --> 01:02:10,218 No, no! You must not come. There are men here. 975 01:02:10,326 --> 01:02:13,159 - Oh, that ever I was born! - Ftatateeta, I've thought of something. 976 01:02:13,262 --> 01:02:15,696 - I want a boat at once. - A boat? 977 01:02:15,798 --> 01:02:17,493 No, no. You cannot. 978 01:02:17,600 --> 01:02:20,763 Apollodorus, speak to the queen. 979 01:02:21,871 --> 01:02:23,338 Beautiful queen. 980 01:02:23,439 --> 01:02:26,374 I am Apollodorus the Sicilian, your servant from the bazaar. 981 01:02:26,476 --> 01:02:28,637 I have no time for carpets today. Get me a boat. 982 01:02:28,745 --> 01:02:31,805 You cannot go on the water except in the royal barge. 983 01:02:31,914 --> 01:02:35,077 Royalty, Ftatateeta, lies not in the barge, but in the queen. 984 01:02:35,184 --> 01:02:39,382 The touch of Your Majesty's foot on the meanest boat in the harbor will make it royal. 985 01:02:39,489 --> 01:02:43,220 Apollodorus, you are my perfect knight, and I will always buy my carpets through you. 986 01:02:43,326 --> 01:02:45,692 - Can you row? - My oar shall be Your Majesty's wings. 987 01:02:45,795 --> 01:02:48,263 - Ho there! Boatman. - Aye. 988 01:02:48,364 --> 01:02:50,423 - Whither shall I row, my queen? - For the lighthouse. Come. 989 01:02:50,533 --> 01:02:52,296 Stand! You cannot pass. 990 01:02:52,401 --> 01:02:56,030 How dare you. Do you know that I am the queen? 991 01:02:56,139 --> 01:02:58,767 I have my orders. You cannot pass. 992 01:02:58,875 --> 01:03:00,900 Ftatateeta, strangle him. 993 01:03:01,010 --> 01:03:02,500 Keep off there. 994 01:03:02,612 --> 01:03:04,637 Pass on to the palace and take the queen in with you. 995 01:03:04,747 --> 01:03:06,715 And how if I do neither? 996 01:03:06,816 --> 01:03:09,284 - Then I'll drive this pilum through you. - At your service, my friend. 997 01:03:09,385 --> 01:03:10,784 Help him. Help him. 998 01:03:10,887 --> 01:03:13,151 I shall not need help, my lady. 999 01:03:13,256 --> 01:03:16,123 What shall it be... sword against pilum or sword against sword? 1000 01:03:16,225 --> 01:03:19,285 Roman against Sicilian, curse you. Take that! 1001 01:03:28,104 --> 01:03:29,662 Help! Help! 1002 01:03:40,183 --> 01:03:41,480 (Soldier Groans) 1003 01:03:48,124 --> 01:03:50,251 (Soldier Groaning) 1004 01:03:51,727 --> 01:03:52,853 (Grunts) 1005 01:04:01,671 --> 01:04:04,105 (Ftatateeta) Thrust your knife into the dog's throat, Apollodorus! 1006 01:04:04,207 --> 01:04:06,334 A curse on you! Let me go! Ho there, guard! Help! Help! 1007 01:04:06,442 --> 01:04:09,741 Stab the little Roman reptile! Spit him on your sword. 1008 01:04:09,846 --> 01:04:11,837 What is this? Make your report, soldier. 1009 01:04:11,948 --> 01:04:14,382 This old woman's dangerous. She's as strong as three men. 1010 01:04:14,483 --> 01:04:16,246 (Ftatateeta] Centurion, he would have slain the queen. 1011 01:04:16,352 --> 01:04:18,183 (Soldier] So I would sooner than let her pass. 1012 01:04:18,287 --> 01:04:21,313 Cleopatra, I am loath to offend you, but without Caesar's express orders... 1013 01:04:21,424 --> 01:04:23,756 I dare not let you pass beyond the Roman lines. 1014 01:04:23,860 --> 01:04:26,192 You must withdraw into the palace and examine your carpets there. 1015 01:04:26,295 --> 01:04:29,355 I will not. I am the queen. 1016 01:04:29,465 --> 01:04:31,365 Caesar doesn't speak to me as you do. 1017 01:04:31,467 --> 01:04:34,903 Have Caesar's centurions changed manners with his scullions? 1018 01:04:35,004 --> 01:04:37,063 I do my duty. That is enough for me. 1019 01:04:37,173 --> 01:04:42,236 Majesty, when a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares it his duty. 1020 01:04:42,345 --> 01:04:44,643 As for you, Apollodorus, you may thank the gods... 1021 01:04:44,747 --> 01:04:47,648 you are not nailed to the palace door with a pilum for your meddling. 1022 01:04:48,751 --> 01:04:51,515 - Is this woman your wife? - Jupiter, no! 1023 01:04:51,621 --> 01:04:54,886 Not that the lady's not a very striking figure in her own way... 1024 01:04:54,991 --> 01:04:57,050 but she is not my wife. 1025 01:04:57,159 --> 01:05:00,424 - Roman, I am Ftatateeta, the mistress of... - Well, keep your hands off my men, mistress... 1026 01:05:00,529 --> 01:05:03,726 or I'll have you pitched into the harbor though you were as strong as 1 0 men. 1027 01:05:03,833 --> 01:05:08,395 We shall see whom Isis loves best... her servant Ftatateeta or a dog of a Roman. 1028 01:05:08,504 --> 01:05:10,404 Two more men to this post here. 1029 01:05:10,506 --> 01:05:13,168 See that no one leaves the palace but this man and his merchandise. 1030 01:05:13,276 --> 01:05:15,471 If he draws his sword again, kill him. 1031 01:05:28,124 --> 01:05:29,819 Get about your business. 1032 01:05:34,630 --> 01:05:36,928 (Soldier] You ought to know better. Off with you. 1033 01:05:37,033 --> 01:05:39,001 (Coins Clinking] 1034 01:05:41,671 --> 01:05:43,138 (Sighs) 1035 01:05:43,239 --> 01:05:46,106 Do not tantalize a poor man. 1036 01:05:49,879 --> 01:05:52,245 Pearl of queens, the centurion is still at hand. 1037 01:05:52,348 --> 01:05:55,647 The Roman soldiers are incorruptible... when their officers are looking. 1038 01:05:55,751 --> 01:05:57,685 I shall have to carry your word to Caesar. 1039 01:05:57,787 --> 01:05:59,721 Are these carpets very heavy? 1040 01:05:59,822 --> 01:06:02,154 It matters not how heavy. There are plenty of porters. 1041 01:06:02,258 --> 01:06:05,386 How do they put them into the boats? Do they throw them down? 1042 01:06:05,494 --> 01:06:08,088 Not into the small boats, Majesty. It would sink them. 1043 01:06:08,197 --> 01:06:10,825 - Not into that man's boat, for instance? - No, no. 1044 01:06:10,933 --> 01:06:12,560 Too small. 1045 01:06:12,668 --> 01:06:16,331 But you can take a carpet to Caesar in it if I send one? 1046 01:06:16,439 --> 01:06:17,906 Assuredly. 1047 01:06:18,007 --> 01:06:21,340 And you will have it carried gently down the steps and take great care of it? 1048 01:06:21,444 --> 01:06:23,742 Great, great care? 1049 01:06:25,081 --> 01:06:27,413 More than of my own body. 1050 01:06:27,516 --> 01:06:30,110 Good. Come, Ftatateeta. 1051 01:06:30,219 --> 01:06:32,153 No, Apollodorus. You must not come. 1052 01:06:32,254 --> 01:06:34,814 I will choose my carpet myself. You must wait here. 1053 01:06:35,858 --> 01:06:38,622 - Follow this lady. Obey her. - This way. 1054 01:06:38,728 --> 01:06:41,561 And take your shoes off before you put your feet on those stairs! 1055 01:06:45,401 --> 01:06:48,199 Listen. Were you sent here to watch me or watch the Egyptians? 1056 01:06:48,304 --> 01:06:51,933 - We know our duty. - Well, then why don't you do it? Look! 1057 01:06:53,342 --> 01:06:55,936 (Apollodorus] The Egyptians are moving. They're going to recapture the Pharos. 1058 01:06:56,045 --> 01:06:58,377 They will attack by land and sea along the great mole! 1059 01:06:58,481 --> 01:07:00,210 Stir yourselves! The hunt is up! 1060 01:07:08,190 --> 01:07:10,556 (Rufiio] Centurion, reinforce the platoons on the mole. 1061 01:07:10,659 --> 01:07:12,126 Yes, sir. 1062 01:07:23,906 --> 01:07:28,036 Rufio, this has been a mad expedition. We shall be beaten. 1063 01:07:29,345 --> 01:07:31,438 The Egyptians cannot be such fools... 1064 01:07:31,547 --> 01:07:35,847 as not to storm the barricade and swoop down on us here before it is finished. 1065 01:07:36,986 --> 01:07:40,114 It's the first time I've ever run an avoidable risk. 1066 01:07:42,658 --> 01:07:45,991 - I shouldn't have come to Egypt. - An hour ago, you were all for victory. 1067 01:07:46,095 --> 01:07:48,029 Yes. I was a fool. 1068 01:07:48,130 --> 01:07:50,428 Rash, Rufio. Boyish. 1069 01:07:50,533 --> 01:07:52,763 Boyish? Not a bit of it. 1070 01:07:52,868 --> 01:07:54,836 Here. 1071 01:07:54,937 --> 01:07:57,371 - What are these for? - To eat. 1072 01:07:58,407 --> 01:08:00,602 That's what's the matter with you. 1073 01:08:00,709 --> 01:08:05,146 When a man comes to your age, he runs down before the midday meal. 1074 01:08:05,247 --> 01:08:07,442 Go on, eat. And drink. 1075 01:08:07,550 --> 01:08:10,314 Then take another look at our chances. 1076 01:08:10,419 --> 01:08:12,410 My age? 1077 01:08:12,521 --> 01:08:14,421 Yes, I'm an old man. 1078 01:08:15,491 --> 01:08:18,949 Worn out now. Quite true, Rufio. 1079 01:08:19,061 --> 01:08:21,928 Now, Achillas is still in his prime. 1080 01:08:23,532 --> 01:08:26,126 Ptolemy is a boy. 1081 01:08:26,235 --> 01:08:29,898 Well, every dog has his day. 1082 01:08:31,307 --> 01:08:34,242 I've had mine. I cannot complain. 1083 01:08:35,277 --> 01:08:37,507 These dates are not bad, Rufio. 1084 01:08:37,613 --> 01:08:39,877 That's my old Caesar. 1085 01:08:39,982 --> 01:08:43,418 It's a great war... now we've got rid of the women. 1086 01:08:50,326 --> 01:08:52,226 You again? Keep your distance. 1087 01:08:52,328 --> 01:08:55,764 Come within a yard of me, you old crocodile, and I'll give you this in your jaw. 1088 01:08:55,865 --> 01:08:59,130 Peace, Roman fellow. You are now single-handed. 1089 01:09:00,769 --> 01:09:04,967 Apollodorus, this carpet is Cleopatra's present to Caesar. 1090 01:09:05,074 --> 01:09:09,534 It has rolled up in it 1 0 precious goblets of the thinnest Iberian crystal... 1091 01:09:09,645 --> 01:09:12,546 and a hundred eggs of the sacred blue pigeon. 1092 01:09:12,648 --> 01:09:14,741 On your honor, let not one of them be broken. 1093 01:09:14,850 --> 01:09:18,650 On my head be it. Lay it carefully into the boat. 1094 01:09:18,754 --> 01:09:23,657 Those eggs of which the lady speaks must weigh more than a pound apiece. 1095 01:09:23,759 --> 01:09:26,819 This boat is much too small for such a load. 1096 01:09:26,929 --> 01:09:29,363 - Yes! Yes! Me! - (All Shouting) 1097 01:09:29,465 --> 01:09:30,762 Mine's bigger yet! 1098 01:09:30,866 --> 01:09:33,733 Oh, thou injurious porter! 1099 01:09:33,836 --> 01:09:37,328 Oh, thou unnatural son of a she-camel! 1100 01:09:37,439 --> 01:09:39,839 My boat can carry five men. 1101 01:09:39,942 --> 01:09:43,935 Shall it not carry Your Lordship and a bale of pigeons' eggs? 1102 01:09:44,046 --> 01:09:46,640 Oh, thou mangy dromedary! 1103 01:09:46,749 --> 01:09:49,809 The gods shall punish thee for this envious wickedness. 1104 01:09:49,919 --> 01:09:53,787 Oh! I cannot quit this bale now to beat thee... 1105 01:09:53,889 --> 01:09:57,381 but, another day, I will lie in wait for thee. 1106 01:09:57,493 --> 01:09:59,393 (Grumbles) 1107 01:09:59,495 --> 01:10:01,429 (Apollodorus] Peace there, all of you! 1108 01:10:01,530 --> 01:10:05,159 In the name of the gods, Apollodorus, run no risks with that bale. 1109 01:10:05,267 --> 01:10:09,101 Fear not, thou venerable grotesque. I guess its great worth. 1110 01:10:09,205 --> 01:10:11,537 Into the boat with it gently, my sons, my children. 1111 01:10:11,640 --> 01:10:14,131 Gently, ye dogs! 1112 01:10:14,243 --> 01:10:16,143 So. 'Tis well. 1113 01:10:16,245 --> 01:10:19,043 Do not step on it! Do not step on it! 1114 01:10:19,148 --> 01:10:22,640 Be not excited, mistress. All is well. 1115 01:10:22,751 --> 01:10:25,549 Oh, thou brute beast. Thou hast given my heart a turn. 1116 01:10:25,654 --> 01:10:28,214 - Here. - (Chuckles) 1117 01:10:28,324 --> 01:10:30,292 Ye hungry ones. 1118 01:10:30,392 --> 01:10:33,054 - Robber of the poor. - It's not enough! 1119 01:10:35,998 --> 01:10:39,593 Oh! O bounteous prince! 1120 01:10:39,702 --> 01:10:41,602 O lord of the bazaar! 1121 01:10:41,704 --> 01:10:43,604 O favored of the gods! 1122 01:10:43,706 --> 01:10:47,506 O father to all porters of the market! 1123 01:10:47,610 --> 01:10:51,444 Farewell, Ftatateeta. I shall be at the lighthouse before the Egyptians. 1124 01:10:51,547 --> 01:10:53,447 (Ftatateeta] The gods speed thee. 1125 01:10:53,549 --> 01:10:55,983 Farewell, valiant pilum pitcher. 1126 01:10:57,019 --> 01:11:00,284 (Apollodorus) My heart, my heart 1127 01:11:00,389 --> 01:11:03,688 Spread out thy wings 1128 01:11:03,792 --> 01:11:06,420 Spread out thy wings 1129 01:11:06,528 --> 01:11:09,895 Shake off thy heavy 1130 01:11:09,999 --> 01:11:14,095 Load of love 1131 01:11:19,775 --> 01:11:22,141 Platoon, follow me! 1132 01:11:26,548 --> 01:11:28,448 (Britannus] Caesar! 1133 01:11:30,152 --> 01:11:32,347 Caesar! 1134 01:11:32,454 --> 01:11:35,480 Caesar, sir. Our brave mariners have captured a treasure. 1135 01:11:35,591 --> 01:11:37,491 Our enemies are delivered into our hands. 1136 01:11:37,593 --> 01:11:39,891 - In that bag? - Wait till you hear, Caesar. 1137 01:11:39,995 --> 01:11:42,555 This bag contains all the letters that have passed between our enemies. 1138 01:11:42,665 --> 01:11:45,566 - Well? - Well, we shall now know who your foes are. 1139 01:11:45,668 --> 01:11:48,603 The name of every man who's plotted against you since you crossed the Rubicon... 1140 01:11:48,704 --> 01:11:51,002 may be in these papers, for all we know. 1141 01:11:51,106 --> 01:11:53,097 - Put 'em in the fire. - Put them... 1142 01:11:53,208 --> 01:11:57,235 In the fiire. Would you have me waste years of my life condemning men who'll be my friends... 1143 01:11:57,346 --> 01:12:00,338 when I've proved that my friendship is worth more than that of my enemies? 1144 01:12:00,449 --> 01:12:02,883 But your honor... the honor of Rome. 1145 01:12:02,985 --> 01:12:06,978 I do not make human sacrifices to my honor as your druids do. 1146 01:12:07,089 --> 01:12:09,717 Since you won't burn them, at least I can drown them! 1147 01:12:12,461 --> 01:12:14,486 (Water Splashes] 1148 01:12:14,596 --> 01:12:16,496 Caesar, this is mere eccentricity. 1149 01:12:16,598 --> 01:12:20,329 Are all traitors to be allowed to go free for the sake of a... paradox? 1150 01:12:20,436 --> 01:12:23,405 Caesar, when the islander has finished preaching, call me again. 1151 01:12:26,208 --> 01:12:28,438 O Caesar, my great master... 1152 01:12:28,544 --> 01:12:31,843 if only I could persuade you to regard life seriously, as men do in my country. 1153 01:12:31,947 --> 01:12:35,405 - Do they truly do so, Britannus? - Have you not been there? Have you not seen them? 1154 01:12:35,517 --> 01:12:38,543 What Briton speaks as you do in your moments of levity? 1155 01:12:38,654 --> 01:12:41,885 What Briton neglects to attend the services at the sacred grove? 1156 01:12:41,990 --> 01:12:44,925 What Briton wears clothes of many colors as you do... 1157 01:12:45,027 --> 01:12:47,393 instead of... (Chuckles) plain blue... 1158 01:12:47,496 --> 01:12:49,862 as all solid, well-esteemed men should? 1159 01:12:49,965 --> 01:12:53,059 These are moral questions with us. 1160 01:12:53,168 --> 01:12:55,500 Well, well, my friend. Someday I shall settle down... 1161 01:12:55,604 --> 01:12:57,697 and wear a blue toga perhaps. 1162 01:12:57,806 --> 01:13:02,175 Meanwhile, I must get on as best I can in my fiippant Roman way. 1163 01:13:02,277 --> 01:13:03,938 (Water Splashes] 1164 01:13:04,046 --> 01:13:05,843 What now? 1165 01:13:10,386 --> 01:13:12,547 - Hail! - What is this? Who are you? 1166 01:13:12,654 --> 01:13:14,986 - How did you come here? - Calm yourself, my friend. 1167 01:13:15,090 --> 01:13:17,081 I'm not going to eat you. 1168 01:13:19,061 --> 01:13:22,292 Hail, great Caesar! I am Apollodorus the Sicilian, an artist. 1169 01:13:22,398 --> 01:13:24,366 - An artist? A vagabond! - Peace, man. 1170 01:13:24,466 --> 01:13:27,162 Apollodorus is a famous patrician amateur. 1171 01:13:27,269 --> 01:13:30,295 I crave the gentleman's pardon. I understood him to say he was a professional. 1172 01:13:30,406 --> 01:13:33,102 - (Chuckles) - Welcome, Apollodorus. What is your business? 1173 01:13:33,208 --> 01:13:36,302 First, to deliver to you a present from the queen of queens. 1174 01:13:36,412 --> 01:13:38,903 - Who is that? - Cleopatra of Egypt. 1175 01:13:39,014 --> 01:13:42,472 Apollodorus, this is no time for playing with presents. 1176 01:13:42,584 --> 01:13:45,849 Pray you, go back to the queen and tell her that if all goes well... 1177 01:13:45,954 --> 01:13:47,854 we shall return to the palace this evening. 1178 01:13:47,956 --> 01:13:50,015 Caesar, I cannot return. 1179 01:13:50,125 --> 01:13:53,993 As I approached the lighthouse, some fool threw a great leathern bag into the sea. 1180 01:13:54,096 --> 01:13:58,499 It broke the nose of my boat. I had hardlly time to get to the shore before my poor little cockleshell sank. 1181 01:13:58,600 --> 01:14:00,500 I am sorry, Apollodorus. 1182 01:14:00,602 --> 01:14:03,435 The fool shall be rebuked. 1183 01:14:04,473 --> 01:14:08,068 Well, well. What have you brought me? The queen will be hurt if I don't look at it. 1184 01:14:08,177 --> 01:14:10,475 Caesar, have we time to waste on this trumpery? 1185 01:14:10,579 --> 01:14:14,447 - The queen's only a child. - Just so. That's why we mustn't disappoint her. 1186 01:14:14,550 --> 01:14:18,008 Caesar, it's a Persian carpet... a beauty! 1187 01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:20,452 And in it are... so I'm told... 1188 01:14:20,556 --> 01:14:24,253 pigeons' eggs and crystal goblets and fragile, precious things. 1189 01:14:24,359 --> 01:14:27,556 I dare not for my head have it carried up that narrow ladder from the causeway. 1190 01:14:27,663 --> 01:14:30,689 - Swing it up by the crane then! - The crane? 1191 01:14:30,799 --> 01:14:32,767 (Chuckles) Caesar. 1192 01:14:32,868 --> 01:14:36,326 I have sworn to tender this bale of carpet as I tender my own life. 1193 01:14:36,438 --> 01:14:38,998 Then let them swing you up at the same time. 1194 01:14:39,107 --> 01:14:42,201 If the chain breaks, you and the pigeons' eggs will perish together. 1195 01:14:42,311 --> 01:14:44,575 - Is Caesar serious? - Well, his manner is frivolous. 1196 01:14:44,680 --> 01:14:47,706 It's because he's an Italian. But he means what he says. 1197 01:14:47,816 --> 01:14:51,081 Serious or not, he spake well. Give me a squad of soldiers to work the crane. 1198 01:14:51,186 --> 01:14:53,381 No, no. It's worked by an elderly Tyrian and his son... 1199 01:14:53,489 --> 01:14:55,457 a well-conducted youth of 1 4. 1200 01:14:55,557 --> 01:14:58,549 What? An old man and a boy work that? 1201 01:14:58,660 --> 01:15:01,254 - Twenty men, you mean. - No, no. Two only, I assure you. 1202 01:15:01,363 --> 01:15:05,094 They have counterweights and a machine with boiling water, which I don't understand. 1203 01:15:05,200 --> 01:15:07,191 So it isn't of British design. (Clears Throat) 1204 01:15:07,302 --> 01:15:10,931 - Leave the crane to me. Go and await the descent of the chain. - (Chuckles) Good. 1205 01:15:14,309 --> 01:15:18,245 You will see me presently there, rising like the sun with my treasure. 1206 01:15:20,482 --> 01:15:22,677 Are you really going to wait here for this foolery, Caesar? 1207 01:15:22,784 --> 01:15:24,775 - Why not? - The Egyptians will let you know why not... 1208 01:15:24,887 --> 01:15:27,549 if they've got enough sense to make a rush before our barricade's finished. 1209 01:15:27,656 --> 01:15:31,217 And here we are waiting like children to see a carpet full of pigeons' eggs. 1210 01:15:31,326 --> 01:15:33,692 Fear not, my son Rufio. 1211 01:15:33,795 --> 01:15:38,357 When the first Egyptian takes his first step along the mole, the alarm will sound... 1212 01:15:38,467 --> 01:15:41,527 and we two will reach the barricade before the Egyptians. 1213 01:15:41,637 --> 01:15:45,937 We two, Rufio... l, an old man, and you, his biggest boy. 1214 01:15:46,041 --> 01:15:48,669 And the old man will get there first. 1215 01:15:48,777 --> 01:15:50,870 I wish I had some more of those dates. 1216 01:15:59,187 --> 01:16:01,382 Lower away! 1217 01:16:02,891 --> 01:16:04,381 Lower away! 1218 01:16:11,667 --> 01:16:13,601 Easy there! 1219 01:16:16,438 --> 01:16:17,905 Further round. 1220 01:16:18,974 --> 01:16:21,738 So! Haul up! 1221 01:16:32,955 --> 01:16:35,515 Gently. Slowly. Slowly. Mind the eggs. 1222 01:16:35,624 --> 01:16:38,024 Slowly. Slowly. 1223 01:16:46,602 --> 01:16:48,570 Haul away! 1224 01:16:56,912 --> 01:16:59,073 Stand off, my friends. Let Caesar see. 1225 01:17:03,085 --> 01:17:05,986 Nothing but a heap of shawls. Where are the pigeons' eggs? 1226 01:17:06,088 --> 01:17:08,318 Approach, Caesar, and search for them in the shawls. 1227 01:17:08,423 --> 01:17:10,414 (Gasps) Treachery! Stand back, Caesar. 1228 01:17:10,525 --> 01:17:13,255 - I saw the shawls move. There's something alive in there. - Ooh! It's a serpent. 1229 01:17:13,362 --> 01:17:15,489 Dare Caesar thrust his hand in where the serpent moves? 1230 01:17:15,597 --> 01:17:18,794 - Treacherous dog! - Peace. Put up your swords. 1231 01:17:20,435 --> 01:17:24,895 Apollodorus, your serpent seems to breathe very regularly. 1232 01:17:29,444 --> 01:17:33,210 Why, this is a pretty little snake. 1233 01:17:33,315 --> 01:17:35,875 - (Laughs) - Let's have the rest of you. 1234 01:17:35,984 --> 01:17:38,248 Oh! I am smothered. 1235 01:17:38,353 --> 01:17:41,049 Oh, Caesar. A man stood on me in the boat... 1236 01:17:41,156 --> 01:17:44,284 and then... then a great sack of something fell upon me out of the sky... 1237 01:17:44,393 --> 01:17:47,885 then the boat sank, and then I was swung up into the air and bumped down. 1238 01:17:47,996 --> 01:17:50,226 Well, never mind. Here you are, safe and sound at last. 1239 01:17:50,332 --> 01:17:53,165 Aye. And now that she is here, what are we going to do with her? 1240 01:17:53,268 --> 01:17:55,168 (Britannus] But, Caesar, this is not proper. 1241 01:17:55,270 --> 01:17:58,762 She cannot stay here without the companionship of some matron. 1242 01:18:00,909 --> 01:18:03,002 - Shocking! - Aren't you glad to see me? 1243 01:18:03,111 --> 01:18:07,207 Yes, I'm very glad. But Rufio is very angry, and Britannus is shocked. 1244 01:18:07,315 --> 01:18:09,545 You can have their heads cut off, can't you? 1245 01:18:09,651 --> 01:18:12,916 They wouldn't be so useful with their heads cut off as they are now, my seabird. 1246 01:18:13,021 --> 01:18:16,354 We shall have to go away presently and cut off some of your Egyptians' heads. 1247 01:18:16,458 --> 01:18:19,120 How will you like being left here with the chance of being captured... 1248 01:18:19,227 --> 01:18:21,559 by that little brother of yours if we're beaten, huh? 1249 01:18:21,663 --> 01:18:23,722 You mustn't leave me alone, Caesar. 1250 01:18:23,832 --> 01:18:25,766 You will not leave me alone, will you? 1251 01:18:25,867 --> 01:18:28,301 What? Not when the trumpet sounds and all our lives... 1252 01:18:28,403 --> 01:18:30,769 depend upon Caesar being at the barricade before the Egyptians, eh? 1253 01:18:30,872 --> 01:18:33,568 Let them lose their lives. They are only soldiers. 1254 01:18:33,675 --> 01:18:35,643 Cleopatra... 1255 01:18:35,744 --> 01:18:38,679 when that trumpet sounds, we must take every man his life in his hands... 1256 01:18:38,780 --> 01:18:41,010 and throw it in the face of Death. 1257 01:18:41,116 --> 01:18:43,141 And of my soldiers who have trusted me... 1258 01:18:43,251 --> 01:18:47,312 there's not one whose hand I shall not hold more sacred than your head. 1259 01:18:47,422 --> 01:18:49,481 Apollodorus, take her back to the palace. 1260 01:18:49,591 --> 01:18:53,118 Am I a dolphin, Caesar, to cross the seas with young ladies on my back? 1261 01:18:53,228 --> 01:18:56,755 My boat is sunk. Yours are either at the barricade or have returned to the city. 1262 01:18:56,865 --> 01:18:59,026 It doesn't matter. 1263 01:18:59,134 --> 01:19:01,034 I will not go back. (Sobs) 1264 01:19:01,136 --> 01:19:03,229 - Nobody cares for me. - Oh, Cleopatra. 1265 01:19:03,338 --> 01:19:05,932 You want me to be killed! (Sobbing) 1266 01:19:06,041 --> 01:19:10,239 My poor child, your life matters little here to anyone but yourself. 1267 01:19:10,345 --> 01:19:13,405 ** (Horn Blowing] 1268 01:19:13,515 --> 01:19:15,142 Come, Rufio. 1269 01:19:15,250 --> 01:19:17,309 Caesar, do not leave me! 1270 01:19:17,419 --> 01:19:19,319 Caesar, we are cut off. 1271 01:19:19,421 --> 01:19:22,447 The Egyptians have landed from the western harbor between us and the barricade. 1272 01:19:22,557 --> 01:19:25,458 Rufio, my men at the barricade are lost. I've murdered them. 1273 01:19:25,560 --> 01:19:28,620 Aye. That's what comes of fooling with this girl here. 1274 01:19:43,178 --> 01:19:45,169 (All Shouting) 1275 01:19:55,423 --> 01:19:57,050 Caesar! 1276 01:19:57,159 --> 01:19:59,855 - Caesar. The Egyptians. - I know. We must defend ourselves here. 1277 01:19:59,961 --> 01:20:02,486 But I've thrown the ladder into the sea. They can't get in without it. 1278 01:20:02,597 --> 01:20:05,088 - And we can't get out. Have you thought of that? - Not get out? Why not? 1279 01:20:05,200 --> 01:20:08,692 - You have ships in the east harbor. - Our galleys are standing in towards us already. 1280 01:20:08,804 --> 01:20:10,795 And, pray, by what road are we to walk to the galleys? 1281 01:20:10,906 --> 01:20:13,306 The road that leads everywhere... the diamond path of the sun and the moon. 1282 01:20:13,408 --> 01:20:15,069 - How far is the nearest galley? - Fifty fathom. 1283 01:20:15,177 --> 01:20:16,940 No. Nearly a quarter of a mile, Apollodorus. 1284 01:20:17,045 --> 01:20:19,809 - Defend yourselves here until I send a boat from that galley. - Have you wings perhaps? 1285 01:20:21,483 --> 01:20:23,474 Water wings, soldier! 1286 01:20:26,822 --> 01:20:28,289 Behold! 1287 01:20:31,827 --> 01:20:34,261 Bravo, Apollodorus! Bravo! 1288 01:20:34,362 --> 01:20:37,490 ByJupiter! I will do that too. Britannus. 1289 01:20:37,599 --> 01:20:40,864 - Are you mad? You shall not. - Why not? Can I not swim as well as he? 1290 01:20:40,969 --> 01:20:43,369 - Can an old fool dive and swim like a young one? - Old? 1291 01:20:43,471 --> 01:20:45,371 Rufio, you forget yourself. 1292 01:20:45,473 --> 01:20:48,499 - (Caesar] I'll race you to the galley for a week's pay, father Rufiio. - But me! Me! 1293 01:20:48,610 --> 01:20:50,510 What is to become of me? 1294 01:20:50,612 --> 01:20:53,012 I'll carry you on my back to the galley like a dolphin. 1295 01:20:53,114 --> 01:20:55,309 Rufio, when you see me rise to the surface, throw her in. 1296 01:20:55,417 --> 01:20:58,284 - No, no, no! I shall be drowned. - Then in with you after her... both of you! 1297 01:20:58,386 --> 01:21:01,321 Caesar, I am a man and a Briton, not a fish. I must have a boat. 1298 01:21:01,423 --> 01:21:03,323 - I can't swim. - Neither can I. 1299 01:21:03,425 --> 01:21:05,325 Stay here, then, Britannus, until I recapture the lighthouse. 1300 01:21:05,427 --> 01:21:08,590 - I'll not forget you. Now, Rufio. - Have you made up your mind to this folly? 1301 01:21:08,697 --> 01:21:11,257 The Egyptians have made it up for me. And mind where you jump. 1302 01:21:11,366 --> 01:21:14,062 I don't want you in the small of my back as I come up. 1303 01:21:14,169 --> 01:21:16,069 One last word, Caesar. 1304 01:21:16,171 --> 01:21:19,140 Do not let yourself be seen in the more fashionable part of Alexandria... 1305 01:21:19,241 --> 01:21:21,209 until you've changed your clothes. 1306 01:21:21,309 --> 01:21:22,776 Ho, Apollodorus! 1307 01:21:22,878 --> 01:21:25,176 The white upon the blue above- 1308 01:21:25,280 --> 01:21:27,475 Is purple on the green below! 1309 01:21:30,552 --> 01:21:33,817 Let me see. Let me see! He will be drowned. 1310 01:21:33,922 --> 01:21:36,584 Oh! Aaah! (Screams) 1311 01:21:41,196 --> 01:21:43,255 (Both Laughing) 1312 01:21:43,365 --> 01:21:45,265 He's got her! 1313 01:21:45,367 --> 01:21:47,267 (Shouting) 1314 01:21:47,369 --> 01:21:50,998 Hold the fort, Briton. Caesar will not forget you. 1315 01:21:56,978 --> 01:22:00,607 Hip, hip, hip hooray! 1316 01:22:00,715 --> 01:22:03,684 Hip... Hooray! 1317 01:22:15,697 --> 01:22:17,130 (People Chattering] 1318 01:22:20,235 --> 01:22:22,135 (Man) Ah. Another royal banquet? 1319 01:22:22,237 --> 01:22:24,137 In Caesar's honor. 1320 01:22:24,239 --> 01:22:26,139 These Romans are magicians. 1321 01:22:26,241 --> 01:22:28,641 For six months, a mere handful of them have held the palace... 1322 01:22:28,743 --> 01:22:30,643 against the whole of Egypt's armed forces. 1323 01:22:30,745 --> 01:22:32,838 And look at their escape from the Pharos. 1324 01:22:32,948 --> 01:22:35,917 Who but a magician could swim like a dolphin at Caesar's age... 1325 01:22:36,017 --> 01:22:37,917 carrying the queen on his back? 1326 01:22:38,019 --> 01:22:39,919 That might be the queen's magic. 1327 01:22:40,021 --> 01:22:43,855 She rides on Caesar's back on land now as on the sea! 1328 01:22:43,959 --> 01:22:45,927 (All Laughing) 1329 01:22:46,027 --> 01:22:48,393 (All Giggling) 1330 01:22:48,496 --> 01:22:51,192 (Harp) 1331 01:22:57,839 --> 01:23:00,672 (Giggling Continues] 1332 01:23:03,345 --> 01:23:05,313 You laugh. 1333 01:23:05,413 --> 01:23:08,905 But take care. Take care. 1334 01:23:09,017 --> 01:23:13,386 I will find out someday how to make myself served as Caesar is served. 1335 01:23:13,488 --> 01:23:16,150 - Old hooknose! - (All Laughing) 1336 01:23:16,257 --> 01:23:18,157 Silence! 1337 01:23:19,394 --> 01:23:21,294 Do you know why... 1338 01:23:21,396 --> 01:23:24,832 I allow you all to chatter impertinently just as you please... 1339 01:23:24,933 --> 01:23:28,528 instead of treating you as Ftatateeta would treat you if she were queen? 1340 01:23:28,636 --> 01:23:31,104 Because you try to imitate Caesar in everything... 1341 01:23:31,206 --> 01:23:34,141 and he lets everyone say what they please to him. 1342 01:23:34,242 --> 01:23:36,142 - (All Giggle) - No. 1343 01:23:36,244 --> 01:23:39,577 But because I asked him one day why he did so... 1344 01:23:39,681 --> 01:23:44,448 and he said, "Let your women talk, and you will learn something from them." 1345 01:23:44,552 --> 01:23:47,112 "What have I to learn from them?" I said. 1346 01:23:47,222 --> 01:23:49,884 "What they are," said he. 1347 01:23:49,991 --> 01:23:54,052 And, oh, you should have seen his eyes as he said it. 1348 01:23:54,162 --> 01:23:57,063 You would have curled up, you shallow things. 1349 01:23:57,165 --> 01:23:59,065 - (All Giggle) - At whom are you laughing? 1350 01:23:59,167 --> 01:24:02,625 - At me or at Caesar? - At Caesar. 1351 01:24:02,737 --> 01:24:05,900 If you were not a fool, you would laugh at me. 1352 01:24:06,007 --> 01:24:09,238 And if you were not a coward, you would not be afraid to tell me so. 1353 01:24:09,344 --> 01:24:13,576 Heigh-ho. I wish Caesar were back in Rome. 1354 01:24:13,681 --> 01:24:16,912 It will be a bad day for you when he goes. 1355 01:24:17,018 --> 01:24:21,614 Oh, if I were not ashamed to let him see that I am as cruel at heart as my father... 1356 01:24:21,723 --> 01:24:24,817 I would make you repent that speech. 1357 01:24:24,926 --> 01:24:26,826 Why do you wish him away? 1358 01:24:26,928 --> 01:24:32,059 He makes you so terribly prosy and serious and learned and philosophical. 1359 01:24:32,167 --> 01:24:36,103 - It's worse than being religious at our ages. - (All Giggling) 1360 01:24:36,204 --> 01:24:40,072 Cease this endless cackling, will you! Hold your tongues. 1361 01:24:40,175 --> 01:24:43,406 Well, well. We must try and live up to Caesar. 1362 01:24:43,511 --> 01:24:45,103 (All Giggling] 1363 01:24:46,214 --> 01:24:48,182 Pothinus craves the ear of the queen. 1364 01:24:48,283 --> 01:24:50,774 I suppose he has bribed you to admit him to me? 1365 01:24:50,885 --> 01:24:55,083 - Not by my father's gods. - Have I not told you not to deny things? 1366 01:24:55,190 --> 01:24:58,353 You all sell audiences to the queen... 1367 01:24:58,460 --> 01:25:01,554 as if I saw whom you please and not whom I please. 1368 01:25:01,663 --> 01:25:04,757 - (Giggling] - Go, take the bribe and bring in Pothinus. 1369 01:25:04,866 --> 01:25:07,664 - But... - Don't answer me. Go. 1370 01:25:07,769 --> 01:25:10,033 (Giggling Stops] 1371 01:25:29,324 --> 01:25:32,418 I want to learn to play the harp with my own hands. 1372 01:25:32,527 --> 01:25:35,462 Caesar loves music. Can you teach me? 1373 01:25:35,563 --> 01:25:37,463 Assuredly. 1374 01:25:37,565 --> 01:25:40,398 I and no one else can teach the queen. 1375 01:25:40,502 --> 01:25:42,732 - All other teachers are quacks. - (Women Giggle] 1376 01:25:42,837 --> 01:25:45,567 I have exposed them repeatedlly. 1377 01:25:45,673 --> 01:25:48,198 Good. You shall teach me. How long will it take? 1378 01:25:48,309 --> 01:25:51,472 Not very long. Only four years. 1379 01:25:51,579 --> 01:25:56,710 Your Majesty must first become proficient in the philosophy of Pythagoras. And then... 1380 01:25:56,818 --> 01:26:00,413 Has she become proficient in the philosophy of Pythagoras? 1381 01:26:00,522 --> 01:26:02,683 (Man] Oh, she is but a slave. 1382 01:26:02,790 --> 01:26:04,883 She learns as a dog learns. 1383 01:26:04,993 --> 01:26:09,521 Well, then, I will learn as a dog learns, for she plays better than you. 1384 01:26:09,631 --> 01:26:12,191 You shall give me a lesson every day for a fortnight. 1385 01:26:12,300 --> 01:26:16,066 After that, whenever I strike a false note, you shall be fiogged. 1386 01:26:16,171 --> 01:26:19,834 If I strike so many that there is no time to fiog you... 1387 01:26:19,941 --> 01:26:23,672 you shall be thrown into the Nile to feed the crocodiles. 1388 01:26:23,778 --> 01:26:26,008 Give the girl a gold piece and send them away. 1389 01:26:28,016 --> 01:26:31,782 - (Women Giggling] - (Stammers) But true art cannot be thus forced. 1390 01:26:31,886 --> 01:26:34,548 What is this? Answering the queen forsooth. Out with you. 1391 01:26:34,656 --> 01:26:36,647 (Women Giggling] 1392 01:26:39,427 --> 01:26:43,761 Well, Pothinus, what is the latest news from your rebel friends? 1393 01:26:43,865 --> 01:26:46,095 I am no friend of rebellion. 1394 01:26:47,135 --> 01:26:50,332 And a prisoner does not receive news. 1395 01:26:50,438 --> 01:26:53,999 You are no more a prisoner than I am, than Caesar is. 1396 01:26:54,108 --> 01:26:57,976 These six months we have been besieged in the palace by my subjects. 1397 01:26:58,079 --> 01:27:01,071 You are allowed to walk on the beach among the soldiers. 1398 01:27:01,182 --> 01:27:04,743 Can I go further myself? Or can Caesar? 1399 01:27:04,852 --> 01:27:08,618 - You are but a child, Cleopatra... - (Women Giggle] 1400 01:27:08,723 --> 01:27:10,623 and do not understand these matters. 1401 01:27:10,725 --> 01:27:13,956 I see you do not know the latest news, Pothinus. 1402 01:27:14,062 --> 01:27:18,328 - What is that? - That Cleopatra is no longer a child. 1403 01:27:19,767 --> 01:27:25,000 Shall I tell you how to grow much older and much, much wiser in one day? 1404 01:27:25,106 --> 01:27:27,666 I should prefer to grow wiser without growing older. 1405 01:27:27,775 --> 01:27:31,074 Well, go up to the top of the lighthouse... 1406 01:27:31,179 --> 01:27:33,511 and get someone to take you by the hair... 1407 01:27:33,615 --> 01:27:35,845 and throw you into the sea! 1408 01:27:35,950 --> 01:27:38,783 - (All Laughing] - She is right, Pothinus. 1409 01:27:38,886 --> 01:27:43,482 - You will come to the shore with much conceit washed out of you. - (All Laughing] 1410 01:27:43,591 --> 01:27:46,082 Begone, all of you. I will speak with Pothinus alone. 1411 01:27:46,194 --> 01:27:48,287 (Giggling) 1412 01:27:53,301 --> 01:27:56,862 - What are you waiting for? - It is not meet that the queen remain alone. 1413 01:27:56,971 --> 01:27:59,235 Must I sacrifice you to your father's gods, Ftatateeta... 1414 01:27:59,340 --> 01:28:01,774 to teach you that I am queen of Egypt and not you? 1415 01:28:01,876 --> 01:28:03,776 You are like the rest of them. 1416 01:28:03,878 --> 01:28:06,779 You want to be what these Romans call a... a "new woman." 1417 01:28:10,385 --> 01:28:12,376 Now, Pothinus... 1418 01:28:12,487 --> 01:28:15,718 why did you bribe Ftatateeta to bring you hither? 1419 01:28:15,823 --> 01:28:19,850 Cleopatra, what they tell me is true. You are changed. 1420 01:28:19,961 --> 01:28:23,453 Do you speak with Caesar every day for six months, and you will be changed. 1421 01:28:24,732 --> 01:28:28,862 It is common talk that you are infatuated with this old man. 1422 01:28:28,970 --> 01:28:31,871 "Infatuated"? What does that mean? 1423 01:28:31,973 --> 01:28:33,873 "Made foolish," is it not? 1424 01:28:33,975 --> 01:28:35,875 Oh, no. I wish I were. 1425 01:28:35,977 --> 01:28:39,378 Wish that you were made foolish? How so? 1426 01:28:39,480 --> 01:28:42,847 When I was foolish, I did what I liked. 1427 01:28:42,950 --> 01:28:44,975 Now that Caesar has made me wise... 1428 01:28:45,086 --> 01:28:47,577 it is no use my liking or disliking. 1429 01:28:47,689 --> 01:28:51,056 I do what must be done and have no time to attend to myself. 1430 01:28:51,159 --> 01:28:53,059 This is not happiness... 1431 01:28:53,161 --> 01:28:55,493 but it is greatness. 1432 01:28:55,596 --> 01:28:58,087 I think if Caesar were gone... 1433 01:28:58,199 --> 01:29:00,565 I could govern the Egyptians. 1434 01:29:00,668 --> 01:29:03,000 Cleopatra... 1435 01:29:03,104 --> 01:29:05,038 this may be the vanity of youth. 1436 01:29:05,139 --> 01:29:09,667 No, no. It is not that I am so clever, but that the others are so stupid. 1437 01:29:09,777 --> 01:29:12,337 Truly that is the great secret. 1438 01:29:12,447 --> 01:29:15,439 Now, tell me what you came to say. 1439 01:29:15,550 --> 01:29:18,883 - I? Nothing. - Nothing? 1440 01:29:18,986 --> 01:29:23,389 At least to beg for my liberty. That is all. 1441 01:29:23,491 --> 01:29:25,516 For that, you would have knelt to Caesar. 1442 01:29:25,626 --> 01:29:27,890 No, Pothinus. 1443 01:29:27,995 --> 01:29:32,932 You came with some plan that depended on Cleopatra being a little nursery kitten. 1444 01:29:33,034 --> 01:29:36,367 Now that Cleopatra is a queen, your plan is upset. 1445 01:29:36,471 --> 01:29:41,932 Is Cleopatra then indeed a queen and no longer Caesar's prisoner and slave? 1446 01:29:42,043 --> 01:29:45,069 Pothinus, we are all Caesar's slaves... 1447 01:29:45,179 --> 01:29:48,580 all we in this land of Egypt... whether we will or no. 1448 01:29:48,683 --> 01:29:50,651 And she who is wise enough to know this... 1449 01:29:50,752 --> 01:29:53,346 will reign when Caesar departs. 1450 01:29:53,454 --> 01:29:55,649 You harp on Caesar's departure. 1451 01:29:55,757 --> 01:29:59,488 - What if I do? - Does he not love you? 1452 01:29:59,594 --> 01:30:03,894 Love me? Pothinus, Caesar loves no one. 1453 01:30:03,998 --> 01:30:07,559 He makes friends with everyone as he does with dogs and children. 1454 01:30:07,668 --> 01:30:10,364 His kindness to me is a wonder. 1455 01:30:10,471 --> 01:30:14,805 Neither mother, father nor nurse have ever taken so much care of me... 1456 01:30:14,909 --> 01:30:17,673 or thrown open their thoughts to me so freely. 1457 01:30:21,849 --> 01:30:26,411 But how can you be sure that he does not love you as men love women? 1458 01:30:26,521 --> 01:30:28,421 Because I cannot make him jealous. 1459 01:30:28,523 --> 01:30:30,423 - I have tried. - (Chuckles) 1460 01:30:30,525 --> 01:30:32,823 Perhaps I should have asked, then, do you love him? 1461 01:30:32,927 --> 01:30:35,725 Can one love a god? 1462 01:30:35,830 --> 01:30:38,697 Besides, I love another Roman. 1463 01:30:38,800 --> 01:30:41,166 No god, but a man. 1464 01:30:41,269 --> 01:30:43,294 One who can love and hate. 1465 01:30:43,404 --> 01:30:46,430 And one whom I can hurt and would hurt me. 1466 01:30:46,541 --> 01:30:49,374 Does Caesar know this? 1467 01:30:49,477 --> 01:30:52,037 - Yes. - And he is not angry? 1468 01:30:52,146 --> 01:30:55,547 He promises to send him to Egypt to please me. 1469 01:30:55,650 --> 01:30:57,982 I do not understand this man. 1470 01:30:58,085 --> 01:31:00,349 You understand Caesar? 1471 01:31:00,455 --> 01:31:02,923 How could you? 1472 01:31:03,024 --> 01:31:05,652 I do, by instinct. 1473 01:31:05,760 --> 01:31:08,320 Your Majesty caused me to be admitted today. 1474 01:31:08,429 --> 01:31:10,659 - What message has the queen for me? - This. 1475 01:31:10,765 --> 01:31:14,166 You think that by making my brother king, you will rule in Egypt... 1476 01:31:14,268 --> 01:31:16,793 because you are his guardian and he is a little silly. 1477 01:31:16,904 --> 01:31:20,863 - The queen is pleased to say so. - The queen is pleased to say this also: 1478 01:31:20,975 --> 01:31:23,739 Caesar will eat up you... and Achillas and my brother... 1479 01:31:23,845 --> 01:31:26,006 as a cat eats up mice. 1480 01:31:26,113 --> 01:31:30,413 And he will put on this land of Egypt as a shepherd puts on his garment. 1481 01:31:30,518 --> 01:31:33,453 And when he has done that, he will return to Rome... 1482 01:31:33,554 --> 01:31:36,182 and leave Cleopatra here as his viceroy. 1483 01:31:36,290 --> 01:31:39,817 That he shall never do! We have a thousand men to his 1 0. 1484 01:31:39,927 --> 01:31:42,657 And we shall drive him and his beggarly legions into the sea. 1485 01:31:42,763 --> 01:31:44,230 You rant like any common fellow. 1486 01:31:44,332 --> 01:31:47,130 - Cleopatra... - Enough, enough! Ftatateeta. 1487 01:31:47,235 --> 01:31:50,568 Caesar has spoiled me for talking to weak things like you. 1488 01:31:51,606 --> 01:31:53,972 I know to whom I must go now. 1489 01:31:58,079 --> 01:32:00,775 - Let me go forth from this hateful place. - What angers you? 1490 01:32:00,882 --> 01:32:03,077 The curse of all the gods of Egypt be upon her. 1491 01:32:03,184 --> 01:32:07,086 She has sold her country to the Roman that she may buy it back from him with her kisses. 1492 01:32:07,188 --> 01:32:09,782 Fool. Did she not tell you that she would have Caesar gone? 1493 01:32:09,891 --> 01:32:11,381 You listened? 1494 01:32:11,492 --> 01:32:14,689 I took care that some honest woman should be at hand whilst you were with her. 1495 01:32:14,795 --> 01:32:17,059 Mark this, mistress. You thought, before Caesar came... 1496 01:32:17,164 --> 01:32:20,497 that Egypt should presently be ruled by you and your crew in the name of Cleopatra. 1497 01:32:20,601 --> 01:32:24,503 - I set myself against it. - Aye! That it might be ruled by you and your crew in the name of Ptolemy. 1498 01:32:24,605 --> 01:32:27,233 Well, better me, or even you, than a woman with a Roman heart... 1499 01:32:27,341 --> 01:32:29,775 - And that is what Cleopatra is now become. - (Scoffs) 1500 01:32:29,877 --> 01:32:32,539 Whilst I live, she shall never rule. 1501 01:32:32,647 --> 01:32:35,081 So guide yourself accordingly. 1502 01:32:44,692 --> 01:32:46,660 (No Audible Dialogue) 1503 01:32:47,828 --> 01:32:49,796 Wait here. 1504 01:32:51,899 --> 01:32:53,890 Here, Your Excellency. 1505 01:32:59,740 --> 01:33:03,369 The Roman commander will await Caesar here. 1506 01:33:04,445 --> 01:33:06,436 Hmm. Ah. 1507 01:33:09,850 --> 01:33:11,374 (Sighs) 1508 01:33:11,485 --> 01:33:15,512 That was a climb. (Sighs) How high have we come? 1509 01:33:15,623 --> 01:33:18,057 We are on the palace roof, O beloved of Victory. 1510 01:33:18,159 --> 01:33:21,356 Good. Then the beloved of Victory has no more stairs to get up. 1511 01:33:21,462 --> 01:33:23,555 Caesar approaches. 1512 01:33:30,605 --> 01:33:32,505 Why, Rufio... 1513 01:33:32,607 --> 01:33:34,507 a new baldric. 1514 01:33:34,609 --> 01:33:36,577 A new golden pommel to your sword. 1515 01:33:39,981 --> 01:33:42,142 And you've had your hair cut. 1516 01:33:43,184 --> 01:33:45,948 Oh, but not your beard. Impossible. 1517 01:33:46,053 --> 01:33:49,489 (Sniffs) Perfumed. ByJupiter Olympus. 1518 01:33:49,590 --> 01:33:52,286 Well, is it to please myself? 1519 01:33:52,393 --> 01:33:56,227 No, Rufio, my son, but to please me. To celebrate my birthday. 1520 01:33:56,330 --> 01:34:00,960 Your birthday. You always have a birthday when there's a pretty girl to be fiattered... 1521 01:34:01,068 --> 01:34:03,298 or an ambassador to be conciliated. 1522 01:34:03,404 --> 01:34:06,896 - Rufio. - Well, we had seven of them in 1 0 months last year. 1523 01:34:07,008 --> 01:34:10,375 Alas, Rufio, I shall never break myself of these petty deceits. 1524 01:34:10,478 --> 01:34:12,378 Have you noticed I'm before my time? 1525 01:34:12,480 --> 01:34:15,574 Ah? I thought that meant something. 1526 01:34:15,683 --> 01:34:18,447 - What is it? - Pothinus wants to speak to you. 1527 01:34:18,552 --> 01:34:23,649 I advise you to see him. There's some plotting going on here among the women. 1528 01:34:23,758 --> 01:34:26,727 Who is Pothi... Oh, yes. 1529 01:34:26,827 --> 01:34:28,727 - Has he not escaped? - No. 1530 01:34:28,829 --> 01:34:31,764 Why not? Have I not told you always to let prisoners escape... 1531 01:34:31,866 --> 01:34:33,925 unless there are special orders to the contrary? 1532 01:34:34,035 --> 01:34:36,026 Are there not enough mouths to be fed without his? 1533 01:34:36,137 --> 01:34:40,437 Yes. And if you'd have a little sense and let me cut his throat, you'd save his rations. 1534 01:34:40,541 --> 01:34:45,342 Anyway, he won't escape. He prefers to stay and spy on us. 1535 01:34:45,446 --> 01:34:48,472 - And you want me to see him. - Oh, I don't want anything. 1536 01:34:48,582 --> 01:34:52,040 I daresay you'll do what you like. Don't put it on me. 1537 01:34:52,153 --> 01:34:54,121 Well, well. 1538 01:35:01,228 --> 01:35:03,287 Let's have him in. 1539 01:35:04,699 --> 01:35:07,065 Ho there, guard! Release your man and send him up. 1540 01:35:19,313 --> 01:35:22,248 - Who's to dine with us besides Cleopatra? - Apollodorus the Sicilian. 1541 01:35:22,349 --> 01:35:26,251 - Oh, that popinjay. - Come. The popinjay is an amusing dog... 1542 01:35:26,353 --> 01:35:30,380 tells a story, sings a song and saves us the trouble of fiattering the queen. 1543 01:35:30,491 --> 01:35:33,289 Well, he can swim a bit and fence a bit. He might be worse. 1544 01:35:33,394 --> 01:35:37,455 - If only he knew how to hold his tongue. - The gods forbid he should ever learn. 1545 01:35:37,565 --> 01:35:39,533 Ah. Pothinus. 1546 01:35:39,633 --> 01:35:43,091 You're welcome. What's the news this afternoon? 1547 01:35:43,204 --> 01:35:47,834 Caesar, I come to warn you of a danger and to make you an offer. 1548 01:35:47,942 --> 01:35:51,810 - Never mind the danger. Make the offer. - Never mind the offer. What's the danger? 1549 01:35:51,912 --> 01:35:55,678 Caesar, you think that Cleopatra is devoted to you. 1550 01:35:55,783 --> 01:35:58,980 My friend, I already know what I think. 1551 01:35:59,086 --> 01:36:02,146 - Come to your offer. - I will deal plainly. 1552 01:36:02,256 --> 01:36:05,020 I know not by what magic... 1553 01:36:05,126 --> 01:36:08,357 you have been enabled to defend the palace... 1554 01:36:08,462 --> 01:36:11,829 and a few yards of beach against a city and an army... 1555 01:36:11,932 --> 01:36:15,231 but we know now that your gods are irresistible... 1556 01:36:15,336 --> 01:36:17,964 and that you are a worker of miracles. 1557 01:36:18,072 --> 01:36:21,041 - I no longer threaten you. - (Laughs) Very handsome of you indeed. 1558 01:36:21,142 --> 01:36:23,042 So be it, you are the master. 1559 01:36:23,144 --> 01:36:25,840 Yes, yes, my friend. But what then? 1560 01:36:25,946 --> 01:36:28,779 Spit it out, man. What have you to say? 1561 01:36:28,883 --> 01:36:31,317 I have to say that you have a traitoress in your camp. 1562 01:36:31,418 --> 01:36:33,318 - Cleopatra... - The queen! 1563 01:36:33,420 --> 01:36:35,945 Should have spat it out sooner, you fool. Now it's too late. 1564 01:36:36,056 --> 01:36:40,925 - What is he doing here? - Just going to tell me something about you. 1565 01:36:42,396 --> 01:36:44,364 You shall hear it. 1566 01:36:52,072 --> 01:36:54,040 Proceed, Pothinus. 1567 01:36:55,209 --> 01:36:57,734 - I... Caesar... - Out with it. 1568 01:36:58,846 --> 01:37:01,747 What I have to say is for your ears, not for the queen's. 1569 01:37:01,849 --> 01:37:05,376 There are means of making you speak. Take care. 1570 01:37:05,486 --> 01:37:07,954 Caesar does not employ those means. 1571 01:37:08,055 --> 01:37:11,582 My dear, when a man has anything to tell in this world... 1572 01:37:11,692 --> 01:37:16,459 the difficulty is not to make him tell it but to prevent him from telling it too often. 1573 01:37:16,564 --> 01:37:20,364 Let me celebrate my birthday by setting you free. 1574 01:37:20,467 --> 01:37:22,401 Farewell. We shall not meet again. 1575 01:37:22,503 --> 01:37:24,596 Caesar, this mercy is foolish. 1576 01:37:24,705 --> 01:37:26,764 Will you not give me a private audience? 1577 01:37:26,874 --> 01:37:28,774 Your life may depend on it. 1578 01:37:28,876 --> 01:37:31,003 Ho there, guard! Pass the prisoner out. He's released. 1579 01:37:31,111 --> 01:37:34,308 Now off with you. You've lost your chance. 1580 01:37:36,183 --> 01:37:38,083 I will speak. 1581 01:37:38,185 --> 01:37:40,847 You see? Torture wouldn't have wrung a word from him. 1582 01:37:40,955 --> 01:37:44,789 Caesar, you have taught Cleopatra the arts by which the Romans govern the world. 1583 01:37:44,892 --> 01:37:48,328 Alas, my friend, they cannot even govern themselves. What then? 1584 01:37:48,429 --> 01:37:50,954 What then? Are you so besotted with her beauty... 1585 01:37:51,065 --> 01:37:53,898 that you do not see that she is impatient to reign in Egypt alone... 1586 01:37:54,001 --> 01:37:55,935 and that her heart is set on your departure? 1587 01:37:56,036 --> 01:37:59,005 - Liar! - What? Protestations? 1588 01:37:59,106 --> 01:38:00,971 Contradictions? 1589 01:38:01,075 --> 01:38:03,976 No, I do not deign to contradict. 1590 01:38:04,078 --> 01:38:06,774 - Let him talk. - From her own lips I have heard it. 1591 01:38:06,881 --> 01:38:09,543 You are to be her cat's-paw. You are to tear the crown... 1592 01:38:09,650 --> 01:38:11,675 from her brother's head and set it on her own... 1593 01:38:11,785 --> 01:38:13,685 delivering us all into her hand. 1594 01:38:13,787 --> 01:38:17,416 Delivering yourself also. And then Caesar can return to Rome. 1595 01:38:17,524 --> 01:38:21,654 Or depart through the gate of death, which is nearer and surer. 1596 01:38:21,762 --> 01:38:24,128 Well, and is not this very natural? 1597 01:38:24,231 --> 01:38:27,598 Natural? Then you do not resent treachery? 1598 01:38:27,701 --> 01:38:31,660 Resent? O thou foolish Egyptian. What have I to do with resentment? 1599 01:38:31,772 --> 01:38:34,434 Do I resent the wind when it chills me... 1600 01:38:34,541 --> 01:38:36,941 or the night when it makes me stumble in the darkness? 1601 01:38:37,044 --> 01:38:40,673 To tell me such a story as this is to tell me that the sun will rise tomorrow. 1602 01:38:40,781 --> 01:38:42,715 But it is false, false! I swear it! 1603 01:38:42,816 --> 01:38:47,947 It is true, though you swore it a thousand times and believed all you swore. 1604 01:38:53,460 --> 01:38:57,692 Come, Rufio. Let us see Pothinus past the guard. I have a word to say to him. 1605 01:38:58,933 --> 01:39:01,800 I must give the queen a moment to recover herself. 1606 01:39:03,103 --> 01:39:05,128 Tell your friends, Pothinus, they mustn't think... 1607 01:39:05,239 --> 01:39:07,901 I'm opposed to a reasonable settlement of the country's affairs. 1608 01:39:08,008 --> 01:39:10,636 Ftatateeta. Ftatateeta! 1609 01:39:10,744 --> 01:39:13,144 - Peace, child. Be comforted. - Can they hear us? 1610 01:39:13,247 --> 01:39:15,181 No, dear heart. No. 1611 01:39:15,282 --> 01:39:18,080 If he leaves the palace alive, never see my face again. 1612 01:39:18,185 --> 01:39:21,552 - He? Pothinus? - Strike out his life as I strike his name from your lips! 1613 01:39:21,655 --> 01:39:25,751 Dash him down from the wall. Break him on the stones. Kill, kill, kill him. 1614 01:39:25,859 --> 01:39:27,827 The dog shall perish. 1615 01:39:27,928 --> 01:39:31,295 Fail in this, and you go out from before me forever. 1616 01:39:31,398 --> 01:39:33,366 So be it. 1617 01:39:33,467 --> 01:39:36,368 You shall not see my face until his eyes are darkened. 1618 01:39:36,470 --> 01:39:39,997 Come soon. Soon. 1619 01:39:41,442 --> 01:39:44,275 As the light dies... 1620 01:39:44,378 --> 01:39:46,346 he shall die. 1621 01:39:48,782 --> 01:39:51,114 (Laughter] 1622 01:39:51,218 --> 01:39:54,813 So you've come back to me, Caesar. I thought you were angry. 1623 01:39:54,922 --> 01:39:57,049 Welcome, Apollodorus. 1624 01:39:57,157 --> 01:39:59,887 Cleopatra grows more womanly beautiful from week to week. 1625 01:39:59,994 --> 01:40:02,690 - Truth, Apollodorus? - Far, far short of the truth. 1626 01:40:02,796 --> 01:40:05,765 Friend Rufio threw a pearl into the sea. Caesar fished up a diamond. 1627 01:40:05,866 --> 01:40:08,426 Caesar fished up a touch of rheumatism. Come on. To dinner. 1628 01:40:08,535 --> 01:40:10,435 (Cleopatra) Yes. To dinner! 1629 01:40:10,537 --> 01:40:13,267 - I've ordered such a dinner for you, Caesar. - What are we to have? 1630 01:40:13,374 --> 01:40:15,706 - Peacocks' brains. - Peacocks' brains, Apollodorus. 1631 01:40:15,809 --> 01:40:18,972 - Not for me. I prefer nightingales' tongues. - Roast boar, Rufio. 1632 01:40:19,079 --> 01:40:22,048 - Ah! Good! - What has become of my leathern cushion? 1633 01:40:22,149 --> 01:40:24,083 I've got new ones for you, Caesar. 1634 01:40:24,184 --> 01:40:27,551 These cushions, Caesar, are of Maltese gauze, stuffed with rose leaves. 1635 01:40:27,654 --> 01:40:31,351 - Rose leaves? Am I a caterpillar? - Oh, what a shame. My new cushions. 1636 01:40:31,458 --> 01:40:33,824 What shall we serve to whet Caesar's appetite? 1637 01:40:33,927 --> 01:40:35,827 - Any oysters? - Assuredly. 1638 01:40:35,929 --> 01:40:38,363 - British oysters? - British oysters, of course. 1639 01:40:38,465 --> 01:40:40,729 - Oysters then. - Sea hedgehogs for me. 1640 01:40:40,834 --> 01:40:42,631 Have we nothing solid to begin with? 1641 01:40:42,736 --> 01:40:45,466 - Fieldfares with asparagus. - Fattened fowls, Rufio. 1642 01:40:45,572 --> 01:40:48,598 - Have some fattened fowls. - Aye! That'll do. 1643 01:40:48,709 --> 01:40:50,700 (Cleopatra] Fieldfares for me. 1644 01:40:50,811 --> 01:40:54,770 Caesar will deign to choose his wine? Sicilian, Tuscan, Macedonian, Chianti- 1645 01:40:54,882 --> 01:40:57,476 - (Rufiio] All Greek. - Try the Sicilian, Caesar. 1646 01:40:57,584 --> 01:40:59,484 Bring me my barley water. 1647 01:40:59,586 --> 01:41:02,350 (Groans) Bring me my Falernian. 1648 01:41:02,456 --> 01:41:07,223 It's a waste of time giving you dinner, Caesar. My scullions would not condescend to your diet. 1649 01:41:07,327 --> 01:41:09,261 Well, well. Let's try the Falernian. 1650 01:41:09,363 --> 01:41:13,129 But when I return to Rome, I shall make laws against these extravagances. 1651 01:41:13,233 --> 01:41:16,202 - I will even get the laws carried out. - Never mind. 1652 01:41:16,303 --> 01:41:18,237 Today you are to be like other people... 1653 01:41:18,338 --> 01:41:21,739 idle, luxurious and kind. 1654 01:41:21,842 --> 01:41:25,209 Well, well. For once, I will sacrifice my comfort. 1655 01:41:28,248 --> 01:41:31,149 There. So now are you satisfied? 1656 01:41:33,387 --> 01:41:37,153 - ** (Woman Vocalizing] - (Laughter] 1657 01:41:37,257 --> 01:41:40,784 (Cleopatra] And you no longer believe I long for your departure for Rome? 1658 01:41:40,894 --> 01:41:43,089 I no longer believe anything. 1659 01:41:43,197 --> 01:41:45,461 My brains are asleep. 1660 01:41:49,069 --> 01:41:52,664 Besides, who knows whether I shall return to Rome? 1661 01:41:52,773 --> 01:41:56,539 - How? Huh? What? - One year of Rome is like another... 1662 01:41:56,643 --> 01:41:58,543 except that I grow older. 1663 01:41:58,645 --> 01:42:02,172 It's no better here in Egypt. The old men, when they're tired of life, say... 1664 01:42:02,282 --> 01:42:04,842 "We have seen everything except the source of the Nile." 1665 01:42:04,952 --> 01:42:07,011 Why not see that? 1666 01:42:07,121 --> 01:42:09,021 Cleopatra... 1667 01:42:09,123 --> 01:42:12,183 will you come with me and track the fiood to its cradle... 1668 01:42:12,292 --> 01:42:14,852 in the heart of the regions of mystery? 1669 01:42:14,962 --> 01:42:17,897 Shall I make you a new kingdom and build you a holy city... 1670 01:42:17,998 --> 01:42:19,932 there in the great unknown? 1671 01:42:20,033 --> 01:42:21,933 Yes, yes. You shall. 1672 01:42:22,035 --> 01:42:26,335 Now he'll conquer Africa with two legions before I finish the roast boar. 1673 01:42:26,440 --> 01:42:29,273 No scoffiirg. This is a noble scheme. 1674 01:42:29,376 --> 01:42:32,743 Come. Let's name the holy city and consecrate it with Sicilian wine. 1675 01:42:32,846 --> 01:42:35,974 Cleopatra shall name it herself. 1676 01:42:36,083 --> 01:42:38,142 It shall be called... 1677 01:42:38,252 --> 01:42:40,720 Caesar's Gift to His Beloved. 1678 01:42:40,821 --> 01:42:46,555 No, no. Something vaster than that. Something universal, like the starry firmament. 1679 01:42:46,660 --> 01:42:49,925 Why not simply The Cradle of the Nile? 1680 01:42:50,030 --> 01:42:53,227 No. The Nile is my ancestor, and he's a god. 1681 01:42:53,333 --> 01:42:55,358 Oh, I've just thought of something. 1682 01:42:55,469 --> 01:42:57,767 The Nile shall name it himself. 1683 01:42:57,871 --> 01:43:00,465 Let us call upon him all together. Send for him. 1684 01:43:03,277 --> 01:43:05,404 - Away with all of you. - (Stops) 1685 01:43:33,106 --> 01:43:37,008 Go. I am a priestess and have power to take your charge from you. 1686 01:43:38,178 --> 01:43:40,646 What hocus-pocus is this? 1687 01:43:40,747 --> 01:43:42,977 'Tis not hocus-pocus. 1688 01:43:43,083 --> 01:43:47,144 To do it properly, we should kill something to please him. 1689 01:43:47,254 --> 01:43:50,917 But perhaps he will answer Caesar without that if we spill some wine to him. 1690 01:43:51,024 --> 01:43:55,484 - Why not call on our hawk-headed friend there? - Shh! He will hear you and be angry. 1691 01:43:55,596 --> 01:43:58,087 The source of the Nile is not in his district, I expect. 1692 01:43:58,198 --> 01:44:01,827 Now let us call on the Nile all together. 1693 01:44:01,935 --> 01:44:06,872 You must say with me "Send us thy voice, Father Nile." 1694 01:44:08,208 --> 01:44:11,905 Send us thy voice, Father Nile. 1695 01:44:12,012 --> 01:44:14,572 (Pothinus Groans] 1696 01:44:16,416 --> 01:44:18,316 What was that? 1697 01:44:18,418 --> 01:44:21,717 - What was that? - It is nothing. They are beating some slave. 1698 01:44:21,822 --> 01:44:24,120 Nothing? 1699 01:44:24,224 --> 01:44:27,523 - A man with a knife in him, I'll swear. - A murder? 1700 01:44:27,628 --> 01:44:30,495 - (Thud In Distance] - Shh! Silence. Did you hear that? 1701 01:44:30,597 --> 01:44:32,531 Another cry? 1702 01:44:32,633 --> 01:44:34,965 No. A thud. Something fell, I think. 1703 01:44:35,068 --> 01:44:37,366 Something with bones in it, huh? 1704 01:44:37,471 --> 01:44:40,167 - Rufio... - Will you leave me, Caesar? 1705 01:44:40,274 --> 01:44:43,766 - Apollodorus, are you going? - Faith, dearest queen. My appetite is gone. 1706 01:44:43,877 --> 01:44:46,368 Apollodorus, go down to the courtyard. Find out what has happened. 1707 01:44:46,480 --> 01:44:49,176 Your soldiers have killed somebody perhaps. What does it matter? 1708 01:44:49,283 --> 01:44:51,251 This must be seen to. 1709 01:45:06,500 --> 01:45:10,061 - Is she drunk? - Not with wine. 1710 01:45:24,918 --> 01:45:28,547 The queen looks again on the face of her servant. 1711 01:45:37,030 --> 01:45:39,225 There's some mischief between those two. 1712 01:45:48,709 --> 01:45:50,768 Cleopatra, what has happened? 1713 01:45:50,877 --> 01:45:53,641 Nothing, dearest Caesar. Nothing. I am innocent. 1714 01:45:53,747 --> 01:45:56,773 Dearest Caesar, are you angry with me? 1715 01:45:56,883 --> 01:45:58,783 Why do you look at me so? 1716 01:45:58,885 --> 01:46:02,082 I have been here with you all the time. How could I know what has happened? 1717 01:46:02,189 --> 01:46:04,623 - That is true. - Of course it is true. 1718 01:46:04,725 --> 01:46:06,625 You know it is true, Rufio. 1719 01:46:06,727 --> 01:46:09,958 I shall know presently. 1720 01:46:10,063 --> 01:46:14,090 Caesar, remember, your bodyguard is within call. 1721 01:46:15,502 --> 01:46:19,632 Why do you allow Rufio to speak to me so? You should teach him his place. 1722 01:46:19,740 --> 01:46:23,767 Teach him to be my enemy and to hide his thoughts from me as you are now hiding yours. 1723 01:46:23,877 --> 01:46:29,008 Why do you say that, Caesar? Indeed, indeed, I am not hiding anything. 1724 01:46:29,116 --> 01:46:31,277 You are wrong to treat me like this! 1725 01:46:31,385 --> 01:46:36,186 I am only a child, and you turn into stone because you think someone has been killed. 1726 01:46:36,289 --> 01:46:38,257 I can't bear it. 1727 01:46:38,358 --> 01:46:40,758 (Sobs) 1728 01:46:40,861 --> 01:46:44,024 But there. I know you hate tears. 1729 01:46:44,131 --> 01:46:46,292 You shall not be troubled with them. 1730 01:46:46,400 --> 01:46:49,130 Only, I am so silly. 1731 01:46:49,236 --> 01:46:52,933 I cannot help being hurt when you speak coldly. 1732 01:46:53,039 --> 01:46:57,339 Of course you are quite right. It is dreadful to think of anyone being killed... 1733 01:46:57,444 --> 01:47:00,936 or even hurt, and I hope nothing really serious... 1734 01:47:01,047 --> 01:47:03,345 What has frightened you into this? 1735 01:47:03,450 --> 01:47:05,475 - What have you done? - (Woman Screaming] 1736 01:47:05,585 --> 01:47:07,553 - He's been murdered! - Ah. 1737 01:47:07,654 --> 01:47:10,384 - (Crowd Shouting] - That sounds like the answer. 1738 01:47:10,490 --> 01:47:13,516 I have not betrayed you, Caesar! I swear it! 1739 01:47:13,627 --> 01:47:15,720 I know that. 1740 01:47:15,829 --> 01:47:17,797 I haven't trusted you. 1741 01:47:25,439 --> 01:47:28,101 (All Shouting) 1742 01:47:36,983 --> 01:47:38,883 The whole town's gone mad, I think. 1743 01:47:38,985 --> 01:47:41,681 They're for tearing the palace down and driving us into the sea straightaway. 1744 01:47:41,788 --> 01:47:45,417 - We laid hold of this renegade as we were clearing them out of the courtyard. - Release him. 1745 01:47:45,525 --> 01:47:48,255 What has offended the citizens, Lucius Septimius? 1746 01:47:48,361 --> 01:47:51,194 What did you expect, Caesar? Pothinus was a favorite of theirs. 1747 01:47:51,298 --> 01:47:55,598 What has happened to Pothinus? I set him free here but an hour ago. Did they not pass him out? 1748 01:47:55,702 --> 01:48:01,641 Aye. Through the gallery arch, 60 feet above ground, with three inches of steel in his ribs. 1749 01:48:01,741 --> 01:48:03,936 He is as dead as Pompey. 1750 01:48:04,978 --> 01:48:08,744 We are quits now as to killing, you and I. 1751 01:48:08,849 --> 01:48:11,010 Assassinated. 1752 01:48:11,117 --> 01:48:14,348 Our prisoner. Our guest. Rufio. 1753 01:48:14,454 --> 01:48:18,390 Whoever did it was a wise man... and a friend of yours. 1754 01:48:18,492 --> 01:48:22,189 - (Crowd Shouting] - But none of us had a hand in it. 1755 01:48:22,295 --> 01:48:24,195 No, it's no use frowning at me. 1756 01:48:24,297 --> 01:48:27,061 He was slain by order of the queen of Egypt. 1757 01:48:27,167 --> 01:48:29,897 (Shouting Stops] 1758 01:48:30,003 --> 01:48:33,404 I am notJulius Caesar, the dreamer... 1759 01:48:33,507 --> 01:48:36,408 who allows every slave to insult him. 1760 01:48:36,510 --> 01:48:40,970 Rufio said I did well. Now the others shall judge of me too. 1761 01:48:41,081 --> 01:48:45,745 This Pothinus sought to make me conspire with him to betray Caesar. I refused. 1762 01:48:45,852 --> 01:48:49,549 And he cursed me and came privily to Caesar to accuse me ofhis own treachery. 1763 01:48:49,656 --> 01:48:51,886 He insulted me. 1764 01:48:51,992 --> 01:48:55,553 Me, the queen, to my face. 1765 01:48:55,662 --> 01:48:59,996 Caesar would not avenge me. He spoke him fair and set him free. 1766 01:49:00,100 --> 01:49:04,298 Was I right to avenge myself? Speak, Lucius. 1767 01:49:04,404 --> 01:49:08,135 I do not gainsay it, but you'll get little thanks for it from Caesar. 1768 01:49:08,241 --> 01:49:10,232 (Crowd Shouting In Distance] 1769 01:49:10,343 --> 01:49:13,039 Apollodorus, speak. Was I wrong? 1770 01:49:13,146 --> 01:49:15,842 I have but one word of blame, most beautiful. 1771 01:49:15,949 --> 01:49:20,249 You should have called on me, your knight, and in fair duel, I should have slain the slanderer. 1772 01:49:20,353 --> 01:49:22,821 I will be judged by your very slave, Caesar. 1773 01:49:22,923 --> 01:49:27,053 Britannus, speak. Was I wrong? 1774 01:49:27,160 --> 01:49:30,425 Were treachery, falsehood and disloyalty left unpunished... 1775 01:49:30,530 --> 01:49:34,933 society must become like an arena full of wild beasts, tearing one another to pieces. 1776 01:49:36,036 --> 01:49:39,494 Caesar is in the wrong. 1777 01:49:40,874 --> 01:49:43,775 And so the verdict is against me, it seems. 1778 01:49:43,877 --> 01:49:45,845 (Shouting Continues] 1779 01:49:49,316 --> 01:49:51,216 Listen to me, Caesar. 1780 01:49:51,318 --> 01:49:55,015 If one man in all Alexandria can be found to say I did wrong... 1781 01:49:55,121 --> 01:49:58,613 I swear to have myself crucified on the door of the palace by my own slaves. 1782 01:49:58,725 --> 01:50:01,819 If one man in all the world can be found, now or forever... 1783 01:50:01,928 --> 01:50:03,896 to know that you did wrong... 1784 01:50:03,997 --> 01:50:07,956 that man will have either to conquer the world as I have or be crucified by it. 1785 01:50:08,068 --> 01:50:10,730 - (Crowd Booing] - Do you hear? 1786 01:50:10,837 --> 01:50:15,740 These knockers at your gates are also believers in vengeance and in stabbing. 1787 01:50:15,842 --> 01:50:21,178 You have slain their leader. It is right that they should slay you. 1788 01:50:21,281 --> 01:50:25,115 And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder... 1789 01:50:25,218 --> 01:50:28,153 always in the name of right and honor and peace... 1790 01:50:28,254 --> 01:50:32,190 until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand. 1791 01:50:32,292 --> 01:50:34,487 - (Crowd Shouting] - Let the queen of Egypt now give her orders... 1792 01:50:34,594 --> 01:50:36,994 for vengeance and take her measures for defense... 1793 01:50:37,097 --> 01:50:40,999 - For she has renounced Caesar. - (Shouting Continues] 1794 01:50:41,101 --> 01:50:44,229 You will not desert me, Caesar. You will defend the palace. 1795 01:50:44,337 --> 01:50:46,669 You have taken the powers of life and death upon you. 1796 01:50:46,773 --> 01:50:49,503 I am only a dreamer. 1797 01:50:49,609 --> 01:50:52,169 But... they will kill me. 1798 01:50:52,278 --> 01:50:55,543 - Why not? - In pity... 1799 01:50:55,649 --> 01:51:00,586 Pity? What, has it come to this so suddenly that nothing can save you but pity? 1800 01:51:00,687 --> 01:51:02,587 Did it save Pothinus? 1801 01:51:02,689 --> 01:51:04,748 (All Shouting) 1802 01:51:08,361 --> 01:51:10,989 Caesar, enough of preaching. The enemy's at the gate. 1803 01:51:11,097 --> 01:51:13,565 And what has held him baffied at the gate all these months? 1804 01:51:13,667 --> 01:51:16,966 Was it my folly, as you deem it, or your wisdom? 1805 01:51:17,070 --> 01:51:21,769 In this Egyptian Red Sea of blood, whose hand has held all your heads above the waves? 1806 01:51:21,875 --> 01:51:24,742 And yet when Caesar says to such an one, "Friend, go free"... 1807 01:51:24,844 --> 01:51:27,438 you, clinging for your little life to my sword... 1808 01:51:27,547 --> 01:51:29,572 dare steal out and stab him in the back. 1809 01:51:29,683 --> 01:51:34,950 By the gods, I'm tempted to open my hand and let you all sink into the fiood. 1810 01:51:35,055 --> 01:51:37,615 Will you desert us because we're a parcel of fools? 1811 01:51:37,724 --> 01:51:41,182 I mean no harm by killing. I do it as a dog kills a cat... by instinct. 1812 01:51:41,294 --> 01:51:44,286 We're all dogs at your heels, but we have served you faithfully. 1813 01:51:44,397 --> 01:51:47,127 Alas, Rufio, my son... 1814 01:51:47,233 --> 01:51:49,895 as dogs, we are like to perish now in the streets. 1815 01:51:50,003 --> 01:51:52,870 Caesar, what you say has an Olympian ring in it... 1816 01:51:52,972 --> 01:51:54,906 but I'm still on the side of Cleopatra. 1817 01:51:55,008 --> 01:51:59,638 If we must die, she shall not want the devotion of a man's heart or the strength of a man's arm. 1818 01:51:59,746 --> 01:52:03,204 - But I do not want to die. - Oh, ignoble. 1819 01:52:03,316 --> 01:52:06,114 - Ignoble. - (Shouting Continues] 1820 01:52:06,219 --> 01:52:08,187 (Lucius] Hearken to me, Caesar. 1821 01:52:09,589 --> 01:52:13,320 It may be ignoble, but l, too, mean to live as long as I can. 1822 01:52:13,426 --> 01:52:17,157 - Well, my friend, you are likely to outlive Caesar. - Does Caesar despair? 1823 01:52:17,263 --> 01:52:21,563 He who has never hoped can never despair. 1824 01:52:21,668 --> 01:52:24,535 Caesar, in good or bad fortune, looks his fate in the face. 1825 01:52:24,637 --> 01:52:27,697 Look it in the face now, and it will smile as it always has to Caesar. 1826 01:52:27,807 --> 01:52:30,332 - You presume to encourage me? - I offer you my services. 1827 01:52:30,443 --> 01:52:33,037 - I will change sides if you will have me. - What? At this point? 1828 01:52:33,146 --> 01:52:36,809 - At this point. - Do you suppose Caesar is mad? To trust you? 1829 01:52:36,916 --> 01:52:41,285 I do not ask him to trust me until he is victorious. I ask for my life and a command in Caesar's army. 1830 01:52:41,387 --> 01:52:44,788 And since Caesar is a fair dealer, I will pay in advance. 1831 01:52:44,891 --> 01:52:47,792 - Pay? How? - With a piece of good news for you. 1832 01:52:47,894 --> 01:52:50,055 - What news? - "What news?" 1833 01:52:50,163 --> 01:52:52,631 What news, did you say, my son Rufio? 1834 01:52:52,732 --> 01:52:56,293 The relief has arrived. Mithridates of Pergamus is on the march. 1835 01:52:56,402 --> 01:52:58,836 - Is it not so, Lucius Septimius? - He has taken Pelusium. 1836 01:52:58,938 --> 01:53:01,372 Lucius, you are henceforth my officer. 1837 01:53:01,474 --> 01:53:04,204 Rufio, the Egyptians must have sent every soldier from the city... 1838 01:53:04,310 --> 01:53:06,471 to prevent Mithridates crossing the Nile. 1839 01:53:06,579 --> 01:53:08,945 There is nothing in the streets now but mob. Mob! 1840 01:53:09,048 --> 01:53:13,246 It is so. Mithridates is marching by the great road to Memphis to cross above the delta. 1841 01:53:13,353 --> 01:53:16,652 - Achillas will fight him there. - Achillas shall fight Caesar there. 1842 01:53:16,756 --> 01:53:18,724 (Crowd Shouting, Booing] 1843 01:53:22,862 --> 01:53:24,955 See, Rufio. 1844 01:53:25,064 --> 01:53:27,589 - Here is the palace. - Mm-hmm. 1845 01:53:27,700 --> 01:53:30,100 Here is the theater. 1846 01:53:30,203 --> 01:53:32,671 Now, you take 20 men and pretend to go by this street. 1847 01:53:32,772 --> 01:53:36,037 And whilst they're stoning you, out will come the cohorts by this and this. 1848 01:53:36,142 --> 01:53:38,542 - My streets are right, are they, Lucius? - Aye. That's the fig market. 1849 01:53:38,645 --> 01:53:41,637 Yes. I saw on the day we arrived. Britannus, tell Petronius that within an hour... 1850 01:53:41,748 --> 01:53:43,773 half our forces must take ship for the western lake. 1851 01:53:43,883 --> 01:53:45,783 And see to my horse and armor. 1852 01:53:45,885 --> 01:53:50,015 With the rest, I shall march round the lake and up the Nile and catch Achillas in the desert. 1853 01:53:50,123 --> 01:53:52,318 Lucius, give the word to start. 1854 01:53:52,425 --> 01:53:55,986 Apollodorus, lend me your sword and your right arm for this campaign. 1855 01:53:56,095 --> 01:53:58,996 - Aye. And my heart and life to boot. - I accept both. 1856 01:53:59,098 --> 01:54:01,498 - Are you ready? - Ready for art... the art of war! 1857 01:54:01,601 --> 01:54:05,367 - Come! This is something like business. - Is it not, my only son? 1858 01:54:05,471 --> 01:54:07,837 - You understand about the streets, Rufio. - I think I do. 1859 01:54:07,941 --> 01:54:09,966 - I'll get through them, at all events. - (Cleopatra] Caesar. 1860 01:54:12,278 --> 01:54:15,076 - Caesar. - (Crowd Shouting] 1861 01:54:15,181 --> 01:54:17,081 Have you forgotten me? 1862 01:54:17,183 --> 01:54:19,117 Oh, I'm busy now, my child. Busy. 1863 01:54:19,219 --> 01:54:21,949 When I return, your affair shall be settled. Farewell. 1864 01:54:22,055 --> 01:54:23,989 Be good and patient. 1865 01:54:24,090 --> 01:54:28,823 - (Shouting Continues] - That game's played and lost, Cleopatra. 1866 01:54:28,928 --> 01:54:31,522 (Chuckles) The woman always gets the worst of it. 1867 01:54:31,631 --> 01:54:33,599 Go. Follow your master. 1868 01:54:33,700 --> 01:54:36,032 (Crowd Booing] 1869 01:54:36,135 --> 01:54:38,035 A word first. 1870 01:54:38,137 --> 01:54:43,370 Tell your executioner that if Pothinus had been properly killed... in the throat... 1871 01:54:43,476 --> 01:54:45,535 he wouldn't have called out. 1872 01:54:45,645 --> 01:54:48,239 Now, your man bungled his work. 1873 01:54:49,349 --> 01:54:51,317 How do you know it was a man? 1874 01:54:52,585 --> 01:54:56,419 It wasn't you. No. You were with us when it happened. 1875 01:54:56,522 --> 01:54:59,889 Was it she, with her own hands? 1876 01:54:59,993 --> 01:55:03,121 Whoever it was, let my enemies beware of her. 1877 01:55:03,229 --> 01:55:08,132 Look to it, Rufio... you who dare make the queen of Egypt a fool before Caesar. 1878 01:55:08,234 --> 01:55:10,134 (Shouting Continues] 1879 01:55:10,236 --> 01:55:12,704 I will look to it, Cleopatra. 1880 01:55:12,805 --> 01:55:14,773 (Shouting Continues] 1881 01:55:17,243 --> 01:55:19,143 (Soldiers] Hail, Caesar! 1882 01:55:19,245 --> 01:55:21,736 (Caesar] Let's teach these Egyptians how to fiight... 1883 01:55:21,848 --> 01:55:23,782 and how to run. 1884 01:55:23,883 --> 01:55:29,219 Eh? And then, home to Rome! 1885 01:55:29,322 --> 01:55:31,688 (All) Hail, Caesar! 1886 01:55:31,791 --> 01:55:34,760 Hail, Caesar! 1887 01:55:34,861 --> 01:55:36,795 Ftatateeta. 1888 01:55:36,896 --> 01:55:40,059 - ** (Trumpet Fanfare] - (Shouting) 1889 01:55:41,467 --> 01:55:43,992 (Crowd Screaming) 1890 01:55:55,448 --> 01:55:57,416 Ftatateeta. 1891 01:55:58,518 --> 01:56:01,009 It is dark, and I am alone. 1892 01:56:01,120 --> 01:56:03,816 Come to me. 1893 01:56:03,923 --> 01:56:06,084 Ftatateeta! Fta... 1894 01:56:09,796 --> 01:56:11,764 (Whimpers) 1895 01:56:13,399 --> 01:56:15,299 (Gasps) 1896 01:56:15,401 --> 01:56:20,202 (Ftatateeta's Voice] The queen looks again on the face ofher servant. 1897 01:57:01,447 --> 01:57:03,074 (Horn Blowing) 1898 01:57:06,719 --> 01:57:08,653 (All Shouting) 1899 01:57:08,755 --> 01:57:10,848 (Shouts) 1900 01:58:06,312 --> 01:58:10,009 (Caesar's Voice] For I am he of whose genius you are the symbol. 1901 01:58:10,116 --> 01:58:14,553 Part brute, part woman and part god. 1902 01:58:14,654 --> 01:58:20,615 (Masculine-Feminine Voice] Hail, Caesar. 1903 01:58:21,961 --> 01:58:25,294 (Crowd Cheering) 1904 01:58:25,398 --> 01:58:29,494 (Fanfare) 1905 01:58:29,602 --> 01:58:31,797 (Crowd] Hail, Caesar! 1906 01:58:31,904 --> 01:58:33,872 - Here he comes. - (Laughs) 1907 01:58:41,080 --> 01:58:43,548 (Crowd) Hail, Caesar! 1908 01:58:44,650 --> 01:58:47,312 Hail, Caesar! 1909 01:58:47,420 --> 01:58:50,480 Hail, Caesar! 1910 01:58:50,590 --> 01:58:54,082 Hail, Caesar! 1911 01:58:54,193 --> 01:58:57,526 Hail, Caesar! 1912 01:58:57,630 --> 01:59:00,258 Hail! 1913 01:59:00,366 --> 01:59:02,766 Hail! 1914 01:59:02,869 --> 01:59:04,837 Hail! 1915 01:59:06,139 --> 01:59:08,198 (Caesar] I see my ship awaits me. 1916 01:59:08,307 --> 01:59:11,401 The hour of Caesar's farewell to Egypt has arrived. 1917 01:59:11,511 --> 01:59:14,071 And now, Rufio, what remains to be done before I go? 1918 01:59:14,180 --> 01:59:18,241 Why, you've not yet appointed a Roman governor for this province. 1919 01:59:18,351 --> 01:59:21,013 What say you to Mithridates of Pergamus? 1920 01:59:21,120 --> 01:59:23,054 Why, that you'll want him elsewhere. 1921 01:59:23,156 --> 01:59:25,215 Indeed. 1922 01:59:25,324 --> 01:59:27,417 Well, what do you say to yourself? 1923 01:59:27,527 --> 01:59:29,927 (Gasping) I? 1924 01:59:30,029 --> 01:59:32,156 l, a governor? 1925 01:59:32,265 --> 01:59:35,462 Are you dreaming? Do you not know I'm only the son of a freedman? 1926 01:59:35,568 --> 01:59:38,435 Has not Caesar called you his son? 1927 01:59:38,538 --> 01:59:41,132 (Crowd Chattering] 1928 01:59:48,014 --> 01:59:49,914 Peace a while there, and hear me. 1929 01:59:50,016 --> 01:59:51,916 (Crowd] Hear Caesar! 1930 01:59:52,018 --> 01:59:57,923 Hear the service, quality, rank and name of the Roman governor. 1931 01:59:58,024 --> 02:00:00,720 By service, Caesar's shield. 1932 02:00:00,826 --> 02:00:03,420 By quality, Caesar's friend. 1933 02:00:03,529 --> 02:00:08,557 - By rank, a Roman soldier. - (All) Hail, Caesar! 1934 02:00:08,668 --> 02:00:12,764 - By name, Rufio! - Hail, Caesar! 1935 02:00:12,872 --> 02:00:15,397 Hail, Caesar! 1936 02:00:17,009 --> 02:00:19,978 Aye. I'm Caesar's shield... 1937 02:00:20,079 --> 02:00:23,344 but what use will I be when I'm no longer on Caesar's arm? 1938 02:00:28,821 --> 02:00:32,518 - Where is that British islander of mine? - Here, Caesar. 1939 02:00:32,625 --> 02:00:35,788 And who bade you, pray, thrust yourself into the battle of the delta... 1940 02:00:35,895 --> 02:00:38,693 uttering the barbarous cries of your native land? 1941 02:00:38,798 --> 02:00:42,461 Caesar, I ask you to excuse the language that escaped me in the heat of the moment. 1942 02:00:42,568 --> 02:00:47,096 And how did you, who cannot swim, cross the canal with us when we stormed the camp? 1943 02:00:47,206 --> 02:00:50,801 Caesar, I clung to the tail of your horse. 1944 02:00:52,411 --> 02:00:55,812 These aren't the deeds of a slave, Britannus, but of a free man. 1945 02:00:55,915 --> 02:00:58,281 Caesar, I was born free. 1946 02:00:58,384 --> 02:01:00,352 But they call you Caesar's slave. 1947 02:01:01,420 --> 02:01:05,220 Only as Caesar's slave have I found real freedom. 1948 02:01:05,324 --> 02:01:07,292 Well said. 1949 02:01:07,393 --> 02:01:10,385 Ungrateful that I am, I was about to set you free... 1950 02:01:10,496 --> 02:01:13,465 but now I will not part with you for a million talents. 1951 02:01:24,010 --> 02:01:26,808 That Roman knows how to make men serve him. 1952 02:01:27,913 --> 02:01:30,677 Apollodorus, I leave the art of Egypt in your charge. 1953 02:01:30,783 --> 02:01:33,445 Remember, Rome loves art and will encourage it. 1954 02:01:33,552 --> 02:01:37,318 I understand, Caesar. Egypt must pay her tribute to Rome in art. 1955 02:01:37,423 --> 02:01:40,915 Mm-hmm. Now, what else have I to do before I embark? 1956 02:01:41,027 --> 02:01:43,086 There's something I cannot remember. 1957 02:01:43,195 --> 02:01:45,254 I wonder what it can be. 1958 02:01:45,364 --> 02:01:47,298 Well, it must remain undone. 1959 02:01:47,400 --> 02:01:49,334 We must not waste this favorable wind. 1960 02:01:49,435 --> 02:01:52,302 Caesar, I'm loath to let you go back to Rome without your shield. 1961 02:01:52,405 --> 02:01:54,600 - There are too many daggers there. - It matters not. 1962 02:01:54,707 --> 02:01:57,540 I've always disliked the idea of dying. I'd rather be killed. 1963 02:01:57,643 --> 02:01:59,668 - Farewell, Rufio. - Farewell. 1964 02:01:59,779 --> 02:02:01,747 - Farewell, Apollodorus. - (Man] The queen! 1965 02:02:13,859 --> 02:02:17,727 Ah. I knew there was something. 1966 02:02:17,830 --> 02:02:20,594 How could you let me forget her, Rufio? 1967 02:02:26,205 --> 02:02:29,174 Has Cleopatra no part in this leave-taking? 1968 02:02:33,079 --> 02:02:37,379 Had I gone without seeing you, I should never have forgiven myself. 1969 02:02:37,483 --> 02:02:39,383 Is this mourning for me? 1970 02:02:39,485 --> 02:02:42,886 - No. - Ah, that was thoughtless of me. 1971 02:02:42,988 --> 02:02:46,651 - It's for your brother. - No. 1972 02:02:46,759 --> 02:02:48,659 For whom then? 1973 02:02:48,761 --> 02:02:52,197 Ask the Roman governor whom you have left us. 1974 02:02:52,298 --> 02:02:55,096 - Rufio? - Yes. Rufio. 1975 02:02:59,538 --> 02:03:02,939 He who is to rule in Caesar's name, in Caesar's way... 1976 02:03:03,042 --> 02:03:05,636 according to Caesar's boasted laws of life. 1977 02:03:06,679 --> 02:03:09,671 He is to rule as he can, Cleopatra. He has taken the work upon him... 1978 02:03:09,782 --> 02:03:11,773 and will do it in his own way. 1979 02:03:11,884 --> 02:03:16,787 Not in your way then... without punishment, without revenge, without judgment? 1980 02:03:16,889 --> 02:03:21,019 Ah, that is the right way, the great way, the only possible way in the end. 1981 02:03:21,127 --> 02:03:23,459 Believe it, Rufio, if you can. 1982 02:03:23,562 --> 02:03:25,462 Why, I believe it, Caesar, but look you. 1983 02:03:25,564 --> 02:03:28,260 Cleopatra had a tigress that killed men at her bidding. 1984 02:03:28,367 --> 02:03:30,892 I thought she might bid it kill you someday. 1985 02:03:31,003 --> 02:03:33,836 So, without malice, I only cut its throat. 1986 02:03:33,939 --> 02:03:36,032 That's why Cleopatra comes to you in mourning. 1987 02:03:36,142 --> 02:03:38,804 He has shed the blood of my servant Ftatateeta. 1988 02:03:40,079 --> 02:03:44,106 Upon your head be it, Caesar, as upon his, if you hold him free of it. 1989 02:03:44,216 --> 02:03:47,549 On my head be it, then, for it was well done, Rufio. 1990 02:03:47,653 --> 02:03:50,247 Come. Don't be angry with me. 1991 02:03:50,356 --> 02:03:52,847 - I'm sorry for that poor Totateeta. - (Chuckling) 1992 02:03:52,958 --> 02:03:54,926 Ah. You're laughing. 1993 02:03:56,061 --> 02:03:59,292 - Does that mean reconciliation? - No, no, no. 1994 02:03:59,398 --> 02:04:02,367 Only it is so ridiculous to hear you call her Totateeta. 1995 02:04:02,468 --> 02:04:04,732 As much a child as ever, Cleopatra. 1996 02:04:04,837 --> 02:04:07,101 Haven't I made a woman of you after all? 1997 02:04:07,206 --> 02:04:09,367 Oh, it is you who are a great baby. 1998 02:04:09,475 --> 02:04:12,740 You make me seem silly because you will not behave seriously. 1999 02:04:12,845 --> 02:04:15,336 But you have treated me badly, and I do not forgive you. 2000 02:04:15,448 --> 02:04:18,417 - Bid me farewell. - I will not. 2001 02:04:18,517 --> 02:04:21,577 I will send you a beautiful present from Rome. 2002 02:04:21,687 --> 02:04:24,247 Beauty from Rome to Egypt indeed. 2003 02:04:24,356 --> 02:04:26,551 What can Rome give me that Egypt cannot give me? 2004 02:04:26,659 --> 02:04:29,787 That's true, Caesar. If the present is to be really beautiful... 2005 02:04:29,895 --> 02:04:31,988 I shall have to buy it for you in Alexandria. 2006 02:04:32,097 --> 02:04:35,294 You're forgetting the treasures for which Rome is most famous, my friend. 2007 02:04:35,401 --> 02:04:37,335 You cannot buy them in Alexandria. 2008 02:04:37,436 --> 02:04:40,837 - What are they, Caesar? - Her sons. 2009 02:04:40,940 --> 02:04:44,103 Come, Cleopatra. Forgive me and bid me farewell... 2010 02:04:44,210 --> 02:04:47,008 and I will send you a man. 2011 02:04:47,112 --> 02:04:49,046 Not old and ripe for the knife. 2012 02:04:49,148 --> 02:04:51,878 Not hiding a bald head under his conqueror's laurels. 2013 02:04:51,984 --> 02:04:54,384 Not stooped with the weight of the world on his shoulders... 2014 02:04:54,487 --> 02:04:56,978 but brisk and fresh and strong and young... 2015 02:04:57,089 --> 02:05:00,752 hoping in the morning, fighting in the day and reveling in the evening. 2016 02:05:00,860 --> 02:05:03,351 Will you take such an one in exchange for Caesar? 2017 02:05:03,462 --> 02:05:05,020 His name? His name? 2018 02:05:05,130 --> 02:05:09,123 - Shall it be Mark Antony? - (Squeals) 2019 02:05:09,235 --> 02:05:11,726 (Chuckles) You're a bad hand at a bargain, mistress... 2020 02:05:11,837 --> 02:05:13,737 if you'll swap Caesar for Antony. 2021 02:05:15,241 --> 02:05:17,175 So now are you satisfied? 2022 02:05:17,276 --> 02:05:21,110 - You will not forget? - I will not forget. 2023 02:05:21,213 --> 02:05:23,181 Farewell. 2024 02:05:23,282 --> 02:05:26,012 I do not think we shall meet again. 2025 02:05:40,666 --> 02:05:42,566 Hail and farewell! 2026 02:05:42,668 --> 02:05:44,727 Hail, Caesar, and farewell! 2027 02:05:44,837 --> 02:05:49,365 (All) Hail, Caesar, and farewell! 2028 02:05:53,612 --> 02:05:56,479 - (Sniffies) - Oh, no tears, dearest queen. 2029 02:05:56,582 --> 02:05:59,380 They stab your servant to the heart. 2030 02:05:59,485 --> 02:06:03,512 - He will return someday. - I hope not. 2031 02:06:03,622 --> 02:06:05,749 But I can't help crying... 2032 02:06:05,858 --> 02:06:07,792 just the same. 2033 02:06:14,366 --> 02:06:18,860 (Crowd) Hail, Caesar, and farewell! 2034 02:06:19,305 --> 02:07:19,724 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org