1 00:01:30,989 --> 00:01:35,988 ROME: Season 1 Episode 06 Egeria 2 00:01:43,277 --> 00:01:43,277 * Egeria was a nymph who was the wife or the friend of pious king of Rome, Numa Pompilius. She gave him wise advice at night. So, it isn't only the prostitute's name in that episode, it's also an allusion to Atia's role. 3 00:02:29,791 --> 00:02:31,824 I was thinking... 4 00:02:32,824 --> 00:02:34,824 I was thinking... 5 00:02:36,124 --> 00:02:38,824 You and I might go away to Baiae*. 6 00:02:38,825 --> 00:05:17,315 * Baiae is a town on the Bay of Naples, Italy, very fashionable and luxurious because of its medicinal warm sulfur springs. Many rich and distinguished people had villas in the area. To make a nowadays comparison, it would be like Ibiza or Monte-Carlo. 7 00:02:38,490 --> 00:02:41,358 After next market day. 8 00:02:41,358 --> 00:02:43,457 It's supposed to be nice there 9 00:02:43,524 --> 00:02:46,224 - and seeing how crowded it's been... - That's a lovely idea, but... 10 00:02:46,290 --> 00:02:47,445 But what? 11 00:02:48,758 --> 00:02:51,091 I can't leave Lyde alone. 12 00:02:51,191 --> 00:02:53,737 - She needs me. - She needs you. 13 00:02:53,758 --> 00:02:57,590 Evander's been missing for two months. Something bad has happened. 14 00:02:57,640 --> 00:02:58,591 Very likely something bad has happened. 15 00:02:58,657 --> 00:03:01,157 Very likely he is dead! 16 00:03:13,657 --> 00:03:14,979 Pullo, awake! 17 00:03:17,758 --> 00:03:19,524 Wake up! Mark Antony's waiting. 18 00:03:19,591 --> 00:03:22,090 Mump off and die, you pigfucker. 19 00:03:25,657 --> 00:03:27,657 Right. 20 00:03:31,524 --> 00:03:33,524 Thank you, my honey. 21 00:03:34,691 --> 00:03:36,424 You shouldn't thank slaves. 22 00:03:36,491 --> 00:03:38,758 - No harm in it. - It's bad for discipline. 23 00:03:38,824 --> 00:03:40,824 Happy again this morning? 24 00:03:41,923 --> 00:03:43,858 Niobe, then? 25 00:03:43,923 --> 00:03:45,657 - How's she going? - I don't understand her. 26 00:03:45,724 --> 00:03:48,057 All the hoo over her sister's damn husband. 27 00:03:48,124 --> 00:03:50,591 Women, eh? Maybe she's... She's... 28 00:03:50,657 --> 00:03:52,657 She's what? 29 00:03:53,657 --> 00:03:55,857 I don't know. Women, eh? 30 00:04:18,890 --> 00:04:21,698 Mighty vice-conqueror of Gaul, 31 00:04:22,324 --> 00:04:25,524 Mars* and Bellona* swell with pride at your doings. 32 00:04:25,525 --> 00:04:25,525 * Mars is the god of the war. Bellona is sometimes his wife and is also the goddess of the war (her name comes from "bellum", "war"). 33 00:04:25,591 --> 00:04:29,391 - And I say... - Oh, good Juno, what cac you speak? 34 00:04:29,410 --> 00:04:31,250 Would you just get on with your point, man? 35 00:04:31,257 --> 00:04:33,390 Immediately, Your Honor. I... 36 00:04:33,390 --> 00:04:35,824 Publius Servilius is here. 37 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:38,102 Ah, good. That'll do for this crowd then. 38 00:04:38,290 --> 00:04:39,211 - Off with you. - I... 39 00:04:39,212 --> 00:04:41,589 No, off with you! 40 00:04:41,591 --> 00:04:44,124 Master of horse* and people's tribune Mark Antony 41 00:04:44,125 --> 00:04:44,125 * The Master of the Horse (Magister Equitum) Is an office appointed by dictator. He reprents the dictator and has the same powers. He has to dismiss when the dictator dismisses too, after six months. 42 00:04:44,257 --> 00:04:46,657 Will receive your petitions tomorrow. 43 00:04:48,791 --> 00:04:50,505 Vorenus! 44 00:04:52,758 --> 00:04:54,524 Out! 45 00:04:54,591 --> 00:04:56,357 Cynthia, 46 00:04:56,424 --> 00:04:58,417 a pear, my love? 47 00:05:09,591 --> 00:05:11,591 Servilius, 48 00:05:11,657 --> 00:05:13,557 my dear old friend. 49 00:05:15,324 --> 00:05:16,990 How are you? 50 00:05:17,058 --> 00:05:19,519 Healthy healthy, I thank you. 51 00:05:19,657 --> 00:05:23,223 Forgive me, have we met before? 52 00:05:23,290 --> 00:05:24,957 Have we not? 53 00:05:25,023 --> 00:05:26,758 No idea. 54 00:05:26,824 --> 00:05:29,657 I always pretend so with civilians. 55 00:05:29,724 --> 00:05:31,858 It's more politic, nay? 56 00:05:34,257 --> 00:05:36,858 And this must be your beautiful wife, 57 00:05:36,923 --> 00:05:39,057 whose name escapes me. 58 00:05:39,124 --> 00:05:41,290 Poppaea. 59 00:05:41,357 --> 00:05:43,157 A flower. 60 00:05:43,224 --> 00:05:45,423 You'll excuse all the bustle. 61 00:05:45,490 --> 00:05:46,667 I found Pompey's taste 62 00:05:46,668 --> 00:05:49,121 in decor rather dull. 63 00:05:49,157 --> 00:05:50,657 I like a little more color. 64 00:05:50,691 --> 00:05:52,230 As you say. 65 00:05:52,231 --> 00:05:54,325 You shall make it lovely, we are sure. 66 00:05:54,326 --> 00:05:56,350 You'll forgive me if I talk business with your husband? 67 00:05:56,357 --> 00:05:58,485 Of course. 68 00:05:59,091 --> 00:06:00,774 Pretend I am not here. 69 00:06:00,790 --> 00:06:02,425 Impossible. 70 00:06:02,491 --> 00:06:04,243 But I shall try. 71 00:06:04,525 --> 00:06:05,752 Now then... 72 00:06:05,890 --> 00:06:07,591 I'm sure you're aware that Caesar 73 00:06:07,657 --> 00:06:09,657 Has left me in charge whilst he is in Greece. 74 00:06:09,724 --> 00:06:11,890 Yes. Off having fun 75 00:06:11,957 --> 00:06:14,791 chastising Pompey et al*. 76 00:06:14,792 --> 00:06:14,792 * et al = et alii = "and the others" 77 00:06:14,810 --> 00:06:16,715 Left me here to scribble and quibble 78 00:06:16,715 --> 00:06:18,188 like a damned civilian. 79 00:06:18,290 --> 00:06:21,491 However, I am determined to make the most of it. 80 00:06:21,557 --> 00:06:24,324 I shall be a good politician, 81 00:06:24,391 --> 00:06:25,678 even if it kills me. 82 00:06:26,858 --> 00:06:28,791 Or if it kills anyone else for that matter. 83 00:06:29,558 --> 00:06:30,954 So you are, 84 00:06:30,980 --> 00:06:32,345 it seems, 85 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:35,257 the most senior senator left in Rome. 86 00:06:35,324 --> 00:06:37,057 I have that honor. 87 00:06:37,124 --> 00:06:39,824 - And a turnabout pompeian to boot. - I... 88 00:06:40,457 --> 00:06:43,791 Which is why I thought 89 00:06:43,858 --> 00:06:45,923 it could be amusing 90 00:06:45,990 --> 00:06:49,691 if we made you consul for this year. 91 00:06:49,758 --> 00:06:51,858 Consul? 92 00:06:51,923 --> 00:06:53,890 That's most kind... 93 00:06:53,957 --> 00:06:55,923 Allow me to finish speaking. 94 00:06:57,290 --> 00:06:59,357 When the Senate next meets, 95 00:06:59,424 --> 00:07:01,624 there are a couple of legislative items 96 00:07:01,691 --> 00:07:03,724 I wish to see enacted immediately. 97 00:07:03,724 --> 00:07:06,957 I am sure you will be happy to assist. 98 00:07:07,023 --> 00:07:09,023 - I... I... - Item one: 99 00:07:09,090 --> 00:07:10,791 The Senate will ratify 100 00:07:10,858 --> 00:07:14,624 Caesar's election as your co-consul* for the coming year. 101 00:07:14,625 --> 00:07:14,625 * There are two consuls each year. Make Caesar a co-consul is just for the sake of appearances, since Caesar would take all the major decisions. 102 00:07:16,157 --> 00:07:18,323 But he is dictator in any case. 103 00:07:19,290 --> 00:07:21,357 It sounds so much better if he is consul. 104 00:07:21,424 --> 00:07:23,290 It's more amicable. 105 00:07:23,357 --> 00:07:24,594 You got that? 106 00:07:24,694 --> 00:07:26,685 - I... I do. I... I have... - Item two: 107 00:07:26,692 --> 00:07:30,338 You will propose the following law: 108 00:07:31,824 --> 00:07:34,791 Forthwith, in every province of Italy, 109 00:07:34,858 --> 00:07:36,824 one third of all those employed 110 00:07:36,923 --> 00:07:40,023 at laboring with cattle or in agriculture 111 00:07:40,090 --> 00:07:42,150 must be freedmen or citizens. 112 00:07:42,157 --> 00:07:44,057 I don't understand. 113 00:07:44,124 --> 00:07:45,508 Too many slaves, you see? 114 00:07:45,508 --> 00:07:48,853 They've taken all the work, which causes unemployment 115 00:07:48,854 --> 00:07:50,624 amongst the free populace. 116 00:07:50,691 --> 00:07:54,190 Now, we need to create more jobs for our citizens. 117 00:07:54,257 --> 00:07:56,190 But it will be hugely expensive! 118 00:07:56,257 --> 00:07:57,923 It will. 119 00:07:57,990 --> 00:08:00,310 But only to those few rich men 120 00:08:00,324 --> 00:08:02,390 who own all the land. 121 00:08:02,391 --> 00:08:03,980 And they shall have the consolation 122 00:08:03,990 --> 00:08:06,652 of having done something eminently patriotic. 123 00:08:06,657 --> 00:08:08,758 It seems rather... 124 00:08:08,824 --> 00:08:11,810 extreme to say the least. 125 00:08:11,824 --> 00:08:13,624 Ruinous even. 126 00:08:13,691 --> 00:08:15,424 You may well be right. 127 00:08:15,460 --> 00:08:17,880 But frankly, I do not care whether it is the rich, poor, 128 00:08:17,890 --> 00:08:20,620 or, indeed both that suffer. 129 00:08:20,624 --> 00:08:22,250 Caesar wishes this law to be made. 130 00:08:22,257 --> 00:08:25,624 He is my friend, I will have it made. 131 00:08:25,630 --> 00:08:26,728 If you prefer, I could always 132 00:08:26,730 --> 00:08:27,820 bypass the Senate, 133 00:08:27,824 --> 00:08:29,858 call an assembly of the people 134 00:08:29,923 --> 00:08:31,890 and you can put your arguments to them. 135 00:08:31,957 --> 00:08:34,657 A fine orator like yourself might just persuade them 136 00:08:34,724 --> 00:08:36,990 that Caesar is wrong. 137 00:08:37,023 --> 00:08:40,157 - That won't be necessary. - Good. 138 00:08:40,224 --> 00:08:42,724 Good. 139 00:08:42,791 --> 00:08:44,791 That's it then. 140 00:08:45,690 --> 00:08:47,490 I don't know what to say. 141 00:08:47,501 --> 00:08:48,665 Say nothing then. 142 00:08:48,666 --> 00:08:50,990 It's often best. 143 00:08:52,457 --> 00:08:53,897 You know Posca of course, 144 00:08:53,897 --> 00:08:55,616 Caesar's creature? 145 00:08:55,617 --> 00:08:57,824 He'll take all the details. 146 00:08:59,424 --> 00:09:00,741 Poppaea... 147 00:09:02,524 --> 00:09:05,957 My dove, if your husband should die... 148 00:09:07,157 --> 00:09:09,691 come to me, we will marry, neh? 149 00:09:25,192 --> 00:09:28,236 So, keeping their promises, isn't he? 150 00:09:28,237 --> 00:09:29,390 What? 151 00:09:29,857 --> 00:09:32,758 Caesar and Mark Antony, doing right by the people. 152 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:34,790 That was your worry, wasn't it? 153 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:37,240 That Caesar'd turn out to be just another tyrant sort? 154 00:09:37,257 --> 00:09:39,157 But here's him and Mark Antony 155 00:09:39,170 --> 00:09:41,245 getting jobs for the unemployed. 156 00:09:41,257 --> 00:09:43,267 You can't complain about that now, can you? 157 00:09:43,791 --> 00:09:46,290 He negotiates with a whore and a dwarf at his side. 158 00:09:46,290 --> 00:09:48,691 Think you Cincinnatus* or Marius or even the Grachii* 159 00:09:48,692 --> 00:09:48,692 Cincinnatus is a farmer twice dictator. In 458 b.C. He strongly defeats the Aequi tribe that menaces Rome. After his victory he humbly goes back and ploughs his field. Marius (157-86 b.C.) is a tribune (just like Caesar and Mark Antony). He's elected consul and puts king Jugurtha down, then Cimbers and Teutons. The Grachii is the name given to two brothers (Tiberius and Caius Sempronius Gracchus) Elected tribunes. They support and impose reforms and laws favourable to the poor. They're killed, one in -133 and the other in -121. 160 00:09:48,758 --> 00:09:51,257 - Would demean themselves so? - Who? 161 00:09:53,257 --> 00:09:56,357 Mark Antony has his odd ways, there's no denying that. 162 00:10:03,990 --> 00:10:05,890 I'm not going home. I need a drink. 163 00:10:05,957 --> 00:10:08,758 - Drink? You? - I. Drink. What of it? 164 00:10:09,791 --> 00:10:11,791 I'll not argue. 165 00:10:14,691 --> 00:10:16,424 - Ouch! - Sorry. 166 00:10:16,460 --> 00:10:17,963 You need to calm down lately. 167 00:10:17,990 --> 00:10:19,679 How can I be calm? Two months of this. 168 00:10:19,780 --> 00:10:22,483 - Aren't you done yet? - Will you sit still? 169 00:10:24,957 --> 00:10:27,691 Won't catch a pretty new husband with a sour face like that. 170 00:10:27,758 --> 00:10:30,390 I don't want a new husband. I want Crito. 171 00:10:30,457 --> 00:10:32,389 You can't stay married to a drover, 172 00:10:32,389 --> 00:10:34,424 not now that your father's a prefect. 173 00:10:34,491 --> 00:10:36,257 - It wouldn't be right. - I told her. 174 00:10:36,258 --> 00:10:37,290 Far too low. 175 00:10:37,300 --> 00:10:39,290 Fortune blessed you, you haven't paid out dowry. 176 00:10:39,295 --> 00:10:43,854 Don't worry, we'll find you someone nice, and proper status. 177 00:10:43,855 --> 00:10:44,824 I don't want anyone! 178 00:10:44,890 --> 00:10:47,490 You can't be unmarried. It wouldn't be decent at your age. 179 00:10:47,557 --> 00:10:50,757 - Decent she says. - What's that supposed to mean? 180 00:10:50,824 --> 00:10:52,559 You know what it means. 181 00:10:52,858 --> 00:10:54,349 You hold your tongue. 182 00:10:54,349 --> 00:10:55,133 Or what? 183 00:10:56,424 --> 00:10:57,872 What will you do? 184 00:11:02,457 --> 00:11:04,991 It's all right, sweetie. It's all right. 185 00:11:09,357 --> 00:11:12,390 I thought it was going well for a while, but now... 186 00:11:17,624 --> 00:11:19,757 Maybe I should beat her, do you think? 187 00:11:20,790 --> 00:11:23,137 I don't know. That only works 188 00:11:23,139 --> 00:11:24,556 if you keep at it. 189 00:11:24,757 --> 00:11:26,720 A good thrashing once or twice a day 190 00:11:26,724 --> 00:11:28,660 till they're docile. 191 00:11:28,690 --> 00:11:30,303 But then they don't look so good. 192 00:11:31,690 --> 00:11:33,857 Be a shame to mark up a beauty like her. 193 00:11:36,990 --> 00:11:38,515 She is, eh? 194 00:11:42,043 --> 00:11:43,302 She's a beauty. 195 00:11:43,623 --> 00:11:45,091 She is that. 196 00:11:45,091 --> 00:11:48,510 Slaves, money, everything. What do I get? 197 00:11:48,524 --> 00:11:49,990 Nothing, that's what I get. 198 00:11:49,991 --> 00:11:51,257 A house full of wailing. 199 00:11:52,157 --> 00:11:54,194 My wife won't even couple with me. 200 00:11:56,524 --> 00:11:58,388 Why not? 201 00:11:58,857 --> 00:12:00,957 Says she can't while her sister stays. 202 00:12:01,024 --> 00:12:03,101 What's her sister to do with it? What difference should that make? 203 00:12:14,657 --> 00:12:16,367 What is wrong with her? 204 00:12:17,224 --> 00:12:18,346 What is wrong with her? 205 00:12:19,357 --> 00:12:20,594 What is wrong with me 206 00:12:21,390 --> 00:12:22,968 That I'm served this way? 207 00:12:23,491 --> 00:12:24,816 You should leave her, maybe, 208 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:26,847 seeing as she makes you so unhappy. 209 00:12:27,757 --> 00:12:30,158 No! I will not leave her. 210 00:12:36,191 --> 00:12:37,851 I'd rather die than leave her. 211 00:12:52,590 --> 00:12:54,590 It's all right, lamb. 212 00:12:54,657 --> 00:12:56,657 It'll be all right. 213 00:13:03,590 --> 00:13:05,824 Who, I say, 214 00:13:05,891 --> 00:13:09,158 faced with the overwhelming force 215 00:13:09,224 --> 00:13:11,957 of the figures and the arguments I have here marshalled 216 00:13:12,024 --> 00:13:15,258 could resist their overwhelming conclusion? 217 00:13:16,090 --> 00:13:20,258 Therefore I ask you, 218 00:13:20,323 --> 00:13:22,824 honored conscript fathers*, 219 00:13:22,825 --> 00:13:22,825 * Title to talk to the Senators (Patres "fathers" because the Senate was in older days a board of old men, and conscripti because they are "registered" on a list). 220 00:13:22,891 --> 00:13:25,423 To support me in this important and... 221 00:13:27,323 --> 00:13:30,669 patriotic legislation which will... 222 00:13:35,824 --> 00:13:40,224 Does anyone wish to speak against the motion? 223 00:13:45,090 --> 00:13:46,807 No opposition voiced. 224 00:13:46,890 --> 00:13:50,698 No division required. Motion carried. 225 00:14:00,491 --> 00:14:01,591 It's empty. 226 00:14:02,957 --> 00:14:03,638 It is... 227 00:14:03,957 --> 00:14:06,957 If there's no wine, water will do. 228 00:14:17,457 --> 00:14:18,571 Thank you, my dove. 229 00:14:21,723 --> 00:14:24,580 So, Lyde, I was asking around, you know, 230 00:14:24,591 --> 00:14:26,684 about your man there, Evander. 231 00:14:26,691 --> 00:14:28,457 Asking around? 232 00:14:28,524 --> 00:14:31,190 See if I could find out anything for you. 233 00:14:31,290 --> 00:14:33,500 Only, I know a few shady characters, see? 234 00:14:33,505 --> 00:14:36,591 Types that might know what's what when a man's gone missing. 235 00:14:38,557 --> 00:14:41,057 Anyroad, they tell me 236 00:14:41,124 --> 00:14:43,624 that he got himself into some trouble 237 00:14:43,691 --> 00:14:46,651 with some nasty Greek boys across the river. 238 00:14:46,724 --> 00:14:48,451 Gambling debts, they say. 239 00:14:48,452 --> 00:14:49,452 Gambling? 240 00:14:49,524 --> 00:14:51,491 Evander never gambled. 241 00:14:51,500 --> 00:14:53,640 Well, sure it's the sort of thing 242 00:14:53,641 --> 00:14:56,040 a man keeps quiet around his wife, neh? 243 00:14:58,791 --> 00:15:00,312 What are you saying? 244 00:15:00,624 --> 00:15:02,790 I'm sorry to say it, but it looks like 245 00:15:02,820 --> 00:15:04,164 he's not coming home. 246 00:15:05,357 --> 00:15:07,224 Dead, looks like. 247 00:15:07,590 --> 00:15:08,821 Are you sure? 248 00:15:09,791 --> 00:15:11,674 So they tell me. 249 00:15:11,691 --> 00:15:13,657 Dead. Killed. 250 00:15:13,924 --> 00:15:15,925 It isn't true. 251 00:15:18,824 --> 00:15:20,890 My advice, 252 00:15:21,157 --> 00:15:22,490 best forget about him. 253 00:15:22,557 --> 00:15:24,923 Best get on with your life. 254 00:15:24,990 --> 00:15:26,759 It isn't true. 255 00:15:26,791 --> 00:15:28,878 It's not so bad. 256 00:15:29,224 --> 00:15:31,057 You've still got people that love you. 257 00:15:31,124 --> 00:15:32,658 Look to them, eh? 258 00:15:32,923 --> 00:15:35,124 Isn't that right, Niobe? 259 00:15:35,190 --> 00:15:37,023 Best she gets on with her life. 260 00:15:37,090 --> 00:15:39,491 Best she looks to the people that love her. 261 00:15:43,758 --> 00:15:45,691 Forget Evander. 262 00:15:45,758 --> 00:15:47,591 Forget the past. 263 00:15:52,858 --> 00:15:55,023 Well, I'm away. 264 00:15:55,090 --> 00:15:57,857 Need a drop of wine to set me up for the day. 265 00:16:04,156 --> 00:16:07,636 No! 266 00:16:15,290 --> 00:16:18,290 Lyde, please don't. 267 00:16:22,290 --> 00:16:24,758 I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. 268 00:16:26,575 --> 00:16:28,167 You're sorry? 269 00:16:28,190 --> 00:16:30,257 It's too late for sorry, isn't it? 270 00:16:30,324 --> 00:16:32,940 You weren't sorry when you were fucking him, were you? 271 00:16:32,950 --> 00:16:35,124 You weren't sorry then. I piss on your sorrow! 272 00:16:35,140 --> 00:16:37,110 I will not shh. You shh! 273 00:16:37,124 --> 00:16:40,024 You're a thief and a whore and you stole my husband! 274 00:16:40,030 --> 00:16:41,069 I stole nothing! 275 00:16:41,165 --> 00:16:42,290 He came to me! 276 00:16:42,340 --> 00:16:43,775 He came to me! I never loved him. 277 00:16:43,776 --> 00:16:44,885 I love my husband! 278 00:16:44,886 --> 00:16:47,290 And if you'd done... If you'd been... 279 00:16:48,424 --> 00:16:50,357 If I had done what? 280 00:16:51,610 --> 00:16:54,850 If I had given him a child. Is that it? 281 00:16:54,860 --> 00:16:56,429 I am sorry. Please forgive me. 282 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:58,099 Please forgive me! Forgive me! 283 00:16:58,110 --> 00:17:00,485 I curse you, sister! 284 00:17:00,779 --> 00:17:05,203 By grace of the Furies*, I curse you. 285 00:17:05,204 --> 00:17:05,204 * They're allegories for Vengeance. Their heads are wreathed with serpents and their eyes full of blood. They hunt the criminals and torture them until they drive them mad (hence their name, "Furor" in Latin means "madness"). 286 00:17:08,290 --> 00:17:11,023 I'll keep your secret 287 00:17:11,090 --> 00:17:13,557 for the sake of the child, 288 00:17:13,824 --> 00:17:15,557 but don't you ever... 289 00:17:15,624 --> 00:17:18,724 ever speak to me again. 290 00:17:43,890 --> 00:17:45,096 Be careful! 291 00:18:00,290 --> 00:18:02,890 Bravo. Bravo. 292 00:18:02,957 --> 00:18:05,190 A little blood lust suits you, Octavian. 293 00:18:05,195 --> 00:18:06,941 You look very handsome. Does he not? 294 00:18:06,942 --> 00:18:07,835 He does. 295 00:18:08,091 --> 00:18:10,048 Titus Pullo is a good teacher. 296 00:18:10,049 --> 00:18:11,957 Well it's a pity Caesar isn't here. 297 00:18:11,990 --> 00:18:14,391 He'd put you on his staff immediately. 298 00:18:15,257 --> 00:18:17,690 Perhaps you should go and join him in Greece, 299 00:18:17,757 --> 00:18:20,290 get some real pompeian blood on your sword. 300 00:18:20,390 --> 00:18:22,123 - Don't be silly, mother. - Well why not? 301 00:18:22,490 --> 00:18:25,610 If we are not quick, Pompey and Cato and all those fools will be dead 302 00:18:25,611 --> 00:18:28,009 will be dead before Octavian gets his chance to shine. 303 00:18:28,010 --> 00:18:29,090 He's still a child. 304 00:18:29,140 --> 00:18:30,130 I am not. 305 00:18:30,135 --> 00:18:31,810 He is not. He is quite the little man now. 306 00:18:31,820 --> 00:18:33,284 I should think there's more to manhood 307 00:18:33,285 --> 00:18:34,407 than swordplay. 308 00:18:36,124 --> 00:18:37,055 Octavian, 309 00:18:37,491 --> 00:18:39,390 have you penetrated anyone yet? 310 00:18:39,395 --> 00:18:40,390 Mother, please. 311 00:18:40,395 --> 00:18:42,137 Does that mean you have or you haven't? 312 00:18:42,290 --> 00:18:43,428 Haven't, but... 313 00:18:43,490 --> 00:18:46,157 Titus Pullo, didn't I tell you to sort that out? 314 00:18:46,224 --> 00:18:47,710 I'm sure I did. 315 00:18:47,740 --> 00:18:48,688 I... 316 00:18:48,824 --> 00:18:50,899 Sorry, ma'am. I'll see to it. 317 00:18:50,900 --> 00:18:51,240 Do that. 318 00:18:52,358 --> 00:18:55,115 Don't worry, darling. There's really nothing to it. 319 00:18:55,190 --> 00:18:58,158 Once you're in the saddle, as it were, 320 00:18:58,224 --> 00:19:00,147 it'll all come naturally. Isn't that right, Pullo? 321 00:19:00,357 --> 00:19:01,304 That's right ma'am. 322 00:19:02,624 --> 00:19:04,796 And none of your sordid soldier's she-wolves, mind you. 323 00:19:05,590 --> 00:19:07,516 Something clean and pretty. 324 00:19:07,624 --> 00:19:08,609 Clean and pretty it is. 325 00:19:08,609 --> 00:19:09,523 Good. 326 00:19:09,724 --> 00:19:11,956 I'll get Merula make you a toga. 327 00:19:11,957 --> 00:19:13,050 What else? 328 00:19:13,075 --> 00:19:15,057 Perhaps you can arrange he kill someone. 329 00:19:16,290 --> 00:19:18,110 That will happen in due course. 330 00:19:18,290 --> 00:19:21,207 We Julii always have the needful enemies. 331 00:19:34,891 --> 00:19:35,875 Health to my child. 332 00:19:37,557 --> 00:19:38,873 My daughter. 333 00:19:40,290 --> 00:19:43,162 I wish for a son, a healthy son. 334 00:20:11,158 --> 00:20:13,481 - I... - Good night, then. 335 00:20:17,124 --> 00:20:18,401 Good night. 336 00:20:47,157 --> 00:20:48,890 Husband. 337 00:20:48,990 --> 00:20:50,757 What's all this? 338 00:20:52,624 --> 00:20:55,354 I thought it might please you if we had some time alone. 339 00:20:57,924 --> 00:21:00,694 I sent the girls and Lucius to Clarissa. 340 00:21:03,890 --> 00:21:05,090 And Lyde? 341 00:21:05,094 --> 00:21:06,725 She's gone to a friend's. 342 00:21:09,124 --> 00:21:11,842 - Please, sit down. - I've already eaten. 343 00:21:14,991 --> 00:21:16,043 But... 344 00:21:17,124 --> 00:21:18,725 I can have some more. 345 00:21:23,757 --> 00:21:24,962 Excuse me. 346 00:21:54,224 --> 00:21:56,623 Sit down with me. 347 00:21:56,630 --> 00:21:57,887 That's all right. 348 00:21:57,890 --> 00:21:58,975 Really, sit. 349 00:21:58,983 --> 00:22:00,715 I can't finish all this on my own. 350 00:22:48,657 --> 00:22:50,890 The calendar is correct... 351 00:22:54,257 --> 00:22:56,902 If you would like to have me tonight. 352 00:22:59,391 --> 00:23:01,302 I would. 353 00:23:03,657 --> 00:23:05,403 I'd like that. 354 00:24:58,691 --> 00:25:00,647 My dear Mark Antony, 355 00:25:00,657 --> 00:25:02,520 I hope this finds you in better health 356 00:25:02,524 --> 00:25:04,146 than my hopes for victory. 357 00:25:04,557 --> 00:25:07,193 I chased Pompey from one end of Greece to the other 358 00:25:07,291 --> 00:25:09,473 and he resolutely refused to fight. 359 00:25:09,591 --> 00:25:12,174 I thought this was his usual obtuseness, 360 00:25:12,180 --> 00:25:15,717 but the old man has some sense left in him yet. 361 00:25:18,957 --> 00:25:20,957 While avoiding battle, 362 00:25:21,052 --> 00:25:23,728 he has gathered a good 10 legions from the East, 363 00:25:23,757 --> 00:25:26,585 and I find myself badly outnumbered. 364 00:25:32,690 --> 00:25:34,476 Now the cat barks at the dog, 365 00:25:34,658 --> 00:25:37,342 and Pompey is chasing me. 366 00:25:45,391 --> 00:25:47,687 I can outmaneuver him for a while, 367 00:25:47,824 --> 00:25:48,921 but not forever. 368 00:25:52,557 --> 00:25:54,466 My men are tired and ill-supplied, 369 00:25:54,466 --> 00:25:57,119 and we shall soon have to stand and fight. 370 00:25:57,424 --> 00:25:59,728 I ask you to bring the 13th here 371 00:25:59,728 --> 00:26:01,841 as speedily as you are able. 372 00:26:16,290 --> 00:26:17,890 Damnation. 373 00:26:17,890 --> 00:26:20,488 Shall I summon the legion legates*? 374 00:26:20,488 --> 00:26:20,488 * legates = lieutenants 375 00:26:22,957 --> 00:26:25,352 No. Wait. 376 00:26:25,891 --> 00:26:27,879 I must think on this. 377 00:26:31,124 --> 00:26:33,741 This is lovely. 378 00:26:35,357 --> 00:26:36,840 It's just your coloring. 379 00:26:36,850 --> 00:26:38,290 A little loud. 380 00:26:38,290 --> 00:26:40,174 I'd prefer something plainer. 381 00:26:40,190 --> 00:26:41,258 What's the point in plain? 382 00:26:41,259 --> 00:26:42,323 We shall take it. 383 00:26:44,024 --> 00:26:45,826 But this one... 384 00:26:51,124 --> 00:26:52,410 Divine. 385 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,070 Oh, divine. 386 00:26:54,075 --> 00:26:57,287 Antony will love this. He likes me in Eastern* styles. 387 00:26:57,288 --> 00:26:57,288 * Discreet and ironical allusion since Mark Antony likes so much Eastern style that he'll become Cleopatra's lover. 388 00:26:58,057 --> 00:27:00,362 - How much for both? - 5000. 389 00:27:00,490 --> 00:27:01,972 You are a thief. 390 00:27:01,990 --> 00:27:03,317 Four and a half then. 391 00:27:03,723 --> 00:27:05,369 Three. 392 00:27:06,990 --> 00:27:09,113 Can we afford such expense? 393 00:27:09,190 --> 00:27:11,124 Things as they are with Caesar in Greece, 394 00:27:11,226 --> 00:27:13,054 surely we should be more prudent? 395 00:27:13,090 --> 00:27:14,938 Don't worry out a thing, my dear, 396 00:27:14,953 --> 00:27:16,848 I'm thinking ahead. 397 00:27:18,123 --> 00:27:20,146 Titus Pullo is here, dominus. 398 00:27:22,793 --> 00:27:25,143 Tell him I am unwell. 399 00:27:25,290 --> 00:27:27,357 He may come back next week perhaps. 400 00:27:27,360 --> 00:27:29,586 Tell him nothing of the sort. 401 00:27:29,591 --> 00:27:31,495 Octavian will be ready to see him. 402 00:27:31,500 --> 00:27:33,805 In one moment. And give him a purse. 403 00:27:34,490 --> 00:27:36,076 You've put off this moment 404 00:27:36,077 --> 00:27:37,775 - long enough, my dear. - Mother... 405 00:27:37,776 --> 00:27:39,775 You will penetrate someone today or I will 406 00:27:39,780 --> 00:27:41,929 burn your wretched books in the yard. 407 00:27:42,791 --> 00:27:44,495 Off with you. 408 00:27:56,923 --> 00:27:58,225 Coming through. 409 00:27:58,290 --> 00:28:00,302 Noble coming through. Make way there. 410 00:28:12,524 --> 00:28:14,796 Don't worry, young master. 411 00:28:14,997 --> 00:28:16,381 There's nothing to it. 412 00:28:16,382 --> 00:28:19,108 If there is nothing to it, why is such a fuss made of the thing? 413 00:28:20,485 --> 00:28:22,802 You'll soon find out. 414 00:28:31,809 --> 00:28:33,657 Vai, vai! Be off with you! 415 00:28:33,660 --> 00:28:36,240 This isn't no infantry fuckhole, thank you very much. 416 00:28:36,257 --> 00:28:38,570 Now now, my honey, calm your stomach. 417 00:28:38,624 --> 00:28:40,557 We've come for the young master here. 418 00:28:40,624 --> 00:28:42,940 And we're well coined. 419 00:28:43,110 --> 00:28:46,290 Well, excuse me, of course. 420 00:28:46,357 --> 00:28:48,240 I meant no disrespect. 421 00:28:48,257 --> 00:28:51,585 We're honored to service you, young master. 422 00:28:51,590 --> 00:28:55,390 And what would be the young master's pleasure? 423 00:28:57,457 --> 00:29:01,250 First-timer. Nothing too savory. 424 00:29:01,891 --> 00:29:04,926 I'm sure we have just the thing. 425 00:29:13,358 --> 00:29:16,735 Something exotic, perhaps? 426 00:29:18,890 --> 00:29:21,234 Or else something young? 427 00:29:21,234 --> 00:29:23,936 Light, simple. 428 00:29:25,184 --> 00:29:27,312 Little bit skinny, neh? 429 00:29:27,313 --> 00:29:29,333 Won't know he's been, will he? 430 00:29:30,057 --> 00:29:32,484 Won't know you've been. 431 00:29:32,824 --> 00:29:35,058 More substance, 432 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,883 yet still nymphlike, 433 00:29:38,524 --> 00:29:40,095 graceful. 434 00:29:42,624 --> 00:29:45,296 This one's fresh off the boat... 435 00:29:45,891 --> 00:29:48,524 - That will be fine. - Hold on, young master. 436 00:29:48,591 --> 00:29:50,457 No point hurrying. 437 00:29:50,524 --> 00:29:52,163 Big decision, this. 438 00:29:52,490 --> 00:29:55,058 - Let's have a look at... - This one is perfectly adequate. 439 00:29:55,123 --> 00:29:57,691 You will be utterly satisfied, I assure you. 440 00:29:58,057 --> 00:30:01,390 Egeria, go prepare yourself. 441 00:30:02,324 --> 00:30:06,257 If we might dispense with the pecuniary details... 442 00:30:07,963 --> 00:30:09,664 Oh! Right. 443 00:30:09,691 --> 00:30:11,206 What's your price then? 444 00:30:12,059 --> 00:30:12,123 1000. 445 00:30:12,123 --> 00:30:14,190 Gerrae*! (* Bullshit!) 446 00:30:14,257 --> 00:30:17,257 I could have half the whores in Narbo for that, and their mothers. 447 00:30:17,257 --> 00:30:20,884 We're not in Narbo, whatever that might be. 448 00:30:21,223 --> 00:30:23,223 All right, my dove. 449 00:30:23,290 --> 00:30:24,912 We'll pay. 450 00:30:25,324 --> 00:30:29,091 But the girl better fuck him like Helen of Troy with her ass on fire, 451 00:30:29,158 --> 00:30:31,407 or I'll know the reason why. 452 00:30:43,543 --> 00:30:45,057 Speak. 453 00:30:45,057 --> 00:30:47,755 Gnaeus Pompey Magnus sends greetings. 454 00:30:47,756 --> 00:30:50,317 He hopes you find his house satisfactory. 455 00:30:51,390 --> 00:30:52,922 It'll do. 456 00:30:54,557 --> 00:30:56,657 - Get to his point. - His point. 457 00:30:56,724 --> 00:30:59,157 Caesar is doomed and you with him, 458 00:30:59,223 --> 00:31:01,125 unless you make a separate peace. 459 00:31:01,130 --> 00:31:02,305 And? 460 00:31:04,623 --> 00:31:07,603 If you do, Pompey will be merciful and generous. 461 00:31:07,604 --> 00:31:09,434 How? 462 00:31:09,457 --> 00:31:12,041 He will give you your life. A province. 463 00:31:12,058 --> 00:31:14,390 Money enough to preserve your dignity. 464 00:31:15,823 --> 00:31:19,823 What makes him think I value my life so high? 465 00:31:20,758 --> 00:31:22,668 Why have you not left for Greece? 466 00:31:23,624 --> 00:31:26,191 Do not smile at me. 467 00:31:28,390 --> 00:31:30,188 Return tomorrow. 468 00:31:30,188 --> 00:31:31,736 I will give Pompey his answer then. 469 00:31:34,991 --> 00:31:36,991 Not that way. 470 00:31:42,090 --> 00:31:44,390 And disguise yourself. 471 00:32:00,424 --> 00:32:02,557 Dismissed. 472 00:32:14,324 --> 00:32:16,857 You take clothes down? 473 00:32:18,591 --> 00:32:20,819 That's an interesting accent. 474 00:32:21,290 --> 00:32:24,743 No understand. 475 00:32:28,791 --> 00:32:29,829 Where... 476 00:32:30,824 --> 00:32:32,825 are you from? 477 00:32:34,252 --> 00:32:36,051 Where from... 478 00:32:36,547 --> 00:32:37,657 Don't know. 479 00:32:37,657 --> 00:32:40,277 You don't know where you're from? 480 00:32:44,091 --> 00:32:46,687 Rome take me very young. 481 00:32:47,690 --> 00:32:51,074 Kill mother, father, brother, 482 00:32:51,075 --> 00:32:53,013 Take me. 483 00:32:55,057 --> 00:32:57,409 I see. Sad. 484 00:33:16,357 --> 00:33:19,132 Turn over, would you? 485 00:33:23,290 --> 00:33:25,302 On your hands and knees. 486 00:33:41,957 --> 00:33:43,668 Nice place, this. 487 00:33:43,923 --> 00:33:44,952 Clean. 488 00:33:50,424 --> 00:33:51,761 I don't suppose, 489 00:33:52,957 --> 00:33:54,824 seeing as I'm with the quality... 490 00:33:54,891 --> 00:33:56,857 Not a chance. 491 00:34:05,258 --> 00:34:07,411 No no no. No, do it for real. Fight. 492 00:34:12,290 --> 00:34:14,769 Come on, fight damn you! Fight! 493 00:34:15,504 --> 00:34:17,071 That's better! 494 00:34:17,524 --> 00:34:18,568 Good. 495 00:34:27,490 --> 00:34:29,258 Brava, Cynthia! Brava! 496 00:34:29,259 --> 00:34:30,259 Brava! 497 00:34:31,290 --> 00:34:34,459 Don't be so silly, it's just a scratch now. 498 00:34:39,191 --> 00:34:39,757 There. 499 00:34:40,724 --> 00:34:43,324 Yes, Posca, what's it? 500 00:34:43,340 --> 00:34:48,190 I am to remind you of your dinner tonight with Atia of the Julii. 501 00:34:48,557 --> 00:34:51,135 Sons of Dis*. 502 00:34:51,136 --> 00:34:51,136 * Dis (the Rich) is one of Pluto's names, the god of the Underworld. 503 00:34:51,824 --> 00:34:54,665 Now, run along. 504 00:34:57,857 --> 00:34:59,837 Where is he? Where he'd be? 505 00:35:00,090 --> 00:35:02,291 Busy man. Politics. 506 00:35:02,310 --> 00:35:04,440 Politics? He promised he would come. 507 00:35:04,443 --> 00:35:05,948 Castor! 508 00:35:06,825 --> 00:35:10,279 Send a man to Pompey's... I mean, Mark Antony's villa 509 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:11,712 and enquire his whereabouts. 510 00:35:11,754 --> 00:35:13,633 Antony's whereabouts, immediately, domina. 511 00:35:13,657 --> 00:35:15,791 Do not say it is I who sends to ask. 512 00:35:16,024 --> 00:35:17,964 Not you sends to ask. 513 00:35:18,199 --> 00:35:20,223 Stay. He'll know it is I who asked. 514 00:35:20,229 --> 00:35:21,851 Send no one. 515 00:35:22,724 --> 00:35:24,853 I will send no one. 516 00:35:24,958 --> 00:35:26,955 If he comes, he comes, I don't care! 517 00:35:51,656 --> 00:35:53,214 Welcome, dominus. 518 00:36:21,524 --> 00:36:26,490 Sorry to be so horribly late. Endless business. 519 00:36:26,690 --> 00:36:28,280 Will you forgive me? 520 00:36:28,290 --> 00:36:29,501 Of course. 521 00:36:29,757 --> 00:36:32,026 I confess, I had quite forgotten you were coming. 522 00:36:32,057 --> 00:36:33,981 So this is a lovely surprise. 523 00:36:34,324 --> 00:36:37,440 Excuse me a moment, I will go and dress correctly. 524 00:37:26,356 --> 00:37:28,321 Here he is, 525 00:37:28,556 --> 00:37:30,020 young Apollo! 526 00:37:30,057 --> 00:37:31,078 How was it? 527 00:37:31,090 --> 00:37:33,460 It was pleasant. 528 00:37:33,495 --> 00:37:34,733 Pleasant? 529 00:37:34,890 --> 00:37:36,625 I should say so. 530 00:37:36,690 --> 00:37:38,160 How was he? 531 00:37:38,885 --> 00:37:40,830 Like bull. 532 00:38:07,824 --> 00:38:09,559 What's wrong? 533 00:38:09,570 --> 00:38:11,857 Nothing. 534 00:38:13,957 --> 00:38:15,490 Tell me. 535 00:38:22,090 --> 00:38:25,457 Mark Antony does not intend to go to Greece to help Caesar. 536 00:38:27,224 --> 00:38:29,924 I have sworn loyalty to a man of no honor. 537 00:38:31,957 --> 00:38:35,123 Well you don't have to go to Greece then. 538 00:38:35,190 --> 00:38:38,190 - We'll be together. - It's true, but still. 539 00:38:39,724 --> 00:38:42,424 Haven't you always said Caesar's cause is wrong? 540 00:38:43,958 --> 00:38:45,958 That is not the point. 541 00:38:46,023 --> 00:38:48,958 There is a moral principle involved. 542 00:38:54,390 --> 00:38:56,691 What an idiot you are! 543 00:39:10,924 --> 00:39:12,447 Not hungry? 544 00:39:13,057 --> 00:39:16,724 After so many years of soldier's porridge, I am easily sated. 545 00:39:17,958 --> 00:39:19,824 Well, these last news from Greece 546 00:39:19,830 --> 00:39:21,825 cannot have improved your appetite. 547 00:39:21,892 --> 00:39:23,724 Hardly. 548 00:39:23,740 --> 00:39:27,480 And is it really so bad? Caesar always finds a way to win. 549 00:39:27,490 --> 00:39:31,046 Pompey has gathered 10 men for every one of Caesar's. 550 00:39:31,123 --> 00:39:33,545 Arithmetic has no mercy. 551 00:39:33,990 --> 00:39:35,604 I'd feared it was so. 552 00:39:37,357 --> 00:39:39,524 What do you intend to do then? 553 00:39:48,491 --> 00:39:50,221 I don't know. 554 00:39:53,124 --> 00:39:56,724 You've become a powerful man. The people love you. 555 00:39:57,191 --> 00:39:59,157 Only because they don't know me. 556 00:39:59,157 --> 00:40:02,438 You could be the first man in Rome, if you wanted. 557 00:40:02,791 --> 00:40:06,029 I hadn't thought about it like that. 558 00:40:06,523 --> 00:40:08,856 Well, you should. 559 00:40:09,591 --> 00:40:11,424 You should think about that. 560 00:40:13,390 --> 00:40:16,558 I'm thinking about something entirely different. 561 00:40:45,958 --> 00:40:47,533 Water. 562 00:41:10,157 --> 00:41:13,236 I could sleep for a week. 563 00:41:20,190 --> 00:41:22,690 I've been thinking. 564 00:41:26,424 --> 00:41:28,584 We should get married. 565 00:41:31,757 --> 00:41:33,470 Married? 566 00:41:34,357 --> 00:41:37,625 Why should we want to do that of all things? 567 00:41:39,024 --> 00:41:41,012 Perhaps I love you. 568 00:41:42,290 --> 00:41:44,238 You're joking. 569 00:41:44,456 --> 00:41:47,341 For a moment there you had me worried. 570 00:41:47,350 --> 00:41:49,522 I'm not joking with you. 571 00:41:49,757 --> 00:41:52,951 Oh, my dear woman. 572 00:41:52,986 --> 00:41:55,794 Please, don't worry, I'm not going soft on you. 573 00:41:56,129 --> 00:41:58,758 I'm thinking strategically. 574 00:41:58,793 --> 00:42:01,906 If Caesar is defeated, I can't very well 575 00:42:01,909 --> 00:42:04,955 form an alliance with the pompeians. 576 00:42:06,489 --> 00:42:09,100 - I need protection. - True. 577 00:42:12,049 --> 00:42:13,589 What's in it for me? 578 00:42:14,024 --> 00:42:17,135 If Caesar is defeated... 579 00:42:17,140 --> 00:42:18,907 then I will be defeated also. 580 00:42:18,942 --> 00:42:20,708 Only if you join him in Greece. 581 00:42:20,743 --> 00:42:23,321 But if you stay in Rome, 582 00:42:23,356 --> 00:42:25,855 you will be very well situated. 583 00:42:25,860 --> 00:42:27,732 You have the people with you, 584 00:42:27,732 --> 00:42:29,733 you have possession of the city. 585 00:42:29,860 --> 00:42:31,498 You only lack money. 586 00:42:31,696 --> 00:42:33,992 And whilst your name is perfectly respectable... 587 00:42:34,017 --> 00:42:36,817 - I am no patrician. - Exactly. 588 00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:37,988 But allied with my house, 589 00:42:37,990 --> 00:42:40,024 you would have both coin and nobility, 590 00:42:40,025 --> 00:42:42,299 to make yourself king if you wished it so. 591 00:42:42,557 --> 00:42:45,057 And you would be queen. 592 00:42:45,124 --> 00:42:48,467 I would be your loving and obedient wife. 593 00:42:49,390 --> 00:42:52,124 If only I were willing to desert a friend. 594 00:42:52,191 --> 00:42:54,690 A man of your own blood. 595 00:42:54,700 --> 00:42:56,164 Too honorable for that, are you? 596 00:42:56,180 --> 00:42:58,014 I like to appear so. 597 00:42:58,029 --> 00:43:00,991 But I don't think you'll die for the sake of appearances. 598 00:43:04,757 --> 00:43:06,239 Will I not? 599 00:43:06,291 --> 00:43:08,170 Caesar will die in any case. 600 00:43:08,592 --> 00:43:12,024 But you are far too clever to share his fate needlessly. 601 00:43:18,789 --> 00:43:21,390 I had not realized until now... 602 00:43:22,657 --> 00:43:24,849 what a wicked old harpy 603 00:43:24,855 --> 00:43:26,844 you really are. 604 00:43:40,210 --> 00:43:41,769 Get out. 605 00:43:43,154 --> 00:43:45,092 Get out! 606 00:44:02,890 --> 00:44:04,333 Thank you, Pullo. 607 00:44:06,990 --> 00:44:08,683 Hold on! Attention! 608 00:45:04,657 --> 00:45:07,364 Abed in daylight, what luxury. 609 00:45:07,370 --> 00:45:08,243 Wickedness. 610 00:45:09,444 --> 00:45:10,894 Father! 611 00:45:10,894 --> 00:45:13,741 That dwarf is asking for you. 612 00:45:15,991 --> 00:45:17,540 Excellency Mark Antony 613 00:45:17,578 --> 00:45:20,158 orders 13th legion to muster on the Field of Mars*. 614 00:45:20,159 --> 00:45:20,159 * Area out of Rome for some assemblees, civic meetings with weapons, and where soldiers can train themselves. 615 00:45:20,165 --> 00:45:21,290 Why? Where are we going? 616 00:45:21,310 --> 00:45:22,772 Greece. 617 00:45:53,491 --> 00:45:55,047 Tribune! 618 00:45:56,524 --> 00:45:58,284 What shall I tell Pompey? 619 00:45:59,523 --> 00:46:01,178 Of course. 620 00:46:01,557 --> 00:46:04,621 Excuse me. I had forgot you. 621 00:46:30,357 --> 00:46:32,523 His skin is a little dry. 622 00:46:32,589 --> 00:46:35,178 Have him well-oiled before he is presented. 623 00:46:35,557 --> 00:46:37,173 Bona dea. 624 00:46:37,424 --> 00:46:39,206 I am afraid to ask. 625 00:46:39,215 --> 00:46:41,172 Gifts for Servilia. 626 00:46:45,091 --> 00:46:46,210 How fine you look! 627 00:46:46,210 --> 00:46:47,940 Let me see. 628 00:46:49,124 --> 00:46:52,080 I am so proud of you. 629 00:46:52,090 --> 00:46:53,716 You're a real man at last, eh? 630 00:46:53,790 --> 00:46:55,567 Why are we giving gifts to Servilia? 631 00:46:55,591 --> 00:46:58,624 The old crow stands in well with Cato and the rest. 632 00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:00,970 When Caesar and his dog Antony are defeated... 633 00:47:00,975 --> 00:47:01,986 If they are defeated. 634 00:47:01,990 --> 00:47:05,089 When they are defeated, we'll need her good will. 635 00:47:05,224 --> 00:47:07,980 - And this will buy it, you think? - I do not see why not. 636 00:47:08,090 --> 00:47:10,419 A large penis is always welcome. 637 00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:11,780 You think it's not enough? 638 00:47:11,790 --> 00:47:13,240 After what you did to her? 639 00:47:13,250 --> 00:47:15,140 What I did? What did I do to her? 640 00:47:15,162 --> 00:47:17,159 Please! I'm not stupid. 641 00:47:17,170 --> 00:47:18,706 It was you made Caesar renounce her. 642 00:47:18,741 --> 00:47:20,363 Well, what if I did? She doesn't know it. 643 00:47:20,370 --> 00:47:21,518 Does she not? 644 00:47:21,685 --> 00:47:23,579 She's not stupid either. 645 00:47:23,591 --> 00:47:26,256 Servilia has no guile in her. If she knows it, 646 00:47:26,260 --> 00:47:27,990 we would certainly have heard about it. 647 00:47:28,073 --> 00:47:28,527 You know best. 648 00:47:28,528 --> 00:47:29,784 I'm sure. 649 00:47:29,857 --> 00:47:32,403 In any case, you will take the gifts to her 650 00:47:32,424 --> 00:47:34,645 and see what she's thinking. 651 00:47:34,969 --> 00:47:37,193 She's always been very fond of you. 652 00:47:39,358 --> 00:47:41,070 And you will go to Mediolanum*. 653 00:47:41,071 --> 01:35:22,634 * Milan. 654 00:47:40,924 --> 00:47:43,395 - Timon will take you. - Mediolanum? 655 00:47:43,423 --> 00:47:45,110 Yes, they have a very good academy there. 656 00:47:45,140 --> 00:47:47,315 - I don't understand. - You're a man now. 657 00:47:47,342 --> 00:47:50,129 Rome's not safe for men of the Julii. 658 00:47:52,624 --> 00:47:54,858 His toenails are ugly. 659 00:47:54,858 --> 00:47:58,091 Have them cut and painted and put some flowers on his head. 660 00:47:58,157 --> 00:48:00,391 And send over some ice. Six barrels, say. 661 00:48:00,458 --> 00:48:02,160 Six barrels of ice. 662 00:48:06,723 --> 00:48:09,156 Well, don't look so foolish. 663 00:48:09,179 --> 00:48:10,921 I know what I'm about. 664 00:48:20,523 --> 00:48:22,523 Your mother's too kind. 665 00:48:25,458 --> 00:48:27,957 To what do I owe this generosity? 666 00:48:28,224 --> 00:48:30,990 It's a gesture of friendship. 667 00:48:31,825 --> 00:48:33,681 Friendship. 668 00:48:34,423 --> 00:48:37,358 Thank your mother for her... friendship. 669 00:48:37,423 --> 00:48:40,556 I hope one day to reciprocate her... 670 00:48:40,623 --> 00:48:42,523 friendship. 671 00:48:46,690 --> 00:48:48,690 Good. 672 00:48:52,258 --> 00:48:54,824 Excuse me. 673 00:48:55,091 --> 00:48:56,956 Wait. 674 00:48:57,892 --> 00:49:01,057 Please, forgive my ill humor. 675 00:49:01,958 --> 00:49:03,927 There's nothing to forgive. 676 00:49:04,324 --> 00:49:06,520 I have known you since you were a little girl. 677 00:49:06,521 --> 00:49:08,353 You have a good soul. 678 00:49:09,357 --> 00:49:11,823 I know that whatever others might do, 679 00:49:11,890 --> 00:49:14,358 you are blameless. 680 00:49:14,423 --> 00:49:16,524 I know that. 681 00:49:17,091 --> 00:49:19,857 I... I do not... That is, I cannot... 682 00:49:21,223 --> 00:49:24,157 It's all right. There's no need. 683 00:49:28,850 --> 00:49:30,791 Tell your mother 684 00:49:30,792 --> 00:49:33,624 that I am grateful for the gifts 685 00:49:33,690 --> 00:49:37,591 and that I treasure her friendship as always. 686 00:49:42,723 --> 00:49:46,291 You must come and visit me again. Will you? 687 00:49:46,457 --> 00:49:47,968 I will. 688 00:49:47,990 --> 00:49:49,290 Promise? 689 00:49:50,224 --> 00:49:52,991 I want there to be no ill feeling between us. 690 00:49:53,057 --> 00:49:55,358 I promise. 691 00:50:06,624 --> 00:50:08,624 Be a good girl. 692 00:50:10,324 --> 00:50:11,958 Do as you're told. 693 00:50:20,423 --> 00:50:22,857 I'll wait for you outside. 694 00:50:48,690 --> 00:50:51,089 Bellona protect you. 695 00:50:52,690 --> 00:50:54,804 And Juno* keep you. 696 00:50:54,805 --> 00:50:54,805 * Juno is a goddess protecting married women. 697 00:52:29,491 --> 00:52:31,024 A fleet of ships 698 00:52:31,024 --> 00:52:33,057 has set sail for Greece 699 00:52:33,124 --> 00:52:36,357 carrying the army of general Mark Antony. 700 00:52:36,958 --> 00:52:40,409 This month's public bread 701 00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:43,125 is provided by the Capitoline brotherhood of millers. 702 00:52:43,192 --> 00:52:46,590 The brotherhood uses only the finest flour. 703 00:52:46,657 --> 00:52:49,128 True Roman bread, 704 00:52:49,423 --> 00:52:51,423 for true Romans. 705 00:53:09,091 --> 00:53:11,657 This is cack, this is! I'm wet through. 706 00:53:11,724 --> 00:53:13,491 We're perfectly safe. 707 00:53:13,558 --> 00:53:15,558 A very good offering was made to Triton*. 708 00:53:15,559 --> 00:53:15,559 * Triton is a sea deity, son of the sea, Neptune. 709 00:53:15,625 --> 00:53:18,824 If Triton can't keep me drier than this, he can suck my cock! 710 00:53:21,358 --> 00:53:24,457 Why can't you learn to keep your fat mouth shut?!