1 00:01:24,500 --> 00:01:29,500 ROME: Season 1 Episode 07 Pharsalus 2 00:01:38,549 --> 00:01:38,549 * This battle takes place on the 6th of June 48 b.C. So there've been 4 years since Vercingetorix' surrender (episode 1) And more than 3 years since Caesar crossed the Rubicon (episode 2). 3 00:02:54,505 --> 00:02:57,045 Perhaps if we retreat to the coast 4 00:02:57,055 --> 00:02:58,156 via Thessaly*, 5 00:02:58,157 --> 00:02:58,157 * Big region at the North of the Greece. 6 00:02:58,173 --> 00:03:00,274 We could hold out until the rains come. 7 00:03:00,340 --> 00:03:03,540 If we go Eastward, they'll be able to cut us off here. 8 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:05,439 Of course. 9 00:03:05,506 --> 00:03:07,340 It will not do. 10 00:03:08,340 --> 00:03:09,645 Ready. 11 00:03:12,973 --> 00:03:14,856 Maps never redraw themselves, 12 00:03:14,873 --> 00:03:16,706 if that's what you're waiting for. 13 00:03:18,372 --> 00:03:19,505 He's right. 14 00:03:19,540 --> 00:03:22,573 We shall just have to fight the wretches here where we stand. 15 00:03:22,586 --> 00:03:24,374 And beat them. 16 00:03:24,439 --> 00:03:27,517 We shall crush them, doubtless. 17 00:03:28,806 --> 00:03:30,493 Dinner for worms, 18 00:03:30,507 --> 00:03:32,440 the whole damn lot of 'em. 19 00:03:32,507 --> 00:03:33,674 Dinner for worms. 20 00:03:50,807 --> 00:03:53,674 Try to avoid bloodshed this time. 21 00:03:53,741 --> 00:03:57,008 Wait a while and Pompey can shave you instead. 22 00:03:57,074 --> 00:03:59,441 Torquatus should have something, no? 23 00:03:59,707 --> 00:04:01,674 A praetorship* perhaps. 24 00:04:01,675 --> 00:04:01,675 * One of the charges in the cursus honorum. Last one before being consul. 25 00:04:01,741 --> 00:04:03,483 If Torquatus is given high office, 26 00:04:03,542 --> 00:04:05,160 then Varro* must be given same, 27 00:04:05,161 --> 00:04:05,161 * Marcus Terentius Varron (116-27 B.C.). Very fecond writer and Pompey's lieutenant in Spain. 28 00:04:05,168 --> 00:04:06,509 Else we'll see no end of trouble. 29 00:04:06,575 --> 00:04:08,875 But then what do we give Labienus*? 30 00:04:08,876 --> 00:04:08,876 * Caesar's main lieutenant during the war of the Gauls. He deserts though his side at the very beginning of the civile war but will never have any heavy responsabilities once with Pompey. 31 00:04:08,942 --> 00:04:10,985 - Macedonia? - Bithynia*. 32 00:04:10,986 --> 00:04:10,986 * Ancient province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Bosporus and the Euxine (today Black Sea). 33 00:04:11,008 --> 00:04:12,409 Macedonia to Libo. 34 00:04:12,475 --> 00:04:14,069 Plums for your people 35 00:04:14,208 --> 00:04:15,843 and porridge for the rest, eh? 36 00:04:15,858 --> 00:04:18,830 Macedonia and Bythnia are not yet ours 37 00:04:18,831 --> 00:04:20,596 to bestow. 38 00:04:20,608 --> 00:04:23,575 You are cooking rabbits that have not been caught. 39 00:04:23,642 --> 00:04:26,175 Our particular rabbit is cornered, starving, 40 00:04:26,242 --> 00:04:29,042 and has lost near 2000 men. 41 00:04:29,109 --> 00:04:31,775 I think we may safely say 42 00:04:31,842 --> 00:04:34,909 that here is a rabbit ready for the pot. 43 00:04:36,143 --> 00:04:38,109 Why so melancholy, Brutus? 44 00:04:38,109 --> 00:04:39,520 Do I seem so? 45 00:04:39,809 --> 00:04:41,343 Forgive me. 46 00:04:41,409 --> 00:04:43,976 No, Caesar's defeat is a glory... 47 00:04:44,043 --> 00:04:46,458 We cannot endure tyrants... 48 00:04:46,553 --> 00:04:48,363 But I cannot celebrate it. 49 00:04:48,877 --> 00:04:51,659 He as was my father too. 50 00:04:51,709 --> 00:04:55,357 I feel for you. When do we strike? 51 00:04:55,409 --> 00:04:57,177 Strike? We have already struck. 52 00:04:57,179 --> 00:04:58,133 We have him down, 53 00:04:58,159 --> 00:04:59,279 but he is not dead yet, eh? 54 00:04:59,409 --> 00:05:01,360 When do we strike the final blow? 55 00:05:01,402 --> 00:05:02,816 There will not be one. 56 00:05:02,910 --> 00:05:06,243 If we simply keep him bottled up a month or so more, 57 00:05:06,310 --> 00:05:10,349 the remains of his army will disintegrate and disappear, 58 00:05:10,350 --> 00:05:12,278 - at no cost to us. - Is that honorable? 59 00:05:12,344 --> 00:05:14,710 - Caesar has driven us from Rome, 60 00:05:14,777 --> 00:05:18,278 chased us out of Italy, killed our friends, 61 00:05:18,344 --> 00:05:20,211 usurped our republic. 62 00:05:20,230 --> 00:05:23,400 Surely, dignity and honor demands we walk in his blood. 63 00:05:23,410 --> 00:05:24,820 Certainly, knee-deep. 64 00:05:24,830 --> 00:05:26,710 But you would have hunger do our work for us! 65 00:05:26,744 --> 00:05:30,378 We must attack Caesar and kill him under the eyes of Mars, 66 00:05:30,443 --> 00:05:33,244 - else our victory is empty. - He has sense. 67 00:05:33,311 --> 00:05:35,977 It will look better at home if we win by force. 68 00:05:36,044 --> 00:05:38,211 You are Pompey Magnus. 69 00:05:38,278 --> 00:05:42,144 Conquer and crush enemies as if they were insects. 70 00:05:42,611 --> 00:05:46,012 People will be disappointed by anything less. 71 00:05:47,945 --> 00:05:50,815 News from Greece. 72 00:05:50,945 --> 00:05:54,411 Mark Antony is safe, but most of the ships in his fleet 73 00:05:54,478 --> 00:05:57,824 sent in aid of Gaius Julius Caesar 74 00:05:57,911 --> 00:05:59,612 have been lost at sea. 75 00:05:59,678 --> 00:06:01,870 Caesar is now surrounded 76 00:06:01,961 --> 00:06:04,380 and severely outnumbered. 77 00:06:04,411 --> 00:06:07,453 The forces of the Republic and Senate and of Pompey Magnus 78 00:06:07,454 --> 00:06:10,891 confidently expect a decisive victory 79 00:06:10,892 --> 00:06:12,773 to follow shortly. 80 00:06:18,213 --> 00:06:20,545 - There you are. - Here I am. 81 00:06:20,612 --> 00:06:22,545 I ask Timon for protection, 82 00:06:22,612 --> 00:06:24,779 and he sends me a bunch of half wits and clowns! 83 00:06:24,846 --> 00:06:27,362 - Dear me. - Caesar will soon be dead 84 00:06:27,412 --> 00:06:29,446 by every account, and we shall be undefended. 85 00:06:29,513 --> 00:06:32,031 We may as well be lying naked in the street! 86 00:06:32,479 --> 00:06:35,412 You must go to Servilia and ask for a few of her men 87 00:06:35,479 --> 00:06:37,979 - To stand outside for us. - Why? 88 00:06:38,046 --> 00:06:41,246 So that they can guard our doors in her name, silly. 89 00:06:41,252 --> 00:06:43,179 I mean why must I go? 90 00:06:43,246 --> 00:06:45,247 Well, as if I would go begging to Servilia. 91 00:06:45,263 --> 00:06:46,079 I think not. 92 00:06:46,093 --> 00:06:48,013 I'll not go begging for you. 93 00:06:48,013 --> 00:06:49,913 Don't be so childish. It's not as if she'll refuse. 94 00:06:49,913 --> 00:06:52,513 - You think? - Why would she? 95 00:06:52,580 --> 00:06:55,114 Those lovely gifts I gave her? 96 00:06:57,313 --> 00:06:58,709 What did she say? 97 00:06:58,809 --> 00:07:00,544 Nothing. 98 00:07:00,879 --> 00:07:01,865 Nothing. 99 00:07:01,873 --> 00:07:04,024 - She said something. - She said nothing. 100 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,780 You're very arrogant, that's all. 101 00:07:08,047 --> 00:07:10,883 Think you can buy her friendship with stud slaves and tortoises? 102 00:07:10,893 --> 00:07:12,153 And six barrels of ice. 103 00:07:12,513 --> 00:07:14,314 I would rather not go. 104 00:07:14,381 --> 00:07:16,547 You would rather not go. 105 00:07:16,564 --> 00:07:18,604 You would rather be gang-raped by slavering proles 106 00:07:18,809 --> 00:07:20,204 while your mother's house burns down around you. 107 00:07:20,216 --> 00:07:21,929 Frankly, I'm past caring. 108 00:07:22,082 --> 00:07:24,981 One day Caesar is winning and you crow happily, 109 00:07:25,248 --> 00:07:27,743 next day he is losing, and I must go a-begging? 110 00:07:28,315 --> 00:07:30,968 I just want this vile war to be over, 111 00:07:30,994 --> 00:07:32,066 one way or the other. 112 00:07:32,214 --> 00:07:33,678 Octavia, it is over. 113 00:07:34,115 --> 00:07:36,148 That is why you must go to Servilia's house. 114 00:07:36,214 --> 00:07:37,306 It's a bore, I know, 115 00:07:37,314 --> 00:07:39,378 but there we are. 116 00:07:55,949 --> 00:07:56,947 Lyde. 117 00:08:01,183 --> 00:08:03,316 Very nice. 118 00:08:03,936 --> 00:08:05,289 Don't. 119 00:08:09,116 --> 00:08:11,149 I'm glad to see you. 120 00:08:11,415 --> 00:08:13,482 I've been worried about you. 121 00:08:14,649 --> 00:08:16,282 No need. 122 00:08:16,582 --> 00:08:18,352 I'm doing very well. 123 00:08:18,715 --> 00:08:21,037 Not as well as you, obviously. 124 00:08:23,117 --> 00:08:24,855 Do you need money? 125 00:08:26,416 --> 00:08:28,447 I've got money if you need some. 126 00:08:28,483 --> 00:08:30,257 I'm sure you have. 127 00:08:30,483 --> 00:08:33,183 Turns out your man backed the right horse. 128 00:08:35,750 --> 00:08:38,149 Fortune loves you. 129 00:08:40,217 --> 00:08:43,449 I don't know if Vorenus is alive or dead. 130 00:08:48,416 --> 00:08:50,783 I'm sorry. 131 00:08:53,450 --> 00:08:55,351 I'm sorry. 132 00:08:55,417 --> 00:08:58,285 I didn't want to be like this. 133 00:08:59,318 --> 00:09:03,351 I'm so tired, Niobe. 134 00:09:04,385 --> 00:09:07,651 I'm tired of being angry. 135 00:09:07,717 --> 00:09:09,983 I'm tired of... 136 00:09:10,684 --> 00:09:12,553 hating you. 137 00:09:17,584 --> 00:09:19,817 You're all I've got. 138 00:09:26,518 --> 00:09:28,373 I'm sorry. 139 00:09:33,386 --> 00:09:35,485 Do you want some honey water? 140 00:10:05,019 --> 00:10:07,953 You're wasting your time! 141 00:10:08,020 --> 00:10:11,138 We'll die of thirst long before we die of hunger. 142 00:10:18,653 --> 00:10:20,540 We could drink their blood. 143 00:10:20,886 --> 00:10:23,786 - Repeat? - All these dead men, 144 00:10:23,853 --> 00:10:26,320 we can drink their blood. 145 00:10:26,387 --> 00:10:28,219 Too salty. 146 00:10:28,786 --> 00:10:31,087 Only make you more thirsty. 147 00:10:32,087 --> 00:10:34,453 Putrid by now anyway. 148 00:10:37,787 --> 00:10:39,599 Doesn't matter. 149 00:10:39,754 --> 00:10:42,121 Everything will be fine. 150 00:10:43,854 --> 00:10:46,024 This is where we die. 151 00:10:48,021 --> 00:10:50,221 What are you writing? 152 00:10:50,288 --> 00:10:52,687 A message to Niobe. 153 00:10:52,754 --> 00:10:54,754 All right. 154 00:10:54,820 --> 00:10:56,288 Good idea. 155 00:10:57,220 --> 00:11:00,121 Send my best to Eirene, will you, while you're at it? 156 00:11:01,354 --> 00:11:03,250 If there's space. 157 00:11:14,922 --> 00:11:17,248 Graces, don't we look lovely? 158 00:11:17,755 --> 00:11:20,588 If I am to be a beggar, I will not look like one. 159 00:11:20,601 --> 00:11:22,254 I am not objecting, my honey, 160 00:11:22,271 --> 00:11:25,334 though you will remind Servilia of what an old trout she has become. 161 00:11:25,988 --> 00:11:28,523 I'm just happy to see you looking so pretty for once. 162 00:11:28,788 --> 00:11:31,646 You do so often insist on playing the frump. 163 00:11:46,455 --> 00:11:48,567 I hope your mother thrives. 164 00:11:48,587 --> 00:11:51,225 She does. And your son? 165 00:11:51,245 --> 00:11:53,117 Also. 166 00:12:01,789 --> 00:12:04,657 My mother sends me to ask a favor. 167 00:12:06,656 --> 00:12:08,213 She fears the consequences 168 00:12:08,223 --> 00:12:10,258 of this last battle in Greece. 169 00:12:10,323 --> 00:12:13,140 Understandably. 170 00:12:13,357 --> 00:12:16,226 She has enjoyed her ascendancy a little too well. 171 00:12:18,790 --> 00:12:21,024 She asks you to lend her some men 172 00:12:21,090 --> 00:12:24,756 to protect our door in your name. 173 00:12:26,423 --> 00:12:28,292 Of course. 174 00:12:29,723 --> 00:12:33,257 Eleni, send Ajax and three or four others, 175 00:12:33,324 --> 00:12:36,324 - whoever he thinks best. - Thank you. 176 00:12:36,391 --> 00:12:38,890 It's very kind of you. 177 00:12:38,907 --> 00:12:39,744 I told my mother 178 00:12:39,764 --> 00:12:41,373 - she should not presume... - Please. 179 00:12:41,824 --> 00:12:43,711 She shall have what she needs. 180 00:12:55,658 --> 00:12:58,691 Forgive me. You are so good to us. 181 00:12:58,758 --> 00:13:01,724 - We do not deserve it. - Don't. 182 00:13:07,991 --> 00:13:10,091 I mu... I must look affright. 183 00:13:12,859 --> 00:13:15,059 No, not really. 184 00:13:16,092 --> 00:13:17,892 You look lovely. 185 00:13:24,226 --> 00:13:26,059 I better go home. 186 00:13:26,126 --> 00:13:28,094 So soon? 187 00:13:28,592 --> 00:13:30,859 My mother will be worried. 188 00:13:32,692 --> 00:13:35,069 Well, if you feel you should... 189 00:13:42,458 --> 00:13:44,760 Octavia... 190 00:14:17,461 --> 00:14:19,504 Thank you. 191 00:14:36,661 --> 00:14:38,988 Send to Rome. 192 00:14:39,521 --> 00:14:41,082 Tell them... 193 00:14:41,968 --> 00:14:44,033 the decisive battle 194 00:14:44,661 --> 00:14:46,732 begins today. 195 00:14:57,095 --> 00:15:00,228 Sir! Pompey's legions are in the field in battle-array! 196 00:15:00,295 --> 00:15:02,629 Thank you, Fulvio. Have you forgotten how to salute? 197 00:15:02,695 --> 00:15:04,629 I haven't, sir. No excuse, sir. 198 00:15:04,695 --> 00:15:07,061 Gracchus, sound assembly! 199 00:15:07,128 --> 00:15:10,362 - Have Xeno saddle my horse. - Sir! 200 00:15:13,062 --> 00:15:15,358 We will accept battle? 201 00:15:15,395 --> 00:15:17,217 Certainly. Why not? 202 00:15:17,662 --> 00:15:20,763 We are outnumbered, 203 00:15:20,830 --> 00:15:24,563 three to one on foot and five to one ahorse. 204 00:15:24,830 --> 00:15:26,896 What uninjured men we have 205 00:15:26,963 --> 00:15:29,296 are scared and hungry and desperate. 206 00:15:29,362 --> 00:15:31,709 That is the advantage, we must press home. 207 00:15:31,729 --> 00:15:34,696 I was not aware irony had military usage. 208 00:15:35,430 --> 00:15:37,959 We must win or die. 209 00:15:38,130 --> 00:15:41,230 Pompey's men have other options. 210 00:16:57,465 --> 00:16:59,577 Goodbye, Posca. 211 00:17:59,866 --> 00:18:04,702 Caesar! Caesar! Caesar! 212 00:18:23,035 --> 00:18:24,968 Send to Rome. 213 00:18:25,035 --> 00:18:27,035 Tell them Caesar has won. 214 00:19:03,036 --> 00:19:06,535 Sir! Caesar's men are coming! 215 00:19:06,568 --> 00:19:08,587 I've cut my hand. 216 00:19:09,369 --> 00:19:11,856 We have to go, sir! They'll catch you. 217 00:19:12,070 --> 00:19:15,937 It's not deep, but it hurts. 218 00:19:16,837 --> 00:19:18,770 They will kill you! 219 00:19:19,236 --> 00:19:22,170 It's of no consequence. 220 00:19:28,703 --> 00:19:32,170 Our forces are routed. What are we to do? 221 00:19:32,236 --> 00:19:35,204 We shall fight again another day, I do not doubt... 222 00:19:35,269 --> 00:19:37,269 - And prevail! ...and prevail. 223 00:19:38,536 --> 00:19:40,604 But for the present we must look to our safety. 224 00:19:40,671 --> 00:19:42,472 Our safety is nothing. 225 00:19:42,704 --> 00:19:43,825 We must leave Greece 226 00:19:43,837 --> 00:19:45,292 and look to fresh levies. 227 00:19:45,307 --> 00:19:46,789 And may one ask where? 228 00:19:46,837 --> 00:19:48,211 Africa. 229 00:19:48,237 --> 00:19:50,137 We must rally the cities of Africa. 230 00:19:50,157 --> 00:19:52,270 Africa. Dear gods, 231 00:19:52,337 --> 00:19:53,757 we are fast running out of continents. 232 00:19:53,787 --> 00:19:55,021 And coin! 233 00:19:55,038 --> 00:19:57,247 We have taxed every last coin 234 00:19:57,247 --> 00:19:59,686 from Greece and spent it all! 235 00:19:59,697 --> 00:20:01,938 What shall we use to buy Africa's loyalty? 236 00:20:02,004 --> 00:20:02,837 Seashells? 237 00:20:02,838 --> 00:20:04,324 We need buy nothing! 238 00:20:04,337 --> 00:20:05,671 We are the Senate of Rome! 239 00:20:05,687 --> 00:20:06,435 We are old men 240 00:20:06,437 --> 00:20:08,005 with mud on our shoes! 241 00:20:08,022 --> 00:20:10,287 We are not beaten until we are dead. 242 00:20:10,704 --> 00:20:13,039 The republic lives as long as we do! 243 00:20:13,106 --> 00:20:14,705 You may fight on as you wish. 244 00:20:14,772 --> 00:20:16,739 As for me, 245 00:20:16,805 --> 00:20:18,498 I will go from here 246 00:20:18,503 --> 00:20:20,686 and surrender myself to Caesar. 247 00:20:20,693 --> 00:20:23,072 Have you no dignity? No honor? 248 00:20:23,139 --> 00:20:24,905 Some little, I hope. 249 00:20:24,972 --> 00:20:27,371 Not so much as you of course. 250 00:20:27,438 --> 00:20:29,215 Caesar will kill you. 251 00:20:29,215 --> 00:20:31,223 That may be. 252 00:20:31,638 --> 00:20:33,972 I'm not afraid to die. 253 00:20:35,005 --> 00:20:37,072 I'm tired. 254 00:20:38,739 --> 00:20:41,305 I want to go home. 255 00:20:46,606 --> 00:20:49,207 Yes. My feelings exact. 256 00:20:49,272 --> 00:20:50,014 Brutus! 257 00:20:50,039 --> 00:20:52,134 Without the force of your name, the cause of the re... 258 00:20:52,140 --> 00:20:54,752 Do not! Do not talk to me 259 00:20:54,789 --> 00:20:56,707 of the republic! 260 00:20:56,887 --> 00:20:58,107 If I had known 261 00:20:58,107 --> 00:21:01,173 what wretched company and rotten food I would endure, 262 00:21:01,173 --> 00:21:02,655 if I had known 263 00:21:02,790 --> 00:21:05,719 what an old fool is Pompey, 264 00:21:06,146 --> 00:21:08,140 I would never have left Rome. 265 00:21:13,673 --> 00:21:15,592 Forgive my anger. 266 00:21:17,607 --> 00:21:20,840 - I am not myself. - Think nothing of it. 267 00:21:20,874 --> 00:21:23,840 I merit your disappointment. 268 00:21:25,874 --> 00:21:28,407 I propose we make for Amphipolis*. 269 00:21:28,408 --> 00:42:56,528 * Modern Amfipoli, in Macedonia. 270 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:30,219 I have men and money there, 271 00:21:30,230 --> 00:21:32,130 and we can go by sea to Egypt. 272 00:21:32,141 --> 00:21:35,307 Ptolemy's children are loyal friends of mine. 273 00:21:35,307 --> 00:21:36,704 Perhaps... 274 00:21:39,507 --> 00:21:41,607 Perhaps it's better 275 00:21:41,630 --> 00:21:44,373 we do not travel together. 276 00:21:50,274 --> 00:21:52,341 Perhaps you're right. 277 00:21:52,408 --> 00:21:54,475 Better. 278 00:21:55,942 --> 00:21:57,975 No doubt. 279 00:22:29,210 --> 00:22:31,210 I don't understand it. 280 00:22:31,275 --> 00:22:33,876 Something should have turned up by now. 281 00:22:33,943 --> 00:22:35,876 I'm not meant to die this way. 282 00:22:35,943 --> 00:22:39,275 - You were misinformed. - Doesn't seem right. 283 00:22:42,375 --> 00:22:43,909 Still... 284 00:22:44,409 --> 00:22:46,588 It'd be good to see my mother again. 285 00:22:48,076 --> 00:22:50,009 Do you think they have a system 286 00:22:50,076 --> 00:22:52,009 - for finding people? - What? 287 00:22:52,022 --> 00:22:53,012 In the afterlife... 288 00:22:53,012 --> 00:22:54,811 How do you go about finding? 289 00:22:54,877 --> 00:22:56,278 There must be millions of them. 290 00:22:56,513 --> 00:22:57,950 Must be. 291 00:23:04,744 --> 00:23:07,458 She won't recognize me, probably. 292 00:23:07,844 --> 00:23:10,977 I was very young when she died. 293 00:23:24,010 --> 00:23:26,944 Probably give her a big scare though? 294 00:23:27,078 --> 00:23:30,505 Big, ugly brute coming along and giving her a hug. 295 00:23:32,078 --> 00:23:33,344 - Look at that. - What? 296 00:23:34,112 --> 00:23:35,945 That corpse. 297 00:23:37,078 --> 00:23:40,244 See how high it rides in the water? 298 00:23:40,311 --> 00:23:43,244 The plutonic aether inflates him. 299 00:23:43,311 --> 00:23:45,311 What of it? 300 00:23:46,478 --> 00:23:49,011 You've not been drinking seawater, have you?! 301 00:25:43,982 --> 00:25:47,149 - Husband, eat. - Yeah. 302 00:25:48,715 --> 00:25:50,682 Over here, my dear. 303 00:25:50,749 --> 00:25:52,348 Here. 304 00:25:53,849 --> 00:25:56,782 - Little salty. - Not at all. It's good, neh? 305 00:25:57,782 --> 00:25:59,207 Delicious, mama. 306 00:25:59,782 --> 00:26:02,715 Bona dea, look at your faces. 307 00:26:04,449 --> 00:26:06,429 Sillies. 308 00:26:50,751 --> 00:26:52,446 Helen? 309 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:54,530 Helen! 310 00:26:55,650 --> 00:26:58,283 Husband, wake up! Our people are leaving. 311 00:27:08,150 --> 00:27:10,317 Now now, my darlings. Don't be scared. 312 00:27:10,330 --> 00:27:12,051 We're on an adventure, eh? 313 00:27:12,384 --> 00:27:14,985 The first one to see the sea and cry out 314 00:27:15,052 --> 00:27:17,384 will have a peach when we get to Amphipolis. 315 00:27:26,551 --> 00:27:28,485 You, your name again? 316 00:27:30,152 --> 00:27:33,518 - Lysandros. - Lysandros, how far to Amphipolis? 317 00:27:33,585 --> 00:27:35,518 Very close. Close. 318 00:27:35,585 --> 00:27:38,318 We will continue there as planned. 319 00:27:38,351 --> 00:27:40,334 You're not to announce my identity 320 00:27:40,341 --> 00:27:41,951 to those that we meet. 321 00:27:42,752 --> 00:27:44,252 And if they ask? 322 00:27:45,819 --> 00:27:46,725 Mella. 323 00:27:48,246 --> 00:27:50,871 - Aeneas Mella. - Hear and obey, captain. 324 00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:53,053 And who'll pay? 325 00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:54,986 Pay? 326 00:27:55,053 --> 00:27:56,986 You've been paid already. 327 00:27:57,053 --> 00:27:59,385 For guiding, not for protection. 328 00:27:59,452 --> 00:28:01,419 I have many men and supplies 329 00:28:01,486 --> 00:28:03,352 et ample coin in Amphipolis. 330 00:28:03,362 --> 00:28:04,537 You will be paid there. 331 00:28:04,542 --> 00:28:06,502 None with you now? Coin? 332 00:28:06,512 --> 00:28:07,377 None! 333 00:28:07,402 --> 00:28:09,542 I'll tolerate no more of your impudence! 334 00:28:09,572 --> 00:28:10,652 No disrespect, captain. 335 00:28:10,662 --> 00:28:12,420 Only asking. 336 00:28:12,486 --> 00:28:13,492 We go. 337 00:28:52,521 --> 00:28:55,707 You drive me insane with your wretched muttering. 338 00:28:56,054 --> 00:28:58,852 What is wrong that you must harass the gods so? 339 00:29:00,354 --> 00:29:01,821 Nothing. 340 00:29:01,834 --> 00:29:03,627 Well, stop it then. 341 00:29:03,888 --> 00:29:06,736 Servilia sends to invite you to weave with her tomorrow. 342 00:29:09,421 --> 00:29:10,547 I cannot. 343 00:29:10,587 --> 00:29:12,089 Of course you can. I've already accepted. 344 00:29:12,094 --> 00:29:12,854 I cannot! 345 00:29:12,864 --> 00:29:14,488 I know she's tedious. 346 00:29:14,488 --> 00:29:16,701 I mean really, weaving, 347 00:29:17,088 --> 00:29:20,162 but we must keep her happy for the time being. 348 00:29:20,889 --> 00:29:22,165 But... 349 00:29:37,056 --> 00:29:39,156 The sea! The sea! 350 00:29:39,223 --> 00:29:41,889 Unison. You shall both have a peach. 351 00:29:55,289 --> 00:29:57,289 Look, mama. Dead people. 352 00:30:18,857 --> 00:30:21,023 It's good, huh? 353 00:30:21,090 --> 00:30:23,590 Where do you come from? 354 00:30:23,656 --> 00:30:24,924 Brindisi. 355 00:30:24,991 --> 00:30:25,824 Romans? 356 00:30:30,158 --> 00:30:31,758 I know you. 357 00:30:31,824 --> 00:30:34,357 Where do I know you from? 358 00:30:37,524 --> 00:30:39,457 I have not seen you before. 359 00:30:39,524 --> 00:30:41,457 I'm sure I've seen you somewhere. 360 00:30:41,524 --> 00:30:43,691 Leave them water and bread, we need to be going. 361 00:30:43,708 --> 00:30:46,290 Leave them? Weak as they are? 362 00:30:46,357 --> 00:30:48,014 I have no time to waste. 363 00:30:50,024 --> 00:30:52,535 Soon be dark anyhow. 364 00:30:52,891 --> 00:30:55,424 We camp here, get to Amphipolis in the morning. 365 00:30:55,491 --> 00:30:57,425 I insist we go on. 366 00:30:57,492 --> 00:30:58,892 Relax, old man. 367 00:30:58,992 --> 00:31:00,268 We get there. 368 00:31:05,559 --> 00:31:07,166 You rest easy now, boys. 369 00:31:07,259 --> 00:31:10,091 Eat, drink, get your strength back. 370 00:31:10,358 --> 00:31:12,258 You and me will be good friends. 371 00:31:15,658 --> 00:31:17,858 You want my cock up you 372 00:31:17,892 --> 00:31:19,658 or are you going to build a damn fire? 373 00:31:20,192 --> 00:31:22,258 I told you we'd be all right. 374 00:31:25,192 --> 00:31:27,277 There's no pleasing some. 375 00:31:37,227 --> 00:31:38,473 We stop here? 376 00:31:39,227 --> 00:31:40,373 Why so early? 377 00:31:40,439 --> 00:31:43,797 Best to, I think. It'll be dark soon. 378 00:31:44,927 --> 00:31:46,244 Who are they? 379 00:31:46,269 --> 00:31:49,561 How should I know?! Who cares who they are?! 380 00:31:49,827 --> 00:31:52,860 Sorry. Sorry. 381 00:31:52,909 --> 00:31:53,984 I... 382 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,219 All will be well, 383 00:31:57,220 --> 00:31:58,952 I assure you. 384 00:31:59,893 --> 00:32:01,894 All will be well. 385 00:32:06,260 --> 00:32:08,194 Pompey Magnus. 386 00:32:08,194 --> 00:32:10,760 That man looks exactly like Pompey Magnus. 387 00:32:10,827 --> 00:32:12,760 That's why I thought I'd met him. 388 00:32:13,227 --> 00:32:14,860 Don't point. 389 00:32:18,827 --> 00:32:21,261 - Never. - It's hard to believe, eh? 390 00:32:21,327 --> 00:32:23,294 His wife and sprouts too. 391 00:32:23,361 --> 00:32:26,627 Caesar's going to drown us in gold. 392 00:32:26,693 --> 00:32:27,827 Thank you. 393 00:32:34,027 --> 00:32:35,529 Cack! 394 00:32:40,095 --> 00:32:41,828 What do we do? 395 00:32:43,429 --> 00:32:46,062 I don't know yet. 396 00:32:46,928 --> 00:32:49,462 Thank you for coming. 397 00:32:50,394 --> 00:32:52,862 Mother insisted. 398 00:32:53,228 --> 00:32:56,395 I understand you want me to do some weaving with you. 399 00:32:59,529 --> 00:33:01,895 I'm sorry you are upset. 400 00:33:01,961 --> 00:33:03,928 The last time we saw each other... 401 00:33:03,995 --> 00:33:06,328 It's of no consequence. 402 00:33:08,996 --> 00:33:11,462 Are you fond of weaving? 403 00:33:13,996 --> 00:33:16,629 So did I. 404 00:33:21,562 --> 00:33:23,296 And how is your brother? 405 00:33:23,562 --> 00:33:25,762 - Is he still in Mediolanum*? - He is. 406 00:33:25,763 --> 00:33:25,763 * Milan, in northern Italy. 407 00:33:27,063 --> 00:33:29,829 Lovely town, so I'm told. 408 00:33:29,844 --> 00:33:31,162 - Healthy air. - Domina? 409 00:33:31,196 --> 00:33:33,196 What is it, Eleni? 410 00:33:37,263 --> 00:33:39,630 Word from Greece. 411 00:33:39,696 --> 00:33:41,197 Caesar has won. 412 00:33:42,963 --> 00:33:46,464 And Pompey's armies are completely destroyed. 413 00:33:53,297 --> 00:33:55,230 And my son? 414 00:33:58,364 --> 00:33:59,330 No word. 415 00:34:30,131 --> 00:34:32,298 Don't cry. 416 00:36:01,301 --> 00:36:04,301 Halt! In the name of Rome! 417 00:36:04,468 --> 00:36:06,471 Calls himself Rome, now, does he? 418 00:36:06,567 --> 00:36:07,867 Shameless. 419 00:36:07,867 --> 00:36:10,234 Who are you and what's your purpose? 420 00:36:10,301 --> 00:36:12,234 We are Rome, boy, 421 00:36:12,301 --> 00:36:14,234 what's left of it. 422 00:36:14,301 --> 00:36:18,334 Come to surrender to your chief. 423 00:36:32,235 --> 00:36:33,469 Brutus! 424 00:36:33,536 --> 00:36:35,236 Cicero! 425 00:36:35,502 --> 00:36:37,835 How happy I am to see you. 426 00:36:38,102 --> 00:36:40,601 I thought you were dead. 427 00:36:40,668 --> 00:36:42,601 Sir, I... 428 00:36:42,968 --> 00:36:45,502 I am come here honorably, 429 00:36:45,768 --> 00:36:48,169 with no request for mercy, 430 00:36:48,235 --> 00:36:49,711 to surrender my arms 431 00:36:49,711 --> 00:36:52,000 and my horses as is... 432 00:36:52,586 --> 00:36:55,406 We'll have no talk of surrender. 433 00:36:56,009 --> 00:36:56,937 We've merely quarreled a little. 434 00:36:56,969 --> 00:36:59,037 Now we are friends again, eh? 435 00:36:59,103 --> 00:37:02,303 That is most generous of you 436 00:37:02,370 --> 00:37:04,537 and natural to your manly nature, 437 00:37:04,602 --> 00:37:07,470 - but I cannot... - My poor boy. 438 00:37:07,537 --> 00:37:09,470 I'm sorry. I am so sorry. 439 00:37:11,537 --> 00:37:13,370 It is I am sorry. 440 00:37:13,437 --> 00:37:16,702 I presented you with an impossible dilemma. 441 00:37:16,769 --> 00:37:20,036 You did only what you thought honorable, 442 00:37:20,103 --> 00:37:22,270 I'm sure. 443 00:37:22,336 --> 00:37:24,336 I kiss you for it. 444 00:37:27,037 --> 00:37:28,970 Thank you. 445 00:37:29,037 --> 00:37:31,004 I will not forget this grace. 446 00:37:31,010 --> 00:37:33,050 As I was saying, a most generous... 447 00:37:33,055 --> 00:37:34,343 But what of Pompey? 448 00:37:34,344 --> 00:37:35,957 Tell me he lives. 449 00:37:37,104 --> 00:37:38,670 He lives. 450 00:37:38,737 --> 00:37:40,904 Thank the gods. Where is he? 451 00:37:43,104 --> 00:37:44,426 He... 452 00:37:46,603 --> 00:37:48,904 He does not plan to surrender. 453 00:37:50,438 --> 00:37:52,837 That is insane. 454 00:37:52,904 --> 00:37:55,104 He cannot escape. Where can he go? 455 00:37:55,671 --> 00:37:57,605 Is Scipio with him? 456 00:37:57,631 --> 00:37:58,505 Cato? 457 00:38:00,861 --> 00:38:02,831 They have fled to Africa. 458 00:38:04,105 --> 00:38:06,038 What am I thinking of? 459 00:38:07,105 --> 00:38:09,091 Asking you questions when you must be 460 00:38:09,105 --> 00:38:11,105 so hungry and thirsty? 461 00:38:11,172 --> 00:38:13,105 Come. 462 00:38:13,572 --> 00:38:16,209 I... 463 00:38:16,505 --> 00:38:17,531 I think I would rather... 464 00:38:17,532 --> 00:38:19,568 I insist. 465 00:38:20,539 --> 00:38:22,505 Come. 466 00:38:25,405 --> 00:38:27,838 So with this hand, otherwise engaged 467 00:38:27,905 --> 00:38:30,006 I had to take that worm and beat him 468 00:38:30,073 --> 00:38:32,339 with my fists over and over 469 00:38:32,406 --> 00:38:34,306 and over again! 470 00:39:22,074 --> 00:39:25,973 His father king Ptolemy Auletes* the 12th 471 00:39:25,974 --> 00:39:25,974 * "Auletes" means "fluteplayer" in Greek. People from Alexandria gave him this ridiculous nickname cause he loved parties and shew himself off as fluteplayer among the female dancers. 472 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,307 Was a close friend of mine. 473 00:39:28,374 --> 00:39:31,274 I was always assured a loving welcome 474 00:39:31,340 --> 00:39:33,740 in Egypt. I remember on one occasion 475 00:39:33,807 --> 00:39:36,408 I was out hunting with the king. 476 00:39:36,475 --> 00:39:38,574 We were hunting lions, you see. 477 00:39:41,208 --> 00:39:44,108 Only the king was rather a poor bowman, 478 00:39:44,875 --> 00:39:47,108 and we couldn't tell 479 00:39:47,175 --> 00:39:51,275 if the lion was wounded or dead. 480 00:40:06,242 --> 00:40:08,476 Hello, friends. 481 00:40:08,543 --> 00:40:10,675 Feeling better, neh? Strong? 482 00:40:10,742 --> 00:40:12,742 Strong enough. 483 00:40:15,209 --> 00:40:17,816 Tell me something. What's the name of that Roman? 484 00:40:18,942 --> 00:40:20,875 His name is... 485 00:40:20,942 --> 00:40:22,809 Aeneas Mella. 486 00:40:22,875 --> 00:40:24,809 Aeneas Mella. 487 00:40:24,875 --> 00:40:26,734 That's what he said. 488 00:40:27,708 --> 00:40:30,342 What do you hear of Caesar and Pompey? 489 00:40:30,909 --> 00:40:33,849 They fought, I heard. 490 00:40:34,375 --> 00:40:35,642 And? 491 00:40:35,943 --> 00:40:38,805 You know who won. 492 00:40:38,835 --> 00:40:40,545 Tell us. 493 00:40:44,010 --> 00:40:46,847 I was going to let you in anyway. 494 00:40:46,848 --> 00:40:47,676 What is he talking about? 495 00:40:47,689 --> 00:40:50,299 You boys are clever fellows, I bet. 496 00:40:50,399 --> 00:40:51,836 Know how to fight. 497 00:40:51,937 --> 00:40:56,661 Me and my boys can't take his people alone. 498 00:40:56,662 --> 00:40:59,559 Us and you together, no problem. 499 00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,422 We go down middle on the reward. 500 00:41:02,423 --> 00:41:04,663 Not a bad idea. 501 00:41:04,664 --> 00:41:06,238 You can have the wife and children, 502 00:41:06,287 --> 00:41:08,334 I take the slaves. 503 00:41:10,210 --> 00:41:12,850 Walk away... 504 00:41:12,851 --> 00:41:16,084 - and do not speak of this again. - I see. 505 00:41:16,085 --> 00:41:17,593 Think you don't need me, eh? 506 00:41:18,094 --> 00:41:20,536 Think you can keep the reward for yourself? 507 00:41:20,636 --> 00:41:22,745 - Fuck you. Not going to happen. - Don't. 508 00:41:22,811 --> 00:41:24,802 Fuck you! 509 00:41:25,712 --> 00:41:26,678 I gave you your lives back, 510 00:41:26,678 --> 00:41:29,511 I can take them away again, easy. 511 00:41:30,678 --> 00:41:32,611 When I am finished speaking, 512 00:41:32,678 --> 00:41:35,277 you will turn and run 513 00:41:35,344 --> 00:41:37,277 - that way. - That way? 514 00:41:37,744 --> 00:41:39,411 What about this way? 515 00:41:39,677 --> 00:41:41,727 Do not stop until you are out of my sight 516 00:41:41,794 --> 00:41:44,314 and do not delay, or I will kill you. 517 00:41:44,612 --> 00:41:46,345 What is wrong with him? 518 00:41:46,612 --> 00:41:48,812 I am finished speaking. 519 00:42:03,945 --> 00:42:06,145 A bit harsh, isn't it? 520 00:42:06,212 --> 00:42:08,978 Fair enough deal he was offering, I thought. 521 00:42:09,345 --> 00:42:11,145 - What is the meaning of this? - Sir... 522 00:42:11,212 --> 00:42:13,212 Speak up! This man was in my employ! 523 00:42:13,278 --> 00:42:15,312 - He planned to assault you. - How do you know? 524 00:42:15,379 --> 00:42:17,313 He asked us to participate. 525 00:42:17,380 --> 00:42:21,046 You refused, stabbed him to death on my behalf. 526 00:42:21,059 --> 00:42:23,535 A good friend to me on such short acquaintance. 527 00:42:23,579 --> 00:42:25,546 - What is your name? - I am Lucius Vorenus. 528 00:42:25,613 --> 00:42:29,580 Prefect of the evocati of the 13th legion of Gaius Julius Caesar. 529 00:42:29,646 --> 00:42:31,580 Titus Pullo, legionary of same. 530 00:42:31,646 --> 00:42:33,613 Salve*, Lucius Vorenus. 531 00:42:33,614 --> 00:42:33,614 * Salve = expression of greeting 532 00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,279 I am... 533 00:42:36,346 --> 00:42:38,279 Aeneas Mella... 534 00:42:38,346 --> 00:42:40,346 of Pergamum. 535 00:42:44,012 --> 00:42:46,012 Aeneas Mella. 536 00:42:48,381 --> 00:42:50,614 You must consider yourself under my charge. 537 00:42:50,981 --> 00:42:52,614 I do not understand. 538 00:42:52,681 --> 00:42:54,547 Consider yourself a prisoner 539 00:42:54,614 --> 00:42:57,080 of the 13th legion. 540 00:42:58,172 --> 00:42:59,130 I'm just a merchant. 541 00:42:59,147 --> 00:43:02,147 We know who you are, sir. 542 00:43:04,647 --> 00:43:07,114 I own you now! Understand?! 543 00:43:07,180 --> 00:43:09,114 You, you, bury him. 544 00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,347 The rest of you... 545 00:43:11,347 --> 00:43:14,781 - don't let them leave. - Lucius Vorenus. 546 00:43:14,848 --> 00:43:16,848 I must speak with you alone. 547 00:43:18,647 --> 00:43:20,289 Stay here. 548 00:43:22,515 --> 00:43:24,415 Of course I do not say I am 549 00:43:24,482 --> 00:43:25,981 who you think I am, 550 00:43:26,048 --> 00:43:28,361 but I have spent some years in the army. 551 00:43:28,361 --> 00:43:31,801 Perhaps we met on some campaign or other. 552 00:43:31,815 --> 00:43:34,448 Perhaps that's why I seem familiar. 553 00:43:34,515 --> 00:43:36,248 Perhaps. 554 00:43:39,248 --> 00:43:41,848 I recall the 13th... 555 00:43:42,749 --> 00:43:44,914 - was at Alesia. - We were. 556 00:43:44,981 --> 00:43:49,014 There's a battle I've always wished to have seen. 557 00:43:49,081 --> 00:43:51,348 25 miles* of works, wasn't it? 558 00:43:51,349 --> 00:43:51,349 * 1 Roman mile = 1481,50 meters 25 Roman miles = around 37 km (23 miles) 559 00:43:51,415 --> 00:43:53,916 - Nearer 30. - 30? 560 00:43:53,917 --> 00:43:53,917 * 30 Roman miles = 44 km (around 27,6 miles) 561 00:43:53,949 --> 00:43:56,049 - How many men did you have? - 60000. 562 00:43:56,116 --> 00:43:58,483 Against... 563 00:43:58,549 --> 00:44:01,982 almost double the Gauls. 564 00:44:01,992 --> 00:44:02,733 At least double. 565 00:44:03,842 --> 00:44:06,002 The best men of every tribe in Gaul. 566 00:44:07,149 --> 00:44:09,082 Caesar can fight. 567 00:44:09,092 --> 00:44:11,030 I'll give him that. 568 00:44:11,112 --> 00:44:12,816 I remember... 569 00:44:12,882 --> 00:44:14,816 when he was not much older than you. 570 00:44:14,882 --> 00:44:17,349 I sent him to winter quarters in... 571 00:44:17,416 --> 00:44:19,716 in... 572 00:44:19,783 --> 00:44:22,783 Where was it? 573 00:44:24,449 --> 00:44:26,751 No matter. 574 00:44:26,817 --> 00:44:28,817 Long time gone. 575 00:44:35,883 --> 00:44:38,217 I must ask you, sir, if I may. 576 00:44:39,817 --> 00:44:42,217 How did you come to this road? 577 00:44:43,350 --> 00:44:45,283 Surely... 578 00:44:45,350 --> 00:44:47,817 Pompey had Caesar at greater disadvantage. 579 00:44:47,883 --> 00:44:49,817 He did. 580 00:44:49,883 --> 00:44:51,817 He did. 581 00:44:51,883 --> 00:44:54,383 It didn't seem possible to lose. 582 00:44:55,484 --> 00:44:57,885 That's always a bad sign. 583 00:44:58,718 --> 00:45:02,585 The battlefield was on a plain 584 00:45:02,651 --> 00:45:05,377 by a river, at the foot of some... 585 00:45:06,318 --> 00:45:08,251 low hills. 586 00:45:08,318 --> 00:45:10,218 Like this, you see. 587 00:45:10,584 --> 00:45:12,917 The lines met here. 588 00:45:12,984 --> 00:45:16,785 My men held their ground well, 589 00:45:16,852 --> 00:45:18,951 so I sent my horses 590 00:45:19,017 --> 00:45:20,951 at his right flank. 591 00:45:20,964 --> 00:45:23,578 Which is perfectly correct, 592 00:45:23,585 --> 00:45:25,151 - you'll agree. - I do. 593 00:45:25,218 --> 00:45:28,651 Only the cowards were repulsed. 594 00:45:28,718 --> 00:45:32,152 Repulsed by a single cohort of reserves. 595 00:45:32,219 --> 00:45:35,152 Turned and fled, 200 horses. 596 00:45:35,219 --> 00:45:38,319 Crashed directly into my left flank, 597 00:45:39,711 --> 00:45:41,536 rolled up my line 598 00:45:41,552 --> 00:45:43,486 like a carpet. 599 00:45:43,552 --> 00:45:47,019 Put the whole damned army to flight. 600 00:45:48,252 --> 00:45:50,185 And here I am. 601 00:45:50,252 --> 00:45:52,219 That's how Pompey Magnus 602 00:45:52,285 --> 00:45:55,319 was defeated. 603 00:45:55,386 --> 00:45:58,152 That's how the republic died. 604 00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:12,886 - Good night, sir. - Wait. 605 00:46:14,053 --> 00:46:16,053 I will not... 606 00:46:18,387 --> 00:46:20,320 I will not ask favor 607 00:46:20,387 --> 00:46:22,289 or mercy for myself. 608 00:46:22,420 --> 00:46:24,420 But I beg you... 609 00:46:25,553 --> 00:46:27,620 consider the fate... 610 00:46:28,820 --> 00:46:30,820 of my wife and children. 611 00:46:33,954 --> 00:46:36,388 Let me take them to Egypt 612 00:46:36,397 --> 00:46:38,855 where they will be safe... 613 00:46:40,855 --> 00:46:42,955 among friends. 614 00:46:45,654 --> 00:46:47,654 Consider them. 615 00:47:58,590 --> 00:48:00,623 Go back to sleep. 616 00:48:14,990 --> 00:48:18,424 Unwise and unfriendly, I call it. 617 00:48:18,491 --> 00:48:20,424 Unwise and unfriendly. 618 00:48:20,491 --> 00:48:22,424 And for why? 619 00:48:22,491 --> 00:48:24,424 Why? 620 00:48:24,491 --> 00:48:26,491 We had him. We had him. 621 00:48:28,157 --> 00:48:30,591 Horses. Never mind, horses. 622 00:48:30,657 --> 00:48:32,591 Never mind gold. 623 00:48:32,657 --> 00:48:35,257 Caesar would have given us farms 624 00:48:35,324 --> 00:48:38,557 and fields and orchards and great flocks of slaves 625 00:48:38,570 --> 00:48:40,590 and cattle and Dis* knows what... 626 00:48:40,591 --> 00:48:40,591 * Name of Pluto, god of the Underworld. 627 00:48:40,595 --> 00:48:41,325 'Sist! 628 00:48:41,340 --> 00:48:44,992 Pompey Magnus is no damn slave to be sold for money. 629 00:48:48,024 --> 00:48:49,267 Don't see why not! 630 00:48:49,291 --> 00:48:51,221 There's a great deal you don't see. 631 00:48:52,091 --> 00:48:54,345 There's a great deal he doesn't see neither. 632 00:49:06,525 --> 00:49:10,525 You and only 12 other men survived that storm. 633 00:49:11,525 --> 00:49:13,859 Out of 5000. 634 00:49:13,924 --> 00:49:15,860 You're being kept alive 635 00:49:15,925 --> 00:49:19,426 - for some great purpose, no doubt. - Ah, well, 636 00:49:19,493 --> 00:49:21,493 you know, sir... 637 00:49:25,426 --> 00:49:28,292 - He has some interesting news. - Indeed? 638 00:49:28,302 --> 00:49:30,792 Sir, in course of our journey here, we encountered 639 00:49:30,812 --> 00:49:34,145 Gnaeus Pompey Magnus with his family, and a party of servants. 640 00:49:34,660 --> 00:49:35,860 Where? 641 00:49:35,925 --> 00:49:37,826 On the road to Amphipolis, with a mule train. 642 00:49:37,892 --> 00:49:41,192 A mule train. It's priceless. 643 00:49:41,259 --> 00:49:43,526 He intends to take ship for Egypt, sir. 644 00:49:43,593 --> 00:49:45,959 Family and servants, you say. 645 00:49:45,972 --> 00:49:47,890 - No soldiers? - None, sir. 646 00:49:47,893 --> 00:49:48,794 Not one man left, 647 00:49:48,795 --> 00:49:49,858 not one. 648 00:49:49,861 --> 00:49:52,294 Poor wretch. 649 00:49:53,794 --> 00:49:55,427 Why then, be that so, 650 00:49:55,494 --> 00:49:58,127 - did you not apprehend him? - Now here's the onion. 651 00:49:59,827 --> 00:50:01,355 I thought it would be wrong 652 00:50:01,355 --> 00:50:02,764 to do so. 653 00:50:03,627 --> 00:50:05,504 Explain yourself. 654 00:50:07,293 --> 00:50:09,227 His hands trembled, sir. 655 00:50:09,293 --> 00:50:10,660 His clothes were dirty, 656 00:50:10,727 --> 00:50:13,427 there was water in his eyes... He is broken. 657 00:50:14,460 --> 00:50:16,427 I saw no need to apprehend him. 658 00:50:16,443 --> 00:50:17,993 I'd like to add that legionary Pullo 659 00:50:18,003 --> 00:50:20,095 took no part in my decision, sir. 660 00:50:22,161 --> 00:50:23,944 You saw no need. 661 00:50:25,562 --> 00:50:27,628 Do you not see that Pompey may be broken 662 00:50:27,695 --> 00:50:30,966 like a Dacian* catamite and still be dangerous? 663 00:50:30,967 --> 00:50:30,967 * Big region in the South of the Germany, in Central Europe (modern Romania and Moldava) 664 00:50:31,161 --> 00:50:32,761 If he is still living, 665 00:50:32,828 --> 00:50:34,928 he will be a standard around which 666 00:50:34,994 --> 00:50:37,269 our enemies will gather! 667 00:50:37,761 --> 00:50:39,994 As long as he can be propped on a horse, 668 00:50:40,561 --> 00:50:42,328 he's dangerous! 669 00:50:42,334 --> 00:50:45,128 - But you saw no need to apprehend him? - I did not, sir. 670 00:50:45,195 --> 00:50:47,394 Who by the sons of Dis gives you the right 671 00:50:47,396 --> 00:50:48,296 to make such judgment?! 672 00:50:48,304 --> 00:50:50,355 Sir, I am aware that I have not done my duty, 673 00:50:50,361 --> 00:50:53,262 and I respectfully ask your pardon. 674 00:50:54,429 --> 00:50:56,895 My pardon, he asks. 675 00:50:58,728 --> 00:51:01,728 I ought to have you scourged and crucified. 676 00:51:10,229 --> 00:51:12,995 In future you will remember that it is I 677 00:51:13,062 --> 00:51:15,628 that offers mercy. No one else. 678 00:51:15,995 --> 00:51:17,062 Clear? 679 00:51:17,129 --> 00:51:19,728 Clear, sir. 680 00:51:19,728 --> 00:51:22,429 Dismissed. 681 00:51:25,863 --> 00:51:27,830 I do not like to disagree with you, 682 00:51:27,896 --> 00:51:30,467 but you are being far too lenient with him. 683 00:51:30,597 --> 00:51:32,579 He let Pompey go 684 00:51:32,596 --> 00:51:34,234 and you let him live?! 685 00:51:34,963 --> 00:51:37,163 The man should be made an example of! 686 00:51:37,230 --> 00:51:39,663 Any other man, certainly. 687 00:51:39,930 --> 00:51:41,682 But those two... 688 00:51:42,263 --> 00:51:44,197 They found my stolen standard. 689 00:51:44,263 --> 00:51:46,063 Now they survive a wreck 690 00:51:46,130 --> 00:51:50,130 that drowned an army and find Pompey Magnus on a beach. 691 00:51:51,763 --> 00:51:55,197 They have powerful gods on their side, 692 00:51:55,216 --> 00:51:56,878 and I will not kill 693 00:51:56,899 --> 00:51:59,297 any man with friends of that sort. 694 00:52:00,297 --> 00:52:01,564 Posca. 695 00:52:02,331 --> 00:52:05,631 Tell Fulvio to start breaking camp. 696 00:52:05,997 --> 00:52:07,974 We're going to Egypt. 697 00:52:58,798 --> 00:53:00,731 General Pompey, sir. 698 00:53:00,798 --> 00:53:03,833 Remember me? Lucius Septimius. 699 00:53:03,899 --> 00:53:06,866 Centurion Septimius, as was. 700 00:53:06,933 --> 00:53:08,699 I was with you in Spain. 701 00:53:08,766 --> 00:53:10,366 Fourth legion, third cohort. 702 00:53:10,433 --> 00:53:13,366 Lucius Septimius, of course. 703 00:53:13,433 --> 00:53:15,366 What are you doing here, of all places? 704 00:53:15,433 --> 00:53:17,467 Working for the Gyppoes, sir. 705 00:53:17,533 --> 00:53:20,133 I know, sir. It's not the fourth by no means. 706 00:53:20,149 --> 00:53:21,642 A man's got to earn his salt though, eh? 707 00:53:21,649 --> 00:53:22,667 Sure enough. 708 00:53:22,799 --> 00:53:25,500 What's all this then, soldier? 709 00:53:25,567 --> 00:53:27,567 Not much of a welcome party. 710 00:53:27,632 --> 00:53:30,370 You know Egyptians, sir, it's just their way. 711 00:53:30,451 --> 00:53:31,649 Funny people. 712 00:53:31,649 --> 00:53:33,934 That they are. Well... 713 00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:35,900 Onward, friend. 714 00:53:49,900 --> 00:53:51,834 I'm sorry, sir.