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cleopas look

come there

oh

no

where are you going

to emmaus good we'll go together

the light is with us come

come

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you look worried sad we've nothing to be

cheerful about

what sort of man are you where are you

from

you heard my greeting a jew and you

haven't heard what happened

they killed him they nailed him on a

tree

jesus the teacher from galilee

teacher he was the only one

the only

we hope that he was the one who would

redeem israel

let us rest for a while come tell me

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we wanted to be with the master and the

apostles for passover

we were delayed stopped by some roman

troops

why are you going to jerusalem the rest

of the roman nonsense

for the passover we said you sure they

said

you look to us like a couple of these

zealots troublemakers

no we said just for the passover

we didn't tell them we were looking for

the 12.

we got there in time for the bad news

whipped him nailed him up took him down

put him in this tomb in this garden

joseph of

arimathea yes his garden

the tomb's a kind of cave in it

we went there the least we could do pray

the body wasn't there nobody could have

taken it away

not with all those guards

he's gone left us

nothing's left not even his

body you are slow of heart

listen remember the scriptures

all this was foretold you know that

nothing has happened that was not

planned before the beginning of time

he's still with you in a way that you

have yet to understand

you've caused to be cheerful cheerful

what do we do now where do we go

it seems you're going to emmaus as good

a place as any

we were told that some of the new ones

were hiding there the disciples

you understand what we're after

is news

comfort companionship

come if we hurry we'll be there before

nightfall

let us stop at this inn for supper

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stay with us day's almost over night's

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falling

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blessed are thou o lord our god ruler of

the universe

who brings forth bread from the earth

all set down in god's hand meaning the

hand of isaiah

ezekiel daniel hosea

micah zechariah

it was all prophesied the lord himself

will choose the sign

a child shall be born to a maiden and

she shall call him emmanuel

meaning god is with us the people who

walk in darkness shall see a great light

israel will be filled with joy

everything had been foretold the birth

and the suffering unto death

we despised and rejected him we turned

our backs on him and looked the other

way

he was wounded for our sins he was

lashed

we were healed who brought us a lamb to

the slaughter

it was the lord's plan to fill him with

grief

he shall live again and make many to be

counted righteous before the lord

for he shall bear all their sins

you see how everything that happened had

been announced

from beginning to end and to the new

beginning

trust the lord's word believe

but there's nothing in the scriptures

about the power of rome

the wickedness of rome not even he could

stand up against it

it's finished we're lost

it's all over

all over

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so

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eat

eat now that we

oh my dear dear

stay with us lord

don't go please

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you can't go now the night the dark

full of phantoms and wild beasts cleopas

but they can do no more harm he's

banished the ghosts

tamed the beasts

you know as he disappeared

i was thinking that we had to know fear

and death and darkness

to see his love shine

i was thinking that soon it'll be night

it is tonight

and we shall be questioned

love love

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you look so beautiful ruth

yes you do thank you sarah

but where is caleb he'll be bringing

samuel

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right here

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daniel it's me caleb

i saw them how many many they were

carrying the standard of the 12th legion

that's stationed in syria and it's true

pontius pilate has sent for

reinforcements

waiting for you samuel get washed you're

covered in dust and get dressed

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hey

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samuel you are welcome

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now join hands for your betrothal

as your older uncle and the head of your

family after the death of your father

i have the right and the duty to choose

your man for you

and have done so

now ruth i must ask you

of your own free will and consent

if you accept as you're betrothed the

man i have chosen for you

if you say yes you'll reply

this is the man i love this is the man i

love

now the ring repeat after me

behold thou art consecrated unto me

by this ring according to the law of

moses

and israel behold thou art consecrated

unto me

by this ring according to the law of

moses and israel

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i wish your father were here to share

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let me kiss the ride

come away let me let me go let me go

one hour

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mad people see that the pub is the

symbol of judea

let's sign a revolt and that is a fish

out of water

dead in the desert sand that's how the

come hole god

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so

i'm ready to face room

those who bear tidings of her sejanus

landed last night there's news over a

vote in pannonia

do not trouble tiberius caesar with

rumors atticus

wait for sejanus to report to him lucius

marina says

right what a series the egyptian teacher

said any upheaval is forewarned

by a commotion of celestial bodies by

blood on the moon i saw no sign in the

heavens

no blood no anger

you have more gloomy wisdom from me

courteous i wouldn't call it gloomy

the aim of stoic philosophy is to dispel

glue

you and your fashionable philosophy only

the

pleasures of the senses can ease the

pains of the spirit census fails

caesar's you know

at your age our age speak for yourself

and i think you may keep your philosophy

to yourself

we romans act too much

think too little and the philosophy

which

teaches courage and adversity the

pursuit of virtue for its own sake

equanimity

isn't that what rome needs don't talk to

me about courage and equanimity

you've never known the burden of rule

the nightmare of treachery you haven't

seen your own son

dying in pain you did not see it either

tabis i

see it every night i hear his screams i

wake up

sweating his murderer all murderers were

never caught

yet many were executed on their

suspicions they were guilty

they were guilty of being suspected they

deserved to die

you said many not enough not enough to

pay for the death of my son

truces and what satisfaction do you find

in revenge

it's not revenge it's policy they killed

him they've been waiting to kill me too

calm caesar

refuse to be moved take a calm mind back

to rome

restore justice to rome

rome has become a filthy shambles

rome needs its emperor i won't go back

to rome

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uh

ah we thank the fair wind that brings

you back to capricious

reported rumors of a revolt in pandonia

false rumors caesar spread by enemies of

rome and your peace

since you subdued it king vanius rules

pannonia in your name

and in your peace no i

won't go back to rome i will die here on

capri and i hope to die in my bed

oh you will live tiberius for the glory

of rome and our peace

the arm of your justice your arm sir

janus and your justice shall crush

any attempt to harm you

whether your enemies be hiding in the

forum or behind the tug of a senator or

even in the nest of your own family

my family mr jonas

your niece my emperor agra peter the

elder

he's been exiled to the island of

panaderia tiberius himself gave the

order

i did my memory fails at times and yet

i oh her plot to depose you in favor of

one of her two sons has been proved

beyond any doubt

it wasn't the stars woven in their dance

i i saw it

they're safe her two sons are safe yet

safely guarded on the island of pontia

silva was a third she bought three sons

yes gaius caligula little boots hmm

still hanging around your legion's camps

good boy

born to serve in the army quite unlike

his brothers he

told me he's ashamed of his mother

hates her i like young caligula

his grandmother i love antonio would

never fail me

i was so happy when my dreuses married

her daughter the fairleigh villa

you wanted to marry her say janice

antonia refused you

she would never consent you you

understand that i could never

allow anyone under no certain understand

caesar

hearts change there is time

but there's little time left before the

senate of rome declares you're a city an

orphan

your senators demand that you are

emperor return to rome and rule it

yourself

i won't go back such wisdom

as ever power lies where the emperor

lies

capri not rome

rome has survived for four years without

my presence the

the senate the senate grows wearisome

an example perhaps we could have someone

shipped over here and thrown from these

rocks

hmm deceased perhaps or cenarius

one or more of the louder mouse senators

if you wish examples to be said caesar

they are best

set in rome where the romans can see

them

the praetorian guard is always at your

service

enjoy your retirement caesar

rome it's loud dirty place

also treacherous also treacherous

good juices you seem not to want our

emperor back in rome sir jonas

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speak to me who is he he says he's a

fisherman

he brings a gift to the emperor a fish

a fish

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from the divine neptune our god of the

sea

a gift for the divine tiberius not so

divine if mortal men can climb his

olympus oh

well said you

and your guards have failed in your

duties throw this man back where he came

from and report for disciplinary action

no wait

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for me you say a gift from neptune

it's strange that he does not deliver it

personally

give it to me

you're right sir janice my friend as

always a fisherman can get in so can

hired murderers

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throw him down the road no no

i beg you no no no dog

don't no no don't no

no no

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yesterday

i saw him at first i didn't recognize

him

but then he called me peter

the rock and then i understood

that i was with our master jesus was

there

facing me risen just as he had promised

thank god we found you we've searched

everywhere all over jerusalem no

this seemed the only place you are

nothing humble followers

cleopas zacchaeus but we bring great

news

you saw him yes

you didn't see him thought you saw him

there's a difference you doubt our word

man

thomas is the name thomas no i don't

doubt that you thought you saw him

i saw him too thomas yes peter

must take your word for that but seeing

is believing

i saw i tell you and i didn't

that's what matters to me

sit with us cleopas and zacchaeus sir or

not sir

my name's peter

well now we know the truth

is back in the world and it's our task

to spread the good news

but we're ill prepared to shout the

glory of his rising from the grave

and the truth of the message that he

taught

no one would listen to us sometimes i

long to revisit the lake of galilee

see my old friends help them with their

nets

how wonderful to be in ignorant peace

again

to be without responsibility

but i we

accept the burden trouble is we do not

know well

how to carry it you have broad shoulders

peter

strong enough to bear the weight of your

mission

so

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shalom peace be with you

sit

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i said we would all be together once

more there is nothing to

fear

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my old friend thomas ever doubted

the man i chose because he would not

believe easily

but now you must believe thomas

how do i know

my heart's troubled my mind confused

he died on a cross

come close thomas

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touch

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the nails also pierced my feet and the

spear my side

my master and my lord

because you see you believe thomas

blessed are they who have not seen and

yet believe

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stay here in the city soon the time will

come for the spreading of the good news

outside of jerusalem the holy spirit

will descend on you

giving you the power of speech taking

away your fear of the enemy

and i myself will be with you

even to the end of the world

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now as once before

i take this bread and break it

this is my body

do this in remembrance of me

i speak only for the empire i am the

empire never remember

and the empire's good name is your own

ah

all right darling columbus

sweet little pet the only creature that

i could really trust

this is she's hungry if it's some frogs

and mice

make sure they're alive

i speak for the restoration of justice

for the emperor as judge in the imperial

court of law

city the true from the false laws turn

into terror

telling me whispers from painted former

take the case of fighter subpoenas who

aroma knight clubbed dragged to jail as

property confiscated

and unfounded ptolemy proved false do i

know him

you knew him

the past blurs yes tiberius

that is the danger we are all old men

and in danger of forgetting that the

empire stood for law

there are wise men writing history books

they record that they climb from the

past to

terror blood on the marble the reign of

tiberius

ends in courteous oh my lord

caesar there was a time when you loved

the truth

father and i are not young boys to be

frightened by threats of

torture or decapitation old men have

nothing to

fear this old man has much to fear

go back to rome show yourself

restore the rule of law the city is

damned

it smells there's nothing worse than

blood so janus keeps order

he has a strong nose yes sir

you have something to say against the

giants

an official soldier a firm administrator

a man who as you say has a

strong nose he is good at smelling out

opposition

and yet the city stinks of corruption

and there is no man who is not afraid

except sir jealous that man

is the courage that i no longer have i

won't go to rome

you heard me i will die here on capri

die yes and then turn into a god as real

as neptune

and then the empire will be

who not many candidates left

sometimes you must wonder why

um

seven

oh nine again your lucky number i'm

lucky today

julius valerius liscinius standard

bearer of the third legion augusta

he served in africa before being

transferred to the cohort of capri

i did

let's go

proceeded but there is going man

i think i have news for you

your two men have i understand been

disciplined

what they might call the ultimate

discipline

mine is to come tomorrow i've spoken to

the emperor and persuaded him to be

merciful to you that is

i am grateful yes precisely

now if i may speak to his man to man

was foolish to frighten the emperor that

way

to present the outside world in the form

of a big fish

a big fish with perhaps a dagger in its

belly

raving folly

my father is a veteran who spent his

youth on the battlefield

he's still serving in the seventh legion

in gaul hoping for me to benefit from

his merits

i thank you for him also

i require you to be grateful

from now on you're second into my

service of the emperor's command

to the praetorian guard no hilarious

that will be going too far

you're to be in my own personal service

to perform

a personal office rome

is in grave danger

not even you will observe that the

emperor is

very old there is the question of

imperial succession the young prince

guys caligula you know

him a soldier he was in camp with us

hardly a soldier despite his boots

the emperor's family is always in grave

danger in bad times like these

but he is the emperor's grand

nephew he's an imperial candidate

he lives with his grandmother the lady

antonia

they are

precious people i wish their lives to be

guarded

well by me by you

malarias watch them the cummings goings

report to me regularly

you will be glad to be back in rome i

liked it here

oh it's a pretty little place no doubt

pretty little people too

soft too soft

we need men like you back in the

mainland hilarious

pack your kit report to me for your

marching orders

i will thank you

some of you wrinkle your noses and curl

your lips as they compromise were a

dirty word

it is a dirty word right well it is only

through compromise that we may keep the

faith alive

we are ruled by an infidel rape one

stroke of the sword

they could sever the cord that binds us

into one people they could destroy the

temple no

yes yes we live uncomfortably with the

romans but at least we live

this is no life that sadducee talk seth

well i almost forgot you are the son of

a sadducee

and what's wrong with sadducee talk

without us sadducees you'd be burning

incense before tiberius's statue oh

sad our jewish love for freedom can

always defeat roman arrogance

you zealots would have us all crucified

no

my sons

throughout our history we have been

called to defend

the integrity of our inheritance

against foreign oppression and against

our own weakness

necessary as it was our rejection of the

claim made by jesus of

nazareth showed us once again

the reality of the bitter conflicts

among us

and you may be sure that the romans too

are aware of it your words are from your

heart rabbun gamaliel

may i i trust that you too will

speak from your heart and from your mind

also

you are stephen from alexandria

and like saul here a pharisee son of

pharisees

and a greek at heart no samuel a jew i

know how you resent all that's foreign

all that threatens our freedom caleb is

right and what else could your future

brother-in-law be

samuel

i learned the language of the greeks i

read their books

they say you also learned wrestling from

one of their olympic champions

they could teach you kayla whenever he

likes

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although their philosophers received

sparks of the truth i know they are far

from the light

with your permission rabban

our brother caleb should not forget

that the torah has been revealed to the

word of the gentiles

by our own hebrew scholars who

translated it into the language of the

greeks

to know the greek culture is an

advantage for us

revan may i

you may be right saul paul

is it not you are a roman citizen or at

least the

bearer of a roman name

i am a jew my father lives in tarsus

in cilicia his father was a great

benefactor of that city so

rome bestowed on him the highest honor

it could grant a subject in its empire

now you and i may doubt that it is

indeed an

honor some may prefer to call it a

blemish on our name

either way i did not choose it

you misunderstand me saul or paul

i agree with you that to know other

places other languages is valuable

but foreign customs can be infectious no

they're jews like us

the divisions we show are not only

doctrinal and political

beyond these divisions there is doubt

and uncertainty even among those of you

who belong to the same sect we forget

that we were called as a holy nation

and the call is one exactly

well exactly what our high priest

caiaphas said when he realized that this

false messiah from nazareth was

threatening the very existence of our

nation

yes we must be ready for any sacrifice

in order to prevent our nation from

perishing

he just decided too quickly to hand him

over to pilate's bushes

we welcomed him as our deliverer when he

entered jerusalem jesus betrayed his

promise

he was one of us another jew was

delivered to a roman cross

there is no redemption in it no one

could forgive his sin

blasphemy yes blasphemy upon blasphemy

we've got enough of these false prophets

who was he some ignorant carpenter

who breaks the sabbath always bubbling

about love

you sneer at his trade you yourself are

a tentmaker saul

not the same thing at all i practice a

skill because that is ordained by our

jewish tradition

however i do know other things besides

the stitching of canvas

he knew the torah our holy scriptures

were never out of his mouth

and what's wrong with burbling about

love as you call it

i'll tell you what's wrong by love he

meant submission

turning the other cheek putting up with

roman injustice

admit all of you as much in what he said

we must change ourselves even as we

change our system of rule

soul and the body are inseparable

a soul in chains the chains are our

own sins as well as foreign oppression

and don't speak so disparagingly of love

on a practical level it may be love that

will save us

we jews play into roman hands

by hating one another sect against sect

division not unity

but but how can we accept this

exaltation of a false prophet

the son of god the messiah you repeat

his blasphemy stephen well the messiah

was prophesied is prophesied stephen

is

all of you it's time

minds rest

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we firmly reject any claim

that jesus was anything but a good

man we all need unity of heart

let us pray for this now

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go in peace

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saul i learned something today

i see now that you're a man of great

faith

i would like us to be friends

a friend is more necessary than fire and

water

cicero said that a great roman

so you see not everything that comes

from rome is bad

excuse me

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wrestling's very pretty samuel do you

think it works

i'll see sure he don't really want to

wrestle do you calendar

very good stephen not freddie

thank you

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right

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bring him to his knees

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push push

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let him go

hey that dog

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oh

back to your houses go back to your

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houses

look he's in pain surely an apology

would be enough

who and what are you i'm a roman citizen

yeah yes i am but i'm also a citizen of

rome

my name if you must know is paul it's

julian rhodes well

paul if that's what you ought to be

called

we have our duty and this one

needs teaching a lesson and he'll learn

it while he's looking down from that

hill out there

come on you

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they hide up here on mount gerizim

noble pilot they've hoarded a huge

treasure in it gold silver

greek and roman money and gems they say

such as no oriental monarch has ever

seen

they're not like the other jews these

samaritans not unlike the galileans

rejected children of israel so to say

yet no less cunning or able the dislike

that surrounds them could make our

decision to attack them

acceptable there are many here in judea

who would secretly rejoice at it

i've learned to wake quintilius during

my office in this land

let them hide up their mount gerrism is

it

let them increase their secret treasure

ten a thousand fold

the more they toil the richer our

harvests

at the right time meanwhile we shall

continue showing roman strength

celebrating imperial power in the name

of the divine tiberius

may he live long before joining his

brother gods

lucius elias sejanus has sent word to

manifest to you his satisfaction for the

way in which you conducted yourself

when faced with the disturbances

regarding the man jesus smartly stifled

quickly forgotten just a few crosses

we need more these people are never

convinced that their destiny has been

sealed by rome

they breed revolt our good prefect the

noble sajanas has a

particular contempt for the jews we had

to deal with a few of them in rome

they are like weeping willows he once

told me

they bend easily only to snap

back with more strength truth

grace is your lips pontius pilate

only today we have arrested another

hothead

a young man who attacked one of our

guards a zealot

by the looks of it good

i've often reproached myself during the

past few days for having let go that

bandit the zealot called barabbas

though i still think the man from

nazareth was a higher potential risk for

us

his case puzzled me

his death relieved me

and now fortune our wise goddess

gives us back the zealot bring him here

calpernias

no way wait

patience is a goddess we must honor as

often as we can so that she may reward

us

generously in two days our jewish

subjects will celebrate the feast of the

first fruits of spring

shabbat they call it we shall judge this

young zealot there

they will have a new reason to remember

yet another solemn date in their

calendar

this young zealot is he a family

his mother two sisters

are they beautiful the girls i mean

they're young i'm told seize them

mother and daughters send them to rome

my good friend sir janice will

appreciate the gift of young slaves

good way to show my gratitude for his

consideration

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fought outside the temple it knows how

dangerous

it is to arouse attention how welcome

for the romans any pretext is to bear

down on us

sound just like caleb it was not a fight

just a friendly scuffle an occasion to

relieve our attention the passion of our

discussion

stephen was desperate afterwards

did he provoke caleb i told you no one

provoked anyone

we were like children at play

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just a scuffle it was oh they do

together

no one can tell nothing if they believe

our story

caleb got carried away he didn't realize

the man he was pushing away was a roman

guard

i will never believe it

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i will ask to be heard by the procurator

himself if necessary

i will tell him that my son caleb has

never done anything we could be ashamed

of

i will plead with him steal and i bribed

a guard we spoke to caleb through the

bars

he said to warn you not to plead not to

beg for him he would hate you for that

he said

mother may i walk somewhere to the door

you'll be truth to him don't you

remember

go go with him

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so

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you must leave this house it's not safe

i shall ask your uncle to let me take

you to my home tomorrow

if we can you know that we cannot not

until caleb is safely back with us

time is racing past us rome has

conquered our nation

and our time you must believe what i'm

saying

come away mother grows weaker every day

you saw her heard her

she is ready to fall on her knees and

beg the roman procurator for mercy

i love her and you samuel

i love more than life but she needs me

besides i must prepare myself to be a

good wife

i'm not yet ready to surrender oh this

is not a war ruth

there's no attack there will be no

surrender

what i mean is that i'm so young i still

have

little girl's dreams it is hard for me

to think of

being alone with you a woman and a man

we are meant to be one flesh one being

a new creature formed by a man and a

woman

your sister can take care of your mother

no

my place is still here with them i will

not leave them as long as caleb is in

danger

i shall find a way to move you all three

of you

to a safer place ruth

i'm here mother go now

and pray for caleb

for us i

i do love you so much

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stephen

will ravencomedial help he's powerless

it's what he feared most and it's

happened

oh there was nothing we could do for

nothing stephen

one of our fellow students is about to

be crucified caleb the crucified

well not so terrible perhaps it was good

enough for your mug messiah

his death was no mockery soul

it still haunts me

you see another roman cross you're a

roman citizen can't you do something it

could be useful sometimes but not now

no a word should be sent to caleb's

family though

sometimes roman power yields to the

power of gold but they have no money the

uncle matthias does

we can try and ask for his help

but i hope that like many others he

wants to follow jesus

and give up everything he owns a

contagious madness madness

followers of jesus give shelter to the

sick and bred to the needy

only the lord will help us and caleb

the lord who is one will guide us

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oh

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thank you

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i could not do anything they dragged

them away

and that is all they saw

ruth's come

he says they were dragged from the house

like beasts

just like beasts they take them to the

coast of galilee but they will end up in

rome

in the slave market

the roof

my roof

told you steven there's only one way

strike back

kill them

violence breeds violence they hold the

axe

let's not give them more victim samuel

i'd rather die than live with this shame

the lord will rescue us samuel

he's come to our help in harder times

he's deaf

lord is deaf to our christ even

we're alone

and ruth is

may he forgive you or he hears you well

he's not forgotten us we have to walk

his way

the way that he sets for us

and i'm convinced that it is not by

killing that we shall win

not by killing

main task in rome as i see it is to

contain the dissension in those areas

which through cunning

have impinged on your own family now the

lady live william i might

say so is highly impressionable

she has lived as a widow for too long if

i may repeat my desire to now

antonio would never consent i cannot go

against the decision of a mother

thought if lady antonio withdrew her

objection she wants my daughter-in-law

to keep face with the memory of her

husband my poor

dead juices if you wish

my marriage to become a kind of

substitute son to me

i would never dare so presume turn

yourself into an imperial candidate

is the furthest thing from my mind keep

your place

keep your distance

you do your work well let things stay as

they are

i take it you've been hearing things

from atticus

and nervous

what a warning caesar beware

of mild old men they're my friends

even if they don't spare me their

disagreements

i hope to soon put in your hands

evidence to the contrary

trust nobody i'm going to put a cordon

around this island you will be safe here

my astrologer tells me that the signs

may soon

turn auspicious for a brief visit to

rome

i may see rome before i die

nerva is right when he talks about

imperial duty perhaps i

have a duty said janice

to see you at work i work only for your

sake for your protection

suspicion is like a dagger it can never

be sharpened enough our lives depend on

it

i told you i did not suspect guys

caligula but i do believe that he is

capable of being tempted into an act of

criminal treason

ambition intoxicates he has bad friends

herod agrippa grandson of the great

herod

is a champion of ambition the dreams of

ruling

troublesome palestine one day i thought

things were quiet in palestine

things are not quiet in palestine

as rebellious jews is there no pleasing

them

all is well caesar pretend to your

health the empire is stable under your

rule

my trusted friend lucius marinus

remain at your service hearing capri

while i'm away in rome

voting into foes known and unknown

preparing for your visit

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may i suggest you address a letter to

the senate mighty caesars

it will appease their anxieties dispel

their fears

there's little hope left and from

obsessed with fear

in the hands of a man who fabricates

fear

look never swathed in

fog capri is as remote as the moon from

rome

ah beware the insidious influence of the

our atticus

our poet said the dying of light brings

oblique thoughts to the mind

shrouds the heart breeds dejection

no we must react take action

wasting more words on tibet he refuses

to listen or what he pretends to he

quickly turns to report them to suggest

spider's too smart it's webbed too tight

a delegation from the senate i must

leave for rome as soon as possible

and lead back here the worthiest members

of our senate tiberius will have to

listen to the voice of rome

you'll hear the truth truth

every one of those worthy senators that

you

plan to bring here is closely watched

even in his own home servants and

kinsmen and alike have been turned into

informers crimes

true or false i reported every sunrise

they too are caged in fear

i shall leave tomorrow

no ship due here before another week

and neptune has an angry look

you are too discouraged to be

well-informed atticus

a ship landed last night it was brought

here by order of suggest

a spider is getting ready to return to

rome and

keep weaving his plot but he will not

leave

tiberius alone i'm sure he's already

assigned marine as his own piece of evil

work

come he must help me ready myself for

our

good mission let us not give them any

more time

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careful with that

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is therefore necessary that this

venerable senate

appoint a chosen group of delegates

they must go to khepri and bring to

tiberius

the appeal of his rome

of our offering city

we have listened to cashiers

we shall vote on his appeal that a

delegation be sent

from this senate to our emperor those

who approve of it

will be on the right hand side of the

hall those who disapprove

on the left

i ask your permission i too

have heard what the noble kacheyas nerva

proposes

could indeed be advisable as your vote

suggests

were it not in open contrast to the

manifest wish of the divine

tiberius that none of you be distracted

from your duties in the city

he knows that each one of you

is totally absorbed in rendering

loyal service to the empire and its

emperor

he urges all of you to stay in your

places as he has prompted me to resume

mine

i'm here to convey a special message

from tiberius

these are his words my voice his

let me break the imperial seal

my lords senators of rome if i knew

what to tell you or how

to tell it or what to leave altogether

untold

for the present may all the gods

and goddesses in heaven bring me to an

even

worse damnation than i daily suffered

his mind is totally gone

nervous right rome is truly an orphan

we have lost our emperor tiberius will

never return to rome

who else julius andreus exiled as the

traitors they are

caligular unworthy of his manly toga

a silly boy playing with soldiers

which does not prevent some of our

illustrious senators from licking his

little boots

antonio's son claudius is not

even to be considered a stuttering idiot

posing as a philosopher and historian i

read some of his books

there is a mind behind that brawny

forehead

the mind of a senile man frightened of

power

weakling that brawny forehead would

disgrace the imperial crown

so headless rome cannot find a new head

unless unless unless the new emperor

were a born leader

a man of true courage acquainted with

power in the game of ruling

a commanding figure or to be explicit

the commander of our praetorian guard

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he tore his hand on his nail was a

little now

but you should have seen the tears and

heard his howls

i took him in my arms and quieted him

but his crying gave him a good appetite

for his dinner

there's a mutton stew with herbs and a

little wine

i can see him now his mouth full and his

lips stained with what he was eating

morphing bread

like any other boy

seems so strange now so ordinary

we never know we never know

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what is it

the wind is growing stronger

there must be a storm coming

outside almost quiet

the wind remember his words

the wind blows whenever it pleases

you hear it sound

but you cannot tell where it comes from

or where it is going

you're right james our wise brother

those were his words

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hello

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hello

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oh

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uh

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ah

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hmm

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uh

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know

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oh

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let me speak please

please hear me

my jewish brothers men and women of

judea

and all that dwell in jerusalem

he's drunk they're all drunk it's the

new wine i heard that

i'm not drunk nor are any of my friends

here

it's only the third hour of the day the

taverns have hardly been opened yet

no oh this is no drunken talk

but the giving forth of the good news

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you know most of you what was said

by the prophet joel i will pour forth my

spirit

upon all flesh and your sons and your

daughters shall prophesy

and your young men shall see visions and

your old men

shall dream dreams and i will show

wonders in the heavens above

and signs on the earth below blood

and fire and vapor of smoke

the sun shall be turned into darkness

and the moon into blood

when the day of the lord comes that

great

and notable day

yes yes i say it again

that great and notable day is upon us

jesus of nazareth a man approved of god

by mighty works and wonders and signs

jesus crucified

slain by lawless man him

god has raised up having loosed the

pangs of death

this jesus did god raise up of this

we are all witnesses being therefore

exalted at the right hand of god

and having received of the father the

promise of the holy spirit

he has poured forth this which you see

and here let all the house of israel

therefore know assuredly

that god has made him both lord

and messiah this

jesus who was crucified

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out

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down

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find you

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hurry save yourselves

men and women of judea for the wonders

and the signs

are upon you what do we have to do

repent be baptized

be baptized every one of you in the name

of jesus christ

for the remission of your sins and you

shall

receive the gift

of the holy spirit save your souls

save yourselves from these blind

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leaders

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you will answer for this in the accepted

roman manner

do you know what that is

they will be singing songs tonight in

the tavern

about an eagle without claws the first

time in the whole course of my prop

curator's ship

the zealots have got the better of us

make sure the point of view is sort of

sharp before you fall on it

i'd hate for you to botch your suicide

as he botched

do we have to report this unfortunate

incident to the emperor

i don't think quintilius the emperor

will care one way or the other

a minor incident wouldn't you say

unless you've already written a report

for the emperor suggesting that the

procurator pontius pilot is ready for

replacement

and his assistant ripe

for promotion i would never dream of so

disloyal

an act no of course not continuous

but don't ever forget if i fall

you fall with me

now get on with the prosecution of roman

justice

the romans took them away

they're still looking for you waiting

for you to fall into one of their many

traps

god will not abandon them where was he

when they were taken

with them as he is now with us

this ingenious rescue you thought of it

there was no other way saul and i went

to your uncle matthias

begged him to buy your freedom but he

has joined the nazarenes

samuel gave his life for me and now you

two will be in danger

no i help you as a friend not as a

fellow zealot

i think the zealots are wrong or should

i say impractical

you won't prevail caleb the true road

lies another way

the sad you see way the pharisee way i

have been thinking a lot about the man

from nazareth

there was hope in what he said saul

would say that was blasphemy

i suppose it is blasphemy let's all call

it what he likes

jesus brought light to us

there only seems to be darkness for me

and my family they are alive

and life is what counts pray for them

you may trust your prayers stephen

i choose my sword

go to the place called mesut hasidim on

the hills by the dead sea

you'll reach it by dawn i have a friend

there ananias

he will take care of you one of us no

he's no zealot

he belongs to the essenes the essenes

will protect you

they live the life of the spirit cut off

from the flesh waiting for a new world

to come

that's as impractical a way as yours to

many the essenes represent the very

essence of our jewish faith

they believe that life is a fight

between light and darkness

they strive to purify themselves by

living in caves

isolated from the outside world they own

nothing

and share the little they need to

survive their only treasures are their

water wells

they are obsessed with cleanliness

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i am anna nice stephen's friend

he is right the essenes are constantly

preoccupied with the cleansing of the

body

the body is a poor thing destined to

decay

we must transcend it and live in the

spirit

but we must purify the body as it serves

as a symbol of our inner purity it's not

easy to forget we have bodies

these men never take a woman in their

arms

how do they breed we do not breed

after all the end of the world is coming

is it not the beginning of the world so

i was taught

the building of a free jewish nation

they have no time for these dreams of

nationhood

there has to be a purification of the

soul before the last day comes

sometimes you say we sometimes they do

you truly belong here

i know i never could

you have not eaten anything since we

left

i do not want you to die of starvation

i began to die when caleb was taken

my mother died

uncle matthias i was thinking of him

last night

our nazarene uncle

remember how he used to read old stories

to us

one evening shortly after father died

he told us of an ancient king of israel

who said that the day of death

is better than the day of birth

he had come to hate life he said for all

that is done in this world is evil

all is vain i've never forgotten it

what are you doing go back

sorry stupid girl tried to kill

help me in the name of the lord

give give

my brothers help me help upon people

please

help me in the name of the lord help me

help up our [ __ ] give give in the

name of the lord give

help

i have no silver or gold

but

but what i have

what i have i give you

in the name of the lord

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rise

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rise

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uh

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oh my lord

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do

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the power and grace of his son jesus

christ

to the lord all things are possible he

bids the hungry eat and gives drink to

the thirsty

he makes the blind sea and the lame walk

praise to his name

raise to his name

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your name stephen

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i baptize you stephen

in the name of our lord

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the noble senators of rome to grant me

their protection it is to this assembly

that i entrust my honor

my life i am here today

alive able to talk to you inform you

only thanks to some obscure

informer who alerted me of a murderous

attempt on my life

what is he doing again

oh our guard seized the criminals but

just within a few hours

before their hands could strike

but by attacking me they were

threatening the majesty of rome

the plan was to bring back agrippina and

her two sons from

exile tiberius himself had sentenced

them for treason

i have informed the emperor of this

latest danger which was

averted only by the

graces of the gods and his equally

divine favor

i ask you to listen to lucious marinos

lords of the senate i bear to you

news from capri a message

from tiberius caesar

in recognition of his many merits of his

faithful and loyal services to rome

and myself its emperor i have decreed

that our prefect of the praetorium the

noble

lucious elias cejanus my partner

in the labor of ruling be associated to

me

in the councilship for this new year

i salute lucious

council of rome and exhort you

the laws of the senate to acclaim with

me

worth wisdom and dollar

hail and be willing

my dear friend

an unexpected visit so doubly welcome

well i was anxious to see you again

you've been away too long it's not easy

to live capri

tiberius clings to me even though at

times he resents my sincerity

how is he trapped trapped in his fears

at moments i think i can reach him make

myself understood

brief moment he quickly falls back to

his obsessions

he looks vigorous healthy but his eyes

betray his confusion they're weary

be clouded so

there is no hope that he may return to

rome

not as long as his fears are kindled

said janus

i heard that he had appointed him to

share the consulship with him

i could not believe it neither could

rome

most of it but it's true

we have an emperor in exile and one in

the making

so janus keeps weaving his plot

in his last letter courteous atticus

called him

the spider you should be more careful

so janus is not forgiven our gods be

praised

for the few brave men we have left

but what is to be done how can we make

tiberius

listen believe i tried in vain to

convince the senate to send him a

delegation

you you and tony are our last hope

he respects and loves you you are the

mother-in-law to his beloved drew's

he is grateful to you for having loved

his dead son as your own

although he himself has been bent by sir

janus

he blesses you in his heart for your

unflinching refusal to allow your

daughter to marry him

my father gave me the spine when lavilla

was born

i wish that she had aged as wisely

age does not always entail wisdom

antonio

as to the wine honey and water will cure

it when it turns sour

wise honey and water

love and forgiveness i do love lavilla

but i cannot forgive her mistake

let us toast to my la villa nava

as long as she is my daughter

for the day she should consent to marry

sajanis

she will no longer be

may the gods be praised for our brave

women risk a lot antonio

by opposing the prefect

prisca tell palos to come here at once

tell him to bring his tablets with

i will dictate a letter to tiberius

palace will take it to him in capri

you must be cautious they may suspect

him

prevent him from approaching the emperor

time is trickling out nervous

we must move before we too are caught in

the web

your service noble antonio it's a joy to

see you here coaches never

beloved tiberius my emperor and friend

it is with a heart heavy with pain

but filled with concern for you

that i beg you to heed

what i am about to disclose to you

read this as truth

for love generates only truth

and i love you dearly

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as i loved your dead son

juices

an egyptian slave where is she she's

never

around when she's needed

what is her name um

sirica carr

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she's in the kitchen and you are

sarah she played with me yesterday she's

from jerusalem

the new slave pontius pilate sent to my

master sir janice

would you wish blending is tunic you

were to clean it

bring it here

what do you know of this girl there's

something

special about her

i hardly noticed when sujana's first

brought her to me how beautiful she is

seemingly well-educated jewish girls

learn to read and write when

very young

even if they don't have our good goddess

fabulina

to help them learn the language

you need the goddess ariana to teach you

how to walk procula

oh there it is

come blandina let me finish dressing you

how old are you 18.

i was told you had a sister

she was killed on the boat that brought

us here

your mother and father are they still in

your land

i lost my father when i was very young

my mother died when we were about to be

brought here you have no one else left

in your family

my brother kaley

did you leave a love behind

no my sister ruth she was betrothed to

marry

i had no time for love wait till you

meet a handsomer woman

you'll find the time soon enough

you look beautiful turn around

for me

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time is rushing it's quick you don't

want to be late for your lesson do you

no mother come with me sarah i must go

and greet my father

landina father beautiful

and blessed oh my little girl

you ready for school i saw your good

teacher cross into the garden he's

waiting for you

yes father sarah will take me to him

a gift from pontius pilate

good man

princely gift

for tina she will take you to meet him i

have

need of sarah

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oh

i'm told jewish girls know how to

massage

no no i'm sure you do all

you will learn come here

come here come

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take a sponge

i'll put some oil on it

now squeeze that

like

that

the venus must have no

lighter hands

no more tempting eyes

oh i could indeed adore you asakus

oh break you like clay

give

now look what you've done i'll have to

do it all over again

who are you what are you running from

there she is

report to procula

damn girl just broke a precious voice

still i should thank her she made me run

like apollo chasing daphne

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healthy exercise in the morning so you

have news for me

pichaies never came to see the lady

antonio they accuse you of treason

a messenger will leave tonight for capri

with a letter from antonia to tiberius

it will be delivered into the hands of

courteous atticus

your loyalty and alertness will be duly

rewarded valerie's

you make me happy

you remind me so much of your father

i have been preparing a spelt soup your

favorite

yes smoke is always a problem on windy

days

soon i hope i shall make you a

spelt cake so that would be a good day

for me

your wedding

what is it hilarious

i admit a girl i cannot put her out of

my mind

surely worthy of a roman officer to be

if you love her she has my blessing

this house is empty with your father

still away i have only just

met her mother i don't even know her

name

she's a slave

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a bad awakening she will provide for

your father

he wrote to me that the only relief for

him

in the cold nights of gaul was dreaming

of you

walking well ahead of him in your

officer's garb

he has sacrificed his best years

to help you achieve what was denied to

him

by a low birth and lack of education

i thought you were happy to be well on

your way to a higher rank

you're winning the noble sir janus's

favor made a certain

i am very uncertain mother

something crept into my mind this

morning i've been thinking about it all

day

i wanted to see you perhaps because i

need your reassurance

come let's talk

suddenly i realized there is something

dark in what i have been commissioned to

do

spying on people reporting informing

this cannot be what father fought and

suffered for

it makes me feel unclean ashamed of

myself

what i read in the eyes of that girl was

a cry for help

then sudden mistrust and fear

i am a spy mother

working for a man who is a leader of

spies he is

our prefect the first man in rome

after our caesar i trusted him mother

believe me i did

only this morning i saw him

i caught him it was as if a mask had

suddenly dropped from his face

the girl was running away from him

he looked like a wolf ready to kill

i have known of sudden jealousy a sudden

awakening mother

i feel i cannot trust him as i did

before

i was convinced i was serving rome

i suspect i'm serving an unscrupulous

tyrant

my

who

room

juicy olives [ __ ] [ __ ]

delicious

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broccoli told me i could find you here

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she also told me how sir i'm a slave i'm

just known to accept this as a fact

i have to go back to his house dracula

promised me she'd watch over you

knows you will be safe

at least until something can be done to

rescue you

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i wish i knew how

i've never known anyone like you

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you are a free man and a roman i'm a jew

roman slaves us rome killed my mother

and my sister

emperor's procurators are not rome not

the true rome

i want to tell you this

since i saw you i've been unable to keep

you out of my mind

they took my slave collar off to make me

look more attractive

but i'm still a slave no more than an

object to be bought and sold

you you do not even know my name

sarah

it is sarah it means princess in our

language

how little of one's destiny is in a name

destinies can change

i will walk you home

how are you cool valerius it has to do

with

wishing well barley be well

barney there's a lot i want to learn

about you and your labs

mother please no for the 100th time no

you are wasting your time lavilla

you were married to one of rome's best

sons

that should be your title of honor i did

not bring you into this world

to see your rank to your beauty lord

to serve a criminal an enemy of rome

stannis's only crime is to wish for rome

to return to her forgotten glory

mother please

please i i i love this man more than i

ever loved drew [ __ ] don't you

dare did not

choose jesus i was handed to him the son

of your beloved tiberius

he must have enjoyed his bet enough to

want to sacrifice me on the bed of his

son

you you will never shame your mother nor

the memory of your father the only man

in my life you will not say one more

word i regret not having spoken sooner

the truth frightens you mother

well here it is the whole truth for you

to relish

i hated truces hated him to the point

that i did not hesitate to hold the hand

of sijanas when he gave him the poison

that set him free from my hatred

that set me free from a mock marriage

yes noble mother

i helped kill jesus with these hands

your little girl's hands

you leave this house at once you will

never return to it

you will forget that i was once your

mother

mother you want me to palace

you you will see my

this woman to the door

she is never to enter it again

never

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so

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my

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forgive me noble antonia

you heard everything not only what was

said today what does that mean

i was sent here by sajanis to spy on you

and report to him so

you

what made you change your mind

learning the truth see

i was blind with my small ambition drunk

with it

so today you learned the final horror

you have seen the bottom of the pit you

can call yourself fortunate that

you can climb out of it

i will escort palace with your letter to

capri

they will try to kill him

we must warn nerva

and kais caligula must come to rome at

once

they can both take shelter in my house

with me

said janice will never dare to assail my

home

you are not safe nor are your walls

strong enough to protect you from

zajanas

i will go to nerva caligula will be

advised

he counts many supporters among the

legions one of our best commanders

sartorius macro is his best friend

my son claudius must be alerted

so far his vagaries have kept him from

immediate danger

but he is still a survivor among the

candidates to succeed his uncle tiberius

go to him there is a person i must see

before i leave there are lives to be

saved

or lost

first things first where would i find

claudius

look for him where there are books he

frequents

the book stalls behind the temple of

janus in the forum

as from palace please

i will fight to save him should the

price be my own life

maybe one day you will forgive me

oh yeah i lost that power if i ever had

it

i lost that power today

when i lost a daughter

go now please

ah

gave me my love shall be a feast to be

marked out in red

is

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lady antonio has told me to look for you

however

to sell no ah you were in great danger

you must keep your eyes open my eyes are

open

you you needn't worry about me i know

these thieves

come i want you to break this

you have nurtured a serpent tiberius a

poisonous snake

who unlike your team pet columba is

about to strike

at the very heart of our rome the

serpent has a name

that you honored by associating him in

the consulship with you

i have the proof of his treason he must

be crushed

before he springs to his last deadly

attack

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i wish we could have reached capri in a

faster time than it took us

so journalists must be seized killed

he and his family and levila and whoever

helped him

gaius caligula must be brought here

and the command of this praetorian guard

is to be taken by sartorius macro

where is uh never staying safely with

the lady antonio for the moment let him

come here

you'll be safer at my side and i'm with

him

you are assigned promoted to my

praetorian guards young man

and you returned for duty on capri

to be at my side

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uh

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one

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oh

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today at last you shall receive the

emperor's consent to your

be with you and wedding great

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significance

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tiberius's letter no it came it's

promised an astute threading of empty

words and net woven to bring me to my

ruin

he betrayed his promise accuse me you're

treason against

the majesty of rome mackery is a new

prefect

i'm dead are you born no save yourself

it is you i betrayed our dream not rome

forgive me if you can

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oh

search everywhere

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where's sir jonas's wife and child child

is in the garden playing well bring her

in

and find her mother

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are all the slaves assembled here you

have become the property of

gaius caligula you will be transferred

to the palace

by order of the new prefect

keep this

memory of me

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tell the emperor this from a dying

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mother

diabetes you are no better than

socialist

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both of you have the blood of innocence

on your hands

many years ago my husband took the life

of your beloved son dresses

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and i'll slay the flesh of my flesh

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you punish a murder with a more murder

type areas

you do not impart justice

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only death

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please i promise you

i will not do it again i promise forgive

me i'll be good

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and when his reinforcements arrive he

will have more

you must listen to us listen to

reason face reality

i know the situation better than you

after all jerusalem is my

city if the garrison here in samaria is

as small as you say

well you can destroy it before pilate

gets his syrian reinforcements

he can send no troops from jerusalem

he needs every man he has to defend

himself from our threats

and you propose leading us no help is

what i offer

i am a judean and samaria is the affair

of the samaritans

but you must all start to think in terms

of a bigger freedom

national not provincial alumni

now remember that our worst enemy

is our lack of discipline the romans

found their strength in it they are

welded in one

iron structure we fight in bands

look here the roman legion numbers about

5

300 men the fighting force of that

legion

is divided into 10 lots named cohorts

each cohort numbers 480 men and is

itself

made up of six groups named centuries

each century numbering 80 men

the officer in charge of the century is

called the centurion

to know how they organize themselves is

to learn how to oppose order

to their order disagree that they're

disquiet

they are strong not invincible

if we strike at their leaders seize

their standards

we shall break their ranks

now this is how we shall move

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oh let me have a look

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oh

take the armor quickly

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you