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as an imperial monarchy it has been

disgraced

our recent experience with emperors

leads many of us and i would say a

majority

into a wholly reasonable desire to

re-establish

the republic as a republic rome

flourished

and will flourish again

again

noble senators it

it is with great

diffidence that i am

yes those of you who greeted with

silence thought appropriation the

excesses of

tiberius caesar or caius caligula caesar

are quick enough to find schoolboy

pleasure

in my oratorical limitations

i address cowards

self-seekers murderers

non-entities ready enough to cringe at

the whip of a caligula

but not at all willing to see that the

sickness

of rome can only be cured by a change of

heart and and

not by a change of political

constitution

and you see standing before you the

physician

they the surgeon who will administer the

medic and and cut out the ulcer

rome will be what it was

a society in which no man

need fear injustice

it's capital a city

in which men may walk freely at night

it's people united in a return to roman

virtue

and and the worship of the roman gods

untainted by

effeminacy or or oriental pollution

and i i call for a wider understanding

of the very term roman those who

subscribe to the roman ethos whether

from

from gore or germany or asia

may call themselves romans

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take it further glorious make rome

the mongrel center of a mongrel empire

bringing the jews muttering prayers to

their

tribal deity conquer britain so that the

blue

buttoned oyster crackers may mouth their

barbarities in this noble house and

defile its ancient marvel

like too many professional rhetoricians

the senator emits more noise than since

britain will be conquered yes but it

will be many years perhaps

centuries before it be converted into

anything more than a

an obedient tributary

it's for the jews

they are not wanted in rome

they cannot assimilate and they will not

they are sectarians squabblings they are

a

wandering race well perhaps it would be

better to let them

wander back to palestine they would be

content to find a jewish king

awaiting them a king appointed by rome

the jews must leave rome

if that is not policy acceptable to the

senate then the senator's unworthy

do advise its emperor

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foreign

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um

hey

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oh

this should quieten the zealots done

they've got what they want

a jewish king in israel

worst of both worlds if you want my

opinion roman arrogance and priestly

intolerance

he'll soon start cracking his whip while

we wait for the whip

or do we travel some of us travel james

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some of us stay where we are

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shalom

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caleb this is the aqualine roman who

took my sister

the man who set her free also a friend

you're quick and granting your

friendship aquila he brought me back the

money i gave him to help by sarah's

freedom and i've asked aquila to teach

me your language

to better impart us your orders to know

you better

to understand you i may visit your land

one day

my land has the roman eagle released it

from its talents

rome considers it a friendly country

friendship cannot be imposed

you invaded my country you occupy it

but that's the mission of rome isn't it

to spread

civilization we build aqueducts bridges

roads

along them law and order travel with us

also

war and death and slavery we have our

law we had our order

caleb remember valerius is a guest in

this house

my house i happen to love

sarah threw her in my

aqualine way i love your country

i want to be ready to help it as much as

i can do you think you can convince your

legions to withdraw

to leave jerusalem to my brothers do you

dear to my people

can you persuade your emperor to let us

stay in rome i believe i can work for a

better world

for a future of peace a world with rome

in its own place

and a future without triumphant legions

oh you're a dreamer we learned hard that

there's danger in dreams

it's a dream i share with your sister i

had another sister

she died sarah is

all i have left yet i feel i've lost her

to you to rome velarius was the only one

who helped her

god's will works in strange ways the two

of you may yet help make that dream come

true

not in our time aquila maybe not

but there's god's own time god's own

desire

i offer you my friendship caleb

i can give you only my hatred in return

our meeting i had imagined it very

different

why did you think it would be enough to

say

shalom i am your roman brother-in-law to

wipe away the blood

the tears shalom how can you a roman

say shalom it means peace be with you i

know

you brought war to us you keep

waging your war every day i come to you

in peace

i want to build peace caleb with your

help

i have to be going my friend shalom

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alice

peace be with you caleb

yes julius valerius standard bearer of

the guard

i was ordered to report to you

you're married to a jewish woman are you

not

i am you are aware of our emperor

claudius's ruling

all followers of the foreign

superstition

are banned from rome my wife is a

citizen of rome

the law applies to citizens of rome as

well

you mean she will have to leave unless

of course

you can prove that she has renounced her

superstitious belief

how the law allows you as her husband to

conduct a trial in your own home

in the presence of three witnesses

you will ask her to sacrifice to the

gods of rome

you and your witnesses will report to us

rome grant you every right

you must recognize rome's right to ask

for your loyalty

you're my god

i cannot do it i will never do it you

are not asked to believe

just to prove your loyalty i stand

accused of practicing a foreign

superstition

and yet i'm asked to fake acceptance of

a superstition which is foreign to me

how low do you my husband think my

self-respect can fall

it is not only me you should consider

think of our future

a mere gesture your hand not your heart

future what about myself valerius no i

will not allow another lie

we have heard your wife belarious

we are convinced that there is no

treason in her heart or mind

she is loyal to you a soldier of rome

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um

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um

you have to do it

it was the only thing to do

tyrants must die

so why should i have bad dreams

i was never intended to be a murderer

or soldier

to kill barbarians that's different

it's part of rome's civilizing mission

tequila's to kill

life is supposed to be sacred your

brother and i have had to use our swords

yet you're right life should be sacred

but all life the life of a caligula

nazarenes who say that even caligula's

life was precious to god

this is your destiny o romans

put down the arrogance spare the meek

virgil wrote that

do you know what i sometimes think

the peoples we conquer and rule

are more adult than we are

greeks have philosophies you have a

religion

all we have is troops games

roads we forget that we once had law and

justice

i trust you don't voice these ideas in

your camp

today's our sabbath had forgotten you

make me forget too much

another roman conquest hardly

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choose your own servant of the goddess

and make your offering i'm the physician

you summoned

for one of your girls

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come

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um

where is the paint i egg all over

here

oh this is not a clean occupation

you're sick

you developed an infection

nothing new

give up this trade it's not a trade

i'm consecrated to the goddess i put my

body at her service

try to understand

your body is like a precious vase

it contains your spirit the most

precious gift you received

if you had a priceless perfume would you

break the vial that holds it

you sell your body you harm it

and waste your spirit

no just god would demand such tribute

when they brought this goddess astarte

to our city

they said she was like venus a goddess

of love they told you that you should

sell your body

in the name of love

but love is given

not sold or bought

it brings pride not

shame these priests use your innocence

to feed their greed and corruption

this is a shameful service a shameful

goddess

give up this trade i say you are young

walk out of this darkness

when a reverent jew cannot get into his

own place of worship

crammed with gentiles vain eloquence

and foreigners too you physician

listen to me keep out of there if you do

not want your faith

insulted and defiled is it the tarsus

man preaching resurrection and curing

the sick

you'll be losing some of your patience

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some of you are jews some of you are

gentiles yet fearers of a god

you do not know others of you have

worshipped sticks and stones

and empty air i bring the good news

to all the son of god

who lived among us as a carpenter of

nazareth and palestine

died for us and most wonderful

has risen again from the dead

he leaves us his word which is a simple

one

love he leaves us the truth

of his victory and that of all who

believe in him

he has conquered death and we are his

partners in that conquest

love is the denial

of death be baptized

in the water of life and learn a great

renewal

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the name of the father the son and the

holy spirit

well there are going to be enough of the

hungary in judea i can tell you

three bad harvests in a row and corn

already rising beyond

the reach of the purses of the people

and not only in judea

even italy the emperor claudius is going

to have his hands full

let him feed his own and his own include

the people of judea judea has her own

king now

but the king is above such petty matters

as the feeding of the people

what do you want hackabas you and

barnabas here have spoken of going back

to jerusalem

to meet peter and james yes but not

until we finished our work here in

antioch you'll find no better work for

the moment than taking money to

jerusalem

there's corn to be bought in egypt dried

fruits in cyprus

or the price is high but what can you

expect in a time of coming want

let your antioch faithful think of their

judean brethren

this is a rich town get

money how much is in the grain stores in

jerusalem

enough for two months if there were to

be a just distribution

that the rich are bribing and hoarding

and herod agrippa counts his gold

you have an urgent business on your

hands

i've heard you in the synagogue and i i

think have seen you on the banks of a

certain stream like a man who would swim

but who fears the water may be cold

a man has to have time to think what's

your name

luke greek of course

a physician by trade i approve of your

philosophy of the healing of the sick

a cure is often a matter of confidence

which you would probably call faith are

you finding faith

i think so

i think i'm ready to step into the water

however cold it is

tomorrow if i may well tomorrow we start

work of a different kind

it better be now under the moon

the moon an antioch goddess who has

turned out only to be dead metal

metal now that's much more to the point

tomorrow we start collecting gold and

silver

to buy food for the starving but y'all

trade is with the body

you should be interested in that enroll

me in the service first then give me my

orders

it's like this matullas

or do you want to be called caleb

there's no further point in pretense is

that

yeah if you were rich

like these fat bellator users you could

buy roman citizenship

not officially of course but it is being

done

the emperor's secretaries the horus

majesty

the empress messalina they're all making

a quiet fortune selling it

roman citizenship for sale yes

well so much for a promising athletic

career

ah but i would keep you on i think you

know that

greek jew egyptian makes no difference

to me

but you my boy you've got qualities

but it's more than a job worth

you know why i came to rome

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to destroy rome what else

no caleb i know you helped kill

gaius caligula and you found your sister

married to an army man yes

julius valerius talk of the power of

love

a roman marrying a jewish slave

that my friend turns her into a roman

at least she's safe caleb you should be

the last person to discriminate about

blood with me

all blood is the same i've seen enough

of it here to know

i'm as good a new medium roman as you

will find there's nothing wrong with

being a roman

besides my friend

you seem to be quite fond of a

particular one

yes

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good luck my friend

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uh

claudius gives us no more time we're

grateful to you

but no we cannot accept one jew may be

easily hidden disguised among the slaves

at your country house

add two more you've got two too many

besides

we want to go back to corinth it was our

first home after leaving our native

pontes

we've heard that men traveling in the

name of jesus of nazareth are going

there

yes great things are happening caleb the

followers of christ are becoming legion

a peaceful army all over the empire

there is no victory for such an army

aquila

you've seen it one beast dies and other

springs up

a stuttering idiot claudius does not

stutter anymore

power has given him a sharp tongue and

claws

we used to think of him as a man of

learning rich with virtues

now we see him lusting after prostitutes

he keeps two of them in his palace

and his wife messalina takes revenge by

selling herself in a brothel

it may be a blessing are having to leave

rome after all

when do you leave at dawn

we've sold everything we had

yes we should have enough money for our

passage to greece

when do you go i leave for tuscany

tomorrow

to see my mother caleb will meet me

there in a few days with the wagons

carrying the supplies from the harbor of

ostia

from gladiator to waggoner

a brilliant career i'll be farming your

land

and one day you'll work for me on mine

in judea that's all he dreams about

not like sarah have you seen her again

caleb

not yet i'll try and see my stray sister

when she's alone

may god go with both of you which the

one from nazareth

here o israel the lord is our god

the lord is one

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try again

try again don't

know i tell you the man peter

for the last time where is he

they're not in jerusalem

they've gone to ground haven't they

where

i don't know

you were seen with one of them yesterday

who was it i wasn't

i didn't his name

his name james

we cannot allow the spreading of dissent

in our nation

death sentences are seldom unanimously

accepted often regretted

never commendable

this james whom they call the brother of

john

is a hebrew christian very close indeed

to the man jesus

who was executed he is not greatly

offended against the jewish law so why

james it is peter we want it is peter we

shall get

the beheading of james will smoke him

and his confederates out

peter is the true blasphemer james is

merely available

i am very uneasy about this once again

fear pushes brother against brother

the man about whom i worry most is the

man saul who now calls himself

paul i understand he is now in judea

he is very cunning and ready to plead

the rights of a roman citizen

too dangerous too difficult and anyway

it will not be expedient even if we

could catch him

he has brought money from antioch to buy

food for the people

the people are stupid it would be hard

to persuade them that such a man is a

criminal

bad deeds are not removed by good

works

tell that to the starving people of

jerusalem

i prefer to tell them that this present

famine is the fault of the christians

god's displeasure at their heresy is

visited on the whole jewish people

the blood of james will appease the lord

god injured your majesty if i may be so

bold

believes none of these things

oh i believe in the godhead

i even believe in those human attributes

we attach to the godhead

god cannot be portrayed by human hands

that is our faith oh yes the eternal

sacred jewish faith in the great

merciful vindictive father of the tribes

forgive my private skepticism but i have

lived in the great world wrong

i mean

um

that's him that's peter the fisherman

seize him

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yeah you move that animal out of my nose

how long you are lucky

the man they called james your brother

wasn't he

he was executed yesterday

you're kindly allowed to live till after

passover

gives you time to brood over things

doesn't it eat your nice dinner

lord that night

that now seems so long ago

you said not my will

but your will be done

well those are my words now

and yet you called me the rock

you told me to feed your sheep i've got

work

to do lord and i pray

that by your power i may be allowed to

do it

but what was in your hands

not my will but yours will be done

lord i believe

i hope lord

of all i love

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amen

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wake peter rise

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um

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um

a message for your king herod peter the

fisherman has escaped

escaped

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mother

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if only you had talked to your father

before he died

he wouldn't listen to any of my reasons

he said there's no place for you in our

family as long as i live

forgive me

forgive me for hurting you

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you should have tried to understand your

father

if you went on to deliver the barbarian

a gladiator

mother in caleb's country men know how

to read

and write their history is older than

ours

you can't see what is best for you

what would have been fight for your

father let me bring caleb to you mother

i will show you

all this will be yours

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oh my

little one

money

karina karina

lena

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i hardly recognize you i was hoping to

meet you

i've seen your mother since i returned

from greece

i've always felt welcome here i wish i

did

i know i know time heals

do you know i always used to think of

you as my little sister

except when you outraced me this is

caleb

lenas is a childhood friend caleb is

from judea

karina's mother told me about you

it's getting late time we moved on

you know she's refused to let her stay

i read it in your eyes

thanks for being a friend to corinna

the feast of comp italia do you remember

yes

father and mother were dancing and

singing our slaves were wearing our

clothes

there were bonfires and wine and

stars it was wonderful

lares more gods

i've come to know your god caleb and

your messiah

jesus of nazareth not my messiah you

must have talked to some nazarenes

or christians as they call them now yes

i met people from your land i learned

from them

you can call me a christian

you have changed for the better i hope

i'll tell you my story someday it's very

beautiful

did you ever see jesus once from afar

he came to jerusalem at passover

thousands greeted him as our deliverer

didn't take the romans long to dispose

of him bale deliverer

his deliverance is just beginning

if you need shelter there's that old

mill down there which my father left to

me

thank you god love you both

i hope you decide to stay

is reason in your mother's refusal a

roman patrician married to a

well what am i a gladiator and a jewish

rebel by hardly commendable titles

i am yours caleb my gods

your god know it in my country marriage

is a commitment for life

only death is more final everything

happened so fast

i love you and i try to understand what

you've told me

and what you still guard as your own my

dreams

you'd be horrified by them

the liberation of my land

the humiliation of the oppressors the

fall of the roman eagle

why do you want to build a barrier

between us it's just that at times i

feel

guilty at having forgotten a call what i

considered my mission

my revolt is confined to dreams i do not

care for the roman vocation to civilize

the world

your land is yours your home your own

and i you you are indeed mine

and i yours where you

are gaius there i am

gaia your roman marriage vow

your arms are my canopy repeat after me

i love this man i love this man

behold thou art consecrated unto me

according to the law of moses

and israel behold thou art consecrated

unto me

according to the law of moses and israel

the lord is our rabbi anyone available

a greatest one

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now he knows we are married yes

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what is wrong with you

we welcome the lords auspicious and

sinners

we trust they will find their

entertainment

satisfactory

that we have arranged uh

what are we arranged wild beasts majesty

gladiators

and here oh holy one if

a token of caesar's benevolence with his

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greeting

it's hard

he's dead

members of the faith and friends of the

faithful

we are assembled in a time when little

would seem to hinder the growth of this

church in jerusalem

and the daughter churches of asia the

rule

of judea since the sudden death of its

king is

as you all know reverting to rome we

expect

a procurator appointed by the emperor

claudius

and we anticipate a certain measure of

roman

justice james

good and just whose name none of us can

utter without remembering his

martyred namesake james leads the

jerusalem church

my work lies elsewhere as does that have

so many of my colleagues paul

barnabas mark titus who are busily

bringing the word

to the gentiles and

we are met today to consider a

particular question

the relationship between these same

gentiles

and the followers of the lord jesus

christ who

born a jew came to fulfill not to

abolish

the law of moses but what about

circumcision

we demand circumcision

friends we know that when god called us

his chosen people

he also meant us to be a light unto the

gentiles

now i conclude from this that we should

stop troubling the gentiles about

circumcision

but that we should write to our new

churches in asia telling them

not to worship idols not to commit

fornication

and not to eat meat that has been

strangled and contains blood

will not this meet our needs it is

understanding that we went the word of

moses

to the word of jesus stand firm against

trials let hope keep you confident share

with those who are in need open your

house to them

be happy with those who are happy

weep with those who weep

remember that everyone who calls upon

the name of the lord will be saved

everyone we are loved by god

as the chosen people loved for our

ancestors

but just as our ancestors changed from

being disobedient to god and were

forgiven

so those of you who are now disobedient

will find mercy in god

to him be glory forever

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you know me i just heard you speak

your words moved me so i waited hoping

to meet you

we need your guidance because you should

guide me

i need lodgings very difficult to find

corinth is full of partly due to us jews

of course being expelled from rome

why don't you come to my home meet my

wife break bread with us

the lord be praised for generous men

thank you

aqua is the name aquila from pontus

you'll find this blasphemy comic i work

in the name of the lord and they held me

in the name of mercury

the god of thieves but also the god of

fine speech

i think the story has humour in it like

that other story you told about being

put in prison

and then an earthquake comes and opens

the doors for you

i always knew that god had a fine sense

of the comic

ah i don't see it perhaps you will when

you see the stories written down

these tales of the lord's work must not

be lost to the future

precisely the words of luke who's he

as a greek physician i met and converted

in antioch

he has a a taste for writing

he too has what you would call a sense

of the comic

he wrote to me he wants to travel with

me

oh i see i am to become a character in a

greek tale

well what's more real than some of the

greek heroes odysseus heck they're ajax

why should the pagans have all the best

heroes what's wrong with the travels of

paul

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to

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uh

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oh

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you smell wonderful the whole world

smells

fake bread oh

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that's him bring him to me i will drink

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do

come closer sit down

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sit who are you

what do you want from me

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i know you you know lucisca

no then you would know me in a

different way

you know the other me the emperor's wife

messalina as you can see what they say

about me is true

the emperor's wife

sells her body what you want from me

you are very brave soldier one of the

first to exalt

claudius after you helped kill caligula

i killed a monster a man able to strike

down a monster

can easily find the courage again

you don't like this place

i found an escape here from a life

from a husband i lo

you do not really know

the man you serve with such

loyalty

i married claudius when i was 16 years

old

i bore him two beautiful children

octavia and britannicus

his son his pride

joy but it is for my son

that he tolerates me he is my emperor

i am bound to him by oath

you still haven't told me what you want

from me

i have no trusted friends in the palace

claudius's ministers

detest me

narcissus is only preoccupied with

increasing his wealth

palace would like to see me replaced by

another woman

agrippina she

has been plotting against me trying to

seduce claudius

and if she isn't stopped

she will have not only me killed

by britannicus as well the emperor would

never allow it

my husband is weak

easy prey for seductive women

a mark of senility they laughed at him

people love him you are going to have to

choose

between a waning emperor

and miss alina

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you're married yes

to a jewess

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whom you barely avoided having deported

law saved her roman law can destroy you

adultery

with the emperor's wife is a capital

crime

accusations are easily made

and claudius is still jealous

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this is my last visit

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to this house

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a new rome is about to dawn

today i am a new woman

i'm not sure i understand what you mean

you will in due time

i have asked that you be assigned to me

to look after me you will grow to know

me

delight and soon your eyes will be

opened to the truth

i will never betray my wife i know that

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that i read in you too you love your

wife too much

but i believe in love

it can cut across barriers

oaths vows

duties tomorrow

you shall escort me to the place where i

was

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reborn

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so

uh

i shall remain here for an hour or so

you'd better station guards around the

house in the garden

discreetly

do you know whose house this is no

good very good

full marks for discretion

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how would claudius feel he knew his wife

was betrayed

are you frightened never be frightened

of clear

thinking silliest and never enter into

anything that you're not willing to

pursue

to the end

our climb to the imperial throne

may have started in this bed

but now the curtains are open

and rome

all of rome will know that we are to be

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married

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three light knocks on the door that's

the way we do it

my name is remember

i'm glad i came back to rome to see you

but

i must be on my way karina will be

worried

if by that you mean you've outstayed

you're welcome here no just anxious to

see her again

i wish you knew her she helped me change

my mind and come here

i'm happy with her and with my life

though sometimes i feel guilty for not

resuming my true work

killing the romans in palestine not very

complimented to your brother-in-law

you're in the house of a roman hero i

was glad to learn that valerius thinks

as i do

the roman empire is a great sham foul

with corruption yet convinced it has

this

mission to clean up the world the

masters were only as good as the

servants

the ordinary romans are just human

beings but the roman state

that's something else am i right

valerius

hey oh yes quite right

he wasn't listening i have to go out

where why consort to messalina again

no something vaguely mysterious

just like those trips with the emperor's

wife there was no mystery about those

swearing to silence threatening hints

all with the sweetest of imperial smiles

but i knew where she was going well i've

heard the stories about her

they're about her being unfaithful to

the emperor with men who'd like to

stick a knife in the emperor yes

senators and others

not my good valerius and other decent

men who work for their living

i have one last report to make

sarah it's possible to tell you now

i've been removed from that cutie as

from today

i've lived in fear i had too much to

lose

now i'm happy to be back in the

emperor's service

except for well i shall know tonight

perhaps

mysteries again there was not one moment

in her presence when i felt safe

i better say no more it doesn't matter

anymore anyway

but whenever you hear the word sorcery

don't laugh i wouldn't dream of laughing

so my darling valerius had to fight

against temptation

caleb will you walk with me as far as

the palace yes but is it safe

nothing's ever safe these days nobody's

gonna worry about you being a jew when

you're in the company of a roman officer

anyway i think the jews will soon be

allowed to come back

i just feel in need of a companion

i hope to see you again soon safe

journey to your corona

we must go

are you armed i may sound foolish but a

married man has to be cautious

i've learned to understand about caution

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oh

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and you've reason to believe that you

were set upon for that purpose i mean

these were not just

common robert i was expecting that some

way would be sought

to keep my mouth closed noble palace if

my brother-in-law had not been near me

yes

yes yes your your brother-in-law whoever

he is deserves well of you

and i suppose of the state

now you must come and talk to the

emperor but i haven't oh the emperor's

heard of you

and of your loyalty to tiberius he

thinks well of you

there's no need to worry about the

future of your career

if all goes as we pray it will amen

uh what is that i'm sorry a hebrew word

i learned

meaning may it be so

uh i beg the empress pardon oh oh

uh no come in come in

display of um a vuncular affection only

and i this is the the young man i

i hear so well love hmm

well i've been awaiting you with with

some

eagerness

oh good

so now i i brace myself

and and you you tell me all

as the lord palace suspected all the

empress's visits were to the same man

a consul

yesterday before i was dismissed from

her imperial majesty service

i heard her address the consul sillius

as husband the gentleman in question

responded with

wife that was after a visit to a shrine

which as i already knew was associated

with

right palace

you said she'd do this

a bigger mismarriage to show her

contempt

not only for her husband but

but for roman law

a signal to the to the world of

glory and depravity

and when this silliest think he could

strike the blow which will

secure him the imperial

crowd where are they now the road they

took

i watched on your instruction was for

naples

i want their immediate arrest and their

almost immediate execution

was for a trial

all of rome knows of a depravity to

foul for its very sewers to discharge

i've been weak palace tolerant caesar

uh toler

tolerant

young man the world is more evil than

any man knows

every day there's some new surprises

new putrid revelation

times need to be washed scoured

and become the tablet for the writing of

a new age

we're ready for a new age the fresh

beginning

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but no man or

god speaks

none gives the word

none gives the

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the word

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people of ephesus

i come to you after many journeys

from jerusalem to tarsus and from tartus

to syria

i have brought the good news to cyprus

to antioch in presidio

to iconium lystra and derba to philippi

to athens to thessalonica

to corinth

my authority was conferred upon me by

the living god

himself as his apostle and slave

i have seen and suffered as much from

the waves of the sea

as i have from men with hard hearts

in the towns of my travels

it is no easy work to bring the good

news

yet the hardship is softened by god's

grace

for god's love permits the working of

the yeast of his word

through signs and wonders

when you say the man paul has cured the

sick

given sight to the blind driven out the

frenzy of devils from men's souls

you say wrong

it is the power of god working through

paul but the man paul has no power

enough philosophy

it's time for my music lesson you will

need

philosophy nero more than you will need

music

in what silica in whatever position

in the state you hold you must prepare

for responsibility that i want to be a

great actor

a great singer a great

dancer isn't this such a thing as

responsibility towards art

it is not a moral responsibility you

talk so much of morality

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and by morality you mean

i forget the word repression repression

that is true you repress me from seeing

life

the execution of the empress missolina

that was hardly life so now

we are to have a new empress

who will it be celica

that is for the emperor to decide

not the senate why the senate

there's some ancient roman law that says

not even an emperor

it can marry his own brothers daughter

yes that is incest

an ancient prohibition that no power

can reverse i'll wage your money on that

100 sisters

i do not have a hundred sisters you're

not sure of winning

i do not wager that thing is idle

frivolous immoral

that depends on the some bet

your mother will not become members

on that i will wager you a tenth of a

sister

to show you that i can unbend like

anyone else

but i will not have to pay it

the thought of a man marrying his own

niece

even the emperor

you've wasted the last two minutes of

our lesson

you may go to your music now

your bro will marry my mother

even though she should marry another

will the emperor do no wrong

that is the end of my song

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better but my love

my niece my wife

but only in the sense of

better than yesterday and and

not as as bad as tomorrow nobody knows

about tomorrow

um and

aging man knows that

tomorrow he will not be any younger

oh these shining platitudes gems of

imperial wisdom

all right i write history

moral platitudes i leave to seneca

get rid of that man

hmm why

he teaches my son treason in the guise

of philosophy

treason to the emperor

the empress

philosophy is philosophy

and morality is morality

there are there are no moral exceptions

for seneca we are living in a

state of incestuous pollution

whatever the emperor or or the senate

say

he's he has probably been telling your

son that

i was taught as a girl that the whole

point of power was

to be able to break the rules

i've certainly broken one room

you regret it

you taught me to be shrewd and ruling

in addition to providing new raptures of

the body

raptures which which not even mess arena

oh no i don't regret it

but sometimes i

i feel

culpable chiefly when i

when i look at your son nero

there's something wrong about about

having a

grand of you who calls you father

he he calls me father far more often

than

britannicus does

he seems to be trying to

implant an idea in my in my mind

the idea that he's fitter for the purple

the britannicus

britannicus is a fool britannicus

may be the son of methulina

but he has inherited surprisingly few

vices

to me he is a living

reminder of my beloved

brother and of

uh of my triumphs are with over the

britons

which we're not allowed to forget

every time you mention the name

britannicus

i feel we're expected to to rise and

drink a toast

i shut from my mind dear niece

wife agrippina a particular

thought

that you love your son far more than you

love me

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now let me sleep i i had

throbs

sleep

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father of all the romans

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sudden you say but not

too sudden the art of the sleep

bringer lies in the imitation of

nature you know how to administer

i know

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our domestic neuro is late

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late again

not on the hour but five minutes

before they are isn't that

military punctuality myself

hmm dear britannica a family dinner

isn't a parade father

well at least politeness

an empire ought to be run like

like a fusion of of a

family and an army

if if that's possible

hey dear claudius don't wait for to meet

yes

i i have little appetite my dear

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still

the odor is seductive

and my profoundest regrets

crowded streets and one of the slaves

carrying my litter

broke is up imagine

oh i do apologize

dearest father ah i beat the bull of

course

and then i borrowed a slave from someone

else i forget who

ah mushroom delicious

yeah you take these i can't eat

claudia's dear

they were just brought from naomi

they're your very favorites

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well and since you order the mind here

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oh i'm so pleased

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let's drink a toast to the emperor's

restored appetite and help

may the emperor glorious live forever

even you my dear cannot prevent me from

from turning into a god

ah

gluttony always one of my failures

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the virtues of the temperance

seneca is is very good on that subject

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oh

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um

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the news all over a stroke after dinner

his heart

suddenly stopped he proclaimed the

succession

he proclaimed it be so good as to assure

the emperor that the praetorian god is

ready to serve him with the devotion it

gave to his father

um you use the word father as a figure

of speech i take it

the emperor designate is not britannicus

not britannicus

that's the right signal

ah shalom

it's good to see you back

how's little ruth she's sleeping

my husband's lulled her to sleep with

the story of romulus and remus

the founders of rome who were abandoned

under a fig tree and fed by a sherwood

isn't she too young to understand it ah

velarius believes it's never too early

to turn even a baby into a full-blooded

roman

but she's a jew like her mother both

like paul yes paul of tarsus

that's a strange coincidence sarah and i

once knew a saul of tarsus

wait i heard some story about him he

changed his name

yes along with his ways we met him in

corinth

he worked with me of course the same

trade

yes the trade he uses to finance his

other trade

is real trade spreading the word

we learned a lot from paul about jesus

the nazarene

he said something very strange paul he

said wait

don't rush into it god worked on me like

a flash of lightning

but on others it's a lingering slow

sweet skill i always remember those

words

those were good days do you remember

that evening over dinner

when paul said he looked forward to

baptizing us in the tiber

but when you look at the state of rome

today there's a certain new tolerance

more jews about we have these meetings

you sound more positive now

what was it he said lingering slow sweet

something or other skill

takes a lot of skill to weave a future

for two

women are great weavers

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feel no fear

romulus and remus dropped

no tear when they heard the wolf

howl near and near

i was hoping to meet peter here yes

i know how sad he'll feel not to be here

for passover

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paul the renegade soul

with a man from ephesus a greek

physician

a gentile taking gentiles into the

temple

now we have him call the others

tell the priests get them both

when they come out thus far no further

you see it's forbidden well there's the

sign

written in latin and greek read it

whoever is a follower of a foreign

religion is forbidden to go any further

anyone who trespasses beyond this gate

will be killed

and he alone shall be answerable for his

death

you go your way luke i must perform the

right of

purification

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oh

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hello

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me

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you