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i am

to me

first centurion in jerusalem to the

noble governor felix in caesarea

greetings

this man was seized by the jews and was

about to be killed by them

i rescued him having learned that he is

a roman citizen

anxious no

desirous to know the grounds of their

accusations i had their counsel examine

him

he was accused about certain questions

of their law

but nothing was laid to his charge

worthy of death or

even imprisonment

now it has come to my notice that there

is a murderous plot against this man

therefore i send him to you forthwith i

am charging his accusers also to speak

against him in your presence

lot greatest

those who are about to die

one

ask the noble popeye to come closer to

her emperor

you can entertain her husband

it is time that my friend otto shared

his treasures with caesar

the noble folk can sit next to me

octavia for nero

and again come offer

come

thank you octavian such imperial favor

you deserve it you've been a true friend

he remembers that don't you caesar

no i do i do

how with the governorship of assyria

we have someone worthy there already

lucitania will do how will the

governorship of lusitania

cynthia

very well you may leave tomorrow and

with my degree

and my letters and my instructions

oh

hey

caesar bear him please

me

i will fight you with both

break good

rub down then to the boss

belarus i'm ordered to palestine

i'm a tennis and call me caleb

everyone in the family does sopania

seems to have adopted me

he even talks of my taking his place

when he retires

i've come to accept my life in rome

apparently with claudius dead

we jews should be safe

so palestine

perhaps rome may one day decide to free

my land and that's not likely to happen

the roman eagle seldom releases its prey

only more romans he'll like you

sarah going no she won't come

she says she never wants to see

palestine again the truth is that if she

did

maybe she'd never come back and i'd be

forced to stay there forever

you're working under the new procurator

yes

porsche's festus i have to sell with him

to caesarea

sarah thinks she can bury your

separation can you

she has our ruth i will have nobody

do you ever think of going back to start

insurrections

kill porsche as festus and you in the

name of a free israel

well i'm married now karina cannot live

without me

i need her as i need air

besides nero seems to be willing to make

concessions

i heard he freed many of his slaves he

proclaims

that music shall tune his empire

well just think

me here

and why not isn't the emperor's

the only planes for the most beautiful

woman

i'm not that beautiful but i

know things don't

don't i know things oh you're a

mind of wisdom there's more wisdom

in your left buttock in the entire

library of seneca and who is he

oh an old man who thinks he knows

everything

he used to teach me that you

self-control

what they call stoic qualities

nobody didn't teach me wasn't the only

real wisdom

is pleasure

and did i teach you that oh your

course instruction has only just begun

come this time

before i have to go to the senate

you have to go

you the emperor

courtesy discretion

pretend you're letting them have their

own way

oh tricks

would that be your wife the empress i

mean

my wife is reading silica

with celica

yes dressed

go out the other way your mother is it

did you guess i'll come again tomorrow

at the same time you have the ring to

show the guard at the gate

uh

has that slave been here she's no longer

a slave

she's a free woman and what does she

have oh you're slow to learn my son

the whole household knows if you must

conduct these

unsavory affairs get out the city oh

like you and palace you mean you have to

go very far out of the city to conduct

that unsavory affair

you will not speak to your mother in

that way

the emperor will speak to anyone in any

way he wishes

the emperor will do what he wishes

within reason

something to the gloomy advice of burrus

and my tutor

and their celica

the sending away of palace was not such

gloomy advice

the emperor's mother should conduct

herself

as a respectable mage

oh put that thing down and listen to me

this woman acting is not so stupid as

she looks

nor is she as enamored of you as you

think she is

she plays a slow game

she'll drag you into situations in

places where your title and status

will not help you

also

she's in the pay of britannicus

claudius loved his son very dearly

the people remember that

but danica surely does i

don't believe that

i don't you're making that up

britannicus isn't that kind of man

britannicus accepts the situation

britannicus has friends who do not

accept the situation

britannicus was publicly acclaimed as

his father's successor

rome has only my word that of palace

that claudius nominated you

if you don't ride the imperial horse

like a real horseman

those might throw you

i'm young i'm entitled to live my life

meaning to use seneca's words

flagrant promiscuity

did he say that about me

oh i i don't doubt he says it they're

not to me

party your claim to the purple

rests on your marriage to a failure

humiliate her my brother will take

action

britannicus adores his sister

she said dull like claudius

a late imperial father

little darkness goes with your title

look my son

i put myself in great danger to secure

that title for you

yeah you poisoned claudius

you poisoned julius salinas as well

oh a decent old man with impunity total

impunity

oh i learned the first and best imperial

lesson from you my dear mother

get rid of your enemies quickly and

thoroughly i think i'll get rid of

palace

exile isn't enough after all

the sun has the right to protect his

mother's reputation for virgin

hasn't he

hasn't hasn't he

dear listen

and isn't the greatest of all virtues

a boy's love

for his mother

i sometimes think i was wrong i

think that more and more oh you'd have

preferred for

stuttering limping old claudius turned

to a god at a ripe old age

and for britannicus oh dear decent

virtuous britannica to wear the purple

in my stead

you're a loathsome little boy aren't you

with the character of a slave the

manners of a street urchin

the senate awaits you caesar

try and behave like an emperor

we appreciate the courtesy visit

properly

we're glad that roman law is in

operation again it's been asleep for

too long you could blame the

functionaries of rome for that

a change of emperor a redistribution of

the civil service

if you have cases for me to judge bring

them to caesarea

there is one case that has slept since

the departure of the procuring felix

the man paul he was questioned by your

predecessor and lies in jail in caesarea

noble festus

we humbly request that he be sent here

to jerusalem for further investigation

of his crimes

crime you're sure of those

it's the task of the judiciary to

determine whether there are crimes or

not

oh we're sure

you're sure

did you have summary justice in mind

an accident on the road to jerusalem

perhaps i've heard of these tricks

before

we do not perform tricks procuring

we are at one with you in our love of

justice

oh he'll get justice whoever he is

in caesarea

if i speak with the tongues of men

and of angels and have no love

i'm nothing more than a cracked trumpet

or a bit of struck metal

i may be able to prophesy

to understand mysteries

to have immense knowledge of all things

able to move mountains even

but if i don't have love

i have nothing

nothing

i may sell all my property to feed the

poor

i may submit to execution burning

martyrdom but if i have no love

means nothing at all

let me tell you what love is like

it's ready to suffer

there's no envy in it it isn't

puffed up never unseemly

never selfish thinks no evil

isn't easily provoked

love never fails but not in the way that

words fail prophecies fail or even

knowledge fails

we know a little prophesy a little

but when the perfect thing comes

love personified in jesus

we don't need even that little

when i was a child

i'd spoke like a child

but when i became a man

i put away childish things

so the business of knowing more goes on

now we see by a mirror

darkly

one day we shall see reality

face to face

now i i know in part

someday

i shall know

even as i am known

and all this will come about

through the power of love

there are three things that truly last

faith

hope and love

with the greatest of these

is love

remember that whatever it means

out everybody i'm prisoner

goodbye god bless you paul peace be with

you

thank you paul stay with us please pray

for my son i beg you

pray for him

bless you

i don't think it'll be too long now the

new man festus has arrived

have you seen him they called me to look

at him trouble in the belly

cramps diarrhea too much fruit

you still apply the doctor's train a man

has to live

we can't all have the hospitality of a

roman prison

a rather excessive hospitality

and too extended everybody must have

forgotten what the case is about

i don't think so luke and so

to conclude most illustrious justice

is the name portious festus thank you

noble porsche's pestis the man paul

not only persists in teaching false

doctrine to the scandal of all true

worshipers

but also profaned the sacred temple of

our fathers this is an

internal matter and does not concern

rome

but most excellent festus his acts and

words were to the detriment of public

order and tranquility

and those are very much the concern of

rome

what does the defendant say i have done

nothing

neither sin under the law of religion

nor crime under the law of rome ah

it's that second part that concerns me

you say you've committed no crime

against caesar

i repeat

neither against the law of the jews

nor against the temple not against

caesar have i sinned

at all

will you go up to jerusalem and be

judged there before me

of the things of which are accused no

i am standing before caesar's judgment

seat

for i have a right to be judged

i have done the jews no harm

this you know well no man can hand me

over to these accusers

my appeal is to caesar you say you're a

roman citizen

julia's valerius is that confirmed in

the records

it is very well

you've appealed to caesar to caesar

shall you go

you heard it head of court

well i've tried to bring a little of

rome to this sandy province

i miss our city more and more every day

well julius valerius you're about to

leave caesarea

you'll be seeing rome sooner than you

thought if the winds are favorable sit

down

i'd be seeing it sooner still if we

waited for a ship found straight for

austere or potato oh you'll pick

something up at sidon

or cyprus amyra we have to get that man

paul

out of here i'm sick of stones being

thrown in jives about roman friendship

for heretics

whatever they mean by that no no no no

caesarea will be much quieter without

him

i wish i understood what it was all

about perhaps i don't

whatever it is whatever it is it's it's

well it's unclean

on roman all too

jewish oh oh do you have the letter

safely stole

i wonder if they'll understand it all at

rome damned if i do

hmm thank the gods for dates

the one gift of the desert well there's

no doubt about it since nero got the

purple the streets of rome are more

dangerous than ever

the times we live in we could do with

paul being here

preaching wouldn't get him very far come

roof

when there's a bad smell you run away

from it don't try to hide it with

perfumed water

well you can get used to a bad smell and

call it roses

like you with blood blood spilled

honestly

nobody orders a gladiator to open his

veins blood's his

trade what about the britons the war

slaves are training

that's giving me a few bad dreams they

want to see them fight before i have

time to work with them

untrained men being hacked to pieces but

the mob loves it

because the emperor does corruption

always starts at the top

why don't you get out of it do what have

a living to earn

see that's what happens caleb you start

off by thirsting for roman blood

oh all in a good cause a good cause god

bless the zealots

you end up by accepting the shedding of

any blood at all roman

british syrian anything corruption

tired of all this bloodshed paul's

people

and you my good friends drink it and eat

flesh

we do that in memory of his last supper

when he announced that he would give his

life for us

bread and wine turned into his flesh and

blood talk of flesh and blood and it's

really bread and wine

christian cowardice at least the real

thing is honest

and yet you have bad dreams caleb

cried out again in your sleep dreams are

nothing

wisps fantasies nothing and yet so much

of our lives are spent dreaming

it helps appease my conscience i dreamt

of valerius praying in the temple

i'm sure he's busy trying to keep his

comrades from raising into the ground

that's like saying his heart is close to

the temple the lord be praised for the

good works hilarious is doing in

jerusalem

time to go it's late

hoping for the good dreams

good night

join us

tonight

i recognize good training when i see it

who taught you sopanius and my husband

here mattelus

a gladiator and a trainer of gladiators

the champion

i remember you you are the young lady

who married

the circumcised radiarius

who masquerades under a roman name

it would give me great pleasure to see

you

fight again in the circus

petronius arrange it

um

a gift hail caesar

a gift from neptune to the ruling

divinity of rome

did you know who i am

the imperial light shines from your

worship's countenance

you smell of divinity as this bass

smells of whatever it smells of

on second thoughts it's past its first

youth

i can offer you fresh fish at my table

with garlic sweet butter

cloves and olives and such a wine you

to invite your emperor's son humble duty

caesar

pride of a subject caesar

i can bring in dancing girls or

boys if you prefer

naked so

there's money to be made in fishmonger

oh yes to be spent too

i hate hoarding i like life

strong flavors if your worship knows

what i mean

the fish blood is thin but some blood is

as thick as cassia honey

the juices of life caesar let them flow

your emperor is graciously pleased to

consider you

a man after his own heart

what's your name aphonious tigilinus

happy emperor's service euphonia's name

would your holiness not agree

euphonius or phonians

the little tiger

a pursuer of wild pleasures

and epicurean is what i am a student in

the liberal art of

debauchery with no love

for the stoics stoix

seneca and his crew hypocrites i'd say

pretending to virtue and practicing

secret vices now i hate the hole in the

corner

let's laugh in the sun oh phonius

did you lean

your fish is beginning to smell rather

good it's the garlics

nothing like garlic

i fear it's a somewhat roundabout voyage

roamed by way of little asia a mad

voyage

for a mad man

this porsche festa seemed eager to get

me away but

not so eager to get me to rome a

procurator's relations with rome should

be very simple

text is delivered on time nothing more

i'm afraid i'm something of an

embarrassment to the procurator

i have a feeling he'd be happy if we

were shipwrecked somewhere

it's the season for shipwrecks

tell me do you understand my situation

do you understand what i've been

preaching and teaching your superior

officer clearly

doesn't i have a certain advantage over

him

my wife is jewish my brother-in-law

claims to have known you

you were students together in those days

they called you saul who is he

his name is caleb in his revolutionary

moods he calls himself caleb the zealot

yes i remember

and he's in rome finished with

revolutionary politics

for the time being he says married

a gladiator and a trainer of gladiators

i look forward to your reunion i look

forward to a number of reunions

including one at sidon if you'll permit

me to go ashore

so ironic i persecuted the greek jews of

jerusalem

some of them fled to sidon and founded a

church there

but in a sense i founded the church

the ways of god now you don't think me

mad when i say

god or not the gods sarah says god too

brought up by barge this morning from

austria i supervise the cooking myself

and here you see are some live fish

it's a pleasant sensation to feel them

slide down the throat alive

and raw they uh nibble

as they go down

would caesar care to try this fishy

pleasure

try it on seneca first he needs

pleasures

having lived a long long life without

them

a cold fish

i have something special for my dear

stepbrother

britannicus

mold wine brood in britannia

his namesake serve himself

thank you i prefer water water is a

dangerous drink try

some of this delicious hot brew

garnished with rare herbs

oh come on britannicus it's a cold night

i see your problem

how terribly insulting

he fears the emperor may try to poison

him

digitally

he forgets that his late father

the unforgettable claudius named

me his tutor

regardless of my age

oh very well they will try it on our

taster taster

taste

there you are you see harmless

and wholesome perhaps you prefer to wait

a while

some poisons are slow to act

are they not octavia you're an

adulteress

i beg the emperor's pardon oh yes dude

nothing to get closeted without seneca

there

pretending to study philosophy scratch a

stoic

and you'll find a lecture isn't that sir

this is a joke in very bad taste

caesar oh very well octavia

i know you wouldn't dream of consorting

with silicon

hot in the blood calls for hot

in the blood but i'll find him out yet

never fear botanicus

at least have the courage to defend your

sister now that would be dangerous

wouldn't it

that might offend the opera the good

kind emperor who has had prepared such

exquisite mild wine for his esteemed

stepbrother taste it britannicus

our taster stands unharmed taste it

it's too hot oh you sleep what right add

some cold water somebody

drink britannicus drink

i admire your brotherly better fatherly

care

caesar if your boy asks for a fish

would you give him a serpent oh that's

good

that's very good who said that the

unkillable slave

crestus around whom a cannibalistic cult

now flourishes

i am afraid that that's a libel

i know differently oh you

always do don't you

you old spanish crow

so this thing sounds remotely

interesting as this crestus business

dies

you have to throw cold water

nibbling your ovula

perhaps a little cold water

too late a fishbowl

my brother

i thought stowings took death

in their stride

well somebody please clear these plates

and the body

uh

i've just been told we'll dock at sidon

you'll have time to meet your people

there

before we sail to patelli my work awaits

me

my people as you call them my brothers

in the faith

have grown in numbers

i look forward to seeing them

i long to be in rome even as a prisoner

i'm grateful to you

for keeping you prisoner i'm free

valerius

the lord christ has liberated me he can

set you free too

we must keep questioning our hearts

and in our labors remember

always to help the weak

it is more blessed to give than to

receive

something on your little mind

tell your loving acting

my mother

ah your mother

still your mother i sometimes think that

there is something not quite right

between you

and your precious mother it's indecent

you called her name out when

it's not right she's plotting against me

i'm sure

you know she planned

to have my step-brother britannica

take my place no

before he was relieved of life's burden

my dear step brother

we're staying on a certain estate in

tuscaloosa

where your mother is where my

mother is i don't think she has enough

to occupy her mind

time we had about a

party oh

good oh but you're not invited

mildly lapped

he might get drunk

and force the emperor to do something

that he would sincerely hate

today

beloved mother it's been such a joy

no doing of mine my son you made it

quite clear

i wasn't welcome no room makes me

irritable

boris and sanika always honored me

by me is a much better place to relax

we must meet again here only next time

without this gang of swillers

gorgeous just just mother

and son alone

go now mother oh i have

ordered a beautiful new boat for you

where is my own old

and unsafe unworthy

of rome's first woman

my guard will escort you aboard

the weight

farewell

dearest mother

good wow

caesar an accident

the vessel in which the empress

agrippina was being conveyed yes

sunk

oh

but love it right mother

she has joined the gods the gods be

praised caesar

your mother was the only survivor she

swam ashore

where is she in a fisherman's heart

three miles down the coast

brave mother

lucky mother

go thanks of a thankful son

oh

i'm sorry i cannot give you better

hospitality lady

you see how things are a poor fisherman

not used to receiving visits from the

gentry

you'll get your reward oh

what i say is ordinary decency is its

own reward

you're agrippina the emperor's mother

you've been sent by my son

to plunge your sword into my womb with a

warrant

a charge of conspiracy with the enemies

of caesar

how can you believe that the charge is a

lie

you've been sent to execute murder and

not

justice by killing me

you're helping my son to destroy rome

enough

come with us my clothes are not quite

dry

come as you are

ah

i'm here for a personal matter well come

on seneca

what is it

i would prefer to make my request in

private

caesar no secrets from the praetorian

prefect

i don't understand

buddhists unaccountably managed

i see

and rome caught in his net my request is

timely then

i'm getting old i have much to write

i don't doubt that i have accumulated

more properties than is perhaps

fitting for a stoic philosopher

and i'm grateful to caesar for his gifts

now i wish to return them so

at last you become a real

stoic oh you were right

they're all damned hypocrites

preaching the virtues of a simple type

while cramming their chests

with gold and silver and title d

i don't think i want you to go sir write

me good speeches

the senate is impressed by them yes

caesar

you are right to talk of hypocrisy

and what precisely do you mean by that

hypocrisy

is the homage advice pays to virtue

i've discovered that politics and

morality

have little to do with each other

caesar let me reach my last destination

i cannot save the soul of the empire

but i can at least try to save my own

well should we let him go

today

it would be useful to know precisely

where he is going

a man as talented as seneca ought not

just to vanish

as burus did

i may call on you to write me the

occasional speech

and it will be pleasant if you would say

a few words

at my forthcoming marriage

something to do with the virtues of

marriage

the glory of a woman's fidelity to her

husband

marriage i

don't understand

you never seem to understand anything

for a philosopher my precious little

understanding

of the real world

your protege the empress

octavia never learn anything

of virtue in spite of your lessons on

moral philosophy

adultery is a crime

and when it is the emperor who has been

cuckoted

the crime becomes treason and there's

only one ounce of treason

exit octavia enter pompeo

is married to otto one of your generals

a forgettable gentleman a forgettable

marriage

popeye will become my next wife

though she resisted me at first

she did refuse when i

finally managed to convince her that her

new destiny

was to become the temple of my progeny

she also managed to avoid an abrupt end

to her husband's career

go now

stormy night

what is it very wasting

something in the blood

you who were crucified for all of us

light are those who walk in darkness

physician who cures without compensation

you'll forgive all these questions my

mission is to answer them

wide baptism water is a symbol of

cleansing

no more but symbols are important

the human spirit lives in the world of

water and fire

and bread and wine and we must not be

cut off from the world

you must show our faith to the world of

things

but things are also sanctified

by faith soon you will take bread and

wine

and find them sanctified into the living

presence of the jesus

who is god and now the water of the sea

is sanctified by your baptism

are you ready

as ready as i'll ever be

i baptize you velarius to the full

remission of your sins

i'm looking into a new life in jesus

name

is

great fighter

i do like to see young bodies

because you do my precious paper i'm

sure the man's a champion

people love him

he's a jew by the way

you're a little too fond of the jews my

dear

transgender people

i think claudius his idea was a

reasonable one

threw the jews out they're a nuisance

and they spit on the gods of rome and

that is like spitting on the emperor

such jews as i know are respectable and

intelligent

they read instead of going to the games

find the game's bloodthirsty

and childish do they

that was well done

die hail caesar

is

uh

there he is

foreign

oh i beg of you uh marcus is my name

marcus

let me drink we've walked a long way

we were waiting to greet you but not

like this chained like a criminal

yet you are welcome among us this is the

spring of our christian times

but you can help us strengthen our faith

but we live in fear many accuse us of

eating the

right

they decided i am not worthy of being

imprisoned

so they allow me to be partially free oh

i'm ready to resume the old trade if

you'll have me oh

this is marcus now he finds this chain

as embarrassing as i do

i'm a prisoner a waiting trial i

understand that you'll receive a lodging

allowance if you'll take him in

marcus these are jews do you object to

living under the roof of a jewish family

or one to me but i don't like jewish

cooking so long as i can cook my own

rations

come in

a roman citizen paul also called saul

that saul has an exotic ring where is he

now

under a kind of house arrest noble

priscus a chain on his wrist

awaiting your lordship's pleasure the

emperor's pleasure

the pleasure of the people of rome he

has already been detained at that

pleasure for

um oh um uh how long

too long process certainly beyond the

period established by law

yes um his status has changed

uh he's an appellate to the emperor the

period begins from the moment of his

appeal making

um um uh when when was it lodged months

ago

no record of any accusation being

brought forward here in rome

not yet

one more month if nothing happens we've

put in a writ of um

uh uh liberators yeah

and um let him go hmm

you're curious about the nature of power

so let us discuss it caesar

common people want order to them it's a

great achievement if tomorrow is no

worse than today

the exceptional people break order

and the emperor being the most

exceptional of men has to be the most

adept at breaking order

where order says family security

the act of love for the generation of

life

disorder says promiscuity

murder the act of hate for the

destruction of life

this has to be the logic of it is simple

and effective

you should write it all down

like seneca

and they call it immoral philosophy

but you're wrong in one way

art is order ah

poetry music dance the drama

is not order god has nothing to do with

morality

there is indeed a kind of order in

destruction a sort of

cosmos in chaos

we see the fires of this new power

breaking out of the destructive act

it is the door into a reality which the

common herd

cannot even clips

which reminds me i'm

unhappy about your wife

she adores me adores what we do together

the night visits to brothels the endless

banquets

the boys the humans

she knows nothing of these things she's

a wise empress

knows when to close her eyes our eyes

are always

open her bed is as well trodden as the

appian way

child she's carrying is certainly not

yours

this is treason

perhaps i'm wrong my devotion to caesar

is such that i see harm where there is

none

think no more of it she's an estimable

woman

i beg pardon for unworthy suspicions

shall we begin our new lesson in the art

of enjoyment

destruction you would say is a duty

sometimes if you cannot destroy

how can you create

victor good morning philip hale

oh look

there'll soon be gladiators themselves

should we train them

hey hey here give me that

a little light now watch this

fight fight and ah

come here practice practice

hail champion hail australian this

morning good

let's do it again just like old times

you see god forgives all sins what i

want to know is who forgives god

a just god would not have allowed what

happened to my mother and sister

god gave us freedom for evil or for good

death at the hands of human evil is

itself

a victory that we share birth with the

animal creation

resurrection we share with god if by god

you mean the man

jesus i cannot accept it

well i think there is little point in

our staying to hear more

time

i think the time has come to unloose the

chain marcus

got the order this afternoon while he

was sleeping

but how could i stay unless i was

chained to him

well you have to return to your duties

marcus among the gentiles uh pity

the legion's being ordered to spain well

perhaps you shall see each other quite

soon

hilarious i must start my travels

caleb i see struggle in your face

i won't abandon the struggle our land

must be free

when the time's ripe i'll be back there

the new faith won't do not yet

not yet

not yet you go now wherever the lord

sends me

which i think may be in the direction of

pen ink and parchment

i shall have to write down all that's

happened

we have to have a view to the future

there are men and women unborn

who must know of the acts of paul not

just of paul

but of all the apostles of the word

my blessings luke you've been a good

friend

well that won't be off to you then spain

spain it's a big empire they've got

big world all together

i've seen little enough of it i thought

you'd be in this line yourself

you seem to know the knots on the tackle

uh

boats on galilee lake mending nets

fish my trade

my

excuse me can you tell me where the

house of sexless tibertonos is i don't

know

ask the fisherman the fisherman thank

you

excuse me yeah i'm looking for the villa

of sextus tibertinus let's go straight

ahead

then left left then left again peace be

with you

this is a fine place for you linus many

people can gather here

no door is closed to the lord a good

patrician gave it to me

no to us he died in peace and in the

light

the lord be praised by having saved him

bless his memory

this is where it has to be

rome

i've had so many dreams

visions

i'm happy to find you ready when i left

my town in tuscany to come here and meet

you

my only thought was of serving you of

helping me

i'm on the last leg of my journey linus

won't belong for me now age

the ax or something

i have my premonitions you've got years

in front of you

there'll be no acts we're one of the

tolerated faiths

yet rome is a pagan city

we still look to our mother church in

jerusalem

there are two faiths in jerusalem

they are siblings in the family of god

and

as often happens siblings have

difficulty in living together

but our roots are branched out into the

center of the empire

you will be a shepherd in rome

a shepherd in the name of jesus

i'm quite unworthy ah

you were the first one to receive the

good tidings

and you're a roman well as you say

an etruscan who knows rome

and not just the room of the streets and

the squares and the fountains

the other room as well the cellars

the dark places

room of underground we practice our

faith

in the sunlight we have no need of the

dark places

the victory won't be so easy

you may be glad of the dark

what i seek i seek

only rome

the city as it is offends

my autistic soul

i would leave behind me an enduring

monument of marble

the expenditure can be furnished from

many sources

the people are ready for an increase in

taxation

after so long a period of fiscal

clemency

there is gold lying

unused in our city temples

and that fine device of the late empress

messalina that of offering roman

citizenship for sale

could be revived at even greater profit

through the state

i say to rome

to bro

i must make this clear

moreover there are communities

within the city who reject rome

it's virtues it's gods

i refer to the jews and that sect known

as the christians

would be a gesture of roman clemency

to allow these groups to continue

their barbarous rituals

their insolent beliefs but of course

to punish them with taxes

these are some of the ways in which to

finance

the building of our new

city but i acknowledge the wisdom of the

senate

let me hear it

the emperor's artistic ambitions

are well known to rebuild

rome in his own image is a final

ambition which some of us have long

expected

but i would remind the emperor that

there are greater

urgencies which cry for his attention

i refer particularly to the disastrous

earthquake in pompeii

to the situation in gall and spain

where the loyalty of our armies is now

openly shifting from the emperor

to their provincial commanders the

situation in britain is appalling with

seventy thousand of our roman citizens

slaughtered by the barbarians

and no punitive act yet no no no

it is not for this august but senile

body

to act as the emperor's conscience

the roman prophecies are mere

discardable extensions of rome

they may drop off for all i care like

lizard's tail

roam first

and last rome is the provinces

rome is her empire

rome is the imperial peace

and the great image of order

rome is not sickly songs and obscene

dances

and degrading spectacles and a city

rebuilt according to the emetic tastes

of a

mediocre would-be artist

i speak out caesar without fear of the

consequences

an old man whose physicians grant him at

most a year to live has nothing to fear

but for once the emperor shall listen to

the truth

and not the adulation of his concubines

i will accept

many a friend

but i will not tolerate an attack

on the divine spirit of beauty which in

my lifetime i have tried to honor

you will see a new rome whether you want

to or not

gray beards

tottering imbeciles

impotent hypocrites who need you

i speak for rome

you speak for some outdoor notion of

civic virtual grey

surcloth

i speak for a new

age

gentlemen

you're dead oh yeah

there were many who protested because

the children

pulled at jesus will and i called him

and wanted him to play with them jesus

had a beard like you

well a shorter one and not so grey

he had children no he wasn't married

he was born to serve us he was a slave

he was our lord he became a slave to

save us

we're all his children you said that he

died

on a cross how can a god die like a

criminal

by dying he saved us

he had to die so that he could rise

again

you maybe keep him alive again you he is

alive

he's here with us now while we speak of

it

he said whenever two or more of you meet

in my name i shall be there with you

he also said let the children come to me

and then again if you are good to a

child

you are good to me why did pilate kill

him

i don't like that pilot

pilate didn't know any better his eyes

saw jesus but his heart was closed to

him you see

jesus is light

but only the heart can see it the eyes

aren't enough you know what we used to

say in my language

whenever we met together after his

resurrection we used to say

that means our lord

wait wait

i am sabinas senator of road

you are the preacher from palestine

which is my name

follower of jesus of nazareth i've been

listening to you

ah are you curious to know about my fate

oh i'm a man of doubt not a face

but yes i am

curious you have come a long way to

teach

to spread the news have little to teach

and what is the news the time to love

is here in sin we died

now we can all rise again

our gods are finished god they were

never theirs to be this

they were shadows projections of our own

fears and hopes and dreams human beings

deify yet you speak of a god who is also

human

a god who became a man you see the

difference

jesus came among us lived like one of us

to draw us closer to him closer to god

children come down from there

i have to see them safely huh i'm used

to them i had a few of my

where are they now oh in my village

in my boats but now i have all of these

a shepherd with many lambs

come on it's getting late please get to

our homes your mothers will be worried

peter don't trust your luck in rome

beyond prudence

the winds here are capricious your words

have

different sounds to different ears

i want to see you again

you seem afraid

i know fear it's my good companion

shall pray for you senator abroad

come with me handsome go away

ah get away from here

bye

so

oh

victor come on come

off the on

have you seen my wife and daughter no no

we don't know them

many have taken shelter in the cemetery

youtube find help

take him

i'll take a look inside

so

oh there's no art like this to do this

no music no burst no tragedy like this

the birth pangs

quickly

what are you

the vicious in one way virtuous in

another

that's the flaming glory of it

vicious in its destruction virtuous

because now you must rebuild

even the senate will see that

oh look there's youngerness

oh virgil would have been pleased to see

this

see how the citizens screaming and

scurrying

scamper like woodlice from logs freshly

thrown on fire

ancient and kisses caught sleeping

awakening

now to the flames that devour his

ancestral abode

calls to his son young aliens

to rescue pious and nails

our father

neuropolis

we are gathered here in our cemetery

sheltered from the fire

i think some of you may see the shape of

the future

in what is happening to rome

or a city of wood or even a stone

cannot endure forever city of god

is everlasting this night i present to

you

lenas who many of you will know well

young as he is he is to be the father of

the christians in rome

a young father your shepherd

i am an old man now my time is short

the future of the faith lies with the

young

but young world i fear that soon we

shall all be

cruelly tested let us pray now

let us say the first prayer that jesus

himself taught to me

and my companions while he was among us

our lord in heaven may your name be

blessed

your kingdom come your will

be done on earth as it is in heaven

give us today the bread we need for

today

and forgive us our justices as we

forgive those who stress us against us

and do not put us too touched to the

test sir

but keep us from the power of evil yes

alright come on

come quickly your husband he's wounded

how where the fire he was trying to help

he's in his barracks leave the child

here

will you take her home with you i must

find my husband yes

please look after her yes i will not

take her home until it's safe

oh

ready

hey

caesar this is gaius calponius pisa

i have been chosen by the senate to

inquire into the origins of this

disaster

and to supervise the provision of places

of refuge for the

unfortunate victims pisa

yeah now i've heard of you that i think

the mass to the homeless poor souls

your emperor has already made certain

arrangements

the imperial gardens are at their

disposal

carpenters are already at work building

temporary

shelters and i believe the campus

parties messengers have been sent

to austria in order to bring in

emergency supplies

things have been taken care of

did you expect other words

we marvel at the speed with which caesar

has put things into operation

reverend senators tomorrow we shall meet

to discuss the raising of the finances

for the building of our new city

there is not a moment to lose has caesar

any notion how this

disaster may have started no

rome has always been a terrible place

for fire

wooden tenements oil lamps

the sudden strong wind

allows on this occasion we have been

more unfortunate than usual would not

caesar rather to say

fortunate

i don't think i understand

the destroyed city has to be rebuilt

i have nothing more to say caesar no

no but we must look on the bright side

of things

one of these days and it will be soon

you will look on the road to be proud

let us hear wisdom from the prefect of

the praetorian guard

of phonias to julianus

who has duly examined all the reports on

the great fire

caesar reverend senators

i'm here to report on the findings of

the special commission appointed to

investigate the recent

disastrous fire which struck our city

the fire was an outrage perpetrated by a

dissident group of this city

one that despises rome flouts the gods

regards the traditional roman virtues

with contempt

i refer to the christians a minor judean

sect

favored by slaves plebeians perverts and

foreigners

to whom vice is virtue and virtue

vice

i know these people i have heard them

they are honest peace loving many of us

could learn

from them

contrary to what our compassionate

flavious subpoenas would have us believe

these christians are well known for such

hideous secret practices as cannibalism

as christos said take eat

this is my body for the practice of

incest for refusing to honor our gods

for refusing patriotic service of all

kinds including taking up arms against

rome's enemies

they are the arsonists

i propose that a new commission be

formed to drag these loathsome animals

out of their hiding places and to deal

with them not according to the dictates

of law

but according to our impulses of disgust

and outrage

we do not try mad dogs in courts of law

we kill them outright surely

we could just find them heavily

justice will be satisfied as usual

caesar is too

soft-hearted no

let just indignation take its course

oh

all of them

oh

no idea there were so many of them

look at this lucius

popeidus secundus he was one of them and

i never knew

great eater and drinker

well of course some of the enemies of

the state have been listed as christians

makes things a lot simpler

most of them are the real thing there's

one man from jerusalem we

must find estranged that the fire

started just after he got here

very straight

one of the christians we had under

preliminary examination torment you mean

all right he said that the head of the

sect is in rome

you know the man chosen to take over

when christus died

we have his name too

you know i think these hole in the

corner executions are a bit of a waste

why don't we give the people a treat

shove them in the arena make them part

of the games

what a wonderful idea

what a truly wonderful idea

one day we came to a village and there

was a man there who'd come from afar

to ask jesus to help him well

this man couldn't see because it was

rather

short and there were all these people a

whole wall of people

in front of him pressing forward to try

to see jesus

so he climbed a tree

and he almost tumbled down but then

you are peter are you not

all children must follow me they'll be

taken to a school

why not we borders to protect them from

danger

from you there murderous parents

wow

a christian couple criminals

incendiary murderers will entertain

us we shall test the husband's courage

as he tries to save his beloved wife

from ferocious leopards

who as you will see are

no respecters of christians

wow

where are you

you'll be better soon

please come

they've taken ruth what are you saying

who took her soldiers orders of

tigerlinas

[ __ ] rest you cannot go

don't my daughter where is she i don't

know i left her with this woman

why she said they went back to the

cemetery to hide but the soldiers came

and took them away

yeah she doesn't know where to even take

him i've asked him to go find caleb and

quinn and they can help us find ruth

are you christians i said we should

never got mixed up with them

nonsense see titulinus is doing poor

warning as we be scapegoats for

something

cape goats pigeolinas rule thought

that's important to us valerius

three christian

the virgins of african

tigers i speculificed

to appease our irish gods

let us see if the christmas can save you

now

why doesn't he meet all these trolls and

sees

yes

your watch

you're on today on

part of the imperial games closing item

on the slope of the vatican hill by

nero's circus

far from the crowd

you've got a very unpopular man

how do i die crucifixion

i trust that is in order oh

i'm not worthy to die the same way as he

did

of course you wouldn't understand

want a little variation do you

that can be managed let me die

seeing the world is the rest of sinning

humanity's easy

wrong twisted

inverted i'll say this for you

christians you're a tough lot

a cruel lot and to think we used to look

upon you as soft

curds and whey milk and water

how the hell you can do to your children

the things you're doing

that children

what are you doing to them leave them

alone they're only children

they're still christians aren't they

come on

the christians call their

for your entertainment a group

of children sons and daughters of the

arsonists

will enact for us the fable of the

shepherd

the lambs and the roman dogs

gardens of the offendings

oh

arena

metallica

save them

oh

um

uh

you're true

hey

no we couldn't find her but she was with

these children

the afternoon will bring more

entertainment

more extraordinary thrills

gladiators

hmm

oh

hmm

julius valerius yes

brother

and she told me she was the daughter of

julius valerius i took her with me

thank you my friend thank you

you saved her life

but no one saved her

i'm crying with happiness for a daughter

who is alive

we should cry for this daughter who is

dead

alone in the sand

with people cheering all around earth

hi

i am not a roman soldier anymore

yeah take it

i will not serve a butcher with a

pack of wolves

rome is not this

it cannot be this carnage

this madness hilarious

mind your word you earned me

i renounce my rank

i renamed my service

the emperor this city

i have not heard nor have i seen you

you better hide or disappear

madness the whole world is mad

oh

ah

huh

uh

good

these people know nothing

nothing it's the same with this it is

with art

they have to be told what to like

and you there should be absolute

unanimity of taste

between the emperor and his empress

what you did today was an insult to me

tommy it was meant to be that

you and the roman people spasming to see

women and children torn to shreds

so easy isn't it to give way to the

beast inside us

history is supposed to record the taming

of the beast

the roman empire takes over history and

trumpets the victory of

reason but it's the trumpeting of a

rogue elephant

the beasts are with us and they have

names

but mine shall not be among them you

will perform

the duties of an imperial consort i will

not have my enemies crying out that the

empress popeye

knows where the fault lies

you must cry out for the blood of the

criminals

like a good roman the blood of tijulinus

and his accomplice the emperor you mean

my lord i have performed the last

office of an imperial consult

i carry in my womb the next emperor

i can only pray to whatever god there is

that he shall show more of the blood of

my family than of yours

lot of some secret hebrew lover huh

i cry the cry of all fathers how can i

know

this child to my shame

is yours i want

to god it was some others

you you named the beast you say

go on naming him go on

but you are already dead

hear the gangplank

yes i'm the captain wants to see me

hail i hear you're looking for a man

there's a follower of this

foreign superstition called christianity

where is he

here he is there that man you

your name is paul christian

slave of my lord jesus yes that is my

name

you're under arrest i am a roman citizen

and i a roman soldier enforcing roman

law

take him

do what you have to do brother

i knew my golgotha was waiting for me in

rome

peter died there i was told i'm ready

for my cross

for a roman citizen to know that the

cross is any reserve for non-romans and

slaves

like your peter or your

what's his name jesus

learn it

one day you may meet him

paul has been arrested there is not a

moment to lose

you must leave rome

i'm ready to stay if you want to there

is no need for more victims

you must live to carry on the good work

please

go

shalom valerius god will help us

all of us

i was waiting for you to come back like

all those who are guilty of treason you

will die

i am a loyal citizen prove it by

sacrificing to our divine emperor i

cannot

there is only one god you see

you are arrogant you are stubborn

you are invoking death i'm not afraid to

julius

my lord jesus died for me he has already

carried my death

into a new life now i know

that you did not need to question me

you have already issued your sentence

let me pray with my brothers whom you

keep somewhere in this prison

and who share with me something you do

not possess

oh yes and what might that be

hope i hear their voices

spare them let us pray together you are

the fish i wanted to catch paul

the rest are minos lost without you

they will all fall back to the right way

once you are gone

religion divides when it should bring us

together it did bring us together sarah

karina the believer i believe there's a

higher justice in this

in what in my being called

to pay with love for the crime of the

cross

like sarah i often

questioned my newly found god

i couldn't forget that day in the arena

holding that dead child in my arms

everything in me cried out

is this your victory over death

is this your mercy jesus

after in the evening

we buried her

all that was left of her was a stone

with a name on it gratina

in peace

i hated what was in my heart

the pain and shame

a massacre in the circus a slave

dead on a cross

a few days ago

i went back to the cemetery i stopped by

the child's tombstone

a mother was there praying

i see you often with your little

daughter she said

to me she looks like

by gratina she's alive you see

she's alive in your daughter

in me in all of us

her love is alive

jesus is love

i realized then when i took that dead

girl in my arms

it was jesus crucified i was holding

yes corinna his love

is the only answer make sure

that a message is sent to timothy my son

in christ

for him to reassure our brothers and i

entrust my words to your memory

they refuse to let us write

tell him that the lord has not granted

us a spirit of fear

but one of strength and love

although we are persecuted like

criminals

he should not be ashamed to be a witness

of his love

no of me the lord's prisoner

the time has come for me to leave

i have waged the good fight to the end

i have run the good race

and kept my faith

i must pray

jesus

companion and ally

father forgive them

for they know not what they do

let paul of tarsus a roman citizen found

guilty of treason against the majesty of

rome

die by the axe

one stroke

the christians of this city have

suffered but their martyrdom has not

been in vain

peter was crucified paul beheaded

ilenus your shepherd am ready to follow

them

for the church is indeed stronger than

the empire which assails

it an empire in confusion

we who profess peace have truly

nothing to fear from it be strong

in your weakness be proud

in your humility in the name of the

father

unto the son and of the holy spirit

welcome i knew you'd come

thank you

beg you to take this child his parents

died in the circus to light nero's night

the few mothers we have left are all

burdened with their own children and are

the orphans of the martyrs

i am grateful to you to have thought of

me you're a fierce woman karina

a fighter well we're in romulus and

remus fed by a she-wolf

who where is parents slaves poor and

happy

very young promise me one thing caleb

that you will raise this child in the

faith of his parents

i know little of it you know what is in

the books of the ancient testament

jesus teachings come from them but i

could never teach him

that jesus of nazareth was anything more

than a compassionate man

he died for the child's parents they

gave their lives for him

one day the child will find the truth

all you have to do is to allow him to

look for it

go karina be a mother to him feed him

give him your love are you returning to

tuscany

yes we'll see valerius and sarah then go

to poutay

and try and find a boat there i want to

go back to jerusalem

i feel the time has come for a son to

return to his mother

embrace her for me she's my mother too

jerusalem pray for me there

when you hear the wolf howl

feel no fear

mama is coming

joshua i like the name you gave him

it also means jesus so much of our

history is in that name

the hero who stopped the sun

the prophet of love who died on a roman

cross

our joshua will be safe

i'm afraid he will die

i can't feed him as a real mother could

and yet i feel i am his mother

he's grown into me

it's as if he were born to us

i remember what aquila told you

first day you were in rome soon as will

be night

and we shall be questioned about

love

joshua will live

foreign

so

you