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[DRUMS BEATING]
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NARRATOR: This is the Appian Way...
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...the most famous road that leads to Rome...
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...as all roads lead to Rome.
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On this road march her conquering legions.
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Imperial Rome is the center of the empire...
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...and undisputed master of the world.
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But with this power inevitably comes corruption.
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No man is sure of his life.
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The individual is at the mercy of the state.
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Murder replaces justice.
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Rulers of conquered nations surrender
their helpless subjects to bondage.
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High and low alike become Roman slaves...
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...Roman hostages.
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There is no escape from the whip and the sword.
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That any force on earth can shake the foundations...
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...of this pyramid of power and corruption...
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...of human misery and slavery, seems inconceivable.
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But 30 years before this day, a miracle occurred.
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On a Roman cross in Judea,
a man died to make men free...
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...to spread the gospel of love and redemption.
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Soon that humble cross is destined
to replace the proud eagles...
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...that now top the victorious Roman standards.
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This is the story of that immortal conflict.
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In this, the early summer in the year 64 A.D...
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...in the reign of the Antichrist
known to history as the Emperor Nero...
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...the victorious 14th Legion
is on its way back to Rome...
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...under the command of one Marcus Vinicius.
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We can see Rome from the top of the hill.
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Well, there it stands. Rome.
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Three years is a long time, eh, Fabius?
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Yes, Marcus, a long time.
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Drusilla and the children. Tonight I sleep at home.
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Man of the family to the bitter end.
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It's not sleep I'll be looking for.
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[HORSES APPROACHING]
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NERVA: It seems we've been given an escort.
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The least they could do.
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Hail, in the name of the divine Nero,
prince emperor and supreme pontiff.
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Hail.
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Captain Flavius, Praetorian Guard, salutes you.
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The news of your brilliant victories
has preceded you to Rome.
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We're rather anxious to be there. Lead us in.
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I'm sorry, commander. I have orders.
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Imperial orders.
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By the body of...
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A fine welcome after a three-year campaign.
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We're ordered to pull up and camp here
until notified to enter.
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What for? How many days' wait?
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FLAVIUS: I know nothing but the orders.
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Rome loves her brave warriors.
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Give that man 10 lashes.
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OFFICER: Fall out!
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And double it for any more complaints.
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Make camp here. Out of the way.
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- Where to, Marcus?
- To the palace, where else?
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Out of the way!
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Commander Marcus Vinicius.
I request an audience with the emperor.
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I will report immediately, commander.
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Commander, sir, if I might presume, sir...
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...there's been much discussion
of your unsurpassed victories.
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- Did you fight the Britons with a mass--?
- We fought with our bowels.
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- Try it sometime.
- Yes, commander.
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[PLAYING]
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Yes, well, now you have it as I composed it.
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Now, from the beginning.
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[SINGING] O lambent flames
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O force divine
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O omnivorous powers, hail
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"Omnivorous."
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Omnipotent.
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Yes.
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Omnipotent power, hail
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Seneca, don't you think omnipotent is better?
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Far better, Divinity.
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There's no conviction in your voice.
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You disturb me.
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Petronius, you're my arbiter of elegance.
Which is it?
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I find omnipotent most feeble, Divinity.
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In fact, puerile.
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Puerile? Feeble?
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Omnivorous has your pure, inspired imagery in it.
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It is vivid, comprehensive.
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A genius, Divinity,
should hold to his first thoughts...
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...on any subject.
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[CHUCKLES]
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Petronius. Dear Petronius.
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What would I do without your clear insight into--?
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[YELPS]
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You clumsy toad!
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Isn't the inner agony of my creating
enough without you carving me to bits?
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Take her away.
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Oh, where was I? What now?
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Commander Marcus Vinicius.
He wishes an immediate audience.
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Marcus, here?
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Vinicius? Who is Marcus Vinicius?
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My nephew. Just returned
with his legions from Britain.
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Oh, yes. Bid him enter.
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There seems to be a disregard for orders here.
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You sent word to Vinicius to remain outside the city.
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So I did. That's true, Tigellinus.
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Does this nephew of yours consider...
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...that his conquests give him a right to override--?
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I cannot believe that he entered with
his army, Divinity, knowing Marcus as I do.
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Doubtless he has come
to make obeisance and pay homage...
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...to his emperor and his god in private.
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Oh, yes. Yes, of course.
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I fear that a natural humility often blinds me.
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Yes.
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Hail Nero, emperor.
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Commander, hail. Come forward.
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Your proud uncle has been explaining
the impetuosity of your devotion to me.
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It's a joy to be such an inspiration
to my commanders.
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My loyalty and my life always, Caesar.
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My men have been away a long time.
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They have fought and died for their emperor.
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They have gladly accepted
weeks of forced marches to reach home.
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They're anxious to see their families, their women.
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Just as you said, Petronius.
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Such loyalty, such devotion.
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You see, the delay in my men reaching their homes...
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...it's a question of morale.
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Didn't you explain in--?
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Maybe good Tigellinus
left the reason out of his orders.
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- An oversight--
- Reasons are not given in imperial orders.
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Oh, Tigellinus, how boorish.
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How ungrateful.
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We desire that you wait until you are joined...
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...by the legions from Africa and Asia,
which should be a matter of hours.
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Tomorrow you will enter Rome in triumph.
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More and more the people need diversion these...
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Or rather, shall we say
that this too is a question of morale?
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They demand a spectacle.
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A look at heroes.
Bear with me in this, dear commander.
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- It is now clear to me, emperor.
- Divinity, may I retire with my nephew?
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We have much to talk over.
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Naturally.
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I shall expect you at the feast
after the triumph, Vinicius.
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We shall try to make it diverting.
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[CHUCKLING]
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An added honor, emperor.
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Now, again.
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No arms missing? No legs?
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No. I picked up a good healthy slash
in the side here.
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- You seem to be faring well, uncle.
- Oh, indestructible.
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You're gonna spend time with me
before rushing to your estates in Sicily?
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I intend a full month's relaxation in Rome.
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And as I remember,
your house is the best place for it.
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Marcus, I've recently purchased
several new delectable slaves.
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There's one from Spain. Skin like cream.
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Hair with the sheen of a young raven. She's yours.
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- I might stay two months.
- Hmm.
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Tonight I've arranged for you
to stay at Plautius' country place.
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It's near your camp.
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Aulus Plautius, the old retired general?
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That's a gloomy outlook.
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I know. And his wife's not young either,
besides being virtuous.
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Still, it's better quarters than a tent.
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[NERO SINGING]
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Body of Bacchus,
I've been listening to that since noon.
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He seems in rare voice.
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Is it true what I heard while I was gone,
that he murdered his wife and mother?
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My dear boy, you must learn
the language of privileged government.
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Let us rather say that poor Agrippina
and Octavia were removed...
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...for the good of the empire.
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The new wife, Poppaea, sounds interesting.
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A harlot for an empress.
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My dear commander, what a proletarian observation.
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You must realize that a woman has no past
when she mates with a god.
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Well, he's our emperor.
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There are some in the senate
who are not so pleased with him.
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They would like to replace Nero with General Galba.
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I know nothing of politics.
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Just as long as there's money to pay the army...
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...Rome will stand forever, that I'm sure of.
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I bid you welcome, Marcus Vinicius.
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I salute the general.
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We traveled the splendid roads you built
in Britain and Gaul.
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My wife, the Lady Pomponia.
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Our house is honored to have you as guest.
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My tribune, Fabius Nerva.
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These young men must wish to wash and change.
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The baths are ready. Will you show them, my dear?
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This way, commander.
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Dinner is at the 9th hour.
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You're expecting other guests this evening, general?
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We're not intruding on any festivities, I hope.
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Oh, no. We live a quiet life here.
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"Oh, no. We live a quiet life here."
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Here we are, transforming ourselves
into sweet-smelling flowers...
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- ...only to bloom in a hay field.
- Ha-ha.
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You know, Marcus, Drusilla last sent word...
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...that the oldest boy
is almost as tall as she is now.
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When I left, I carried him around on my shoulder.
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That little slave from Spain
Petronius told me about...
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...I'll let her sit on mine.
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Speaking of things that grow,
cast your eye on this one.
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For your bath.
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Stand up, fellow.
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Body of... What a prospect.
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What's going on in the arena these days?
ls Croton still champion?
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I do not know.
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General Plautius never thought
of having you trained as a gladiator?
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He'd win enough gold to fill your sandals.
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I do not fight.
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You don't fight?
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Why, with one arm strapped,
you could kill 50 Nubians an hour.
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I'll speak to your master about you.
I can make you a champion.
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It is a sin to kill.
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[LAUGHING]
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Half-witted.
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Grew so fast, his brain hit the top of the stable.
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Behold, she stands with her gown hung loose.
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Framed is her face in golden tresses...
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...reflecting the milk-white beauty of her shoulders.
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So it was that Venus stood before Mars,
welcoming her lover.
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Nothing do I see that is not perfection.
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You're in service to this household, I take it?
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Very much so.
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- Your name?
- Lygia.
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Lygia. Lygia, you're a windfall.
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I shall sacrifice a dozen white doves
to Venus to commemorate our meeting.
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Your sacrifice will be in vain, commander.
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[CHUCKLES]
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By the gods, the old general
must know a good slave market.
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Not only beauty, but spirit as well.
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There are no slaves in this household.
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The old general, as you call him...
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...well, I have the honor
and the joy to be his daughter.
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I crave your pardon.
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Three years in the field have dulled my perceptions.
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Truly, I'm sorry, Lygia. Will you forgive me?
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You've done nothing to ask forgiveness for.
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For a long time, the only women I've seen or known...
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...have been poor, dull barbarians, very uninspiring.
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Barbarians?
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I've heard the women of Britain and Gaul
are most beautiful.
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Lygia, I'm forced to tell you...
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...that the women of Britain
cover themselves with deer fat.
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I'd say that was an understandable desire to be warm.
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The warmth is not transferable,
I assure you. Only in its aroma.
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And as for the women of Gaul...
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...well, their hair is like
the frazzled ends of rope.
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Not a soft, red-gold crown with stars in it.
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And their palm was the hide of a wild boar.
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- Not like this soft--
- At least that proves they are diligent.
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Yes, at building mud huts.
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But not in bringing a man's thoughts to life.
249
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I'm not sorry at all.
250
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- Sorry?
- That Petronius arranged my stay here.
251
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If things go as fate surely meant,
the man should be decorated.
252
00:19:20,535 --> 00:19:24,122
If you will excuse me, I must decorate the table.
253
00:19:32,506 --> 00:19:35,467
And so you see, sir, you can understand my problem.
254
00:19:35,634 --> 00:19:37,052
We were outnumbered at least--
255
00:19:37,219 --> 00:19:39,846
- Well, wouldn't you say three to one?
- Easily.
256
00:19:40,013 --> 00:19:44,643
I drew up the spearmen in a formation
much like the Macedonian phalanx.
257
00:19:44,810 --> 00:19:46,728
Let me tell you, your barbarous Briton...
258
00:19:46,895 --> 00:19:49,147
...is as worthy an opponent as I've ever engaged.
259
00:19:49,314 --> 00:19:52,317
They impaled themselves on the
spearheads like meat to the spit.
260
00:19:52,484 --> 00:19:55,070
We were standing ankle deep in their blood.
261
00:19:55,862 --> 00:19:58,657
Can you understand the strategy, Lygia?
Can you see it?
262
00:19:59,574 --> 00:20:02,911
I can only see the awful necessity
of defending one's home.
263
00:20:03,078 --> 00:20:04,329
Defending?
264
00:20:04,496 --> 00:20:06,832
They were in revolt against Rome.
265
00:20:06,998 --> 00:20:09,835
But as I say, I credit courage.
266
00:20:10,001 --> 00:20:14,172
A general's daughter can surely understand
it gives no pleasure to overcome weaklings.
267
00:20:14,965 --> 00:20:17,634
The battle loses its zest.
268
00:20:18,385 --> 00:20:20,011
Right, general?
269
00:20:20,178 --> 00:20:24,766
- I find I've outgrown that zest.
- Don't be modest, general.
270
00:20:25,517 --> 00:20:29,271
Look here, you don't seem to be excited
by the glorious exploits of your legions.
271
00:20:29,438 --> 00:20:31,523
That's an odd attitude for a woman of Rome.
272
00:20:32,274 --> 00:20:34,276
I am not a Roman, I am a Lygian.
273
00:20:34,443 --> 00:20:37,028
A Lygian? I thought, uh...
274
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She's our adopted daughter.
275
00:20:39,614 --> 00:20:43,034
Oh, I see. Lygian, Lygia.
276
00:20:43,201 --> 00:20:46,705
She was named Callina,
but she prefers to be called Lygia.
277
00:20:46,872 --> 00:20:50,625
As a child, she was taken prisoner
during my campaign in Lygia.
278
00:20:50,792 --> 00:20:53,962
- A slave, then.
- No, no. Her father was king of Lygia.
279
00:20:54,129 --> 00:20:56,047
She was assigned to me as a hostage.
280
00:20:56,214 --> 00:21:01,595
We've tried to erase the wrong done her
with the love we have for her.
281
00:21:02,387 --> 00:21:04,556
You should envy me such love, commander.
282
00:21:05,849 --> 00:21:08,727
Lygia, I envy the roof that covers you.
283
00:21:08,894 --> 00:21:11,021
This one or any future.
284
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May a traveler interrupt with his greetings?
285
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PLAUTIUS: Paul. POMPONIA: Paul, you're here.
286
00:21:20,655 --> 00:21:24,159
LYGIA: We've been counting the days.
- Pomponia. Lygia, dear.
287
00:21:24,326 --> 00:21:28,079
One need not pray that peace be with
this house. It's written in your faces.
288
00:21:28,246 --> 00:21:29,873
Paul, our two guests.
289
00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,168
Tribune Fabius Nerva and Commander Marcus Vinicius.
290
00:21:33,335 --> 00:21:35,754
You must have seen their army camped along the road.
291
00:21:35,921 --> 00:21:36,963
Ah, yes.
292
00:21:37,130 --> 00:21:42,219
- Gentlemen, our friend Paul of Tarsus.
- Our very dear friend.
293
00:21:42,385 --> 00:21:45,597
- You mustn't let me interrupt your meal.
- We've done with it.
294
00:21:45,764 --> 00:21:48,391
Come, let's sit in here.
295
00:21:50,310 --> 00:21:52,103
Commander?
296
00:21:52,938 --> 00:21:57,651
You must be tired, Paul.
Will you have food? A cup of wine?
297
00:21:57,818 --> 00:22:00,445
No, thank you, my dear. I supped along the way.
298
00:22:00,612 --> 00:22:03,490
And the rigors of travel
always fall away rapidly here.
299
00:22:03,657 --> 00:22:06,409
I take it, like us, you've just returned
from a journey.
300
00:22:06,576 --> 00:22:09,287
Oh, yes. Antioch, Corinth.
301
00:22:09,830 --> 00:22:11,456
Oh.
302
00:22:12,624 --> 00:22:15,418
- You're Greek.
- No, I'm a Jew.
303
00:22:15,585 --> 00:22:18,964
A citizen of Rome, though I was born in Tarsus.
304
00:22:19,130 --> 00:22:21,550
Oh, yes, Tarsus. North of Palestine.
305
00:22:21,716 --> 00:22:23,260
That's correct.
306
00:22:23,426 --> 00:22:25,679
You come from a troublesome part of the world.
307
00:22:25,846 --> 00:22:28,265
Much unrest down there in the past.
308
00:22:28,431 --> 00:22:31,560
- You're a merchant of some sort?
- No, I'm a rabbi.
309
00:22:32,185 --> 00:22:36,022
Well, I'm just a heavy-skulled soldier.
What in the name of Jupiter is a rabbi?
310
00:22:39,067 --> 00:22:40,777
PLAUTIUS: Paul is a teacher.
311
00:22:43,154 --> 00:22:44,739
Oh, what do you teach?
312
00:22:44,906 --> 00:22:46,366
He teaches...
313
00:22:46,533 --> 00:22:49,494
- He teaches philosophy. PAUL: Yes.
314
00:22:50,453 --> 00:22:53,248
Yes, I suppose you'd call it that.
315
00:22:53,415 --> 00:22:56,668
Did you know that all this time,
I've been teaching you philosophy?
316
00:22:56,835 --> 00:22:58,795
I don't know a great deal about philosophy.
317
00:22:58,962 --> 00:23:02,841
And lovely women shouldn't have the time
to think that deeply.
318
00:23:03,008 --> 00:23:06,469
As for me, Lygia, would you ever think
that I was fond of flowers?
319
00:23:06,636 --> 00:23:08,513
I should like to see the garden.
320
00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,474
You have the evening tour of the camp
to make, commander.
321
00:23:11,641 --> 00:23:14,185
You must see to the disposition of the men.
322
00:23:15,979 --> 00:23:17,314
Will you excuse me?
323
00:23:20,442 --> 00:23:25,155
I shall be back early.
In time for the flowers, I hope.
324
00:23:35,540 --> 00:23:38,960
And now tell us the things
we've been waiting to hear.
325
00:23:39,127 --> 00:23:42,047
- Did you see Peter?
- Yes, how is our big fisherman?
326
00:23:42,213 --> 00:23:44,341
I missed him all along the way.
327
00:23:44,507 --> 00:23:47,302
Wherever I went, Peter had been there before me.
328
00:23:47,469 --> 00:23:50,180
At Antioch, they said he'd gone on to Jerusalem.
329
00:23:50,347 --> 00:23:53,224
Others said that he'd set out
for Persia and the East.
330
00:23:53,391 --> 00:23:56,353
Finally, in Corinth,
I learned he was on his way here...
331
00:23:56,519 --> 00:23:58,688
...and that he would come to us any day now.
332
00:23:58,855 --> 00:24:02,108
Peter? In Rome? Magnificent.
333
00:24:02,275 --> 00:24:03,985
All of us.
334
00:24:04,152 --> 00:24:08,573
To be able to speak with a man
who talked with Christ, our Lord.
335
00:24:08,740 --> 00:24:11,618
I saw results of seeds Peter has planted.
336
00:24:11,785 --> 00:24:14,454
Green shoots are sprouting.
There will be a good harvest.
337
00:24:14,621 --> 00:24:18,083
Everywhere, strangers approached
and drew the sign of the fish before me.
338
00:24:18,541 --> 00:24:21,086
And we spoke of the great work ahead.
339
00:24:21,252 --> 00:24:23,880
The work is difficult and dangerous now, Paul.
340
00:24:24,047 --> 00:24:27,050
Ever since you were tried here,
even though you were acquitted...
341
00:24:27,217 --> 00:24:29,386
...Christians are under constant suspicion.
342
00:24:29,552 --> 00:24:32,764
I noticed you seemed worried
in the presence of your two guests.
343
00:24:32,931 --> 00:24:35,892
Believe me, I would have exercised caution.
344
00:24:36,059 --> 00:24:40,522
Though at times, I admit the desire
to cry the message aloud.
345
00:24:40,689 --> 00:24:46,111
But I suppose tactics must be applied
even in the spreading of love and faith.
346
00:24:46,277 --> 00:24:48,905
Be patient, Paul. Your time will come.
347
00:24:49,072 --> 00:24:53,243
Those two vital young men, for instance.
They are Rome.
348
00:24:53,410 --> 00:24:57,372
If we could teach them, we could teach the world.
349
00:25:00,375 --> 00:25:02,585
Marcus Vinicius?
350
00:25:03,294 --> 00:25:05,755
You are asking for miracles.
351
00:25:05,922 --> 00:25:07,632
I am.
352
00:25:08,133 --> 00:25:10,468
I am, indeed.
353
00:25:45,503 --> 00:25:49,174
There is still nothing I see that is not perfection.
354
00:25:51,176 --> 00:25:54,846
However, if you're thinking of me,
as you undoubtedly were...
355
00:25:55,013 --> 00:25:57,474
...do I look that much like a fish?
356
00:25:57,849 --> 00:25:59,392
Oh.
357
00:26:01,644 --> 00:26:04,105
It wasn't anything to do with you.
358
00:26:07,358 --> 00:26:10,862
You're too lovely to be a lonely artist, Lygia.
359
00:26:11,029 --> 00:26:13,531
But then, I did ask you to wait up for me.
360
00:26:13,698 --> 00:26:17,827
- It was merely that I couldn't sleep.
- Nor can I.
361
00:26:18,495 --> 00:26:20,955
I'll tell you what, Lygia. The night's still young.
362
00:26:21,122 --> 00:26:25,210
This place is unworthy of our first meeting.
Let's go into the city to Petronius' house.
363
00:26:25,376 --> 00:26:27,712
There will be gaiety there you've never dreamed of.
364
00:26:27,879 --> 00:26:30,340
Dancers, musicians, singers. The best in Rome.
365
00:26:30,507 --> 00:26:33,885
My uncle's house was built
by the goddess of love herself.
366
00:26:34,052 --> 00:26:36,679
No. No, it's too late, l...
367
00:26:36,846 --> 00:26:38,556
I mean, it's impossible.
368
00:26:38,723 --> 00:26:41,893
Well, we could plan it more discreetly, perhaps.
369
00:26:42,060 --> 00:26:45,355
What about tomorrow?
You'll come see my triumph, won't you?
370
00:26:45,522 --> 00:26:48,191
Tomorrow, there will be
a feast to tempt all the gods.
371
00:26:48,358 --> 00:26:52,362
No. No, I don't wish to watch your triumph.
372
00:26:52,529 --> 00:26:54,864
I must go in now. Good night, commander.
373
00:26:55,031 --> 00:26:56,574
Tell me.
374
00:26:56,741 --> 00:26:58,743
- What is it?
- What?
375
00:26:58,910 --> 00:27:01,496
What is it you see that you don't like?
376
00:27:01,663 --> 00:27:06,376
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't attracted
by what I see, Marcus Vinicius.
377
00:27:06,543 --> 00:27:10,338
- Well, then--
- It's what I hear I don't like.
378
00:27:11,548 --> 00:27:14,676
You see, a man's fame
always brings him fresh enemies.
379
00:27:14,843 --> 00:27:19,389
- Who has been telling you stories about me?
- You have, from your own lips.
380
00:27:19,556 --> 00:27:22,517
Ugly stories of conquests and bloodshed.
381
00:27:22,684 --> 00:27:24,602
Conquest? But what's conquest?
382
00:27:24,769 --> 00:27:27,730
Only method of uniting
and civilizing the world under one power.
383
00:27:27,897 --> 00:27:29,899
- Have to spill a little blood to do it.
- No.
384
00:27:30,066 --> 00:27:33,278
There's a gentler
and more powerful way of doing that.
385
00:27:33,444 --> 00:27:35,530
Without bloodshed and war.
386
00:27:35,697 --> 00:27:40,034
Without slaves and captives bound in chains
to your triumphal chariots, commander.
387
00:27:40,201 --> 00:27:42,453
There will always be slaves. Who will do the work?
388
00:27:42,620 --> 00:27:46,082
Paul speaks of a world
where there would be no slaves.
389
00:27:46,249 --> 00:27:47,709
That beggar-faced philosopher...
390
00:27:47,876 --> 00:27:51,379
...shouldn't be stuffing your
luscious little head with such nonsense.
391
00:27:52,672 --> 00:27:55,884
How could I expect you to understand?
392
00:27:56,050 --> 00:27:58,428
I wish you were a slave, as I first thought.
393
00:27:58,595 --> 00:28:01,472
I'd offer a price for you.
King's ransom for a king's daughter.
394
00:28:01,639 --> 00:28:04,350
And taken me to your estates in Sicily
with all the others?
395
00:28:04,517 --> 00:28:05,977
On a special ship.
396
00:28:06,144 --> 00:28:08,563
What a way for a conqueror to win a woman.
397
00:28:08,730 --> 00:28:12,108
To buy her like an unresisting beast.
398
00:28:12,275 --> 00:28:15,820
What false security you must have
in your heart and soul.
399
00:28:15,987 --> 00:28:19,282
In your manhood, Marcus Vinicius.
400
00:28:19,449 --> 00:28:22,911
What hidden scorn you must have for yourself.
401
00:28:23,077 --> 00:28:26,748
You're forgetting
you're a hostage of Rome, aren't you?
402
00:28:30,293 --> 00:28:33,338
Here, you, hostage, come back here.
403
00:28:33,504 --> 00:28:36,090
- No, commander.
- Out of my way.
404
00:28:36,257 --> 00:28:37,508
I guard her, commander.
405
00:28:37,675 --> 00:28:40,220
By whose orders? Who are you?
406
00:28:40,386 --> 00:28:44,057
I am Ursus. I guarded the king, her father.
407
00:28:44,224 --> 00:28:45,475
I guard her now.
408
00:28:48,519 --> 00:28:52,357
Guard her well, my gray-haired colossus.
409
00:28:52,523 --> 00:28:54,442
Guard her well.
410
00:29:03,785 --> 00:29:06,371
Romance seems to have been short-lived.
411
00:29:08,081 --> 00:29:12,085
There's always a weapon
to bring down a flighty dove, my friend.
412
00:29:15,213 --> 00:29:20,385
And please, dear Lord,
forgive me my anger and my spite.
413
00:29:21,261 --> 00:29:24,013
I do not know what came over me.
414
00:29:24,973 --> 00:29:27,892
It was temptation, perhaps.
415
00:29:28,059 --> 00:29:32,063
A selfish desire that this man might see your light.
416
00:29:32,230 --> 00:29:34,983
For my sake rather than for his.
417
00:29:36,150 --> 00:29:41,030
And yet I pray that one day,
he shall feel the joy of your love.
418
00:29:41,781 --> 00:29:44,742
I pray with all my heart.
419
00:29:48,162 --> 00:29:50,164
[MUSIC PLAYING]
420
00:30:19,944 --> 00:30:21,946
[CHATTERING]
421
00:30:26,826 --> 00:30:29,037
Captain, what's the delay here?
422
00:30:29,203 --> 00:30:31,414
The emperor has not yet appeared on the balcony.
423
00:30:31,581 --> 00:30:34,292
You will hear the trumpets, commander.
424
00:30:49,140 --> 00:30:51,434
Gods of Rome.
425
00:30:51,601 --> 00:30:53,478
Mighty.
426
00:30:53,644 --> 00:30:55,438
Eternal.
427
00:30:55,605 --> 00:31:01,319
Beneath whose auspices, Rome rules the world.
428
00:31:01,486 --> 00:31:03,071
Hear us.
429
00:31:03,237 --> 00:31:05,281
We worship you.
430
00:31:05,448 --> 00:31:07,158
CROWD: We worship you.
431
00:31:08,117 --> 00:31:09,577
Venus...
432
00:31:09,744 --> 00:31:11,329
...goddess of love.
433
00:31:11,496 --> 00:31:13,956
CROWD: We worship.
434
00:31:14,123 --> 00:31:17,668
RUFIA: Mars, god of war.
435
00:31:17,835 --> 00:31:19,462
CROWD: We worship.
436
00:31:19,629 --> 00:31:23,257
RUFIA: Juno, goddess of heaven.
437
00:31:23,424 --> 00:31:25,593
CROWD: We worship.
438
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:29,222
Jupiter, father of the gods.
439
00:31:29,389 --> 00:31:31,641
CROWD: We worship.
440
00:31:31,849 --> 00:31:35,728
And Nero, his divine son.
441
00:31:35,895 --> 00:31:37,897
[CHEERING]
442
00:31:38,940 --> 00:31:40,942
[TRUMPETS PLAYING FLOURISH]
443
00:31:44,862 --> 00:31:47,865
They are impatient, Divinity. They hunger to see you.
444
00:31:48,032 --> 00:31:50,785
They're impatient? What about my patience?
445
00:31:51,202 --> 00:31:54,539
Oho. A triumph to divert them? Who diverts me?
446
00:31:54,705 --> 00:31:58,876
I slave, I agonize for them. I have no privacy.
447
00:31:59,043 --> 00:32:02,380
You are the sun in their heavens.
Does the sun have privacy?
448
00:32:02,547 --> 00:32:06,884
The sun has the night.
They expect me to shine daily, hourly.
449
00:32:07,051 --> 00:32:09,220
And for whom? For the people.
450
00:32:09,387 --> 00:32:12,598
For that foul-smelling rabble.
451
00:32:13,349 --> 00:32:14,809
It's so hot today.
452
00:32:14,976 --> 00:32:18,521
This heat of Rome oppresses me. It stifles me.
453
00:32:18,688 --> 00:32:23,651
They demand too much.
I tell you, this mob, this mob tortures me.
454
00:32:23,818 --> 00:32:26,028
I hate it second only to Rome itself.
455
00:32:26,446 --> 00:32:31,075
The foul breath of that mob floats in my house.
456
00:32:31,242 --> 00:32:33,411
In my garden.
457
00:32:34,245 --> 00:32:36,080
I Wish...
458
00:32:36,247 --> 00:32:37,373
Oh, I Wish...
459
00:32:37,540 --> 00:32:40,626
Your wish, Caesar. Tell me, that I may execute it.
460
00:32:40,793 --> 00:32:45,423
I wish it had but a single throat, that mob,
that I might cut it.
461
00:32:45,590 --> 00:32:47,925
It could be done if your wish were a command.
462
00:32:48,259 --> 00:32:50,178
A typical butcher's solution.
463
00:32:50,595 --> 00:32:53,764
Tigellinus would deprive you
of the one thing an artist must have:
464
00:32:53,931 --> 00:32:56,225
- His audience.
- But they irk me, those people.
465
00:32:56,392 --> 00:32:57,518
They irk me.
466
00:32:57,685 --> 00:32:59,896
Do I live for them or do they live for me?
467
00:33:00,062 --> 00:33:04,233
Unfortunately, Caesar, as a ruler,
you must have subjects to rule.
468
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,611
Sheer population is a necessary evil.
469
00:33:06,777 --> 00:33:09,447
It is easy for Petronius to talk,
but the burden is on you.
470
00:33:10,239 --> 00:33:14,035
On the only shoulders in the world
strong enough to bear it.
471
00:33:15,077 --> 00:33:17,455
That's true, isn't it, Petronius?
472
00:33:18,956 --> 00:33:20,958
It's lonely to be an emperor.
473
00:33:21,125 --> 00:33:23,211
It is lonelier still to be a genius.
474
00:33:24,629 --> 00:33:29,008
You're the only one who understands
the complications of my tortured nature.
475
00:33:29,175 --> 00:33:31,552
Is that not a theme for a poem, Petronius?
476
00:33:31,719 --> 00:33:34,138
It is a theme for an epic, Divinity.
477
00:33:34,305 --> 00:33:37,517
But to write it, you must suffer it.
478
00:33:41,395 --> 00:33:42,772
Yes.
479
00:33:44,398 --> 00:33:47,151
Where is Poppaea? Where is my empress?
480
00:33:47,318 --> 00:33:49,862
Here, lord. Always at your side.
481
00:33:50,029 --> 00:33:51,989
Come. Petronius, you were right.
482
00:33:52,615 --> 00:33:57,328
I must feel it, know it, live it.
483
00:33:57,495 --> 00:33:59,580
Come, Petronius, attend me closely.
484
00:33:59,747 --> 00:34:02,875
Attend me closely in my ordeal.
485
00:34:03,042 --> 00:34:05,044
[TRUMPETS PLAYING]
486
00:34:05,503 --> 00:34:07,505
[CHEERING]
487
00:34:23,521 --> 00:34:26,023
Hail Nero, son of Jupiter.
488
00:34:26,190 --> 00:34:28,359
Look at him, my darling, the emperor.
489
00:34:28,526 --> 00:34:31,612
- Wife killer. Mother killer.
- Quiet, woman, you'll have us all--
490
00:34:31,779 --> 00:34:34,365
Everybody knows it. He's a beast.
491
00:34:34,532 --> 00:34:36,367
Quiet.
492
00:34:36,534 --> 00:34:38,953
No man is a beast.
493
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,372
Look at him and know that he is but sick.
494
00:34:41,539 --> 00:34:45,960
Sick in heart and spirit, in his soul.
495
00:34:47,670 --> 00:34:51,632
You were right, Petronius. How they love me.
496
00:34:51,799 --> 00:34:53,968
How, indeed.
497
00:34:56,470 --> 00:34:58,472
[PLAYING]
498
00:35:12,486 --> 00:35:14,488
[DRUMS BEATING]
499
00:36:38,072 --> 00:36:40,950
Remember, thou art only a man.
500
00:36:56,841 --> 00:36:59,844
Remember, thou art only a man.
501
00:37:37,256 --> 00:37:39,842
Marcus Vinicius.
502
00:37:40,009 --> 00:37:42,928
Isn't he the one who came to see Nero yesterday?
503
00:37:43,095 --> 00:37:45,723
An arrogant man. He bears watching.
504
00:37:45,890 --> 00:37:50,060
From what I hear, he might bear
watching at much closer range.
505
00:37:50,227 --> 00:37:52,938
Poppaea, what are you muttering about? Ha-ha.
506
00:37:53,105 --> 00:37:54,940
Come closer.
507
00:37:55,566 --> 00:38:01,405
Look, they march as they fight.
Strong, brave, relentless.
508
00:38:01,572 --> 00:38:04,033
Our unconquerable children.
509
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,036
We must take them to our breast.
510
00:38:07,203 --> 00:38:09,580
Yes, my lord.
511
00:38:18,589 --> 00:38:20,299
PETRONIUS: Well.
512
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:22,593
The hero at last.
513
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,805
You know, Marcus, usually one
is embarrassed by one's relatives...
514
00:38:25,971 --> 00:38:27,473
...but today I was proud of you.
515
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:29,517
Hot work in that sun. A hippodrome.
516
00:38:29,683 --> 00:38:32,353
The emperor positively adores you.
517
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,980
He called you his brave, relentless child.
518
00:38:36,106 --> 00:38:40,778
If you play your hand well, you can have
a military governorship. Egypt, perhaps.
519
00:38:42,530 --> 00:38:46,367
Sit down. Relax before you take your bath.
520
00:38:47,159 --> 00:38:48,994
Oh, very well.
521
00:38:49,161 --> 00:38:52,248
And taste this. Straight from the vines of Olympus.
522
00:38:52,414 --> 00:38:56,126
Your Sicilian vintages will pale to nothing.
523
00:38:58,671 --> 00:39:01,298
- Well?
- What's the law regarding hostages?
524
00:39:01,841 --> 00:39:02,967
Hostages?
525
00:39:03,300 --> 00:39:05,135
Can they be bought, reassigned, what?
526
00:39:05,302 --> 00:39:06,637
Well...
527
00:39:07,972 --> 00:39:09,932
I take it this hostage is female?
528
00:39:10,099 --> 00:39:12,810
Head to toe, hip to hip. What's the law?
529
00:39:12,977 --> 00:39:15,855
When you see what I have for you,
you'll think of nothing else.
530
00:39:16,021 --> 00:39:17,064
Now, this is the...
531
00:39:18,148 --> 00:39:20,150
Well, here she is.
532
00:39:21,610 --> 00:39:23,237
Bring her here.
533
00:39:25,531 --> 00:39:29,869
Your exquisite wildflower
from the hills of Spain, Marcus.
534
00:39:30,035 --> 00:39:33,038
- What's her name? I've forgotten.
- You called me Eunice, my lord.
535
00:39:33,205 --> 00:39:34,290
ANAXANDER: Silence.
536
00:39:34,748 --> 00:39:36,083
Oh, yes.
537
00:39:36,250 --> 00:39:38,168
Eunice.
538
00:39:39,628 --> 00:39:40,838
Lift your chin, Eunice.
539
00:39:43,632 --> 00:39:46,385
Did you ever see such skin, Marcus?
540
00:39:46,552 --> 00:39:49,138
Turn around, slowly.
541
00:39:52,057 --> 00:39:54,184
Flawless proportions.
542
00:39:55,603 --> 00:39:57,187
Fold your arms behind your head.
543
00:40:01,150 --> 00:40:03,944
Makes one wish one were a sculptor.
544
00:40:04,111 --> 00:40:05,529
Lovely.
545
00:40:05,696 --> 00:40:08,449
Enough of my collector's enthusiasm.
She's the commander's.
546
00:40:08,616 --> 00:40:10,367
Take her to his apartment.
547
00:40:10,868 --> 00:40:12,202
I won't go.
548
00:40:12,369 --> 00:40:14,038
What did you say?
549
00:40:14,204 --> 00:40:15,623
Don't give me away, my lord.
550
00:40:15,789 --> 00:40:18,709
Whip me, beat me, but don't send me from here.
551
00:40:18,876 --> 00:40:21,170
Don't send me from you, my lord.
552
00:40:21,337 --> 00:40:23,297
You can stay here, girl. I don't want you.
553
00:40:23,464 --> 00:40:24,757
You don't want her?
554
00:40:24,924 --> 00:40:28,344
And I refused an offer from Seneca
of six Arabian stallions.
555
00:40:28,510 --> 00:40:31,055
Keep her, Petronius. She's yours.
556
00:40:31,221 --> 00:40:33,474
Well, by the body of Juno.
557
00:40:34,016 --> 00:40:36,560
Nevertheless, give her five lashes for impertinence.
558
00:40:36,727 --> 00:40:38,354
You won't give me away, then, lord?
559
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:40,230
That depends on your future conduct.
560
00:40:40,397 --> 00:40:42,983
Oh, yes. Yes, my good lord.
561
00:40:46,236 --> 00:40:47,529
Ply the lash carefully, now.
562
00:40:47,696 --> 00:40:48,906
Don't damage her skin.
563
00:40:49,073 --> 00:40:50,908
ANAXANDER: No, master.
564
00:40:51,742 --> 00:40:55,454
Tell me, now. Can one purchase a hostage?
565
00:40:55,788 --> 00:40:58,165
Where is this precious gem?
566
00:40:58,332 --> 00:41:00,751
At Plautius' place. You should see her.
567
00:41:00,918 --> 00:41:03,045
A fiery young Lygian. She throws flames at you.
568
00:41:03,212 --> 00:41:05,005
A Lygian?
569
00:41:05,589 --> 00:41:08,759
Yes, I do recall a child assigned to him.
570
00:41:08,926 --> 00:41:10,886
It was some years ago, I'd forgotten.
571
00:41:11,053 --> 00:41:12,888
How can I get my hands on her?
572
00:41:13,055 --> 00:41:16,308
Hostages are wards of the state. She belongs to Nero.
573
00:41:16,475 --> 00:41:18,519
Perfect. He would give me Egypt?
574
00:41:18,686 --> 00:41:21,605
He can keep Egypt and give me Lygia.
We'll go to the palace.
575
00:41:23,482 --> 00:41:26,276
Plautius may not be in accord with this.
576
00:41:26,443 --> 00:41:28,153
Well, she will be.
577
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,031
They've sentimentalized her into an adopted daughter.
578
00:41:31,198 --> 00:41:33,951
Philosophers, teachers, fools.
579
00:41:34,118 --> 00:41:36,662
This one wasn't born to think, she was born to feel.
580
00:41:36,829 --> 00:41:42,459
But, Marcus, with Plautius regarding her
as his daughter, I mean, is this ethical?
581
00:41:42,626 --> 00:41:44,586
After all, he was a general of the empire.
582
00:41:44,753 --> 00:41:46,964
I'll have her if I have to abduct her.
583
00:41:48,298 --> 00:41:50,509
I sense a certain frustration.
584
00:41:50,676 --> 00:41:53,804
Is your little barbarian
entirely in sympathy with your plan?
585
00:41:53,971 --> 00:41:56,724
She'll be cooing like a pigeon
in the right circumstances.
586
00:41:57,641 --> 00:42:00,019
I wish I had your confidence.
587
00:42:00,185 --> 00:42:04,732
I've never been able to discover
an honest warmth in any woman.
588
00:42:28,213 --> 00:42:31,216
Oh, my dear, beautiful lord.
589
00:42:31,383 --> 00:42:33,218
I love you so.
590
00:42:33,385 --> 00:42:37,014
Please, how can I let you know?
591
00:42:50,152 --> 00:42:52,154
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
592
00:42:54,031 --> 00:42:55,032
OFFICER: Open.
593
00:42:55,199 --> 00:42:56,700
Open in the name of the emperor.
594
00:43:03,290 --> 00:43:05,334
I have an order from the emperor.
595
00:43:05,501 --> 00:43:07,044
- POMPONIA: Yes?
- For the hostage, Lygia.
596
00:43:07,211 --> 00:43:10,339
My orders are to take her
to the women's quarters in the palace.
597
00:43:10,506 --> 00:43:11,673
She's not a slave.
598
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:13,050
She is our daughter.
599
00:43:13,217 --> 00:43:15,886
My orders are to take her at once.
600
00:43:18,972 --> 00:43:20,974
[CHATTERING]
601
00:43:43,497 --> 00:43:45,249
Wait here.
602
00:44:03,225 --> 00:44:04,601
You are the hostage, Lygia?
603
00:44:05,435 --> 00:44:07,062
Yes.
604
00:44:07,437 --> 00:44:10,232
Welcome to Nero's house of women.
605
00:44:10,399 --> 00:44:12,526
My name is Acte, I am in charge here.
606
00:44:12,693 --> 00:44:14,862
May I ask why I am here?
607
00:44:15,237 --> 00:44:17,990
I would say you have attracted the attention
of the emperor.
608
00:44:18,157 --> 00:44:20,033
And you have been commanded to the feast.
609
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:21,827
But the emperor has never seen me.
610
00:44:21,994 --> 00:44:23,662
There must be some other reason.
611
00:44:23,829 --> 00:44:28,458
Nero ordered you brought here,
just as I was brought here seven years ago.
612
00:44:28,625 --> 00:44:31,086
He loved me then, more than he knew.
613
00:44:31,253 --> 00:44:34,131
Prepare the bath, oil of lilies.
614
00:44:34,298 --> 00:44:37,759
And bring me the beaded cloth from Persia,
mostly blues, I think.
615
00:44:37,926 --> 00:44:41,054
And, yes, the strand of fine gold at the waist.
616
00:44:45,642 --> 00:44:47,686
I am not honored by this.
617
00:44:47,853 --> 00:44:51,231
You were brought up in the home
of Plautius and Pomponia, weren't you?
618
00:44:51,398 --> 00:44:53,442
Yes. Yes, do you know them?
619
00:44:53,609 --> 00:44:54,818
I know of them.
620
00:44:54,985 --> 00:44:58,155
- Lygia, child, listen to me.
- Yes, yes, yes, chatter, chatter, chatter.
621
00:44:58,322 --> 00:45:00,532
You'd think each one had the hair of a queen.
622
00:45:00,699 --> 00:45:04,161
Well, this one has possibilities at least.
623
00:45:05,829 --> 00:45:07,998
What were you going to tell me?
624
00:45:09,333 --> 00:45:12,127
Simply that you are the chosen guest of Nero.
625
00:45:12,294 --> 00:45:14,755
You are in the hands of the master of the world.
626
00:45:14,922 --> 00:45:19,551
You will have to consider that
your good fortune and your fate.
627
00:45:22,095 --> 00:45:24,097
[MUSIC PLAYING]
628
00:45:26,767 --> 00:45:28,769
[CHATTERING]
629
00:45:34,983 --> 00:45:37,110
The hostage, Lygia.
630
00:45:38,820 --> 00:45:40,447
Aren't you coming?
631
00:45:40,614 --> 00:45:43,158
The emperor did not ask me.
632
00:46:17,985 --> 00:46:20,279
She needed a poet, not a soldier, to describe her.
633
00:46:20,445 --> 00:46:22,906
Everything's there but the smile.
634
00:46:23,490 --> 00:46:25,659
I leave that to you.
635
00:46:26,368 --> 00:46:28,078
Petronius is quite right.
636
00:46:28,245 --> 00:46:29,579
I wish I were a poet.
637
00:46:30,914 --> 00:46:33,750
But I had you escorted here in great honor.
638
00:46:33,917 --> 00:46:36,044
I deserve a smile for that.
639
00:46:36,211 --> 00:46:38,005
It was gracious of you.
640
00:46:38,171 --> 00:46:42,467
Ten big, strong Praetorian Guards
to support my eagerness to come.
641
00:46:42,634 --> 00:46:44,219
Well said, Lygia.
642
00:46:44,386 --> 00:46:48,515
But you know a caravan of rare
merchandise is always well-guarded.
643
00:46:48,682 --> 00:46:50,058
And you belong here, Lygia.
644
00:46:50,809 --> 00:46:53,312
A king's daughter in a royal palace.
645
00:46:53,478 --> 00:46:56,606
That's something
you should have a natural appetite for.
646
00:46:57,941 --> 00:47:00,777
And I can tell you,
you have other natural appetites too.
647
00:47:00,944 --> 00:47:03,530
Hasn't old Dull-Beard,
your philosopher friend, Paul...
648
00:47:03,697 --> 00:47:05,657
...told you about those?
649
00:47:06,199 --> 00:47:09,286
Or has he lived in a cave all his life?
650
00:47:09,703 --> 00:47:12,581
You should have seen my triumph today.
It was quite a display.
651
00:47:12,748 --> 00:47:17,127
I looked for you, but then, I imagine
they had you chained to a peach tree.
652
00:47:17,627 --> 00:47:21,548
Here. The panacea for all reticence.
653
00:47:24,551 --> 00:47:25,969
You're right.
654
00:47:26,136 --> 00:47:28,638
Your mouth has its own sweetness.
655
00:47:28,805 --> 00:47:31,141
I know I'll find it so.
656
00:47:31,808 --> 00:47:33,477
Don't look so frightened, Lygia.
657
00:47:33,643 --> 00:47:36,146
I'm no heartless, unfeeling machine of war.
658
00:47:36,313 --> 00:47:39,483
I won't rush upon you like a boulder from a catapult.
659
00:47:39,649 --> 00:47:42,527
You've only to relax, smile a little,
and before you know it--
660
00:47:42,694 --> 00:47:44,363
I can think of nothing...
661
00:47:44,529 --> 00:47:49,117
...pray for nothing but that this is over soon,
so that you can send me home again.
662
00:47:49,284 --> 00:47:50,911
Home?
663
00:47:51,078 --> 00:47:52,662
Yes.
664
00:47:52,829 --> 00:47:54,831
[TRUMPETS PLAYING FLOURISH]
665
00:48:01,588 --> 00:48:04,132
CROWD: Hail Nero.
666
00:48:05,717 --> 00:48:07,511
Hail Nero.
667
00:48:10,931 --> 00:48:12,641
Hail Nero.
668
00:48:19,189 --> 00:48:22,984
Have you ever seen your emperor
and your god this close before?
669
00:48:24,111 --> 00:48:28,740
No, I have never seen Nero this close before.
670
00:48:29,533 --> 00:48:31,535
[MUSIC PLAYING]
671
00:48:54,766 --> 00:48:56,184
Same faces.
672
00:48:56,351 --> 00:48:58,395
Same noses.
673
00:48:58,562 --> 00:49:00,730
All green.
674
00:49:00,897 --> 00:49:04,734
Just for variety, divine lord, try a ruby.
675
00:49:25,130 --> 00:49:27,299
Is that the hostage I brought for Vinicius?
676
00:49:27,924 --> 00:49:29,968
Oh, yes, yes, Divinity.
677
00:49:30,135 --> 00:49:31,178
Mm, Vinicius has an eye.
678
00:49:31,344 --> 00:49:32,512
She's exquisite.
679
00:49:33,096 --> 00:49:34,389
You are generous, lord.
680
00:49:34,556 --> 00:49:36,808
Perhaps you've overlooked something for yourself.
681
00:49:36,975 --> 00:49:38,435
Yes.
682
00:49:38,602 --> 00:49:40,645
What do you think, Petronius?
683
00:49:40,812 --> 00:49:42,355
Put a dress on an olive stump...
684
00:49:42,522 --> 00:49:45,275
...and my poor, untutored nephew
would call it beautiful.
685
00:49:45,442 --> 00:49:47,694
I know your incomparable judgment, Divinity.
686
00:49:47,861 --> 00:49:50,614
And I'll wager you've already decided,
even from here...
687
00:49:50,780 --> 00:49:53,950
...that she is too narrow in the hips.
688
00:49:54,618 --> 00:49:57,621
Yes, yes, that's exactly what I think.
689
00:49:57,787 --> 00:50:00,123
Dear Poppaea, one woman should neverjudge another.
690
00:50:00,290 --> 00:50:03,460
She hasn't the glands for it. Ha-ha-ha.
691
00:50:03,627 --> 00:50:05,045
Isn't that witty, Petronius?
692
00:50:05,212 --> 00:50:07,589
Among the gods, your humor is unique.
693
00:50:08,632 --> 00:50:10,342
Dear Petronius.
694
00:50:10,509 --> 00:50:12,302
Oh, yes.
695
00:50:12,469 --> 00:50:14,638
Too narrow in the hip.
696
00:50:22,521 --> 00:50:25,232
Sing for us, Divinity, sing for us.
697
00:50:28,818 --> 00:50:30,195
MAN: Sing for us, sing for us.
698
00:50:30,362 --> 00:50:33,657
I had almost come to a tragic decision.
699
00:50:33,823 --> 00:50:37,452
I had decided not to sing for you tonight.
700
00:50:37,619 --> 00:50:39,162
MAN: We beseech thee.
701
00:50:39,329 --> 00:50:41,122
My throat hurts.
702
00:50:41,289 --> 00:50:44,876
And when one has been given a divine gift,
one should not jeopardize it.
703
00:50:45,043 --> 00:50:48,129
But I am not the only one afflicted.
704
00:50:48,296 --> 00:50:50,715
My empress has a headache.
705
00:50:50,882 --> 00:50:53,176
And the only thing which will bring her relief...
706
00:50:53,343 --> 00:50:54,719
...is the sound of my voice.
707
00:50:54,886 --> 00:50:59,140
You promised to sing, or I would not be here.
708
00:50:59,683 --> 00:51:01,142
I'm totally unprepared.
709
00:51:02,561 --> 00:51:05,897
So I must compose as I sing.
710
00:51:08,942 --> 00:51:10,944
[SINGING]
711
00:52:10,795 --> 00:52:11,880
MAN: Bravo.
712
00:52:12,213 --> 00:52:13,882
[CHEERING]
713
00:52:15,925 --> 00:52:18,303
You must be content with that.
714
00:52:18,928 --> 00:52:20,597
My throat.
715
00:52:20,764 --> 00:52:22,432
[TRUMPETS PLAYING FLOURISH]
716
00:52:22,599 --> 00:52:24,100
[CHEERING]
717
00:52:35,945 --> 00:52:38,239
Watch Croton. He's killed over 300 opponents.
718
00:52:38,406 --> 00:52:41,701
He could twist the head off your Ursus
before he knew what touched him.
719
00:52:42,243 --> 00:52:46,039
Orpheus at this moment must be as yellow
with envy as our poet Lucan.
720
00:52:46,206 --> 00:52:49,209
I am as a candle next to the sun.
721
00:52:49,959 --> 00:52:52,629
And you, Petronius, what do you say?
722
00:52:52,796 --> 00:52:58,134
I say that your verses are common
and fit only for the fire they celebrate.
723
00:52:58,677 --> 00:53:00,428
Farewell, Petronius.
724
00:53:01,179 --> 00:53:02,639
What defect do you find in them?
725
00:53:02,806 --> 00:53:06,309
Well, your verses would be worthy of Ovid,
of Virgil, even of Homer.
726
00:53:06,476 --> 00:53:07,977
But they are not worthy of you.
727
00:53:08,144 --> 00:53:10,563
The conflagration you describe does not blaze enough.
728
00:53:10,730 --> 00:53:13,274
It is not all-consuming.
729
00:53:13,441 --> 00:53:17,237
Had Lucan here written these verses,
I should acknowledge him a genius.
730
00:53:17,404 --> 00:53:21,741
But you can create a work
such as the world has never known.
731
00:53:22,492 --> 00:53:24,953
Therefore, I say this to your eyes.
732
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:27,247
Take greater pains.
733
00:53:27,414 --> 00:53:31,126
The gods have given me a certain talent,
but they've given me something greater.
734
00:53:31,292 --> 00:53:32,794
A true judge and friend.
735
00:53:32,961 --> 00:53:36,464
I thought it sufficient to equal Homer.
You have opened my eyes.
736
00:53:36,631 --> 00:53:39,676
Then all men, born and unborn, are my debtors.
737
00:53:39,843 --> 00:53:40,927
You're right.
738
00:53:41,094 --> 00:53:43,930
My conflagration does not burn enough.
739
00:53:46,349 --> 00:53:47,517
And do you know why?
740
00:53:49,060 --> 00:53:51,896
I've never seen a burning city.
741
00:53:53,356 --> 00:53:57,444
You said one must suffer an experience
to re-create it.
742
00:53:57,610 --> 00:54:00,280
A sculptor has his model. I had no model.
743
00:54:00,739 --> 00:54:03,366
To burn a city in order to create an epic.
744
00:54:03,533 --> 00:54:06,661
That's carrying the principle
of art for art's sake too far.
745
00:54:08,538 --> 00:54:10,665
Soon the spring will be over.
746
00:54:10,832 --> 00:54:13,334
The summer heat will begin.
747
00:54:13,710 --> 00:54:17,297
What stenches will arise from Rome?
748
00:54:20,175 --> 00:54:23,219
I shall move the court to Antium.
749
00:54:44,240 --> 00:54:47,243
You did not observe Croton's masterful stroke.
750
00:54:47,410 --> 00:54:48,912
I was not the only one.
751
00:54:49,078 --> 00:54:51,706
Vinicius has hardly taken his eyes from her.
752
00:54:51,873 --> 00:54:54,042
She must be truly exciting.
753
00:54:54,209 --> 00:54:57,170
I must see this for myself.
754
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:05,345
But it was a fair match.
It could have been one or the other.
755
00:55:06,513 --> 00:55:08,723
You seemed pleased with my gift, commander.
756
00:55:08,890 --> 00:55:11,643
Is it enough, in the light of your service?
757
00:55:12,519 --> 00:55:14,270
Or isn't it?
758
00:55:14,771 --> 00:55:16,397
Do you know, lovely one?
759
00:55:16,564 --> 00:55:17,607
Has he told you?
760
00:55:17,774 --> 00:55:20,401
No, Caesar, I thought it should come from you.
761
00:55:20,944 --> 00:55:23,780
Know then, Lygia,
that I have given you to Marcus Vinicius...
762
00:55:23,947 --> 00:55:27,909
...as a reward for his devotion to me
and his brilliant service on the battlefield.
763
00:55:28,409 --> 00:55:31,454
Henceforth, your guardian
is no longer General Plautius.
764
00:55:31,955 --> 00:55:34,958
You belong to the household of Vinicius.
765
00:55:38,044 --> 00:55:42,882
On closer inspection, I find it a fair reward.
766
00:55:43,049 --> 00:55:46,261
Perhaps excessive.
767
00:55:46,427 --> 00:55:49,931
Except, of course,
as you so wisely observed, Divinity.
768
00:55:50,098 --> 00:55:51,808
Oh, yes.
769
00:55:53,351 --> 00:55:56,312
Too narrow in the hips. Ha-ha.
770
00:55:56,479 --> 00:55:58,231
Let us go and greet my guests.
771
00:56:03,278 --> 00:56:04,320
Now you know, Lygia.
772
00:56:05,113 --> 00:56:08,032
And there were moments
when I thought I could love you.
773
00:56:08,199 --> 00:56:11,369
Make use of your beauty, live with me.
Love as you were made to love.
774
00:56:11,536 --> 00:56:15,331
What difference does it make
whether I love, now that you own me'?
775
00:56:15,498 --> 00:56:17,792
You have but to give the word, the command.
776
00:56:17,959 --> 00:56:19,794
The small, empty command.
777
00:56:19,961 --> 00:56:22,463
Yes, I own you. You realize that, don't you?
778
00:56:22,630 --> 00:56:25,675
You realize I can take you
and have you flogged until you love me?
779
00:56:25,842 --> 00:56:28,136
Take me, then. Take me to your house, anything.
780
00:56:28,303 --> 00:56:31,097
Take me and you'll hear nothing from me
but a prayer for you.
781
00:56:31,264 --> 00:56:32,682
- Lygia.
- Commander Vinicius.
782
00:56:32,849 --> 00:56:36,352
The empress requests your presence at once.
783
00:56:36,644 --> 00:56:38,187
Very well.
784
00:56:39,606 --> 00:56:43,860
Here. Take this girl to the house of Gaius Petronius.
785
00:56:44,027 --> 00:56:46,529
Put her in charge of Anaxander,
master of slaves there.
786
00:56:46,696 --> 00:56:47,947
Yes, commander.
787
00:56:48,239 --> 00:56:50,408
Tears have but one use, Lygia.
788
00:56:50,575 --> 00:56:52,785
As a prelude to joy.
789
00:56:52,952 --> 00:56:55,371
Remember that while you wait for me.
790
00:57:10,178 --> 00:57:13,389
You seem to have been having difficulty
in proving your ownership.
791
00:57:13,556 --> 00:57:16,392
A young mare often enjoys fighting the bit, empress.
792
00:57:17,060 --> 00:57:20,772
I've always found conflict
between man and woman a waste of time.
793
00:57:20,939 --> 00:57:23,399
It consumes so much...
794
00:57:23,566 --> 00:57:25,193
So much vitality.
795
00:57:26,361 --> 00:57:27,654
Well said, empress.
796
00:57:28,154 --> 00:57:29,906
I am not your empress.
797
00:57:30,073 --> 00:57:32,951
I'm a priestess of Amon, and you are the serpent.
798
00:57:33,117 --> 00:57:34,994
Therefore, poison is in your mouth.
799
00:57:36,537 --> 00:57:40,708
And I have a taste for poison, Marcus.
800
00:57:40,959 --> 00:57:43,711
To change to a serpent, that might take time.
801
00:57:46,464 --> 00:57:49,008
I can bring that about.
802
00:57:50,009 --> 00:57:52,887
Those are Commander Vinicius' orders.
803
00:58:08,152 --> 00:58:11,364
Here. Oh, how clumsy of me.
804
00:58:12,824 --> 00:58:15,868
You see, I know your symbol,
even though I'm not yet one of you.
805
00:58:16,035 --> 00:58:18,037
Have courage, child.
806
00:58:19,664 --> 00:58:20,707
Come along.
807
00:58:20,873 --> 00:58:24,419
Bear in mind, your fate is determined
by the greatest power in this world.
808
00:58:24,585 --> 00:58:26,713
His will be done.
809
00:59:27,273 --> 00:59:29,192
Aulus, my dear, you must get some sleep.
810
00:59:29,358 --> 00:59:31,569
I'll call you as soon as Ursus sends word.
811
00:59:31,736 --> 00:59:34,363
We should be hearing from Ursus soon
no matter what happened.
812
00:59:34,530 --> 00:59:36,199
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
813
00:59:46,834 --> 00:59:48,503
Good morning.
814
00:59:52,131 --> 00:59:55,093
You're right, perhaps we'd better
ignore the formalities.
815
00:59:55,259 --> 00:59:57,678
Will you tell Lygia I have come for her?
816
00:59:57,845 --> 01:00:00,389
We've not seen Lygia since she was taken from us.
817
01:00:01,641 --> 01:00:02,975
Bring Lygia here at once.
818
01:00:03,142 --> 01:00:05,019
I tell you, we don't know where she is.
819
01:00:06,187 --> 01:00:09,649
- You're lying, general.
- I do not lie.
820
01:00:09,816 --> 01:00:13,820
On my oath as a Roman officer,
so that you can understand, I do not lie.
821
01:00:13,986 --> 01:00:15,905
You may search the house if you wish.
822
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:18,741
You refuse to say anything more?
823
01:00:19,992 --> 01:00:22,787
Only this: that you've violated our hospitality...
824
01:00:22,954 --> 01:00:24,664
...in the cruelest way a man could.
825
01:00:24,831 --> 01:00:26,415
Hospitality?
826
01:00:26,582 --> 01:00:29,001
You're overlooking our law of hostages, aren't you?
827
01:00:29,168 --> 01:00:31,921
The emperor assigned Lygia to my care.
She's my property.
828
01:00:32,088 --> 01:00:34,173
You're overlooking what's happening to Rome.
829
01:00:34,340 --> 01:00:35,675
To the world, Vinicius.
830
01:00:35,842 --> 01:00:39,220
It's such laws as this
that will tumble its foundations.
831
01:00:39,387 --> 01:00:43,933
Your emperor, your god, Nero,
bathed in his own infamy.
832
01:00:44,100 --> 01:00:47,937
- Aulus, my dear, please.
- I understand your concern.
833
01:00:48,187 --> 01:00:51,566
I hope I shall continue to forget
what I just heard, general.
834
01:00:51,732 --> 01:00:53,442
Marcus.
835
01:00:54,944 --> 01:00:56,737
My dear young Marcus.
836
01:00:56,904 --> 01:01:02,410
I want to call you that because
for all of your rank, you could be my son.
837
01:01:02,577 --> 01:01:04,704
A woman of my years is not unaware of things.
838
01:01:04,871 --> 01:01:08,291
Lygia's eyes were drawn to you. I saw that.
839
01:01:08,457 --> 01:01:11,460
And they would not have been
if deep down inside of you...
840
01:01:11,627 --> 01:01:14,589
...you were this cold, this relentless.
841
01:01:14,755 --> 01:01:20,052
Look in your heart, Marcus, and
recognize the truth of you that should be.
842
01:01:35,151 --> 01:01:38,154
Well, as long as you return empty-handed...
843
01:01:38,321 --> 01:01:40,615
...sit down and fill your obviously empty stomach.
844
01:01:40,781 --> 01:01:43,242
They claim to know nothing of her. Plautius is lying.
845
01:01:44,076 --> 01:01:46,996
Forget the whole undignified whim
and come with me to Antium.
846
01:01:47,163 --> 01:01:50,499
There's something strange about Plautius
and that household.
847
01:01:50,666 --> 01:01:53,169
By the gods, they don't even talk like Romans.
848
01:01:53,336 --> 01:01:56,672
And their friend, a fellow from Tarsus named Paul.
849
01:01:56,839 --> 01:01:59,592
Paul, you say? Of Tarsus?
850
01:01:59,759 --> 01:02:03,179
Yes, he's some fool philosopher I met there.
851
01:02:04,013 --> 01:02:06,474
Paul of Tarsus.
852
01:02:07,725 --> 01:02:10,144
My poor Marcus.
853
01:02:10,311 --> 01:02:12,813
This is drama for the ages.
854
01:02:12,980 --> 01:02:16,025
You picked the cherished egg in a nest of Christians.
855
01:02:16,192 --> 01:02:20,112
She's a Christian,
and Christians have spirited her away.
856
01:02:20,279 --> 01:02:23,532
Christians. Are they the ones
who worship some dead carpenter?
857
01:02:23,699 --> 01:02:24,700
Yes, that's right.
858
01:02:24,867 --> 01:02:28,162
A rebel against the state, a Jew called Christ.
859
01:02:28,329 --> 01:02:30,206
Crucified in Palestine, as I remember.
860
01:02:30,623 --> 01:02:31,791
The sect is a secret one.
861
01:02:31,958 --> 01:02:34,710
It consists of Jews, Greeks, and many others...
862
01:02:34,877 --> 01:02:38,297
...who meet in secret and spread
their superstitions among the Romans.
863
01:02:38,464 --> 01:02:40,841
They are a constant worry to Nero and the senate.
864
01:02:41,008 --> 01:02:44,011
Tigellinus is always collecting
a group of them for questioning--
865
01:02:44,178 --> 01:02:48,099
This calls for a detachment of Praetorians.
I'll tell Tigellinus to start a search.
866
01:02:48,266 --> 01:02:49,809
Well, now, wait.
867
01:02:49,976 --> 01:02:53,813
My dear boy, that not only lacks dignity...
868
01:02:53,980 --> 01:02:56,399
...but these Christians are known to be resourceful.
869
01:02:56,565 --> 01:03:00,569
An open display of force will only bury
your little hostage deeper in the nest.
870
01:03:00,736 --> 01:03:02,989
What do you suggest? That I join the scurvy group?
871
01:03:03,906 --> 01:03:07,451
Listen, I know of a Greek, a man called Chilo.
872
01:03:07,618 --> 01:03:11,914
He's a self-styled soothsayer,
astrologer, and diviner of mysteries.
873
01:03:12,081 --> 01:03:17,586
I've no doubt he'd show the way
to your escaped Lygia before nightfall.
874
01:03:18,587 --> 01:03:20,423
- Anaxander?
- Yes, master?
875
01:03:20,589 --> 01:03:22,717
You know the house of Chilo?
876
01:03:23,676 --> 01:03:26,178
- Yes, master.
- My nephew has urgent business there.
877
01:03:26,345 --> 01:03:27,680
- Escort him.
- Yes, master.
878
01:03:27,847 --> 01:03:32,768
Well, your advice has certain merit.
I'll give your Greek a chance.
879
01:03:32,935 --> 01:03:36,105
- If you find her, bring her to Antium.
- I'll send you word.
880
01:03:43,279 --> 01:03:46,699
You have heard, Eunice? ls not love a madness?
881
01:03:48,451 --> 01:03:52,038
Do not ask me, lord. I am among the mad.
882
01:03:52,913 --> 01:03:53,956
You love someone?
883
01:03:56,792 --> 01:03:59,628
It was once prophesied by an old woman...
884
01:03:59,795 --> 01:04:03,215
...that both pain and happiness would visit me.
885
01:04:03,382 --> 01:04:05,801
That's a safe prophesy about any human.
886
01:04:05,968 --> 01:04:10,806
She spoke a rhyme, in which she said
my true fate was hidden.
887
01:04:11,640 --> 01:04:12,975
Well?
888
01:04:14,518 --> 01:04:19,899
Anon shall Venus rise From out the violet Roman sea
889
01:04:20,566 --> 01:04:26,238
And bear two lovers in her arms Towards eternity
890
01:04:29,033 --> 01:04:30,618
Whom do you love? Anaxander?
891
01:04:33,662 --> 01:04:35,039
Mirmillon?
892
01:04:36,165 --> 01:04:38,000
Oh, your beloved is not of this house?
893
01:04:40,669 --> 01:04:42,338
He is, my lord.
894
01:04:48,928 --> 01:04:54,350
What if I said that today you should go
with me to the violet Roman sea?
895
01:04:55,935 --> 01:05:01,315
I'd swoon with happiness.
Only you haven't said it, my lord.
896
01:05:01,482 --> 01:05:03,484
Then go ready yourself for Antium.
897
01:05:07,613 --> 01:05:12,952
- You haven't yet swooned.
- I have no time, my lord.
898
01:05:13,619 --> 01:05:17,790
I have no time. I have no time.
899
01:05:21,794 --> 01:05:23,212
Yes, yes.
900
01:05:23,379 --> 01:05:27,383
Hearing all this, I vow you've come
to the right man, Marcus Vinicius.
901
01:05:27,550 --> 01:05:28,968
Speak. Can you find this girl?
902
01:05:29,135 --> 01:05:32,721
Patience, lord. I must first verify
if she is truly of this Christian breed.
903
01:05:33,639 --> 01:05:36,475
- My lord, do you read Greek?
- Passably.
904
01:05:36,642 --> 01:05:39,270
Look here, then. What does that say?
905
01:05:40,229 --> 01:05:45,818
- "Jesus Christ, Son of God, savior."
- Exactly.
906
01:05:45,985 --> 01:05:49,029
So it's the name of their dead God.
I've seen no such symbols.
907
01:05:49,196 --> 01:05:51,740
Ah, but observe the first letters of each word.
908
01:05:51,907 --> 01:05:53,993
What do they spell?
909
01:05:54,910 --> 01:05:58,747
I-C-T-H-U-S, icthus.
910
01:05:58,914 --> 01:06:01,667
The Greek word for fish.
911
01:06:03,669 --> 01:06:07,882
Have you seen the symbol of a fish in all this?
912
01:06:08,424 --> 01:06:10,593
Fish, why should I have seen a...?
913
01:06:12,553 --> 01:06:16,265
- She once drew one.
- Aha. Their sign of recognition.
914
01:06:16,432 --> 01:06:17,641
[CHUCKLES]
915
01:06:18,267 --> 01:06:21,103
Fish are caught with a bait
and Christians with a fish.
916
01:06:21,270 --> 01:06:23,272
How do I find her? Where are the gatherings?
917
01:06:23,439 --> 01:06:25,608
They practice foul rites at night...
918
01:06:25,774 --> 01:06:28,194
...in certain caves and old ruins outside the city.
919
01:06:28,360 --> 01:06:31,197
- Is there a gathering tonight?
- Possibly, lord.
920
01:06:31,363 --> 01:06:34,575
But it is most dangerous. There are hundreds of them.
921
01:06:34,742 --> 01:06:37,620
I'll hire Croton the gladiator
to protect you. Does that suit?
922
01:06:37,786 --> 01:06:40,539
Croton? Why, yes, lord.
923
01:06:40,706 --> 01:06:42,416
We'll meet you here at sundown.
924
01:06:42,583 --> 01:06:46,670
But, my lord, I shall need other arms.
925
01:06:46,837 --> 01:06:50,216
A small weapon in advance, perhaps?
926
01:06:52,384 --> 01:06:54,386
[MAN SINGING]
927
01:07:17,243 --> 01:07:22,831
You see how they gather, lord?
In stealth, like thieves and murderers.
928
01:07:33,342 --> 01:07:37,304
- That's the man I met at her house.
- Yes, she's here, without a doubt, lord.
929
01:07:38,931 --> 01:07:44,520
I baptize thee in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
930
01:07:45,437 --> 01:07:48,274
- What's he doing now?
- They call it baptism.
931
01:07:48,440 --> 01:07:51,777
An evil bath of black water.
932
01:07:57,366 --> 01:08:01,245
I know there are some here
who still hold back in doubt.
933
01:08:01,412 --> 01:08:03,664
A few who have not accepted baptism.
934
01:08:04,790 --> 01:08:06,875
Our Lord Jesus understood that...
935
01:08:07,042 --> 01:08:10,921
...and he welcomed questions,
as the right of free men.
936
01:08:11,547 --> 01:08:16,176
But at last, there is one among us tonight
for whom we have long waited.
937
01:08:16,343 --> 01:08:19,972
Who was there when the people
gathered about Christ and questioned him.
938
01:08:20,139 --> 01:08:22,808
Who heard the answers from his own lips.
939
01:08:22,975 --> 01:08:27,730
A man who saw the face of Jesus and touched his hand.
940
01:08:28,439 --> 01:08:32,151
He comes from Jerusalem.
The fisherman, Simon, called Peter.
941
01:08:32,318 --> 01:08:34,403
The first apostle of our Lord.
942
01:08:48,417 --> 01:08:51,754
Unworthy though I am, Jesus said to me:
943
01:08:51,920 --> 01:08:56,008
"Thou art Peter, and upon this rock
I will build my church."
944
01:08:56,175 --> 01:08:57,885
He has guided my feet to Rome...
945
01:08:58,052 --> 01:09:02,222
...so that together
we can begin to build his church here.
946
01:09:02,389 --> 01:09:05,809
I give thanks for the faith you have in him
whom you have never seen...
947
01:09:05,976 --> 01:09:09,938
...but whose voice you have heard
and answered in your hearts.
948
01:09:10,105 --> 01:09:13,150
I heard his voice by the Sea of Galilee.
949
01:09:13,317 --> 01:09:15,110
My brothers and I were fishermen.
950
01:09:15,277 --> 01:09:19,031
All the night through we had been fishing
and had caught nothing.
951
01:09:19,198 --> 01:09:21,909
We were cold and very tired.
952
01:09:22,076 --> 01:09:26,038
As our boat was coming into the shore,
I heard someone call my name.
953
01:09:26,205 --> 01:09:29,208
I looked up and a man stood there.
954
01:09:29,375 --> 01:09:34,213
At the sight of him, the cold and weariness
left me and my heart grew light.
955
01:09:34,380 --> 01:09:37,049
I answered, "Yes, friend?"
956
01:09:37,216 --> 01:09:39,760
He called and asked
that he might come into our boat...
957
01:09:39,927 --> 01:09:44,807
...so that he could speak better to the people
who were pressing around him on shore.
958
01:09:44,973 --> 01:09:46,600
We bade him enter.
959
01:09:46,767 --> 01:09:51,480
He spoke to the people
about the kingdom of heaven at hand.
960
01:09:51,647 --> 01:09:57,986
And suddenly, my heart leapt in my breast
and I knew that he was the Christ to come.
961
01:09:58,904 --> 01:10:00,864
When he had finished, he said to me:
962
01:10:01,031 --> 01:10:03,992
"Go out into deep waters and letdown your nets."
963
01:10:04,493 --> 01:10:08,080
In a moment, the nets were full as if by a miracle.
964
01:10:08,247 --> 01:10:10,666
He looked at my wonderment and said:
965
01:10:10,833 --> 01:10:16,588
"Do not be afraid. From henceforth,
you shall be a fisher of men."
966
01:10:16,755 --> 01:10:19,591
He told me to follow him, and I did.
967
01:10:19,758 --> 01:10:22,678
I and my brothers, James and John.
968
01:10:23,178 --> 01:10:26,223
Throughout the length and breadth
of the land, we followed him.
969
01:10:26,390 --> 01:10:30,769
Others joined us until besides himself, we were 12.
970
01:10:30,936 --> 01:10:35,190
To the hungry and thirsty, he gave food and drink.
971
01:10:35,357 --> 01:10:41,488
To those who were sick and worn
and weary, he gave hope and peace.
972
01:10:41,655 --> 01:10:45,576
Who but the Son of God
could have brought such gifts to man?
973
01:10:45,743 --> 01:10:49,246
Who but the Son of God could have
commanded the storm to be calm?
974
01:10:49,413 --> 01:10:52,958
Who but he could have raised
Lazarus of Bethany from the dead...
975
01:10:53,125 --> 01:10:56,044
...and given peace to the heart of Mary Magdalene?
976
01:10:56,879 --> 01:11:02,050
And yet, I lived to deny this man.
977
01:11:03,135 --> 01:11:07,556
He himself foretold that I would
on the night of our last supper.
978
01:11:08,515 --> 01:11:13,645
"Lord," I had said, "I am willing to
follow you both to prison and to death."
979
01:11:13,812 --> 01:11:15,063
But he answered:
980
01:11:15,230 --> 01:11:19,151
"Peter, this night, before the cock crows...
981
01:11:19,318 --> 01:11:21,737
...thou shalt deny me thrice."
982
01:11:21,904 --> 01:11:22,946
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
983
01:11:23,113 --> 01:11:24,615
And I did.
984
01:11:24,782 --> 01:11:27,910
Three times outside the house of his judges.
985
01:11:28,076 --> 01:11:30,746
When they accused me of being with him, I said:
986
01:11:30,913 --> 01:11:32,915
"I know not the man."
987
01:11:33,081 --> 01:11:37,002
With a curse for the weakness of my body
in the face of death.
988
01:11:37,628 --> 01:11:43,217
Then they weighed him down with a cross
and scourged him.
989
01:11:43,383 --> 01:11:45,677
And at a place called Calvary...
990
01:11:45,844 --> 01:11:50,390
...they crucified him,
with a crown of thorns upon his head.
991
01:11:51,141 --> 01:11:54,353
But even in the midst of his suffering, Jesus said:
992
01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:58,649
"Father, forgive them,
for they know not what they do."
993
01:11:58,816 --> 01:12:00,943
Only the Son of God could have forgiven them...
994
01:12:01,109 --> 01:12:04,279
...as he forgave me for my denial of him.
995
01:12:05,280 --> 01:12:08,992
But he who raised the dead
could not be conquered by death.
996
01:12:09,159 --> 01:12:13,038
The room in which we later sat,
in silence and in sorrow...
997
01:12:13,205 --> 01:12:18,335
...was filled suddenly with a great light
and the risen Lord stood before us.
998
01:12:18,502 --> 01:12:21,839
We saw his hands that the nails
had pierced and his wounded side...
999
01:12:22,005 --> 01:12:25,133
...and we knew indeed that he was the Lord.
1000
01:12:25,300 --> 01:12:29,471
And we heard his voice say, "Peace be unto you."
1001
01:12:29,638 --> 01:12:34,518
And he commanded us to preach
to all men his holy word.
1002
01:12:34,685 --> 01:12:39,147
Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
1003
01:12:39,314 --> 01:12:43,110
Blessed are they who mourn,
for they shall be comforted.
1004
01:12:43,277 --> 01:12:45,946
Blessed are the meek,
for they shall inherit the earth.
1005
01:12:46,488 --> 01:12:50,826
Blessed are they which do hunger
and thirst after righteousness...
1006
01:12:50,993 --> 01:12:52,411
...for they shall be filled.
1007
01:12:53,078 --> 01:12:56,498
Blessed are the merciful,
for they shall obtain mercy.
1008
01:12:56,665 --> 01:13:01,670
Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they shall see God.
1009
01:13:01,837 --> 01:13:07,926
Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called the children of God.
1010
01:13:08,468 --> 01:13:12,848
But beyond these things, Jesus asks us
to obey the commandments...
1011
01:13:13,015 --> 01:13:15,893
...which God gave to the prophet Moses.
1012
01:13:16,059 --> 01:13:20,188
Obey those who govern you
and the laws by which they govern.
1013
01:13:20,355 --> 01:13:22,858
Even though, under them, you suffer cruelties...
1014
01:13:23,025 --> 01:13:26,445
...and witness maliciousness
beyond your mind's dimensions...
1015
01:13:26,612 --> 01:13:29,281
...make no threat of violence in return.
1016
01:13:30,157 --> 01:13:33,702
And in the words of Jesus, I further say to you...
1017
01:13:33,869 --> 01:13:38,540
...whosoever shall smite thee upon
thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
1018
01:13:39,541 --> 01:13:41,710
Love thy neighbor as thyself.
1019
01:13:41,877 --> 01:13:47,633
Whatsoever you would that men should
do to you, do ye even so to them.
1020
01:13:47,799 --> 01:13:51,053
Love your enemies. Bless them that curse you.
1021
01:13:51,219 --> 01:13:52,888
Do good to them that hate you.
1022
01:13:53,055 --> 01:13:56,850
And pray for them that despitefully
use you and persecute you.
1023
01:13:57,225 --> 01:13:59,019
Oh, believe in him.
1024
01:13:59,186 --> 01:14:04,191
Endure all things in his name,
so that you may dwell in blessedness.
1025
01:14:04,358 --> 01:14:08,654
Even from everlasting to everlasting.
1026
01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:11,323
Amen.
1027
01:14:11,490 --> 01:14:13,659
CROWD: Amen.
1028
01:14:16,161 --> 01:14:17,829
[WOMAN SINGING]
1029
01:14:21,750 --> 01:14:27,130
Endure all things in his name,
that you may dwell in blessedness.
1030
01:14:31,718 --> 01:14:35,639
If I smite him on one cheek, the old rat
will have no chance to turn the other.
1031
01:14:36,264 --> 01:14:40,852
I don't know. The old rat has courage of sorts.
1032
01:14:41,019 --> 01:14:43,981
Will you both come to our house tomorrow
to see Peter and Paul?
1033
01:14:44,147 --> 01:14:46,400
We must bide our time, we may be watched.
1034
01:14:47,776 --> 01:14:50,278
Good night, Father. Good night, Mother.
1035
01:14:56,618 --> 01:14:59,621
There. There she is.
1036
01:15:00,372 --> 01:15:02,374
[SINGING]
1037
01:15:12,968 --> 01:15:16,805
- Well, commander?
- Come along.
1038
01:15:37,826 --> 01:15:41,913
That giant looks as though
he had the strength of a Cretan bull.
1039
01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:46,126
- Do you think you can down him?
- I'll squeeze the seeds out of him.
1040
01:15:48,003 --> 01:15:51,423
Wait. We're being followed.
1041
01:15:52,090 --> 01:15:54,301
- I don't hear anyone.
- Three times I have heard.
1042
01:15:54,468 --> 01:15:56,803
They stop when we do. Go on to the house.
1043
01:15:56,970 --> 01:15:58,638
- But what will--?
- Go to the house.
1044
01:16:13,695 --> 01:16:15,947
Go no further, commander.
1045
01:16:16,531 --> 01:16:20,118
- Step aside.
- My lord, you haven't paid me.
1046
01:16:28,960 --> 01:16:30,295
[GRUNTING]
1047
01:17:38,280 --> 01:17:42,033
It's only a small cut in the scalp,
but they always bleed the most.
1048
01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:43,952
Hot water.
1049
01:17:46,705 --> 01:17:48,707
I'll get some ointment.
1050
01:17:49,958 --> 01:17:52,377
Look. Did you do that too, Ursus?
1051
01:17:52,544 --> 01:17:54,462
No, dear. That's an old scar.
1052
01:17:54,629 --> 01:17:56,131
A scar? What from?
1053
01:17:56,298 --> 01:17:58,300
Probably some battle wound.
1054
01:17:58,466 --> 01:18:01,094
That's right. He's one of Nero's
best generals, isn't he?
1055
01:18:01,261 --> 01:18:03,680
Here. Come, Nazarius, it's time you were asleep.
1056
01:18:03,847 --> 01:18:06,725
- But, Mother, did you see the big sword--?
- Yes, dear.
1057
01:18:06,892 --> 01:18:10,103
- Wash the wound thoroughly first, Lygia.
- Yes.
1058
01:19:22,926 --> 01:19:24,219
Come, Ursus.
1059
01:19:38,191 --> 01:19:39,901
Ursus wishes to speak to you.
1060
01:19:42,237 --> 01:19:46,408
- Yes?
- I want to ask the commander's forgiveness.
1061
01:19:46,574 --> 01:19:48,076
I killed his friend.
1062
01:19:49,286 --> 01:19:50,954
Ha-ha. You killed Croton?
1063
01:19:51,121 --> 01:19:54,165
Good man. I told you you'd be a champion.
Kill the old Greek too?
1064
01:19:54,332 --> 01:19:55,667
The other man disappeared.
1065
01:19:55,834 --> 01:19:57,752
I'll wager he did, and fast.
1066
01:19:58,420 --> 01:19:59,921
Please say you'll forgive him.
1067
01:20:00,088 --> 01:20:02,340
For what? Croton faced his chances.
1068
01:20:02,507 --> 01:20:04,759
Killing was his profession.
1069
01:20:04,926 --> 01:20:06,803
Of all the gods, why didn't you kill me?
1070
01:20:06,970 --> 01:20:09,347
In our faith, it is a sin to kill.
1071
01:20:11,599 --> 01:20:13,351
I seem to remember.
1072
01:20:19,566 --> 01:20:23,611
He should have killed me.
You should have had him kill me.
1073
01:20:23,778 --> 01:20:27,115
But instead, you bring me in
and patch me up, all of you who hate me.
1074
01:20:30,785 --> 01:20:32,787
You've defeated me, Lygia.
1075
01:20:33,204 --> 01:20:34,539
Go on home. Stop hiding.
1076
01:20:34,914 --> 01:20:38,084
I won't come pursuing you
about the countryside any longer.
1077
01:20:38,251 --> 01:20:40,628
You're free and rid of me, Lygia.
1078
01:20:44,215 --> 01:20:46,468
You could look happier about it.
1079
01:20:48,470 --> 01:20:50,430
Well, so be it.
1080
01:20:52,807 --> 01:20:54,476
Marcus.
1081
01:20:55,185 --> 01:20:57,687
Oh, Marcus, you know I don't hate you.
1082
01:21:00,023 --> 01:21:01,524
LVQia.
1083
01:21:03,735 --> 01:21:06,071
- Oh, Marcus, Marcus.
- The sweetness of you.
1084
01:21:06,237 --> 01:21:08,073
Oh, this is the beauty, I knew it.
1085
01:21:08,239 --> 01:21:11,743
I should have known it had to happen
when I watched you leave the gathering.
1086
01:21:14,162 --> 01:21:16,164
- You were there?
- Yes.
1087
01:21:16,331 --> 01:21:20,835
I should have known what I really wished.
You with me always as my wife.
1088
01:21:21,002 --> 01:21:22,545
Will you do that, Lygia?
1089
01:21:22,712 --> 01:21:26,549
Will you give me the greatest triumph
a man ever had? Be my wife?
1090
01:21:27,467 --> 01:21:29,761
Oh, yes, Marcus.
1091
01:21:32,889 --> 01:21:35,350
Gather what you need and let's be gone from this den.
1092
01:21:35,517 --> 01:21:37,102
- Hurry.
- Yes, Marcus, I'll hurry.
1093
01:21:37,268 --> 01:21:39,979
We'll go to Antium. Petronius will outdo himself.
1094
01:21:40,146 --> 01:21:43,566
A ceremony and wedding feast
such as never has been seen.
1095
01:21:43,733 --> 01:21:46,569
And even that will be lost moments.
1096
01:21:46,903 --> 01:21:47,946
Ohm.
1097
01:21:52,450 --> 01:21:55,161
Marcus, Paul will be here soon.
1098
01:21:55,328 --> 01:21:59,707
I would like so much to ask his blessing.
And perhaps let him say the words over us.
1099
01:21:59,874 --> 01:22:02,043
What words? You've heard enough of his words.
1100
01:22:02,210 --> 01:22:05,088
They've deafened your ears
to everything life has to tell you.
1101
01:22:05,255 --> 01:22:07,048
But you heard Peter and Paul speak.
1102
01:22:07,215 --> 01:22:09,384
Did you hear anything that was ugly or wrong?
1103
01:22:09,551 --> 01:22:12,220
I heard a childish old man speak in riddles.
1104
01:22:12,387 --> 01:22:13,388
Believe as they do...
1105
01:22:13,555 --> 01:22:17,559
...and you'll think a cow is a bull
and a bull is an ox and an ox is a goat.
1106
01:22:18,810 --> 01:22:20,812
Oh, Marcus, dear.
1107
01:22:20,979 --> 01:22:24,232
I thought, having heard, you might begin to know...
1108
01:22:24,399 --> 01:22:25,900
...to understand why.
1109
01:22:26,067 --> 01:22:27,777
Here, now.
1110
01:22:27,944 --> 01:22:31,239
Is this the symbol of your God, your Christ?
1111
01:22:31,406 --> 01:22:33,700
The cross on which he was crucified.
1112
01:22:33,867 --> 01:22:37,162
I'm willing to accept your God,
if it makes you happier.
1113
01:22:38,204 --> 01:22:39,372
I don't demand it.
1114
01:22:39,539 --> 01:22:43,084
In our gardens in Sicily, we'll put up
a big cross, higher than the roof.
1115
01:22:43,251 --> 01:22:46,754
I'll put up a special pedestal and crown it
with a figure of your Christ...
1116
01:22:46,921 --> 01:22:48,673
...carved from the finest marble.
1117
01:22:48,840 --> 01:22:51,759
You'll have to have Peter
tell the sculptor what he looks like.
1118
01:22:51,926 --> 01:22:54,179
- Marcus, listen to me--
- Why not? It's no trouble.
1119
01:22:54,345 --> 01:22:58,433
There's such an army of gods these days
we can always find room for another.
1120
01:23:01,644 --> 01:23:06,107
I'm not asking it as a condition
of our having one another.
1121
01:23:06,274 --> 01:23:07,942
I just hope and pray that one day...
1122
01:23:08,109 --> 01:23:11,196
...the image of Christ will appear in your heart.
1123
01:23:11,362 --> 01:23:13,198
My heart is only for you.
1124
01:23:13,364 --> 01:23:15,033
There won't be room for him there.
1125
01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:16,910
There will be.
1126
01:23:17,076 --> 01:23:20,955
I always carry him in mine with you.
1127
01:23:23,458 --> 01:23:25,919
Well, take him out if he means that much, Lygia.
1128
01:23:26,085 --> 01:23:28,630
- Do you hear me? Get rid of him.
- Well.
1129
01:23:29,297 --> 01:23:31,299
I'm glad to see you on your feet again.
1130
01:23:31,466 --> 01:23:34,886
Last night and this morning,
you had us quite concerned.
1131
01:23:35,053 --> 01:23:36,304
Paul.
1132
01:23:36,471 --> 01:23:39,641
- Marcus has just asked me to be his wife.
- Oh?
1133
01:23:39,807 --> 01:23:43,019
I'm sure that this has brought her great joy, Marcus.
1134
01:23:43,186 --> 01:23:46,147
You could see, Paul, that I loved him.
1135
01:23:46,481 --> 01:23:49,025
I was just trying to explain to him that--
1136
01:23:49,192 --> 01:23:52,529
Well, that there are other things. I mean--
1137
01:23:52,695 --> 01:23:54,739
- I understand.
- I don't.
1138
01:23:54,906 --> 01:23:57,825
I offered to accept the symbols
of her God into my house.
1139
01:23:57,992 --> 01:23:59,452
I don't ask her to accept mine.
1140
01:23:59,619 --> 01:24:02,455
What more can I do to prove
that I'm not an enemy of her God?
1141
01:24:02,622 --> 01:24:04,415
Marcus.
1142
01:24:04,582 --> 01:24:08,628
For some of us it takes months, years of thought...
1143
01:24:08,795 --> 01:24:11,714
...of contemplation, of looking back on our lives...
1144
01:24:11,923 --> 01:24:13,883
...on the course of mankind and realizing--
1145
01:24:14,050 --> 01:24:16,094
Tell me what more I should do.
1146
01:24:16,261 --> 01:24:18,805
Well, you own slaves, do you not?
1147
01:24:18,972 --> 01:24:20,682
Hundreds. Good ones too. Why?
1148
01:24:20,848 --> 01:24:23,059
Jesus wishes no man to be in bondage.
1149
01:24:23,685 --> 01:24:25,019
You should set them free.
1150
01:24:25,186 --> 01:24:27,564
Set them free? But they're mine, I own them.
1151
01:24:27,730 --> 01:24:30,441
But you can't buy human beings, Marcus.
1152
01:24:30,608 --> 01:24:33,027
Faith in Christ is based on love.
1153
01:24:33,194 --> 01:24:35,488
He asks all people to love one another.
1154
01:24:35,655 --> 01:24:40,243
Yes, so I heard your old fisherman say.
You want me to love the whole human race?
1155
01:24:40,451 --> 01:24:43,079
You want me to love Parthians, Egyptians, Persians?
1156
01:24:43,246 --> 01:24:45,415
The rest who wanna put a blade through my ribs?
1157
01:24:45,623 --> 01:24:47,834
Has it occurred to you to put down your sword...
1158
01:24:48,001 --> 01:24:49,877
...and renounce war against these people?
1159
01:24:50,044 --> 01:24:52,463
That you might conquer them with love?
1160
01:24:52,630 --> 01:24:56,384
Yes, yes, you tame a pack of wolves with a feather.
1161
01:24:56,551 --> 01:24:58,970
It's occurred to me you've a whining beggar for God.
1162
01:24:59,137 --> 01:25:02,849
A cringing God for slaves, aliens,
and outcasts like yourself.
1163
01:25:03,057 --> 01:25:04,934
But that's not Lygia.
1164
01:25:05,893 --> 01:25:08,813
Let's be gone from this idiocy of words.
Get your cloak, Lygia.
1165
01:25:08,980 --> 01:25:11,983
- Marcus, dear, a moment more.
- We've lost too much time as it is.
1166
01:25:12,150 --> 01:25:14,694
You're going to be wife of
Commander Marcus Vinicius...
1167
01:25:14,861 --> 01:25:17,405
...not the miserable slave
of some crucified carpenter.
1168
01:25:17,572 --> 01:25:22,577
Oh, Marcus, try to understand my faith,
my beliefs, my very deep beliefs.
1169
01:25:22,744 --> 01:25:25,288
Don't force me to choose.
1170
01:25:25,455 --> 01:25:28,082
You mean, between me and your Christ?
1171
01:25:28,249 --> 01:25:29,959
Yes, choose.
1172
01:25:30,126 --> 01:25:33,254
I'd no more share you with your Christ
than I would with other men.
1173
01:25:33,421 --> 01:25:35,340
But, Marcus, don't you see?
1174
01:25:35,506 --> 01:25:39,719
Unless you try to understand, what we feel
for each other will destroy itself.
1175
01:25:40,303 --> 01:25:42,138
Destroy us.
1176
01:25:42,639 --> 01:25:46,601
My son, your love for Lygia,
great and beautiful as you feel it...
1177
01:25:46,768 --> 01:25:49,187
...is small compared with your love for all mankind.
1178
01:25:49,354 --> 01:25:52,940
What sort of love is it that acknowledges
a force greater than itself?
1179
01:25:53,107 --> 01:25:56,027
What runs in your veins, philosopher, blood or water?
1180
01:25:56,194 --> 01:25:58,613
What sort of poison are you spreading?
1181
01:25:59,781 --> 01:26:01,741
Are you coming with me, Lygia?
1182
01:26:06,245 --> 01:26:07,747
LVQia.
1183
01:26:09,791 --> 01:26:11,417
No, my dear.
1184
01:26:15,171 --> 01:26:16,881
Twice today, I've been a fool.
1185
01:26:17,048 --> 01:26:18,800
But I'll not go back on my word.
1186
01:26:18,966 --> 01:26:22,887
You can go your way.
I'll not disclose what I've seen or heard.
1187
01:26:23,054 --> 01:26:25,640
Something is hidden
behind your meek words, philosopher.
1188
01:26:25,807 --> 01:26:29,394
Yours and your fanatical fisherman's.
They strike at Rome and Roman law.
1189
01:26:30,103 --> 01:26:34,440
I warn you, if ever Roman rule
is threatened, you'll feel my sword.
1190
01:26:47,954 --> 01:26:51,165
I almost-- I wanted to go with him, Paul.
1191
01:26:51,332 --> 01:26:52,333
[SOBBING]
1192
01:26:52,500 --> 01:26:53,668
LVQia.
1193
01:26:54,877 --> 01:26:57,088
Even our Lord knew temptation.
1194
01:26:57,255 --> 01:27:01,050
Your strength too will prevail
and be rewarded in this.
1195
01:27:01,217 --> 01:27:02,969
I know that.
1196
01:27:05,263 --> 01:27:07,265
[SINGING]
1197
01:27:41,591 --> 01:27:43,426
Yes, yes.
1198
01:27:43,593 --> 01:27:47,555
These will be the imperial gardens,
where the cattle market now stands?
1199
01:27:47,722 --> 01:27:49,056
Yes, Divinity.
1200
01:27:49,223 --> 01:27:51,684
Each palace rising out of its own lake...
1201
01:27:51,851 --> 01:27:54,896
...surfaced with water fowl of the rarest plumage.
1202
01:27:55,062 --> 01:27:58,816
No longer will the stench of pig and oxen
rise up the slopes of the Palatine.
1203
01:27:58,983 --> 01:28:02,278
No. It shall be landscaped with Damascene roses.
1204
01:28:02,862 --> 01:28:07,700
Oh, Phaon, you are an architect
who could have laid the plans of Olympus.
1205
01:28:09,577 --> 01:28:11,996
- My lord, I have brought food.
- Take it away.
1206
01:28:12,163 --> 01:28:15,041
- It comes to life--
- You've not eaten since morning, my lord.
1207
01:28:15,208 --> 01:28:17,585
Be gone with it, all of you!
1208
01:28:18,419 --> 01:28:20,421
You irritate me.
1209
01:28:22,173 --> 01:28:24,175
Why do you stare at me, Acte?
1210
01:28:24,592 --> 01:28:26,219
My lord--
1211
01:28:26,844 --> 01:28:28,971
I can only say...
1212
01:28:30,431 --> 01:28:36,646
When all this sets with the final sun,
remember the look of Acte.
1213
01:28:36,854 --> 01:28:38,397
Why should I remember you?
1214
01:28:38,564 --> 01:28:40,399
No one loves you as I love you.
1215
01:28:40,566 --> 01:28:42,068
I command you to stop loving me!
1216
01:28:42,235 --> 01:28:44,070
I cannot, lord.
1217
01:28:44,779 --> 01:28:46,572
Forgive me.
1218
01:28:48,825 --> 01:28:51,953
For years, she has been a thorn in my flesh.
1219
01:28:52,119 --> 01:28:54,080
Now that thorn will be removed.
1220
01:28:55,540 --> 01:28:59,877
Henceforth, you are banished from Rome
and from my sight.
1221
01:29:01,087 --> 01:29:02,880
One day, Nero, you will need me.
1222
01:29:05,174 --> 01:29:07,343
And I will come to you.
1223
01:29:10,805 --> 01:29:13,516
Is it not disgusting when common bovine solicitude...
1224
01:29:13,683 --> 01:29:16,936
...replaces the fire in a woman's body?
1225
01:29:18,312 --> 01:29:21,858
Ah, but what pulsating purity there is in fire.
1226
01:29:22,024 --> 01:29:25,444
My new Rome shall spring from the loins of fire...
1227
01:29:25,611 --> 01:29:29,365
...a twisting, writhing, breathing flame.
1228
01:29:32,577 --> 01:29:35,121
What do you think Petronius will say to this?
1229
01:29:35,288 --> 01:29:37,164
You doubt his approval, my lord'?
1230
01:29:37,331 --> 01:29:41,127
I too remember his strange look at the feast
when the thought first came to you.
1231
01:29:41,294 --> 01:29:43,963
- I should be careful lest--
- No, no.
1232
01:29:44,130 --> 01:29:47,216
Petronius appreciates my genius
even more than you, dear Phaon.
1233
01:29:47,383 --> 01:29:49,969
It's just that he may not fully understand
the method...
1234
01:29:50,136 --> 01:29:54,515
...the means I must use to bring this
greatest of my accomplishments into being.
1235
01:29:57,018 --> 01:30:00,354
He seems to be well-occupied at the moment.
1236
01:30:00,897 --> 01:30:06,027
When I have news of Tigellinus coming,
I shall summon him with the others.
1237
01:30:06,193 --> 01:30:10,740
This must be disclosed to him with intelligence...
1238
01:30:10,907 --> 01:30:14,493
...with, uh, sincerity.
1239
01:30:14,827 --> 01:30:16,829
[EUNICE HUMMING]
1240
01:30:18,289 --> 01:30:19,332
Yes.
1241
01:30:20,374 --> 01:30:22,043
There you are.
1242
01:30:24,003 --> 01:30:26,589
- Marcus.
- Hmm?
1243
01:30:28,049 --> 01:30:29,800
Well, it's your game.
1244
01:30:29,967 --> 01:30:32,219
Only two games you've won in three weeks, Marcus.
1245
01:30:32,386 --> 01:30:33,512
Does the play bore you?
1246
01:30:33,679 --> 01:30:35,139
I fear I have met my superior.
1247
01:30:35,556 --> 01:30:37,892
I fear you might have met something else.
1248
01:30:38,059 --> 01:30:39,560
Other than a glare of distaste...
1249
01:30:39,727 --> 01:30:42,897
...I've been given no details
concerning your sudden renunciation...
1250
01:30:43,064 --> 01:30:44,774
...of your little Christian hostage.
1251
01:30:44,941 --> 01:30:47,610
Your well-bred curiosity now breaks its bounds, eh?
1252
01:30:48,402 --> 01:30:50,196
It shatters me.
1253
01:30:51,280 --> 01:30:53,282
Well, uncle, it happened quite simply.
1254
01:30:53,449 --> 01:30:57,578
Your valiant Greek led me to Lygia
and a swarming hive of idiots.
1255
01:30:57,745 --> 01:31:01,499
Their black honey choked my mouth
and I said words I never thought I'd utter.
1256
01:31:01,666 --> 01:31:04,543
For their mammoth stupidity
I should've been broken in half...
1257
01:31:04,710 --> 01:31:07,088
...and dropped piecemeal into the sewers.
1258
01:31:07,254 --> 01:31:09,715
- Fascinated?
- In a way.
1259
01:31:10,257 --> 01:31:11,258
Yes?
1260
01:31:11,425 --> 01:31:14,595
The empress requests your presence
in her pavilion, commander.
1261
01:31:14,762 --> 01:31:16,097
At once.
1262
01:31:19,517 --> 01:31:21,394
I leave you to your fascination.
1263
01:31:21,560 --> 01:31:23,854
I have been summoned to mine.
1264
01:31:27,608 --> 01:31:30,277
None of this bodes well.
1265
01:31:30,528 --> 01:31:32,613
Wouldn't the emperor be angry if he should--?
1266
01:31:32,780 --> 01:31:36,242
Poppaea's indulgences
merely stimulate him to his own.
1267
01:31:36,409 --> 01:31:38,744
But I sense a fresh preoccupation in Nero.
1268
01:31:38,911 --> 01:31:41,330
For some time now, he has avoided me.
1269
01:31:41,497 --> 01:31:42,707
My lord is troubled?
1270
01:31:42,873 --> 01:31:44,667
A doubled guard and yesterday...
1271
01:31:44,834 --> 01:31:48,462
...Tigellinus and a squadron of his butchers
left for Rome.
1272
01:31:48,629 --> 01:31:51,507
I feel a strange and heavy breeze.
1273
01:31:51,674 --> 01:31:53,801
Oh, my dear lord.
1274
01:31:54,802 --> 01:31:58,639
Even your little song is sad with its note of death.
1275
01:31:58,806 --> 01:32:00,641
It is just words.
1276
01:32:00,808 --> 01:32:02,852
And I sing it joyfully.
1277
01:32:03,019 --> 01:32:08,816
Because love such as I feel cannot ever die.
1278
01:32:14,530 --> 01:32:17,491
As always, your entrance is proud and aloof.
1279
01:32:17,658 --> 01:32:21,328
I come proudly, as fast as my hands
and knees will carry me.
1280
01:32:21,495 --> 01:32:24,498
And as always, sardonic and unassailable.
1281
01:32:24,665 --> 01:32:26,167
Unassailable?
1282
01:32:26,333 --> 01:32:30,838
I've never been so readily, so happily,
so expertly vanquished in my life.
1283
01:32:31,005 --> 01:32:34,800
I believe everything except the word "vanquished."
1284
01:32:36,343 --> 01:32:39,346
I should like to vanquish you, Marcus.
1285
01:32:39,680 --> 01:32:42,933
Like the spider who eats her mate
when he is no longer a necessity?
1286
01:32:43,100 --> 01:32:46,187
Mm-hm. Something like that.
1287
01:32:47,354 --> 01:32:50,024
I heard today you're planning to leave for Sicily.
1288
01:32:50,191 --> 01:32:52,359
Three years away, there's much to look after.
1289
01:32:52,526 --> 01:32:55,362
Will you sail from here or will you go via Rome?
1290
01:32:57,073 --> 01:33:00,034
Rome? That's rather an indirect route, isn't it?
1291
01:33:00,201 --> 01:33:01,952
Then I shall be direct.
1292
01:33:02,119 --> 01:33:04,789
I know about your little Christian hostage vanishing.
1293
01:33:05,206 --> 01:33:08,250
I've eyes and ears in the Praetorian Guard.
1294
01:33:08,417 --> 01:33:10,795
And an arm or two to fit your waist, no doubt?
1295
01:33:12,213 --> 01:33:13,714
Possibly.
1296
01:33:14,465 --> 01:33:16,050
Did you find her, Marcus?
1297
01:33:17,218 --> 01:33:18,344
Naturally.
1298
01:33:18,511 --> 01:33:21,722
Only to find myself a fool
and sever her chains, I might add.
1299
01:33:22,181 --> 01:33:24,350
You severed them thoroughly?
1300
01:33:26,018 --> 01:33:27,186
Thoroughly.
1301
01:33:27,645 --> 01:33:29,480
I'm glad.
1302
01:33:31,148 --> 01:33:32,775
Marcus.
1303
01:33:36,320 --> 01:33:39,990
Because you know how I consoled myself
when you vanished from the feast.
1304
01:33:40,157 --> 01:33:41,617
Spare me names, dear empress.
1305
01:33:41,784 --> 01:33:44,578
I consoled myself with the thought of your death.
1306
01:33:44,745 --> 01:33:46,205
I fondled your bodiless head...
1307
01:33:46,372 --> 01:33:49,750
...running my fingers through your hair,
making you smile and frown.
1308
01:33:50,876 --> 01:33:52,211
May I ask what stopped you?
1309
01:33:52,586 --> 01:33:57,091
It is foolish to kill those you hate,
because once dead they are beyond pain.
1310
01:33:57,258 --> 01:33:59,343
And I hated you, Marcus.
1311
01:33:59,760 --> 01:34:01,846
I welcome your change of heart, at least.
1312
01:34:02,012 --> 01:34:06,267
But if ever she bewitches you again, I shall know.
1313
01:34:06,433 --> 01:34:12,481
And since I have no hatred for her,
I do not care whether she feels pain.
1314
01:34:16,777 --> 01:34:19,613
You'd never turn the other cheek to me, would you?
1315
01:34:21,615 --> 01:34:23,826
I don't know what you mean.
1316
01:34:26,162 --> 01:34:28,956
But my mouth is here.
1317
01:34:33,377 --> 01:34:35,379
Where is Petronius? Have you summoned him?
1318
01:34:35,546 --> 01:34:37,423
- Have you called Petronius?
- Yes, Caesar.
1319
01:34:37,590 --> 01:34:39,592
Well, summon him again. Tell him I--
1320
01:34:39,758 --> 01:34:41,969
As ever, I'm impatient for you.
1321
01:34:42,136 --> 01:34:43,470
I have missed you, Divinity.
1322
01:34:43,637 --> 01:34:46,640
Petronius, forgive me
if I seem to have slighted you of late.
1323
01:34:46,807 --> 01:34:50,603
I have been steeped in my genius
beyond all description.
1324
01:34:50,769 --> 01:34:53,647
I sense a fresh inspiration.
1325
01:34:53,814 --> 01:34:56,317
Your senses shall leap to it.
1326
01:35:04,533 --> 01:35:07,494
Attend me. Attend me, all.
1327
01:35:13,500 --> 01:35:17,046
My lack of consideration for you
during the past few days...
1328
01:35:17,213 --> 01:35:21,675
...in keeping you from my presence,
forces me to impress upon you once again...
1329
01:35:21,842 --> 01:35:25,012
...the tribulations of the true artist.
1330
01:35:25,679 --> 01:35:29,767
When I play and sing, I have visions
of things I never dreamed existed.
1331
01:35:29,934 --> 01:35:32,228
The world is mine.
1332
01:35:33,187 --> 01:35:35,022
And mine to end.
1333
01:35:35,481 --> 01:35:37,650
Music opens up new worlds for me.
1334
01:35:37,816 --> 01:35:40,277
Draws back the veil from new delights.
1335
01:35:40,444 --> 01:35:42,363
I can see Olympus...
1336
01:35:42,529 --> 01:35:46,200
...and a breeze blows on me from beyond the Earth.
1337
01:35:47,117 --> 01:35:48,619
And in those moments...
1338
01:35:48,786 --> 01:35:54,875
...l, a god, feel as diminutive as dust.
1339
01:36:00,214 --> 01:36:01,840
This is a day for sincerity.
1340
01:36:02,007 --> 01:36:04,510
Let me open my soul to you.
1341
01:36:05,719 --> 01:36:07,054
Do you think I do not know...
1342
01:36:07,221 --> 01:36:11,350
...that there are people in Rome
who call me a matricide, a wife killer?
1343
01:36:11,517 --> 01:36:13,686
Hold me a monster?
1344
01:36:13,852 --> 01:36:15,396
Tyrant?
1345
01:36:16,647 --> 01:36:19,316
But there is something they do not realize.
1346
01:36:19,733 --> 01:36:24,571
A man's acts may be cruel
while he himself is not cruel.
1347
01:36:25,906 --> 01:36:28,575
And there are moments, my dear Petronius...
1348
01:36:28,742 --> 01:36:33,497
...when music caresses my soul.
1349
01:36:33,664 --> 01:36:37,584
I feel as gentle as a child in a cradle.
1350
01:36:40,379 --> 01:36:41,422
Believe me?
1351
01:36:41,588 --> 01:36:44,049
All men should know you as we do, Divinity.
1352
01:36:44,216 --> 01:36:47,511
PETRONIUS: Only then would they be able
to appreciate you.
1353
01:36:49,179 --> 01:36:51,098
Yet there are those who say that I am mad.
1354
01:36:51,265 --> 01:36:53,058
I'm only seeking.
1355
01:36:53,225 --> 01:36:56,854
The flatness and misery of common life depress me.
1356
01:36:57,021 --> 01:37:01,483
I seek because I must exceed
the stature of man in both good and evil.
1357
01:37:01,650 --> 01:37:06,947
I seek because I must be greater than man,
for only then will I be the supreme artist.
1358
01:37:13,245 --> 01:37:18,959
Do you know why I condemned both my wife...
1359
01:37:19,126 --> 01:37:23,172
...and my mother to death?
1360
01:37:24,840 --> 01:37:28,969
I did it in order to lay at the gates
of an unknown world...
1361
01:37:29,136 --> 01:37:32,973
...the greatest sacrifice a man can put there.
1362
01:37:34,058 --> 01:37:37,478
Now, I thought, doors will open...
1363
01:37:37,644 --> 01:37:41,231
...beyond which I shall catch
a glimpse of the unknown.
1364
01:37:42,649 --> 01:37:45,152
Let it be wonderful.
1365
01:37:48,405 --> 01:37:50,741
Or let it be awful.
1366
01:37:52,201 --> 01:37:55,579
So long as it is uncommon.
1367
01:37:59,625 --> 01:38:01,210
So now.
1368
01:38:02,961 --> 01:38:05,381
Behold, dear Petronius.
1369
01:38:14,390 --> 01:38:15,766
My new Rome.
1370
01:38:17,017 --> 01:38:19,269
It shall rise in gleaming white beauty.
1371
01:38:19,436 --> 01:38:22,856
Master gem of the world's crown.
1372
01:38:23,023 --> 01:38:24,441
It shall have a new name.
1373
01:38:24,608 --> 01:38:27,194
Neropolis, city of Nero.
1374
01:38:27,361 --> 01:38:29,238
- Magnificent.
- You have outdone yourself.
1375
01:38:29,405 --> 01:38:31,198
TERPNOS: Something the world has never seen.
1376
01:38:31,365 --> 01:38:35,953
But what of the Rome
that has stood for a thousand years?
1377
01:38:36,120 --> 01:38:39,415
After all, Divinity, the old Rome, our Rome...
1378
01:38:39,581 --> 01:38:43,502
...dirty and magnificent,
but still our beloved Rome...
1379
01:38:43,669 --> 01:38:45,796
...it still stands.
1380
01:38:48,257 --> 01:38:49,800
Does it?
1381
01:38:51,885 --> 01:38:54,054
It still stands.
1382
01:38:54,721 --> 01:38:56,515
We never thought of that, did we?
1383
01:38:57,599 --> 01:38:58,809
Or does it, Tigellinus?
1384
01:38:58,976 --> 01:39:02,479
Rome is a sea of flames. It burns from rim to rim.
1385
01:39:02,646 --> 01:39:05,274
You hear that? That is my epic.
1386
01:39:05,441 --> 01:39:10,028
To change the face of the world.
To demolish and create, and create anew.
1387
01:39:10,195 --> 01:39:11,864
Now, to your chariots, all of you.
1388
01:39:12,030 --> 01:39:13,991
You shall come with me to the funeral pyre.
1389
01:39:14,158 --> 01:39:16,994
This very night you shall hear
my dirge over burning Rome.
1390
01:39:17,161 --> 01:39:20,664
Its flames shall carry me higher than the gods.
1391
01:39:21,123 --> 01:39:23,917
- All of Rome is burning?
- All but the Palatine area.
1392
01:39:24,084 --> 01:39:26,503
- What of the section across the river?
- An inferno.
1393
01:39:26,670 --> 01:39:29,923
- Thousands of roofs going up like tinder.
POPPAEA: Marcus.
1394
01:39:37,264 --> 01:39:38,765
Stop, Vinicius. Hold him.
1395
01:39:51,487 --> 01:39:55,073
Now, indeed, Nero has his place in history.
1396
01:41:45,559 --> 01:41:46,977
[WHEELS GRINDING]
1397
01:42:33,565 --> 01:42:35,567
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
1398
01:42:54,419 --> 01:42:56,630
Look, there's one of Nero's soldiers.
1399
01:42:56,797 --> 01:42:59,091
He burned Rome.
1400
01:43:11,144 --> 01:43:13,939
The people here, the girl with the giant,
have you seen them?
1401
01:43:14,106 --> 01:43:17,984
They left. Don't kill me, don't kill me.
1402
01:43:18,819 --> 01:43:21,905
Mama, Mama.
1403
01:43:22,072 --> 01:43:23,782
Mama.
1404
01:43:23,949 --> 01:43:26,743
Mama, Mama.
1405
01:43:27,494 --> 01:43:28,995
[YELLS]
1406
01:43:34,918 --> 01:43:36,420
[SCREAMING]
1407
01:44:01,445 --> 01:44:05,282
Here, go on. Take care of her.
1408
01:44:15,125 --> 01:44:17,419
The sewers. The sewers lead to the river.
1409
01:44:17,586 --> 01:44:19,546
Into the sewers.
1410
01:44:31,892 --> 01:44:33,560
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
1411
01:45:32,118 --> 01:45:33,620
LVQia.
1412
01:45:33,787 --> 01:45:35,372
Marcus.
1413
01:45:47,467 --> 01:45:48,510
LVQia.
1414
01:45:48,677 --> 01:45:51,304
Oh, Marcus, Marcus, I prayed to see you.
1415
01:45:52,389 --> 01:45:55,892
Marcus, Miriam is dead, in the fire.
1416
01:45:56,059 --> 01:45:57,811
- She... NAZARIUS: My mother.
1417
01:45:57,978 --> 01:46:00,105
A wall fell on her.
1418
01:46:00,272 --> 01:46:02,440
We'll get you out of this, son.
1419
01:46:03,316 --> 01:46:05,569
The Praetorians are holding the bridge.
1420
01:46:15,829 --> 01:46:17,622
MARCUS: Open up.
1421
01:46:18,331 --> 01:46:19,833
- Who's in command here?
- I am.
1422
01:46:20,000 --> 01:46:21,001
Open this barricade.
1423
01:46:21,167 --> 01:46:24,546
Imperial orders. We're to keep them
from entering the Palatine area.
1424
01:46:24,713 --> 01:46:26,339
Break ranks. Let them through.
1425
01:46:26,506 --> 01:46:27,883
Hold your line there.
1426
01:46:28,049 --> 01:46:31,261
I'm in charge here, commander, and by the--
1427
01:46:31,845 --> 01:46:34,180
Break ranks, I say.
1428
01:46:38,435 --> 01:46:40,437
[SHOUTING]
1429
01:47:15,764 --> 01:47:19,559
Petronius, look what I've created!
1430
01:47:21,394 --> 01:47:25,273
Tigellinus, my robe of grief.
1431
01:47:25,899 --> 01:47:28,652
Terpnos, lyre.
1432
01:47:32,113 --> 01:47:34,282
History will judge my song, Petronius.
1433
01:47:34,449 --> 01:47:36,785
Will it be great enough to match the occasion?
1434
01:47:36,952 --> 01:47:39,621
I'm seized with the fear
that it will not be great enough.
1435
01:47:39,788 --> 01:47:43,917
You will be worthy of the spectacle,
as the spectacle is worthy of you.
1436
01:47:44,250 --> 01:47:46,461
You encourage me, Petronius.
1437
01:47:46,628 --> 01:47:50,256
But I'm aware that I must compete
with those who sang of the burning of Troy.
1438
01:47:50,423 --> 01:47:53,176
My song must be greater,
just as Rome is greater than Troy.
1439
01:47:53,510 --> 01:47:57,931
[SINGING] Silence, ye spheres
Be still, ye hurtling stars
1440
01:47:58,098 --> 01:48:01,768
Open wide-vaulted skies above me
1441
01:48:01,935 --> 01:48:04,938
Now, at last, lo, I see Olympus
1442
01:48:05,105 --> 01:48:08,233
And a light from its summit Doth illumine me
1443
01:48:08,400 --> 01:48:11,611
I am one with the gods, immortal
1444
01:48:11,778 --> 01:48:15,991
I am Nero The artist who creates with fire
1445
01:48:16,157 --> 01:48:19,953
That the dreams of my life May come true
1446
01:48:20,120 --> 01:48:22,122
To the flames now I give the past
1447
01:48:22,288 --> 01:48:26,042
To the flames and soil
1448
01:48:27,460 --> 01:48:30,213
Take thou this Rome
1449
01:48:30,839 --> 01:48:36,011
Oh, receive her now, ye flames
1450
01:48:36,177 --> 01:48:40,015
Consume her as would a furnace
1451
01:48:40,181 --> 01:48:43,768
Burn on, O ancient Rome
1452
01:48:43,935 --> 01:48:47,689
Burn on, burn on
1453
01:48:49,733 --> 01:48:52,736
[CROWD YELLING]
1454
01:49:03,038 --> 01:49:05,373
The mob from burned areas.
1455
01:49:06,499 --> 01:49:07,959
They want to survive.
1456
01:49:08,126 --> 01:49:09,627
Who asked them to survive?
1457
01:49:13,923 --> 01:49:15,008
Tigellinus.
1458
01:49:15,175 --> 01:49:19,054
The palace is fully guarded, Majesty.
They will never pass my Praetorians.
1459
01:49:23,808 --> 01:49:26,186
The night is chilly.
1460
01:49:26,352 --> 01:49:28,354
Let us withdraw.
1461
01:49:31,649 --> 01:49:35,820
Is it possible that human beings
can produce such a sound?
1462
01:49:35,987 --> 01:49:39,282
Yes, when they've been driven too far.
1463
01:49:48,541 --> 01:49:52,003
MAN 1: Death to Nero. WOMAN: Death to the incendiary.
1464
01:49:52,170 --> 01:49:53,463
They'll break through.
1465
01:49:53,630 --> 01:49:55,882
Summon all the detachments from the barracks.
1466
01:49:56,341 --> 01:49:58,968
MAN 2: Death to the incendiary.
1467
01:50:05,642 --> 01:50:08,103
They're shouting something. What are they shouting?
1468
01:50:08,269 --> 01:50:10,605
They have given you a new title, Divinity.
1469
01:50:10,772 --> 01:50:12,857
"Incendiary."
1470
01:50:14,067 --> 01:50:16,694
I've sent for reinforcements.
I hope they arrive in time.
1471
01:50:16,861 --> 01:50:18,738
I'd speak to the mob. Make some promises.
1472
01:50:18,905 --> 01:50:20,532
I do not ask favors, I confer them.
1473
01:50:20,698 --> 01:50:22,408
You go. Speak to them in my name.
1474
01:50:22,575 --> 01:50:25,245
Not until detachments arrive,
then I'll speak with steel.
1475
01:50:25,411 --> 01:50:26,746
They'd stone me to death now.
1476
01:50:26,913 --> 01:50:29,415
In what better cause could you die?
1477
01:50:30,166 --> 01:50:32,836
This was your architect's dream.
Go and tell them, Phaon.
1478
01:50:33,002 --> 01:50:34,045
This is all for them.
1479
01:50:34,212 --> 01:50:36,005
How can we admit that, Divinity?
1480
01:50:36,172 --> 01:50:37,924
You're right, we must never admit it.
1481
01:50:38,091 --> 01:50:41,094
How can I expect that mob to share my vision?
1482
01:50:41,302 --> 01:50:42,762
Seneca, what do you advise?
1483
01:50:42,929 --> 01:50:46,724
The mob is a wild animal,
and with an animal you cannot reason.
1484
01:50:49,394 --> 01:50:51,938
I'm surrounded by eunuchs.
1485
01:50:54,315 --> 01:50:56,317
Why do you stand aloof? You're my counselor.
1486
01:50:56,484 --> 01:50:57,652
Why don't you counsel me?
1487
01:50:57,819 --> 01:51:00,738
Let them enter, we shall all die.
1488
01:51:00,905 --> 01:51:04,492
All except you.
You, of course, being a god, are immortal.
1489
01:51:04,659 --> 01:51:08,079
Your levity is ill-timed, Petronius.
They'll destroy you also.
1490
01:51:08,246 --> 01:51:11,166
I do not share your passion for self-preservation.
1491
01:51:11,332 --> 01:51:14,919
I love Rome, and I am not eager to survive it.
1492
01:51:15,086 --> 01:51:16,754
You're not like these other people.
1493
01:51:16,921 --> 01:51:18,631
They think that you're their friend.
1494
01:51:18,798 --> 01:51:20,967
Speak to them, make promises.
1495
01:51:21,134 --> 01:51:24,053
Grain, oil, wine.
1496
01:51:26,973 --> 01:51:29,559
They will take them, Nero, without your permission.
1497
01:51:29,726 --> 01:51:31,644
Insatiable and thankless mob.
1498
01:51:31,811 --> 01:51:33,479
- What do they want?
- Justice.
1499
01:51:33,646 --> 01:51:37,108
No mob ever wants justice. They want vengeance.
1500
01:51:40,653 --> 01:51:42,488
A victim.
1501
01:51:56,502 --> 01:51:59,839
Tigellinus, it was you who burnt Rome.
1502
01:52:00,006 --> 01:52:01,674
At your command, Nero.
1503
01:52:01,841 --> 01:52:03,843
Tigellinus, do you love me?
1504
01:52:04,510 --> 01:52:06,679
- You know it, lord.
- Then prove it.
1505
01:52:06,846 --> 01:52:11,517
Go to the mob,
bare your breast to them and your guilt.
1506
01:52:11,851 --> 01:52:13,186
I would do so gladly, Nero...
1507
01:52:13,353 --> 01:52:16,940
...but I am head of the Praetorian Guard
and the Praetorians love me.
1508
01:52:17,106 --> 01:52:19,442
If I die, they may turn against you.
1509
01:52:19,609 --> 01:52:21,819
I cannot subject you to that danger.
1510
01:52:21,986 --> 01:52:24,489
Are you threatening me, Tigellinus?
1511
01:52:24,656 --> 01:52:28,368
Do you hear him threaten me
with the Praetorian Guard?
1512
01:52:30,286 --> 01:52:33,248
You're all willing to desert me. I know it.
1513
01:52:34,040 --> 01:52:35,750
I feel it.
1514
01:52:35,917 --> 01:52:38,211
Nero, my beloved, you were right.
1515
01:52:38,378 --> 01:52:41,464
Give the people what they want.
Give them blood and vengeance.
1516
01:52:41,631 --> 01:52:44,217
Not one victim, but a hundred, a thousand.
1517
01:52:44,384 --> 01:52:46,177
Victims? What victims?
1518
01:52:46,344 --> 01:52:49,264
A group who worship one they say is higher than you.
1519
01:52:49,430 --> 01:52:51,808
They are the enemies of the human race, and of you.
1520
01:52:52,475 --> 01:52:53,726
Who are these people?
1521
01:52:53,893 --> 01:52:56,187
They despise our temples and our gods...
1522
01:52:56,354 --> 01:52:59,857
...and prophesy that the end of the world
shall be caused by fire.
1523
01:53:00,024 --> 01:53:02,819
Well, then, make their prophesy come true.
1524
01:53:02,986 --> 01:53:04,362
Let it end for them.
1525
01:53:05,238 --> 01:53:06,239
Who are they?
1526
01:53:06,406 --> 01:53:08,157
They call themselves Christians.
1527
01:53:08,324 --> 01:53:09,867
Christians?
1528
01:53:10,034 --> 01:53:11,536
Yes, I've heard of them.
1529
01:53:11,703 --> 01:53:14,914
The empress speaks rightly, Caesar.
The people hate these Christians.
1530
01:53:15,081 --> 01:53:17,166
They are the enemies of Rome and of the state.
1531
01:53:17,333 --> 01:53:20,336
The people want vengeance, Nero. Let them have it.
1532
01:53:20,503 --> 01:53:22,088
The people suspect you.
1533
01:53:22,255 --> 01:53:25,341
Let their suspicion turn
in this more beneficial direction.
1534
01:53:25,508 --> 01:53:27,760
- Surely, my lord--
- They should pay, Caesar.
1535
01:53:27,927 --> 01:53:29,679
They must pay.
1536
01:53:29,846 --> 01:53:31,306
Do you hear?
1537
01:53:31,472 --> 01:53:35,059
The Christians are plotting to destroy me.
1538
01:53:36,561 --> 01:53:40,106
You have often reminded us, Nero,
of the judgment of history.
1539
01:53:40,273 --> 01:53:42,775
What will its verdict be
if you punish the innocent...
1540
01:53:42,942 --> 01:53:44,902
...and betray your own greatness?
1541
01:53:45,069 --> 01:53:47,196
Let future ages, looking back at this time...
1542
01:53:47,363 --> 01:53:50,116
...regard Nero with wonder and amazement.
1543
01:53:50,283 --> 01:53:53,536
Let history say: Nero, the ruler of the world.
1544
01:53:53,703 --> 01:53:58,458
Nero, a god, burned Rome
because he was as powerful as Jupiter.
1545
01:53:59,125 --> 01:54:04,213
He loved poetry so much
that he sacrificed Rome for a song.
1546
01:54:05,048 --> 01:54:08,217
History need not say
that the burning of Rome was good...
1547
01:54:08,384 --> 01:54:10,970
...but it must say that it was colossal, uncommon.
1548
01:54:11,137 --> 01:54:14,807
I cannot listen to any veiled suggestion
that my emperor is a coward.
1549
01:54:14,974 --> 01:54:16,476
That is amusing.
1550
01:54:16,642 --> 01:54:19,520
You, who were too cowardly
to risk your life for him yourself.
1551
01:54:19,687 --> 01:54:22,774
Petronius is right. You refused to die for me.
1552
01:54:22,940 --> 01:54:25,485
He wants to preserve your enemies.
I want to kill them.
1553
01:54:25,651 --> 01:54:28,446
- Why do you defend these people?
- I'll tell you why, my lord.
1554
01:54:28,613 --> 01:54:31,866
Because his nephew, Vinicius,
loves a Christian girl, Lygia.
1555
01:54:32,033 --> 01:54:34,577
And it may be Petronius is himself a Christian.
1556
01:54:36,120 --> 01:54:38,831
Petronius, are you a Christian?
1557
01:54:39,248 --> 01:54:41,000
I am not.
1558
01:54:41,167 --> 01:54:45,004
I have heard that the Christians
teach you to love your neighbor.
1559
01:54:45,505 --> 01:54:48,549
And as I see what men are...
1560
01:54:49,050 --> 01:54:51,594
...I cannot, for the life of me, love my fellow man.
1561
01:54:51,761 --> 01:54:53,179
Ha!
1562
01:54:53,721 --> 01:54:56,557
He does not love you, gentlemen.
1563
01:54:58,518 --> 01:55:00,728
A tablet, Phaon.
1564
01:55:00,895 --> 01:55:03,481
The people shall have their vengeance.
1565
01:55:04,690 --> 01:55:11,155
I hereby proclaim that the guilt
of the burning of our beloved city...
1566
01:55:11,322 --> 01:55:16,119
...rests with the foul sect
which calls itself Christian.
1567
01:55:17,620 --> 01:55:22,542
They have spread the lie
that it was Nero who burnt Rome.
1568
01:55:24,252 --> 01:55:27,463
I will exterminate these criminals...
1569
01:55:27,630 --> 01:55:32,343
...in a manner matching the enormity of their crime.
1570
01:55:34,804 --> 01:55:37,849
Their punishment will be a warning.
1571
01:55:40,435 --> 01:55:43,855
A spectacle of terror...
1572
01:55:44,730 --> 01:55:47,483
...to all evil men...
1573
01:55:47,900 --> 01:55:52,405
...everywhere and forever...
1574
01:55:53,281 --> 01:55:58,161
...who would harm you or harm Rome...
1575
01:55:58,619 --> 01:56:04,459
...or harm your emperor...
1576
01:56:07,044 --> 01:56:08,921
...who loves you.
1577
01:56:16,095 --> 01:56:19,265
Pause, Nero, before you sign this decree.
1578
01:56:19,807 --> 01:56:23,311
Rome has given the world justice and order.
1579
01:56:23,478 --> 01:56:26,397
Sign that, and Roman justice will receive a blow...
1580
01:56:26,564 --> 01:56:28,566
...from which it may never recover.
1581
01:56:28,733 --> 01:56:31,360
Condemn these Christians
and you make martyrs of them...
1582
01:56:31,527 --> 01:56:33,196
...and insure their immortality.
1583
01:56:33,696 --> 01:56:38,534
Condemn them, and in the eyes of history...
1584
01:56:38,868 --> 01:56:40,536
...you'll condemn yourself.
1585
01:56:43,289 --> 01:56:47,335
When I have finished
with these Christians, Petronius...
1586
01:56:47,502 --> 01:56:53,966
...history will not be sure that they ever existed.
1587
01:57:02,433 --> 01:57:04,185
BOY: When I grow up, I'm gonna be a sailor.
1588
01:57:04,352 --> 01:57:06,521
Nothing burns at sea. There's too much water.
1589
01:57:06,687 --> 01:57:10,107
Nero can burn the whole ocean.
1590
01:57:12,235 --> 01:57:14,028
Marcus.
1591
01:57:18,324 --> 01:57:20,535
Did you rest well?
1592
01:57:20,701 --> 01:57:23,996
I was impatient to see the sunrise, and here you are.
1593
01:57:26,290 --> 01:57:27,875
You should have slept longer.
1594
01:57:28,042 --> 01:57:31,921
Your journey from Antium and last night must have...
1595
01:57:32,088 --> 01:57:35,299
I've been asleep too long in many ways, Lygia.
1596
01:57:35,466 --> 01:57:38,886
I must return to the city at once,
meet with Nerva and the others.
1597
01:57:40,680 --> 01:57:43,849
Yes, Rome and what it stands for.
1598
01:57:44,016 --> 01:57:45,977
Something must be done about this maniac.
1599
01:57:46,143 --> 01:57:49,063
There must be an answer to this, quickly, decisive.
1600
01:57:50,398 --> 01:57:52,275
You do know the answer.
1601
01:57:52,441 --> 01:57:54,902
You do understand.
1602
01:57:56,237 --> 01:57:59,699
There can be no turning the other cheek now, Lygia.
1603
01:58:00,449 --> 01:58:03,578
If I have not returned by nightfall, I'll send word.
1604
01:58:11,544 --> 01:58:13,713
Marcus Vinicius?
1605
01:58:14,880 --> 01:58:17,383
We have not met, but I have heard of you.
1606
01:58:17,550 --> 01:58:20,344
You must realize how grateful we are
for what you have done.
1607
01:58:20,511 --> 01:58:22,722
For your concern for Lygia.
1608
01:58:22,888 --> 01:58:25,558
My only concern is for Lygia.
1609
01:58:31,230 --> 01:58:32,857
Hold yourself straight, youngster.
1610
01:58:33,441 --> 01:58:35,526
A man must be a soldier.
1611
01:58:45,870 --> 01:58:47,371
I don't want to be a soldier.
1612
01:58:48,122 --> 01:58:50,166
Let's talk about our journey.
1613
01:58:50,333 --> 01:58:53,127
We'll be meeting Paul in Greece, you know.
1614
01:58:53,294 --> 01:58:54,378
That's good.
1615
01:58:54,545 --> 01:58:57,923
You'll like Greece, Nazarius.
You'll help me to fish for men there.
1616
01:58:58,090 --> 01:59:01,844
And I think we'll have time to fish for fish too.
1617
01:59:02,011 --> 01:59:03,429
Are we leaving soon?
1618
01:59:03,596 --> 01:59:07,224
As soon as we eat.
We shall be starting within the hour.
1619
01:59:08,434 --> 01:59:13,522
I'm glad, because I don't like it here anymore.
1620
01:59:14,190 --> 01:59:15,900
[SOBBING]
1621
01:59:16,067 --> 01:59:18,361
Yes, indeed.
1622
01:59:18,527 --> 01:59:21,197
We shall be fishermen together.
1623
01:59:51,936 --> 01:59:55,523
Please, my lord, do not trouble yourself so.
1624
01:59:55,690 --> 01:59:58,651
It is a moment for thought, Eunice.
1625
01:59:59,026 --> 02:00:03,114
Yesterday, I could have gone to the mob
and told them that Nero burned Rome.
1626
02:00:03,280 --> 02:00:05,908
I could've offered them a new emperor
in General Galba...
1627
02:00:06,200 --> 02:00:08,828
...and so set my seal upon the times.
1628
02:00:11,330 --> 02:00:13,249
But I did not.
1629
02:00:14,333 --> 02:00:16,001
Do you know why, Eunice?
1630
02:00:16,335 --> 02:00:18,671
I know nothing of these things, my lord.
1631
02:00:19,130 --> 02:00:21,882
Because I love Nero, perhaps?
1632
02:00:22,341 --> 02:00:25,261
He fills me with loathing.
1633
02:00:25,886 --> 02:00:29,223
No, because out of force of long habit...
1634
02:00:29,390 --> 02:00:32,351
...I've become content only to be an amused cynic...
1635
02:00:32,518 --> 02:00:37,064
...a selfish onlooker,
leaving others to shape the world.
1636
02:00:40,985 --> 02:00:42,319
Marcus.
1637
02:00:42,486 --> 02:00:44,530
The gods be praised. I was worried about you.
1638
02:00:44,697 --> 02:00:47,533
You know Nerva, here.
My third in command, Justin Scipio.
1639
02:00:47,700 --> 02:00:50,453
We meet in a ghastly hour, gentlemen.
1640
02:00:50,619 --> 02:00:52,329
We've made our decision.
1641
02:00:52,496 --> 02:00:55,374
The time has come for Galba to replace Nero.
1642
02:00:55,541 --> 02:00:57,376
Justin is taking this message to him...
1643
02:00:57,543 --> 02:01:00,212
...asking him to come with his legions in all haste.
1644
02:01:00,379 --> 02:01:04,967
Your signature added to these
will make Galba confident of his reception.
1645
02:01:05,134 --> 02:01:07,261
I know you will give it.
1646
02:01:13,601 --> 02:01:16,395
I sign it with humility.
1647
02:01:21,859 --> 02:01:23,527
On your way.
1648
02:01:25,613 --> 02:01:27,239
You took a risk in coming here.
1649
02:01:27,406 --> 02:01:29,784
You're a marked man. You scorned Poppaea.
1650
02:01:29,950 --> 02:01:32,161
She has death in her eye for you and your Lygia.
1651
02:01:32,328 --> 02:01:33,621
I'll chance that.
1652
02:01:33,788 --> 02:01:36,499
Take Lygia and leave Rome as quickly as possible.
1653
02:01:36,665 --> 02:01:39,752
At least you'll be spared Nero's final horror.
1654
02:01:39,919 --> 02:01:43,255
He is about to extinguish his conflagration
in a sea of blood.
1655
02:01:44,048 --> 02:01:45,257
Whose blood?
1656
02:01:45,424 --> 02:01:47,843
Did you not hear his orators at the street corners?
1657
02:01:48,010 --> 02:01:51,639
Already the people are being given
the story, along with grain and wine...
1658
02:01:51,806 --> 02:01:55,768
...that it was the Christians and not Nero
who set fire to Rome.
1659
02:01:55,935 --> 02:01:58,646
- They won't believe such a lie.
- But they are believing it.
1660
02:01:58,813 --> 02:02:02,441
The people will believe any lie
if it is fantastic enough.
1661
02:02:03,901 --> 02:02:06,028
I'll meet you at your house by midday.
1662
02:02:06,195 --> 02:02:08,280
We will keep you informed.
1663
02:02:15,538 --> 02:02:17,873
Farewell, Marcus.
1664
02:02:18,582 --> 02:02:20,084
Farewell.
1665
02:02:20,751 --> 02:02:22,503
Farewell?
1666
02:02:22,670 --> 02:02:24,296
What do you mean, my lord?
1667
02:02:24,463 --> 02:02:29,051
My dear, this morning
Nero sent to inquire after my health.
1668
02:02:29,218 --> 02:02:32,346
A Praetorian officer brought his solicitude.
1669
02:02:32,513 --> 02:02:34,849
It is easy to see that he means to amuse himself...
1670
02:02:35,015 --> 02:02:37,142
...by making a sport of my extermination.
1671
02:02:37,309 --> 02:02:40,020
- But then you must--
- No, no, my dear.
1672
02:02:40,187 --> 02:02:42,857
I have the means to disappoint him.
1673
02:02:43,315 --> 02:02:45,693
Send Anaxander to me.
1674
02:02:47,486 --> 02:02:51,156
I will give him the names of those few I love.
1675
02:02:52,366 --> 02:02:55,578
He will go and ask them to dine with us tonight.
1676
02:02:59,456 --> 02:03:04,003
- Gen. Plautius, his family, where are they?
- You're late, they're already imprisoned.
1677
02:03:04,169 --> 02:03:06,714
The Praetorians came
and collected the whole scurvy lot.
1678
02:03:06,881 --> 02:03:10,551
WOMAN: Me, raising my children
right by the house of dirty Christians.
1679
02:03:10,718 --> 02:03:13,721
Burn the city, will they?
1680
02:03:16,348 --> 02:03:18,350
Put them in Number 4.
1681
02:03:18,517 --> 02:03:20,519
[WOMEN SOBBING]
1682
02:03:22,855 --> 02:03:25,524
Have you the family of General Plautius here?
1683
02:03:26,567 --> 02:03:29,570
I do not know, commander. See if we have them.
1684
02:03:29,737 --> 02:03:31,739
I have an order for their immediate release.
1685
02:03:31,906 --> 02:03:33,574
A signed order? By whom?
1686
02:03:33,741 --> 02:03:37,703
I do not accept questions, Praetorian.
I transmit orders.
1687
02:03:42,124 --> 02:03:44,877
TIGELLINUS: A seasoned campaigner trapped by love.
1688
02:03:45,044 --> 02:03:47,212
We've been expecting you.
1689
02:03:47,379 --> 02:03:50,382
As soldiers, we've always hoped to die
a quick and noble death...
1690
02:03:50,549 --> 02:03:51,634
...haven't we, Vinicius?
1691
02:03:51,967 --> 02:03:54,887
But Nero has in mind for you
something more leisurely...
1692
02:03:55,054 --> 02:03:57,306
...and certainly ignoble.
1693
02:03:57,890 --> 02:03:59,808
Put him with his Christian friends.
1694
02:04:13,113 --> 02:04:14,949
Marcus?
1695
02:04:18,452 --> 02:04:21,413
Oh, why did they take you?
This is none of your doing.
1696
02:04:21,580 --> 02:04:24,083
I carry my share of the blame.
1697
02:04:26,085 --> 02:04:29,380
We knew they were looking for you,
but we had no way to send warning.
1698
02:04:29,546 --> 02:04:31,674
This is a sad reward for your friendship.
1699
02:04:31,840 --> 02:04:34,093
Marcus, I once accused you bitterly.
1700
02:04:34,259 --> 02:04:35,928
I'm proved wrong.
1701
02:04:36,095 --> 02:04:38,681
It's no triumph for me to find you here.
1702
02:04:38,847 --> 02:04:40,099
General Plautius, I--
1703
02:04:40,265 --> 02:04:42,267
[LIONS ROARING]
1704
02:04:49,984 --> 02:04:51,402
The lions!
1705
02:04:51,568 --> 02:04:53,445
It is the lions.
1706
02:04:53,612 --> 02:04:55,739
No, no, please, God!
1707
02:04:55,906 --> 02:04:57,574
No, I can't stand--
1708
02:04:57,741 --> 02:04:59,868
No, dear, no.
1709
02:05:00,035 --> 02:05:03,497
We must be strong in him, in each other.
1710
02:05:03,664 --> 02:05:04,707
Where is he, then?
1711
02:05:04,873 --> 02:05:08,085
If he is so all-powerful as you say,
why do we find ourselves here?
1712
02:05:08,252 --> 02:05:09,962
My friend, stand firm.
1713
02:05:10,129 --> 02:05:13,716
My two babies and all of our children
to be sold into slavery.
1714
02:05:13,882 --> 02:05:16,301
Is that what the redeemer promised us?
1715
02:05:16,468 --> 02:05:21,640
Only by strength in faith
will we be able to endure the ordeal.
1716
02:05:22,099 --> 02:05:25,853
I thank God Peter and Paul were spared.
1717
02:05:26,020 --> 02:05:30,733
But I miss their spirit and their courage.
1718
02:05:33,402 --> 02:05:35,404
[SOBBING]
1719
02:05:57,509 --> 02:05:59,053
I think it's going to rain.
1720
02:05:59,219 --> 02:06:02,014
We'd better look for a place to take shelter.
1721
02:06:02,389 --> 02:06:04,808
Peter, don't you think so?
1722
02:06:05,476 --> 02:06:08,353
What troubles you?
You've hardly said anything all morning.
1723
02:06:08,520 --> 02:06:10,689
Oh, I'm sorry, Nazarius.
1724
02:06:10,856 --> 02:06:11,899
Are you very tired?
1725
02:06:12,066 --> 02:06:14,068
Oh, my mind is as heavy as my body.
1726
02:06:14,234 --> 02:06:17,321
There is something wrong, with our people, perhaps.
1727
02:06:17,488 --> 02:06:18,530
I do not know.
1728
02:06:18,697 --> 02:06:21,867
It is at such times I need our Lord's counsel.
1729
02:06:22,034 --> 02:06:24,328
There is within me a decision that I cannot find.
1730
02:06:24,495 --> 02:06:27,414
If only he would speak to me, I--
1731
02:06:29,041 --> 02:06:33,462
Look, those treetops there,
they do not bend with the wind.
1732
02:06:33,629 --> 02:06:35,839
Yes, that is so.
1733
02:06:37,382 --> 02:06:41,512
And that sudden brightness coming,
do you see it, Nazarius?
1734
02:06:43,847 --> 02:06:46,308
It is the light of the Lord.
1735
02:06:46,475 --> 02:06:48,560
I have seen it.
1736
02:06:50,896 --> 02:06:53,565
Christ Jesus, you are here.
1737
02:06:53,982 --> 02:06:56,568
What is wrong, O Lord?
1738
02:06:56,985 --> 02:06:58,904
What should I do?
1739
02:06:59,071 --> 02:07:01,323
I am weary.
1740
02:07:01,490 --> 02:07:04,076
How should I follow thee now?
1741
02:07:05,744 --> 02:07:07,746
[SPEAKS IN LATIN]
1742
02:07:08,747 --> 02:07:10,999
Whither goest thou, Lord?
1743
02:07:14,753 --> 02:07:20,342
My people in Rome have need of thee.
1744
02:07:23,971 --> 02:07:25,430
What did you say, Nazarius?
1745
02:07:28,058 --> 02:07:32,187
My people in Rome have need of thee.
1746
02:07:32,354 --> 02:07:34,731
If thou desert my people...
1747
02:07:34,898 --> 02:07:39,403
...I shall go to Rome to be crucified a second time.
1748
02:07:41,780 --> 02:07:44,199
Nazarius, blessed child, speak on.
1749
02:07:44,366 --> 02:07:45,701
Speak.
1750
02:07:45,868 --> 02:07:47,995
Oh, Peter, you've stumbled. Here.
1751
02:07:48,162 --> 02:07:50,831
The words you said, say them again.
1752
02:07:50,998 --> 02:07:52,499
I didn't say anything.
1753
02:07:52,666 --> 02:07:55,544
You said, "if thou desert my people...
1754
02:07:55,711 --> 02:07:58,714
...I shall go to Rome to be crucified a second time."
1755
02:07:59,423 --> 02:08:01,133
But I said nothing.
1756
02:08:04,636 --> 02:08:06,138
Yes.
1757
02:08:07,639 --> 02:08:10,642
He has again spoken to me.
1758
02:08:11,852 --> 02:08:13,270
Come, Nazarius.
1759
02:08:13,437 --> 02:08:14,479
Where are you going?
1760
02:08:14,646 --> 02:08:16,315
To Rome.
1761
02:08:16,481 --> 02:08:18,483
[MUSIC PLAYING]
1762
02:08:34,041 --> 02:08:37,628
I have invited you here tonight, my friends...
1763
02:08:37,794 --> 02:08:41,006
...you who have been steadfast through the years.
1764
02:08:41,340 --> 02:08:45,344
That you have come
proves not only your recklessness...
1765
02:08:45,510 --> 02:08:46,511
...but your devotion.
1766
02:08:46,678 --> 02:08:48,597
You pay us too much respect.
1767
02:08:48,764 --> 02:08:52,142
We know you have the wit
to bring yourself into his favor again.
1768
02:08:53,227 --> 02:08:54,561
No.
1769
02:08:54,728 --> 02:08:56,980
Tigellinus has won.
1770
02:08:57,147 --> 02:08:59,149
Nero, our master...
1771
02:08:59,316 --> 02:09:02,152
...is at the moment
anticipating how he will make me suffer.
1772
02:09:02,319 --> 02:09:05,280
But I shall deprive him of that pleasure.
1773
02:09:05,989 --> 02:09:09,159
This is an evening of farewells.
1774
02:09:10,077 --> 02:09:11,703
Where will you go, my lord?
1775
02:09:11,870 --> 02:09:12,913
Your lord?
1776
02:09:13,080 --> 02:09:16,458
You've called me that for long enough.
My name is Gaius.
1777
02:09:17,292 --> 02:09:20,879
And you've worn this emblem of slavery
for far too long.
1778
02:09:22,756 --> 02:09:24,675
Henceforth, you are legally free.
1779
02:09:26,760 --> 02:09:31,390
And this villa, with its treasures,
its slaves, its gardens, will be yours.
1780
02:09:32,015 --> 02:09:33,558
WhV do you say this?
1781
02:09:33,725 --> 02:09:38,897
Because this evening, with its warmth and feeling...
1782
02:09:39,314 --> 02:09:42,401
...this evening is my signature.
1783
02:09:42,567 --> 02:09:44,903
The last flourish.
1784
02:09:47,072 --> 02:09:49,574
Tell the physician to come in.
1785
02:09:52,744 --> 02:09:55,247
It is not enough to live well.
1786
02:09:55,414 --> 02:09:56,748
One must die well.
1787
02:10:04,381 --> 02:10:06,091
No, my lord.
1788
02:10:06,258 --> 02:10:08,427
No. Please don't let him.
1789
02:10:13,265 --> 02:10:19,438
I understand the Christians say
that death is but a transition to a better life.
1790
02:10:20,105 --> 02:10:21,940
It will be interesting to discover.
1791
02:10:22,107 --> 02:10:23,900
Oh, my lord.
1792
02:10:24,067 --> 02:10:26,778
My dear, no tears before our guests.
1793
02:10:27,112 --> 02:10:28,447
Petronius...
1794
02:10:29,156 --> 02:10:34,286
If the Christians are right,
this will be but a brief parting.
1795
02:10:34,453 --> 02:10:37,873
We can't... We can't part.
1796
02:10:38,040 --> 02:10:39,666
Eunice.
1797
02:10:40,625 --> 02:10:42,461
Did you think I could live without you?
1798
02:10:42,627 --> 02:10:44,671
No, no. Bind her wrist.
1799
02:10:45,130 --> 02:10:50,093
For the first time, Gaius, I disobey you.
1800
02:10:51,595 --> 02:10:57,642
What have I done that forever I should hear
the sweet thunder of your heart?
1801
02:10:58,852 --> 02:11:00,771
You have given me your love.
1802
02:11:17,287 --> 02:11:21,875
And now, my friends,
I wish to write a letter to our emperor.
1803
02:11:22,167 --> 02:11:23,794
Scfibe?
1804
02:11:24,503 --> 02:11:26,630
Will you permit me?
1805
02:11:26,797 --> 02:11:29,508
SENECA: Let us hear it, Petronius.
1806
02:11:31,051 --> 02:11:34,221
To Nero, emperor of Rome...
1807
02:11:34,388 --> 02:11:39,101
...master of the world, divine pontiff.
1808
02:11:40,477 --> 02:11:43,980
I know that my death
will be a disappointment to you...
1809
02:11:44,147 --> 02:11:49,236
...since you wished to render me
this service yourself.
1810
02:11:50,862 --> 02:11:56,201
To be born in your reign is a miscalculation...
1811
02:11:56,368 --> 02:12:00,205
...but to die in it is a joy.
1812
02:12:00,372 --> 02:12:04,876
I can forgive you for murdering your wife
and your mother...
1813
02:12:05,043 --> 02:12:09,881
...for burning our beloved Rome,
for befouling our fair country...
1814
02:12:10,048 --> 02:12:15,178
...with the stench of your crimes.
1815
02:12:16,054 --> 02:12:18,890
But one thing I cannot forgive...
1816
02:12:19,558 --> 02:12:23,395
...the boredom of having to listen to your verses...
1817
02:12:23,895 --> 02:12:29,901
...your second-rate songs,
your mediocre performances.
1818
02:12:30,527 --> 02:12:34,072
Adhere to your special gifts, Nero.
1819
02:12:34,239 --> 02:12:38,618
Murder and arson, betrayal and terror.
1820
02:12:38,910 --> 02:12:41,872
Mutilate your subjects, if you must.
1821
02:12:42,038 --> 02:12:48,545
But with my last breath, I beg you,
do not mutilate the arts.
1822
02:12:49,421 --> 02:12:54,176
Farewell, but compose no more music.
1823
02:12:55,260 --> 02:12:57,888
Brutalize the people...
1824
02:12:58,597 --> 02:13:02,267
...but do not bore them...
1825
02:13:02,767 --> 02:13:08,523
...as you have bored to death your friend...
1826
02:13:09,941 --> 02:13:12,527
...the late Gaius Petronius.
1827
02:13:20,285 --> 02:13:25,457
Seneca, I entrust to you the delivery of this letter.
1828
02:13:25,624 --> 02:13:27,250
I Will deliver it.
1829
02:13:49,981 --> 02:13:52,692
Farewell, Petronius.
1830
02:13:52,859 --> 02:13:57,364
With you perishes the best of our Roman world.
1831
02:14:00,116 --> 02:14:01,743
Petronius?
1832
02:14:01,910 --> 02:14:03,620
Dead?
1833
02:14:05,622 --> 02:14:07,791
By his own hand?
1834
02:14:09,084 --> 02:14:12,796
- I don't believe it.
- I witnessed it, Divinity.
1835
02:14:15,173 --> 02:14:18,635
I shall never forgive him for this. Never!
1836
02:14:18,802 --> 02:14:21,429
Without my permission?
1837
02:14:21,596 --> 02:14:23,598
It's rebellion.
1838
02:14:24,182 --> 02:14:26,351
It's blasphemy.
1839
02:14:26,518 --> 02:14:28,812
He left you a message of farewell.
1840
02:14:31,356 --> 02:14:33,608
Then he did think of me.
1841
02:14:34,442 --> 02:14:37,362
His last thoughts were of me.
1842
02:14:38,989 --> 02:14:41,825
How I loved you, Petronius.
1843
02:14:42,158 --> 02:14:44,744
You were my one friend.
1844
02:14:44,911 --> 02:14:47,539
You alone understood my soul.
1845
02:14:48,748 --> 02:14:51,710
Tigellinus, the weeping vase.
1846
02:14:53,420 --> 02:14:56,840
Who will listen to my songs now?
1847
02:14:57,841 --> 02:15:03,638
Who will appreciate the true value of my verses?
1848
02:15:05,473 --> 02:15:08,393
I weep for you, Petronius.
1849
02:15:11,021 --> 02:15:13,356
One tear for you.
1850
02:15:16,234 --> 02:15:17,694
One for me.
1851
02:15:20,905 --> 02:15:23,825
Seal up these fruits of my sorrow...
1852
02:15:23,992 --> 02:15:30,206
...so that posterity may know
how Nero grieved for his dearest friend...
1853
02:15:30,373 --> 02:15:33,627
...and truest critic.
1854
02:15:37,672 --> 02:15:41,134
And now for his tender words.
1855
02:16:03,740 --> 02:16:05,909
Destroy!
1856
02:16:06,076 --> 02:16:09,287
Destroy his house, every stone to dust.
1857
02:16:09,454 --> 02:16:10,955
Burn his books.
1858
02:16:11,122 --> 02:16:12,999
Slaughter his animals.
1859
02:16:13,166 --> 02:16:16,586
Kill his servants.
Male, female, eunuch, every one of them.
1860
02:16:16,753 --> 02:16:18,922
Beat his memory into the ground!
1861
02:16:21,216 --> 02:16:22,717
[MUSIC PLAYING]
1862
02:16:48,576 --> 02:16:49,703
Where is the emperor?
1863
02:16:49,869 --> 02:16:51,830
Let Nero start the game.
1864
02:16:51,996 --> 02:16:53,748
The lions are getting hungry.
1865
02:16:53,915 --> 02:16:54,958
[LAUGHING]
1866
02:16:55,125 --> 02:16:57,335
WOMAN: Bring on those house burners.
1867
02:16:57,502 --> 02:16:59,170
They're crying for blood.
1868
02:16:59,337 --> 02:17:01,381
I doubt if we can chance anything today.
1869
02:17:01,548 --> 02:17:03,675
Nothing will change the temper of this mob.
1870
02:17:03,842 --> 02:17:05,719
Have you heard any news of the commander?
1871
02:17:05,885 --> 02:17:07,679
Only that he's been taken, that's all.
1872
02:17:09,013 --> 02:17:11,015
[PLAYING FLOURISH]
1873
02:17:11,182 --> 02:17:12,517
[CROWD CHEERING]
1874
02:17:42,422 --> 02:17:45,842
O holy gods of Rome...
1875
02:17:46,009 --> 02:17:52,307
...in the name of Nero,
emperor and supreme pontiff...
1876
02:17:52,474 --> 02:17:55,769
...we beseech you to receive in sacrifice...
1877
02:17:55,935 --> 02:17:59,397
...the lives of those who sought to destroy...
1878
02:17:59,564 --> 02:18:03,568
...this sacred and eternal city.
1879
02:18:03,735 --> 02:18:05,737
[TRUMPETS PLAYING]
1880
02:18:07,822 --> 02:18:09,824
[CROWD CHEERING]
1881
02:19:00,458 --> 02:19:02,460
[GROWLING]
1882
02:19:42,917 --> 02:19:44,586
Have strength as he did.
1883
02:19:44,752 --> 02:19:46,421
It will not be long.
1884
02:19:46,588 --> 02:19:50,008
Oh, dear Lord Jesus, help them.
1885
02:19:50,174 --> 02:19:51,342
Help them.
1886
02:20:00,018 --> 02:20:01,019
Don't.
1887
02:20:01,185 --> 02:20:03,438
Don't torture yourself.
1888
02:20:04,689 --> 02:20:07,734
I'll be as close to her as I can.
1889
02:20:19,287 --> 02:20:21,915
You may give the signal, Divinity.
1890
02:20:24,250 --> 02:20:27,045
Peace to the martyrs!
1891
02:20:27,462 --> 02:20:28,504
Peter.
1892
02:20:28,713 --> 02:20:31,507
Peace, peace to them.
1893
02:20:31,674 --> 02:20:33,676
Take thy children, Lord.
1894
02:20:34,052 --> 02:20:36,930
Numb their wounds, soften their pains.
1895
02:20:37,096 --> 02:20:39,307
Give them strength, O savior.
1896
02:20:39,474 --> 02:20:40,725
Seize that man.
1897
02:20:40,892 --> 02:20:46,064
Blessed are you, my children,
who die in the name of Jesus.
1898
02:20:46,230 --> 02:20:48,566
I say to you that this day...
1899
02:20:48,733 --> 02:20:51,611
...you shall be with him in paradise.
1900
02:20:51,778 --> 02:20:57,492
Here, where Nero rules today,
Christ shall rule forever.
1901
02:20:57,659 --> 02:20:59,535
[LAUGHING]
1902
02:21:00,244 --> 02:21:01,579
Who is that man?
1903
02:21:01,746 --> 02:21:04,457
I think he is their leader, a man called Peter.
1904
02:21:04,624 --> 02:21:07,001
He escaped us before.
1905
02:21:07,168 --> 02:21:10,713
But he said Christ would replace me. What sort of--?
1906
02:21:10,880 --> 02:21:12,382
[SINGING]
1907
02:21:15,259 --> 02:21:16,386
They're singing.
1908
02:21:50,628 --> 02:21:52,964
These dogs have effrontery even in death.
1909
02:21:53,131 --> 02:21:55,091
The lions will sing louder, I think.
1910
02:21:58,469 --> 02:22:00,138
[ROARING]
1911
02:22:08,980 --> 02:22:10,982
[PLAYING]
1912
02:22:43,931 --> 02:22:45,600
[SCREAMING]
1913
02:23:06,537 --> 02:23:07,622
[MAN SCREAMS]
1914
02:23:22,386 --> 02:23:23,846
[DOOR OPENS]
1915
02:23:26,766 --> 02:23:29,977
WOMAN: Oh, Peter, could our Lord
at least not have saved you?
1916
02:23:30,144 --> 02:23:34,232
Oh, Peter, why did you come back?
1917
02:23:35,066 --> 02:23:37,568
It was the Lord's will.
1918
02:23:38,027 --> 02:23:39,237
Nazarius is safe.
1919
02:23:39,403 --> 02:23:41,864
Some good people sheltered him outside the city.
1920
02:23:43,741 --> 02:23:45,409
[WOMAN SINGING]
1921
02:23:47,328 --> 02:23:49,330
[SINGING]
1922
02:24:00,341 --> 02:24:05,429
Yes, sing to him as he now opens his arms to you.
1923
02:24:05,596 --> 02:24:09,934
Sing to the welcome of Christ, our Lord.
1924
02:24:15,731 --> 02:24:18,776
More singing. Why aren't they afraid?
1925
02:24:18,943 --> 02:24:20,444
They irritate me.
1926
02:24:20,611 --> 02:24:24,323
They should have been tortured first,
their insolence destroyed.
1927
02:24:24,699 --> 02:24:27,076
What of Marcus Vinicius and the girl Lygia?
1928
02:24:27,243 --> 02:24:30,037
- Shall we bring them after these?
- Yes.
1929
02:24:30,204 --> 02:24:32,290
Alone, with one lion.
1930
02:24:32,456 --> 02:24:34,625
- The hungriest.
- Not yet, my lord.
1931
02:24:34,792 --> 02:24:38,796
I should like Vinicius and his little flower
held in reserve.
1932
02:24:38,963 --> 02:24:41,340
I am planning something most unusual.
1933
02:24:41,507 --> 02:24:42,884
A surprise for you.
1934
02:24:43,050 --> 02:24:45,219
What is it, Poppaea? Tell me.
1935
02:24:45,386 --> 02:24:47,680
It will not be a surprise, then.
1936
02:24:47,847 --> 02:24:49,640
Please, Poppaea.
1937
02:24:49,807 --> 02:24:54,312
My lord, have I ever disappointed you
in conceiving new delights?
1938
02:24:55,021 --> 02:24:57,190
New thrills?
1939
02:24:58,524 --> 02:25:00,109
True.
1940
02:25:00,359 --> 02:25:01,944
You haven't.
1941
02:25:06,365 --> 02:25:08,367
[TRUMPETS PLAYING]
1942
02:25:17,001 --> 02:25:18,419
Singing.
1943
02:25:18,586 --> 02:25:20,504
How can they?
1944
02:25:20,880 --> 02:25:23,132
It's beyond understanding.
1945
02:25:24,008 --> 02:25:27,220
Don't have the arena cleared at the end of the day.
1946
02:25:27,386 --> 02:25:29,847
I'm most curious.
1947
02:25:44,362 --> 02:25:46,864
No face on this one at all.
1948
02:25:48,324 --> 02:25:51,494
Oh, look, there's another one smiling.
1949
02:25:52,245 --> 02:25:54,038
It's monstrous of them to die smiling.
1950
02:25:54,205 --> 02:25:55,873
It's inhuman.
1951
02:25:56,374 --> 02:25:58,459
Yet they look no different from other people.
1952
02:25:58,626 --> 02:26:01,212
The man, Peter, he put an evil spell on them.
1953
02:26:01,379 --> 02:26:02,838
Yes.
1954
02:26:03,005 --> 02:26:04,548
The man, Peter.
1955
02:26:04,715 --> 02:26:07,718
Something singular must be done with him.
1956
02:26:25,236 --> 02:26:26,821
Marcus.
1957
02:26:27,905 --> 02:26:29,532
Yes?
1958
02:26:30,408 --> 02:26:34,328
Nothing do I see that is not perfection.
1959
02:26:36,747 --> 02:26:42,503
That night you said it, even though
you were most predatory about it...
1960
02:26:43,087 --> 02:26:46,590
...even then, my heart must have told me:
1961
02:26:47,300 --> 02:26:50,469
"That is the man you will love."
1962
02:26:51,762 --> 02:26:56,267
Only, then, you wouldn't let me hear
my heart talking, Marcus.
1963
02:26:57,518 --> 02:27:00,313
I said a great deal, I remember.
1964
02:27:01,397 --> 02:27:04,275
All of it loud and empty.
1965
02:27:07,153 --> 02:27:10,865
I would so love to have given you a son.
1966
02:27:13,034 --> 02:27:14,452
LVQia.
1967
02:27:15,369 --> 02:27:17,288
Oh, Marcus.
1968
02:27:17,705 --> 02:27:21,834
No matter what, I want to be your wife now.
1969
02:27:22,001 --> 02:27:25,171
- Peter will say the words over us.
- Lygia, you know I--
1970
02:27:25,338 --> 02:27:28,799
I want it to be that way before they take us...
1971
02:27:28,966 --> 02:27:33,804
...so that it will be that way
when we are together again.
1972
02:27:38,059 --> 02:27:41,854
You would never wish me to pretend, would you?
1973
02:27:42,021 --> 02:27:43,856
Pretend?
1974
02:27:44,023 --> 02:27:46,942
That I feel myself Christian.
1975
02:27:47,818 --> 02:27:51,280
It's still strange, new.
1976
02:27:51,447 --> 02:27:53,574
There's something I can't quite...
1977
02:27:54,116 --> 02:27:55,743
I mean...
1978
02:27:59,205 --> 02:28:02,416
Yes, it's proven good...
1979
02:28:02,583 --> 02:28:05,044
...full of courage, right here.
1980
02:28:06,003 --> 02:28:10,800
But there are many things
I cannot believe, understand.
1981
02:28:11,384 --> 02:28:14,303
Christ is within you, Marcus.
1982
02:28:14,804 --> 02:28:18,474
You feel him more strongly than you know.
1983
02:28:20,893 --> 02:28:22,436
Come.
1984
02:28:31,028 --> 02:28:32,696
Peter.
1985
02:28:37,201 --> 02:28:41,872
Before I die, I want to marry Marcus.
1986
02:28:44,917 --> 02:28:47,586
This is a holy thing, my son.
1987
02:28:49,547 --> 02:28:51,715
It concerns Lygia.
1988
02:28:52,049 --> 02:28:54,176
I look upon it as holy.
1989
02:28:57,847 --> 02:28:59,515
Marcus.
1990
02:29:00,474 --> 02:29:02,059
LVQia.
1991
02:29:02,935 --> 02:29:08,023
May he who blessed
the marriage at Cane bless you also.
1992
02:29:08,399 --> 02:29:11,402
Love one another from this moment forward...
1993
02:29:11,569 --> 02:29:15,281
...as man and wife in his holy name.
1994
02:29:15,781 --> 02:29:20,995
In the name of the Father and of the Son
and of the Holy Ghost.
1995
02:29:21,328 --> 02:29:23,747
In this life and the next...
1996
02:29:23,914 --> 02:29:26,459
...now and forevermore.
1997
02:29:32,298 --> 02:29:34,008
Marcus.
1998
02:29:34,800 --> 02:29:36,719
My husband.
1999
02:29:54,111 --> 02:29:55,654
Here he is, Your Majesty.
2000
02:29:55,821 --> 02:29:57,156
He meets with your approval?
2001
02:29:57,323 --> 02:29:58,365
Very much so.
2002
02:29:59,950 --> 02:30:01,827
It will be like a fresco from Crete.
2003
02:30:01,994 --> 02:30:04,705
The maiden sacrificed to the Minotaur.
2004
02:30:04,872 --> 02:30:07,541
It will be a spectacle
worthy of the eyes of the emperor.
2005
02:30:07,708 --> 02:30:09,251
Superb conception.
2006
02:30:12,213 --> 02:30:15,174
You seem sad and restless, my little black friend.
2007
02:30:15,341 --> 02:30:16,675
But do not grieve.
2008
02:30:16,842 --> 02:30:19,970
I promise you a rare playmate
for your lonely horns...
2009
02:30:20,137 --> 02:30:22,181
...to fondle and caress.
2010
02:30:26,810 --> 02:30:28,771
You are the man Peter?
2011
02:30:28,938 --> 02:30:31,732
I am Simon, called Peter.
2012
02:30:33,776 --> 02:30:37,154
"The man called Peter has been heard
to preach rebellion and blasphemy...
2013
02:30:37,321 --> 02:30:39,823
...against the rule and the divinity of the emperor.
2014
02:30:39,990 --> 02:30:43,160
It is accordingly decreed
that he be taken to Vatican Hill...
2015
02:30:43,327 --> 02:30:46,205
...where it has been confessed
he made his first preachment...
2016
02:30:46,372 --> 02:30:49,625
...to be crucified and left there
as a warning to all and any...
2017
02:30:49,792 --> 02:30:53,379
...who henceforth
wish to call themselves Christians."
2018
02:30:55,881 --> 02:31:02,179
To die as our Lord died is more than I deserve.
2019
02:31:03,472 --> 02:31:05,015
We can change that.
2020
02:31:25,786 --> 02:31:27,788
[CROWD SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
2021
02:31:33,711 --> 02:31:37,506
You'll notice, Divinity, they've stopped singing.
2022
02:31:38,882 --> 02:31:40,342
They have, haven't they?
2023
02:31:52,396 --> 02:31:53,856
I seem to know that man.
2024
02:31:54,023 --> 02:31:55,065
General Plautius.
2025
02:31:55,232 --> 02:31:57,401
He conquered Parthia and the north countries...
2026
02:31:57,568 --> 02:31:58,611
...when you were a boy.
2027
02:31:58,777 --> 02:32:02,323
Rome made him famous, and he repaid her with treason.
2028
02:32:02,489 --> 02:32:03,866
What a dramatic reversal.
2029
02:32:04,033 --> 02:32:06,410
Now he faces his first defeat.
2030
02:32:06,577 --> 02:32:08,495
I shall write a poem.
2031
02:32:11,457 --> 02:32:12,916
People of Rome.
2032
02:32:13,876 --> 02:32:17,004
I am Aulus Plautius...
2033
02:32:17,421 --> 02:32:20,007
...once general of your armies.
2034
02:32:20,716 --> 02:32:23,344
Rome is ruled by a monster...
2035
02:32:23,510 --> 02:32:27,848
...who tells you the Christians burned Rome.
2036
02:32:28,015 --> 02:32:30,351
But he lies.
2037
02:32:31,018 --> 02:32:34,021
You lie, Nero. You are the incendiary.
2038
02:32:35,189 --> 02:32:38,484
Nero kills Christians to deceive you.
2039
02:32:38,651 --> 02:32:40,736
He alone is guilty.
2040
02:32:40,903 --> 02:32:44,990
I swear it by my death and by my--
2041
02:32:46,200 --> 02:32:48,202
[CROWD MURMURING]
2042
02:32:51,455 --> 02:32:53,582
I begin to envy Petronius.
2043
02:32:53,749 --> 02:32:56,460
I have envied him long since.
2044
02:32:56,627 --> 02:32:59,630
I tell you, this is a horrible blot on Roman justice.
2045
02:33:00,255 --> 02:33:02,633
The mob isn't as happy as it was.
2046
02:33:02,800 --> 02:33:04,468
Have you noticed?
2047
02:33:06,136 --> 02:33:08,138
[TRUMPETS PLAYING]
2048
02:33:29,702 --> 02:33:31,286
[SCREAMING]
2049
02:33:33,247 --> 02:33:35,249
[CHRISTIANS SINGING]
2050
02:33:38,335 --> 02:33:39,962
[MOUTHS] Save me.
2051
02:33:45,426 --> 02:33:47,428
[MAN SCREAMING]
2052
02:33:54,852 --> 02:33:57,146
They are singing.
2053
02:34:22,963 --> 02:34:25,174
He said something to Nero.
2054
02:34:25,340 --> 02:34:27,718
I could not hear the words.
2055
02:34:30,012 --> 02:34:33,223
Nero's looking at a man that knows how to die.
2056
02:34:34,391 --> 02:34:35,893
[SOBS]
2057
02:34:45,903 --> 02:34:47,905
[TRUMPETS PLAYING FLOURISH]
2058
02:34:48,822 --> 02:34:50,824
[CROWD CHEERING]
2059
02:35:05,297 --> 02:35:06,882
Take him.
2060
02:35:14,598 --> 02:35:16,350
Commander?
2061
02:35:18,101 --> 02:35:20,187
They're not parting us.
2062
02:35:25,400 --> 02:35:27,236
Prepare her.
2063
02:35:33,951 --> 02:35:35,953
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
2064
02:35:40,707 --> 02:35:43,460
Here, my lord, is our honored guest.
2065
02:35:43,627 --> 02:35:44,711
Vinicius?
2066
02:35:44,878 --> 02:35:48,298
- Why is he not in the arena?
- He will be, very much so.
2067
02:35:48,465 --> 02:35:49,800
In spirit.
2068
02:35:49,967 --> 02:35:52,302
[TRUMPETS PLAYING]
2069
02:35:52,469 --> 02:35:54,471
[CROWD CHEERING]
2070
02:35:56,598 --> 02:35:58,475
NERO: It's a giant.
2071
02:36:01,144 --> 02:36:02,604
It's Hercules himself.
2072
02:36:02,771 --> 02:36:05,774
He has guarded the Lygian girl from birth.
2073
02:36:05,941 --> 02:36:08,026
Now let us see him guard her from death.
2074
02:36:08,193 --> 02:36:09,653
But what is the contest?
2075
02:36:12,656 --> 02:36:14,449
[TRUMPETS PLAYING]
2076
02:36:31,341 --> 02:36:32,384
Look.
2077
02:36:32,551 --> 02:36:34,678
They've brought Marcus here to face this.
2078
02:36:34,845 --> 02:36:36,388
By the...
2079
02:36:56,366 --> 02:36:58,785
Do not fret, Vinicius.
2080
02:36:58,952 --> 02:37:00,996
Remember, I said I did not hate her.
2081
02:37:01,496 --> 02:37:03,206
I wish her no pain.
2082
02:37:03,373 --> 02:37:05,751
Lasting pain, that is.
2083
02:37:06,293 --> 02:37:08,545
I am devastated dear Petronius is not here...
2084
02:37:08,712 --> 02:37:11,924
...to witness our pleasure, Vinicius.
2085
02:37:12,090 --> 02:37:15,135
"Sing no more," he said.
2086
02:37:15,886 --> 02:37:19,264
[SINGING] Upon these lilies I heap now
2087
02:37:19,431 --> 02:37:23,226
Red roses upon red
2088
02:37:23,393 --> 02:37:26,647
A blood-red tide shall surge
2089
02:37:26,813 --> 02:37:32,110
Upon her milk-white flesh
2090
02:37:32,277 --> 02:37:33,487
[LAUGHING]
2091
02:37:46,583 --> 02:37:49,211
Like your uncle,
you do have a certain amount of taste.
2092
02:37:49,378 --> 02:37:52,214
But I still think that she's too narrow in the hips.
2093
02:37:52,381 --> 02:37:54,925
These people know how to die, Nero.
2094
02:37:55,092 --> 02:37:57,010
In death, you will squeal like a hog.
2095
02:37:57,594 --> 02:37:58,929
Give him the sword. Let him--
2096
02:37:59,096 --> 02:38:00,806
No, stay.
2097
02:38:01,098 --> 02:38:05,602
My lord, would you deprive him of his final pleasure?
2098
02:38:06,937 --> 02:38:08,605
[TRUMPETS PLAYING]
2099
02:38:12,025 --> 02:38:14,027
[CROWD CHEERING]
2100
02:38:22,744 --> 02:38:23,787
Ha!
2101
02:38:23,954 --> 02:38:26,123
Superb, Poppaea. Magnificent.
2102
02:39:35,776 --> 02:39:37,194
A fair contest.
2103
02:39:37,360 --> 02:39:39,821
Nero's justice is proverbial.
2104
02:39:56,421 --> 02:39:59,341
If the bull kills the giant, so much for the girl.
2105
02:39:59,841 --> 02:40:03,845
But if our Hercules should be cruel enough
to destroy the poor animal...
2106
02:40:04,012 --> 02:40:08,225
...I shall have to spare her life for Vinicius.
2107
02:40:08,391 --> 02:40:10,560
To breed more Christians.
2108
02:40:43,051 --> 02:40:45,053
[GRUNTING]
2109
02:41:08,702 --> 02:41:09,953
Christ.
2110
02:41:10,120 --> 02:41:12,455
Christ, give him strength.
2111
02:41:35,478 --> 02:41:36,980
[CRACKS]
2112
02:41:38,815 --> 02:41:40,275
[CHEERING]
2113
02:41:48,074 --> 02:41:49,576
Seize him.
2114
02:42:01,838 --> 02:42:04,424
- Burner of Rome!
- Thumbs up!
2115
02:42:04,591 --> 02:42:06,343
- Burner of Rome!
- Thumbs up!
2116
02:42:07,844 --> 02:42:09,846
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
2117
02:42:27,697 --> 02:42:30,992
Ready up there? First line, follow me.
2118
02:42:59,896 --> 02:43:02,065
Citizens of Rome.
2119
02:43:02,524 --> 02:43:04,401
I am Marcus Vinicius...
2120
02:43:04,567 --> 02:43:06,903
...commander of your 14th Legion.
2121
02:43:07,070 --> 02:43:09,030
This man who burned Rome...
2122
02:43:09,447 --> 02:43:11,741
...who killed innocents for his own crime...
2123
02:43:12,200 --> 02:43:14,619
...the rule of this madman is ended.
2124
02:43:14,786 --> 02:43:17,247
Rome is yours again.
2125
02:43:17,455 --> 02:43:20,834
Tonight, General Galba marches from the north.
2126
02:43:21,001 --> 02:43:23,253
Your army has risen.
2127
02:43:23,920 --> 02:43:25,422
Hail Galba.
2128
02:43:25,839 --> 02:43:28,675
Gama, new emperor oi Rome.
2129
02:43:28,842 --> 02:43:30,093
[SHOUTING]
2130
02:43:40,895 --> 02:43:42,105
- A sword from Plautius.
- Aah!
2131
02:43:54,701 --> 02:43:56,703
[CROWD SHOUTING IN DISTANCE]
2132
02:44:57,555 --> 02:45:00,266
Where are the Praetorian Guard?
2133
02:45:00,809 --> 02:45:03,353
Dead or in revolt.
2134
02:45:03,520 --> 02:45:06,272
Dead, all dead.
2135
02:45:06,439 --> 02:45:11,194
My dear mother. Octavia, the wife I loved.
2136
02:45:11,611 --> 02:45:15,365
My friend Petronius, all dead.
2137
02:45:15,532 --> 02:45:17,033
Dead.
2138
02:45:26,459 --> 02:45:28,545
You alone are left.
2139
02:45:30,213 --> 02:45:32,799
Kill the Christians, you said.
2140
02:45:33,341 --> 02:45:34,968
It was you.
2141
02:45:35,135 --> 02:45:37,971
It was you who turned my people...
2142
02:45:39,264 --> 02:45:40,890
...my faithful subjects...
2143
02:45:42,434 --> 02:45:44,602
...against me.
2144
02:45:47,313 --> 02:45:48,398
[SCREAMS]
2145
02:45:53,486 --> 02:45:58,658
You are my evil genius.
2146
02:46:37,780 --> 02:46:38,907
What are you doing here?
2147
02:46:39,073 --> 02:46:41,284
I banished you. I didn't recall you.
2148
02:46:42,577 --> 02:46:46,873
I told you that when you needed me,
I would come to you.
2149
02:46:47,040 --> 02:46:49,459
You defied me. Begone!
2150
02:46:59,260 --> 02:47:02,430
Acte, what will they do to me'?
2151
02:47:02,597 --> 02:47:04,057
They Will kill you.
2152
02:47:04,224 --> 02:47:06,142
But they won't get in.
2153
02:47:43,304 --> 02:47:45,890
You've lived like a monster.
2154
02:47:46,266 --> 02:47:51,396
Now die like an emperor, by your own hand.
2155
02:47:51,604 --> 02:47:53,273
I didn't wish to be a monster.
2156
02:47:53,731 --> 02:47:55,108
The gods willed it.
2157
02:47:55,275 --> 02:47:57,652
Now, or they will find you here.
2158
02:48:01,447 --> 02:48:05,702
Is this, then, the end of Nero?
2159
02:48:05,868 --> 02:48:07,036
Yes, my lord.
2160
02:48:07,203 --> 02:48:11,291
To be lord of the earth and my own executioner.
2161
02:48:11,457 --> 02:48:13,376
Quickly.
2162
02:48:13,543 --> 02:48:17,630
Oh, how dull, how tasteless life
will be for them without me.
2163
02:48:17,797 --> 02:48:19,549
How can they face such a world?
2164
02:48:19,716 --> 02:48:21,426
How can they endure it?
2165
02:48:21,593 --> 02:48:23,761
Now, my lord.
2166
02:48:31,477 --> 02:48:33,688
Help me, Acte.
2167
02:48:45,450 --> 02:48:46,951
[GRUNTING]
2168
02:48:59,005 --> 02:49:00,256
[SOBBING]
2169
02:49:00,798 --> 02:49:02,550
WOMAN: Hail Galba. Hail.
2170
02:49:02,717 --> 02:49:04,677
Hail Galba.
2171
02:49:04,844 --> 02:49:06,888
Hail Galba.
2172
02:49:07,055 --> 02:49:10,058
Hail Galba.
2173
02:49:10,224 --> 02:49:11,601
[MUSIC PLAYING]
2174
02:49:11,768 --> 02:49:13,561
[CHATTERING]
2175
02:49:13,728 --> 02:49:15,271
MAN: Hail Galba.
2176
02:49:15,438 --> 02:49:17,065
Hail.
2177
02:49:18,900 --> 02:49:21,277
Hail Galba.
2178
02:49:25,740 --> 02:49:27,950
Galba has a task ahead of him.
2179
02:49:28,117 --> 02:49:31,120
To rebuild Rome and bring back Roman justice.
2180
02:49:31,287 --> 02:49:35,458
I fear the glory that was Rome
will never fully be reached again, Marcus.
2181
02:49:36,501 --> 02:49:41,255
Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Rome. What follows?
2182
02:49:41,839 --> 02:49:44,300
A more permanent world, I hope.
2183
02:49:44,676 --> 02:49:46,511
Or a more permanent faith.
2184
02:49:49,180 --> 02:49:51,307
One is not possible without the other.
2185
02:50:02,276 --> 02:50:04,153
What is it, commander?
2186
02:50:04,821 --> 02:50:08,074
It was right in this very spot
that Peter and I turned back to Rome.
2187
02:50:12,829 --> 02:50:15,498
It was here the Lord spoke to him.
2188
02:50:17,709 --> 02:50:20,169
It's a blessed spot.
2189
02:50:55,037 --> 02:51:01,544
CHORUS". I am the way, the truth and the life.
2190
02:54:19,825 --> 02:54:21,827
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