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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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OFFlCER:
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?
Is 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.

244
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Not a soft, red-gold crown
with stars in it.

245
00:18:52,548 --> 00:18:55,550
And their palm was
the hide of a wild boar.

246
00:18:55,717 --> 00:18:58,886
- Not like this soft--
- At least that proves they are diligent.

247
00:18:59,054 --> 00:19:01,180
Yes, at building mud huts.

248
00:19:01,348 --> 00:19:03,683
But not in bringing
a man's thoughts to life.

249
00:19:05,352 --> 00:19:06,561
I'm not sorry at all.

250
00:19:08,564 --> 00:19:11,232
- Sorry?
- That Petronius arranged my stay here.

251
00:19:14,111 --> 00:19:17,905
If things go as fate surely meant,
the man should be decorated.

252
00:19:20,492 --> 00:19:24,078
If you will excuse me,
I must decorate the table.

253
00:19:32,462 --> 00:19:35,423
And so you see, sir,
you can understand my problem.

254
00:19:35,591 --> 00:19:37,008
We were outnumbered at least--

255
00:19:37,176 --> 00:19:39,802
- Well, wouldn't you say three to one?
- Easily.

256
00:19:39,970 --> 00:19:44,599
I drew up the spearmen in a formation
much like the Macedonian phalanx.

257
00:19:44,766 --> 00:19:46,684
Let me tell you, your barbarous Briton...

258
00:19:46,852 --> 00:19:49,103
...is as worthy an opponent
as I've ever engaged.

259
00:19:49,271 --> 00:19:52,273
They impaled themselves on the
spearheads like meat to the spit.

260
00:19:52,441 --> 00:19:55,026
We were standing ankle deep
in their blood.

261
00:19:55,819 --> 00:19:58,613
Can you understand the strategy, Lygia?
Can you see it?

262
00:19:59,531 --> 00:20:02,867
I can only see the awful necessity
of defending one's home.

263
00:20:03,035 --> 00:20:04,285
Defending?

264
00:20:04,453 --> 00:20:06,787
They were in revolt against Rome.

265
00:20:06,955 --> 00:20:09,790
But as I say, I credit courage.

266
00:20:09,958 --> 00:20:14,128
A general's daughter can surely understand
it gives no pleasure to overcome weaklings.

267
00:20:14,922 --> 00:20:17,590
The battle loses its zest.

268
00:20:18,342 --> 00:20:19,967
Right, general?

269
00:20:20,135 --> 00:20:24,722
- I find I've outgrown that zest.
- Don't be modest, general.

270
00:20:25,474 --> 00:20:29,227
Look here, you don't seem to be excited
by the glorious exploits of your legions.

271
00:20:29,394 --> 00:20:31,479
That's an odd attitude
for a woman of Rome.

272
00:20:32,231 --> 00:20:34,232
I am not a Roman, I am a Lygian.

273
00:20:34,399 --> 00:20:36,984
A Lygian? I thought, uh....

274
00:20:37,152 --> 00:20:39,403
She's our adopted daughter.

275
00:20:39,571 --> 00:20:42,990
Oh, I see. Lygian, Lygia.

276
00:20:43,158 --> 00:20:46,661
She was named Callina,
but she prefers to be called Lygia.

277
00:20:46,828 --> 00:20:50,581
As a child, she was taken prisoner
during my campaign in Lygia.

278
00:20:50,749 --> 00:20:53,918
- A slave, then.
- No, no. Her father was king of Lygia.

279
00:20:54,086 --> 00:20:56,003
She was assigned to me as a hostage.

280
00:20:56,171 --> 00:21:01,550
We've tried to erase the wrong done her
with the love we have for her.

281
00:21:02,344 --> 00:21:04,512
You should envy me such love,
commander.

282
00:21:05,806 --> 00:21:08,683
Lygia, I envy the roof that covers you.

283
00:21:08,850 --> 00:21:10,977
This one or any future.

284
00:21:15,315 --> 00:21:17,316
May a traveler interrupt
with his greetings?

285
00:21:17,484 --> 00:21:20,444
PLAUTlUS: Paul.
POMPONIA: Paul, you're here.

286
00:21:20,612 --> 00:21:24,115
LYGlA: We've been counting the days.
- Pomponia. Lygia, dear.

287
00:21:24,283 --> 00:21:28,035
One need not pray that peace be with
this house. It's written in your faces.

288
00:21:28,203 --> 00:21:29,829
Paul, our two guests.

289
00:21:29,997 --> 00:21:33,124
Tribune Fabius Nerva
and Commander Marcus Vinicius.

290
00:21:33,292 --> 00:21:35,710
You must have seen their army
camped along the road.

291
00:21:35,877 --> 00:21:36,919
Ah, yes.

292
00:21:37,087 --> 00:21:42,174
- Gentlemen, our friend Paul of Tarsus.
- Our very dear friend.

293
00:21:42,342 --> 00:21:45,553
- You mustn't let me interrupt your meal.
- We've done with it.

294
00:21:45,721 --> 00:21:48,347
Come, let's sit in here.

295
00:21:50,267 --> 00:21:52,059
Commander?

296
00:21:52,894 --> 00:21:57,606
You must be tired, Paul.
Will you have food? A cup of wine?

297
00:21:57,774 --> 00:22:00,401
No, thank you, my dear.
I supped along the way.

298
00:22:00,569 --> 00:22:03,446
And the rigors of travel
always fall away rapidly here.

299
00:22:03,613 --> 00:22:06,365
I take it, like us, you've just returned
from a journey.

300
00:22:06,533 --> 00:22:09,243
Oh, yes. Antioch, Corinth.

301
00:22:09,786 --> 00:22:11,412
Oh.

302
00:22:12,581 --> 00:22:15,374
- You're Greek.
- No, I'm a Jew.

303
00:22:15,542 --> 00:22:18,919
A citizen of Rome,
though I was born in Tarsus.

304
00:22:19,087 --> 00:22:21,505
Oh, yes, Tarsus. North of Palestine.

305
00:22:21,673 --> 00:22:23,215
That's correct.

306
00:22:23,383 --> 00:22:25,634
You come from a troublesome
part of the world.

307
00:22:25,802 --> 00:22:28,220
Much unrest down there in the past.

308
00:22:28,388 --> 00:22:31,515
- You're a merchant of some sort?
- No, I'm a rabbi.

309
00:22:32,142 --> 00:22:35,978
Well, I'm just a heavy-skulled soldier.
What in the name of Jupiter is a rabbi?

310
00:22:39,024 --> 00:22:40,733
- l--
PLAUTlUS: Paul is a teacher.

311
00:22:43,111 --> 00:22:44,695
Oh, what do you teach?

312
00:22:44,863 --> 00:22:46,322
He teaches....

313
00:22:46,490 --> 00:22:49,450
- He teaches philosophy.
PAUL: Yes.

314
00:22:50,410 --> 00:22:53,204
Yes, I suppose you'd call it that.

315
00:22:53,372 --> 00:22:56,624
Did you know that all this time,
I've been teaching you philosophy?

316
00:22:56,792 --> 00:22:58,751
I don't know
a great deal about philosophy.

317
00:22:58,919 --> 00:23:02,797
And lovely women shouldn't have the time
to think that deeply.

318
00:23:02,964 --> 00:23:06,425
As for me, Lygia, would you ever think
that I was fond of flowers?

319
00:23:06,593 --> 00:23:08,469
I should like to see the garden.

320
00:23:08,637 --> 00:23:11,430
You have the evening tour of the camp
to make, commander.

321
00:23:11,598 --> 00:23:14,141
You must see to the disposition
of the men.

322
00:23:15,936 --> 00:23:17,269
Will you excuse me?

323
00:23:20,399 --> 00:23:25,111
I shall be back early.
In time for the flowers, I hope.

324
00:23:35,497 --> 00:23:38,916
And now tell us the things
we've been waiting to hear.

325
00:23:39,084 --> 00:23:42,002
- Did you see Peter?
- Yes, how is our big fisherman?

326
00:23:42,170 --> 00:23:44,296
I missed him all along the way.

327
00:23:44,464 --> 00:23:47,258
Wherever I went,
Peter had been there before me.

328
00:23:47,426 --> 00:23:50,136
At Antioch,
they said he'd gone on to Jerusalem.

329
00:23:50,303 --> 00:23:53,180
Others said that he'd set out
for Persia and the East.

330
00:23:53,348 --> 00:23:56,308
Finally, in Corinth,
I learned he was on his way here...

331
00:23:56,476 --> 00:23:58,644
...and that he would come to us
any day now.

332
00:23:58,812 --> 00:24:02,064
Peter? In Rome? Magnificent.

333
00:24:02,232 --> 00:24:03,941
All of us.

334
00:24:04,109 --> 00:24:08,529
To be able to speak with a man
who talked with Christ, our Lord.

335
00:24:08,697 --> 00:24:11,574
I saw results of seeds Peter has planted.

336
00:24:11,741 --> 00:24:14,410
Green shoots are sprouting.
There will be a good harvest.

337
00:24:14,578 --> 00:24:18,038
Everywhere, strangers approached
and drew the sign of the fish before me.

338
00:24:18,498 --> 00:24:21,041
And we spoke of the great work ahead.

339
00:24:21,209 --> 00:24:23,836
The work is difficult
and dangerous now, Paul.

340
00:24:24,004 --> 00:24:27,006
Ever since you were tried here,
even though you were acquitted...

341
00:24:27,174 --> 00:24:29,341
...Christians
are under constant suspicion.

342
00:24:29,509 --> 00:24:32,720
I noticed you seemed worried
in the presence of your two guests.

343
00:24:32,888 --> 00:24:35,848
Believe me,
I would have exercised caution.

344
00:24:36,016 --> 00:24:40,478
Though at times, I admit the desire
to cry the message aloud.

345
00:24:40,645 --> 00:24:46,066
But I suppose tactics must be applied
even in the spreading of love and faith.

346
00:24:46,234 --> 00:24:48,861
Be patient, Paul. Your time will come.

347
00:24:49,029 --> 00:24:53,199
Those two vital young men, for instance.
They are Rome.

348
00:24:53,366 --> 00:24:57,328
If we could teach them,
we could teach the world.

349
00:25:00,332 --> 00:25:02,541
Marcus Vinicius?

350
00:25:03,251 --> 00:25:05,711
You are asking for miracles.

351
00:25:05,879 --> 00:25:07,588
I am.

352
00:25:08,089 --> 00:25:10,424
I am, indeed.

353
00:25:45,460 --> 00:25:49,129
There is still nothing I see
that is not perfection.

354
00:25:51,132 --> 00:25:54,802
However, if you're thinking of me,
as you undoubtedly were...

355
00:25:54,970 --> 00:25:57,429
...do I look that much like a fish?

356
00:25:57,806 --> 00:25:59,348
Oh.

357
00:26:01,601 --> 00:26:04,061
It wasn't anything to do with you.

358
00:26:07,315 --> 00:26:10,818
You're too lovely
to be a lonely artist, Lygia.

359
00:26:10,986 --> 00:26:13,487
But then, I did ask you to wait up for me.

360
00:26:13,655 --> 00:26:17,783
- It was merely that I couldn't sleep.
- Nor can l.

361
00:26:18,451 --> 00:26:20,911
I'll tell you what, Lygia.
The night's still young.

362
00:26:21,079 --> 00:26:25,165
This place is unworthy of our first meeting.
Let's go into the city to Petronius' house.

363
00:26:25,333 --> 00:26:27,668
There will be gaiety there
you've never dreamed of.

364
00:26:27,836 --> 00:26:30,296
Dancers, musicians, singers.
The best in Rome.

365
00:26:30,463 --> 00:26:33,841
My uncle's house was built
by the goddess of love herself.

366
00:26:34,009 --> 00:26:36,635
No. No, it's too late, I....

367
00:26:36,803 --> 00:26:38,512
I mean, it's impossible.

368
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,849
Well, we could plan it
more discreetly, perhaps.

369
00:26:42,017 --> 00:26:45,311
What about tomorrow?
You'll come see my triumph, won't you?

370
00:26:45,478 --> 00:26:48,147
Tomorrow, there will be
a feast to tempt all the gods.

371
00:26:48,315 --> 00:26:52,318
No. No, I don't wish
to watch your triumph.

372
00:26:52,485 --> 00:26:54,820
I must go in now.
Good night, commander.

373
00:26:54,988 --> 00:26:56,530
Tell me.

374
00:26:56,698 --> 00:26:58,699
- What is it?
- What?

375
00:26:58,867 --> 00:27:01,452
What is it you see that you don't like?

376
00:27:01,620 --> 00:27:06,332
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't attracted
by what I see, Marcus Vinicius.

377
00:27:06,499 --> 00:27:10,294
- Well, then--
- It's what I hear I don't like.

378
00:27:11,504 --> 00:27:14,632
You see, a man's fame
always brings him fresh enemies.

379
00:27:14,799 --> 00:27:19,345
- Who has been telling you stories about me?
- You have, from your own lips.

380
00:27:19,512 --> 00:27:22,473
Ugly stories
of conquests and bloodshed.

381
00:27:22,641 --> 00:27:24,558
Conquest? But what's conquest?

382
00:27:24,726 --> 00:27:27,686
Only method of uniting
and civilizing the world under one power.

383
00:27:27,854 --> 00:27:29,855
- Have to spill a little blood to do it.
- No.

384
00:27:30,023 --> 00:27:33,233
There's a gentler
and more powerful way of doing that.

385
00:27:33,401 --> 00:27:35,486
Without bloodshed and war.

386
00:27:35,654 --> 00:27:39,990
Without slaves and captives bound in chains
to your triumphal chariots, commander.

387
00:27:40,158 --> 00:27:42,409
There will always be slaves.
Who will do the work?

388
00:27:42,577 --> 00:27:46,038
Paul speaks of a world
where there would be no slaves.

389
00:27:46,206 --> 00:27:47,665
That beggar-faced philosopher...

390
00:27:47,832 --> 00:27:51,335
...shouldn't be stuffing your
luscious little head with such nonsense.

391
00:27:52,629 --> 00:27:55,839
How could I expect you to understand?

392
00:27:56,007 --> 00:27:58,384
I wish you were a slave,
as I first thought.

393
00:27:58,551 --> 00:28:01,428
I'd offer a price for you.
King's ransom for a king's daughter.

394
00:28:01,596 --> 00:28:04,306
And taken me to your estates in Sicily
with all the others?

395
00:28:04,474 --> 00:28:05,933
On a special ship.

396
00:28:06,101 --> 00:28:08,519
What a way for a conqueror
to win a woman.

397
00:28:08,687 --> 00:28:12,064
To buy her like an unresisting beast.

398
00:28:12,232 --> 00:28:15,776
What false security you must have
in your heart and soul.

399
00:28:15,944 --> 00:28:19,238
In your manhood, Marcus Vinicius.

400
00:28:19,406 --> 00:28:22,866
What hidden scorn
you must have for yourself.

401
00:28:23,034 --> 00:28:26,704
You're forgetting
you're a hostage of Rome, aren't you?

402
00:28:30,250 --> 00:28:33,293
Here, you, hostage, come back here.

403
00:28:33,461 --> 00:28:36,046
- No, commander.
- Out of my way.

404
00:28:36,214 --> 00:28:37,464
I guard her, commander.

405
00:28:37,632 --> 00:28:40,175
By whose orders? Who are you?

406
00:28:40,343 --> 00:28:44,012
I am Ursus.
I guarded the king, her father.

407
00:28:44,180 --> 00:28:45,431
I guard her now.

408
00:28:48,476 --> 00:28:52,312
Guard her well, my gray-haired colossus.

409
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:54,398
Guard her well.

410
00:29:03,742 --> 00:29:06,326
Romance seems to have been
short-lived.

411
00:29:08,037 --> 00:29:12,040
There's always a weapon
to bring down a flighty dove, my friend.

412
00:29:15,170 --> 00:29:20,340
And please, dear Lord,
forgive me my anger and my spite.

413
00:29:21,217 --> 00:29:23,969
I do not know what came over me.

414
00:29:24,929 --> 00:29:27,848
It was temptation, perhaps.

415
00:29:28,016 --> 00:29:32,019
A selfish desire
that this man might see your light.

416
00:29:32,187 --> 00:29:34,938
For my sake rather than for his.

417
00:29:36,107 --> 00:29:40,986
And yet I pray that one day,
he shall feel the joy of your love.

418
00:29:41,738 --> 00:29:44,698
I pray with all my heart.

419
00:29:48,119 --> 00:29:50,120
[MUSlC PLAYING]

420
00:30:19,901 --> 00:30:21,902
[CHATTERING]

421
00:30:26,783 --> 00:30:28,992
Captain, what's the delay here?

422
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:31,370
The emperor has not yet appeared
on the balcony.

423
00:30:31,538 --> 00:30:34,248
You will hear the trumpets, commander.

424
00:30:49,097 --> 00:30:51,390
Gods of Rome.

425
00:30:51,558 --> 00:30:53,433
Mighty.

426
00:30:53,601 --> 00:30:55,394
Eternal.

427
00:30:55,562 --> 00:31:01,275
Beneath whose auspices,
Rome rules the world.

428
00:31:01,442 --> 00:31:03,026
Hear us.

429
00:31:03,194 --> 00:31:05,237
We worship you.

430
00:31:05,405 --> 00:31:07,114
CROWD:
We worship you.

431
00:31:08,074 --> 00:31:09,533
Venus...

432
00:31:09,701 --> 00:31:11,285
...goddess of love.

433
00:31:11,452 --> 00:31:13,912
CROWD:
We worship.

434
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,624
RUFIA:
Mars, god of war.

435
00:31:17,792 --> 00:31:19,418
CROWD:
We worship.

436
00:31:19,586 --> 00:31:23,213
RUFIA:
Juno, goddess of heaven.

437
00:31:23,381 --> 00:31:25,549
CROWD:
We worship.

438
00:31:25,717 --> 00:31:29,177
Jupiter, father of the gods.

439
00:31:29,345 --> 00:31:31,597
CROWD:
We worship.

440
00:31:31,806 --> 00:31:35,684
And Nero, his divine son.

441
00:31:35,852 --> 00:31:37,853
[CHEERING]

442
00:31:38,897 --> 00:31:40,898
[TRUMPETS PLAYING FLOURISH]

443
00:31:44,819 --> 00:31:47,821
They are impatient, Divinity.
They hunger to see you.

444
00:31:47,989 --> 00:31:50,741
They're impatient?
What about my patience?

445
00:31:51,159 --> 00:31:54,494
Oho. A triumph to divert them?
Who diverts me?

446
00:31:54,662 --> 00:31:58,832
I slave, I agonize for them.
I have no privacy.

447
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,336
You are the sun in their heavens.
Does the sun have privacy?

448
00:32:02,503 --> 00:32:06,840
The sun has the night.
They expect me to shine daily, hourly.

449
00:32:07,008 --> 00:32:09,176
And for whom? For the people.

450
00:32:09,344 --> 00:32:12,554
For that foul-smelling rabble.

451
00:32:13,306 --> 00:32:14,765
It's so hot today.

452
00:32:14,933 --> 00:32:18,477
This heat of Rome oppresses me.
It stifles me.

453
00:32:18,645 --> 00:32:23,607
They demand too much.
I tell you, this mob, this mob tortures me.

454
00:32:23,775 --> 00:32:25,984
I hate it second only to Rome itself.

455
00:32:26,402 --> 00:32:31,031
The foul breath of that mob
floats in my house.

456
00:32:31,199 --> 00:32:33,367
In my garden.

457
00:32:34,202 --> 00:32:36,036
I wish....

458
00:32:36,204 --> 00:32:37,329
Oh, I wish....

459
00:32:37,497 --> 00:32:40,582
Your wish, Caesar.
Tell me, that I may execute it.

460
00:32:40,750 --> 00:32:45,379
I wish it had but a single throat, that mob,
that I might cut it.

461
00:32:45,546 --> 00:32:47,881
It could be done
if your wish were a command.

462
00:32:48,216 --> 00:32:50,133
A typical butcher's solution.

463
00:32:50,551 --> 00:32:53,720
Tigellinus would deprive you
of the one thing an artist must have:

464
00:32:53,888 --> 00:32:56,181
- His audience.
- But they irk me, those people.

465
00:32:56,349 --> 00:32:57,474
They irk me.

466
00:32:57,642 --> 00:32:59,851
Do I live for them or do they live for me?

467
00:33:00,019 --> 00:33:04,189
Unfortunately, Caesar, as a ruler,
you must have subjects to rule.

468
00:33:04,357 --> 00:33:06,566
Sheer population is a necessary evil.

469
00:33:06,734 --> 00:33:09,403
It is easy for Petronius to talk,
but the burden is on you.

470
00:33:10,196 --> 00:33:13,991
On the only shoulders in the world
strong enough to bear it.

471
00:33:15,034 --> 00:33:17,411
That's true, isn't it, Petronius?

472
00:33:18,913 --> 00:33:20,914
It's lonely to be an emperor.

473
00:33:21,082 --> 00:33:23,166
It is lonelier still to be a genius.

474
00:33:24,585 --> 00:33:28,964
You're the only one who understands
the complications of my tortured nature.

475
00:33:29,132 --> 00:33:31,508
Is that not a theme for a poem,
Petronius?

476
00:33:31,676 --> 00:33:34,094
It is a theme for an epic, Divinity.

477
00:33:34,262 --> 00:33:37,472
But to write it, you must suffer it.

478
00:33:41,352 --> 00:33:42,728
Yes.

479
00:33:44,355 --> 00:33:47,107
Where is Poppaea?
Where is my empress?

480
00:33:47,275 --> 00:33:49,818
Here, lord. Always at your side.

481
00:33:49,986 --> 00:33:51,945
Come. Petronius, you were right.

482
00:33:52,572 --> 00:33:57,284
I must feel it, know it, live it.

483
00:33:57,452 --> 00:33:59,536
Come, Petronius, attend me closely.

484
00:33:59,704 --> 00:34:02,831
Attend me closely in my ordeal.

485
00:34:02,999 --> 00:34:05,000
[TRUMPETS PLAYING]

486
00:34:05,460 --> 00:34:07,461
[CHEERING]

487
00:34:23,478 --> 00:34:25,979
Hail Nero, son of Jupiter.

488
00:34:26,147 --> 00:34:28,315
Look at him, my darling, the emperor.

489
00:34:28,483 --> 00:34:31,568
- Wife killer. Mother killer.
- Quiet, woman, you'll have us all--

490
00:34:31,736 --> 00:34:34,321
Everybody knows it. He's a beast.

491
00:34:34,489 --> 00:34:36,323
Quiet.

492
00:34:36,491 --> 00:34:38,909
No man is a beast.

493
00:34:39,077 --> 00:34:41,328
Look at him
and know that he is but sick.

494
00:34:41,496 --> 00:34:45,916
Sick in heart and spirit, in his soul.

495
00:34:47,627 --> 00:34:51,588
You were right, Petronius.
How they love me.

496
00:34:51,756 --> 00:34:53,924
How, indeed.

497
00:34:56,427 --> 00:34:58,428
[PLAYING]

498
00:35:12,443 --> 00:35:14,444
[DRUMS BEATING]

499
00:36:38,029 --> 00:36:59,799
Remember, thou art only a man.

500
00:37:37,213 --> 00:37:39,798
Marcus Vinicius.

501
00:37:39,966 --> 00:37:42,884
Isn't he the one
who came to see Nero yesterday?

502
00:37:43,052 --> 00:37:45,679
An arrogant man. He bears watching.

503
00:37:45,846 --> 00:37:50,016
From what I hear, he might bear
watching at much closer range.

504
00:37:50,184 --> 00:37:52,894
Poppaea, what are you muttering about?
Ha-ha.

505
00:37:53,062 --> 00:37:54,896
Come closer.

506
00:37:55,523 --> 00:38:01,361
Look, they march as they fight.
Strong, brave, relentless.

507
00:38:01,529 --> 00:38:03,989
Our unconquerable children.

508
00:38:04,156 --> 00:38:06,992
We must take them to our breast.

509
00:38:07,159 --> 00:38:09,536
Yes, my lord.

510
00:38:18,546 --> 00:38:20,255
PETRONlUS:
Well.

511
00:38:20,756 --> 00:38:22,549
The hero at last.

512
00:38:22,717 --> 00:38:25,760
You know, Marcus, usually one
is embarrassed by one's relatives...

513
00:38:25,928 --> 00:38:27,429
...but today I was proud of you.

514
00:38:27,596 --> 00:38:29,472
Hot work in that sun. A hippodrome.

515
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,309
The emperor positively adores you.

516
00:38:32,476 --> 00:38:34,936
He called you his brave, relentless child.

517
00:38:36,063 --> 00:38:40,734
If you play your hand well, you can have
a military governorship. Egypt, perhaps.

518
00:38:42,486 --> 00:38:46,323
Sit down.
Relax before you take your bath.

519
00:38:47,116 --> 00:38:48,950
Oh, very well.

520
00:38:49,118 --> 00:38:52,203
And taste this.
Straight from the vines of Olympus.

521
00:38:52,371 --> 00:38:56,082
Your Sicilian vintages
will pale to nothing.

522
00:38:58,627 --> 00:39:01,254
- Well?
- What's the law regarding hostages?

523
00:39:01,797 --> 00:39:02,922
Hostages?

524
00:39:03,257 --> 00:39:05,091
Can they be bought, reassigned, what?

525
00:39:05,259 --> 00:39:06,593
Well....

526
00:39:07,928 --> 00:39:09,888
I take it this hostage is female?

527
00:39:10,056 --> 00:39:12,766
Head to toe, hip to hip. What's the law?

528
00:39:12,933 --> 00:39:15,810
When you see what I have for you,
you'll think of nothing else.

529
00:39:15,978 --> 00:39:17,020
Now, this is the....

530
00:39:18,105 --> 00:39:20,106
Well, here she is.

531
00:39:21,567 --> 00:39:23,193
Bring her here.

532
00:39:25,488 --> 00:39:29,824
Your exquisite wildflower
from the hills of Spain, Marcus.

533
00:39:29,992 --> 00:39:32,994
- What's her name? I've forgotten.
- You called me Eunice, my lord.

534
00:39:33,162 --> 00:39:34,245
ANAXANDER:
Silence.

535
00:39:34,705 --> 00:39:36,039
Oh, yes.

536
00:39:36,207 --> 00:39:38,124
Eunice.

537
00:39:39,585 --> 00:39:40,794
Lift your chin, Eunice.

538
00:39:43,589 --> 00:39:46,341
Did you ever see such skin, Marcus?

539
00:39:46,509 --> 00:39:49,094
Turn around, slowly.

540
00:39:52,014 --> 00:39:54,140
Flawless proportions.

541
00:39:55,559 --> 00:39:57,143
Fold your arms behind your head.

542
00:40:01,107 --> 00:40:03,900
Makes one wish one were a sculptor.

543
00:40:04,068 --> 00:40:05,485
Lovely.

544
00:40:05,653 --> 00:40:08,405
Enough of my collector's enthusiasm.
She's the commander's.

545
00:40:08,572 --> 00:40:10,323
Take her to his apartment.

546
00:40:10,825 --> 00:40:12,158
I won't go.

547
00:40:12,326 --> 00:40:13,993
What did you say?

548
00:40:14,161 --> 00:40:15,578
Don't give me away, my lord.

549
00:40:15,746 --> 00:40:18,665
Whip me, beat me,
but don't send me from here.

550
00:40:18,833 --> 00:40:21,126
Don't send me from you, my lord.

551
00:40:21,293 --> 00:40:23,253
You can stay here, girl. I don't want you.

552
00:40:23,421 --> 00:40:24,712
You don't want her?

553
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:28,299
And I refused an offer from Seneca
of six Arabian stallions.

554
00:40:28,467 --> 00:40:31,010
Keep her, Petronius. She's yours.

555
00:40:31,178 --> 00:40:33,430
Well, by the body of Juno.

556
00:40:33,973 --> 00:40:36,516
Nevertheless,
give her five lashes for impertinence.

557
00:40:36,684 --> 00:40:38,309
You won't give me away, then, lord?

558
00:40:38,477 --> 00:40:40,186
That depends on your future conduct.

559
00:40:40,354 --> 00:40:42,939
Oh, yes. Yes, my good lord.

560
00:40:46,193 --> 00:40:47,485
Ply the lash carefully, now.

561
00:40:47,653 --> 00:40:48,862
Don't damage her skin.

562
00:40:49,029 --> 00:40:50,864
ANAXANDER:
No, master.

563
00:40:51,699 --> 00:40:55,410
Tell me, now.
Can one purchase a hostage?

564
00:40:55,744 --> 00:40:58,121
Where is this precious gem?

565
00:40:58,289 --> 00:41:00,707
At Plautius' place. You should see her.

566
00:41:00,875 --> 00:41:03,001
A fiery young Lygian.
She throws flames at you.

567
00:41:03,169 --> 00:41:04,961
A Lygian?

568
00:41:05,546 --> 00:41:08,715
Yes, I do recall a child assigned to him.

569
00:41:08,883 --> 00:41:10,842
It was some years ago, I'd forgotten.

570
00:41:11,010 --> 00:41:12,844
How can I get my hands on her?

571
00:41:13,012 --> 00:41:16,264
Hostages are wards of the state.
She belongs to Nero.

572
00:41:16,432 --> 00:41:18,475
Perfect. He would give me Egypt?

573
00:41:18,642 --> 00:41:21,561
He can keep Egypt and give me Lygia.
We'll go to the palace.

574
00:41:23,439 --> 00:41:26,232
Plautius may not be in accord with this.

575
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,109
Well, she will be.

576
00:41:28,277 --> 00:41:30,987
They've sentimentalized her
into an adopted daughter.

577
00:41:31,155 --> 00:41:33,907
Philosophers, teachers, fools.

578
00:41:34,074 --> 00:41:36,618
This one wasn't born to think,
she was born to feel.

579
00:41:36,785 --> 00:41:42,415
But, Marcus, with Plautius regarding her
as his daughter, I mean, is this ethical?

580
00:41:42,583 --> 00:41:44,542
After all, he was a general of the empire.

581
00:41:44,710 --> 00:41:46,920
I'll have her if I have to abduct her.

582
00:41:48,255 --> 00:41:50,465
I sense a certain frustration.

583
00:41:50,633 --> 00:41:53,760
Is your little barbarian
entirely in sympathy with your plan?

584
00:41:53,928 --> 00:41:56,679
She'll be cooing like a pigeon
in the right circumstances.

585
00:41:57,598 --> 00:41:59,974
I wish I had your confidence.

586
00:42:00,142 --> 00:42:04,687
I've never been able to discover
an honest warmth in any woman.

587
00:42:28,170 --> 00:42:31,172
Oh, my dear, beautiful lord.

588
00:42:31,340 --> 00:42:33,174
I love you so.

589
00:42:33,342 --> 00:42:36,970
Please, how can I let you know?

590
00:42:50,109 --> 00:42:52,110
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

591
00:42:53,988 --> 00:42:54,988
OFFlCER:
Open.

592
00:42:55,155 --> 00:42:56,656
Open in the name of the emperor.

593
00:43:03,247 --> 00:43:05,290
I have an order from the emperor.

594
00:43:05,457 --> 00:43:07,000
POMPONIA: Yes?
- For the hostage, Lygia.

595
00:43:07,167 --> 00:43:10,295
My orders are to take her
to the women's quarters in the palace.

596
00:43:10,462 --> 00:43:11,629
She's not a slave.

597
00:43:11,797 --> 00:43:13,006
She is our daughter.

598
00:43:13,173 --> 00:43:15,842
My orders are to take her at once.

599
00:43:18,929 --> 00:43:20,930
[CHATTERING]

600
00:43:43,454 --> 00:43:45,204
Wait here.

601
00:44:03,182 --> 00:44:04,557
You are the hostage, Lygia?

602
00:44:05,392 --> 00:44:07,018
Yes.

603
00:44:07,394 --> 00:44:10,188
Welcome to Nero's house of women.

604
00:44:10,356 --> 00:44:12,482
My name is Acte, I am in charge here.

605
00:44:12,650 --> 00:44:14,817
May I ask why I am here?

606
00:44:15,194 --> 00:44:17,945
I would say you have attracted the attention
of the emperor.

607
00:44:18,113 --> 00:44:19,989
And you have been commanded
to the feast.

608
00:44:20,157 --> 00:44:21,783
But the emperor has never seen me.

609
00:44:21,950 --> 00:44:23,618
There must be some other reason.

610
00:44:23,786 --> 00:44:28,414
Nero ordered you brought here,
just as I was brought here seven years ago.

611
00:44:28,582 --> 00:44:31,042
He loved me then, more than he knew.

612
00:44:31,210 --> 00:44:34,087
Prepare the bath, oil of lilies.

613
00:44:34,254 --> 00:44:37,715
And bring me the beaded cloth from Persia,
mostly blues, I think.

614
00:44:37,883 --> 00:44:41,010
And, yes,
the strand of fine gold at the waist.

615
00:44:45,599 --> 00:44:47,642
I am not honored by this.

616
00:44:47,810 --> 00:44:51,187
You were brought up in the home
of Plautius and Pomponia, weren't you?

617
00:44:51,355 --> 00:44:53,398
Yes. Yes, do you know them?

618
00:44:53,565 --> 00:44:54,774
I know of them.

619
00:44:54,942 --> 00:44:58,111
- Lygia, child, listen to me.
- Yes, yes, yes, chatter, chatter, chatter.

620
00:44:58,278 --> 00:45:00,488
You'd think each one
had the hair of a queen.

621
00:45:00,656 --> 00:45:04,117
Well, this one has possibilities at least.

622
00:45:05,786 --> 00:45:07,954
What were you going to tell me?

623
00:45:09,289 --> 00:45:12,083
Simply that you are the chosen guest
of Nero.

624
00:45:12,251 --> 00:45:14,711
You are in the hands
of the master of the world.

625
00:45:14,878 --> 00:45:19,507
You will have to consider that
your good fortune and your fate.

626
00:45:22,052 --> 00:45:24,053
[MUSlC PLAYING]

627
00:45:26,724 --> 00:45:28,725
[CHATTERING]

628
00:45:34,940 --> 00:45:37,066
The hostage, Lygia.

629
00:45:38,777 --> 00:45:40,403
Aren't you coming?

630
00:45:40,571 --> 00:45:43,114
The emperor did not ask me.

631
00:46:17,941 --> 00:46:20,234
She needed a poet, not a soldier,
to describe her.

632
00:46:20,402 --> 00:46:22,862
Everything's there but the smile.

633
00:46:23,447 --> 00:46:25,615
I leave that to you.

634
00:46:26,325 --> 00:46:28,034
Petronius is quite right.

635
00:46:28,202 --> 00:46:29,535
I wish I were a poet.

636
00:46:30,871 --> 00:46:33,706
But I had you escorted here
in great honor.

637
00:46:33,874 --> 00:46:36,000
I deserve a smile for that.

638
00:46:36,168 --> 00:46:37,960
It was gracious of you.

639
00:46:38,128 --> 00:46:42,423
Ten big, strong Praetorian Guards
to support my eagerness to come.

640
00:46:42,591 --> 00:46:44,175
Well said, Lygia.

641
00:46:44,343 --> 00:46:48,471
But you know a caravan of rare
merchandise is always well-guarded.

642
00:46:48,639 --> 00:46:50,014
And you belong here, Lygia.

643
00:46:50,766 --> 00:46:53,267
A king's daughter in a royal palace.

644
00:46:53,435 --> 00:46:56,562
That's something
you should have a natural appetite for.

645
00:46:57,898 --> 00:47:00,733
And I can tell you,
you have other natural appetites too.

646
00:47:00,901 --> 00:47:03,486
Hasn't old Dull-Beard,
your philosopher friend, Paul...

647
00:47:03,654 --> 00:47:05,613
...told you about those?

648
00:47:06,156 --> 00:47:09,242
Or has he lived in a cave all his life?

649
00:47:09,660 --> 00:47:12,537
You should have seen my triumph today.
It was quite a display.

650
00:47:12,704 --> 00:47:17,083
I looked for you, but then, I imagine
they had you chained to a peach tree.

651
00:47:17,584 --> 00:47:21,504
Here. The panacea for all reticence.

652
00:47:24,508 --> 00:47:25,925
You're right.

653
00:47:26,093 --> 00:47:28,594
Your mouth has its own sweetness.

654
00:47:28,762 --> 00:47:31,097
I know I'll find it so.

655
00:47:31,765 --> 00:47:33,432
Don't look so frightened, Lygia.

656
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:36,102
I'm no heartless,
unfeeling machine of war.

657
00:47:36,270 --> 00:47:39,438
I won't rush upon you
like a boulder from a catapult.

658
00:47:39,606 --> 00:47:42,483
You've only to relax, smile a little,
and before you know it--

659
00:47:42,651 --> 00:47:44,318
I can think of nothing...

660
00:47:44,486 --> 00:47:49,073
...pray for nothing but that this is over soon,
so that you can send me home again.

661
00:47:49,241 --> 00:47:50,867
Home?

662
00:47:51,034 --> 00:47:52,618
Yes.

663
00:47:52,786 --> 00:47:54,787
[TRUMPETS PLAYING FLOURISH]

664
00:48:01,545 --> 00:48:04,088
CROWD:
Hail Nero.

665
00:48:05,674 --> 00:48:12,597
Hail Nero.

666
00:48:19,146 --> 00:48:22,940
Have you ever seen your emperor
and your god this close before?

667
00:48:24,067 --> 00:48:28,696
No, I have never seen Nero
this close before.

668
00:48:29,489 --> 00:48:31,490
[MUSlC PLAYING]

669
00:48:54,723 --> 00:48:56,140
Same faces.

670
00:48:56,308 --> 00:48:58,351
Same noses.

671
00:48:58,518 --> 00:49:00,686
All green.

672
00:49:00,854 --> 00:49:04,690
Just for variety, divine lord, try a ruby.

673
00:49:25,087 --> 00:49:27,254
Is that the hostage I brought
for Vinicius?

674
00:49:27,881 --> 00:49:29,924
Oh, yes, yes, Divinity.

675
00:49:30,092 --> 00:49:31,133
Mm, Vinicius has an eye.

676
00:49:31,301 --> 00:49:32,468
She's exquisite.

677
00:49:33,053 --> 00:49:34,345
You are generous, lord.

678
00:49:34,513 --> 00:49:36,764
Perhaps you've overlooked something
for yourself.

679
00:49:36,932 --> 00:49:38,391
Yes.

680
00:49:38,558 --> 00:49:40,601
What do you think, Petronius?

681
00:49:40,769 --> 00:49:42,311
Put a dress on an olive stump...

682
00:49:42,479 --> 00:49:45,231
...and my poor, untutored nephew
would call it beautiful.

683
00:49:45,399 --> 00:49:47,650
I know your incomparable judgment,
Divinity.

684
00:49:47,818 --> 00:49:50,569
And I'll wager you've already decided,
even from here...

685
00:49:50,737 --> 00:49:53,906
...that she is too narrow in the hips.

686
00:49:54,574 --> 00:49:57,576
Yes, yes, that's exactly what I think.

687
00:49:57,744 --> 00:50:00,079
Dear Poppaea,
one woman should never judge another.

688
00:50:00,247 --> 00:50:03,416
She hasn't the glands for it. Ha-ha-ha.

689
00:50:03,583 --> 00:50:05,001
Isn't that witty, Petronius?

690
00:50:05,168 --> 00:50:07,545
Among the gods, your humor is unique.

691
00:50:08,588 --> 00:50:10,297
Dear Petronius.

692
00:50:10,465 --> 00:50:12,258
Oh, yes.

693
00:50:12,426 --> 00:50:14,593
Too narrow in the hip.

694
00:50:22,477 --> 00:50:25,187
Sing for us, Divinity, sing for us.

695
00:50:28,775 --> 00:50:30,151
MAN:
Sing for us, sing for us.

696
00:50:30,318 --> 00:50:33,612
I had almost come to a tragic decision.

697
00:50:33,780 --> 00:50:37,408
I had decided
not to sing for you tonight.

698
00:50:37,576 --> 00:50:39,118
MAN:
We beseech thee.

699
00:50:39,286 --> 00:50:41,078
My throat hurts.

700
00:50:41,246 --> 00:50:44,832
And when one has been given a divine gift,
one should not jeopardize it.

701
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:48,085
But I am not the only one afflicted.

702
00:50:48,253 --> 00:50:50,671
My empress has a headache.

703
00:50:50,839 --> 00:50:53,132
And the only thing
which will bring her relief...

704
00:50:53,300 --> 00:50:54,675
...is the sound of my voice.

705
00:50:54,843 --> 00:50:59,096
You promised to sing,
or I would not be here.

706
00:50:59,639 --> 00:51:01,098
I'm totally unprepared.

707
00:51:02,517 --> 00:51:05,853
So I must compose as I sing.

708
00:51:08,899 --> 00:51:10,900
[SINGING]

709
00:52:10,752 --> 00:52:11,836
MAN:
Bravo.

710
00:52:12,170 --> 00:52:13,838
[CHEERING]

711
00:52:15,882 --> 00:52:18,259
You must be content with that.

712
00:52:18,885 --> 00:52:20,553
My throat.

713
00:52:20,720 --> 00:52:22,388
[TRUMPETS PLAYING FLOURISH]

714
00:52:22,556 --> 00:52:24,056
[CHEERING]

715
00:52:35,902 --> 00:52:38,195
Watch Croton.
He's killed over 300 opponents.

716
00:52:38,363 --> 00:52:41,657
He could twist the head off your Ursus
before he knew what touched him.

717
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:45,995
Orpheus at this moment must be as yellow
with envy as our poet Lucan.

718
00:52:46,163 --> 00:52:49,165
I am as a candle next to the sun.

719
00:52:49,916 --> 00:52:52,585
And you, Petronius, what do you say?

720
00:52:52,752 --> 00:52:58,090
I say that your verses are common
and fit only for the fire they celebrate.

721
00:52:58,633 --> 00:53:00,384
Farewell, Petronius.

722
00:53:01,136 --> 00:53:02,595
What defect do you find in them?

723
00:53:02,762 --> 00:53:06,265
Well, your verses would be worthy of Ovid,
of Virgil, even of Homer.

724
00:53:06,433 --> 00:53:07,933
But they are not worthy of you.

725
00:53:08,101 --> 00:53:10,519
The conflagration you describe
does not blaze enough.

726
00:53:10,687 --> 00:53:13,230
It is not all-consuming.

727
00:53:13,398 --> 00:53:17,193
Had Lucan here written these verses,
I should acknowledge him a genius.

728
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:21,697
But you can create a work
such as the world has never known.

729
00:53:22,449 --> 00:53:24,909
Therefore, I say this to your eyes.

730
00:53:25,076 --> 00:53:27,203
Take greater pains.

731
00:53:27,370 --> 00:53:31,081
The gods have given me a certain talent,
but they've given me something greater.

732
00:53:31,249 --> 00:53:32,750
A true judge and friend.

733
00:53:32,918 --> 00:53:36,420
I thought it sufficient to equal Homer.
You have opened my eyes.

734
00:53:36,588 --> 00:53:39,632
Then all men, born and unborn,
are my debtors.

735
00:53:39,799 --> 00:53:40,883
You're right.

736
00:53:41,051 --> 00:53:43,886
My conflagration does not burn enough.

737
00:53:46,306 --> 00:53:47,473
And do you know why?

738
00:53:49,017 --> 00:53:51,852
I've never seen a burning city.

739
00:53:53,313 --> 00:53:57,399
You said one must suffer an experience
to re-create it.

740
00:53:57,567 --> 00:54:00,236
A sculptor has his model.
I had no model.

741
00:54:00,695 --> 00:54:03,322
To burn a city in order to create an epic.

742
00:54:03,490 --> 00:54:06,617
That's carrying the principle
of art for art's sake too far.

743
00:54:08,495 --> 00:54:10,621
Soon the spring will be over.

744
00:54:10,789 --> 00:54:13,290
The summer heat will begin.

745
00:54:13,667 --> 00:54:17,253
What stenches will arise from Rome?

746
00:54:20,131 --> 00:54:23,175
I shall move the court to Antium.

747
00:54:44,197 --> 00:54:47,199
You did not observe
Croton's masterful stroke.

748
00:54:47,367 --> 00:54:48,867
I was not the only one.

749
00:54:49,035 --> 00:54:51,662
Vinicius has hardly taken his eyes
from her.

750
00:54:51,830 --> 00:54:53,998
She must be truly exciting.

751
00:54:54,165 --> 00:54:57,126
I must see this for myself.

752
00:55:01,756 --> 00:55:05,301
But it was a fair match.
It could have been one or the other.

753
00:55:06,469 --> 00:55:08,679
You seemed pleased with my gift,
commander.

754
00:55:08,847 --> 00:55:11,598
Is it enough, in the light of your service?

755
00:55:12,475 --> 00:55:14,226
Or isn't it?

756
00:55:14,728 --> 00:55:16,353
Do you know, lovely one?

757
00:55:16,521 --> 00:55:17,563
Has he told you?

758
00:55:17,731 --> 00:55:20,357
No, Caesar,
I thought it should come from you.

759
00:55:20,900 --> 00:55:23,736
Know then, Lygia,
that I have given you to Marcus Vinicius...

760
00:55:23,903 --> 00:55:27,865
...as a reward for his devotion to me
and his brilliant service on the battlefield.

761
00:55:28,366 --> 00:55:31,410
Henceforth, your guardian
is no longer General Plautius.

762
00:55:31,911 --> 00:55:34,913
You belong to the household of Vinicius.

763
00:55:38,001 --> 00:55:42,838
On closer inspection,
I find it a fair reward.

764
00:55:43,006 --> 00:55:46,216
Perhaps excessive.

765
00:55:46,384 --> 00:55:49,887
Except, of course,
as you so wisely observed, Divinity.

766
00:55:50,055 --> 00:55:51,764
Oh, yes.

767
00:55:53,308 --> 00:55:56,268
Too narrow in the hips. Ha-ha.

768
00:55:56,436 --> 00:55:58,187
Let us go and greet my guests.

769
00:56:03,234 --> 00:56:04,276
Now you know, Lygia.

770
00:56:05,070 --> 00:56:07,988
And there were moments
when I thought I could love you.

771
00:56:08,156 --> 00:56:11,325
Make use of your beauty, live with me.
Love as you were made to love.

772
00:56:11,493 --> 00:56:15,287
What difference does it make
whether I love, now that you own me?

773
00:56:15,455 --> 00:56:17,748
You have but to give the word,
the command.

774
00:56:17,916 --> 00:56:19,750
The small, empty command.

775
00:56:19,918 --> 00:56:22,419
Yes, I own you.
You realize that, don't you?

776
00:56:22,587 --> 00:56:25,631
You realize I can take you
and have you flogged until you love me?

777
00:56:25,799 --> 00:56:28,092
Take me, then.
Take me to your house, anything.

778
00:56:28,259 --> 00:56:31,053
Take me and you'll hear nothing from me
but a prayer for you.

779
00:56:31,221 --> 00:56:32,638
- Lygia.
- Commander Vinicius.

780
00:56:32,806 --> 00:56:36,308
The empress
requests your presence at once.

781
00:56:36,601 --> 00:56:38,143
Very well.

782
00:56:39,562 --> 00:56:43,816
Here. Take this girl
to the house of Gaius Petronius.

783
00:56:43,983 --> 00:56:46,485
Put her in charge of Anaxander,
master of slaves there.

784
00:56:46,653 --> 00:56:47,903
Yes, commander.

785
00:56:48,196 --> 00:56:50,364
Tears have but one use, Lygia.

786
00:56:50,532 --> 00:56:52,741
As a prelude to joy.

787
00:56:52,909 --> 00:56:55,327
Remember that while you wait for me.

788
00:57:10,135 --> 00:57:13,345
You seem to have been having difficulty
in proving your ownership.

789
00:57:13,513 --> 00:57:16,348
A young mare often enjoys
fighting the bit, empress.

790
00:57:17,016 --> 00:57:20,727
I've always found conflict
between man and woman a waste of time.

791
00:57:20,895 --> 00:57:23,355
It consumes so much....

792
00:57:23,523 --> 00:57:25,149
So much vitality.

793
00:57:26,317 --> 00:57:27,609
Well said, empress.

794
00:57:28,111 --> 00:57:29,862
I am not your empress.

795
00:57:30,029 --> 00:57:32,906
I'm a priestess of Amon,
and you are the serpent.

796
00:57:33,074 --> 00:57:34,950
Therefore, poison is in your mouth.

797
00:57:36,494 --> 00:57:40,664
And I have a taste for poison, Marcus.

798
00:57:40,915 --> 00:57:43,667
To change to a serpent,
that might take time.

799
00:57:46,421 --> 00:57:48,964
I can bring that about.

800
00:57:49,966 --> 00:57:52,843
Those are Commander Vinicius' orders.

801
00:58:08,109 --> 00:58:11,320
Here. Oh, how clumsy of me.

802
00:58:12,780 --> 00:58:15,824
You see, I know your symbol,
even though I'm not yet one of you.

803
00:58:15,992 --> 00:58:17,993
Have courage, child.

804
00:58:19,621 --> 00:58:20,662
Come along.

805
00:58:20,830 --> 00:58:24,374
Bear in mind, your fate is determined
by the greatest power in this world.

806
00:58:24,542 --> 00:58:26,668
His will be done.

807
00:59:27,230 --> 00:59:29,147
Aulus, my dear,
you must get some sleep.

808
00:59:29,315 --> 00:59:31,525
I'll call you as soon as
Ursus sends word.

809
00:59:31,693 --> 00:59:34,319
We should be hearing from Ursus soon
no matter what happened.

810
00:59:34,487 --> 00:59:36,154
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

811
00:59:46,791 --> 00:59:48,458
Good morning.

812
00:59:52,088 --> 00:59:55,048
You're right, perhaps we'd better
ignore the formalities.

813
00:59:55,216 --> 00:59:57,634
Will you tell Lygia I have come for her?

814
00:59:57,802 --> 01:00:00,345
We've not seen Lygia
since she was taken from us.

815
01:00:01,598 --> 01:00:02,931
Bring Lygia here at once.

816
01:00:03,099 --> 01:00:04,975
I tell you, we don't know where she is.

817
01:00:06,144 --> 01:00:09,605
- You're lying, general.
- I do not lie.

818
01:00:09,772 --> 01:00:13,775
On my oath as a Roman officer,
so that you can understand, I do not lie.

819
01:00:13,943 --> 01:00:15,861
You may search the house if you wish.

820
01:00:17,196 --> 01:00:18,697
You refuse to say anything more?

821
01:00:19,949 --> 01:00:22,743
Only this:
that you've violated our hospitality...

822
01:00:22,910 --> 01:00:24,620
...in the cruelest way a man could.

823
01:00:24,787 --> 01:00:26,371
Hospitality?

824
01:00:26,539 --> 01:00:28,957
You're overlooking
our law of hostages, aren't you?

825
01:00:29,125 --> 01:00:31,877
The emperor assigned Lygia to my care.
She's my property.

826
01:00:32,045 --> 01:00:34,129
You're overlooking
what's happening to Rome.

827
01:00:34,297 --> 01:00:35,631
To the world, Vinicius.

828
01:00:35,798 --> 01:00:39,176
It's such laws as this
that will tumble its foundations.

829
01:00:39,344 --> 01:00:43,889
Your emperor, your god, Nero,
bathed in his own infamy.

830
01:00:44,057 --> 01:00:47,893
- Aulus, my dear, please.
- I understand your concern.

831
01:00:48,144 --> 01:00:51,521
I hope I shall continue to forget
what I just heard, general.

832
01:00:51,689 --> 01:00:53,398
Marcus.

833
01:00:54,901 --> 01:00:56,693
My dear young Marcus.

834
01:00:56,861 --> 01:01:02,366
I want to call you that because
for all of your rank, you could be my son.

835
01:01:02,533 --> 01:01:04,660
A woman of my years
is not unaware of things.

836
01:01:04,827 --> 01:01:08,246
Lygia's eyes were drawn to you.
I saw that.

837
01:01:08,414 --> 01:01:11,416
And they would not have been
if deep down inside of you...

838
01:01:11,584 --> 01:01:14,544
...you were this cold, this relentless.

839
01:01:14,712 --> 01:01:20,008
Look in your heart, Marcus, and
recognize the truth of you that should be.

840
01:01:35,108 --> 01:01:38,110
Well, as long as you
return empty-handed...

841
01:01:38,277 --> 01:01:40,570
...sit down
and fill your obviously empty stomach.

842
01:01:40,738 --> 01:01:43,198
They claim to know nothing of her.
Plautius is lying.

843
01:01:44,033 --> 01:01:46,952
Forget the whole undignified whim
and come with me to Antium.

844
01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:50,455
There's something strange about Plautius
and that household.

845
01:01:50,623 --> 01:01:53,125
By the gods,
they don't even talk like Romans.

846
01:01:53,292 --> 01:01:56,628
And their friend,
a fellow from Tarsus named Paul.

847
01:01:56,796 --> 01:01:59,548
Paul, you say? Of Tarsus?

848
01:01:59,716 --> 01:02:03,135
Yes, he's some fool philosopher
I met there.

849
01:02:03,970 --> 01:02:06,430
Paul of Tarsus.

850
01:02:07,682 --> 01:02:10,100
My poor Marcus.

851
01:02:10,268 --> 01:02:12,769
This is drama for the ages.

852
01:02:12,937 --> 01:02:15,981
You picked the cherished egg
in a nest of Christians.

853
01:02:16,149 --> 01:02:20,068
She's a Christian,
and Christians have spirited her away.

854
01:02:20,236 --> 01:02:23,488
Christians. Are they the ones
who worship some dead carpenter?

855
01:02:23,656 --> 01:02:24,656
Yes, that's right.

856
01:02:24,824 --> 01:02:28,118
A rebel against the state,
a Jew called Christ.

857
01:02:28,286 --> 01:02:30,162
Crucified in Palestine, as I remember.

858
01:02:30,580 --> 01:02:31,747
The sect is a secret one.

859
01:02:31,914 --> 01:02:34,666
It consists of Jews, Greeks,
and many others...

860
01:02:34,834 --> 01:02:38,253
...who meet in secret and spread
their superstitions among the Romans.

861
01:02:38,421 --> 01:02:40,797
They are a constant worry
to Nero and the senate.

862
01:02:40,965 --> 01:02:43,967
Tigellinus is always collecting
a group of them for questioning--

863
01:02:44,135 --> 01:02:48,054
This calls for a detachment of Praetorians.
I'll tell Tigellinus to start a search.

864
01:02:48,222 --> 01:02:49,765
Well, now, wait.

865
01:02:49,932 --> 01:02:53,769
My dear boy,
that not only lacks dignity...

866
01:02:53,936 --> 01:02:56,354
...but these Christians
are known to be resourceful.

867
01:02:56,522 --> 01:03:00,525
An open display of force will only bury
your little hostage deeper in the nest.

868
01:03:00,693 --> 01:03:02,944
What do you suggest?
That I join the scurvy group?

869
01:03:03,863 --> 01:03:07,407
Listen, I know of a Greek,
a man called Chilo.

870
01:03:07,575 --> 01:03:11,870
He's a self-styled soothsayer,
astrologer, and diviner of mysteries.

871
01:03:12,038 --> 01:03:17,542
I've no doubt he'd show the way
to your escaped Lygia before nightfall.

872
01:03:18,544 --> 01:03:20,378
- Anaxander?
- Yes, master?

873
01:03:20,546 --> 01:03:22,672
You know the house of Chilo?

874
01:03:23,633 --> 01:03:26,134
- Yes, master.
- My nephew has urgent business there.

875
01:03:26,302 --> 01:03:27,636
- Escort him.
- Yes, master.

876
01:03:27,804 --> 01:03:32,724
Well, your advice has certain merit.
I'll give your Greek a chance.

877
01:03:32,892 --> 01:03:36,061
- If you find her, bring her to Antium.
- I'll send you word.

878
01:03:43,236 --> 01:03:46,655
You have heard, Eunice?
Is not love a madness?

879
01:03:48,407 --> 01:03:51,993
Do not ask me, lord.
I am among the mad.

880
01:03:52,870 --> 01:03:53,912
You love someone?

881
01:03:56,749 --> 01:03:59,584
It was once prophesied
by an old woman...

882
01:03:59,752 --> 01:04:03,171
...that both pain and happiness
would visit me.

883
01:04:03,339 --> 01:04:05,757
That's a safe prophesy about any human.

884
01:04:05,925 --> 01:04:10,762
She spoke a rhyme, in which she said
my true fate was hidden.

885
01:04:11,597 --> 01:04:12,931
Well?

886
01:04:14,475 --> 01:04:19,855
Anon shall Venus rise
From out the violet Roman sea

887
01:04:20,523 --> 01:04:26,194
And bear two lovers in her arms
Towards eternity

888
01:04:28,990 --> 01:04:30,574
Whom do you love? Anaxander?

889
01:04:33,619 --> 01:04:34,995
Mirmillon?

890
01:04:36,122 --> 01:04:37,956
Oh, your beloved is not of this house?

891
01:04:40,626 --> 01:04:42,294
He is, my lord.

892
01:04:48,885 --> 01:04:54,306
What if I said that today you should go
with me to the violet Roman sea?

893
01:04:55,892 --> 01:05:01,271
I'd swoon with happiness.
Only you haven't said it, my lord.

894
01:05:01,439 --> 01:05:03,440
Then go ready yourself for Antium.

895
01:05:07,570 --> 01:05:12,908
- You haven't yet swooned.
- I have no time, my lord.

896
01:05:13,576 --> 01:05:17,746
I have no time. I have no time.

897
01:05:21,751 --> 01:05:23,168
Yes, yes.

898
01:05:23,336 --> 01:05:27,339
Hearing all this, I vow you've come
to the right man, Marcus Vinicius.

899
01:05:27,506 --> 01:05:28,924
Speak. Can you find this girl?

900
01:05:29,091 --> 01:05:32,677
Patience, lord. I must first verify
if she is truly of this Christian breed.

901
01:05:33,596 --> 01:05:36,431
- My lord, do you read Greek?
- Passably.

902
01:05:36,599 --> 01:05:39,225
Look here, then. What does that say?

903
01:05:40,186 --> 01:05:45,774
- "Jesus Christ, Son of God, savior."
- Exactly.

904
01:05:45,942 --> 01:05:48,985
So it's the name of their dead God.
I've seen no such symbols.

905
01:05:49,153 --> 01:05:51,696
Ah, but observe the first letters
of each word.

906
01:05:51,864 --> 01:05:53,949
What do they spell?

907
01:05:54,867 --> 01:05:58,703
I-C-T-H-U-S, icthus.

908
01:05:58,871 --> 01:06:01,623
The Greek word for fish.

909
01:06:03,626 --> 01:06:07,837
Have you seen the symbol of a fish
in all this?

910
01:06:08,381 --> 01:06:10,548
Fish, why should I have seen a...?

911
01:06:12,510 --> 01:06:16,221
- She once drew one.
- Aha. Their sign of recognition.

912
01:06:16,389 --> 01:06:17,597
[CHUCKLES]

913
01:06:18,224 --> 01:06:21,059
Fish are caught with a bait
and Christians with a fish.

914
01:06:21,227 --> 01:06:23,228
How do I find her?
Where are the gatherings?

915
01:06:23,396 --> 01:06:25,563
They practice foul rites at night...

916
01:06:25,731 --> 01:06:28,149
...in certain caves
and old ruins outside the city.

917
01:06:28,317 --> 01:06:31,152
- Is there a gathering tonight?
- Possibly, lord.

918
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:34,531
But it is most dangerous.
There are hundreds of them.

919
01:06:34,699 --> 01:06:37,575
I'll hire Croton the gladiator
to protect you. Does that suit?

920
01:06:37,743 --> 01:06:40,495
Croton? Why, yes, lord.

921
01:06:40,663 --> 01:06:42,372
We'll meet you here at sundown.

922
01:06:42,540 --> 01:06:46,626
But, my lord, I shall need other arms.

923
01:06:46,794 --> 01:06:50,171
A small weapon in advance, perhaps?

924
01:06:52,341 --> 01:06:54,342
[MAN SINGING]

925
01:07:17,199 --> 01:07:22,787
You see how they gather, lord?
In stealth, like thieves and murderers.

926
01:07:33,299 --> 01:07:37,260
- That's the man I met at her house.
- Yes, she's here, without a doubt, lord.

927
01:07:38,888 --> 01:07:44,476
I baptize thee in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

928
01:07:45,394 --> 01:07:48,229
- What's he doing now?
- They call it baptism.

929
01:07:48,397 --> 01:07:51,733
An evil bath of black water.

930
01:07:57,323 --> 01:08:01,201
I know there are some here
who still hold back in doubt.

931
01:08:01,368 --> 01:08:03,620
A few who have not accepted baptism.

932
01:08:04,747 --> 01:08:06,831
Our Lord Jesus understood that...

933
01:08:06,999 --> 01:08:10,877
...and he welcomed questions,
as the right of free men.

934
01:08:11,504 --> 01:08:16,132
But at last, there is one among us tonight
for whom we have long waited.

935
01:08:16,300 --> 01:08:19,928
Who was there when the people
gathered about Christ and questioned him.

936
01:08:20,096 --> 01:08:22,764
Who heard the answers
from his own lips.

937
01:08:22,932 --> 01:08:27,685
A man who saw the face of Jesus
and touched his hand.

938
01:08:28,395 --> 01:08:32,107
He comes from Jerusalem.
The fisherman, Simon, called Peter.

939
01:08:32,274 --> 01:08:34,359
The first apostle of our Lord.

940
01:08:48,374 --> 01:08:51,709
Unworthy though I am, Jesus said to me:

941
01:08:51,877 --> 01:08:55,964
"Thou art Peter, and upon this rock
I will build my church."

942
01:08:56,132 --> 01:08:57,841
He has guided my feet to Rome...

943
01:08:58,008 --> 01:09:02,178
...so that together
we can begin to build his church here.

944
01:09:02,346 --> 01:09:05,765
I give thanks for the faith you have in him
whom you have never seen...

945
01:09:05,933 --> 01:09:09,894
...but whose voice you have heard
and answered in your hearts.

946
01:09:10,062 --> 01:09:13,106
I heard his voice by the Sea of Galilee.

947
01:09:13,274 --> 01:09:15,066
My brothers and I were fishermen.

948
01:09:15,234 --> 01:09:18,987
All the night through we had been fishing
and had caught nothing.

949
01:09:19,155 --> 01:09:21,865
We were cold and very tired.

950
01:09:22,032 --> 01:09:25,994
As our boat was coming into the shore,
I heard someone call my name.

951
01:09:26,162 --> 01:09:29,164
I looked up and a man stood there.

952
01:09:29,331 --> 01:09:34,169
At the sight of him, the cold and weariness
left me and my heart grew light.

953
01:09:34,336 --> 01:09:37,005
I answered, "Yes, friend?"

954
01:09:37,173 --> 01:09:39,716
He called and asked
that he might come into our boat...

955
01:09:39,884 --> 01:09:44,762
...so that he could speak better to the people
who were pressing around him on shore.

956
01:09:44,930 --> 01:09:46,556
We bade him enter.

957
01:09:46,724 --> 01:09:51,436
He spoke to the people
about the kingdom of heaven at hand.

958
01:09:51,604 --> 01:09:57,942
And suddenly, my heart leapt in my breast
and I knew that he was the Christ to come.

959
01:09:58,861 --> 01:10:00,820
When he had finished, he said to me:

960
01:10:00,988 --> 01:10:03,948
"Go out into deep waters
and let down your nets."

961
01:10:04,450 --> 01:10:08,036
In a moment,
the nets were full as if by a miracle.

962
01:10:08,204 --> 01:10:10,622
He looked at my wonderment and said:

963
01:10:10,789 --> 01:10:16,544
"Do not be afraid. From henceforth,
you shall be a fisher of men."

964
01:10:16,712 --> 01:10:19,547
He told me to follow him, and I did.

965
01:10:19,715 --> 01:10:22,634
I and my brothers, James and John.

966
01:10:23,135 --> 01:10:26,179
Throughout the length and breadth
of the land, we followed him.

967
01:10:26,347 --> 01:10:30,725
Others joined us until
besides himself, we were 12.

968
01:10:30,893 --> 01:10:35,146
To the hungry and thirsty,
he gave food and drink.

969
01:10:35,314 --> 01:10:41,444
To those who were sick and worn
and weary, he gave hope and peace.

970
01:10:41,612 --> 01:10:45,531
Who but the Son of God
could have brought such gifts to man?

971
01:10:45,699 --> 01:10:49,202
Who but the Son of God could have
commanded the storm to be calm?

972
01:10:49,370 --> 01:10:52,914
Who but he could have raised
Lazarus of Bethany from the dead...

973
01:10:53,082 --> 01:10:56,000
...and given peace to the heart
of Mary Magdalene?

974
01:10:56,835 --> 01:11:02,006
And yet, I lived to deny this man.

975
01:11:03,092 --> 01:11:07,512
He himself foretold that I would
on the night of our last supper.

976
01:11:08,472 --> 01:11:13,601
"Lord," I had said, "I am willing to
follow you both to prison and to death."

977
01:11:13,769 --> 01:11:15,019
But he answered:

978
01:11:15,187 --> 01:11:19,107
"Peter, this night,
before the cock crows...

979
01:11:19,275 --> 01:11:21,693
...thou shalt deny me thrice."

980
01:11:21,860 --> 01:11:22,902
[INAUDIBLE DlALOGUE]

981
01:11:23,070 --> 01:11:24,570
And I did.

982
01:11:24,738 --> 01:11:27,865
Three times outside the house
of his judges.

983
01:11:28,033 --> 01:11:30,702
When they accused me
of being with him, I said:

984
01:11:30,869 --> 01:11:32,870
"I know not the man."

985
01:11:33,038 --> 01:11:36,958
With a curse for the weakness of my body
in the face of death.

986
01:11:37,584 --> 01:11:43,172
Then they weighed him down with a cross
and scourged him.

987
01:11:43,340 --> 01:11:45,633
And at a place called Calvary...

988
01:11:45,801 --> 01:11:50,346
...they crucified him,
with a crown of thorns upon his head.

989
01:11:51,098 --> 01:11:54,309
But even in the midst
of his suffering, Jesus said:

990
01:11:54,476 --> 01:11:58,604
"Father, forgive them,
for they know not what they do."

991
01:11:58,772 --> 01:12:00,898
Only the Son of God
could have forgiven them...

992
01:12:01,066 --> 01:12:04,235
...as he forgave me for my denial of him.

993
01:12:05,237 --> 01:12:08,948
But he who raised the dead
could not be conquered by death.

994
01:12:09,116 --> 01:12:12,994
The room in which we later sat,
in silence and in sorrow...

995
01:12:13,162 --> 01:12:18,291
...was filled suddenly with a great light
and the risen Lord stood before us.

996
01:12:18,459 --> 01:12:21,794
We saw his hands that the nails
had pierced and his wounded side...

997
01:12:21,962 --> 01:12:25,089
...and we knew indeed
that he was the Lord.

998
01:12:25,257 --> 01:12:29,427
And we heard his voice say,
"Peace be unto you."

999
01:12:29,595 --> 01:12:34,474
And he commanded us to preach
to all men his holy word.

1000
01:12:34,641 --> 01:12:39,103
Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

1001
01:12:39,271 --> 01:12:43,066
Blessed are they who mourn,
for they shall be comforted.

1002
01:12:43,233 --> 01:12:45,902
Blessed are the meek,
for they shall inherit the earth.

1003
01:12:46,445 --> 01:12:50,782
Blessed are they which do hunger
and thirst after righteousness...

1004
01:12:50,949 --> 01:12:52,367
...for they shall be filled.

1005
01:12:53,035 --> 01:12:56,454
Blessed are the merciful,
for they shall obtain mercy.

1006
01:12:56,622 --> 01:13:01,626
Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they shall see God.

1007
01:13:01,794 --> 01:13:07,882
Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called the children of God.

1008
01:13:08,425 --> 01:13:12,804
But beyond these things, Jesus asks us
to obey the commandments...

1009
01:13:12,971 --> 01:13:15,848
...which God gave to the prophet Moses.

1010
01:13:16,016 --> 01:13:20,144
Obey those who govern you
and the laws by which they govern.

1011
01:13:20,312 --> 01:13:22,814
Even though, under them,
you suffer cruelties...

1012
01:13:22,981 --> 01:13:26,401
...and witness maliciousness
beyond your mind's dimensions...

1013
01:13:26,568 --> 01:13:29,237
...make no threat of violence in return.

1014
01:13:30,114 --> 01:13:33,658
And in the words of Jesus,
I further say to you...

1015
01:13:33,826 --> 01:13:38,496
...whosoever shall smite thee upon
thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

1016
01:13:39,498 --> 01:13:41,666
Love thy neighbor as thyself.

1017
01:13:41,834 --> 01:13:47,588
Whatsoever you would that men should
do to you, do ye even so to them.

1018
01:13:47,756 --> 01:13:51,008
Love your enemies.
Bless them that curse you.

1019
01:13:51,176 --> 01:13:52,844
Do good to them that hate you.

1020
01:13:53,011 --> 01:13:56,806
And pray for them that despitefully
use you and persecute you.

1021
01:13:57,182 --> 01:13:58,975
Oh, believe in him.

1022
01:13:59,143 --> 01:14:04,147
Endure all things in his name,
so that you may dwell in blessedness.

1023
01:14:04,314 --> 01:14:08,609
Even from everlasting to everlasting.

1024
01:14:10,237 --> 01:14:11,279
Amen.

1025
01:14:11,447 --> 01:14:13,614
CROWD:
Amen.

1026
01:14:16,118 --> 01:14:17,785
[WOMAN SINGING]

1027
01:14:21,707 --> 01:14:27,086
Endure all things in his name,
that you may dwell in blessedness.

1028
01:14:31,675 --> 01:14:35,595
If I smite him on one cheek, the old rat
will have no chance to turn the other.

1029
01:14:36,221 --> 01:14:40,808
I don't know.
The old rat has courage of sorts.

1030
01:14:40,976 --> 01:14:43,936
Will you both come to our house tomorrow
to see Peter and Paul?

1031
01:14:44,104 --> 01:14:46,355
We must bide our time,
we may be watched.

1032
01:14:47,733 --> 01:14:50,234
Good night, Father. Good night, Mother.

1033
01:14:56,575 --> 01:14:59,577
There. There she is.

1034
01:15:00,329 --> 01:15:02,330
[SINGING]

1035
01:15:12,925 --> 01:15:16,761
- Well, commander?
- Come along.

1036
01:15:37,783 --> 01:15:41,869
That giant looks as though
he had the strength of a Cretan bull.

1037
01:15:42,037 --> 01:15:46,082
- Do you think you can down him?
- I'll squeeze the seeds out of him.

1038
01:15:47,960 --> 01:15:51,379
Wait. We're being followed.

1039
01:15:52,047 --> 01:15:54,257
- I don't hear anyone.
- Three times I have heard.

1040
01:15:54,424 --> 01:15:56,759
They stop when we do.
Go on to the house.

1041
01:15:56,927 --> 01:15:58,594
- But what will--?
- Go to the house.

1042
01:16:13,652 --> 01:16:15,903
Go no further, commander.

1043
01:16:16,488 --> 01:16:20,074
- Step aside.
- My lord, you haven't paid me.

1044
01:16:28,917 --> 01:16:30,251
[GRUNTING]

1045
01:17:38,236 --> 01:17:41,989
It's only a small cut in the scalp,
but they always bleed the most.

1046
01:17:42,157 --> 01:17:43,908
Hot water.

1047
01:17:46,662 --> 01:17:48,663
I'll get some ointment.

1048
01:17:49,915 --> 01:17:52,333
Look. Did you do that too, Ursus?

1049
01:17:52,501 --> 01:17:54,418
No, dear. That's an old scar.

1050
01:17:54,586 --> 01:17:56,087
A scar? What from?

1051
01:17:56,254 --> 01:17:58,255
Probably some battle wound.

1052
01:17:58,423 --> 01:18:01,050
That's right. He's one of Nero's
best generals, isn't he?

1053
01:18:01,218 --> 01:18:03,636
Here. Come, Nazarius,
it's time you were asleep.

1054
01:18:03,804 --> 01:18:06,681
- But, Mother, did you see the big sword--?
- Yes, dear.

1055
01:18:06,848 --> 01:18:10,059
- Wash the wound thoroughly first, Lygia.
- Yes.

1056
01:19:22,883 --> 01:19:24,175
Come, Ursus.

1057
01:19:38,148 --> 01:19:39,857
Ursus wishes to speak to you.

1058
01:19:42,194 --> 01:19:46,363
- Yes?
- I want to ask the commander's forgiveness.

1059
01:19:46,531 --> 01:19:48,032
I killed his friend.

1060
01:19:49,242 --> 01:19:50,910
Ha-ha. You killed Croton?

1061
01:19:51,077 --> 01:19:54,121
Good man. I told you you'd be a champion.
Kill the old Greek too?

1062
01:19:54,289 --> 01:19:55,623
The other man disappeared.

1063
01:19:55,791 --> 01:19:57,708
I'll wager he did, and fast.

1064
01:19:58,376 --> 01:19:59,877
Please say you'll forgive him.

1065
01:20:00,045 --> 01:20:02,296
For what? Croton faced his chances.

1066
01:20:02,464 --> 01:20:04,715
Killing was his profession.

1067
01:20:04,883 --> 01:20:06,759
Of all the gods, why didn't you kill me?

1068
01:20:06,927 --> 01:20:09,303
In our faith, it is a sin to kill.

1069
01:20:11,556 --> 01:20:13,307
I seem to remember.

1070
01:20:19,523 --> 01:20:23,567
He should have killed me.
You should have had him kill me.

1071
01:20:23,735 --> 01:20:27,071
But instead, you bring me in
and patch me up, all of you who hate me.

1072
01:20:30,742 --> 01:20:32,743
You've defeated me, Lygia.

1073
01:20:33,161 --> 01:20:34,495
Go on home. Stop hiding.

1074
01:20:34,871 --> 01:20:38,040
I won't come pursuing you
about the countryside any longer.

1075
01:20:38,208 --> 01:20:40,584
You're free and rid of me, Lygia.

1076
01:20:44,172 --> 01:20:46,423
You could look happier about it.

1077
01:20:48,426 --> 01:20:50,386
Well, so be it.

1078
01:20:52,764 --> 01:20:54,431
Marcus.

1079
01:20:55,141 --> 01:20:57,643
Oh, Marcus, you know I don't hate you.

1080
01:20:59,980 --> 01:21:01,480
Lygia.

1081
01:21:03,692 --> 01:21:06,026
- Oh, Marcus, Marcus.
- The sweetness of you.

1082
01:21:06,194 --> 01:21:08,028
Oh, this is the beauty, I knew it.

1083
01:21:08,196 --> 01:21:11,699
I should have known it had to happen
when I watched you leave the gathering.

1084
01:21:14,119 --> 01:21:16,120
- You were there?
- Yes.

1085
01:21:16,288 --> 01:21:20,791
I should have known what I really wished.
You with me always as my wife.

1086
01:21:20,959 --> 01:21:22,501
Will you do that, Lygia?

1087
01:21:22,669 --> 01:21:26,505
Will you give me the greatest triumph
a man ever had? Be my wife?

1088
01:21:27,424 --> 01:21:29,717
Oh, yes, Marcus.

1089
01:21:32,846 --> 01:21:35,306
Gather what you need
and let's be gone from this den.

1090
01:21:35,473 --> 01:21:37,057
- Hurry.
- Yes, Marcus, I'll hurry.

1091
01:21:37,225 --> 01:21:39,935
We'll go to Antium.
Petronius will outdo himself.

1092
01:21:40,103 --> 01:21:43,522
A ceremony and wedding feast
such as never has been seen.

1093
01:21:43,690 --> 01:21:46,525
And even that will be lost moments.

1094
01:21:46,860 --> 01:21:47,902
Oh....

1095
01:21:52,407 --> 01:21:55,117
Marcus, Paul will be here soon.

1096
01:21:55,285 --> 01:21:59,663
I would like so much to ask his blessing.
And perhaps let him say the words over us.

1097
01:21:59,831 --> 01:22:01,999
What words?
You've heard enough of his words.

1098
01:22:02,167 --> 01:22:05,044
They've deafened your ears
to everything life has to tell you.

1099
01:22:05,211 --> 01:22:07,004
But you heard Peter and Paul speak.

1100
01:22:07,172 --> 01:22:09,340
Did you hear anything
that was ugly or wrong?

1101
01:22:09,507 --> 01:22:12,176
I heard a childish old man
speak in riddles.

1102
01:22:12,344 --> 01:22:13,344
Believe as they do...

1103
01:22:13,511 --> 01:22:17,514
...and you'll think a cow is a bull
and a bull is an ox and an ox is a goat.

1104
01:22:18,767 --> 01:22:20,768
Oh, Marcus, dear.

1105
01:22:20,936 --> 01:22:24,188
I thought, having heard,
you might begin to know...

1106
01:22:24,356 --> 01:22:25,856
...to understand why.

1107
01:22:26,024 --> 01:22:27,733
Here, now.

1108
01:22:27,901 --> 01:22:31,195
Is this the symbol of your God,
your Christ?

1109
01:22:31,363 --> 01:22:33,656
The cross on which he was crucified.

1110
01:22:33,823 --> 01:22:37,117
I'm willing to accept your God,
if it makes you happier.

1111
01:22:38,161 --> 01:22:39,328
I don't demand it.

1112
01:22:39,496 --> 01:22:43,040
In our gardens in Sicily, we'll put up
a big cross, higher than the roof.

1113
01:22:43,208 --> 01:22:46,710
I'll put up a special pedestal and crown it
with a figure of your Christ...

1114
01:22:46,878 --> 01:22:48,629
...carved from the finest marble.

1115
01:22:48,797 --> 01:22:51,715
You'll have to have Peter
tell the sculptor what he looks like.

1116
01:22:51,883 --> 01:22:54,134
- Marcus, listen to me--
- Why not? It's no trouble.

1117
01:22:54,302 --> 01:22:58,389
There's such an army of gods these days
we can always find room for another.

1118
01:23:01,601 --> 01:23:06,063
I'm not asking it as a condition
of our having one another.

1119
01:23:06,231 --> 01:23:07,898
I just hope and pray that one day...

1120
01:23:08,066 --> 01:23:11,151
...the image of Christ
will appear in your heart.

1121
01:23:11,319 --> 01:23:13,153
My heart is only for you.

1122
01:23:13,321 --> 01:23:14,989
There won't be room for him there.

1123
01:23:15,156 --> 01:23:16,865
There will be.

1124
01:23:17,033 --> 01:23:20,911
I always carry him in mine with you.

1125
01:23:23,415 --> 01:23:25,874
Well, take him out
if he means that much, Lygia.

1126
01:23:26,042 --> 01:23:28,585
- Do you hear me? Get rid of him.
- Well.

1127
01:23:29,254 --> 01:23:31,255
I'm glad to see you on your feet again.

1128
01:23:31,423 --> 01:23:34,842
Last night and this morning,
you had us quite concerned.

1129
01:23:35,010 --> 01:23:36,260
Paul.

1130
01:23:36,428 --> 01:23:39,596
- Marcus has just asked me to be his wife.
- Oh?

1131
01:23:39,764 --> 01:23:42,975
I'm sure that this has
brought her great joy, Marcus.

1132
01:23:43,143 --> 01:23:46,103
You could see, Paul, that I loved him.

1133
01:23:46,438 --> 01:23:48,981
I was just trying to explain to him that--

1134
01:23:49,149 --> 01:23:52,484
Well, that there are other things. I mean--

1135
01:23:52,652 --> 01:23:54,695
- I understand.
- I don't.

1136
01:23:54,863 --> 01:23:57,781
I offered to accept the symbols
of her God into my house.

1137
01:23:57,949 --> 01:23:59,408
I don't ask her to accept mine.

1138
01:23:59,576 --> 01:24:02,411
What more can I do to prove
that I'm not an enemy of her God?

1139
01:24:02,579 --> 01:24:04,371
Marcus.

1140
01:24:04,539 --> 01:24:08,584
For some of us it takes months,
years of thought...

1141
01:24:08,752 --> 01:24:11,670
...of contemplation,
of looking back on our lives...

1142
01:24:11,880 --> 01:24:13,839
...on the course of mankind
and realizing--

1143
01:24:14,007 --> 01:24:16,050
Tell me what more I should do.

1144
01:24:16,217 --> 01:24:18,761
Well, you own slaves, do you not?

1145
01:24:18,928 --> 01:24:20,637
Hundreds. Good ones too. Why?

1146
01:24:20,805 --> 01:24:23,015
Jesus wishes no man to be in bondage.

1147
01:24:23,641 --> 01:24:24,975
You should set them free.

1148
01:24:25,143 --> 01:24:27,519
Set them free?
But they're mine, I own them.

1149
01:24:27,687 --> 01:24:30,397
But you can't buy human beings,
Marcus.

1150
01:24:30,565 --> 01:24:32,983
Faith in Christ is based on love.

1151
01:24:33,151 --> 01:24:35,444
He asks all people to love one another.

1152
01:24:35,612 --> 01:24:40,199
Yes, so I heard your old fisherman say.
You want me to love the whole human race?

1153
01:24:40,408 --> 01:24:43,035
You want me to love Parthians,
Egyptians, Persians?

1154
01:24:43,203 --> 01:24:45,370
The rest who wanna put a blade
through my ribs?

1155
01:24:45,580 --> 01:24:47,790
Has it occurred to you
to put down your sword...

1156
01:24:47,957 --> 01:24:49,833
...and renounce war
against these people?

1157
01:24:50,001 --> 01:24:52,419
That you might conquer them with love?

1158
01:24:52,587 --> 01:24:56,340
Yes, yes,
you tame a pack of wolves with a feather.

1159
01:24:56,508 --> 01:24:58,926
It's occurred to me
you've a whining beggar for God.

1160
01:24:59,094 --> 01:25:02,805
A cringing God for slaves, aliens,
and outcasts like yourself.

1161
01:25:03,014 --> 01:25:04,890
But that's not Lygia.

1162
01:25:05,850 --> 01:25:08,769
Let's be gone from this idiocy of words.
Get your cloak, Lygia.

1163
01:25:08,937 --> 01:25:11,939
- Marcus, dear, a moment more.
- We've lost too much time as it is.

1164
01:25:12,107 --> 01:25:14,650
You're going to be wife of
Commander Marcus Vinicius...

1165
01:25:14,818 --> 01:25:17,361
...not the miserable slave
of some crucified carpenter.

1166
01:25:17,529 --> 01:25:22,533
Oh, Marcus, try to understand my faith,
my beliefs, my very deep beliefs.

1167
01:25:22,700 --> 01:25:25,244
Don't force me to choose.

1168
01:25:25,411 --> 01:25:28,038
You mean, between me and your Christ?

1169
01:25:28,206 --> 01:25:29,915
Yes, choose.

1170
01:25:30,083 --> 01:25:33,210
I'd no more share you with your Christ
than I would with other men.

1171
01:25:33,378 --> 01:25:35,295
But, Marcus, don't you see?

1172
01:25:35,463 --> 01:25:39,675
Unless you try to understand, what we feel
for each other will destroy itself.

1173
01:25:40,260 --> 01:25:42,094
Destroy us.

1174
01:25:42,595 --> 01:25:46,557
My son, your love for Lygia,
great and beautiful as you feel it...

1175
01:25:46,724 --> 01:25:49,143
...is small compared with your love
for all mankind.

1176
01:25:49,310 --> 01:25:52,896
What sort of love is it that acknowledges
a force greater than itself?

1177
01:25:53,064 --> 01:25:55,983
What runs in your veins, philosopher,
blood or water?

1178
01:25:56,151 --> 01:25:58,569
What sort of poison are you spreading?

1179
01:25:59,737 --> 01:26:01,697
Are you coming with me, Lygia?

1180
01:26:06,202 --> 01:26:07,703
Lygia.

1181
01:26:09,747 --> 01:26:11,373
No, my dear.

1182
01:26:15,128 --> 01:26:16,837
Twice today, I've been a fool.

1183
01:26:17,005 --> 01:26:18,755
But I'll not go back on my word.

1184
01:26:18,923 --> 01:26:22,843
You can go your way.
I'll not disclose what I've seen or heard.

1185
01:26:23,011 --> 01:26:25,596
Something is hidden
behind your meek words, philosopher.

1186
01:26:25,763 --> 01:26:29,349
Yours and your fanatical fisherman's.
They strike at Rome and Roman law.

1187
01:26:30,059 --> 01:26:34,396
I warn you, if ever Roman rule
is threatened, you'll feel my sword.

1188
01:26:47,911 --> 01:26:51,121
I almost--
I wanted to go with him, Paul.

1189
01:26:51,289 --> 01:26:52,289
[SOBBING]

1190
01:26:52,457 --> 01:26:53,624
Lygia.

1191
01:26:54,834 --> 01:26:57,044
Even our Lord knew temptation.

1192
01:26:57,212 --> 01:27:01,006
Your strength too will prevail
and be rewarded in this.

1193
01:27:01,174 --> 01:27:02,925
I know that.

1194
01:27:05,220 --> 01:27:07,221
[SINGING]

1195
01:27:41,547 --> 01:27:43,382
Yes, yes.

1196
01:27:43,549 --> 01:27:47,511
These will be the imperial gardens,
where the cattle market now stands?

1197
01:27:47,679 --> 01:27:49,012
Yes, Divinity.

1198
01:27:49,180 --> 01:27:51,640
Each palace rising out of its own lake...

1199
01:27:51,808 --> 01:27:54,851
...surfaced with water fowl
of the rarest plumage.

1200
01:27:55,019 --> 01:27:58,772
No longer will the stench of pig and oxen
rise up the slopes of the Palatine.

1201
01:27:58,940 --> 01:28:02,234
No. It shall be landscaped
with Damascene roses.

1202
01:28:02,819 --> 01:28:07,656
Oh, Phaon, you are an architect
who could have laid the plans of Olympus.

1203
01:28:09,534 --> 01:28:11,952
- My lord, I have brought food.
- Take it away.

1204
01:28:12,120 --> 01:28:14,997
- It comes to life--
- You've not eaten since morning, my lord.

1205
01:28:15,164 --> 01:28:17,541
Be gone with it, all of you!

1206
01:28:18,376 --> 01:28:20,377
You irritate me.

1207
01:28:22,130 --> 01:28:24,131
Why do you stare at me, Acte?

1208
01:28:24,549 --> 01:28:26,174
My lord--

1209
01:28:26,801 --> 01:28:28,927
I can only say....

1210
01:28:30,388 --> 01:28:36,601
When all this sets with the final sun,
remember the look of Acte.

1211
01:28:36,811 --> 01:28:38,353
Why should I remember you?

1212
01:28:38,521 --> 01:28:40,355
No one loves you as I love you.

1213
01:28:40,523 --> 01:28:42,024
I command you to stop loving me!

1214
01:28:42,191 --> 01:28:44,026
I cannot, lord.

1215
01:28:44,736 --> 01:28:46,528
Forgive me.

1216
01:28:48,781 --> 01:28:51,908
For years,
she has been a thorn in my flesh.

1217
01:28:52,076 --> 01:28:54,036
Now that thorn will be removed.

1218
01:28:55,496 --> 01:28:59,833
Henceforth, you are banished from Rome
and from my sight.

1219
01:29:01,044 --> 01:29:02,836
One day, Nero, you will need me.

1220
01:29:05,131 --> 01:29:07,299
And I will come to you.

1221
01:29:10,762 --> 01:29:13,472
Is it not disgusting
when common bovine solicitude...

1222
01:29:13,639 --> 01:29:16,892
...replaces the fire in a woman's body?

1223
01:29:18,269 --> 01:29:21,813
Ah, but what pulsating purity
there is in fire.

1224
01:29:21,981 --> 01:29:25,400
My new Rome shall spring
from the loins of fire...

1225
01:29:25,568 --> 01:29:29,321
...a twisting, writhing, breathing flame.

1226
01:29:32,533 --> 01:29:35,077
What do you think Petronius
will say to this?

1227
01:29:35,244 --> 01:29:37,120
You doubt his approval, my lord?

1228
01:29:37,288 --> 01:29:41,083
I too remember his strange look at the feast
when the thought first came to you.

1229
01:29:41,250 --> 01:29:43,919
- I should be careful lest--
- No, no.

1230
01:29:44,087 --> 01:29:47,172
Petronius appreciates my genius
even more than you, dear Phaon.

1231
01:29:47,340 --> 01:29:49,925
It's just that he may not fully understand
the method...

1232
01:29:50,093 --> 01:29:54,471
...the means I must use to bring this
greatest of my accomplishments into being.

1233
01:29:56,974 --> 01:30:00,310
He seems to be well-occupied
at the moment.

1234
01:30:00,853 --> 01:30:05,982
When I have news of Tigellinus coming,
I shall summon him with the others.

1235
01:30:06,150 --> 01:30:10,695
This must be disclosed to him
with intelligence...

1236
01:30:10,863 --> 01:30:14,449
...with, uh, sincerity.

1237
01:30:14,784 --> 01:30:16,785
[EUNICE HUMMING]

1238
01:30:18,246 --> 01:30:19,287
Yes.

1239
01:30:20,331 --> 01:30:21,998
There you are.

1240
01:30:23,960 --> 01:30:26,545
- Marcus.
- Hmm?

1241
01:30:28,005 --> 01:30:29,756
Well, it's your game.

1242
01:30:29,924 --> 01:30:32,175
Only two games you've won
in three weeks, Marcus.

1243
01:30:32,343 --> 01:30:33,468
Does the play bore you?

1244
01:30:33,636 --> 01:30:35,095
I fear I have met my superior.

1245
01:30:35,513 --> 01:30:37,848
I fear you might have met
something else.

1246
01:30:38,015 --> 01:30:39,516
Other than a glare of distaste...

1247
01:30:39,684 --> 01:30:42,853
...I've been given no details
concerning your sudden renunciation...

1248
01:30:43,020 --> 01:30:44,729
...of your little Christian hostage.

1249
01:30:44,897 --> 01:30:47,566
Your well-bred curiosity
now breaks its bounds, eh?

1250
01:30:48,359 --> 01:30:50,152
It shatters me.

1251
01:30:51,237 --> 01:30:53,238
Well, uncle, it happened quite simply.

1252
01:30:53,406 --> 01:30:57,534
Your valiant Greek led me to Lygia
and a swarming hive of idiots.

1253
01:30:57,702 --> 01:31:01,455
Their black honey choked my mouth
and I said words I never thought I'd utter.

1254
01:31:01,622 --> 01:31:04,499
For their mammoth stupidity
I should've been broken in half...

1255
01:31:04,667 --> 01:31:07,043
...and dropped piecemeal
into the sewers.

1256
01:31:07,211 --> 01:31:09,671
- Fascinated?
- In a way.

1257
01:31:10,214 --> 01:31:11,214
Yes?

1258
01:31:11,382 --> 01:31:14,551
The empress requests your presence
in her pavilion, commander.

1259
01:31:14,719 --> 01:31:16,052
At once.

1260
01:31:19,474 --> 01:31:21,349
I leave you to your fascination.

1261
01:31:21,517 --> 01:31:23,810
I have been summoned to mine.

1262
01:31:27,565 --> 01:31:30,233
None of this bodes well.

1263
01:31:30,485 --> 01:31:32,569
Wouldn't the emperor be angry
if he should--?

1264
01:31:32,737 --> 01:31:36,198
Poppaea's indulgences
merely stimulate him to his own.

1265
01:31:36,365 --> 01:31:38,700
But I sense a fresh preoccupation
in Nero.

1266
01:31:38,868 --> 01:31:41,286
For some time now, he has avoided me.

1267
01:31:41,454 --> 01:31:42,662
My lord is troubled?

1268
01:31:42,830 --> 01:31:44,623
A doubled guard and yesterday...

1269
01:31:44,790 --> 01:31:48,418
...Tigellinus and a squadron of his butchers
left for Rome.

1270
01:31:48,586 --> 01:31:51,463
I feel a strange and heavy breeze.

1271
01:31:51,631 --> 01:31:53,757
Oh, my dear lord.

1272
01:31:54,759 --> 01:31:58,595
Even your little song is sad
with its note of death.

1273
01:31:58,763 --> 01:32:00,597
It is just words.

1274
01:32:00,765 --> 01:32:02,807
And I sing it joyfully.

1275
01:32:02,975 --> 01:32:08,772
Because love such as I feel
cannot ever die.

1276
01:32:14,487 --> 01:32:17,447
As always,
your entrance is proud and aloof.

1277
01:32:17,615 --> 01:32:21,284
I come proudly, as fast as my hands
and knees will carry me.

1278
01:32:21,452 --> 01:32:24,454
And as always,
sardonic and unassailable.

1279
01:32:24,622 --> 01:32:26,122
Unassailable?

1280
01:32:26,290 --> 01:32:30,794
I've never been so readily, so happily,
so expertly vanquished in my life.

1281
01:32:30,962 --> 01:32:34,756
I believe everything
except the word "vanquished."

1282
01:32:36,300 --> 01:32:39,302
I should like to vanquish you, Marcus.

1283
01:32:39,637 --> 01:32:42,889
Like the spider who eats her mate
when he is no longer a necessity?

1284
01:32:43,057 --> 01:32:46,142
Mm-hm. Something like that.

1285
01:32:47,311 --> 01:32:49,980
I heard today
you're planning to leave for Sicily.

1286
01:32:50,147 --> 01:32:52,315
Three years away,
there's much to look after.

1287
01:32:52,483 --> 01:32:55,318
Will you sail from here
or will you go via Rome?

1288
01:32:57,029 --> 01:32:59,990
Rome?
That's rather an indirect route, isn't it?

1289
01:33:00,157 --> 01:33:01,908
Then I shall be direct.

1290
01:33:02,076 --> 01:33:04,744
I know about your little
Christian hostage vanishing.

1291
01:33:05,162 --> 01:33:08,206
I've eyes and ears
in the Praetorian Guard.

1292
01:33:08,374 --> 01:33:10,750
And an arm or two
to fit your waist, no doubt?

1293
01:33:12,169 --> 01:33:13,670
Possibly.

1294
01:33:14,422 --> 01:33:16,006
Did you find her, Marcus?

1295
01:33:17,174 --> 01:33:18,300
Naturally.

1296
01:33:18,467 --> 01:33:21,678
Only to find myself a fool
and sever her chains, I might add.

1297
01:33:22,138 --> 01:33:24,306
You severed them thoroughly?

1298
01:33:25,975 --> 01:33:27,142
Thoroughly.

1299
01:33:27,602 --> 01:33:29,436
I'm glad.

1300
01:33:31,105 --> 01:33:32,731
Marcus.

1301
01:33:36,277 --> 01:33:39,946
Because you know how I consoled myself
when you vanished from the feast.

1302
01:33:40,114 --> 01:33:41,573
Spare me names, dear empress.

1303
01:33:41,741 --> 01:33:44,534
I consoled myself
with the thought of your death.

1304
01:33:44,702 --> 01:33:46,161
I fondled your bodiless head...

1305
01:33:46,329 --> 01:33:49,706
...running my fingers through your hair,
making you smile and frown.

1306
01:33:50,833 --> 01:33:52,167
May I ask what stopped you?

1307
01:33:52,543 --> 01:33:57,047
It is foolish to kill those you hate,
because once dead they are beyond pain.

1308
01:33:57,214 --> 01:33:59,299
And I hated you, Marcus.

1309
01:33:59,717 --> 01:34:01,801
I welcome your change of heart, at least.

1310
01:34:01,969 --> 01:34:06,222
But if ever she bewitches you again,
I shall know.

1311
01:34:06,390 --> 01:34:12,437
And since I have no hatred for her,
I do not care whether she feels pain.

1312
01:34:16,734 --> 01:34:19,569
You'd never turn the other cheek to me,
would you?

1313
01:34:21,572 --> 01:34:23,782
I don't know what you mean.

1314
01:34:26,118 --> 01:34:28,912
But my mouth is here.

1315
01:34:33,334 --> 01:34:35,335
Where is Petronius?
Have you summoned him?

1316
01:34:35,503 --> 01:34:37,379
- Have you called Petronius?
- Yes, Caesar.

1317
01:34:37,546 --> 01:34:39,547
Well, summon him again. Tell him I--

1318
01:34:39,715 --> 01:34:41,925
As ever, I'm impatient for you.

1319
01:34:42,093 --> 01:34:43,426
I have missed you, Divinity.

1320
01:34:43,594 --> 01:34:46,596
Petronius, forgive me
if I seem to have slighted you of late.

1321
01:34:46,764 --> 01:34:50,558
I have been steeped in my genius
beyond all description.

1322
01:34:50,726 --> 01:34:53,603
I sense a fresh inspiration.

1323
01:34:53,771 --> 01:34:56,272
Your senses shall leap to it.

1324
01:35:04,490 --> 01:35:07,450
Attend me. Attend me, all.

1325
01:35:13,457 --> 01:35:17,001
My lack of consideration for you
during the past few days...

1326
01:35:17,169 --> 01:35:21,631
...in keeping you from my presence,
forces me to impress upon you once again...

1327
01:35:21,799 --> 01:35:24,968
...the tribulations of the true artist.

1328
01:35:25,636 --> 01:35:29,723
When I play and sing, I have visions
of things I never dreamed existed.

1329
01:35:29,890 --> 01:35:32,183
The world is mine.

1330
01:35:33,144 --> 01:35:34,978
And mine to end.

1331
01:35:35,438 --> 01:35:37,605
Music opens up new worlds for me.

1332
01:35:37,773 --> 01:35:40,233
Draws back the veil from new delights.

1333
01:35:40,401 --> 01:35:42,318
I can see Olympus...

1334
01:35:42,486 --> 01:35:46,156
...and a breeze blows on me
from beyond the Earth.

1335
01:35:47,074 --> 01:35:48,575
And in those moments...

1336
01:35:48,743 --> 01:35:54,831
...l, a god, feel as diminutive as dust.

1337
01:36:00,171 --> 01:36:01,796
This is a day for sincerity.

1338
01:36:01,964 --> 01:36:04,466
Let me open my soul to you.

1339
01:36:05,676 --> 01:36:07,010
Do you think I do not know...

1340
01:36:07,178 --> 01:36:11,306
...that there are people in Rome
who call me a matricide, a wife killer?

1341
01:36:11,474 --> 01:36:13,641
Hold me a monster?

1342
01:36:13,809 --> 01:36:15,351
Tyrant?

1343
01:36:16,604 --> 01:36:19,272
But there is something
they do not realize.

1344
01:36:19,690 --> 01:36:24,527
A man's acts may be cruel
while he himself is not cruel.

1345
01:36:25,863 --> 01:36:28,531
And there are moments,
my dear Petronius...

1346
01:36:28,699 --> 01:36:33,453
...when music caresses my soul.

1347
01:36:33,621 --> 01:36:37,540
I feel as gentle as a child in a cradle.

1348
01:36:40,336 --> 01:36:41,377
Believe me?

1349
01:36:41,545 --> 01:36:44,005
All men should know you
as we do, Divinity.

1350
01:36:44,173 --> 01:36:47,467
PETRONlUS: Only then would they be able
to appreciate you.

1351
01:36:49,136 --> 01:36:51,054
Yet there are those
who say that I am mad.

1352
01:36:51,222 --> 01:36:53,014
I'm only seeking.

1353
01:36:53,182 --> 01:36:56,810
The flatness and misery
of common life depress me.

1354
01:36:56,977 --> 01:37:01,439
I seek because I must exceed
the stature of man in both good and evil.

1355
01:37:01,607 --> 01:37:06,903
I seek because I must be greater than man,
for only then will I be the supreme artist.

1356
01:37:13,202 --> 01:37:18,915
Do you know why I condemned
both my wife...

1357
01:37:19,083 --> 01:37:23,127
...and my mother to death?

1358
01:37:24,797 --> 01:37:28,925
I did it in order to lay at the gates
of an unknown world...

1359
01:37:29,093 --> 01:37:32,929
...the greatest sacrifice
a man can put there.

1360
01:37:34,014 --> 01:37:37,433
Now, I thought, doors will open...

1361
01:37:37,601 --> 01:37:41,187
...beyond which I shall catch
a glimpse of the unknown.

1362
01:37:42,606 --> 01:37:45,108
Let it be wonderful.

1363
01:37:48,362 --> 01:37:50,697
Or let it be awful.

1364
01:37:52,157 --> 01:37:55,535
So long as it is uncommon.

1365
01:37:59,582 --> 01:38:01,165
So now.

1366
01:38:02,918 --> 01:38:05,336
Behold, dear Petronius.

1367
01:38:14,346 --> 01:38:15,722
My new Rome.

1368
01:38:16,974 --> 01:38:19,225
It shall rise in gleaming white beauty.

1369
01:38:19,393 --> 01:38:22,812
Master gem of the world's crown.

1370
01:38:22,980 --> 01:38:24,397
It shall have a new name.

1371
01:38:24,565 --> 01:38:27,150
Neropolis, city of Nero.

1372
01:38:27,318 --> 01:38:29,193
- Magnificent.
- You have outdone yourself.

1373
01:38:29,361 --> 01:38:31,154
TERPNOS:
Something the world has never seen.

1374
01:38:31,322 --> 01:38:35,909
But what of the Rome
that has stood for a thousand years?

1375
01:38:36,076 --> 01:38:39,370
After all, Divinity,
the old Rome, our Rome...

1376
01:38:39,538 --> 01:38:43,458
...dirty and magnificent,
but still our beloved Rome...

1377
01:38:43,626 --> 01:38:45,752
...it still stands.

1378
01:38:48,213 --> 01:38:49,756
Does it?

1379
01:38:51,842 --> 01:38:54,010
It still stands.

1380
01:38:54,678 --> 01:38:56,471
We never thought of that, did we?

1381
01:38:57,556 --> 01:38:58,765
Or does it, Tigellinus?

1382
01:38:58,933 --> 01:39:02,435
Rome is a sea of flames.
It burns from rim to rim.

1383
01:39:02,603 --> 01:39:05,229
You hear that? That is my epic.

1384
01:39:05,397 --> 01:39:09,984
To change the face of the world.
To demolish and create, and create anew.

1385
01:39:10,152 --> 01:39:11,819
Now, to your chariots, all of you.

1386
01:39:11,987 --> 01:39:13,947
You shall come with me
to the funeral pyre.

1387
01:39:14,114 --> 01:39:16,950
This very night you shall hear
my dirge over burning Rome.

1388
01:39:17,117 --> 01:39:20,620
Its flames shall carry me
higher than the gods.

1389
01:39:21,080 --> 01:39:23,873
- All of Rome is burning?
- All but the Palatine area.

1390
01:39:24,041 --> 01:39:26,459
- What of the section across the river?
- An inferno.

1391
01:39:26,627 --> 01:39:29,879
- Thousands of roofs going up like tinder.
POPPAEA: Marcus.

1392
01:39:37,221 --> 01:39:38,721
Stop, Vinicius. Hold him.

1393
01:39:51,443 --> 01:39:55,029
Now, indeed,
Nero has his place in history.

1394
01:41:45,516 --> 01:41:46,933
[WHEELS GRlNDING]

1395
01:42:33,522 --> 01:42:35,523
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]

1396
01:42:54,376 --> 01:42:56,586
Look, there's one of Nero's soldiers.

1397
01:42:56,753 --> 01:42:59,046
He burned Rome.

1398
01:43:11,101 --> 01:43:13,895
The people here, the girl with the giant,
have you seen them?

1399
01:43:14,062 --> 01:43:17,940
They left. Don't kill me, don't kill me.

1400
01:43:18,775 --> 01:43:21,861
Mama, Mama.

1401
01:43:22,029 --> 01:43:23,738
Mama.

1402
01:43:23,906 --> 01:43:26,699
Mama, Mama.

1403
01:43:27,451 --> 01:43:28,951
[YELLS]

1404
01:43:34,875 --> 01:43:36,375
[SCREAMING]

1405
01:44:01,401 --> 01:44:05,238
Here, go on. Take care of her.

1406
01:44:15,082 --> 01:44:17,375
The sewers. The sewers lead to the river.

1407
01:44:17,542 --> 01:44:19,502
Into the sewers.

1408
01:44:31,848 --> 01:44:33,516
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]

1409
01:45:32,075 --> 01:45:33,576
Lygia.

1410
01:45:33,744 --> 01:45:35,328
Marcus.

1411
01:45:47,424 --> 01:45:48,466
Lygia.

1412
01:45:48,633 --> 01:45:51,260
Oh, Marcus, Marcus, I prayed to see you.

1413
01:45:52,346 --> 01:45:55,848
Marcus, Miriam is dead, in the fire.

1414
01:45:56,016 --> 01:45:57,767
- She....
NAZARlUS: My mother.

1415
01:45:57,934 --> 01:46:00,061
A wall fell on her.

1416
01:46:00,228 --> 01:46:02,396
We'll get you out of this, son.

1417
01:46:03,273 --> 01:46:05,524
The Praetorians are holding the bridge.

1418
01:46:15,786 --> 01:46:17,578
MARCUS:
Open up.

1419
01:46:18,288 --> 01:46:19,789
- Who's in command here?
- I am.

1420
01:46:19,956 --> 01:46:20,956
Open this barricade.

1421
01:46:21,124 --> 01:46:24,502
Imperial orders. We're to keep them
from entering the Palatine area.

1422
01:46:24,669 --> 01:46:26,295
Break ranks. Let them through.

1423
01:46:26,463 --> 01:46:27,838
Hold your line there.

1424
01:46:28,006 --> 01:46:31,217
I'm in charge here,
commander, and by the--

1425
01:46:31,802 --> 01:46:34,136
Break ranks, I say.

1426
01:46:38,392 --> 01:46:40,393
[SHOUTING]

1427
01:47:15,720 --> 01:47:19,515
Petronius, look what I've created!

1428
01:47:21,351 --> 01:47:25,229
Tigellinus, my robe of grief.

1429
01:47:25,856 --> 01:47:28,607
Terpnos, lyre.

1430
01:47:32,070 --> 01:47:34,238
History will judge my song, Petronius.

1431
01:47:34,406 --> 01:47:36,740
Will it be great enough
to match the occasion?

1432
01:47:36,908 --> 01:47:39,577
I'm seized with the fear
that it will not be great enough.

1433
01:47:39,744 --> 01:47:43,873
You will be worthy of the spectacle,
as the spectacle is worthy of you.

1434
01:47:44,207 --> 01:47:46,417
You encourage me, Petronius.

1435
01:47:46,585 --> 01:47:50,212
But I'm aware that I must compete
with those who sang of the burning of Troy.

1436
01:47:50,380 --> 01:47:53,132
My song must be greater,
just as Rome is greater than Troy.

1437
01:47:53,467 --> 01:47:57,887
[SINGING] Silence, ye spheres
Be still, ye hurtling stars

1438
01:47:58,054 --> 01:48:01,724
Open wide-vaulted skies above me

1439
01:48:01,892 --> 01:48:04,894
Now, at last, lo, I see Olympus

1440
01:48:05,061 --> 01:48:08,189
And a light from its summit
Doth illumine me

1441
01:48:08,356 --> 01:48:11,567
I am one with the gods, immortal

1442
01:48:11,735 --> 01:48:15,946
I am Nero
The artist who creates with fire

1443
01:48:16,114 --> 01:48:19,909
That the dreams of my life
May come true

1444
01:48:20,076 --> 01:48:22,077
To the flames now I give the past

1445
01:48:22,245 --> 01:48:25,998
To the flames and soil

1446
01:48:27,417 --> 01:48:30,169
Take thou this Rome

1447
01:48:30,795 --> 01:48:35,966
Oh, receive her now, ye flames

1448
01:48:36,134 --> 01:48:39,970
Consume her as would a furnace

1449
01:48:40,138 --> 01:48:43,724
Burn on, O ancient Rome

1450
01:48:43,892 --> 01:48:47,645
Burn on, burn on

1451
01:48:49,689 --> 01:48:52,691
[CROWD YELLING]

1452
01:49:02,994 --> 01:49:05,329
The mob from burned areas.

1453
01:49:06,456 --> 01:49:07,915
They want to survive.

1454
01:49:08,083 --> 01:49:09,583
Who asked them to survive?

1455
01:49:13,880 --> 01:49:14,964
Tigellinus.

1456
01:49:15,131 --> 01:49:19,009
The palace is fully guarded, Majesty.
They will never pass my Praetorians.

1457
01:49:23,765 --> 01:49:26,141
The night is chilly.

1458
01:49:26,309 --> 01:49:28,310
Let us withdraw.

1459
01:49:31,606 --> 01:49:35,776
Is it possible that human beings
can produce such a sound?

1460
01:49:35,944 --> 01:49:39,238
Yes, when they've been driven too far.

1461
01:49:48,498 --> 01:49:51,959
MAN 1: Death to Nero.
WOMAN: Death to the incendiary.

1462
01:49:52,127 --> 01:49:53,419
They'll break through.

1463
01:49:53,587 --> 01:49:55,838
Summon all the detachments
from the barracks.

1464
01:49:56,298 --> 01:49:58,924
MAN 2:
Death to the incendiary.

1465
01:50:05,599 --> 01:50:08,058
They're shouting something.
What are they shouting?

1466
01:50:08,226 --> 01:50:10,561
They have given you a new title, Divinity.

1467
01:50:10,729 --> 01:50:12,813
"Incendiary."

1468
01:50:14,024 --> 01:50:16,650
I've sent for reinforcements.
I hope they arrive in time.

1469
01:50:16,818 --> 01:50:18,694
I'd speak to the mob.
Make some promises.

1470
01:50:18,862 --> 01:50:20,487
I do not ask favors, I confer them.

1471
01:50:20,655 --> 01:50:22,364
You go. Speak to them in my name.

1472
01:50:22,532 --> 01:50:25,200
Not until detachments arrive,
then I'll speak with steel.

1473
01:50:25,368 --> 01:50:26,702
They'd stone me to death now.

1474
01:50:26,870 --> 01:50:29,371
In what better cause could you die?

1475
01:50:30,123 --> 01:50:32,791
This was your architect's dream.
Go and tell them, Phaon.

1476
01:50:32,959 --> 01:50:34,001
This is all for them.

1477
01:50:34,169 --> 01:50:35,961
How can we admit that, Divinity?

1478
01:50:36,129 --> 01:50:37,880
You're right, we must never admit it.

1479
01:50:38,048 --> 01:50:41,050
How can I expect that mob
to share my vision?

1480
01:50:41,259 --> 01:50:42,718
Seneca, what do you advise?

1481
01:50:42,886 --> 01:50:46,680
The mob is a wild animal,
and with an animal you cannot reason.

1482
01:50:49,351 --> 01:50:51,894
I'm surrounded by eunuchs.

1483
01:50:54,272 --> 01:50:56,273
Why do you stand aloof?
You're my counselor.

1484
01:50:56,441 --> 01:50:57,608
Why don't you counsel me?

1485
01:50:57,776 --> 01:51:00,694
Let them enter, we shall all die.

1486
01:51:00,862 --> 01:51:04,448
All except you.
You, of course, being a god, are immortal.

1487
01:51:04,616 --> 01:51:08,035
Your levity is ill-timed, Petronius.
They'll destroy you also.

1488
01:51:08,203 --> 01:51:11,121
I do not share your passion
for self-preservation.

1489
01:51:11,289 --> 01:51:14,875
I love Rome,
and I am not eager to survive it.

1490
01:51:15,043 --> 01:51:16,710
You're not like these other people.

1491
01:51:16,878 --> 01:51:18,587
They think that you're their friend.

1492
01:51:18,755 --> 01:51:20,923
Speak to them, make promises.

1493
01:51:21,091 --> 01:51:24,009
Grain, oil, wine.

1494
01:51:26,930 --> 01:51:29,515
They will take them, Nero,
without your permission.

1495
01:51:29,683 --> 01:51:31,600
Insatiable and thankless mob.

1496
01:51:31,768 --> 01:51:33,435
- What do they want?
- Justice.

1497
01:51:33,603 --> 01:51:37,064
No mob ever wants justice.
They want vengeance.

1498
01:51:40,610 --> 01:51:42,444
A victim.

1499
01:51:56,459 --> 01:51:59,795
Tigellinus, it was you who burnt Rome.

1500
01:51:59,963 --> 01:52:01,630
At your command, Nero.

1501
01:52:01,798 --> 01:52:03,799
Tigellinus, do you love me?

1502
01:52:04,467 --> 01:52:06,635
- You know it, lord.
- Then prove it.

1503
01:52:06,803 --> 01:52:11,473
Go to the mob,
bare your breast to them and your guilt.

1504
01:52:11,808 --> 01:52:13,142
I would do so gladly, Nero...

1505
01:52:13,309 --> 01:52:16,895
...but I am head of the Praetorian Guard
and the Praetorians love me.

1506
01:52:17,063 --> 01:52:19,398
If I die, they may turn against you.

1507
01:52:19,566 --> 01:52:21,775
I cannot subject you to that danger.

1508
01:52:21,943 --> 01:52:24,445
Are you threatening me, Tigellinus?

1509
01:52:24,612 --> 01:52:28,323
Do you hear him threaten me
with the Praetorian Guard?

1510
01:52:30,243 --> 01:52:33,203
You're all willing to desert me. I know it.

1511
01:52:33,997 --> 01:52:35,706
I feel it.

1512
01:52:35,874 --> 01:52:38,167
Nero, my beloved, you were right.

1513
01:52:38,334 --> 01:52:41,420
Give the people what they want.
Give them blood and vengeance.

1514
01:52:41,588 --> 01:52:44,173
Not one victim, but a hundred,
a thousand.

1515
01:52:44,340 --> 01:52:46,133
Victims? What victims?

1516
01:52:46,301 --> 01:52:49,219
A group who worship one
they say is higher than you.

1517
01:52:49,387 --> 01:52:51,764
They are the enemies
of the human race, and of you.

1518
01:52:52,432 --> 01:52:53,682
Who are these people?

1519
01:52:53,850 --> 01:52:56,143
They despise our temples
and our gods...

1520
01:52:56,311 --> 01:52:59,813
...and prophesy that the end of the world
shall be caused by fire.

1521
01:52:59,981 --> 01:53:02,775
Well, then,
make their prophesy come true.

1522
01:53:02,942 --> 01:53:04,318
Let it end for them.

1523
01:53:05,195 --> 01:53:06,195
Who are they?

1524
01:53:06,362 --> 01:53:08,113
They call themselves Christians.

1525
01:53:08,281 --> 01:53:09,823
Christians?

1526
01:53:09,991 --> 01:53:11,492
Yes, I've heard of them.

1527
01:53:11,659 --> 01:53:14,870
The empress speaks rightly, Caesar.
The people hate these Christians.

1528
01:53:15,038 --> 01:53:17,122
They are the enemies of Rome
and of the state.

1529
01:53:17,290 --> 01:53:20,292
The people want vengeance, Nero.
Let them have it.

1530
01:53:20,460 --> 01:53:22,044
The people suspect you.

1531
01:53:22,212 --> 01:53:25,297
Let their suspicion turn
in this more beneficial direction.

1532
01:53:25,465 --> 01:53:27,716
- Surely, my lord--
- They should pay, Caesar.

1533
01:53:27,884 --> 01:53:29,635
They must pay.

1534
01:53:29,803 --> 01:53:31,261
Do you hear?

1535
01:53:31,429 --> 01:53:35,015
The Christians are plotting to destroy me.

1536
01:53:36,518 --> 01:53:40,062
You have often reminded us, Nero,
of the judgment of history.

1537
01:53:40,230 --> 01:53:42,731
What will its verdict be
if you punish the innocent...

1538
01:53:42,899 --> 01:53:44,858
...and betray your own greatness?

1539
01:53:45,026 --> 01:53:47,152
Let future ages,
looking back at this time...

1540
01:53:47,320 --> 01:53:50,072
...regard Nero
with wonder and amazement.

1541
01:53:50,240 --> 01:53:53,492
Let history say:
Nero, the ruler of the world.

1542
01:53:53,660 --> 01:53:58,413
Nero, a god, burned Rome
because he was as powerful as Jupiter.

1543
01:53:59,082 --> 01:54:04,169
He loved poetry so much
that he sacrificed Rome for a song.

1544
01:54:05,004 --> 01:54:08,173
History need not say
that the burning of Rome was good...

1545
01:54:08,341 --> 01:54:10,926
...but it must say
that it was colossal, uncommon.

1546
01:54:11,094 --> 01:54:14,763
I cannot listen to any veiled suggestion
that my emperor is a coward.

1547
01:54:14,931 --> 01:54:16,431
That is amusing.

1548
01:54:16,599 --> 01:54:19,476
You, who were too cowardly
to risk your life for him yourself.

1549
01:54:19,644 --> 01:54:22,729
Petronius is right.
You refused to die for me.

1550
01:54:22,897 --> 01:54:25,440
He wants to preserve your enemies.
I want to kill them.

1551
01:54:25,608 --> 01:54:28,402
- Why do you defend these people?
- I'll tell you why, my lord.

1552
01:54:28,570 --> 01:54:31,822
Because his nephew, Vinicius,
loves a Christian girl, Lygia.

1553
01:54:31,990 --> 01:54:34,533
And it may be Petronius
is himself a Christian.

1554
01:54:36,077 --> 01:54:38,787
Petronius, are you a Christian?

1555
01:54:39,205 --> 01:54:40,956
I am not.

1556
01:54:41,124 --> 01:54:44,960
I have heard that the Christians
teach you to love your neighbor.

1557
01:54:45,461 --> 01:54:48,505
And as I see what men are...

1558
01:54:49,007 --> 01:54:51,550
...I cannot, for the life of me,
love my fellow man.

1559
01:54:51,718 --> 01:54:53,135
Ha!

1560
01:54:53,678 --> 01:54:56,513
He does not love you, gentlemen.

1561
01:54:58,474 --> 01:55:00,684
A tablet, Phaon.

1562
01:55:00,852 --> 01:55:03,437
The people shall have their vengeance.

1563
01:55:04,647 --> 01:55:11,111
I hereby proclaim that the guilt
of the burning of our beloved city...

1564
01:55:11,279 --> 01:55:16,074
...rests with the foul sect
which calls itself Christian.

1565
01:55:17,577 --> 01:55:22,497
They have spread the lie
that it was Nero who burnt Rome.

1566
01:55:24,208 --> 01:55:27,419
I will exterminate these criminals...

1567
01:55:27,587 --> 01:55:32,299
...in a manner
matching the enormity of their crime.

1568
01:55:34,761 --> 01:55:37,804
Their punishment will be a warning.

1569
01:55:40,391 --> 01:55:43,810
A spectacle of terror...

1570
01:55:44,687 --> 01:55:47,439
...to all evil men...

1571
01:55:47,857 --> 01:55:52,361
...everywhere and forever...

1572
01:55:53,237 --> 01:55:58,116
...who would harm you or harm Rome...

1573
01:55:58,576 --> 01:56:04,414
...or harm your emperor...

1574
01:56:07,001 --> 01:56:08,877
...who loves you.

1575
01:56:16,052 --> 01:56:19,221
Pause, Nero, before you sign this decree.

1576
01:56:19,764 --> 01:56:23,266
Rome has given the world
justice and order.

1577
01:56:23,434 --> 01:56:26,353
Sign that,
and Roman justice will receive a blow...

1578
01:56:26,521 --> 01:56:28,522
...from which it may never recover.

1579
01:56:28,690 --> 01:56:31,316
Condemn these Christians
and you make martyrs of them...

1580
01:56:31,484 --> 01:56:33,151
...and insure their immortality.

1581
01:56:33,653 --> 01:56:38,490
Condemn them,
and in the eyes of history...

1582
01:56:38,825 --> 01:56:40,492
...you'll condemn yourself.

1583
01:56:43,246 --> 01:56:47,290
When I have finished
with these Christians, Petronius...

1584
01:56:47,458 --> 01:56:53,922
...history will not be sure
that they ever existed.

1585
01:57:02,390 --> 01:57:04,141
BOY:
When I grow up, I'm gonna be a sailor.

1586
01:57:04,308 --> 01:57:06,476
Nothing burns at sea.
There's too much water.

1587
01:57:06,644 --> 01:57:10,063
Nero can burn the whole ocean.

1588
01:57:12,191 --> 01:57:13,984
Marcus.

1589
01:57:18,281 --> 01:57:20,490
Did you rest well?

1590
01:57:20,658 --> 01:57:23,952
I was impatient to see the sunrise,
and here you are.

1591
01:57:26,247 --> 01:57:27,831
You should have slept longer.

1592
01:57:27,999 --> 01:57:31,877
Your journey from Antium
and last night must have....

1593
01:57:32,045 --> 01:57:35,255
I've been asleep too long
in many ways, Lygia.

1594
01:57:35,423 --> 01:57:38,842
I must return to the city at once,
meet with Nerva and the others.

1595
01:57:40,636 --> 01:57:43,805
Yes, Rome and what it stands for.

1596
01:57:43,973 --> 01:57:45,932
Something must be done
about this maniac.

1597
01:57:46,100 --> 01:57:49,019
There must be an answer to this,
quickly, decisive.

1598
01:57:50,354 --> 01:57:52,230
You do know the answer.

1599
01:57:52,398 --> 01:57:54,858
You do understand.

1600
01:57:56,194 --> 01:57:59,654
There can be no
turning the other cheek now, Lygia.

1601
01:58:00,406 --> 01:58:03,533
If I have not returned by nightfall,
I'll send word.

1602
01:58:11,501 --> 01:58:13,668
Marcus Vinicius?

1603
01:58:14,837 --> 01:58:17,339
We have not met,
but I have heard of you.

1604
01:58:17,507 --> 01:58:20,300
You must realize how grateful we are
for what you have done.

1605
01:58:20,468 --> 01:58:22,677
For your concern for Lygia.

1606
01:58:22,845 --> 01:58:25,514
My only concern is for Lygia.

1607
01:58:31,187 --> 01:58:32,813
Hold yourself straight, youngster.

1608
01:58:33,397 --> 01:58:35,482
A man must be a soldier.

1609
01:58:45,827 --> 01:58:47,327
I don't want to be a soldier.

1610
01:58:48,079 --> 01:58:50,122
Let's talk about our journey.

1611
01:58:50,289 --> 01:58:53,083
We'll be meeting Paul in Greece,
you know.

1612
01:58:53,251 --> 01:58:54,334
That's good.

1613
01:58:54,502 --> 01:58:57,879
You'll like Greece, Nazarius.
You'll help me to fish for men there.

1614
01:58:58,047 --> 01:59:01,800
And I think we'll have time
to fish for fish too.

1615
01:59:01,968 --> 01:59:03,385
Are we leaving soon?

1616
01:59:03,553 --> 01:59:07,180
As soon as we eat.
We shall be starting within the hour.

1617
01:59:08,391 --> 01:59:13,478
I'm glad,
because I don't like it here anymore.

1618
01:59:14,147 --> 01:59:15,856
[SOBBING]

1619
01:59:16,023 --> 01:59:18,316
Yes, indeed.

1620
01:59:18,484 --> 01:59:21,153
We shall be fishermen together.

1621
01:59:51,893 --> 01:59:55,478
Please, my lord,
do not trouble yourself so.

1622
01:59:55,646 --> 01:59:58,607
It is a moment for thought, Eunice.

1623
01:59:58,983 --> 02:00:03,069
Yesterday, I could have gone to the mob
and told them that Nero burned Rome.

1624
02:00:03,237 --> 02:00:05,864
I could've offered them a new emperor
in General Galba...

1625
02:00:06,157 --> 02:00:08,783
...and so set my seal upon the times.

1626
02:00:11,287 --> 02:00:13,205
But I did not.

1627
02:00:14,290 --> 02:00:15,957
Do you know why, Eunice?

1628
02:00:16,292 --> 02:00:18,627
I know nothing of these things, my lord.

1629
02:00:19,086 --> 02:00:21,838
Because I love Nero, perhaps?

1630
02:00:22,298 --> 02:00:25,217
He fills me with loathing.

1631
02:00:25,843 --> 02:00:29,179
No, because out of force of long habit...

1632
02:00:29,347 --> 02:00:32,307
...I've become content
only to be an amused cynic...

1633
02:00:32,475 --> 02:00:37,020
...a selfish onlooker,
leaving others to shape the world.

1634
02:00:40,942 --> 02:00:42,275
Marcus.

1635
02:00:42,443 --> 02:00:44,486
The gods be praised.
I was worried about you.

1636
02:00:44,654 --> 02:00:47,489
You know Nerva, here.
My third in command, Justin Scipio.

1637
02:00:47,657 --> 02:00:50,408
We meet in a ghastly hour, gentlemen.

1638
02:00:50,576 --> 02:00:52,285
We've made our decision.

1639
02:00:52,453 --> 02:00:55,330
The time has come for Galba
to replace Nero.

1640
02:00:55,498 --> 02:00:57,332
Justin is taking this message to him...

1641
02:00:57,500 --> 02:01:00,168
...asking him to come with his legions
in all haste.

1642
02:01:00,336 --> 02:01:04,923
Your signature added to these
will make Galba confident of his reception.

1643
02:01:05,091 --> 02:01:07,217
I know you will give it.

1644
02:01:13,557 --> 02:01:16,351
I sign it with humility.

1645
02:01:21,816 --> 02:01:23,483
On your way.

1646
02:01:25,569 --> 02:01:27,195
You took a risk in coming here.

1647
02:01:27,363 --> 02:01:29,739
You're a marked man.
You scorned Poppaea.

1648
02:01:29,907 --> 02:01:32,117
She has death in her eye for you
and your Lygia.

1649
02:01:32,285 --> 02:01:33,576
I'll chance that.

1650
02:01:33,744 --> 02:01:36,454
Take Lygia
and leave Rome as quickly as possible.

1651
02:01:36,622 --> 02:01:39,708
At least you'll be spared
Nero's final horror.

1652
02:01:39,875 --> 02:01:43,211
He is about to extinguish his conflagration
in a sea of blood.

1653
02:01:44,005 --> 02:01:45,213
Whose blood?

1654
02:01:45,381 --> 02:01:47,799
Did you not hear his orators
at the street corners?

1655
02:01:47,967 --> 02:01:51,594
Already the people are being given
the story, along with grain and wine...

1656
02:01:51,762 --> 02:01:55,724
...that it was the Christians and not Nero
who set fire to Rome.

1657
02:01:55,891 --> 02:01:58,601
- They won't believe such a lie.
- But they are believing it.

1658
02:01:58,769 --> 02:02:02,397
The people will believe any lie
if it is fantastic enough.

1659
02:02:03,858 --> 02:02:05,984
I'll meet you at your house by midday.

1660
02:02:06,152 --> 02:02:08,236
We will keep you informed.

1661
02:02:15,494 --> 02:02:17,829
Farewell, Marcus.

1662
02:02:18,539 --> 02:02:20,040
Farewell.

1663
02:02:20,708 --> 02:02:22,459
Farewell?

1664
02:02:22,626 --> 02:02:24,252
What do you mean, my lord?

1665
02:02:24,420 --> 02:02:29,007
My dear, this morning
Nero sent to inquire after my health.

1666
02:02:29,175 --> 02:02:32,302
A Praetorian officer
brought his solicitude.

1667
02:02:32,470 --> 02:02:34,804
It is easy to see
that he means to amuse himself...

1668
02:02:34,972 --> 02:02:37,098
...by making a sport of my extermination.

1669
02:02:37,266 --> 02:02:39,976
- But then you must--
- No, no, my dear.

1670
02:02:40,144 --> 02:02:42,812
I have the means to disappoint him.

1671
02:02:43,272 --> 02:02:45,648
Send Anaxander to me.

1672
02:02:47,443 --> 02:02:51,112
I will give him the names
of those few I love.

1673
02:02:52,323 --> 02:02:55,533
He will go and ask them
to dine with us tonight.

1674
02:02:59,413 --> 02:03:03,958
- Gen. Plautius, his family, where are they?
- You're late, they're already imprisoned.

1675
02:03:04,126 --> 02:03:06,669
The Praetorians came
and collected the whole scurvy lot.

1676
02:03:06,837 --> 02:03:10,507
WOMAN: Me, raising my children
right by the house of dirty Christians.

1677
02:03:10,674 --> 02:03:13,676
Burn the city, will they?

1678
02:03:16,305 --> 02:03:18,306
Put them in Number 4.

1679
02:03:18,474 --> 02:03:20,475
[WOMEN SOBBING]

1680
02:03:22,812 --> 02:03:25,480
Have you the family
of General Plautius here?

1681
02:03:26,524 --> 02:03:29,526
I do not know, commander.
See if we have them.

1682
02:03:29,693 --> 02:03:31,694
I have an order
for their immediate release.

1683
02:03:31,862 --> 02:03:33,530
A signed order? By whom?

1684
02:03:33,697 --> 02:03:37,659
I do not accept questions, Praetorian.
I transmit orders.

1685
02:03:42,081 --> 02:03:44,833
TIGELLINUS:
A seasoned campaigner trapped by love.

1686
02:03:45,000 --> 02:03:47,168
We've been expecting you.

1687
02:03:47,336 --> 02:03:50,338
As soldiers, we've always hoped to die
a quick and noble death...

1688
02:03:50,506 --> 02:03:51,589
...haven't we, Vinicius?

1689
02:03:51,924 --> 02:03:54,843
But Nero has in mind for you
something more leisurely...

1690
02:03:55,010 --> 02:03:57,262
...and certainly ignoble.

1691
02:03:57,847 --> 02:03:59,764
Put him with his Christian friends.

1692
02:04:13,070 --> 02:04:14,904
Marcus?

1693
02:04:18,409 --> 02:04:21,369
Oh, why did they take you?
This is none of your doing.

1694
02:04:21,537 --> 02:04:24,038
I carry my share of the blame.

1695
02:04:26,041 --> 02:04:29,335
We knew they were looking for you,
but we had no way to send warning.

1696
02:04:29,503 --> 02:04:31,629
This is a sad reward for your friendship.

1697
02:04:31,797 --> 02:04:34,048
Marcus, I once accused you bitterly.

1698
02:04:34,216 --> 02:04:35,884
I'm proved wrong.

1699
02:04:36,051 --> 02:04:38,636
It's no triumph for me to find you here.

1700
02:04:38,804 --> 02:04:40,054
General Plautius, l--

1701
02:04:40,222 --> 02:04:42,223
[LIONS ROARING]

1702
02:04:49,940 --> 02:04:51,357
The lions!

1703
02:04:51,525 --> 02:04:53,401
It is the lions.

1704
02:04:53,569 --> 02:04:55,695
No, no, please, God!

1705
02:04:55,863 --> 02:04:57,530
No, I can't stand--

1706
02:04:57,698 --> 02:04:59,824
No, dear, no.

1707
02:04:59,992 --> 02:05:03,453
We must be strong in him, in each other.

1708
02:05:03,621 --> 02:05:04,662
Where is he, then?

1709
02:05:04,830 --> 02:05:08,041
If he is so all-powerful as you say,
why do we find ourselves here?

1710
02:05:08,209 --> 02:05:09,918
My friend, stand firm.

1711
02:05:10,085 --> 02:05:13,671
My two babies and all of our children
to be sold into slavery.

1712
02:05:13,839 --> 02:05:16,257
Is that what the redeemer promised us?

1713
02:05:16,425 --> 02:05:21,596
Only by strength in faith
will we be able to endure the ordeal.

1714
02:05:22,056 --> 02:05:25,808
I thank God Peter and Paul were spared.

1715
02:05:25,976 --> 02:05:30,688
But I miss their spirit and their courage.

1716
02:05:33,359 --> 02:05:35,360
[SOBBING]

1717
02:05:57,466 --> 02:05:59,008
I think it's going to rain.

1718
02:05:59,176 --> 02:06:01,970
We'd better look for a place
to take shelter.

1719
02:06:02,346 --> 02:06:04,764
Peter, don't you think so?

1720
02:06:05,432 --> 02:06:08,309
What troubles you?
You've hardly said anything all morning.

1721
02:06:08,477 --> 02:06:10,645
Oh, I'm sorry, Nazarius.

1722
02:06:10,813 --> 02:06:11,854
Are you very tired?

1723
02:06:12,022 --> 02:06:14,023
Oh, my mind is as heavy as my body.

1724
02:06:14,191 --> 02:06:17,277
There is something wrong,
with our people, perhaps.

1725
02:06:17,444 --> 02:06:18,486
I do not know.

1726
02:06:18,654 --> 02:06:21,823
It is at such times
I need our Lord's counsel.

1727
02:06:21,991 --> 02:06:24,284
There is within me a decision
that I cannot find.

1728
02:06:24,451 --> 02:06:27,370
If only he would speak to me, l--

1729
02:06:28,998 --> 02:06:33,418
Look, those treetops there,
they do not bend with the wind.

1730
02:06:33,586 --> 02:06:35,795
Yes, that is so.

1731
02:06:37,339 --> 02:06:41,467
And that sudden brightness coming,
do you see it, Nazarius?

1732
02:06:43,804 --> 02:06:46,264
It is the light of the Lord.

1733
02:06:46,432 --> 02:06:48,516
I have seen it.

1734
02:06:50,853 --> 02:06:53,521
Christ Jesus, you are here.

1735
02:06:53,939 --> 02:06:56,524
What is wrong, O Lord?

1736
02:06:56,942 --> 02:06:58,860
What should I do?

1737
02:06:59,028 --> 02:07:01,279
I am weary.

1738
02:07:01,447 --> 02:07:04,032
How should I follow thee now?

1739
02:07:05,701 --> 02:07:07,702
[SPEAKS IN LATIN]

1740
02:07:08,704 --> 02:07:10,955
Whither goest thou, Lord?

1741
02:07:14,710 --> 02:07:20,298
My people in Rome have need of thee.

1742
02:07:23,927 --> 02:07:25,386
What did you say, Nazarius?

1743
02:07:28,015 --> 02:07:32,143
My people in Rome have need of thee.

1744
02:07:32,311 --> 02:07:34,687
If thou desert my people...

1745
02:07:34,855 --> 02:07:39,359
...I shall go to Rome
to be crucified a second time.

1746
02:07:41,737 --> 02:07:44,155
Nazarius, blessed child, speak on.

1747
02:07:44,323 --> 02:07:45,657
Speak.

1748
02:07:45,824 --> 02:07:47,950
Oh, Peter, you've stumbled. Here.

1749
02:07:48,118 --> 02:07:50,787
The words you said, say them again.

1750
02:07:50,954 --> 02:07:52,455
I didn't say anything.

1751
02:07:52,623 --> 02:07:55,500
You said, "If thou desert my people...

1752
02:07:55,668 --> 02:07:58,670
...I shall go to Rome
to be crucified a second time."

1753
02:07:59,380 --> 02:08:01,089
But I said nothing.

1754
02:08:04,593 --> 02:08:06,094
Yes.

1755
02:08:07,596 --> 02:08:10,598
He has again spoken to me.

1756
02:08:11,809 --> 02:08:13,226
Come, Nazarius.

1757
02:08:13,394 --> 02:08:14,435
Where are you going?

1758
02:08:14,603 --> 02:08:16,270
To Rome.

1759
02:08:16,438 --> 02:08:18,439
[MUSlC PLAYING]

1760
02:08:33,997 --> 02:08:37,583
I have invited you here tonight,
my friends...

1761
02:08:37,751 --> 02:08:40,962
...you who have been steadfast
through the years.

1762
02:08:41,296 --> 02:08:45,299
That you have come
proves not only your recklessness...

1763
02:08:45,467 --> 02:08:46,467
...but your devotion.

1764
02:08:46,635 --> 02:08:48,553
You pay us too much respect.

1765
02:08:48,721 --> 02:08:52,098
We know you have the wit
to bring yourself into his favor again.

1766
02:08:53,183 --> 02:08:54,517
No.

1767
02:08:54,685 --> 02:08:56,936
Tigellinus has won.

1768
02:08:57,104 --> 02:08:59,105
Nero, our master...

1769
02:08:59,273 --> 02:09:02,108
...is at the moment
anticipating how he will make me suffer.

1770
02:09:02,276 --> 02:09:05,236
But I shall deprive him of that pleasure.

1771
02:09:05,946 --> 02:09:09,115
This is an evening of farewells.

1772
02:09:10,033 --> 02:09:11,659
Where will you go, my lord?

1773
02:09:11,827 --> 02:09:12,869
Your lord?

1774
02:09:13,036 --> 02:09:16,414
You've called me that for long enough.
My name is Gaius.

1775
02:09:17,249 --> 02:09:20,835
And you've worn this emblem of slavery
for far too long.

1776
02:09:22,713 --> 02:09:24,630
Henceforth, you are legally free.

1777
02:09:26,717 --> 02:09:31,345
And this villa, with its treasures,
its slaves, its gardens, will be yours.

1778
02:09:31,972 --> 02:09:33,514
Why do you say this?

1779
02:09:33,682 --> 02:09:38,853
Because this evening,
with its warmth and feeling...

1780
02:09:39,271 --> 02:09:42,356
...this evening is my signature.

1781
02:09:42,524 --> 02:09:44,859
The last flourish.

1782
02:09:47,029 --> 02:09:49,530
Tell the physician to come in.

1783
02:09:52,701 --> 02:09:55,203
It is not enough to live well.

1784
02:09:55,370 --> 02:09:56,704
One must die well.

1785
02:10:04,338 --> 02:10:06,047
No, my lord.

1786
02:10:06,215 --> 02:10:08,382
No. Please don't let him.

1787
02:10:13,222 --> 02:10:19,393
I understand the Christians say
that death is but a transition to a better life.

1788
02:10:20,062 --> 02:10:21,896
It will be interesting to discover.

1789
02:10:22,064 --> 02:10:23,856
Oh, my lord.

1790
02:10:24,024 --> 02:10:26,734
My dear, no tears before our guests.

1791
02:10:27,069 --> 02:10:28,402
Petronius....

1792
02:10:29,112 --> 02:10:34,242
If the Christians are right,
this will be but a brief parting.

1793
02:10:34,409 --> 02:10:37,829
We can't.... We can't part.

1794
02:10:37,996 --> 02:10:39,622
Eunice.

1795
02:10:40,582 --> 02:10:42,416
Did you think I could live without you?

1796
02:10:42,584 --> 02:10:44,627
No, no. Bind her wrist.

1797
02:10:45,087 --> 02:10:50,049
For the first time, Gaius, I disobey you.

1798
02:10:51,552 --> 02:10:57,598
What have I done that forever I should hear
the sweet thunder of your heart?

1799
02:10:58,809 --> 02:11:00,726
You have given me your love.

1800
02:11:17,244 --> 02:11:21,831
And now, my friends,
I wish to write a letter to our emperor.

1801
02:11:22,124 --> 02:11:23,749
Scribe?

1802
02:11:24,459 --> 02:11:26,586
Will you permit me?

1803
02:11:26,753 --> 02:11:29,463
SENECA:
Let us hear it, Petronius.

1804
02:11:31,008 --> 02:11:34,176
To Nero, emperor of Rome...

1805
02:11:34,344 --> 02:11:39,056
...master of the world, divine pontiff.

1806
02:11:40,434 --> 02:11:43,936
I know that my death
will be a disappointment to you...

1807
02:11:44,104 --> 02:11:49,191
...since you wished to render me
this service yourself.

1808
02:11:50,819 --> 02:11:56,157
To be born in your reign
is a miscalculation...

1809
02:11:56,325 --> 02:12:00,161
...but to die in it is a joy.

1810
02:12:00,329 --> 02:12:04,832
I can forgive you for murdering your wife
and your mother...

1811
02:12:05,000 --> 02:12:09,837
...for burning our beloved Rome,
for befouling our fair country...

1812
02:12:10,005 --> 02:12:15,134
...with the stench of your crimes.

1813
02:12:16,011 --> 02:12:18,846
But one thing I cannot forgive...

1814
02:12:19,514 --> 02:12:23,351
...the boredom
of having to listen to your verses...

1815
02:12:23,852 --> 02:12:29,857
...your second-rate songs,
your mediocre performances.

1816
02:12:30,484 --> 02:12:34,028
Adhere to your special gifts, Nero.

1817
02:12:34,196 --> 02:12:38,574
Murder and arson, betrayal and terror.

1818
02:12:38,867 --> 02:12:41,827
Mutilate your subjects, if you must.

1819
02:12:41,995 --> 02:12:48,501
But with my last breath, I beg you,
do not mutilate the arts.

1820
02:12:49,378 --> 02:12:54,131
Farewell, but compose no more music.

1821
02:12:55,217 --> 02:12:57,843
Brutalize the people...

1822
02:12:58,553 --> 02:13:02,223
...but do not bore them...

1823
02:13:02,724 --> 02:13:08,479
...as you have bored to death
your friend...

1824
02:13:09,898 --> 02:13:12,483
...the late Gaius Petronius.

1825
02:13:20,242 --> 02:13:25,413
Seneca, I entrust to you
the delivery of this letter.

1826
02:13:25,580 --> 02:13:27,206
I will deliver it.

1827
02:13:49,938 --> 02:13:52,648
Farewell, Petronius.

1828
02:13:52,816 --> 02:13:57,319
With you perishes the best
of our Roman world.

1829
02:14:00,073 --> 02:14:01,699
Petronius?

1830
02:14:01,867 --> 02:14:03,576
Dead?

1831
02:14:05,579 --> 02:14:07,747
By his own hand?

1832
02:14:09,041 --> 02:14:12,752
- I don't believe it.
- I witnessed it, Divinity.

1833
02:14:15,130 --> 02:14:18,591
I shall never forgive him for this.
Never!

1834
02:14:18,759 --> 02:14:21,385
Without my permission?

1835
02:14:21,553 --> 02:14:23,554
It's rebellion.

1836
02:14:24,139 --> 02:14:26,307
It's blasphemy.

1837
02:14:26,475 --> 02:14:28,768
He left you a message of farewell.

1838
02:14:31,313 --> 02:14:33,564
Then he did think of me.

1839
02:14:34,399 --> 02:14:37,318
His last thoughts were of me.

1840
02:14:38,945 --> 02:14:41,781
How I loved you, Petronius.

1841
02:14:42,115 --> 02:14:44,700
You were my one friend.

1842
02:14:44,868 --> 02:14:47,495
You alone understood my soul.

1843
02:14:48,705 --> 02:14:51,665
Tigellinus, the weeping vase.

1844
02:14:53,376 --> 02:14:56,796
Who will listen to my songs now?

1845
02:14:57,798 --> 02:15:03,594
Who will appreciate
the true value of my verses?

1846
02:15:05,430 --> 02:15:08,349
I weep for you, Petronius.

1847
02:15:10,977 --> 02:15:13,312
One tear for you.

1848
02:15:16,191 --> 02:15:17,650
One for me.

1849
02:15:20,862 --> 02:15:23,781
Seal up these fruits of my sorrow...

1850
02:15:23,949 --> 02:15:30,162
...so that posterity may know
how Nero grieved for his dearest friend...

1851
02:15:30,330 --> 02:15:33,582
...and truest critic.

1852
02:15:37,629 --> 02:15:41,090
And now for his tender words.

1853
02:16:03,697 --> 02:16:05,865
Destroy!

1854
02:16:06,032 --> 02:16:09,243
Destroy his house, every stone to dust.

1855
02:16:09,411 --> 02:16:10,911
Burn his books.

1856
02:16:11,079 --> 02:16:12,955
Slaughter his animals.

1857
02:16:13,123 --> 02:16:16,542
Kill his servants.
Male, female, eunuch, every one of them.

1858
02:16:16,710 --> 02:16:18,878
Beat his memory into the ground!

1859
02:16:21,173 --> 02:16:22,673
[MUSlC PLAYING]

1860
02:16:48,533 --> 02:16:49,658
Where is the emperor?

1861
02:16:49,826 --> 02:16:51,785
Let Nero start the game.

1862
02:16:51,953 --> 02:16:53,704
The lions are getting hungry.

1863
02:16:53,872 --> 02:16:54,914
[LAUGHING]

1864
02:16:55,081 --> 02:16:57,291
WOMAN:
Bring on those house burners.

1865
02:16:57,459 --> 02:16:59,126
They're crying for blood.

1866
02:16:59,294 --> 02:17:01,337
I doubt if we can chance anything today.

1867
02:17:01,504 --> 02:17:03,631
Nothing will change
the temper of this mob.

1868
02:17:03,798 --> 02:17:05,674
Have you heard any news
of the commander?

1869
02:17:05,842 --> 02:17:07,635
Only that he's been taken, that's all.

1870
02:17:08,970 --> 02:17:10,971
[PLAYING FLOURISH]

1871
02:17:11,139 --> 02:17:12,473
[CROWD CHEERING]

1872
02:17:42,379 --> 02:17:45,798
O holy gods of Rome...

1873
02:17:45,966 --> 02:17:52,263
...in the name of Nero,
emperor and supreme pontiff...

1874
02:17:52,430 --> 02:17:55,724
...we beseech you
to receive in sacrifice...

1875
02:17:55,892 --> 02:17:59,353
...the lives
of those who sought to destroy...

1876
02:17:59,521 --> 02:18:03,524
...this sacred and eternal city.

1877
02:18:03,692 --> 02:18:05,693
[TRUMPETS PLAYING]

1878
02:18:07,779 --> 02:18:09,780
[CROWD CHEERING]

1879
02:19:00,415 --> 02:19:02,416
[GROWLING]

1880
02:19:42,874 --> 02:19:44,541
Have strength as he did.

1881
02:19:44,709 --> 02:19:46,377
It will not be long.

1882
02:19:46,544 --> 02:19:49,963
Oh, dear Lord Jesus, help them.

1883
02:19:50,131 --> 02:19:51,298
Help them.

1884
02:19:59,974 --> 02:20:00,974
Don't.

1885
02:20:01,142 --> 02:20:03,394
Don't torture yourself.

1886
02:20:04,646 --> 02:20:07,689
I'll be as close to her as I can.

1887
02:20:19,244 --> 02:20:21,870
You may give the signal, Divinity.

1888
02:20:24,207 --> 02:20:27,000
Peace to the martyrs!

1889
02:20:27,419 --> 02:20:28,460
Peter.

1890
02:20:28,670 --> 02:20:31,463
Peace, peace to them.

1891
02:20:31,631 --> 02:20:33,632
Take thy children, Lord.

1892
02:20:34,008 --> 02:20:36,885
Numb their wounds, soften their pains.

1893
02:20:37,053 --> 02:20:39,263
Give them strength, O savior.

1894
02:20:39,431 --> 02:20:40,681
Seize that man.

1895
02:20:40,849 --> 02:20:46,019
Blessed are you, my children,
who die in the name of Jesus.

1896
02:20:46,187 --> 02:20:48,522
I say to you that this day...

1897
02:20:48,690 --> 02:20:51,567
...you shall be with him in paradise.

1898
02:20:51,734 --> 02:20:57,448
Here, where Nero rules today,
Christ shall rule forever.

1899
02:20:57,615 --> 02:20:59,491
[LAUGHING]

1900
02:21:00,201 --> 02:21:01,535
Who is that man?

1901
02:21:01,703 --> 02:21:04,413
I think he is their leader,
a man called Peter.

1902
02:21:04,581 --> 02:21:06,957
He escaped us before.

1903
02:21:07,125 --> 02:21:10,669
But he said Christ would replace me.
What sort of--?

1904
02:21:10,837 --> 02:21:12,337
[SINGING]

1905
02:21:15,216 --> 02:21:16,341
They're singing.

1906
02:21:50,585 --> 02:21:52,920
These dogs have effrontery even in death.

1907
02:21:53,087 --> 02:21:55,047
The lions will sing louder, I think.

1908
02:21:58,426 --> 02:22:00,093
[ROARING]

1909
02:22:08,937 --> 02:22:10,938
[PLAYING]

1910
02:22:43,888 --> 02:22:45,556
[SCREAMING]

1911
02:23:06,494 --> 02:23:07,578
[MAN SCREAMS]

1912
02:23:22,343 --> 02:23:23,802
[DOOR OPENS]

1913
02:23:26,723 --> 02:23:29,933
WOMAN: Oh, Peter, could our Lord
at least not have saved you?

1914
02:23:30,101 --> 02:23:34,187
Oh, Peter, why did you come back?

1915
02:23:35,023 --> 02:23:37,524
It was the Lord's will.

1916
02:23:37,984 --> 02:23:39,192
Nazarius is safe.

1917
02:23:39,360 --> 02:23:41,820
Some good people sheltered him
outside the city.

1918
02:23:43,698 --> 02:23:45,365
[WOMAN SINGING]

1919
02:23:47,285 --> 02:23:49,286
[SINGING]

1920
02:24:00,298 --> 02:24:05,385
Yes, sing to him
as he now opens his arms to you.

1921
02:24:05,553 --> 02:24:09,890
Sing to the welcome of Christ, our Lord.

1922
02:24:15,688 --> 02:24:18,732
More singing. Why aren't they afraid?

1923
02:24:18,900 --> 02:24:20,400
They irritate me.

1924
02:24:20,568 --> 02:24:24,279
They should have been tortured first,
their insolence destroyed.

1925
02:24:24,656 --> 02:24:27,032
What of Marcus Vinicius
and the girl Lygia?

1926
02:24:27,200 --> 02:24:29,993
- Shall we bring them after these?
- Yes.

1927
02:24:30,161 --> 02:24:32,245
Alone, with one lion.

1928
02:24:32,413 --> 02:24:34,581
- The hungriest.
- Not yet, my lord.

1929
02:24:34,749 --> 02:24:38,752
I should like Vinicius and his little flower
held in reserve.

1930
02:24:38,920 --> 02:24:41,296
I am planning something most unusual.

1931
02:24:41,464 --> 02:24:42,839
A surprise for you.

1932
02:24:43,007 --> 02:24:45,175
What is it, Poppaea? Tell me.

1933
02:24:45,343 --> 02:24:47,636
It will not be a surprise, then.

1934
02:24:47,804 --> 02:24:49,596
Please, Poppaea.

1935
02:24:49,764 --> 02:24:54,267
My lord, have I ever disappointed you
in conceiving new delights?

1936
02:24:54,977 --> 02:24:57,145
New thrills?

1937
02:24:58,481 --> 02:25:00,065
True.

1938
02:25:00,316 --> 02:25:01,900
You haven't.

1939
02:25:06,322 --> 02:25:08,323
[TRUMPETS PLAYING]

1940
02:25:16,958 --> 02:25:18,375
Singing.

1941
02:25:18,543 --> 02:25:20,460
How can they?

1942
02:25:20,837 --> 02:25:23,088
It's beyond understanding.

1943
02:25:23,965 --> 02:25:27,175
Don't have the arena cleared
at the end of the day.

1944
02:25:27,343 --> 02:25:29,803
I'm most curious.

1945
02:25:44,318 --> 02:25:46,820
No face on this one at all.

1946
02:25:48,281 --> 02:25:51,450
Oh, look, there's another one smiling.

1947
02:25:52,201 --> 02:25:53,994
It's monstrous of them to die smiling.

1948
02:25:54,162 --> 02:25:55,829
It's inhuman.

1949
02:25:56,330 --> 02:25:58,415
Yet they look no different
from other people.

1950
02:25:58,583 --> 02:26:01,168
The man, Peter,
he put an evil spell on them.

1951
02:26:01,335 --> 02:26:02,794
Yes.

1952
02:26:02,962 --> 02:26:04,504
The man, Peter.

1953
02:26:04,672 --> 02:26:07,674
Something singular
must be done with him.

1954
02:26:25,193 --> 02:26:26,777
Marcus.

1955
02:26:27,862 --> 02:26:29,488
Yes?

1956
02:26:30,364 --> 02:26:34,284
Nothing do I see that is not perfection.

1957
02:26:36,704 --> 02:26:42,459
That night you said it, even though
you were most predatory about it...

1958
02:26:43,044 --> 02:26:46,546
...even then,
my heart must have told me:

1959
02:26:47,256 --> 02:26:50,425
"That is the man you will love."

1960
02:26:51,719 --> 02:26:56,223
Only, then, you wouldn't let me hear
my heart talking, Marcus.

1961
02:26:57,475 --> 02:27:00,268
I said a great deal, I remember.

1962
02:27:01,354 --> 02:27:04,231
All of it loud and empty.

1963
02:27:07,109 --> 02:27:10,821
I would so love to have given you a son.

1964
02:27:12,990 --> 02:27:14,407
Lygia.

1965
02:27:15,326 --> 02:27:17,244
Oh, Marcus.

1966
02:27:17,662 --> 02:27:21,790
No matter what,
I want to be your wife now.

1967
02:27:21,958 --> 02:27:25,126
- Peter will say the words over us.
- Lygia, you know l--

1968
02:27:25,294 --> 02:27:28,755
I want it to be that way
before they take us...

1969
02:27:28,923 --> 02:27:33,760
...so that it will be that way
when we are together again.

1970
02:27:38,015 --> 02:27:41,810
You would never wish me to pretend,
would you?

1971
02:27:41,978 --> 02:27:43,812
Pretend?

1972
02:27:43,980 --> 02:27:46,898
That I feel myself Christian.

1973
02:27:47,775 --> 02:27:51,236
It's still strange, new.

1974
02:27:51,404 --> 02:27:53,530
There's something I can't quite....

1975
02:27:54,073 --> 02:27:55,699
I mean....

1976
02:27:59,161 --> 02:28:02,372
Yes, it's proven good...

1977
02:28:02,540 --> 02:28:05,000
...full of courage, right here.

1978
02:28:05,960 --> 02:28:10,755
But there are many things
I cannot believe, understand.

1979
02:28:11,340 --> 02:28:14,259
Christ is within you, Marcus.

1980
02:28:14,760 --> 02:28:18,430
You feel him more strongly
than you know.

1981
02:28:20,850 --> 02:28:22,392
Come.

1982
02:28:30,985 --> 02:28:32,652
Peter.

1983
02:28:37,158 --> 02:28:41,828
Before I die, I want to marry Marcus.

1984
02:28:44,874 --> 02:28:47,542
This is a holy thing, my son.

1985
02:28:49,503 --> 02:28:51,671
It concerns Lygia.

1986
02:28:52,006 --> 02:28:54,132
I look upon it as holy.

1987
02:28:57,803 --> 02:28:59,471
Marcus.

1988
02:29:00,431 --> 02:29:02,015
Lygia.

1989
02:29:02,892 --> 02:29:07,979
May he who blessed
the marriage at Cana bless you also.

1990
02:29:08,356 --> 02:29:11,358
Love one another
from this moment forward...

1991
02:29:11,525 --> 02:29:15,236
...as man and wife in his holy name.

1992
02:29:15,738 --> 02:29:20,951
In the name of the Father and of the Son
and of the Holy Ghost.

1993
02:29:21,285 --> 02:29:23,703
In this life and the next...

1994
02:29:23,871 --> 02:29:26,414
...now and forevermore.

1995
02:29:32,254 --> 02:29:33,964
Marcus.

1996
02:29:34,757 --> 02:29:36,675
My husband.

1997
02:29:54,068 --> 02:29:55,610
Here he is, Your Majesty.

1998
02:29:55,778 --> 02:29:57,112
He meets with your approval?

1999
02:29:57,279 --> 02:29:58,321
Very much so.

2000
02:29:59,907 --> 02:30:01,783
It will be like a fresco from Crete.

2001
02:30:01,951 --> 02:30:04,661
The maiden sacrificed to the Minotaur.

2002
02:30:04,829 --> 02:30:07,497
It will be a spectacle
worthy of the eyes of the emperor.

2003
02:30:07,665 --> 02:30:09,207
Superb conception.

2004
02:30:12,169 --> 02:30:15,130
You seem sad and restless,
my little black friend.

2005
02:30:15,297 --> 02:30:16,631
But do not grieve.

2006
02:30:16,799 --> 02:30:19,926
I promise you a rare playmate
for your lonely horns...

2007
02:30:20,094 --> 02:30:22,137
...to fondle and caress.

2008
02:30:26,767 --> 02:30:28,727
You are the man Peter?

2009
02:30:28,894 --> 02:30:31,688
I am Simon, called Peter.

2010
02:30:33,733 --> 02:30:37,110
"The man called Peter has been heard
to preach rebellion and blasphemy...

2011
02:30:37,278 --> 02:30:39,779
...against the rule
and the divinity of the emperor.

2012
02:30:39,947 --> 02:30:43,116
It is accordingly decreed
that he be taken to Vatican Hill...

2013
02:30:43,284 --> 02:30:46,161
...where it has been confessed
he made his first preachment...

2014
02:30:46,328 --> 02:30:49,581
...to be crucified and left there
as a warning to all and any...

2015
02:30:49,749 --> 02:30:53,334
...who henceforth
wish to call themselves Christians."

2016
02:30:55,838 --> 02:31:02,135
To die as our Lord died
is more than I deserve.

2017
02:31:03,429 --> 02:31:04,971
We can change that.

2018
02:31:25,743 --> 02:31:27,744
[CROWD SHOUTING lNDISTINCTLY]

2019
02:31:33,667 --> 02:31:37,462
You'll notice, Divinity,
they've stopped singing.

2020
02:31:38,839 --> 02:31:40,298
They have, haven't they?

2021
02:31:52,353 --> 02:31:53,812
I seem to know that man.

2022
02:31:53,979 --> 02:31:55,021
General Plautius.

2023
02:31:55,189 --> 02:31:57,357
He conquered Parthia
and the north countries...

2024
02:31:57,525 --> 02:31:58,566
...when you were a boy.

2025
02:31:58,734 --> 02:32:02,278
Rome made him famous,
and he repaid her with treason.

2026
02:32:02,446 --> 02:32:03,822
What a dramatic reversal.

2027
02:32:03,989 --> 02:32:06,366
Now he faces his first defeat.

2028
02:32:06,534 --> 02:32:08,451
I shall write a poem.

2029
02:32:11,413 --> 02:32:12,872
People of Rome.

2030
02:32:13,833 --> 02:32:16,960
I am Aulus Plautius...

2031
02:32:17,378 --> 02:32:19,963
...once general of your armies.

2032
02:32:20,673 --> 02:32:23,299
Rome is ruled by a monster...

2033
02:32:23,467 --> 02:32:27,804
...who tells you
the Christians burned Rome.

2034
02:32:27,972 --> 02:32:30,306
But he lies.

2035
02:32:30,975 --> 02:32:33,977
You lie, Nero.
You are the incendiary.

2036
02:32:35,146 --> 02:32:38,439
Nero kills Christians to deceive you.

2037
02:32:38,607 --> 02:32:40,692
He alone is guilty.

2038
02:32:40,860 --> 02:32:44,946
I swear it by my death and by my--

2039
02:32:46,157 --> 02:32:48,158
[CROWD MURMURING]

2040
02:32:51,412 --> 02:32:53,538
I begin to envy Petronius.

2041
02:32:53,706 --> 02:32:56,416
I have envied him long since.

2042
02:32:56,584 --> 02:32:59,586
I tell you,
this is a horrible blot on Roman justice.

2043
02:33:00,212 --> 02:33:02,589
The mob isn't as happy as it was.

2044
02:33:02,756 --> 02:33:04,424
Have you noticed?

2045
02:33:06,093 --> 02:33:08,094
[TRUMPETS PLAYING]

2046
02:33:29,658 --> 02:33:31,242
[SCREAMING]

2047
02:33:33,204 --> 02:33:35,205
[CHRISTIANS SINGING]

2048
02:33:38,292 --> 02:33:39,918
[MOUTHS]
Save me.

2049
02:33:45,382 --> 02:33:47,383
[MAN SCREAMING]

2050
02:33:54,808 --> 02:33:57,101
They are singing.

2051
02:34:22,920 --> 02:34:25,129
He said something to Nero.

2052
02:34:25,297 --> 02:34:27,674
I could not hear the words.

2053
02:34:29,969 --> 02:34:33,179
Nero's looking at a man
that knows how to die.

2054
02:34:34,348 --> 02:34:35,848
[SOBS]

2055
02:34:45,859 --> 02:34:47,860
[TRUMPETS PLAYING FLOURISH]

2056
02:34:48,779 --> 02:34:50,780
[CROWD CHEERING]

2057
02:35:05,254 --> 02:35:06,838
Take him.

2058
02:35:14,555 --> 02:35:16,306
Commander?

2059
02:35:18,058 --> 02:35:20,143
They're not parting us.

2060
02:35:25,357 --> 02:35:27,191
Prepare her.

2061
02:35:33,907 --> 02:35:35,908
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

2062
02:35:40,664 --> 02:35:43,416
Here, my lord, is our honored guest.

2063
02:35:43,584 --> 02:35:44,667
Vinicius?

2064
02:35:44,835 --> 02:35:48,254
- Why is he not in the arena?
- He will be, very much so.

2065
02:35:48,422 --> 02:35:49,756
In spirit.

2066
02:35:49,923 --> 02:35:52,258
[TRUMPETS PLAYING]

2067
02:35:52,426 --> 02:35:54,427
[CROWD CHEERING]

2068
02:35:56,555 --> 02:35:58,431
NERO:
It's a giant.

2069
02:36:01,101 --> 02:36:02,560
It's Hercules himself.

2070
02:36:02,728 --> 02:36:05,730
He has guarded the Lygian girl
from birth.

2071
02:36:05,898 --> 02:36:07,982
Now let us see him
guard her from death.

2072
02:36:08,150 --> 02:36:09,609
But what is the contest?

2073
02:36:12,613 --> 02:36:14,405
[TRUMPETS PLAYING]

2074
02:36:31,298 --> 02:36:32,340
Look.

2075
02:36:32,508 --> 02:36:34,634
They've brought Marcus here
to face this.

2076
02:36:34,802 --> 02:36:36,344
By the....

2077
02:36:56,323 --> 02:36:58,741
Do not fret, Vinicius.

2078
02:36:58,909 --> 02:37:00,952
Remember, I said I did not hate her.

2079
02:37:01,453 --> 02:37:03,162
I wish her no pain.

2080
02:37:03,330 --> 02:37:05,706
Lasting pain, that is.

2081
02:37:06,250 --> 02:37:08,501
I am devastated dear Petronius
is not here...

2082
02:37:08,669 --> 02:37:11,879
...to witness our pleasure, Vinicius.

2083
02:37:12,047 --> 02:37:15,091
"Sing no more," he said.

2084
02:37:15,843 --> 02:37:19,220
[SINGING]
Upon these lilies I heap now

2085
02:37:19,388 --> 02:37:23,182
Red roses upon red

2086
02:37:23,350 --> 02:37:26,602
A blood-red tide shall surge

2087
02:37:26,770 --> 02:37:32,066
Upon her milk-white flesh

2088
02:37:32,234 --> 02:37:33,443
[LAUGHING]

2089
02:37:46,540 --> 02:37:49,167
Like your uncle,
you do have a certain amount of taste.

2090
02:37:49,334 --> 02:37:52,170
But I still think
that she's too narrow in the hips.

2091
02:37:52,337 --> 02:37:54,881
These people know how to die, Nero.

2092
02:37:55,048 --> 02:37:56,966
In death, you will squeal like a hog.

2093
02:37:57,551 --> 02:37:58,885
Give him the sword. Let him--

2094
02:37:59,052 --> 02:38:00,761
No, stay.

2095
02:38:01,054 --> 02:38:05,558
My lord, would you deprive him
of his final pleasure?

2096
02:38:06,894 --> 02:38:08,561
[TRUMPETS PLAYING]

2097
02:38:11,982 --> 02:38:13,983
[CROWD CHEERING]

2098
02:38:22,701 --> 02:38:23,743
Ha!

2099
02:38:23,911 --> 02:38:26,078
Superb, Poppaea. Magnificent.

2100
02:39:35,732 --> 02:39:37,149
A fair contest.

2101
02:39:37,317 --> 02:39:39,777
Nero's justice is proverbial.

2102
02:39:56,378 --> 02:39:59,297
If the bull kills the giant,
so much for the girl.

2103
02:39:59,798 --> 02:40:03,801
But if our Hercules should be cruel enough
to destroy the poor animal...

2104
02:40:03,969 --> 02:40:08,180
...I shall have to spare her life
for Vinicius.

2105
02:40:08,348 --> 02:40:10,516
To breed more Christians.

2106
02:40:43,008 --> 02:40:45,009
[GRUNTING]

2107
02:41:08,659 --> 02:41:09,909
Christ.

2108
02:41:10,077 --> 02:41:12,411
Christ, give him strength.

2109
02:41:35,435 --> 02:41:36,936
[CRACKS]

2110
02:41:38,772 --> 02:41:40,231
[CHEERING]

2111
02:41:48,031 --> 02:41:49,532
Seize him.

2112
02:42:01,795 --> 02:42:06,298
- Burner of Rome!
- Thumbs up!

2113
02:42:07,801 --> 02:42:09,802
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]

2114
02:42:27,654 --> 02:42:30,948
Ready up there? First line, follow me.

2115
02:42:59,853 --> 02:43:02,021
Citizens of Rome.

2116
02:43:02,481 --> 02:43:04,356
I am Marcus Vinicius...

2117
02:43:04,524 --> 02:43:06,859
...commander of your 14th Legion.

2118
02:43:07,027 --> 02:43:08,986
This man who burned Rome...

2119
02:43:09,404 --> 02:43:11,697
...who killed innocents
for his own crime...

2120
02:43:12,157 --> 02:43:14,575
...the rule of this madman is ended.

2121
02:43:14,743 --> 02:43:17,203
Rome is yours again.

2122
02:43:17,412 --> 02:43:20,790
Tonight, General Galba
marches from the north.

2123
02:43:20,957 --> 02:43:23,209
Your army has risen.

2124
02:43:23,877 --> 02:43:25,377
Hail Galba.

2125
02:43:25,796 --> 02:43:28,631
Galba, new emperor of Rome.

2126
02:43:28,799 --> 02:43:30,049
[SHOUTING]

2127
02:43:40,852 --> 02:43:42,061
- A sword from Plautius.
- Aah!

2128
02:43:54,658 --> 02:43:56,659
[CROWD SHOUTING lN DISTANCE]

2129
02:44:57,512 --> 02:45:00,222
Where are the Praetorian Guard?

2130
02:45:00,765 --> 02:45:03,309
Dead or in revolt.

2131
02:45:03,476 --> 02:45:06,228
Dead, all dead.

2132
02:45:06,396 --> 02:45:11,150
My dear mother.
Octavia, the wife I loved.

2133
02:45:11,568 --> 02:45:15,321
My friend Petronius, all dead.

2134
02:45:15,488 --> 02:45:16,989
Dead.

2135
02:45:26,416 --> 02:45:28,500
You alone are left.

2136
02:45:30,170 --> 02:45:32,755
Kill the Christians, you said.

2137
02:45:33,298 --> 02:45:34,924
It was you.

2138
02:45:35,091 --> 02:45:37,927
It was you who turned my people...

2139
02:45:39,220 --> 02:45:40,846
...my faithful subjects...

2140
02:45:42,390 --> 02:45:44,558
...against me.

2141
02:45:47,270 --> 02:45:48,354
[SCREAMS]

2142
02:45:53,443 --> 02:45:58,614
You are my evil genius.

2143
02:46:37,737 --> 02:46:38,862
What are you doing here?

2144
02:46:39,030 --> 02:46:41,240
I banished you. I didn't recall you.

2145
02:46:42,534 --> 02:46:46,829
I told you that when you needed me,
I would come to you.

2146
02:46:46,997 --> 02:46:49,415
You defied me. Begone!

2147
02:46:59,217 --> 02:47:02,386
Acte, what will they do to me?

2148
02:47:02,554 --> 02:47:04,013
They will kill you.

2149
02:47:04,180 --> 02:47:06,098
But they won't get in.

2150
02:47:43,261 --> 02:47:45,846
You've lived like a monster.

2151
02:47:46,222 --> 02:47:51,351
Now die like an emperor,
by your own hand.

2152
02:47:51,561 --> 02:47:53,228
I didn't wish to be a monster.

2153
02:47:53,688 --> 02:47:55,064
The gods willed it.

2154
02:47:55,231 --> 02:47:57,608
Now, or they will find you here.

2155
02:48:01,404 --> 02:48:05,657
Is this, then, the end of Nero?

2156
02:48:05,825 --> 02:48:06,992
Yes, my lord.

2157
02:48:07,160 --> 02:48:11,246
To be lord of the earth
and my own executioner.

2158
02:48:11,414 --> 02:48:13,332
Quickly.

2159
02:48:13,500 --> 02:48:17,586
Oh, how dull, how tasteless life
will be for them without me.

2160
02:48:17,754 --> 02:48:19,505
How can they face such a world?

2161
02:48:19,672 --> 02:48:21,381
How can they endure it?

2162
02:48:21,549 --> 02:48:23,717
Now, my lord.

2163
02:48:31,434 --> 02:48:33,644
Help me, Acte.

2164
02:48:45,406 --> 02:48:46,907
[GRUNTING]

2165
02:48:58,962 --> 02:49:00,212
[SOBBING]

2166
02:49:00,755 --> 02:49:02,506
WOMAN:
Hail Galba. Hail.

2167
02:49:02,674 --> 02:49:10,013
Hail Galba.

2168
02:49:10,181 --> 02:49:11,557
[MUSlC PLAYING]

2169
02:49:11,724 --> 02:49:13,517
[CHATTERING]

2170
02:49:13,685 --> 02:49:15,227
MAN:
Hail Galba.

2171
02:49:15,395 --> 02:49:17,020
Hail.

2172
02:49:18,857 --> 02:49:21,233
Hail Galba.

2173
02:49:25,697 --> 02:49:27,906
Galba has a task ahead of him.

2174
02:49:28,074 --> 02:49:31,076
To rebuild Rome
and bring back Roman justice.

2175
02:49:31,244 --> 02:49:35,414
I fear the glory that was Rome
will never fully be reached again, Marcus.

2176
02:49:36,457 --> 02:49:41,211
Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Rome.
What follows?

2177
02:49:41,796 --> 02:49:44,256
A more permanent world, I hope.

2178
02:49:44,632 --> 02:49:46,466
Or a more permanent faith.

2179
02:49:49,137 --> 02:49:51,263
One is not possible without the other.

2180
02:50:02,233 --> 02:50:04,109
What is it, commander?

2181
02:50:04,777 --> 02:50:08,030
It was right in this very spot
that Peter and I turned back to Rome.

2182
02:50:12,785 --> 02:50:15,454
It was here the Lord spoke to him.

2183
02:50:17,665 --> 02:50:20,125
It's a blessed spot.

2184
02:50:54,994 --> 02:51:01,500
CHORUS:
I am the way, the truth and the life.