1 00:00:10,313 --> 00:00:11,231 Doctore! 2 00:00:11,857 --> 00:00:14,985 Korris yet lives, though grievously fucking injured. 3 00:00:15,151 --> 00:00:16,653 Proculus moves against us? 4 00:00:16,820 --> 00:00:19,531 The villain Fides is known to be his man upon occasion. 5 00:00:19,865 --> 00:00:21,199 What of your task? 6 00:00:21,366 --> 00:00:22,659 I broke words and wine with Opiter 7 00:00:22,826 --> 00:00:24,411 and gained his confidence. 8 00:00:24,536 --> 00:00:27,581 I would see my men in deserved position in the impending games. 9 00:00:27,747 --> 00:00:30,250 Elevating the Syrian at my own expense? 10 00:00:30,417 --> 00:00:33,503 What of dispatches from Rome? Any been received? 11 00:00:33,670 --> 00:00:34,713 No, Dominus. 12 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:36,172 Viridia. 13 00:00:36,339 --> 00:00:39,050 It swells heart to see you stir from chambers. 14 00:00:39,175 --> 00:00:40,343 The Syrian. 15 00:00:40,927 --> 00:00:42,262 Should the gods favor you towards the arena, 16 00:00:42,429 --> 00:00:43,763 you shall face three- 17 00:00:44,431 --> 00:00:45,682 the Brothers Ferox, 18 00:00:45,849 --> 00:00:47,726 vicious half-men. 19 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:50,729 Dominus has tainted it by positioning woman 20 00:00:50,896 --> 00:00:52,397 towards the arena. 21 00:00:52,564 --> 00:00:55,775 Seize fate as champion of this fucking house. 22 00:01:29,141 --> 00:01:31,353 Brothers Ferox may be twisted in form, 23 00:01:31,519 --> 00:01:33,813 yet stand fierce opponent 24 00:01:33,980 --> 00:01:35,815 capable of sending any man... 25 00:01:36,566 --> 00:01:37,859 or woman 26 00:01:38,485 --> 00:01:39,819 into the afterlife. 27 00:01:55,335 --> 00:01:57,337 Send the cunt to grass and be done with it. 28 00:02:02,550 --> 00:02:04,052 Note distraction. 29 00:02:04,219 --> 00:02:07,597 Pulling attention and blessing Satyrus with open attack. 30 00:02:14,479 --> 00:02:15,854 Good. Good. 31 00:02:17,565 --> 00:02:19,442 Now press advantage. 32 00:02:35,458 --> 00:02:37,335 You assume proper place 33 00:02:38,503 --> 00:02:39,629 for weakened animal. 34 00:02:52,976 --> 00:02:54,185 Ah. 35 00:02:57,731 --> 00:03:00,650 Is it intent to lay in repose all morning 36 00:03:01,526 --> 00:03:04,946 or prove worthy of the mark of Brotherhood you now bear 37 00:03:05,572 --> 00:03:07,907 and rise to fucking occasion? 38 00:03:10,910 --> 00:03:13,663 Dominus, a message arrives. 39 00:03:14,205 --> 00:03:15,330 From Crassus. 40 00:03:20,045 --> 00:03:21,379 Aha. 41 00:03:21,546 --> 00:03:24,007 'Prepare for honored arrival.' 42 00:03:28,136 --> 00:03:30,722 That is the sum of it? 43 00:03:31,514 --> 00:03:33,391 It stands all received. 44 00:03:33,516 --> 00:03:34,893 When? 45 00:03:35,060 --> 00:03:37,437 When will Crassus bless us with fucking presence? 46 00:03:37,604 --> 00:03:39,147 We do not know. 47 00:03:40,023 --> 00:03:43,026 Question was not posed expecting fucking reply. 48 00:03:46,738 --> 00:03:48,448 See floor polished to reflection. 49 00:03:48,615 --> 00:03:51,451 Fill pool with water, fresh and clear. 50 00:03:51,618 --> 00:03:53,703 Messia will attend to menial duties. 51 00:03:54,287 --> 00:03:55,497 Go. 52 00:03:56,122 --> 00:03:58,291 We must present finest wines and exotic meats. 53 00:03:58,875 --> 00:04:01,419 Have meal prepared to move the gods themselves to salivation. 54 00:04:01,544 --> 00:04:03,463 - For this day? - Every fucking day 55 00:04:03,630 --> 00:04:06,883 until Crassus materializes or coffer runs fucking dry. 56 00:04:07,049 --> 00:04:09,427 We cannot bear such expense beyond week's end. 57 00:04:09,594 --> 00:04:13,640 You break words towards any beyond fucking calamity? 58 00:04:15,517 --> 00:04:16,518 Apologies. 59 00:04:17,602 --> 00:04:21,064 Sentiment deserved to be broken from my tongue alone. 60 00:04:22,148 --> 00:04:24,359 Fuck Jupiter's face! 61 00:04:24,818 --> 00:04:26,444 We stand ill-timed for Crassus, 62 00:04:26,611 --> 00:04:28,780 absent position in approaching games. 63 00:04:28,947 --> 00:04:31,574 How do labors progress in such regard? 64 00:04:32,283 --> 00:04:34,244 Vexing at fucking best. 65 00:04:34,702 --> 00:04:36,287 Gabinius stands maker of decision, 66 00:04:36,454 --> 00:04:39,457 yet his bitch Cossutia growls and froths 67 00:04:39,624 --> 00:04:42,335 like Cerberus at the gate, denying entry. 68 00:04:43,545 --> 00:04:44,796 What of Opiter? 69 00:04:46,422 --> 00:04:47,882 Korris lays infirm, 70 00:04:48,758 --> 00:04:51,970 unable to ply the man with honey word towards cause. 71 00:04:52,095 --> 00:04:53,471 Even if so swayed, 72 00:04:53,638 --> 00:04:57,517 I fear Cossutia will hold fast in hateful resolution. 73 00:04:58,059 --> 00:04:59,727 A concern well shared. 74 00:05:00,728 --> 00:05:03,648 Yet something fucking must move the woman. 75 00:05:15,702 --> 00:05:17,704 Your man possesses admirable talent 76 00:05:17,871 --> 00:05:19,455 beyond sands of the arena. 77 00:05:19,622 --> 00:05:23,710 His enthusiasm but rises to the occasion of your beauty. 78 00:05:24,586 --> 00:05:28,715 More wine? 79 00:05:29,799 --> 00:05:31,759 I would... 80 00:05:31,926 --> 00:05:33,094 pause... 81 00:05:33,428 --> 00:05:36,097 a moment. 82 00:05:40,934 --> 00:05:42,729 Ah! 83 00:05:46,524 --> 00:05:48,151 Gratitude! 84 00:05:49,861 --> 00:05:52,447 Leave us. 85 00:05:55,158 --> 00:05:59,370 How I wish aged husband possessed such artful tongue. 86 00:06:00,622 --> 00:06:03,208 Beyond oration in the Senate. 87 00:06:03,374 --> 00:06:06,586 - How fares good Gabinius? - Oh, I would hardly know. 88 00:06:06,711 --> 00:06:08,379 His gaze is forever towards Rome 89 00:06:08,504 --> 00:06:11,674 and growing tensions between Pompey and Crassus. 90 00:06:12,133 --> 00:06:15,094 A grievous concern, that of civil war. 91 00:06:15,762 --> 00:06:17,805 Yet Cilician threat 92 00:06:17,931 --> 00:06:20,183 to ports and goods more pressing. 93 00:06:20,350 --> 00:06:22,727 We stand well removed from waters of the Tyrrhenian 94 00:06:22,894 --> 00:06:25,563 and fucking plunderers upon its waves. 95 00:06:25,730 --> 00:06:29,025 And yet bodies have been found in our very streets, 96 00:06:30,109 --> 00:06:32,487 perhaps fallen to Cilician blades. 97 00:06:32,654 --> 00:06:33,655 Bodies? 98 00:06:33,780 --> 00:06:35,406 Six, discovered in wake of storm. 99 00:06:35,740 --> 00:06:36,824 Among them 100 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:38,701 the brute Fides, 101 00:06:39,452 --> 00:06:41,913 an unpleasant specimen favored by Proculus. 102 00:06:42,455 --> 00:06:45,375 Throat slit as gutted fish. 103 00:06:51,047 --> 00:06:52,131 I did not know the man. 104 00:06:53,049 --> 00:06:56,135 Perhaps he fell to misadventure of his own construction. 105 00:06:56,970 --> 00:06:59,222 It stands deepest mystery 106 00:06:59,389 --> 00:07:02,475 why I yet wear this, 107 00:07:03,226 --> 00:07:07,563 yesterday's fashion extended beyond use or consideration. 108 00:07:07,689 --> 00:07:11,567 Sackcloth is elevated to silk upon frames such as yours. 109 00:07:11,734 --> 00:07:13,820 Sackcloth shall be a blessing before long. 110 00:07:13,945 --> 00:07:17,782 It stands impossible challenge to obtain new fabric 111 00:07:17,949 --> 00:07:21,703 with those Cilician shits preying upon our merchant ships. 112 00:07:21,869 --> 00:07:23,788 Word upon breeze has caressed ear 113 00:07:23,955 --> 00:07:26,124 of the finest Egyptian linens 114 00:07:26,291 --> 00:07:28,458 arriving tomorrow at gates' close, 115 00:07:29,043 --> 00:07:31,337 to be received by the trader, Spurius. 116 00:07:32,797 --> 00:07:33,965 Egyptian? 117 00:07:34,507 --> 00:07:37,552 - Are you certain? - As sun breaking dawn each day. 118 00:07:39,095 --> 00:07:42,348 Gratitude for timely consideration. 119 00:07:42,473 --> 00:07:43,558 Are we not friends? 120 00:07:43,725 --> 00:07:45,643 One I would see mountains reformed 121 00:07:45,768 --> 00:07:47,312 towards shared interests. 122 00:07:47,478 --> 00:07:50,523 I would not ask such Herculean effort. 123 00:07:50,648 --> 00:07:51,524 Mmm. 124 00:07:52,608 --> 00:07:56,738 Yet... there is one favor I would humbly entreat. 125 00:07:56,904 --> 00:07:59,157 Oh, give it voice and see it well received. 126 00:07:59,324 --> 00:08:02,869 Thoughts turn towards games of Ludi Apollinares 127 00:08:03,036 --> 00:08:04,454 noble husband presents. 128 00:08:04,579 --> 00:08:05,663 Place mind at ease. 129 00:08:05,830 --> 00:08:06,748 Your men shall hold position in them. 130 00:08:06,873 --> 00:08:08,374 Honored, as always. 131 00:08:08,750 --> 00:08:11,627 Yet I broach subject not for myself but... 132 00:08:12,253 --> 00:08:14,047 for the House of Ashur. 133 00:08:16,758 --> 00:08:18,593 You petition for the fucking Syrian? 134 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:21,346 By tenuous association only. 135 00:08:21,971 --> 00:08:25,766 I speak toward worthy figure of his Doctore, Korris, 136 00:08:26,684 --> 00:08:29,020 deserving of the presentation of his labors. 137 00:08:32,774 --> 00:08:35,193 What stand you to gain from... 138 00:08:35,860 --> 00:08:37,111 unsavory request? 139 00:08:37,278 --> 00:08:39,197 A man indebted by gracious act 140 00:08:39,364 --> 00:08:42,283 pays future dividends when called upon. 141 00:08:43,242 --> 00:08:44,410 You have always possessed 142 00:08:44,577 --> 00:08:46,412 delicate sensibilities of foresight. 143 00:08:47,246 --> 00:08:48,539 Yet I fear 144 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:50,708 this may have been... 145 00:08:51,751 --> 00:08:53,711 rare miscalculation. 146 00:08:54,420 --> 00:08:56,297 In what regard? 147 00:08:56,464 --> 00:08:59,550 Rumor vibrates that the Syrian's man 148 00:08:59,717 --> 00:09:02,762 has suffered grievous injury. 149 00:09:03,721 --> 00:09:05,014 - Injury? - Mm. 150 00:09:07,266 --> 00:09:08,434 Does he yet live? 151 00:09:13,564 --> 00:09:15,149 Fuck the gods! 152 00:09:15,316 --> 00:09:16,317 Ah. 153 00:09:17,068 --> 00:09:20,154 We at last come to common ground upon subject. 154 00:09:21,239 --> 00:09:22,448 How does he fare? 155 00:09:22,865 --> 00:09:25,451 Do you not see me fucking rise before you? 156 00:09:26,285 --> 00:09:29,705 With spirits inflamed, although weak of flesh. 157 00:09:29,831 --> 00:09:31,874 I yet draw breath. 158 00:09:32,041 --> 00:09:34,127 And the rest shall follow shortly. 159 00:09:34,252 --> 00:09:35,837 News to harden cock. 160 00:09:36,796 --> 00:09:39,507 As what I break shall in return. 161 00:09:40,425 --> 00:09:43,469 Crassus sends word of impending arrival. 162 00:09:43,886 --> 00:09:44,637 Crassus? 163 00:09:45,555 --> 00:09:47,890 - Upon what hour? - Enigma yet to be revealed. 164 00:09:48,057 --> 00:09:49,434 It weighs thought, 165 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:51,978 where he will stand towards house conspiring 166 00:09:52,145 --> 00:09:53,563 to present a woman in the arena. 167 00:09:53,729 --> 00:09:55,231 As long as it heralds adulation from the crowd 168 00:09:55,398 --> 00:09:59,277 and coin in fucking palm, Crassus shall stand delighted. 169 00:10:00,194 --> 00:10:02,113 We will then turn favorable humor towards advantage 170 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:05,199 and press the man to commit effort into rebuilding the arena 171 00:10:05,366 --> 00:10:07,660 destroyed by Spartacus and his mongrels. 172 00:10:07,827 --> 00:10:09,537 Assuming we gain position in the arena. 173 00:10:09,662 --> 00:10:12,623 When we gain position. 174 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:14,333 You fucking goat. 175 00:10:15,585 --> 00:10:18,171 Come. You stand in need of food and wine... 176 00:10:19,380 --> 00:10:20,715 and cleansing waters 177 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:23,634 to remove stench of narrowly averted death. 178 00:10:26,721 --> 00:10:28,681 I have stationed men upon ridge to give signal 179 00:10:28,848 --> 00:10:30,308 when procession comes to view. 180 00:10:30,475 --> 00:10:33,686 When sounded, I would have you fall to my side- 181 00:10:33,853 --> 00:10:34,854 Dominus. 182 00:10:35,021 --> 00:10:36,939 We have received unannounced guest. 183 00:10:37,565 --> 00:10:39,692 Good Opiter! 184 00:10:39,859 --> 00:10:42,820 You grace us with unexpected presence. 185 00:10:42,987 --> 00:10:45,948 Gratitude stands in order for your generous gift of grain. 186 00:10:46,115 --> 00:10:47,825 Oh, give it no thought. 187 00:10:47,992 --> 00:10:51,871 Apologies for appearing in advance of proper... warning. 188 00:10:52,038 --> 00:10:54,957 News only just reached ear of your man's injuries. 189 00:10:55,082 --> 00:10:56,834 I had feared him no longer among us. 190 00:10:57,001 --> 00:10:59,837 I yet cling to fucking life and stand absent need for concern. 191 00:11:00,004 --> 00:11:04,675 Oh, he exaggerates recovery as a matter of pride. 192 00:11:04,842 --> 00:11:06,886 Apologies. I would offer wine and midday repast, 193 00:11:07,053 --> 00:11:10,056 yet pressing concerns pulls me to market. 194 00:11:10,473 --> 00:11:12,892 - I shall take my leave, then. - Oh, no. Remain. 195 00:11:13,059 --> 00:11:16,020 Korris is to the baths to soak troubled wounds. 196 00:11:16,604 --> 00:11:18,064 Concern will be put from thought 197 00:11:18,189 --> 00:11:20,733 knowing the weight of his suffering is lifted 198 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:22,944 by caring hands. 199 00:11:24,987 --> 00:11:26,989 Your presence would lend comfort. 200 00:11:38,918 --> 00:11:41,295 Are you often invited into the Syrian's bath? 201 00:11:42,380 --> 00:11:45,174 It has been known to happen, upon occasion. 202 00:11:45,341 --> 00:11:46,509 Hmm. 203 00:11:46,968 --> 00:11:49,220 I was unaware he possessed such... 204 00:11:50,012 --> 00:11:51,138 appetites. 205 00:11:51,722 --> 00:11:54,475 His desires do not extend towards his fucking Doctore, 206 00:11:54,642 --> 00:11:55,893 nor mine towards his. 207 00:11:56,060 --> 00:11:59,230 You do not favor one of such rich complexion? 208 00:11:59,397 --> 00:12:01,774 The tone of a man's skin stands meaningless. 209 00:12:02,525 --> 00:12:03,693 When cut, 210 00:12:04,277 --> 00:12:05,653 the color holds equal for all. 211 00:12:05,820 --> 00:12:06,821 Ow! 212 00:12:07,989 --> 00:12:09,490 Fall from presence. 213 00:12:20,459 --> 00:12:23,546 A woman's hands offer rough comfort. 214 00:12:27,216 --> 00:12:29,594 A man's, more... 215 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,388 familiar with rugged terrain... 216 00:12:34,432 --> 00:12:36,851 traverses with practiced ease. 217 00:12:39,270 --> 00:12:41,355 You need not burden yourself with such a chore. 218 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:43,941 Hm. It's a rare privilege 219 00:12:44,108 --> 00:12:46,736 for a mere mortal to touch the heavens. 220 00:12:51,699 --> 00:12:53,993 Who handled you so roughly? 221 00:12:56,495 --> 00:12:57,872 An old acquaintance 222 00:12:58,039 --> 00:13:00,374 who took issue with recent conversation. 223 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,002 Does the villain carry a name? 224 00:13:03,419 --> 00:13:04,462 Fides. 225 00:13:05,254 --> 00:13:07,256 He fell upon me with a clutch of men. 226 00:13:07,757 --> 00:13:09,050 Their lives claimed for the offense, 227 00:13:09,216 --> 00:13:12,178 yet the man himself fluttered to the winds. 228 00:13:12,345 --> 00:13:14,096 And swiftly plummeted, 229 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:16,682 never to spread wings again. 230 00:13:18,893 --> 00:13:20,853 Fides no longer draws breath? 231 00:13:21,312 --> 00:13:23,230 Difficulty with throat slit. 232 00:13:25,358 --> 00:13:27,693 Wounds not inflicted by my hands. 233 00:13:28,361 --> 00:13:29,362 Then whose? 234 00:13:29,904 --> 00:13:32,114 He was known to have dealings with Proculus, 235 00:13:32,907 --> 00:13:34,992 a thing I'm certain you're well aware of. 236 00:13:36,077 --> 00:13:37,495 I have witnessed such 237 00:13:38,371 --> 00:13:41,207 and mentioned to Cossutia this very day. 238 00:13:43,084 --> 00:13:48,089 Troubles me to see flesh so marred by base maneuverings. 239 00:13:49,882 --> 00:13:52,968 I would see wounds visited tenfold 240 00:13:53,135 --> 00:13:54,679 upon Proculus' men 241 00:13:55,096 --> 00:13:56,514 in the arena. 242 00:13:58,641 --> 00:14:01,852 Twice in as many visits you have mentioned desire 243 00:14:02,019 --> 00:14:04,105 to see yourself in the games. 244 00:14:06,023 --> 00:14:09,443 Is such your own desire in holding my company? 245 00:14:10,695 --> 00:14:12,530 I am Doctore of this house. 246 00:14:13,447 --> 00:14:16,242 Glory in the arena consumes fucking mind. 247 00:14:16,367 --> 00:14:18,119 As well as that of the Syrian, 248 00:14:18,536 --> 00:14:20,037 one would assume. 249 00:14:25,376 --> 00:14:27,128 It's a thing of no matter. 250 00:14:28,170 --> 00:14:29,922 We must all play our part 251 00:14:30,047 --> 00:14:33,342 in this game of men and their ambitions. 252 00:14:35,845 --> 00:14:39,223 Words to be agreed upon. 253 00:14:39,390 --> 00:14:41,475 Place worried thought aside. 254 00:14:42,143 --> 00:14:43,894 I have broached subject with Cossutia 255 00:14:44,019 --> 00:14:48,023 and will revisit upon soonest opportunity. 256 00:14:50,151 --> 00:14:52,862 Gratitude towards effort... 257 00:14:54,447 --> 00:14:56,323 wherever such may lead. 258 00:15:00,995 --> 00:15:04,874 Next time you find yourself in need... 259 00:15:10,296 --> 00:15:11,464 part lips... 260 00:15:13,424 --> 00:15:15,718 and I shall storm Olympus 261 00:15:15,885 --> 00:15:17,803 to see you satisfied. 262 00:15:29,565 --> 00:15:31,692 A bold claim... 263 00:15:35,488 --> 00:15:37,281 for one so slight. 264 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:41,535 Valiant purpose soars in your presence. 265 00:15:43,621 --> 00:15:46,832 Is gesture yet in service of the Syrian? 266 00:15:50,878 --> 00:15:53,714 He stands far from fucking thought. 267 00:16:08,187 --> 00:16:12,775 Beef and fowl unmatched by any offering in Capua! 268 00:16:13,651 --> 00:16:15,319 Oysters stand fresh? 269 00:16:15,945 --> 00:16:18,739 Neptune himself blesses each fucking one of them. 270 00:16:20,366 --> 00:16:22,618 They smell of his ass. 271 00:16:23,661 --> 00:16:26,163 What make you of the moray and sar? Huh? 272 00:16:26,330 --> 00:16:28,707 I fear they threaten to exceed weight of purse, 273 00:16:29,124 --> 00:16:30,751 added to what stands already purchased. 274 00:16:30,918 --> 00:16:33,671 You would see Crassus presented with thin fucking offering? 275 00:16:33,796 --> 00:16:35,840 I would see him well attended, 276 00:16:36,507 --> 00:16:38,634 short of coffers emptied in attempt. 277 00:16:38,801 --> 00:16:41,470 - You fret beyond reason. - Yet not beyond purpose. 278 00:16:42,304 --> 00:16:46,308 As vilica, am I not charged with the accounts of your house? 279 00:16:46,725 --> 00:16:48,018 You stand so. 280 00:16:49,103 --> 00:16:53,232 And I benefactor of such attentive counsel. 281 00:17:20,092 --> 00:17:22,887 Ammonius, victor once again. 282 00:17:23,012 --> 00:17:24,430 I almost fucking had him. 283 00:17:24,597 --> 00:17:27,016 You almost had his cock in fucking arse. 284 00:17:29,685 --> 00:17:31,604 Good citizens of Capua, 285 00:17:32,187 --> 00:17:35,983 in honor of the approaching games of the Ludi Apollinares, 286 00:17:36,108 --> 00:17:39,028 I again invite any Roman to step forth 287 00:17:39,194 --> 00:17:42,656 and test worth against the House of Proculus! 288 00:17:44,825 --> 00:17:45,868 Yeah! 289 00:17:47,786 --> 00:17:50,956 The House of Ashur would see challenge accepted. 290 00:17:55,586 --> 00:17:57,254 Upon the sands of the arena. 291 00:17:58,547 --> 00:18:00,591 You stand absent giant shadow. 292 00:18:01,216 --> 00:18:03,427 Where lurks your mighty Doctore? 293 00:18:03,594 --> 00:18:06,805 Trainer of those who fall against better fucking men. 294 00:18:09,475 --> 00:18:11,477 I thought it courtesy he not eclipse your children 295 00:18:11,602 --> 00:18:14,271 spilled from aberrant womb. 296 00:18:16,148 --> 00:18:17,608 We spill but wine 297 00:18:17,775 --> 00:18:20,778 and the blood of shit and piss you deem fucking champion. 298 00:18:22,988 --> 00:18:24,365 Victory well earned, 299 00:18:24,782 --> 00:18:26,742 even for half-men. 300 00:18:27,076 --> 00:18:28,702 Ooh! 301 00:18:28,869 --> 00:18:30,996 Yet, let us see contest revisited 302 00:18:31,163 --> 00:18:34,541 against the newest offering from the House of Ashur. 303 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:38,420 A sight of wonder and awe, 304 00:18:38,587 --> 00:18:41,590 never before witnessed upon the sands of the arena. 305 00:18:43,175 --> 00:18:45,469 Let the Syrian move good Gabinius 306 00:18:45,636 --> 00:18:47,763 to secure position in the games, 307 00:18:47,930 --> 00:18:50,474 and then behold the Brothers Ferox, 308 00:18:50,641 --> 00:18:54,728 as again they send his champion to deserved end. 309 00:18:57,398 --> 00:18:59,650 We stand ready to fuck 310 00:18:59,817 --> 00:19:02,736 all who dare stand before us. 311 00:19:04,697 --> 00:19:08,367 Colossal words from such little fucking man. 312 00:19:08,701 --> 00:19:09,493 Perhaps... 313 00:19:13,580 --> 00:19:15,833 Brother Balbus shows us the way! 314 00:19:19,128 --> 00:19:21,505 Let us honor the Syrian with gifts of food 315 00:19:21,672 --> 00:19:25,509 to feed malnourished men beneath his fucking roof! 316 00:19:25,676 --> 00:19:28,595 Fuck the Syrian! 317 00:19:28,721 --> 00:19:32,433 Go to fucking hell! Fucking cunt! 318 00:19:37,771 --> 00:19:39,732 Words fall as shit from mouth. 319 00:19:39,898 --> 00:19:41,483 It stands fucking so. 320 00:19:41,650 --> 00:19:46,280 I witnessed a woman graced with cunt and cock, one atop another. 321 00:19:48,365 --> 00:19:50,826 So did you fuck her, or she you? 322 00:20:08,719 --> 00:20:11,722 My own shit would offer more flavored taste. 323 00:20:15,893 --> 00:20:18,562 Does cook offer anything beyond fucking porridge? 324 00:20:18,729 --> 00:20:23,067 Hm. Houses of higher esteem have been known to present meat. 325 00:20:23,192 --> 00:20:24,610 The gods fuck us, then. 326 00:20:24,777 --> 00:20:27,446 A thing of deep familiarity beneath this roof. 327 00:20:29,448 --> 00:20:31,784 - You stand not afraid? - Towards? 328 00:20:32,242 --> 00:20:34,787 Breaking meal with someone so hated. 329 00:20:34,953 --> 00:20:36,580 They but fall to distemper 330 00:20:36,747 --> 00:20:39,458 in response to your promised station as champion. 331 00:20:39,625 --> 00:20:42,002 Absent time and effort has claimed their own. 332 00:20:42,169 --> 00:20:45,798 I bear the mark of the fucking Brotherhood, as they do. 333 00:20:45,964 --> 00:20:46,965 Yet not as they earned it. 334 00:20:47,132 --> 00:20:48,926 A thing not of my choosing. 335 00:20:49,551 --> 00:20:51,428 We all set upon rightful path, 336 00:20:52,096 --> 00:20:54,890 footfall placed upon succession, one following another. 337 00:20:55,474 --> 00:20:58,143 You fall to seat only to break words absent meaning? 338 00:21:00,187 --> 00:21:02,689 Bold proclamation from one who spent the morning upon ground, 339 00:21:02,815 --> 00:21:04,316 mouth filled with fucking dirt. 340 00:21:04,483 --> 00:21:07,694 Give name to one among us who could best three opponents. 341 00:21:07,861 --> 00:21:10,531 If Dominus maneuvers entry to games next presented, 342 00:21:10,656 --> 00:21:13,867 you shall face equal number in the arena. 343 00:21:14,034 --> 00:21:16,662 The Brothers Ferox? 344 00:21:16,829 --> 00:21:18,789 Half-men barely formed beyond that of a child. 345 00:21:18,956 --> 00:21:22,000 Bend your fucking ear and you clutch my words to heart. 346 00:21:22,126 --> 00:21:25,963 The Brothers fight as one, with singular mind. 347 00:21:27,131 --> 00:21:31,844 The men that you face here stand absent such purpose. 348 00:21:36,932 --> 00:21:39,309 They appear of singular mind to fucking eyes. 349 00:21:39,476 --> 00:21:41,019 Yet one presses attack 350 00:21:41,186 --> 00:21:44,022 absent thought of those who would aid him in such regard. 351 00:21:44,356 --> 00:21:47,734 You fight but single opponent. 352 00:21:48,652 --> 00:21:50,863 You best him, and the others will quickly fall. 353 00:21:55,367 --> 00:21:56,952 You speak of your son. 354 00:21:57,744 --> 00:22:01,623 - Tarchon? - No, I speak of a gladiator... 355 00:22:02,958 --> 00:22:06,044 consumed by hubris, with a thirst for glory. 356 00:22:07,504 --> 00:22:11,508 A thing to be tempered if he is to survive in the arena. 357 00:22:24,521 --> 00:22:27,441 Take stock of what you see before you. 358 00:22:28,525 --> 00:22:32,863 This is what Capua thinks of our house, 359 00:22:33,739 --> 00:22:38,410 because none of you shits demonstrate fucking worth! 360 00:22:40,037 --> 00:22:43,040 You gorge yourself upon my generosity, 361 00:22:43,207 --> 00:22:44,750 and in return... 362 00:22:44,875 --> 00:22:48,629 produce nothing but bleating excuses and disappointment! 363 00:22:50,339 --> 00:22:51,673 And know this. 364 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,843 Toil and task pulled from effort of your Dominus 365 00:22:55,010 --> 00:22:57,554 shall see this house to deserved position 366 00:22:57,721 --> 00:22:59,181 in the fucking games. 367 00:23:00,140 --> 00:23:01,642 And upon such day, 368 00:23:01,767 --> 00:23:04,853 you shall claim victory against the House of Proculus, 369 00:23:05,896 --> 00:23:09,691 or I will see you all to the fucking mines! 370 00:23:12,069 --> 00:23:13,403 Doctore. 371 00:23:15,239 --> 00:23:17,115 The marketplace appears to disagree with you. 372 00:23:17,282 --> 00:23:18,909 Break good words towards mind of Opiter 373 00:23:19,076 --> 00:23:22,079 so I may ram them up Proculus' ass. 374 00:23:22,579 --> 00:23:25,457 The man seems moved to aid us. 375 00:23:25,624 --> 00:23:28,043 And how gauge you imagined success upon venture? 376 00:23:28,210 --> 00:23:31,546 Opiter has proved unexpectedly persuasive. 377 00:23:37,719 --> 00:23:41,431 After all these years of blood and sacrifice... 378 00:23:42,057 --> 00:23:45,060 clawing to precipice of honored position... 379 00:23:46,478 --> 00:23:49,815 only to stake future upon man so slight of fucking note! 380 00:23:49,982 --> 00:23:54,278 Such specters often move where men of more solid form cannot. 381 00:24:06,206 --> 00:24:08,083 What do eyes behold? 382 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,089 A chamber, embracing void. 383 00:24:15,632 --> 00:24:17,342 Was not always so. 384 00:24:17,926 --> 00:24:21,513 Here once stood the champions of the House of Batiatus. 385 00:24:22,764 --> 00:24:25,517 Visage and cock captured in stone. 386 00:24:27,477 --> 00:24:31,773 Gannicus, Crixus, the mad Thracian Spartacus, 387 00:24:32,399 --> 00:24:34,067 gods of the arena. 388 00:24:34,234 --> 00:24:36,236 Gods of the arena. 389 00:24:39,656 --> 00:24:41,325 My former Dominus schemed his way 390 00:24:41,491 --> 00:24:43,243 from beneath mountains of shit 391 00:24:43,410 --> 00:24:46,580 to seize victory upon their backs. 392 00:24:50,876 --> 00:24:52,711 Yet here stands Ashur... 393 00:24:53,795 --> 00:24:57,924 ever his better, clutching air for thread... 394 00:24:59,259 --> 00:25:00,969 of fucking possibility. 395 00:25:01,094 --> 00:25:03,847 Then let us weave it into tapestry of victory 396 00:25:04,014 --> 00:25:07,768 and show this fucking city that we tower above all others. 397 00:25:08,185 --> 00:25:09,728 Dominus. 398 00:25:09,895 --> 00:25:12,981 Apologies. Another message has been dispatched from Crassus. 399 00:25:13,148 --> 00:25:16,068 Ah. Does it clarify hour of day of arrival? 400 00:25:16,234 --> 00:25:18,945 Not of person, but of baggage. 401 00:25:23,742 --> 00:25:24,993 Ha! 402 00:25:25,827 --> 00:25:28,038 He sends possessions in advance 403 00:25:28,205 --> 00:25:30,123 and commands me as beast of fucking burden 404 00:25:30,290 --> 00:25:33,043 upon setting of morrow's sun! 405 00:25:33,543 --> 00:25:35,003 Labors more befitting a slave. 406 00:25:35,128 --> 00:25:38,006 As I yet stand in his fucking eyes. 407 00:25:38,173 --> 00:25:40,592 A notion to be stricken if we defy odds 408 00:25:40,759 --> 00:25:42,344 and see Achillia to victory. 409 00:25:42,511 --> 00:25:44,221 I shall reclaim mantle borrowed by... 410 00:25:44,388 --> 00:25:45,305 No. 411 00:25:46,223 --> 00:25:48,225 Your absence was gravely noted in the Albana 412 00:25:48,392 --> 00:25:49,643 by that shit Proculus. 413 00:25:49,810 --> 00:25:51,561 I would have you fall to my side 414 00:25:51,728 --> 00:25:55,607 and remain so attached in event of future provocation. 415 00:25:57,401 --> 00:25:58,693 Your will, 416 00:25:59,361 --> 00:26:01,113 my fucking hands. 417 00:26:34,896 --> 00:26:37,691 Eyes fall upon you with thoughts of fucking. 418 00:26:41,111 --> 00:26:44,406 Well, she will find bitter embrace within my arms. 419 00:26:54,624 --> 00:26:56,293 Tarchon, 420 00:26:56,460 --> 00:26:58,753 Ephesius, Erato, take position. 421 00:27:00,422 --> 00:27:02,090 Achillia. 422 00:27:20,609 --> 00:27:21,818 Begin. 423 00:27:29,534 --> 00:27:31,244 I will mourn your death 424 00:27:32,120 --> 00:27:36,041 at the little hands of Satyrus and his brothers. 425 00:27:41,338 --> 00:27:45,884 And see title of champion fall to more deserving name. 426 00:27:47,761 --> 00:27:49,054 Focus effort. 427 00:27:49,930 --> 00:27:52,641 And you recall words broken between us. 428 00:29:06,381 --> 00:29:07,924 Proper place 429 00:29:08,425 --> 00:29:10,260 for weakened animal. 430 00:29:12,512 --> 00:29:13,722 Good. 431 00:29:15,599 --> 00:29:19,352 Instruction towards victory at last finds purchase. 432 00:29:25,108 --> 00:29:26,985 That fucking woman mocks this house. 433 00:29:28,069 --> 00:29:29,529 With her prowess? 434 00:29:30,614 --> 00:29:32,782 By elevation of position not yet earned, 435 00:29:32,949 --> 00:29:35,910 by Dominus rewarding her with the mark of the Brotherhood, 436 00:29:36,077 --> 00:29:38,163 absent proper fucking test. 437 00:29:38,330 --> 00:29:39,372 And... 438 00:29:40,915 --> 00:29:42,292 by shifting a father's allegiance 439 00:29:42,459 --> 00:29:43,835 from its rightful place. 440 00:29:45,128 --> 00:29:46,463 All could hold truth, 441 00:29:46,588 --> 00:29:48,256 yet none negate poor showing against Achillia. 442 00:29:48,423 --> 00:29:50,091 Erato and Ephesius should have bested her. 443 00:29:50,258 --> 00:29:51,676 Yes. Perhaps they would have 444 00:29:51,843 --> 00:29:54,262 had you not foolishly pressed your own advantage, 445 00:29:55,055 --> 00:29:57,474 a fault oft repeated. 446 00:29:58,683 --> 00:30:00,352 Are those the fucking words you broke with her 447 00:30:00,518 --> 00:30:03,313 over yesterday's meal- how to defeat your fucking son? 448 00:30:04,147 --> 00:30:08,109 In Korris' absence, I stand Doctore. 449 00:30:09,069 --> 00:30:11,488 And words shared reflected such. 450 00:30:16,826 --> 00:30:18,953 You place her victory above mine. 451 00:30:21,748 --> 00:30:25,877 I place the victory of this fucking house... 452 00:30:27,087 --> 00:30:29,381 over all concerns. 453 00:30:33,301 --> 00:30:35,053 And even those of blood. 454 00:30:39,474 --> 00:30:41,768 Well, does it stand so tenuous a bond? 455 00:30:50,652 --> 00:30:52,654 You are my son. 456 00:30:55,573 --> 00:30:57,409 I would see you 457 00:30:57,575 --> 00:30:59,703 rise above all others. 458 00:31:04,999 --> 00:31:07,293 And I will honor you... 459 00:31:09,671 --> 00:31:12,298 when my time comes in the arena. 460 00:31:13,842 --> 00:31:15,009 First, 461 00:31:15,135 --> 00:31:16,761 you honor self... 462 00:31:17,554 --> 00:31:19,431 with thoughtful strategy. 463 00:31:23,768 --> 00:31:25,478 I fight as I was taught- 464 00:31:26,604 --> 00:31:28,022 by my father. 465 00:31:32,777 --> 00:31:34,696 Then the failure is mine. 466 00:31:41,786 --> 00:31:44,789 May you find a more willing student in the fucking Nubian. 467 00:31:44,956 --> 00:31:47,375 Look, son... 468 00:31:52,839 --> 00:31:56,176 Again, you lash out, absent thought of consequence. 469 00:31:57,886 --> 00:31:59,596 And yet you froth 470 00:31:59,763 --> 00:32:02,265 over how a woman bested you. 471 00:32:15,069 --> 00:32:16,780 Place game aside and gather yourself. 472 00:32:16,946 --> 00:32:18,490 I would have you accompany me. 473 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:20,116 Where? 474 00:32:20,283 --> 00:32:21,493 Where honored mother commands. 475 00:32:21,659 --> 00:32:23,953 If passions lie beyond these walls, 476 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,122 I fear I stand not your reflection. 477 00:32:26,915 --> 00:32:29,000 Are we so opposed, you and I? 478 00:32:29,459 --> 00:32:32,754 When you were yet a child, we were of one heart and mind. 479 00:32:32,921 --> 00:32:34,631 I'm far removed from the youth I was. 480 00:32:34,798 --> 00:32:38,635 Yet here I stand, willing to embrace you as such. 481 00:32:41,930 --> 00:32:43,097 Apologies. 482 00:32:44,682 --> 00:32:46,226 I am not myself. 483 00:32:48,144 --> 00:32:51,022 And have not been so for too long a time. 484 00:32:51,773 --> 00:32:54,692 Life has been unkind in its offering. 485 00:32:54,818 --> 00:32:56,778 It is but oscillation 486 00:32:56,903 --> 00:32:59,572 between joy and despair. 487 00:32:59,739 --> 00:33:03,910 Each new day presents fresh choice between them. 488 00:33:04,244 --> 00:33:05,620 What is choice 489 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:07,747 when fate has final say, 490 00:33:07,914 --> 00:33:11,167 often leaving but fractured remnants in its wake? 491 00:33:11,292 --> 00:33:12,544 You yet breathe. 492 00:33:13,002 --> 00:33:15,588 And I thank the gods it is so. 493 00:33:16,381 --> 00:33:19,050 I would have you return to the happy child 494 00:33:19,175 --> 00:33:22,804 that so brightened this house... 495 00:33:22,971 --> 00:33:25,181 and world beyond. 496 00:33:26,224 --> 00:33:28,017 And if it holds nothing but shadow? 497 00:33:28,184 --> 00:33:30,228 We cannot halt setting of the sun, 498 00:33:30,395 --> 00:33:33,857 yet perhaps together, we may ignite torch 499 00:33:34,023 --> 00:33:35,859 to guide our way 500 00:33:36,025 --> 00:33:37,861 from darkness. 501 00:33:39,696 --> 00:33:41,906 I promised Father a game of Latrunculi. 502 00:33:42,490 --> 00:33:44,659 Game shall greet you upon return. 503 00:33:45,285 --> 00:33:49,372 Opiter whispers that Spurius the trader receives... 504 00:33:49,747 --> 00:33:51,541 Egyptian linen. 505 00:33:52,125 --> 00:33:54,836 How I would see us draped in fineries 506 00:33:55,003 --> 00:33:56,212 befitting mother 507 00:33:56,337 --> 00:33:59,215 and radiant daughter. 508 00:34:03,678 --> 00:34:05,430 Then let us to market. 509 00:34:06,139 --> 00:34:07,140 Together. 510 00:34:13,979 --> 00:34:14,772 Oh! 511 00:34:15,564 --> 00:34:18,191 The sun threatens to bake senses to oblivion. 512 00:34:18,651 --> 00:34:20,986 Should we pause and fall to shade? 513 00:34:21,403 --> 00:34:23,488 I find it comforting upon skin. 514 00:34:24,990 --> 00:34:26,993 It lifts heart to see you resurrected 515 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:28,912 among the living, Viridia. 516 00:34:29,704 --> 00:34:31,247 Look. 517 00:34:31,414 --> 00:34:33,582 Tertius graces presence. 518 00:34:34,417 --> 00:34:37,461 Where stands his wife? The name escapes me. 519 00:34:37,629 --> 00:34:39,671 A woman of tenuous impression, 520 00:34:39,839 --> 00:34:42,550 recently called to the shores of the afterlife. 521 00:34:42,717 --> 00:34:46,095 Poor man. A loss most keenly felt. 522 00:34:46,512 --> 00:34:48,890 There stood no love between them. 523 00:34:49,265 --> 00:34:50,350 Only advantage of marriage, 524 00:34:50,516 --> 00:34:52,226 strengthening respective families. 525 00:34:52,769 --> 00:34:55,313 He does cut a form, does he not? 526 00:34:56,064 --> 00:34:58,483 Any woman would be blessed to call him husband. 527 00:34:58,650 --> 00:34:59,984 Perhaps we should pay respect 528 00:35:00,151 --> 00:35:02,695 and offer what comfort may be afforded. 529 00:35:03,529 --> 00:35:05,615 The heat is a living thing, is it not? 530 00:35:06,282 --> 00:35:08,993 I would lay eyes upon Egyptian linen so breathlessly promised, 531 00:35:09,410 --> 00:35:11,496 lest it evaporate in advance of purchase. 532 00:35:12,789 --> 00:35:14,582 Let us fall to purpose, then, 533 00:35:14,749 --> 00:35:18,461 and consider words with Tertius at later convenience. 534 00:35:22,757 --> 00:35:24,133 Discharged upon whim, 535 00:35:24,300 --> 00:35:27,011 absent concern towards obligation claimed my own. 536 00:35:27,595 --> 00:35:30,139 Crassus yanks his leash and expect obedient cur 537 00:35:30,306 --> 00:35:32,517 to fall to fucking heel. 538 00:35:36,646 --> 00:35:37,897 Does voice offend, 539 00:35:38,439 --> 00:35:40,650 or do thoughts wander astray from fucking consideration? 540 00:35:40,817 --> 00:35:42,735 I care not for eyes upon us. 541 00:35:52,370 --> 00:35:55,707 Let us attend demanded undertaking and return to villa. 542 00:35:56,541 --> 00:35:58,501 Absent fucking incident. 543 00:36:11,973 --> 00:36:13,307 Is this the sum of it, 544 00:36:13,891 --> 00:36:15,518 or does the man seek to transport 545 00:36:15,685 --> 00:36:17,729 all of fucking Rome as well? 546 00:36:18,312 --> 00:36:20,565 What eyes lay upon is all I have been charged to deliver. 547 00:36:20,690 --> 00:36:23,943 Then our business concludes. Fall from fucking sight. 548 00:36:24,777 --> 00:36:26,279 I would see us removed from the street 549 00:36:26,404 --> 00:36:28,406 in advance of encroaching night. 550 00:36:30,033 --> 00:36:31,659 You yet have more words to break, 551 00:36:31,826 --> 00:36:35,163 or do you stand dumbstruck by glorious form before you? 552 00:36:35,329 --> 00:36:39,125 Apologies. I was instructed payment would be due upon... 553 00:36:39,250 --> 00:36:40,418 receipt. 554 00:36:42,420 --> 00:36:45,798 And, uh... what is the sum? 555 00:36:45,923 --> 00:36:47,467 30 denarii. 556 00:36:49,343 --> 00:36:50,762 30 denarii. 557 00:36:54,432 --> 00:36:56,726 Purse stands shy of required sum. 558 00:36:56,893 --> 00:36:59,812 Send notice for balance, and I shall see you satisfied. 559 00:36:59,979 --> 00:37:01,314 Upon what day? 560 00:37:02,732 --> 00:37:04,817 Of my fucking choosing. 561 00:37:05,735 --> 00:37:10,865 Press matter and find yourself forever absent of need... 562 00:37:11,365 --> 00:37:12,992 of coin. 563 00:37:13,367 --> 00:37:14,994 At your leisure, then. 564 00:37:18,372 --> 00:37:21,167 Crassus stands richest man in fucking Republic, 565 00:37:21,876 --> 00:37:24,170 yet it falls upon this house to see debt paid. 566 00:37:24,337 --> 00:37:27,298 How do you hold the man became so swollen with wealth? 567 00:37:27,423 --> 00:37:30,760 By shrewdly using the coin of others in place of his own. 568 00:37:31,636 --> 00:37:33,471 A thing to aspire to. 569 00:37:34,722 --> 00:37:36,682 Pay mind towards footing! 570 00:37:38,226 --> 00:37:41,437 Injury to valued burden will be visited tenfold 571 00:37:41,604 --> 00:37:44,065 upon those accountable. 572 00:37:52,240 --> 00:37:53,866 Retrieve more water. 573 00:37:54,033 --> 00:37:56,828 I would see pool filled before our Dominus returns, 574 00:37:57,620 --> 00:38:00,289 or brave ill humor so often unleashed. 575 00:38:01,541 --> 00:38:05,044 His mood is but reflective of forces brought to bear. 576 00:38:05,461 --> 00:38:07,296 You must not hold such against him. 577 00:38:07,463 --> 00:38:09,090 I shall do as commanded. 578 00:38:09,674 --> 00:38:11,926 You are not to speak to me in such manner. 579 00:38:12,093 --> 00:38:13,177 Apologies... 580 00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:15,805 for breaking unwanted words. 581 00:38:18,182 --> 00:38:20,935 Messia, what would you have me do? 582 00:38:21,102 --> 00:38:23,271 I cannot return feelings I do not hold. 583 00:38:23,396 --> 00:38:25,356 I wish to the gods I could reverse sun 584 00:38:25,523 --> 00:38:27,275 and see them unspoken. 585 00:38:28,317 --> 00:38:30,486 I do not mean to be unkind. 586 00:38:30,653 --> 00:38:31,487 Nor I. 587 00:38:31,863 --> 00:38:33,656 Yet I do not know how to be 588 00:38:34,699 --> 00:38:37,743 when presented each day with that which I desire 589 00:38:38,202 --> 00:38:39,662 yet cannot have. 590 00:38:56,679 --> 00:38:58,055 Your attention wanders, brother. 591 00:38:58,222 --> 00:39:00,266 Towards vexing cause. 592 00:39:06,939 --> 00:39:09,442 You take well to style of dimachaerus. 593 00:39:10,276 --> 00:39:11,444 I never favored it. 594 00:39:12,195 --> 00:39:14,864 You stand too vulnerable absent shield. 595 00:39:15,865 --> 00:39:17,074 Yours offered little protection 596 00:39:17,241 --> 00:39:18,993 when I sent you to fucking ground. 597 00:39:19,619 --> 00:39:22,872 Do not ascribe to skill what lies in fault of another. 598 00:39:24,165 --> 00:39:26,959 More careful thought will greet you next we meet. 599 00:39:29,587 --> 00:39:32,548 Strategy counselled by one more experienced? 600 00:39:37,011 --> 00:39:38,137 Yes, good. 601 00:39:39,555 --> 00:39:40,973 It is a heavy thing, 602 00:39:41,474 --> 00:39:44,101 living beneath shadow of noble father. 603 00:39:46,896 --> 00:39:50,233 - I live in no man's shadow. - Only a woman's, then? 604 00:39:56,447 --> 00:39:57,657 Upon a day, 605 00:39:58,491 --> 00:39:59,533 Nubian. 606 00:40:01,285 --> 00:40:02,995 Upon a fucking day. 607 00:40:04,664 --> 00:40:05,665 Ephesius! 608 00:40:06,499 --> 00:40:08,751 Let us fall to proper fucking contest! 609 00:40:21,472 --> 00:40:22,765 Oh, no. 610 00:40:23,474 --> 00:40:25,768 How favor you... 611 00:40:26,644 --> 00:40:28,020 - Oh! - ...this one? 612 00:40:28,145 --> 00:40:29,689 A gift from the gods. 613 00:40:29,814 --> 00:40:31,315 I've never felt its equal. 614 00:40:31,482 --> 00:40:33,734 I have yet more to offer one so luminous. 615 00:40:33,859 --> 00:40:35,444 We are going to fashion the finest stola 616 00:40:35,611 --> 00:40:38,322 this city has ever beheld... 617 00:40:38,489 --> 00:40:42,660 in anticipation of your father's games. 618 00:40:43,536 --> 00:40:44,829 The games? 619 00:40:44,996 --> 00:40:47,290 Entering the pulvinus draped in such finery 620 00:40:47,456 --> 00:40:49,500 shall precipitate absolute riot. 621 00:40:49,667 --> 00:40:53,129 - I will not be in attendance. - Your father expects it so. 622 00:40:53,879 --> 00:40:55,631 A desire I have not heard expressed from his lips. 623 00:40:55,798 --> 00:40:57,300 You must come, Viridia. 624 00:40:57,466 --> 00:41:00,136 You have been too long removed from eyes of adoring public- 625 00:41:05,391 --> 00:41:06,434 Guards! 626 00:41:09,729 --> 00:41:10,896 We must go! 627 00:41:15,818 --> 00:41:18,821 This way, come. 628 00:41:28,039 --> 00:41:29,123 Seize them! 629 00:41:48,726 --> 00:41:50,269 Viridia! 630 00:41:58,069 --> 00:41:59,362 Why do you fall upon us? 631 00:41:59,528 --> 00:42:01,447 Pose question to noble husband. 632 00:42:02,114 --> 00:42:04,909 Argh! 633 00:42:08,996 --> 00:42:10,206 Mother! 634 00:42:10,373 --> 00:42:12,625 We need but one. Part her from fucking life. 635 00:42:18,631 --> 00:42:20,132 Fucking cunts! 636 00:43:02,716 --> 00:43:04,051 Keep moving, you fucking bitch, 637 00:43:04,218 --> 00:43:06,220 or I shall have your fucking blood! 638 00:43:06,762 --> 00:43:08,848 Argh! 639 00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:13,769 Argh! 640 00:44:07,490 --> 00:44:08,699 Behind you! 641 00:45:47,506 --> 00:45:49,133 You are safe now. 642 00:45:56,890 --> 00:45:58,017 You're hurt. 643 00:45:58,517 --> 00:46:00,853 I would welcome a thousand such wounds 644 00:46:01,478 --> 00:46:02,771 if earning of them 645 00:46:03,355 --> 00:46:05,107 yet saw you grace this world. 646 00:46:06,150 --> 00:46:09,778 Nor would I have you fall from it, my life the cause. 647 00:46:18,829 --> 00:46:20,247 Viridia! 648 00:46:21,665 --> 00:46:23,167 Mother! 649 00:46:23,292 --> 00:46:26,253 I thought you dead! 650 00:46:28,631 --> 00:46:29,965 Such would have held true, 651 00:46:30,132 --> 00:46:32,593 had Ashur and his man not chanced upon us. 652 00:46:39,975 --> 00:46:40,893 Ashur. 653 00:46:41,018 --> 00:46:42,645 Who are these men? 654 00:46:47,650 --> 00:46:49,026 Cilicians. 655 00:46:51,820 --> 00:46:54,865 We must return you to your villa, quickly. 656 00:46:56,867 --> 00:47:00,537 Pirates? Here within city walls? 657 00:47:00,871 --> 00:47:03,040 So far removed from fucking sea? 658 00:47:03,207 --> 00:47:06,251 They grow bold, absent proper response from Rome. 659 00:47:07,461 --> 00:47:11,173 Oh, thank the gods you did not fall to rancorous harm. 660 00:47:11,340 --> 00:47:13,008 They held no divinity in it. 661 00:47:13,175 --> 00:47:16,136 Ashur and his man delivered us from untimely fate. 662 00:47:17,054 --> 00:47:20,516 Would that Horatia stood as fortunate. 663 00:47:21,183 --> 00:47:22,518 The Aedile's wife? 664 00:47:22,810 --> 00:47:23,727 Slain? 665 00:47:24,645 --> 00:47:27,940 In the streets, whilst sun yet graced fucking sky? 666 00:47:28,065 --> 00:47:31,068 Wife and daughter stood apparent bounty sought. 667 00:47:31,485 --> 00:47:33,987 Towards ransom, one would suspect. 668 00:47:34,154 --> 00:47:37,157 An outrage that shall be answered in blood. 669 00:47:37,324 --> 00:47:39,410 I fear it has already been drawn. 670 00:47:39,576 --> 00:47:41,745 He suffered injury in the exchange, 671 00:47:41,912 --> 00:47:43,747 no thought given to safety beyond our own. 672 00:47:43,914 --> 00:47:45,749 He shall be properly attended. 673 00:47:46,333 --> 00:47:50,629 See yourselves to bath and wine, to calm inflamed nerves. 674 00:47:52,381 --> 00:47:53,674 Once more, 675 00:47:54,091 --> 00:47:55,926 tongue bends towards gratitude. 676 00:47:56,093 --> 00:47:57,594 Unnecessary. 677 00:47:58,512 --> 00:48:00,305 Yet gratefully received. 678 00:48:01,515 --> 00:48:04,184 I thank the gods you were present... 679 00:48:05,185 --> 00:48:08,939 and had not succumbed to rumor of previous wounds. 680 00:48:09,898 --> 00:48:12,401 I but stood as any man of means and skill would have- 681 00:48:12,985 --> 00:48:14,445 to protect the Republic. 682 00:48:17,573 --> 00:48:19,199 Fall to the baths. 683 00:48:19,366 --> 00:48:23,078 I would break words with the Syrian in private. 684 00:48:23,912 --> 00:48:26,248 I shall attend to Crassus' shipment. 685 00:48:29,501 --> 00:48:30,627 Crassus? 686 00:48:30,794 --> 00:48:32,921 We prepare for his imminent arrival. 687 00:48:33,380 --> 00:48:35,132 He disengages from his army in Rome, 688 00:48:35,299 --> 00:48:36,800 so entrenched outside its gates? 689 00:48:36,967 --> 00:48:40,262 Such is message recently dispatched into my hands. 690 00:48:41,054 --> 00:48:42,931 More than can be said of Pompey. 691 00:48:44,224 --> 00:48:47,811 He remains unmoved by request to unset from opposing perch 692 00:48:47,978 --> 00:48:50,314 and quell these Cilician cutthroats. 693 00:48:50,439 --> 00:48:53,901 Perhaps loss of untold men in failed attempt 694 00:48:54,276 --> 00:48:55,694 may give them pause. 695 00:48:56,278 --> 00:48:59,114 Or they shall see efforts redoubled 696 00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:01,617 at expense heart can ill afford. 697 00:49:01,784 --> 00:49:04,578 We must remain vigilant against such possibility. 698 00:49:05,662 --> 00:49:08,665 Beloved daughter broke words carrying truth. 699 00:49:09,917 --> 00:49:12,044 Gratitude is owed. 700 00:49:13,295 --> 00:49:16,298 As is reward rising to level of deed. 701 00:49:20,511 --> 00:49:23,680 Your... noble daughter yet among the living 702 00:49:23,847 --> 00:49:26,016 presents reward beyond measure. 703 00:49:26,183 --> 00:49:29,269 A debt unpaid promises future expense. 704 00:49:29,686 --> 00:49:32,105 Often many times original sum. 705 00:49:32,981 --> 00:49:36,360 It is well known by all blessed with sense of fucking hearing 706 00:49:37,110 --> 00:49:39,238 that you desire entry to approaching games 707 00:49:39,363 --> 00:49:41,073 of the Ludi Apollinares. 708 00:49:41,448 --> 00:49:43,826 Thoughts occasionally turn upon subject. 709 00:49:43,951 --> 00:49:47,454 Then cease the churning of them. I shall see you well positioned. 710 00:49:52,668 --> 00:49:53,627 I... 711 00:49:55,796 --> 00:49:57,464 I do not possess words. 712 00:49:57,631 --> 00:49:59,633 Do not misconceive intent. 713 00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:01,468 I but erase debt, 714 00:50:01,593 --> 00:50:03,637 one I would not see plied against me 715 00:50:03,804 --> 00:50:06,306 upon inconvenient moment. 716 00:50:06,473 --> 00:50:07,432 Ah. 717 00:50:07,850 --> 00:50:10,894 Then we stand balanced, in all regards. 718 00:50:11,979 --> 00:50:14,022 Come. I shall have my medicus attend your wounds. 719 00:50:14,189 --> 00:50:15,524 Oh, a burden I will not impose. 720 00:50:15,691 --> 00:50:17,943 My own shall see to unconcerning wounds. 721 00:50:18,068 --> 00:50:20,487 I assure you mine stands of greater skill. 722 00:50:20,612 --> 00:50:22,531 Of that I hold no question. 723 00:50:23,031 --> 00:50:26,535 Yet I prefer not to stand in your debt. 724 00:50:29,538 --> 00:50:31,456 You learn quickly, Syrian. 725 00:50:32,249 --> 00:50:33,500 Very well. 726 00:50:34,001 --> 00:50:36,295 Let us part ways equally... 727 00:50:36,837 --> 00:50:38,255 untethered. 728 00:50:50,225 --> 00:50:53,729 You left Dominus at Gabinius' villa, to return alone? 729 00:50:53,896 --> 00:50:55,772 Ashur proves himself capable. 730 00:50:55,939 --> 00:50:57,566 Those who underestimate him 731 00:50:57,733 --> 00:50:59,443 do so at their own fucking peril. 732 00:50:59,610 --> 00:51:00,986 I would still see guards dispatched. 733 00:51:01,153 --> 00:51:04,239 Place concerns aside. The man himself appears. 734 00:51:05,532 --> 00:51:06,575 Dominus. 735 00:51:07,826 --> 00:51:10,996 - Fetch the medicus, quickly! - Oh, fuck medicus! 736 00:51:11,496 --> 00:51:15,959 I will bathe hard-fought wound in a river of fucking wine. 737 00:51:16,126 --> 00:51:18,587 Gabinius breaks words towards such elated mood? 738 00:51:18,754 --> 00:51:22,466 He breaks words that shall elevate this house. 739 00:51:23,050 --> 00:51:25,260 We stand blessed with position... 740 00:51:26,011 --> 00:51:28,013 in his fucking games. 741 00:51:31,725 --> 00:51:34,561 And you. 742 00:51:34,686 --> 00:51:36,688 You fucking titan! 743 00:51:37,773 --> 00:51:41,276 Your part in this shall not soon fall to discarded remembrance. 744 00:51:42,069 --> 00:51:44,363 Wine! Where is the fucking wine? 745 00:51:44,529 --> 00:51:46,239 How did you broach subject with Gabinius? 746 00:51:46,365 --> 00:51:47,699 A thing not required. 747 00:51:47,866 --> 00:51:50,410 He offered unprompted reward towards rescue 748 00:51:50,577 --> 00:51:52,537 of beloved wife and daughter. 749 00:51:52,663 --> 00:51:55,123 And you maneuvered such towards advantage in the arena? 750 00:51:55,290 --> 00:51:56,708 I maneuvered nothing. 751 00:51:57,751 --> 00:52:00,837 Tongue threatened to leap from mouth at the thought, but... 752 00:52:01,421 --> 00:52:03,507 heart held it fast in place. 753 00:52:04,007 --> 00:52:06,176 Viridia's life spared stood reward enough 754 00:52:06,343 --> 00:52:09,346 to consume all desire. 755 00:52:10,764 --> 00:52:15,602 The gods I hold no faith in favored humble Ashur. 756 00:52:17,813 --> 00:52:22,776 And you as well, with unwanted task now removed. 757 00:52:23,986 --> 00:52:24,987 Task? 758 00:52:25,404 --> 00:52:26,655 Lowering yourself to imagined affection 759 00:52:26,822 --> 00:52:29,866 to gain Opiter's aid towards the games. 760 00:52:30,993 --> 00:52:34,705 That preening little shit no longer stands of use. 761 00:52:35,288 --> 00:52:39,001 It is a relief not to be forced into his company. 762 00:52:40,961 --> 00:52:43,296 See all within this ludus to formation. 763 00:52:44,047 --> 00:52:46,216 And let us present glorious news 764 00:52:46,508 --> 00:52:47,801 of fucking 765 00:52:47,968 --> 00:52:50,137 ascension! 766 00:53:05,902 --> 00:53:08,739 You expect burning gaze to set her aflame? 767 00:53:10,032 --> 00:53:11,783 If I were so fortunate, 768 00:53:12,868 --> 00:53:15,996 surely my father would rush to extinguish blaze. 769 00:53:22,377 --> 00:53:24,004 This house has given rise 770 00:53:24,171 --> 00:53:27,799 to storied champions of lore and legends. 771 00:53:28,842 --> 00:53:31,386 Yet all who have come before shall pale 772 00:53:31,553 --> 00:53:34,681 against what I have fought with blood and bone 773 00:53:34,848 --> 00:53:37,059 to see opportunity presented. 774 00:53:38,310 --> 00:53:40,771 And such have been secured. 775 00:53:41,813 --> 00:53:45,984 We have gained position in the games of the Ludi Apollinares! 776 00:53:49,696 --> 00:53:51,073 And who shall grace the sands, Dominus? 777 00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:53,450 Tarchon, hold tongue. 778 00:53:54,201 --> 00:53:57,788 The boy is overcome by visions of glory. 779 00:53:58,538 --> 00:54:00,957 Positions and placements have yet to be broached. 780 00:54:01,083 --> 00:54:02,334 Yet know this. 781 00:54:02,709 --> 00:54:05,420 We shall see the Brothers Ferox to fucking grass 782 00:54:05,587 --> 00:54:08,882 for offense presented by the shit Proculus, 783 00:54:09,216 --> 00:54:10,300 by the hands 784 00:54:10,675 --> 00:54:12,928 of the goddess of fucking death. 785 00:54:18,266 --> 00:54:21,603 Fall to your beds and gather strength for coming days. 786 00:54:21,770 --> 00:54:24,439 I will announce those among you who are for the arena- 787 00:54:24,606 --> 00:54:25,524 Dominus. 788 00:54:26,108 --> 00:54:28,735 Procession has been spotted upon road towards villa. 789 00:54:34,574 --> 00:54:37,410 Our patron, Crassus, at last arrives. 790 00:54:37,577 --> 00:54:39,162 Let him stand in awe 791 00:54:39,329 --> 00:54:43,375 at the fearsome offering of the House of fucking Ashur! 792 00:54:49,965 --> 00:54:52,467 Doctore, fall to my side 793 00:54:52,634 --> 00:54:56,096 and let us greet destiny with worthy embrace. 794 00:55:07,149 --> 00:55:09,109 Do robes fall in manner matter pleasing to eye? 795 00:55:09,234 --> 00:55:10,527 You intend to welcome the man 796 00:55:10,652 --> 00:55:12,863 or present your arse for his pleasure? 797 00:55:13,989 --> 00:55:16,616 His wagon arrives. 798 00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:18,285 Straighten backs. 799 00:55:18,660 --> 00:55:20,078 Assume pleasant disposition, 800 00:55:20,203 --> 00:55:22,747 yet cast gaze downwards to avoid catching eye. 801 00:55:38,180 --> 00:55:39,598 Whoa! 802 00:55:42,726 --> 00:55:44,769 Korris, three steps lingering a pace. 803 00:56:09,294 --> 00:56:12,923 Mighty Crassus, you honor us with your noble presence. 804 00:56:13,632 --> 00:56:15,634 You mistake me, Syrian. 805 00:56:18,470 --> 00:56:19,763 Caesar. 806 00:56:24,430 --> 00:56:27,490 ETHEL Sub resync by Se7enOfNin9 for Addic7ed.com