1 00:00:06,081 --> 00:00:07,983 Wake. 2 00:00:13,409 --> 00:00:16,432 You stand but first crude brick, laying foundation 3 00:00:16,532 --> 00:00:18,394 to the rise of the house of Ashur. 4 00:00:18,494 --> 00:00:19,755 All those before me shall fall. 5 00:00:19,855 --> 00:00:21,517 Enter the brothers Ferox! 6 00:00:21,617 --> 00:00:23,819 Aargh! 7 00:00:25,621 --> 00:00:28,524 That toad is pet to Marcus fucking Crassus. 8 00:00:28,624 --> 00:00:30,766 Apologies, Gabinius. We did not think. 9 00:00:30,866 --> 00:00:34,369 I shall redouble the effort to secure undiscovered spectacle 10 00:00:34,469 --> 00:00:36,772 and see rematch upon a day. 11 00:00:38,673 --> 00:00:41,176 Let us gaze upon glorious future. 12 00:00:41,276 --> 00:00:45,580 Aargh! Pledge oath, call me Dominus and fight in the arena. 13 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:47,582 Earn your freedom upon the sands. 14 00:00:47,682 --> 00:00:49,885 - Achillia. - Dominus. 15 00:01:12,106 --> 00:01:13,208 Ay! 16 00:01:13,308 --> 00:01:15,610 Tarchon! You lower shield before you strike. 17 00:01:15,710 --> 00:01:19,174 See it raised- your brains upon the sands. 18 00:01:19,274 --> 00:01:21,276 Yes, Doctore. 19 00:01:29,243 --> 00:01:31,145 You fight with vigour. 20 00:01:31,245 --> 00:01:33,708 Well, this house now stands absent champion- 21 00:01:33,808 --> 00:01:35,670 a position I would claim my own. 22 00:01:35,770 --> 00:01:37,672 Well, to become champion, 23 00:01:37,772 --> 00:01:40,615 you must first defeat vaunted father. 24 00:01:52,426 --> 00:01:54,428 A venture yet beyond grasp. 25 00:01:56,430 --> 00:01:58,873 For now, you withered corpse. 26 00:02:08,402 --> 00:02:09,984 You mad fuck! 27 00:02:10,084 --> 00:02:12,646 - You lower your guard. - Towards good fucking reason. 28 00:02:44,678 --> 00:02:46,680 We have felt the sting 29 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:49,242 of loss. 30 00:02:49,563 --> 00:02:50,744 Witnessed honoured champion 31 00:02:50,844 --> 00:02:52,346 fall upon the sands of the arena 32 00:02:52,446 --> 00:02:55,529 to the ill-thriven jackals of Proculus. 33 00:02:56,329 --> 00:02:59,473 Yet, as rising sun breaks dawn, 34 00:02:59,573 --> 00:03:01,074 so too shall the House of Ashur 35 00:03:01,174 --> 00:03:03,336 dispel darkest night of indignity. 36 00:03:04,658 --> 00:03:07,160 We shall no longer be bound by the shackles of history 37 00:03:07,260 --> 00:03:09,262 or fucking tradition! 38 00:03:10,263 --> 00:03:12,365 We set foot upon uncharted course 39 00:03:12,465 --> 00:03:14,467 to satisfy the crowd's desire 40 00:03:14,988 --> 00:03:17,150 with more exotic... 41 00:03:17,831 --> 00:03:19,833 offerings. 42 00:03:20,433 --> 00:03:23,276 But how shall rising thirst be quenched? 43 00:03:23,716 --> 00:03:25,979 There stands but one capable of satiating 44 00:03:26,079 --> 00:03:28,081 such ravenous mob! 45 00:03:29,082 --> 00:03:30,984 Behold, 46 00:03:31,084 --> 00:03:33,086 Achillia. 47 00:03:34,047 --> 00:03:36,049 The Goddess of Death. 48 00:03:40,012 --> 00:03:43,256 Silence fucking tongue, and attend your Dominus! 49 00:03:46,739 --> 00:03:48,821 Return to training, you simple fucks. 50 00:03:52,104 --> 00:03:54,106 Doctore, 51 00:03:54,467 --> 00:03:56,469 see Achillia to instruction. 52 00:03:57,029 --> 00:04:00,833 Dacus, sword and shield, towards style of murmillo! 53 00:04:01,514 --> 00:04:03,516 Yes, Doctore! 54 00:04:06,719 --> 00:04:08,701 The woman bears resemblance to my mother- 55 00:04:08,801 --> 00:04:10,983 a spiteful fucking whore. 56 00:04:11,083 --> 00:04:13,606 That explains much, you witless shit. 57 00:04:16,849 --> 00:04:19,491 - A fucking woman, father. - Turn thoughts. 58 00:04:20,172 --> 00:04:22,174 And raise guard! 59 00:04:22,895 --> 00:04:24,316 Erato! 60 00:04:24,416 --> 00:04:26,438 Pair with Achillia. 61 00:04:26,538 --> 00:04:29,882 I would see cock tangle with more worthy adversary. 62 00:04:31,623 --> 00:04:33,625 Work the fucking log! 63 00:04:41,914 --> 00:04:43,916 - Ay! - Tarchon! 64 00:04:44,876 --> 00:04:46,878 Pair with Achillia. 65 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:50,562 Yes, Doctore. 66 00:04:54,206 --> 00:04:55,267 Shall I treat her as opponent 67 00:04:55,367 --> 00:04:56,908 or something of delicate persuasion? 68 00:05:00,772 --> 00:05:03,215 A question I was of mind to pose towards you. 69 00:05:04,176 --> 00:05:07,219 See idle words give way to clash of swords. 70 00:05:17,509 --> 00:05:18,770 Begin! 71 00:05:26,718 --> 00:05:28,960 She is of a form, is she not? 72 00:05:31,242 --> 00:05:33,224 - Yes, Dominus. - Mm-hm. 73 00:06:02,994 --> 00:06:04,996 Aargh! 74 00:06:08,959 --> 00:06:11,842 You have fought before, yet not against such as I. 75 00:06:15,966 --> 00:06:17,968 Fucking shield weights intent. 76 00:06:23,894 --> 00:06:26,217 You will address me as Doctore. 77 00:06:27,097 --> 00:06:28,439 Retrieve the shield. 78 00:06:28,539 --> 00:06:31,242 It is not to my benefit, Doctore. 79 00:06:31,342 --> 00:06:34,184 You will do as commanded! 80 00:06:41,432 --> 00:06:43,173 Achillia, 81 00:06:43,273 --> 00:06:45,275 stand ground. 82 00:06:45,996 --> 00:06:47,998 And receive correction. 83 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:52,122 Dominus. 84 00:07:08,338 --> 00:07:10,340 The moment has fucking passed. 85 00:07:13,023 --> 00:07:15,025 Resume training. 86 00:07:33,523 --> 00:07:35,105 Begin! 87 00:07:35,205 --> 00:07:36,586 Aargh! 88 00:07:36,686 --> 00:07:39,549 She does not grant respect title of Doctore demands. 89 00:07:39,649 --> 00:07:41,911 Respect is not granted; it is taken. 90 00:07:42,011 --> 00:07:43,673 Instruct Achillia in our ways 91 00:07:43,773 --> 00:07:45,795 and see bared teeth give way to averted gaze. 92 00:07:45,895 --> 00:07:48,798 A lesson not easily grasped by rabid dog. 93 00:07:48,898 --> 00:07:51,241 Then respond with lash until tongue laps at heel. 94 00:07:51,341 --> 00:07:53,403 And what if beast cannot be tamed? 95 00:07:53,503 --> 00:07:55,365 Spartacus once stood as wild. 96 00:07:55,465 --> 00:07:58,007 Yet by will and teachings of Oenomaus, 97 00:07:58,107 --> 00:08:00,089 he was domesticated 98 00:08:00,189 --> 00:08:02,412 and became champion of fucking Capua- 99 00:08:02,512 --> 00:08:03,693 a result I would see mirrored. 100 00:08:03,793 --> 00:08:06,315 She reflects but promise of disappointment. 101 00:08:08,037 --> 00:08:10,059 - Do you stand fucking Dominus? - I do not. 102 00:08:10,159 --> 00:08:13,703 Yet you bleat as if exalted title cloaks you in such regard. 103 00:08:13,803 --> 00:08:16,425 I account what eyes behold through lens of experience. 104 00:08:16,525 --> 00:08:20,409 She is but fucking clay for your hands to mould. 105 00:08:20,970 --> 00:08:22,351 Forge her in the fires of this ludus, 106 00:08:22,451 --> 00:08:24,193 hardening her to swift purpose. 107 00:08:24,293 --> 00:08:26,896 Swift? Achillia has but only commenced training. 108 00:08:27,857 --> 00:08:29,598 A thing of minor consequence. 109 00:08:29,698 --> 00:08:32,501 I would see her ready for the games of the Ludi Apollinares. 110 00:08:33,542 --> 00:08:36,966 - You have secured position? - I manoeuvre towards such. 111 00:08:37,066 --> 00:08:40,129 So we but clutch at fanciful dream. 112 00:08:40,229 --> 00:08:42,451 As certain as waking upon each fucking day, 113 00:08:42,551 --> 00:08:45,294 I shall see it done and claim desired contest against 114 00:08:45,394 --> 00:08:47,396 the Brothers Ferox once more. 115 00:08:47,756 --> 00:08:50,599 You wager all that crowd will not turn upon us. 116 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:53,702 - For presenting novelty? - For breaking tradition, 117 00:08:53,802 --> 00:08:55,504 when fucking woman takes to the sands. 118 00:08:55,604 --> 00:08:57,586 Tradition is but a word revered by those 119 00:08:57,686 --> 00:08:58,987 who pursue mediocrity. 120 00:08:59,087 --> 00:09:01,310 The House of Ashur will carve its own path 121 00:09:01,410 --> 00:09:04,413 and fuck into oblivion all who stands in its way. 122 00:09:04,773 --> 00:09:07,456 Dominus, message has arrived from Rome. 123 00:09:08,697 --> 00:09:11,440 Ah! At last. 124 00:09:11,540 --> 00:09:14,443 Mighty Crassus deigns to respond. 125 00:09:14,543 --> 00:09:17,005 Apologies. It is not from Crassus. 126 00:09:17,105 --> 00:09:19,107 Who, then? 127 00:09:20,388 --> 00:09:22,531 Julius fucking Caesar. 128 00:09:22,631 --> 00:09:25,413 A man of no worth beyond name granted by slipping 129 00:09:25,513 --> 00:09:26,975 from mother's cunt. 130 00:09:27,075 --> 00:09:29,538 He stands a quaestor, does he not? A position of some note. 131 00:09:29,638 --> 00:09:31,099 Fuck position. 132 00:09:31,199 --> 00:09:34,122 Caesar flings his own shit and declares it manna from heaven. 133 00:09:39,327 --> 00:09:41,349 He breaks words of some distress? 134 00:09:41,449 --> 00:09:43,451 Some. 135 00:09:43,812 --> 00:09:46,074 He sends us and our men upon Appian Way, 136 00:09:46,174 --> 00:09:48,576 towards unsavoury task. 137 00:09:49,217 --> 00:09:51,599 Do you not stand a free man, as Caesar? 138 00:09:51,699 --> 00:09:53,201 And as such, not bound by request? 139 00:09:53,301 --> 00:09:57,125 I stand free in the eye of the republic, yet not in coin. 140 00:09:57,225 --> 00:10:00,988 Crassus is honoured patron and Caesar his fucking will. 141 00:10:01,629 --> 00:10:05,533 We must part lips and swallow anointed cock. 142 00:10:19,527 --> 00:10:22,370 Move cart further from fucking nose. 143 00:10:46,153 --> 00:10:48,155 It is a heavy sight... 144 00:10:48,595 --> 00:10:52,159 to witness so many hearts no longer beating beneath chest. 145 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:57,004 The rebel army that shook the mighty republic 146 00:10:58,085 --> 00:11:01,448 reduced to rotten flesh beneath vengeful sun. 147 00:11:01,849 --> 00:11:04,651 Shit cock! 148 00:11:07,454 --> 00:11:10,797 We stand gladiators, not common fucking slaves. 149 00:11:10,897 --> 00:11:13,620 You stand as I fucking command! 150 00:11:19,026 --> 00:11:22,909 Creticus has mind equal to dazed child, yet breaks truth. 151 00:11:23,470 --> 00:11:25,932 A gladiator's place is upon the sands of the arena- 152 00:11:26,032 --> 00:11:29,136 it is the duty of a quaestor to tend to the Appian Way. 153 00:11:29,236 --> 00:11:32,239 Caesar's tongue yet find purchase in Crassus' ass. 154 00:11:32,839 --> 00:11:34,541 We must endure one to gain benefit of more- 155 00:11:34,641 --> 00:11:36,643 Stop! 156 00:11:39,446 --> 00:11:41,448 That mark- 157 00:11:43,009 --> 00:11:47,173 this man stood Champion of the House of Batiatus. 158 00:11:50,096 --> 00:11:51,758 Gannicus. 159 00:11:51,858 --> 00:11:54,801 Gannicus! Gannicus! Gannicus! 160 00:11:54,901 --> 00:11:57,023 I had occasion to cross paths with him once, 161 00:11:57,503 --> 00:11:59,205 after he claimed freedom in the arena, 162 00:11:59,305 --> 00:12:01,908 before he fell among Spartacus and his rebels. 163 00:12:02,629 --> 00:12:04,631 A drunken, disagreeable fellow, 164 00:12:06,072 --> 00:12:08,074 much to my liking. 165 00:12:08,755 --> 00:12:12,298 He embraced his fate, as all men must. 166 00:12:12,398 --> 00:12:13,620 His death a kindness 167 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:17,283 to one forever haunted by past transgressions. 168 00:12:19,565 --> 00:12:22,048 - See him to fucking wagon. - Dominus. 169 00:12:29,695 --> 00:12:32,378 This man stood a god of the arena, 170 00:12:32,938 --> 00:12:36,462 his skill rivalled only by the Bringer of Rain himself. 171 00:12:38,064 --> 00:12:40,146 Two legends, birthed from our ludus. 172 00:12:40,866 --> 00:12:44,310 Yet we now stand absent even lowly position in the games. 173 00:12:45,511 --> 00:12:47,513 How far this fucking house has fallen. 174 00:12:49,875 --> 00:12:51,056 Come, come. 175 00:13:06,892 --> 00:13:08,894 You desecrate these walls? 176 00:13:11,056 --> 00:13:13,058 - I but enhance them. - Mm. 177 00:13:16,101 --> 00:13:18,243 This beast, 178 00:13:18,343 --> 00:13:19,765 he is of your homeland? 179 00:13:19,865 --> 00:13:21,206 Apedemak, 180 00:13:21,306 --> 00:13:23,308 god of war and conquest. 181 00:13:25,470 --> 00:13:27,472 You pray to him? 182 00:13:29,274 --> 00:13:32,417 - He would not listen. - Then why work his image? 183 00:13:32,517 --> 00:13:34,800 - As a reminder. - Towards? 184 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:37,682 What was lost. 185 00:13:40,405 --> 00:13:42,407 Pause labor and take water. 186 00:14:00,705 --> 00:14:02,707 - Gratitude. - None required. 187 00:14:06,551 --> 00:14:08,553 Your scars- 188 00:14:09,274 --> 00:14:11,276 how did you come by them? 189 00:14:12,277 --> 00:14:15,079 A tale not for one so soft in form. 190 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:18,182 In battle? 191 00:14:18,282 --> 00:14:19,704 When captured by the Romans? 192 00:14:19,804 --> 00:14:21,265 I did not fall to those fucking shits. 193 00:14:21,365 --> 00:14:23,388 Marked by previous Dominus, then? 194 00:14:23,488 --> 00:14:24,589 Towards instruction of manners? 195 00:14:24,689 --> 00:14:26,431 I have never stood a slave. 196 00:14:26,531 --> 00:14:30,374 Yet here in this house, that is all you stand. 197 00:14:33,457 --> 00:14:35,900 Lay hands upon Dominus again... 198 00:14:37,141 --> 00:14:39,984 and I shall see you parted from fucking life. 199 00:14:42,186 --> 00:14:45,189 Little mouse squeaks, and I'm to shudder in fear? 200 00:14:45,790 --> 00:14:48,232 Make attempt and see talon part head from body. 201 00:14:49,994 --> 00:14:53,477 A certain end, if I were to move against you openly. 202 00:14:54,839 --> 00:14:57,882 Yet there are many ways a clever mouse 203 00:14:58,322 --> 00:15:00,684 may see vicious hawk to grass. 204 00:15:07,611 --> 00:15:09,973 You taint fucking water? 205 00:15:11,855 --> 00:15:13,917 I have not. 206 00:15:14,017 --> 00:15:16,820 Yet at any moment, I could snatch breath, 207 00:15:17,501 --> 00:15:19,583 absent suspicion. 208 00:15:23,667 --> 00:15:27,711 I shall leave you to your god, who ignores your prayers. 209 00:15:42,886 --> 00:15:45,028 Seize fucking mind! 210 00:15:45,128 --> 00:15:46,790 - Doctore! - Salvius! 211 00:15:50,774 --> 00:15:52,776 Well deserved, you fu-! 212 00:15:54,057 --> 00:15:56,439 - Enough! - Fuck! 213 00:15:56,539 --> 00:15:59,102 You fall to fucking quarrel! 214 00:16:00,263 --> 00:16:01,765 Blood boiling in ear, 215 00:16:01,865 --> 00:16:06,389 preventing voice of your Dominus to pierce thick fucking skull! 216 00:16:09,592 --> 00:16:11,955 Look upon your brothers. 217 00:16:12,395 --> 00:16:14,177 They too defy their master 218 00:16:14,277 --> 00:16:17,240 and now rot upon fucking cross. 219 00:16:19,682 --> 00:16:21,684 Continue to inflame... 220 00:16:22,205 --> 00:16:24,847 and see yourself nailed among them. 221 00:16:35,538 --> 00:16:37,560 You lose control. 222 00:16:37,660 --> 00:16:39,282 The sun overheats passions, 223 00:16:39,382 --> 00:16:41,704 already roiled by Achillia's presence. 224 00:16:44,026 --> 00:16:46,589 Fuck Jupiter's face. 225 00:16:47,430 --> 00:16:52,675 It lifts heart, to witness your men at last put to proper use. 226 00:16:56,679 --> 00:16:58,341 I but serve the republic on this day, 227 00:16:58,441 --> 00:17:00,723 at request of revered Caesar. 228 00:17:01,243 --> 00:17:03,065 Yet upon another, 229 00:17:03,165 --> 00:17:05,287 I would present latest acquisition in the arena 230 00:17:05,768 --> 00:17:10,012 and have contest revisited towards diminutive abortions. 231 00:17:10,332 --> 00:17:14,757 At least we knew our mother, you fucking cunt! 232 00:17:18,861 --> 00:17:23,545 Descend from lofty perch and broach subject of lineage again. 233 00:17:25,988 --> 00:17:30,112 Hold! We are for Pompeii, where we battle in the arena. 234 00:17:31,153 --> 00:17:34,436 Let us leave the House of Ashur to its labours- 235 00:17:35,357 --> 00:17:36,738 in the dirt. 236 00:17:36,838 --> 00:17:38,840 Form! 237 00:17:40,522 --> 00:17:41,863 Is it fear 238 00:17:41,963 --> 00:17:44,486 that stays hand from rematch upon next games in Capua? 239 00:17:44,806 --> 00:17:47,509 I welcome such entertainment. 240 00:17:47,609 --> 00:17:49,031 - Mm. - Yet station to decide 241 00:17:49,131 --> 00:17:52,214 who shall fight and who shall wallow in their own shit 242 00:17:52,774 --> 00:17:54,856 falls not to me but to good Gabinius. 243 00:17:56,097 --> 00:17:58,099 Gabinius? 244 00:17:58,700 --> 00:18:02,043 He hosts the game of the Ludi Apollinares? 245 00:18:02,143 --> 00:18:03,885 We are so honoured. 246 00:18:03,985 --> 00:18:06,868 Perhaps you may entreat him towards your cause. 247 00:18:08,149 --> 00:18:10,151 Or his beloved wife. 248 00:18:13,635 --> 00:18:16,738 ♪ Blood rains down from an angry sky! ♪ 249 00:18:16,838 --> 00:18:20,181 ♪ My cock rages on! My cock rages on! ♪ 250 00:18:20,281 --> 00:18:23,104 ♪ Till death is found, my sword swinging hot! ♪ 251 00:18:23,204 --> 00:18:26,147 The gods you do not believe in shit upon us once more. 252 00:18:26,247 --> 00:18:28,189 They but present new obstacle. 253 00:18:28,289 --> 00:18:30,151 Cossutia orchestrated humiliation 254 00:18:30,251 --> 00:18:32,113 and the fall of our champion, Logas. 255 00:18:32,213 --> 00:18:35,456 She will poison husband towards granting position. 256 00:18:35,857 --> 00:18:38,640 - Uvidus may yet hold sway. - The aedile? 257 00:18:38,740 --> 00:18:42,663 The man fears Crassus and may provide necessary leverage. 258 00:18:43,664 --> 00:18:46,327 Would not equal trepidation fall towards Pompey, 259 00:18:46,427 --> 00:18:48,509 whose favour Gabinius holds? 260 00:18:49,310 --> 00:18:51,312 Set purpose towards Achillia's training. 261 00:18:51,993 --> 00:18:55,196 And leave machinations towards greater fucking minds. 262 00:19:15,376 --> 00:19:17,378 Good. 263 00:19:21,662 --> 00:19:24,104 You yet reek of rotting flesh from Appian Way. 264 00:19:24,585 --> 00:19:26,287 I but smell as a man. 265 00:19:26,387 --> 00:19:28,389 A man of piss and shit. 266 00:19:30,711 --> 00:19:32,813 Doctore! 267 00:19:32,913 --> 00:19:36,196 Perhaps the goddess of death should fall to proper contest. 268 00:19:36,677 --> 00:19:38,739 She would welcome such a diversion. 269 00:19:38,839 --> 00:19:42,242 A sentiment to be regretted. Take position. 270 00:19:46,927 --> 00:19:48,929 Dacus! Spear! 271 00:19:57,737 --> 00:20:00,200 I shall fuck salted words from mouth. 272 00:20:00,300 --> 00:20:02,302 Do you borrow cock to do so? 273 00:20:04,784 --> 00:20:06,786 Tarchon... 274 00:20:07,387 --> 00:20:09,389 fall beside Creticus. 275 00:20:10,030 --> 00:20:11,451 I'm to face two opponents? 276 00:20:11,551 --> 00:20:12,792 Should the gods favour you towards the arena, 277 00:20:12,872 --> 00:20:14,874 you shall face three- 278 00:20:15,355 --> 00:20:16,977 the Brothers Ferox. 279 00:20:17,077 --> 00:20:21,461 Vicious half-men, pulled from the ass of a rival lanista. 280 00:20:21,561 --> 00:20:23,183 Half-men? 281 00:20:23,283 --> 00:20:25,065 I could piss and they'd thank the gods for rain. 282 00:20:25,165 --> 00:20:27,507 She does not need sword and shield, Doctore; 283 00:20:27,607 --> 00:20:29,629 she'll cut them down with fucking tongue. 284 00:20:29,729 --> 00:20:32,812 Our honour stands no fucking jest! 285 00:20:33,813 --> 00:20:35,815 Nor do the Brothers Ferox. 286 00:20:36,936 --> 00:20:39,038 Nature twisted them into knotted lump. 287 00:20:39,138 --> 00:20:40,640 And in their anger and pain, 288 00:20:40,740 --> 00:20:43,963 they torment death with aggrieved hands. 289 00:20:44,063 --> 00:20:47,947 Misjudge them, and see your life forfeit. 290 00:20:50,229 --> 00:20:52,231 Take position. 291 00:21:00,159 --> 00:21:02,301 Begin! 292 00:21:18,657 --> 00:21:21,881 Focus on the one opponent and invite fucking from the other. 293 00:21:23,102 --> 00:21:24,884 Fucking shield again prevents movement. 294 00:21:24,984 --> 00:21:28,307 You face men, shield stands all between you and the afterlife. 295 00:21:29,028 --> 00:21:31,030 Again. 296 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:42,361 Tarchon! 297 00:21:48,166 --> 00:21:49,628 Good! 298 00:21:49,728 --> 00:21:51,069 Rid yourself of one adversary 299 00:21:51,169 --> 00:21:53,672 so you may advance upon other absent distraction. 300 00:21:57,416 --> 00:21:59,698 You have not earned position in this fucking house. 301 00:22:01,219 --> 00:22:03,842 Aargh! 302 00:22:12,270 --> 00:22:14,292 Disappointing. 303 00:22:14,392 --> 00:22:17,796 Eat! We resume training after heat of midday sun. 304 00:22:23,802 --> 00:22:25,984 She is not absent skill. 305 00:22:26,084 --> 00:22:30,468 She is absent honour, striking Creticus upon manhood. 306 00:22:30,568 --> 00:22:33,731 An unfortunate blow, yet the fault is yours. 307 00:22:34,492 --> 00:22:35,954 Mine? 308 00:22:36,054 --> 00:22:38,957 Desire towards singular victory left valued friend exposed. 309 00:22:39,057 --> 00:22:43,501 Had this been the arena, both of you would have fallen. 310 00:23:13,170 --> 00:23:15,933 That's fucking shit. 311 00:23:21,859 --> 00:23:23,961 Regain seat. 312 00:23:24,061 --> 00:23:29,266 I did not spring from your cock, nor am I bound by fucking voice. 313 00:23:31,028 --> 00:23:33,030 The man presents sharpened point. 314 00:23:36,113 --> 00:23:38,395 Your sword will not find purchase once more. 315 00:23:39,036 --> 00:23:41,959 Why, do you never intend to fight again? 316 00:23:46,723 --> 00:23:48,725 Dogs eat from fucking ground. 317 00:23:55,292 --> 00:23:57,154 Creticus! 318 00:23:57,254 --> 00:24:00,317 You do not fight unless it is upon my fucking command. 319 00:24:00,417 --> 00:24:02,159 Apologies, Doctore. 320 00:24:02,259 --> 00:24:05,262 I but remind the woman of her place. 321 00:24:05,622 --> 00:24:07,624 Return to training. 322 00:24:08,225 --> 00:24:10,227 All of you! 323 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:27,184 Her presence incites disobedience and distraction. 324 00:24:27,284 --> 00:24:30,146 They cannot even break food without falling to quarrel. 325 00:24:30,246 --> 00:24:32,609 You pace like caged beast, 326 00:24:33,009 --> 00:24:35,331 rending tranquil mood. 327 00:24:35,692 --> 00:24:37,694 Apologies for disturbing fucking bath. 328 00:24:39,456 --> 00:24:43,760 Perhaps inflamed passion would be cooled by soothing waters. 329 00:24:43,860 --> 00:24:45,602 I prefer to bathe in solitude. 330 00:24:45,702 --> 00:24:47,704 Yet you do not fucking stand so. 331 00:24:48,064 --> 00:24:50,546 Wet cock and douse inferno 332 00:24:51,067 --> 00:24:53,069 with wine. 333 00:24:54,230 --> 00:24:56,232 Fill cup to overflowing. 334 00:25:13,289 --> 00:25:15,651 Does sun break through fucking cloud? 335 00:25:18,374 --> 00:25:20,376 It makes attempt. 336 00:25:21,257 --> 00:25:23,519 Achillia affords rarest opportunity. 337 00:25:23,619 --> 00:25:26,242 A sight never before witnessed in the arena. 338 00:25:26,342 --> 00:25:27,443 For good reason. 339 00:25:27,543 --> 00:25:29,765 She does not belong upon such sacred ground. 340 00:25:29,865 --> 00:25:32,748 Accusation hurled at retiarius when first introduced. 341 00:25:33,108 --> 00:25:36,172 Net and trident, how they laughed. 342 00:25:36,272 --> 00:25:38,854 Yet now, not a game passes absent their presence. 343 00:25:38,954 --> 00:25:41,577 Tradition is but a novel rite, aged to maturity. 344 00:25:41,677 --> 00:25:43,939 A thing I would see Achillia become. 345 00:25:44,039 --> 00:25:46,181 She cannot triumph against the Brothers Ferox. 346 00:25:46,281 --> 00:25:48,283 No, she cannot... 347 00:25:48,844 --> 00:25:49,985 yet. 348 00:25:50,085 --> 00:25:51,347 You hold too much faith in my instruction. 349 00:25:51,447 --> 00:25:54,069 - I hold what is necessary. - And what of the men? 350 00:25:54,169 --> 00:25:57,152 They must embrace the future or fall to memory. 351 00:25:57,252 --> 00:25:59,234 They will never welcome a woman as one of their own. 352 00:25:59,334 --> 00:26:03,338 They need not to welcome her, but they must fucking accept. 353 00:26:08,223 --> 00:26:10,405 It is a bitter herb you entreat them swallow. 354 00:26:10,505 --> 00:26:12,808 Then let us see it honeyed with wine and whores, 355 00:26:12,908 --> 00:26:15,110 to balm injured fucking pride. 356 00:26:15,791 --> 00:26:18,694 Such a gesture would aid in calming gathering tempest. 357 00:26:18,794 --> 00:26:21,716 With promise of more, towards falling to reason. 358 00:26:23,038 --> 00:26:26,561 Apologies, Dominus. Senator Gabinius has sent messenger. 359 00:26:28,163 --> 00:26:29,584 What word did he carry? 360 00:26:29,684 --> 00:26:32,367 He insists message be delivered only to your hands. 361 00:26:33,128 --> 00:26:35,510 - Materialise the fucking man. - Yes, Dominus. 362 00:26:35,610 --> 00:26:37,472 The aedile champions our cause to Gabinius? 363 00:26:37,572 --> 00:26:40,015 I have yet opportunity to broach subject. 364 00:26:50,225 --> 00:26:52,747 - You stand Gabinius' man? - Such is my charge. 365 00:26:53,067 --> 00:26:55,069 Hand over, then. 366 00:27:08,363 --> 00:27:13,608 Um, inform honoured senator what he requests is agreeable. 367 00:27:24,258 --> 00:27:27,642 Gabinius invites me to break meal at his villa! 368 00:27:27,742 --> 00:27:29,083 To what purpose? 369 00:27:29,183 --> 00:27:33,187 Unknown, yet I shall turn it to fucking advantage. 370 00:27:34,508 --> 00:27:36,590 Dominus has parted from sense. 371 00:27:36,951 --> 00:27:38,773 As Achillia parted you from yours. 372 00:27:38,873 --> 00:27:40,895 It was but luck. 373 00:27:40,995 --> 00:27:43,197 And trust fucking Nubian held thread of honour. 374 00:27:43,717 --> 00:27:45,459 You place blame where it does not sleep. 375 00:27:45,559 --> 00:27:47,561 You place fault in my efforts? 376 00:27:48,082 --> 00:27:49,543 No. 377 00:27:49,643 --> 00:27:53,287 Upon mine. I was absent thought towards all but victory, 378 00:27:54,168 --> 00:27:55,469 leaving you exposed. 379 00:27:55,569 --> 00:27:57,631 I do not need you to come to aid, you fucking shit. 380 00:27:57,731 --> 00:28:00,874 Your cock says otherwise. 381 00:28:00,974 --> 00:28:03,597 When paired in the arena, you must fight as one. 382 00:28:03,697 --> 00:28:05,799 Or fall divided. 383 00:28:05,899 --> 00:28:08,902 And when were you last upon the sands, old man? 384 00:28:12,065 --> 00:28:14,228 A lifetime ago, yet I... 385 00:28:15,108 --> 00:28:16,650 lived. 386 00:28:16,750 --> 00:28:19,853 Which is a victory I fear you may tumble well short of. 387 00:28:19,953 --> 00:28:22,115 A thing of no pressing concern. 388 00:28:22,996 --> 00:28:25,379 We are the House of Piss and Shit, 389 00:28:25,479 --> 00:28:27,821 denied opportunity of glorious death. 390 00:28:27,921 --> 00:28:29,182 Yours not so much, 391 00:28:29,282 --> 00:28:31,665 assuming opponent stood greater than small child. 392 00:28:33,446 --> 00:28:35,348 Fill air with fucking laughter, 393 00:28:35,448 --> 00:28:38,271 as Capua does upon thought of this fucking house. 394 00:28:38,371 --> 00:28:40,373 It is what we make it. 395 00:28:43,617 --> 00:28:45,559 See weighted spirits lifted. 396 00:28:45,659 --> 00:28:48,481 Your Dominus presents gift of wine and whores. 397 00:28:51,584 --> 00:28:54,447 Well, perhaps the gods yet favour this fucking House! 398 00:28:54,547 --> 00:28:55,729 Now remove yourselves 399 00:28:55,829 --> 00:28:58,111 so Achillia may bathe absent lingering gaze. 400 00:29:00,393 --> 00:29:01,654 Whores! 401 00:29:01,754 --> 00:29:03,736 Wine and whores! 402 00:29:09,963 --> 00:29:13,026 He preens as if I've never witnessed cock bared and wet. 403 00:29:13,126 --> 00:29:15,728 Attend yourself and retire to cell for the night. 404 00:29:17,170 --> 00:29:20,253 Am I not to enjoy the pleasures of wine and whores? 405 00:29:21,174 --> 00:29:23,356 Such rewards are reserved for those who bear the mark 406 00:29:23,456 --> 00:29:24,997 of the brotherhood. 407 00:29:25,097 --> 00:29:27,099 An honour you have yet to earn. 408 00:29:40,112 --> 00:29:43,135 - Perhaps this one. - You possess discerning eye. 409 00:29:43,235 --> 00:29:45,357 As I wish yours to such this night. 410 00:29:46,358 --> 00:29:50,262 I am to Gabinius' villa, not the arena. 411 00:29:50,362 --> 00:29:52,505 Does Cossutia yet stand his wife? 412 00:29:52,605 --> 00:29:54,727 As Cerberus guarding gate of the underworld, 413 00:29:55,047 --> 00:29:56,909 frothing and snapping. 414 00:29:57,009 --> 00:29:58,911 The target of my concern. 415 00:29:59,011 --> 00:30:01,333 She holds no sway, absent command of husband. 416 00:30:01,734 --> 00:30:04,917 And if she has moved him to her cause against you? 417 00:30:05,017 --> 00:30:06,999 Cheeks spread for deeper ramming. 418 00:30:07,099 --> 00:30:10,863 - Then why accept invitation? - I hold no fucking choice! 419 00:30:16,829 --> 00:30:19,551 Calm troubled thoughts and realise, 420 00:30:19,992 --> 00:30:24,756 all men of power and position underestimate Ashur at own... 421 00:30:25,157 --> 00:30:27,159 fucking peril. 422 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,082 Prepare yourself for my return. 423 00:30:31,043 --> 00:30:32,464 You as well. 424 00:30:40,051 --> 00:30:42,053 You worry over him beyond reason. 425 00:30:43,455 --> 00:30:45,457 He is our Dominus. 426 00:30:46,498 --> 00:30:48,700 Our fates tethered to his. 427 00:30:53,385 --> 00:30:55,567 Yet who worries over you? 428 00:30:55,667 --> 00:30:57,669 Hmm? 429 00:30:58,630 --> 00:31:02,253 Turn mind to task and see linens freshened, 430 00:31:02,353 --> 00:31:05,216 in anticipation of his triumphant return. 431 00:31:17,729 --> 00:31:20,291 Senator Gabinius shall join presently. 432 00:31:35,226 --> 00:31:37,348 Ah! Here is our man. 433 00:31:38,069 --> 00:31:40,051 Gratitude for accepting invitation 434 00:31:40,151 --> 00:31:41,492 upon briefest of notice. 435 00:31:41,592 --> 00:31:43,594 I am swelled by august's request. 436 00:31:44,075 --> 00:31:46,137 You are familiar with cherished wife? 437 00:31:46,237 --> 00:31:48,339 We are so acquainted. 438 00:31:48,439 --> 00:31:51,302 In passing, in the streets, if I recall. 439 00:31:51,402 --> 00:31:52,863 Apologies for our delay. 440 00:31:52,963 --> 00:31:54,665 This business with the Cilician pirates 441 00:31:54,765 --> 00:31:57,148 vexes all affected by their savage attacks. 442 00:31:57,248 --> 00:31:59,510 Locusts plaguing our beloved republic. 443 00:31:59,610 --> 00:32:02,092 I pray harsh retribution awaits. 444 00:32:02,533 --> 00:32:04,535 We are of singular mind. 445 00:32:04,975 --> 00:32:07,097 I draft motion in the Senate... 446 00:32:07,498 --> 00:32:10,781 to see menace quelled by able hand of trusted Pompey. 447 00:32:11,622 --> 00:32:12,963 Pompey? 448 00:32:13,063 --> 00:32:14,805 He takes leave from Rome with his army? 449 00:32:14,905 --> 00:32:17,267 A small portion, adequate to task. 450 00:32:17,708 --> 00:32:19,049 The remainder counterbalanced 451 00:32:19,149 --> 00:32:21,592 towards fighting men loyal to Crassus. 452 00:32:24,434 --> 00:32:26,617 May the gods usher Pompey to victory, 453 00:32:26,717 --> 00:32:29,419 as Scipio Africanus against Hannibal at the gates. 454 00:32:29,519 --> 00:32:31,782 You are schooled in our histories? 455 00:32:31,882 --> 00:32:34,805 I am but babe, crawling through dewy morn. 456 00:32:35,285 --> 00:32:37,548 Then let us see you rise upon legs of knowledge, 457 00:32:37,648 --> 00:32:41,311 and stride upright as all men in midday of life. 458 00:32:41,411 --> 00:32:44,194 Hmm. Some yet stumble upon attempt, 459 00:32:44,294 --> 00:32:47,457 skull bashed upon unforgiving ground. 460 00:32:47,778 --> 00:32:49,559 I shall strive to remain surefooted. 461 00:32:49,659 --> 00:32:51,661 As most reliable goat. 462 00:32:52,382 --> 00:32:54,885 Let us not veer towards pointed meaning. 463 00:32:54,985 --> 00:32:58,008 I would have all slights, genuine or fanciful, 464 00:32:58,108 --> 00:33:00,510 fall to past remembrance. 465 00:33:00,991 --> 00:33:03,753 - Memory has faded to obscurity. - Never to return. 466 00:33:04,074 --> 00:33:05,655 Apologies. 467 00:33:05,755 --> 00:33:07,377 Voices stirred interest. 468 00:33:07,477 --> 00:33:11,421 Viridia. It swells heart to see you stir from chambers. 469 00:33:11,521 --> 00:33:13,023 Effort rarely taken these days. 470 00:33:13,123 --> 00:33:15,705 Perhaps you might return after our esteemed guest has departed. 471 00:33:15,805 --> 00:33:17,807 Is this him? 472 00:33:18,208 --> 00:33:19,309 The Syrian? 473 00:33:19,409 --> 00:33:21,070 You are not properly dressed to receive- 474 00:33:21,170 --> 00:33:23,172 Are these the hands? 475 00:33:26,135 --> 00:33:28,858 The ones that saw Spartacus to deserved end? 476 00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:32,502 They, uh... 477 00:33:35,905 --> 00:33:37,407 T-they but aided 478 00:33:37,507 --> 00:33:38,888 in the effort. 479 00:33:38,988 --> 00:33:40,990 Gratitude. 480 00:33:42,031 --> 00:33:44,033 Rome is forever in your debt. 481 00:33:45,274 --> 00:33:47,597 - As am I. - Hour grows late. 482 00:33:48,317 --> 00:33:50,780 Retire to bath with loving mother so I may break words 483 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,963 with honoured guest absent distraction. 484 00:33:55,845 --> 00:33:59,408 Come. Let us leave the men to their folly. 485 00:34:02,531 --> 00:34:05,534 Forgive my daughter. She holds not herself. 486 00:34:06,615 --> 00:34:09,438 What affliction troubles her? 487 00:34:09,538 --> 00:34:12,761 The most grievous, a wounded heart. 488 00:34:12,861 --> 00:34:14,863 Her husband, much beloved, 489 00:34:15,504 --> 00:34:18,247 fell to Spartacus and his rebels at Sinuessa en Valle, 490 00:34:18,347 --> 00:34:21,130 where he broached business with Laurus, the trader. 491 00:34:21,230 --> 00:34:26,435 Such loss sees the strongest of us absent mind when in its grip. 492 00:34:27,316 --> 00:34:29,318 Well formed. 493 00:34:29,678 --> 00:34:30,779 Yet, 494 00:34:30,879 --> 00:34:32,861 let us turn from shadowed past 495 00:34:32,961 --> 00:34:35,224 in favour of more promising days. 496 00:34:35,324 --> 00:34:37,326 Yes. 497 00:35:00,428 --> 00:35:02,871 You stand well satisfied, old friend? 498 00:35:03,231 --> 00:35:05,313 Oh, I stand a fucking god. 499 00:35:07,876 --> 00:35:09,878 Do not fucking stop. 500 00:35:19,928 --> 00:35:21,930 Throw dice, Salvius! 501 00:35:25,173 --> 00:35:27,155 Bow to the champion of fucking dice! 502 00:35:27,255 --> 00:35:28,797 Yet not a champion of fucking! 503 00:35:46,394 --> 00:35:48,676 Then I shall make you see the prince. 504 00:35:56,924 --> 00:35:58,546 You deprive release of hardened cock! 505 00:35:58,646 --> 00:36:00,388 Shall deprive you of fucking teeth as well. 506 00:36:00,488 --> 00:36:02,270 - Tarchon. - The girl is mine. 507 00:36:02,370 --> 00:36:04,532 See humble offering inserted elsewhere. 508 00:36:08,536 --> 00:36:10,598 I favour more heft to ass anyway. 509 00:36:14,021 --> 00:36:17,605 Oh, Hedylus completes chore. Well, I shall swim upstream. 510 00:36:30,277 --> 00:36:32,780 You would pull me from services purchased by your Dominus? 511 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,082 I would wrest you from Mars himself. 512 00:36:38,926 --> 00:36:43,010 You warm heart, Elata. As sun above the earth below. 513 00:36:44,731 --> 00:36:47,734 You flatter, as all men stiff of cock. 514 00:36:49,536 --> 00:36:53,460 I know that you're forced to lie with men outside these walls. 515 00:36:54,301 --> 00:36:58,505 Yet within them, I would have no other hands upon you but mine. 516 00:37:02,389 --> 00:37:04,391 Then lay them upon me. 517 00:38:18,624 --> 00:38:21,066 You were commanded to remain in your cell. 518 00:38:21,547 --> 00:38:23,369 Slumber eludes with all the fucking noise 519 00:38:23,469 --> 00:38:25,471 and noise of fucking. 520 00:38:31,757 --> 00:38:33,759 What do you see? 521 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:35,421 I do not grasp meaning. 522 00:38:35,521 --> 00:38:37,523 When you strike, what do you see? 523 00:38:38,323 --> 00:38:40,325 A wooden fucking man. 524 00:38:43,088 --> 00:38:45,651 You unleash fury beyond simple form. 525 00:38:46,572 --> 00:38:49,454 What do you see, in mind's eye? 526 00:38:54,459 --> 00:38:56,461 Those who hold me unworthy. 527 00:38:56,982 --> 00:38:58,083 Within this ludus 528 00:38:58,183 --> 00:39:01,306 or upon the path that led you to such fate? 529 00:39:11,716 --> 00:39:14,159 You do not partake in the pleasure of whores denied me? 530 00:39:17,402 --> 00:39:20,305 My taste is of a more discerning nature. 531 00:39:20,405 --> 00:39:23,528 One not sated by men who accept coin, 532 00:39:23,848 --> 00:39:25,871 in exchange for loving embrace. 533 00:39:25,971 --> 00:39:29,654 Hmm. Would that I were so blessed of choice. 534 00:39:31,176 --> 00:39:33,178 Hmm. 535 00:39:36,581 --> 00:39:38,283 Drink 536 00:39:38,383 --> 00:39:40,705 and dull pain of coming days. 537 00:39:49,233 --> 00:39:53,277 You lower yourself, speaking to the Syrian as you did. 538 00:39:53,758 --> 00:39:55,940 I but expressed gratitude, keenly felt. 539 00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:59,624 You made him feel as equal, deserving of such praise. 540 00:39:59,724 --> 00:40:03,007 Does he not, for aiding in the fall of Spartacus? 541 00:40:03,488 --> 00:40:06,911 He but aided himself and desire to climb above his station. 542 00:40:07,011 --> 00:40:08,753 Should not all men seek to be so elevated? 543 00:40:08,853 --> 00:40:10,675 Yes, if they are of proper breeding. 544 00:40:10,775 --> 00:40:13,658 You froth as if personally aggrieved. 545 00:40:14,178 --> 00:40:16,320 The man himself is of slightest note. 546 00:40:16,420 --> 00:40:17,722 It is what he represents- 547 00:40:17,822 --> 00:40:20,144 those who would pollute pure waters of the republic, 548 00:40:20,464 --> 00:40:23,627 fancying themselves upon level with storied name and position. 549 00:40:24,308 --> 00:40:26,971 He must be made example, to be taken as warning 550 00:40:27,071 --> 00:40:29,233 to all those who would mistake themselves so. 551 00:40:29,834 --> 00:40:31,335 Father appears in disagreement. 552 00:40:31,435 --> 00:40:34,078 Husband will often stray from reason, if not closely attended. 553 00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:39,043 Would that I yet had one to give such counsel. 554 00:40:42,526 --> 00:40:44,528 Accept mine... 555 00:40:45,129 --> 00:40:47,131 in his place. 556 00:40:47,651 --> 00:40:51,055 Do not forfeit precious youth to grieving. 557 00:40:54,338 --> 00:40:56,660 - Wound is yet fresh. - And... 558 00:40:57,181 --> 00:40:58,722 will never heal... 559 00:40:58,822 --> 00:41:02,185 unless proper balm is applied. 560 00:41:02,986 --> 00:41:06,970 Life does not end when a husband falls from this world. 561 00:41:07,070 --> 00:41:09,253 Nor heart remained sundered, 562 00:41:09,353 --> 00:41:13,276 when cradled in hands of loving mother. 563 00:41:17,481 --> 00:41:19,663 Tell me, Syrian, 564 00:41:19,763 --> 00:41:22,886 were you and your family brought to Rome as slaves? 565 00:41:23,687 --> 00:41:26,149 I alone. Mother and sister fell to disease, 566 00:41:26,249 --> 00:41:29,933 long before I fled Tigranes' army and found myself, uh... 567 00:41:31,174 --> 00:41:33,076 guest of the republic. 568 00:41:33,176 --> 00:41:35,178 And your father? 569 00:41:36,219 --> 00:41:37,801 I hold no memory of him. 570 00:41:37,901 --> 00:41:40,623 Absence of such robs a boy of proper direction. 571 00:41:41,424 --> 00:41:44,047 You must truly hold favour of your gods, 572 00:41:44,147 --> 00:41:47,771 to find yourself elevated from slave to current position 573 00:41:47,871 --> 00:41:49,973 of Dominus of own fucking house. 574 00:41:50,073 --> 00:41:52,435 I am indeed blessed, 575 00:41:52,876 --> 00:41:54,217 yet by labor of own hands 576 00:41:54,317 --> 00:41:56,940 and accomplishments beholden only to them. 577 00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,842 You hold no belief in the divinity guiding mortal man? 578 00:42:00,563 --> 00:42:02,946 My Dominus was known for oft-repeated refrain, 579 00:42:03,046 --> 00:42:05,308 one which I yet admire- 580 00:42:05,408 --> 00:42:06,429 "Fuck the gods." 581 00:42:08,891 --> 00:42:11,334 And to what end did such sentiment lead? 582 00:42:12,295 --> 00:42:13,836 Most unfortunate one. 583 00:42:13,936 --> 00:42:17,500 Well, one man's misfortune often falls to another's opportunity. 584 00:42:17,860 --> 00:42:20,203 How unseemly a role did your hands play 585 00:42:20,303 --> 00:42:22,565 in manufacturing such? 586 00:42:22,665 --> 00:42:24,727 I have done... 587 00:42:24,827 --> 00:42:26,829 questionable things... 588 00:42:28,310 --> 00:42:30,433 to arrive where I now sit. 589 00:42:31,594 --> 00:42:33,876 Who of worth can claim otherwise? 590 00:42:35,678 --> 00:42:36,899 And now? 591 00:42:36,999 --> 00:42:38,220 Upon this day? 592 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,322 - I walk a different path. - Oh. 593 00:42:41,083 --> 00:42:43,506 So the tiger has altered stripes? 594 00:42:43,606 --> 00:42:45,387 I am not the man I once was. 595 00:42:45,487 --> 00:42:47,790 Nor the man you yet desire to be. 596 00:42:47,890 --> 00:42:50,372 You are but faint spectre, 597 00:42:50,813 --> 00:42:54,176 caught between two worlds you do not belong in. 598 00:42:55,137 --> 00:42:59,441 It is a heavy thing, is it not, to be burdened with dreams 599 00:42:59,541 --> 00:43:01,543 made sudden reality? 600 00:43:04,947 --> 00:43:07,129 I am but a humble servant of the republic. 601 00:43:07,229 --> 00:43:10,132 Why would you swear allegiance to a republic 602 00:43:10,232 --> 00:43:11,894 that despises you? 603 00:43:11,994 --> 00:43:15,397 Why lavish tongue upon those who yet hold you in naked contempt? 604 00:43:15,717 --> 00:43:18,981 You shall never stand equal in their eyes, 605 00:43:19,081 --> 00:43:23,805 forever condemned to be but rough-hewn tool to be used 606 00:43:24,486 --> 00:43:27,629 till blade is dulled by unkind years, then... 607 00:43:30,892 --> 00:43:33,034 cast aside. 608 00:43:33,134 --> 00:43:35,297 What worth is a knife... 609 00:43:39,381 --> 00:43:41,383 if it lies absent use? 610 00:43:43,425 --> 00:43:47,249 So, mighty Crassus continues to sharpen intent, then? 611 00:43:47,349 --> 00:43:49,331 All the way from where he sits, with his army, 612 00:43:49,431 --> 00:43:50,852 outside the gates of Rome? 613 00:43:50,952 --> 00:43:54,135 We are as one, via messenger upon regular basis. 614 00:43:54,235 --> 00:43:57,358 Only a fool relies upon the benevolence of the rich. 615 00:43:57,759 --> 00:44:00,081 Their whims counsel but their own reflection. 616 00:44:02,243 --> 00:44:04,866 Coin afforded by Crassus admittedly thins 617 00:44:04,966 --> 00:44:07,428 with passing of days, yet debt mounts- 618 00:44:07,528 --> 00:44:11,652 water, grain, equipment. My stock drains fortune. 619 00:44:12,213 --> 00:44:14,035 And with it, hope of grander aspiration 620 00:44:14,135 --> 00:44:17,278 towards the games in the arena. A subject I would broach- 621 00:44:17,378 --> 00:44:20,021 You refer to your gladiators as stock? 622 00:44:20,822 --> 00:44:22,824 Do they not carry title of men? 623 00:44:23,744 --> 00:44:25,746 They are but slaves. 624 00:44:26,147 --> 00:44:28,049 As you once stood. 625 00:44:28,149 --> 00:44:30,091 A distant memory. 626 00:44:30,191 --> 00:44:32,233 Yet forgotten by none. 627 00:44:36,357 --> 00:44:38,359 Let eyes fall upon it. 628 00:44:42,683 --> 00:44:44,505 Your brand, 629 00:44:44,605 --> 00:44:46,627 marking you as property of the House of Batiatus- 630 00:44:46,727 --> 00:44:48,729 I would lay eyes. 631 00:45:04,945 --> 00:45:06,607 Oh. 632 00:45:06,707 --> 00:45:08,889 Rumour proves truth. 633 00:45:08,989 --> 00:45:13,834 Crassus growls command, and loyal cur gnaws its own flesh. 634 00:45:19,519 --> 00:45:22,522 Words fell from less noble heights. 635 00:45:23,203 --> 00:45:25,706 Gaius Claudius Glaber gave command, 636 00:45:25,806 --> 00:45:28,789 before he was dispatched from this world by Spartacus himself, 637 00:45:28,889 --> 00:45:30,550 in the shadow 638 00:45:30,650 --> 00:45:32,392 of Vesuvius. 639 00:45:32,492 --> 00:45:35,175 I had occasion to break meal with Glaber upon a time. 640 00:45:35,776 --> 00:45:39,519 A most unsettling cast of eye, absent blink- 641 00:45:39,619 --> 00:45:42,142 as a lizard, encumbered with human form. 642 00:45:42,822 --> 00:45:45,946 A most uncanny assessment of the man. 643 00:45:46,746 --> 00:45:48,568 And how gauge you the measure of the one you see 644 00:45:48,668 --> 00:45:50,670 seated before you? 645 00:45:51,471 --> 00:45:53,253 No, come, hold me as friend. 646 00:45:53,353 --> 00:45:57,517 Well, as semblance of such, as the moment requires. 647 00:45:59,119 --> 00:46:02,862 I see a most noble Roman, well regarded by deed and tongue- 648 00:46:02,962 --> 00:46:04,864 Flattery is of little worth 649 00:46:04,964 --> 00:46:06,746 to one laden with coin and privilege! 650 00:46:06,846 --> 00:46:09,529 I would have from you what others withhold- 651 00:46:09,889 --> 00:46:11,891 the fucking truth! 652 00:46:20,340 --> 00:46:22,782 I see a man of fading years... 653 00:46:24,023 --> 00:46:25,605 clinging to what time remains, 654 00:46:25,705 --> 00:46:29,589 in hopes of preserving tradition of beloved republic. 655 00:46:30,990 --> 00:46:32,532 Yet many within it increasingly 656 00:46:32,632 --> 00:46:34,654 find him more annoyance than benefit, 657 00:46:34,754 --> 00:46:38,317 save for those of low position who seek the borrowing of coin. 658 00:46:38,998 --> 00:46:43,122 I see a man possessed of serpent-tongued wife... 659 00:46:44,483 --> 00:46:47,246 who manoeuvres beyond his interests. 660 00:46:57,616 --> 00:46:59,939 Words well broken. 661 00:47:02,581 --> 00:47:07,066 Now fall from fucking sight and remain so removed. 662 00:47:29,087 --> 00:47:31,450 Form improves. 663 00:47:32,691 --> 00:47:35,253 Moves from watery shit to firm. 664 00:47:57,876 --> 00:48:00,238 Wooden man poses slight contest. 665 00:48:00,999 --> 00:48:04,122 Perhaps you would care to engage more fearsome opponent. 666 00:48:06,885 --> 00:48:08,887 I prefer larger challenge. 667 00:48:10,368 --> 00:48:11,710 Fuck what you prefer, woman. 668 00:48:21,059 --> 00:48:23,061 Stay down, you fucking cunt! 669 00:48:23,982 --> 00:48:25,283 Aargh! 670 00:48:45,963 --> 00:48:47,965 The woman at last finds her place- 671 00:48:48,526 --> 00:48:49,867 on her back, 672 00:48:49,967 --> 00:48:51,969 with legs spread. 673 00:48:58,816 --> 00:49:01,819 Hold her! You fucking cunt! 674 00:49:07,464 --> 00:49:09,326 Aargh! 675 00:49:22,720 --> 00:49:24,501 Aargh! 676 00:49:24,601 --> 00:49:25,983 Fucking bitch! 677 00:49:26,083 --> 00:49:28,505 Aargh! 678 00:49:31,849 --> 00:49:33,670 Aargh! 679 00:49:33,770 --> 00:49:35,973 Aargh! 680 00:49:41,298 --> 00:49:43,300 Aargh! 681 00:50:07,884 --> 00:50:09,886 Medicus! 682 00:50:10,647 --> 00:50:11,828 - Medicus! - The man, at last, 683 00:50:11,928 --> 00:50:15,111 finds his place- legs spread, absent cock. 684 00:50:15,211 --> 00:50:18,455 Medicus! Aargh! 685 00:50:18,935 --> 00:50:20,937 Medicus! 686 00:50:24,741 --> 00:50:27,423 Ephesius? Why is he so stained with blood? 687 00:50:28,224 --> 00:50:30,206 Give way! Give... 688 00:50:30,306 --> 00:50:32,308 fucking... way! 689 00:50:38,634 --> 00:50:40,636 Life has fled. 690 00:50:40,997 --> 00:50:43,079 A blessing for one so rudely handled. 691 00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:46,442 What has fucking happened? 692 00:50:47,523 --> 00:50:49,105 The woman! 693 00:50:49,205 --> 00:50:50,466 She went mad! 694 00:50:50,566 --> 00:50:51,627 He breaks false words. 695 00:50:51,727 --> 00:50:52,789 I was but working palus, when they- 696 00:50:52,889 --> 00:50:55,011 I give no shit what they did. 697 00:50:55,691 --> 00:50:59,155 Only the Dominus of the house can claim life of one who stands 698 00:50:59,255 --> 00:51:00,676 among the brotherhood. 699 00:51:00,776 --> 00:51:02,678 Any man who lays hands upon me shall fall the same fate, 700 00:51:02,778 --> 00:51:04,200 regardless of fucking brand. 701 00:51:04,300 --> 00:51:06,462 - She does not belong here! - Do not speak! 702 00:51:08,584 --> 00:51:10,646 You believe you hold place among us? 703 00:51:10,746 --> 00:51:13,129 I did not ask to be in this fucking house, 704 00:51:13,229 --> 00:51:15,331 Yet I stand equal as any man within it. 705 00:51:15,431 --> 00:51:16,892 Then give proof. 706 00:51:16,992 --> 00:51:18,994 Dacus! Steel. 707 00:51:21,717 --> 00:51:23,819 We must stop this. I will alert villa guards. 708 00:51:23,919 --> 00:51:25,020 Hold. 709 00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:27,122 She makes bold claim. 710 00:51:27,963 --> 00:51:29,965 Let us see it defended. 711 00:51:33,529 --> 00:51:36,592 Doctore, should this matter not be attended by Dominus? 712 00:51:36,692 --> 00:51:38,694 Fall from fucking side. 713 00:51:40,776 --> 00:51:42,518 - Korris. - Hold ground. 714 00:51:42,618 --> 00:51:45,741 Or Dominus will hear you took wine and fell from fucking post. 715 00:51:54,669 --> 00:51:57,672 Retrieve the shield and take position. 716 00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:07,162 You stand for a man absent honor? 717 00:52:07,682 --> 00:52:09,865 I stand for the brotherhood. 718 00:52:09,965 --> 00:52:12,327 Then thank the gods I am not a part of it. 719 00:52:29,944 --> 00:52:32,907 Make her suffer the point! 720 00:52:33,988 --> 00:52:37,952 Fight her now! 721 00:52:40,234 --> 00:52:42,257 Retreat as a coward would. Coward! 722 00:52:43,958 --> 00:52:46,821 For the brotherhood! 723 00:52:48,242 --> 00:52:51,666 You have learned nothing! 724 00:52:51,766 --> 00:52:53,808 Except how to die absent honour. 725 00:52:56,130 --> 00:52:58,112 Doctore, kill her! 726 00:52:58,212 --> 00:53:00,214 Fire will not aid you! 727 00:53:13,427 --> 00:53:15,429 Aargh! 728 00:53:18,592 --> 00:53:20,594 Die! 729 00:53:25,359 --> 00:53:26,300 Yes! 730 00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:28,402 Send her to the fuckin afterlife. 731 00:53:35,449 --> 00:53:37,451 Increase advantage, Doctore! 732 00:53:46,300 --> 00:53:48,122 Finish her. 733 00:53:48,222 --> 00:53:50,224 For our brother! 734 00:53:57,150 --> 00:53:59,152 Fucking kill her! 735 00:54:00,754 --> 00:54:04,277 You fought well, yet fall short of the brotherhood. 736 00:54:28,702 --> 00:54:30,703 I stand mistaken. 737 00:54:46,679 --> 00:54:49,182 She took the life of a brother, yet you let her live? 738 00:54:49,282 --> 00:54:51,264 I am the champion of Akragas. 739 00:54:51,364 --> 00:54:54,607 Freedom won upon the sand, by my own fucking will. 740 00:54:55,128 --> 00:54:57,950 And yet this woman, absent experience, 741 00:54:58,050 --> 00:55:00,853 has achieved what none among you could dare dream of- 742 00:55:01,374 --> 00:55:03,356 she drew blood 743 00:55:03,456 --> 00:55:06,939 against opponent far outmatching her in skill and experience. 744 00:55:07,900 --> 00:55:09,902 She has earned my respect... 745 00:55:10,983 --> 00:55:12,845 if but for fleeting moment. 746 00:55:12,945 --> 00:55:16,549 And any man who lays undesired hand upon her... 747 00:55:17,309 --> 00:55:18,851 shall feel my own... 748 00:55:18,951 --> 00:55:20,953 at fucking throat.