Following the fall of the Roman Empire, a Roman woman plots to make her son the new Emperor and to fulfill the former glory of the city.
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00:14:21to no avail. A grammarian?
00:14:24Sure do you jest, woman.
00:14:27I barely
00:14:27have enough funds to keep my soldier's
00:14:29swords sharpened, and you want me to hire a
00:14:31fucking grammarian?
00:14:33A grammarian to fondle
00:14:35your son's tiny prick
00:14:37and coo in his ear like a turtle dove,
00:14:40teaching him to round his
00:14:41o's and spread his buttocks
00:14:43in the proper Roman way.
00:14:46Mama says
00:14:47I need a grammarian.
00:14:50So I
00:14:52can become a good
00:14:54orator.
00:14:56As befits an
00:14:57emperor.
00:14:59An emperor? You?
00:15:02An emperor of
00:15:03flowers? An emperor of
00:15:05tithering boys? An emperor of perfumes
00:15:07and powders? I see
00:15:09no emperor here of being a prima,
00:15:11no matter whose blood flows in his veins.
00:15:14I see only a collection of
00:15:16orifices fit for a calamite's
00:15:17pleasure. Take your
00:15:19simpering flower
00:15:21from my sight before I decide
00:15:23to lop off his golden
00:15:25petal.
00:15:31There is clearly some
00:15:33madness in your bloodline.
00:15:36You're a fool
00:15:38for not seizing this opportunity.
00:15:40Learn your place,
00:15:42widow, and do not speak out of turn.
00:15:44Now take your poison tongue
00:15:47and your orphan
00:15:49from my sight.
00:15:51To the people
00:16:07and senate of Rome,
00:16:10I give you
00:16:12the emperor of daisies.
00:16:14May his reign
00:16:15be long
00:16:17and bountiful.
00:16:18We rest
00:16:28and go in
00:16:28after dark.
00:16:30I want her alive.
00:16:31come.
00:16:40Come.
00:16:53We salute you again,
00:17:04Maximus Urbanus,
00:17:05the esteemed dox of this frontier
00:17:07legion
00:17:07and the protector of the empire.
00:17:12We offer greetings to the emperor
00:17:14and to all his citizens
00:17:16and I bring gratitude
00:17:18from my people.
00:17:19Our greetings to you,
00:17:23Tyrannus Maldras,
00:17:24lord of the Swavy
00:17:25and Rugi nations,
00:17:26now all friends of Rome.
00:17:30I am glad we have made
00:17:31our agreement,
00:17:32you and I.
00:17:34We face a common enemy,
00:17:37Valamar
00:17:37and his verminous horde
00:17:39of Amal Goths.
00:17:41Vermin, perhaps.
00:17:43But vermin with sharp teeth,
00:17:45general.
00:17:46Yes, indeed.
00:17:49Indeed so.
00:17:51Which is why
00:17:52our accommodation
00:17:53will be so beneficial.
00:17:57I will use my legion
00:17:58with all their strength
00:18:00and skill
00:18:01to defend your people.
00:18:04I offer you
00:18:05the protection of Rome.
00:18:07I and my people
00:18:10will be forever grateful
00:18:11to you
00:18:12and to your emperor.
00:18:15But I come to bring
00:18:16more than mere gratitude,
00:18:18general.
00:18:20I come to accept
00:18:21your commission
00:18:22in your legion
00:18:22as a centurion
00:18:23if it is still offered.
00:18:25Yes.
00:18:30Indeed it is.
00:18:32With gratitude.
00:18:35And the draft
00:18:37of all your fighting men
00:18:38into my auxiliary troops
00:18:39still stands.
00:18:42You will teach
00:18:43my men
00:18:44the ways
00:18:44of the Amal Goths
00:18:45in war.
00:18:46You have fought them
00:18:47in battle
00:18:48and won
00:18:48more than we have.
00:18:50If war comes
00:18:50with Falomar
00:18:51the Rugi
00:18:54and Swavy
00:18:55will stand
00:18:56with us
00:18:57like brothers.
00:18:59Do you accept
00:19:00your duties
00:19:01and all that
00:19:02comes with them?
00:19:04For me
00:19:05and all my men
00:19:06I accept.
00:19:10Swear to it.
00:19:15We swear.
00:19:20And so it shall be.
00:19:23Now the Rugi
00:19:24and Swavy nations
00:19:25united in princely marriage
00:19:28are considered
00:19:29friends of Rome.
00:19:32Not without
00:19:33unification
00:19:34of the prince
00:19:35and his people
00:19:36under a most
00:19:37Christian god.
00:19:40Kneel,
00:19:41you pagans
00:19:42and accept him.
00:19:50We have more
00:19:57important things
00:19:58to attend to.
00:20:01You don't have
00:20:01to believe him
00:20:02or in him.
00:20:06I value
00:20:07your skill
00:20:08in war
00:20:09not in mumbling
00:20:11prayers.
00:20:12All right,
00:20:40let's do it.
00:20:40Bye.
00:21:11You're charming, but I save all my being for my wife.
00:21:35I thought all warlords took slaves for pleasure.
00:21:38I'm not a warlord, General.
00:21:41And we do not keep slaves.
00:21:46What a strong-looking warlord he is.
00:21:50If I were you, I'd purchase him.
00:21:56He's worth every aureus.
00:21:59Oh, I doubt Tyrannus is for sale, dear wife.
00:22:02After all, he's now a Roman.
00:22:04Same as you or I.
00:22:06How sad.
00:22:16You must forgive my wife, Tyrannus.
00:22:20She sometimes forgets to have her wine watered.
00:22:23And so, my dear husband, if you cannot sell him or any of the others, where is the benefit to Rome, other than a few extra soldiers?
00:22:34I swear my allegiance to Rome.
00:22:46To stem the tide of the barbarian animals who threaten to burst the levies of civilization with blood.
00:22:52I've heard that most of that blood was your people's.
00:22:55And yet here you are, at our gates, licking your wounds and asking for help.
00:23:01We offer Rome protection through joint force.
00:23:04If a man puts a dog outside his gate to protect from other dogs, they are not joined forces.
00:23:12My wife is out of her depth in political conversations.
00:23:17She operates in a world of fantasy.
00:23:21And bedtime stories with her spoiled child, transported back in time 500 years.
00:23:27Our alliance remains.
00:23:33Strong as it needs to be.
00:23:36The strong as his bond to the Rugi Hall.
00:23:38Don't pass.
00:23:53Our village was destroyed.
00:23:56The Amals, they've burned everything and killed many.
00:23:59I'm one of Giza.
00:24:00She lives.
00:24:02She was taken.
00:24:04You must give me half a cohort and I will go after them.
00:24:06Not addressing your ducks properly and telling him what he must do does not sit well with me, soldier.
00:24:11Apologies, General, but I have agreed to all your terms.
00:24:14And now I need to rescue my wife from the Amals.
00:24:16We must strike now.
00:24:17We are not prepared to attack them right now.
00:24:19Why don't you just give me a hundred men and I will make two.
00:24:21I do not make rash decisions based on emotion.
00:24:25And I certainly don't have them dictated to me.
00:24:29So then I see your wife spoke truth.
00:24:31This is not an alliance.
00:24:35It's no more than a game to you.
00:24:37I do not throw up the board when my position in the game is unfavorable like a child.
00:24:43I plan my next move.
00:24:45But it is my people who have been taken and killed, not yours.
00:24:48Your people are not out of position, Tyrannus.
00:24:51It is you.
00:24:52No, your wife is off the board so you are to drag my men off for your personal agenda.
00:24:58Do not touch your commander.
00:25:04You are a Roman soldier, no longer a barbarian warlord.
00:25:09This verse is on mutiny.
00:25:10Mutiny is treason.
00:25:12Death is reward.
00:25:14By the gods, arrest this man.
00:25:16Take his life before he takes yours.
00:25:18I will only take the lives of those who have taken my wife and killed my people.
00:25:24I care about every one of them, my lady.
00:25:27Their lives are as equal as any Romans.
00:25:30And if you cannot see that, then you are no ally of ours.
00:25:36I will go after them without your help.
00:25:38You stupid fool.
00:25:51Mark my words, that man will be the death of you.
00:25:54Your tongues fuse poison and insults again.
00:25:57The Swavy will die, but after he has been properly sentenced as an example.
00:26:02I still need his men.
00:26:09You need Argos to fight for you.
00:26:12Not a pack of dogs without their leader.
00:26:16And you need my son as emperor to fight off the Amos.
00:26:20One treason is enough for today.
00:26:23Speak of it no more.
00:26:24I will decide.
00:26:26I am the Dux here, and I rule by my merit.
00:26:28Precisely.
00:26:33You are the one that brought us to this shithole.
00:26:39You seem to forget your part in it, Romina Prima.
00:26:42Widow of Rizima.
00:26:43I do not forget.
00:26:50Win a battle against a few Vandal hordes.
00:26:55That's all you had to do, and yet you failed.
00:26:58The money my family had to pay to save you from the Executioner's Block,
00:27:11and to get you this hellhole of a command.
00:27:14And now, your main dog cuts his chains,
00:27:19and tomorrow you bend over and you spread your arse for Valamar's ambassador.
00:27:28You disgust me.
00:27:31I'm ashamed to be your wife.
00:27:33I will deal with Valamar without your help,
00:27:39and then I'll send you to a convent and your son to the Holy Chazamites to brighten his puckered ass.
00:27:44I'm ashamed to be your friends.
00:27:48I'm ashamed to be your man.
00:27:50How are you?
00:27:51What's going on?
00:27:53And now, your mother's going to die.
00:27:56I'm ashamed to be your friend.
00:27:58I'm ashamed to be your queen.
00:27:58Oh, my God.
00:28:28Do not despair, my love.
00:28:41I'm closer than you think.
00:28:58I'm closer than you think.
00:29:28Greetings again, Ambassador.
00:29:36I trust your journey was not too arduous.
00:29:41We Amals are not so soft as to complain about a little discomfort.
00:29:49Yes, I have heard you are a hardy folk.
00:29:53The lands to the east suit your hardy nature.
00:29:58My King Valimar sends me to see to the fulfillment of conditions for our neighbors.
00:30:09My King knows very well the discretion of the wise Dux Maximus.
00:30:15Does he?
00:30:16Indeed, when faced with an overwhelming number of vandals in Africa, did he die a glorious death?
00:30:25No.
00:30:27He retreated to fight another day.
00:30:30Unfortunately, Rome's Emperor did not see my strategy as wise.
00:30:36It sent me here as punishment.
00:30:40King Valimar also knows that you are not as foolish as your predecessor, the Dux, Quintus, Aurelius.
00:30:53He was clubbed to death ignominiously after he took up arms against my King and lost.
00:31:03A brave fool, but a fool nonetheless.
00:31:06He also knows that you will be wise enough to see the benefits of joining my King and ridding the land of the verminous Sweevee.
00:31:19I agree, they are like cumbersome lice in a barbarian's beard.
00:31:26My King also knows you will give him a free hand in Noricum and beyond to Pannonia.
00:31:34At last, Valimar's asswiper shows his teeth.
00:31:42What kind of an upside-down world is this that a savage like you can walk in here looking and smelling like he's wiped himself in his own feces
00:31:53and tell a Roman Dux how to govern?
00:31:56And just what does your King offer me in return for Rome's generosity of getting down on all fours and letting the Amos fuck me?
00:32:06Your life, for one.
00:32:09And if you are very lucky, the life of your wife and your stepson.
00:32:15You are in no position to dictate anything.
00:32:18Does your shit-eating, whore-fucking excuse for a King think that a little spouting gimp like you can frighten the Dux of Rome?
00:32:35Some frighten more easily than others.
00:32:38A gift from my King Valimar.
00:32:49He knows how you Romans like to bury your dead with honors.
00:32:56Allow me to present to you
00:32:58this garrison's previous dux,
00:33:03the late lamented Aurelius Quintus.
00:33:08His current state of grooming and hygiene seems to be in fashion of your race.
00:33:26His current state of grooming and hygiene seems to be in fashion of your race.
00:33:38I'm all magic.
00:33:45A dead man crying.
00:33:47Your bastard, whore-shit-eating king must be a real sorcerer.
00:33:56Look closely, you whimpering turd.
00:34:00Even in death, Aurelius spits on dogs like you.
00:34:05Look closely.
00:34:05The Dux weeps for you, calling you.
00:34:13Calling you to the brave.
00:34:15The ghosts of Rome return to sweep the dust and goss it from our robes.
00:34:22Back to the swamps from which they come.
00:34:24You ham are turd.
00:34:29Did you really think that you could threaten me with a dead man's head?
00:34:35Did your pig fucker king really think he could intimidate me?
00:34:41Maximus!
00:34:43Antonius!
00:34:44I have missed you, wife, and your good counsel.
00:35:03Not just a widow or a wife to be divorced, perhaps?
00:35:07Of course not.
00:35:10As the bishop said when we married, together until death.
00:35:15And we may soon meet in death.
00:35:19Once Valimar discovers his ambassador died at your hand and the Swavy turned tail on us.
00:35:25I let my anger get the better of me at the Swavy's betrayal.
00:35:30I've warned you many times about these wild dogs.
00:35:33Are you here to gloat about the Swavy?
00:35:35I am ready for the Hordes to judge me for my miscalculation of his character.
00:35:42You need not put your head on the block just yet, husband.
00:35:47The Amals will descend on the city soon with nothing to stop them.
00:35:56The stepson and the wife you so frequently mock have built a wall to stop them.
00:36:02And soon new legions will be added to that wall.
00:36:09Is this a bedtime story before I am sent to an eternal sleep?
00:36:16Argos is on his way to Orestes with more silver.
00:36:20Now that Cassius is to be emperor.
00:36:23It would seem that politics may be a child's game after all.
00:36:32Emperor.
00:36:34So it is to be done.
00:36:36We will rule through him as regents.
00:36:39I have underestimated your wiles, wife.
00:36:51No more fighting, then.
00:36:55It's great.
00:36:56Fighting amongst the leading family of Rome is what would weaken this empire to its knees.
00:37:13Hmm.
00:37:14I do not think that our family needs to fall into that trap again.
00:37:18And as agreed, Cassius will be emperor.
00:37:27Go find my son.
00:37:30Teach him something of governing.
00:37:33For all our greater good.
00:37:34I really can have a gladiator games.
00:37:58As your mother and I have agreed, your every wish will now be fulfilled.
00:38:04Even if you cannot ever be like my father, you still can be a good friend.
00:38:17I'm sure that you convinced my mother.
00:38:21She's rather sheepish about killing slaves, isn't she?
00:38:26You're clever for your age, even without a grammarian.
00:38:29Grammarian, I really do not want some old monk smelling of goat cheese, teaching me quotes from dead Romans.
00:38:40I'd rather see a bit of bloodshed, now and then.
00:38:46And so you shall.
00:38:47I, Maximus Antonius Albinus,
00:39:07ducks of the glorious Victrix Twelfth Legion of the Imperial Army of the West,
00:39:13have, by the power granted me by the emperor to defend and root out all evil,
00:39:21sentenced all of you to die for treason,
00:39:28daring to invade, harass, and even kill citizens of Rome.
00:39:32But our God is merciful.
00:39:41To my dearest son,
00:39:44having heard his holy call,
00:39:51has decided to spare some of you
00:39:53what would surely be a most deserved death.
00:39:57The one who will not be spared
00:40:03is the Suevi Lord Tyrannus Maldras.
00:40:08Not only
00:40:09has he betrayed Rome,
00:40:13he dared
00:40:14try to attack me
00:40:16and assassinate me
00:40:19while a guest in my house.
00:40:22for this cowardly act
00:40:28of treason.
00:40:30He has been confined
00:40:32to the Black Cell.
00:40:33And on the next occasion
00:40:35of our celebration,
00:40:36he will be publicly disemboweled
00:40:39and then beheaded
00:40:41as a warning
00:40:42to all of you.
00:40:44Some of you
00:40:57would think
00:40:59that all of you
00:41:01should die
00:41:02as enemies of Rome.
00:41:05But not me.
00:41:09I think it's better to die
00:41:11in fair combat
00:41:13than on the executioner's axe.
00:41:20Who agrees with me?
00:41:31If you do not praise me,
00:41:34if you do not respond
00:41:36to my next request,
00:41:39then I cannot save you.
00:41:41So,
00:41:44who wants to be free again?
00:41:47I love you!
00:41:49You will fight
00:41:51for your freedom.
00:41:53Suevi
00:41:53against
00:41:54Amos.
00:41:58Those who will stand
00:42:01at the end
00:42:02will repeat their performance
00:42:04a few weeks.
00:42:06Hence,
00:42:07against real gladiators.
00:42:11who wins
00:42:13will go free.
00:42:15The ones who will lie
00:42:16dead
00:42:17in the sand.
00:42:20I wish a great journey
00:42:22into the afterlife.
00:42:24Begin.
00:42:24wise words
00:42:31and even wiser decision
00:42:33to entertain us now
00:42:34and the citizens of Rome
00:42:36on the day
00:42:37you were elevated
00:42:38to the throne.
00:42:39to the earth.
00:42:41A
00:42:55who wants to kill me?
00:42:57Who wants to kill you?
00:42:59Who wants to kill you?
00:43:01Who wants to kill you?
00:43:01Who wants to kill you?
00:43:02Let's go.
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00:46:02Some of them fought.
00:46:04I will make sure he is there on the day you take the purple.
00:46:09Today he could not be here as he is on an important embassy for your mother and me.
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00:48:25Up, Roman.
00:48:26I can't talk to you with your arse in here.
00:48:40So, you murdered my ambassador.
00:48:44Are you here to offer your head and extend it?
00:48:50You're our master, Lord Theobald.
00:48:55Was murdered by his new ally.
00:48:58The Swayvi.
00:49:00Then Taranus Maldris.
00:49:03The Swayvi.
00:49:06Like pricks on my side.
00:49:09One of these days I'll get around to slaughtering a lot of them.
00:49:14Until then I'll have to settle for the few that managed to sneak into my city.
00:49:20Looking for some roogie princess apparently.
00:49:26Such an action would be blessed.
00:49:30Even augmented with silver.
00:49:33As well as free passage through the high passes of the Empire.
00:49:39And across the Danube.
00:49:40You will have free reign in all these territories.
00:49:46Blessed by who?
00:49:48This nailed god of yours.
00:49:52I don't need blessings.
00:49:54From a crucified man in a loincloth.
00:49:57With crown of thorns.
00:49:58To protect my actions.
00:50:02Look around you.
00:50:05Does he wish to avenge himself upon me for taking this home?
00:50:10Hardly.
00:50:12As for the high passes.
00:50:13I can have him any time I want.
00:50:18It's simply a matter of spilling enough blood.
00:50:24Most things are in the end.
00:50:26These blessings are more useful.
00:50:31Blessings from the Emperor.
00:50:33Lord King.
00:50:37That mouse fart of a man Nepos.
00:50:41He could enroll a room full of units.
00:50:43The Emperor Cassius Rissima.
00:50:47Lord King.
00:50:49General Rissima's son.
00:50:52Rissima.
00:50:53A brave man.
00:50:56And dead.
00:50:58Dead men are of no use to me.
00:51:01Their children can be.
00:51:06You mean...
00:51:08This Cassius Rissima...
00:51:11Is Emperor?
00:51:12Emperor?
00:51:15Must alone be a child.
00:51:18It's true he is just a boy, Lord King.
00:51:22But his blood is that of the Imperial line.
00:51:26It takes more than Imperial blood to rule an Empire.
00:51:31And more yet still to keep it.
00:51:36With your help, he could.
00:51:41And with the help of others.
00:51:44Who?
00:51:45Oristus, for one.
00:51:50He's a sworn ally of Cassius Rissima.
00:51:55The Hun's old ambassador to the Byzantine.
00:52:00Those frock buffoons.
00:52:04Yes.
00:52:05And a kingmaker in his own right.
00:52:07He can build an army at least as big as yours.
00:52:12And he is friend to Cassius Rissima's mother.
00:52:15Wife to the Ducks.
00:52:17It is she who holds the Imperial blood through the Nepos family.
00:52:22And she who ordered me here.
00:52:23This sounds like a fable, Roman.
00:52:29A fable where men are betrayed.
00:52:32And others bribe to do yet others bidding.
00:52:36Such fables can be dangerous, Roman.
00:52:38It is no fable, Lord King.
00:52:45Oristus has been paid many pounds of silver to see that Nepos never sees another spring.
00:52:53And the Ducks Maximus were bowers' head for the executioner's axe.
00:53:01Without a fight, I find that hard to believe.
00:53:06As his first edict as emperor, Cassius will declare me head of the northern Roman army.
00:53:17As his second edict, he will order the death of Maximus.
00:53:26Ah.
00:53:27You seem to have thought of everything.
00:53:30One word from you.
00:53:34And this whole fable can become reality.
00:53:38On the day I become commander, I will give you the Swayvi bastard who murdered your ambassador.
00:53:47I can also give you the Swayvi's wife as a gift now.
00:53:55So that she might watch as he forfeits his life before you.
00:54:04You captured her.
00:54:22We did, Lord King.
00:54:24You're a sly devil, Argus.
00:54:33Be sure that your sly ways benefit only me.
00:54:39Of course, Lord King.
00:54:43It is the only possibility.
00:54:44I'll give her to my nephew, Theodrake.
00:54:52He needs another wife.
00:54:54Yes, Lord King.
00:54:58Six weeks, Roman.
00:54:59And I'll have Nepos dead.
00:55:04And a fable made real.
00:55:07Or your guts shall be strewn from here to the Danube.
00:55:12Do you understand me?
00:55:15Yes, Lord King.
00:55:17Then go.
00:55:19Then go.
00:55:47What's a shame?
00:56:08The ducks will have your guts in the dirt just before your head will be chopped off.
00:56:15Destiny gives and takes.
00:56:27She took my wife.
00:56:30And now she will take my life.
00:56:34Your execution will be part of the ceremony of my ascension.
00:56:41The destiny has spoken.
00:56:45I think I can give you a chance to live.
00:57:03I want you to be a gladiator.
00:57:05I want you to be a gladiator.
00:57:15Already becoming wise beyond your years.
00:57:19Bread and circuses for the masses.
00:57:24As befits the Emperor.
00:57:25Your death could be an honor of a gladiator instead of a shameful death of a traitor.
00:57:37My mother has the best gladiators coming from Ravenna to show their skills.
00:57:43They will slaughter those who live today.
00:57:45I will fight for you.
00:57:52But I will fight first.
00:57:54And if I win, you will free them all.
00:57:59Swayvi and Amal alike.
00:58:03You will fight the best.
00:58:05Yes.
00:58:06And I will win.
00:58:11You will not.
00:58:13But if the gods were on your side, I will grant them, and you, freedom.
00:58:22I will only fight for you if you agree to free my wife as well.
00:58:31I do not see her about.
00:58:36Do we have her?
00:58:38No.
00:58:40The Amals do.
00:58:43I would pay the Amals the ransom they want to get your woman back to you if you fight.
00:58:54I will fight.
00:58:56But I doubt the docks will agree with your plan.
00:58:59The former ducks will not have the power to change my decision.
00:59:07What do you think?
00:59:10My thoughts are elsewhere.
00:59:14They're with my wife.
00:59:17And the souls of my men.
00:59:19They took a Roman life and have earned the chains upon them and their deaths.
00:59:31But if you win, they will live.
00:59:45I would redraft an alliance with you with many concessions when you take power.
00:59:50An alliance could still benefit both of our people if I live.
01:00:00And if you keep your word.
01:00:03If you win, I will keep my word.
01:00:09May your gods be on your side.
01:00:11And I thought you were insane, Urbina.
01:00:36Using my troops to take 200 weight of my silver to commit treason by murdering the Emperor.
01:00:46200 weight of our silver, husband, to create an Emperor.
01:00:52And with the kind help of Argos, who loaned it to us.
01:00:55All for a good cause, my General.
01:00:56And the Emperor will repay you, I'm sure.
01:01:01I've never doubted that.
01:01:02You can have anything you want from us, Argos.
01:01:09Nepos is deposed and on the run, but not dead yet.
01:01:14Give it to me.
01:01:15Give it to me.
01:01:22Oh, well, he may as well be dead.
01:01:23He's in hiding, shitting on his toga.
01:01:26Any word where he is?
01:01:28I've heard Dalmatia.
01:01:31Dalmatia?
01:01:32Go fetch my son.
01:01:33He should share his good news.
01:01:36Dalmatia.
01:01:37Of all places, with a herd of goats to protect him.
01:01:44Orestes really is a strong ally, Maxima.
01:01:48Surely you can see that.
01:01:49With him, we have the largest standing army in the north.
01:01:53With him, we cannot fail.
01:01:56The Empire is ours.
01:01:58Allies purchased can be allies bribed, Urbina.
01:02:02I prefer loyalty.
01:02:05Orestes' loyalty lies with his best interests,
01:02:09which happen to be the same as ours and of Cassius.
01:02:13I have decided to make the Suevi my champion
01:02:19on the day which I know is coming soon.
01:02:24He will fight the two.
01:02:27Mother is bringing them from Ravenna.
01:02:30But I have sentenced him to be executed
01:02:32in the name of the Emperor.
01:02:34An Emperor in hiding?
01:02:38Scared for his life?
01:02:40Not an Emperor anymore?
01:02:43What do you say, Mother?
01:02:45Of course you can have him, my darling.
01:02:48He will die anyway.
01:02:50The two coming from Ravenna
01:02:51are the best gladiators in the West.
01:02:56You can have him.
01:02:57And yes, I will also free anybody
01:03:02who survives the games.
01:03:05Amal and Suevi alike.
01:03:19Am I really meant to be playing a lapdog
01:03:22to your spoiled fairy child?
01:03:25You don't mean that, Urbina.
01:03:26Not lapdog, Maximus.
01:03:30Regent.
01:03:32With him, we can experience
01:03:35the greatest riches of Rome.
01:03:37And all for 200 weight of silver?
01:03:40A fair plan if it succeeds.
01:03:42A poor one if it ends up with our heads
01:03:44rolling in the streets of Rome.
01:03:48Or stuck on spikes outside the gates of Ravenna.
01:03:52Do you think it would work?
01:03:54I would not have risked my silver
01:03:56if I did not believe in the success
01:03:58and your leadership to achieve it.
01:04:01It will work, husband.
01:04:03And it will not be our heads that roll.
01:04:06All right, wife.
01:04:10I will continue to support our sweet child for Emperor
01:04:15and ourselves as regents.
01:04:17I suppose good news should be rewarded.
01:04:23Go to my paymaster and collect 20 are for your good work.
01:04:29Thank you, sire.
01:04:32And since you have more silver than I do,
01:04:35on the coronation day,
01:04:37you will be made ducks of the legion
01:04:39and all your silver are paid.
01:04:42With interest?
01:04:45Interest will not be necessary.
01:04:48I will, however, take payment in kind.
01:04:51It's about time that she learned
01:04:53to open her legs for a man.
01:04:55Well, with a new emperor,
01:05:03I could have a new slave.
01:05:08She's yours.
01:05:15Come on, my dear.
01:05:16It's charming right now.
01:05:18Please.
01:05:19Come on, my dear.
01:05:30Dear citizens and friends,
01:05:34tonight we celebrate the elevation of Cassius Rysimer
01:05:38to the throne of the Western Empire of Rome.
01:05:41His late father,
01:05:44the esteemed leader of men
01:05:46and maker of emperors,
01:05:48Flavius Rysimer has spoken to us
01:05:51from beyond the grave,
01:05:53carrying the righteous blessings of the gods
01:05:56upon his son's elevation.
01:05:59The augurs, too, have foretold good portents,
01:06:03and I am sure the Lord Jesus Christ
01:06:06would also agree
01:06:07that our new emperor
01:06:10will govern wisely
01:06:11and long.
01:06:28Before young Lord Rysimer
01:06:32takes the throne,
01:06:34he has invited us
01:06:37to a spectacle not allowed
01:06:39for many years,
01:06:42a gladiator bout.
01:06:44As a sign
01:07:07of our new emperor's goodness
01:07:10and wisdom,
01:07:12he has spared this treasonous dog
01:07:17of public execution
01:07:18and will allow him to die here
01:07:22as a man.
01:07:24He who dies in the arena
01:07:30in fair fight
01:07:33deserves forgiveness.
01:07:37I have granted it
01:07:43to the suavey.
01:07:48I wish a great trip
01:07:50to the afterlife.
01:07:55If the gods so please,
01:07:58you will fight the best
01:08:08so die well
01:08:11or be free.
01:08:14and I will fight the best
01:08:16and I will fight the best
01:08:18and I will fight the best
01:08:20and I will fight the best
01:08:20and I will fight the best
01:08:20and I will fight the best
01:08:21and I will fight the best
01:08:22and I will fight the best
01:08:23and I will fight the best
01:08:23and I will fight the best
01:08:24and I will fight the best
01:08:24and I will fight the best
01:08:25and I will fight the best
01:08:25and I will fight the best
01:08:26and I will fight the best
01:08:26and I will fight the best
01:08:27and I will fight the best
01:08:27and I will fight the best
01:08:28and I will fight the best
01:08:28and I will fight the best
01:08:29and I will fight the best
01:08:30and I will fight the best
01:08:30and I will fight the best
01:08:31and I will fight the best
01:08:32and I will fight the best
01:08:33and I will fight the best
01:08:34and I will fight the best
01:08:35Oh, my God.
01:09:05Oh, my God.
01:09:35Oh, my God.
01:10:05Oh, my God.
01:10:35Oh, my God.
01:11:05Oh, my God.
01:11:35Oh, my God.
01:12:05Oh, my God.
01:12:35Oh, my God.
01:13:06Are you ready to accept your duties as prescribed by the people and Senate of Rome?
01:13:13I am.
01:13:15Are you ready to defend the Empire?
01:13:22Against all manner?
01:13:24I am.
01:13:25I am.
01:13:26I am.
01:13:27I am.
01:13:29Before I am.
01:13:30Before I invest you as the new emperor of Rome, I ask a single favor.
01:13:36It is my duty to do...
01:13:38It is my duty to the empire.
01:13:43It is my duty to the empire.
01:13:44It is my duty to the empire.
01:13:46Your duty?
01:13:47Yes, sire.
01:13:48Yes, sire, it must be done.
01:13:54I will do anything to fulfill your duty to the empire.
01:13:58To the empire.
01:13:59Anything.
01:14:00Anything.
01:14:01Make me your son that I may better serve you.
01:14:05Adopt me, Cassius.
01:14:06But you are an old man, Maximus Albanus.
01:14:08And I am much younger.
01:14:10How can it be?
01:14:12Do it.
01:14:13Do it.
01:14:14Do it.
01:14:15I adopt you.
01:14:17Has this been recorded?
01:14:18It has, my lord, Dux.
01:14:20Dux.
01:14:21Dux.
01:14:22Dux.
01:14:23Dux.
01:14:24Dux.
01:14:25Dux.
01:14:26Dux.
01:14:27Dux.
01:14:28Dux.
01:14:29Dux.
01:14:30Dux.
01:14:31Dux.
01:14:32Dux.
01:14:33Dux.
01:14:34Dux.
01:14:35Dux.
01:14:36Dux.
01:14:37Dux.
01:14:38Dux.
01:14:39Dux.
01:14:40Then I, Maximus Antonius Albinus, ducks of this victorious legion, and duly adopted son
01:14:55of Cassius Ricimer, by the will of the army, by the powers granted me by the senators of
01:15:04Rome here present, and with the unanimous consent of all those others here upon this
01:15:16happy day, make my father Cassius Ricimer Albanus the emperor of Rome.
01:15:44Emperor Cassius the first, destroyer of Amos, protector of the empire.
01:15:51I wish you long life, happiness, and a fruitful reign.
01:15:59May all the gods smile on such a pretty corpse.
01:16:06Don't!
01:16:07Don't!
01:16:08Don't!
01:16:09Don't!
01:16:10Don't!
01:16:11No!
01:16:12Don't!
01:16:13Don't!
01:16:14Don't!
01:16:18May all the gods smile on such a pretty corpse.
01:16:27Take her.
01:16:30We may need her to bargain with the Restes.
01:16:35No, her. I guess you didn't like my cock as much as you did.
01:16:39No.
01:16:40I just took the Emperor's deal, and he gave me a better offer.
01:16:45My life.
01:16:57Why the long faces?
01:17:00Rome has a new Emperor.
01:17:02Applaud him!
01:17:05He reigned. He lived.
01:17:31But the portents were not with him.
01:17:35He was surrounded by a traitor's nest.
01:17:40And there was a Judas among them.
01:17:45But he begged for his life.
01:17:47And was saved by me, your new Emperor, Maximus the Good.
01:17:57Now show me your gratitude.
01:18:00You're a good man.
01:18:01Thank you, Mr.
01:18:16You should have executed me when you had the chance, Emperor.
01:18:39The people will not thank you for going back on your word.
01:18:42Oh, Emperors, keep their promises.
01:18:46You are free, and even more, you will take the position of my ambassador to King Velimar to sue for peace.
01:18:57You will leave with an escort of my men in the morning. Take him away.
01:19:15You will never wear another again.
01:19:28You will never wear another again.
01:19:41You are free.
01:19:46You are free.
01:19:47You are free.
01:20:02Now that I've divorced her, you may fuck her any time you wish.
01:20:20Thank you, Sire.
01:20:21I think I would prefer for her to dig for the silver that she owes me.
01:20:32And who have we here?
01:20:41Tyrannus Maldris, chief of the Suevi, laid of the Roman garrison, a gift from the new Emperor.
01:20:53What?
01:20:53The new boy Emperor. Already tired of you? Doesn't say much for your skills at war, now does it, Suevi?
01:21:07Answer me.
01:21:15The boy was killed.
01:21:16Sir, Maximus had you murder the boy.
01:21:26The ducks did it by his own hand.
01:21:31And he sent you here to atone for the other murder.
01:21:35That of my ambassador.
01:21:38A crime that must not go unpunished.
01:21:42I was in the garrison's dungeon accused of treason when that happened.
01:21:47But it is my word against all.
01:21:51As I heard it, your ambassador was killed by the very hand of Maximus himself, who now calls himself the Emperor.
01:21:59And what of Argos?
01:22:02T'was he who promoted the boy Cassius.
01:22:05T'was he who promised me silver.
01:22:08What excuses do you offer for his deceit?
01:22:13Speak up, Suevi.
01:22:14For it's you who face my wrath now.
01:22:17Not he.
01:22:18He serves the new Emperor now.
01:22:21And as for me...
01:22:23I offer you no defense, King Valimar.
01:22:28You sent your skulking warband to slaughter women and children.
01:22:32You abducted my wife.
01:22:35Is that who this rabble is, King?
01:22:36Cowardly killers of old women and infants.
01:22:41I raided no swervy.
01:22:44And as for your wife...
01:22:46She was given to me.
01:22:51Given?
01:22:53By Argos.
01:22:54As a gift.
01:22:57And a pledge of...
01:22:59Trust.
01:23:02Argos?
01:23:03Argos?
01:23:06Someone fetch my nephew's wife.
01:23:11I'm here, my lord King.
01:23:14And I have heard it all.
01:23:22The men Argos plotted this scheme with the Dax's wife.
01:23:26I was captured and in his presence before I was brought here and became Theoderic's wife.
01:23:36You were my wife.
01:23:40And I am an others.
01:23:42You were my wife!
01:23:43And now I carry another man's child, Taranis.
01:23:45The king offered me life.
01:23:51I gave you love.
01:23:56And sometimes life is stronger than any man's love.
01:24:00You were my wife.
01:24:01And now I carry another man's child, Taranis.
01:24:16Time changes all.
01:24:19Even love.
01:24:20Not my love for you, Giza.
01:24:30I will never change.
01:24:37Forget about me, Taranis.
01:24:39I beg you.
01:24:46Never.
01:24:47Never.
01:24:50Sometimes death is better than betrayal.
01:25:16But that is not for me to decide.
01:25:18And I will not punish one man for another man's deceit.
01:25:33Go, Swervy.
01:25:35Wherever your destiny takes you.
01:25:38But if you see that snake Argos,
01:25:41leave him alive.
01:25:43I would like to keep my promise
01:25:45to string his guts from here to the Danube.
01:25:50助 you to perform the skill,
01:25:52for all nine parts to hisатиan.
01:25:54I believe that snake will scash him the way to the công.
01:25:56Go, Swervy.
01:25:56Don't let his story be a light.
01:25:57Don't let's stop
01:25:58after Simon.
01:26:01Okay, wait.
01:26:02heiße me,
01:26:16and drive her and get excited for you.
01:26:17You