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Sura...
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When the romans came...
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I thought I'd never see you.
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Shhh.
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I will always be with you.
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The gods themselves could
not keep me from your side.
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I would kill them all for trying.
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Have him taken to the baths.
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But first attend to
all that fucking hair.
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Uh!
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Uh! Ahh!
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Dominus.
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The pool's dry.
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Yes we need rain.
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Money would also see it filled.
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We need that, too.
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How fares your new pet?
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He breathes.
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His cost was enough for us
to fill our pool for a month.
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You paid beyond the asking.
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I paid his worth, Lucretia.
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Spartacus is a corpse yet walking.
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How long before he takes
his place in the grave,
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dragging your investment with him?
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Not before he serves his purpose.
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From the Legatus Claudius Glaber.
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His intentions?
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Nudging toward my desires.
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He comes here?
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Two days hence.
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Well, the reason for
his visit is absent.
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In words, but the meaning shines.
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He comes to thank me.
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For what?
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For paying too much for the thracian?
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Spartacus defied Glaber's attempt
at assassination in the arena.
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The people demanded freedom,
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an embarrassment for the Legatus.
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I offered an alternative,
by purchasing him.
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At inflated price.
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If Spartacus survives to swear the oath,
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the arena will be his
tomb as first intended.
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If not..
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Then his passing becomes an
early delight for the Legatus.
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Um. Desires well nudged.
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Huh. There's yet more stroking needed.
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A simple gesture of gratitude
from the Legatus falls short.
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Patronage is the reward we seek.
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Nothing less.
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The Legatus as patron...
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His coins will fill our
pool to overflowing.
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We'll need to prepare a feast.
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A small one.
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With wine. And water. Lots of water.
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Just enough... to wet the tongue.
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I'll sacrifice a bull to appease
the gods in our venture.
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Well perhaps something smaller?
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A ram, then.
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To the gods.
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May they bless us with good fortune...
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Well lick my hole.
The pig-fucker's still alive.
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This is the one?
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The Spartacus everyone's
been pissing about?
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Spartacus? My name is...
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No one gives shit to
who you were, thracian.
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I give no shit to who he is.
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What is this place?
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The afterlife, friend.
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Or least outside its rusted gates.
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You're now an honored guest of Batiatus,
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master of the greatest ludus in Capua.
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Ludus?
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A school of training.
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Where men are forged into gods,
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blood their ambrosia,
the arena, their mountaintop.
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Gladiators.
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The truest of brotherhoods!
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Live the next few days,
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you and the other recruits
will count yourself among us.
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And bare our mark.
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In the mean, can we fetch you something?
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Food? Water?
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Maybe some scented oils for your feet?
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Water.
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Oh, he's slow this one, isn't he?
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What do you
expect from a thracian?
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Smells like fresh shit.
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Oh, they all do.
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Except for their women.
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They smell like piss and shit.
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What are you, then?
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I'm a gaul, little man.
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The greatest of my kind.
Crixus, the undefeated!
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A gaul.
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That explains why you
smell like a woman.
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Oh you tend to your wounds.
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Eat. Rest.
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When you gain your strength,
we'll revisit that remark.
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Freak!
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Pile of shit. Not a cock among them.
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Well then you should join them,
you little cunt.
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What is beneath your feet?
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Answer!
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What is beneath your feet?
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Sand?
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Crixus!
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What is beneath your feet?
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Sacred ground, Doctore!
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Watered with the tears of blood!
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Doctore your tears. Your blood.
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Your pathetic lives,
forged into something of worth.
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Listen. Learn.
And perhaps, live.
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As gladiators.
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Now, attend your master!
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You have been blessed!
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Each and every one of you,
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to find yourselves here,
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at the ludus of Quintus
Lentulus Batiatus!
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Purveyor of the finest gladiators
in all of the Republic!
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Prove yourselves,
in the hard days to follow.
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Prove yourselves more
than a common slave.
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More than a man.
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Fail, and die.
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Either here where you stand,
or sold off to the mines.
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Succeed, and stand
proud among my titans!
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Batiatus. Batiatus. Batiatus.
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A gladiator does not fear death.
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He embraces it. Caresses it. Fucks it.
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Each time he enters the arena,
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he slips his cock into
the mouth of the beast.
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And prays to thrust home
before the jaws snap shut.
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Uh!
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None of you stray dogs would
last a fleeting moment.
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Except one.
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This sad, battered thracian
stood against four in the arena.
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Condemned to die, given nothing but
a sword to wager his life upon.
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They came at him!
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Again and
again and again!
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Uh!
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Uh!
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He defied death! Fate!
The gods themselves!
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Raaaa!
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Yaaaa!
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Argh! Argh!
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Yaaaaa! Uh!
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Spartacus.... Spartacus...Spartacus...
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Gaze at this man!
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Study him. And realize...
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He is nothing.
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A coward.
A deserter from the auxiliary.
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His victory in the arena,
as hollow as his courage.
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He fought against the il
l-trained men of Solonius,
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your master's rival.
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Had Spartacus entered the
arena with any gladiator here...
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His head would have left
well in advance of his body!
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The thracian disagrees.
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A demonstration, perhaps?
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Crixus!
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Practice swords.
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Prove us wrong, Spartacus.
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Pick it up.
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Spartacus!
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That is not my name.
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Grrr!
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Your name, your life, is what we decide.
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Perhaps the coward requires advantage
to still his trembling knees.
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Gladius!
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Pick it up.
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I can do nothing with this one.
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Send him to the mines.
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Uh!
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Feeling rested, are we?
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An attack must be grounded
in proper footing.
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He attempts to press
before regaining balance.
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Ahhh!
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Crixus!
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Ahh!
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Ahh!
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Allow advantage to your back...
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And you are dead.
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Oh!
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Become entangled with a
more powerful opponent...
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..And you are dead.
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Raaa!
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Uh!
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Hurl your sword in the arena...
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And you are dead again.
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Your foolishness has cost a life.
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But yours may yet be redeemed.
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Two fingers. A sign of surrender.
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A plea of mercy to the
editor of the games!
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Beg for your life, little rabbit.
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Bash his skull in!
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Crixus!
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Dominus.
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Continue training.
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He tries to kill your best man,
and yet you let him live?
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Glaber visits tomorrow.
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His intention towards the
thracian may include blood.
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Until his patronage is secured I
intend to keep it warm and flowing.
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God, the heat!
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Enough to boil the tongue from the head!
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Raa!
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Eat it!
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Shit-fucking slaves and criminals,
the lot of them.
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Are we the better?
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You survived your own execution.
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Twice, if you mark the gaul over there
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not introducing your brains to the sand.
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You are of a difference, thracian.
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Above this unfortunate collection.
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And you?
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Varro.
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The worst of the lot.
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A free man consigned by his own hand.
216
00:21:19,251 --> 00:21:22,553
Why would a man willingly
condemn himself to this?
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A small matter of debt, grown large.
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The repaying of it proves difficult.
219
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If the concern was only to me...
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A family?
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Wife and child.
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A boy.
223
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Two years in the arena,
my winnings will keep them fed.
224
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Winnings?
225
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Fight well, and you're
rewarded with coin.
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Enough even to balance what I owe,
the gods be fortunate.
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The gods.
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You are a fool.
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And in good company, by the judging.
230
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They're the best
I could do at the moment.
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One or two show promise. But the rest
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my own mother would
have them in the arena.
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You have no mother.
234
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You were belched from the
cunt of the underworld.
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That's why I favor you.
236
00:22:11,937 --> 00:22:13,037
Were there no better offerings?
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Better, yes!
238
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Within the reach of my purse, no!
239
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You stand questioning and complaining
instead of setting yourself to the task!
240
00:22:20,145 --> 00:22:23,748
I press to honor you, Batiatus.
And this ludus.
241
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Legatus Glaber visits tomorrow.
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With him hope of renewed fortunes.
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00:22:26,919 --> 00:22:30,321
Till then, these men are
all the straw afforded.
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Bake them into brick,
or crumble them to the mines.
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Your will. My hands.
246
00:22:40,332 --> 00:22:43,434
Ovidius! Apologies for the delay!
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Accepted, if made with coin.
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Three months of grain,
the payment standing past due.
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Three, is it?
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To the day.
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The games of the Vulcanalia approach.
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If I could carry the debt till then...
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The principle, plus thirty percent.
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Thirty?!
255
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Or settle the debt as it stands.
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Huh, principle plus thirty.
After the Vulcanalia.
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The day after.
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Uh!
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00:23:31,350 --> 00:23:32,817
I could have taken him.
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00:23:32,884 --> 00:23:37,221
Crixus? Pff, the shit would
be running down your leg.
261
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I wouldn't have ended up in the dirt,
fucked like a dog.
262
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Without training, the gaul would
have bested any of us, Kerza.
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Speaking otherwise is bloated air.
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I pray not to face
Crixus in the final test.
265
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Nothing to worry. You'll
never make it that far, cock hole.
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All can make it to the test. And beyond.
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Freedom.
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One day. If you fight well.
269
00:24:02,981 --> 00:24:06,917
Freedom, it's piss without
the money to keep it, Varro.
270
00:24:06,985 --> 00:24:09,987
Win the hearts of the crowd in the
arena and you'll be blessed with both.
271
00:24:12,758 --> 00:24:15,726
You fought the gladiators there.
272
00:24:15,794 --> 00:24:17,662
What do you think of our chances?
273
00:24:22,567 --> 00:24:23,934
You're all going to die.
274
00:24:31,943 --> 00:24:36,747
Up! You will sleep when
you prove yourselves men.
275
00:24:57,736 --> 00:24:58,669
Ah!
276
00:24:58,737 --> 00:24:59,904
Keep pace!
277
00:25:09,614 --> 00:25:10,848
It's late.
278
00:25:12,217 --> 00:25:15,820
It is. Return to your dreams.
279
00:25:15,887 --> 00:25:17,355
In a minute.
280
00:25:19,858 --> 00:25:21,292
We need better wine.
281
00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:23,361
We need many things.
282
00:25:24,496 --> 00:25:25,930
We'll have them, again.
283
00:25:28,066 --> 00:25:30,201
The arrangements are set?
284
00:25:30,268 --> 00:25:32,570
I've taken care of everything.
285
00:25:32,637 --> 00:25:34,238
Cannot fall short tomorrow.
286
00:25:34,306 --> 00:25:36,507
If I can secure Glaber's patronage...
287
00:25:36,575 --> 00:25:37,742
You will.
288
00:25:39,778 --> 00:25:41,045
How are you certain?
289
00:25:43,115 --> 00:25:44,949
We've done everything we can.
290
00:25:45,016 --> 00:25:46,784
It's in the hands of the gods now.
291
00:25:52,624 --> 00:25:53,858
Come to bed.
292
00:25:55,360 --> 00:25:56,994
And bring that awful wine.
293
00:25:59,731 --> 00:26:01,031
I beg you.
294
00:26:01,933 --> 00:26:04,235
Do not fuck me.
295
00:26:34,266 --> 00:26:35,800
Halt!
296
00:26:35,867 --> 00:26:38,502
The day's training will begin shortly.
297
00:26:38,570 --> 00:26:39,804
Eat.
298
00:26:43,708 --> 00:26:45,242
Eh! Jupiter's cock.
299
00:26:45,310 --> 00:26:47,178
Now we train all day?
300
00:26:51,016 --> 00:26:53,717
Still believe every man
will live to see the test?
301
00:26:57,522 --> 00:26:59,723
Mostly.
302
00:26:59,791 --> 00:27:01,659
Yet the fool, then.
303
00:27:04,162 --> 00:27:05,763
Batiatus paid for these men?
304
00:27:05,831 --> 00:27:08,699
Very little, by the look of them.
305
00:27:08,767 --> 00:27:13,270
The roman way. Lives for coins.
306
00:27:13,338 --> 00:27:15,606
Some deserving more than others.
307
00:27:15,674 --> 00:27:19,944
I've heard a certain
thracian was quite the price.
308
00:27:20,011 --> 00:27:22,613
I would see the
cost rise higher still.
309
00:27:29,287 --> 00:27:30,354
Um!
310
00:27:32,724 --> 00:27:34,725
I recall the
hardship of the march,
311
00:27:34,793 --> 00:27:36,026
when I was a recruit.
312
00:27:36,094 --> 00:27:39,330
You must be mad with hunger.
313
00:27:39,397 --> 00:27:40,865
Fill your bellies!
314
00:27:54,913 --> 00:27:56,814
Shit.
315
00:28:02,954 --> 00:28:05,222
Wake me when it's time to die again.
316
00:28:14,499 --> 00:28:16,300
Apologies for the porridge.
317
00:28:16,368 --> 00:28:18,769
Barca finds the jest amusing.
318
00:28:18,837 --> 00:28:20,004
Least he didn't piss in it this time.
319
00:28:20,071 --> 00:28:21,705
Adds an unpleasant bite.
320
00:28:23,008 --> 00:28:28,946
The days will be hard.
Without food, more so.
321
00:28:29,014 --> 00:28:31,181
You would give me your bread?
322
00:28:31,249 --> 00:28:34,818
Mine, no.
323
00:28:34,886 --> 00:28:37,488
I move things from here to there,
this hand to that.
324
00:28:37,556 --> 00:28:40,024
Even from outside these walls.
325
00:28:40,091 --> 00:28:42,793
Whatever your needs, Ashur provides.
326
00:28:43,428 --> 00:28:45,262
I owe no man.
327
00:28:47,532 --> 00:28:50,267
I ask nothing in return.
328
00:28:50,335 --> 00:28:54,204
My only concern is your strength
and well being in the coming day.
329
00:28:54,272 --> 00:28:56,440
Come to plain words.
330
00:28:58,143 --> 00:28:59,577
Simply stated, then.
331
00:29:00,812 --> 00:29:04,648
In addition to other services,
I offer odds.
332
00:29:04,716 --> 00:29:06,317
Will this man live? That one die?
333
00:29:06,384 --> 00:29:08,819
How fast? How slow? On what day or hour?
334
00:29:08,887 --> 00:29:11,956
Games to pass the time. And the coin.
335
00:29:12,023 --> 00:29:13,157
And how am I fixed?
336
00:29:13,224 --> 00:29:15,926
Twelve to the one, favoring the mines.
337
00:29:15,994 --> 00:29:17,094
Higher towards your death.
338
00:29:19,030 --> 00:29:22,433
Crixus stands to lose a sum
if you defy the numbering.
339
00:29:23,335 --> 00:29:25,135
I would see it so.
340
00:29:34,679 --> 00:29:35,746
Ahh.
341
00:29:38,083 --> 00:29:40,584
Do not think me friend.
342
00:29:40,652 --> 00:29:42,519
The thought is well removed.
343
00:30:01,606 --> 00:30:02,906
How did you manage this?
344
00:30:03,875 --> 00:30:05,509
By playing the odds.
345
00:30:07,145 --> 00:30:09,213
I fear they're about to worsen.
346
00:30:43,014 --> 00:30:44,014
Glaber.
347
00:30:44,082 --> 00:30:46,383
You will address me by title of Legatus.
348
00:30:51,790 --> 00:30:55,626
Yet the animal. The mark of your kind.
349
00:30:56,227 --> 00:30:57,428
Where is she?
350
00:30:57,495 --> 00:30:58,662
Who?
351
00:31:00,699 --> 00:31:01,832
That little wife of yours?
352
00:31:01,900 --> 00:31:02,833
Where?
353
00:31:02,901 --> 00:31:05,069
Wherever I please!
354
00:31:10,442 --> 00:31:12,710
She served you no grievance.
355
00:31:12,777 --> 00:31:14,211
No.
356
00:31:14,813 --> 00:31:18,315
None. But you...
357
00:31:18,383 --> 00:31:20,417
You have grieved me.
358
00:31:20,485 --> 00:31:22,152
By stirring the auxiliary to desertion.
359
00:31:22,220 --> 00:31:23,754
Calling my command into question,
360
00:31:23,822 --> 00:31:27,491
imperiling my standing with the senate.
361
00:31:27,559 --> 00:31:30,294
And then in the arena
you grieve me again,
362
00:31:30,361 --> 00:31:33,097
by not knowing when to die.
363
00:31:33,164 --> 00:31:34,331
My life, then.
364
00:31:35,767 --> 00:31:37,501
In exchange for hers.
365
00:31:37,569 --> 00:31:39,369
Your life is no longer yours to bargain!
366
00:31:41,573 --> 00:31:42,906
If I wish it ceased,
367
00:31:42,974 --> 00:31:44,775
I have but to whisper
368
00:31:44,843 --> 00:31:47,578
and good Batiatus will command it!
369
00:31:47,645 --> 00:31:49,747
Then tongue the words in his ear.
370
00:31:54,185 --> 00:31:56,954
You mistake me, thracian.
371
00:31:57,021 --> 00:32:02,226
True. I once sought death in
repayment for your slights.
372
00:32:02,293 --> 00:32:08,866
But I see the error of that now.
Wishing for an end too quick.
373
00:32:10,368 --> 00:32:13,871
No. My desires have turned to blood.
374
00:32:13,938 --> 00:32:18,308
Spilled by the drop, over time,
until you are drained.
375
00:32:20,011 --> 00:32:21,812
I told you Rome's shadow was vast.
376
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:26,683
And you will yet die under it. Sliver
by sliver, to the roar of the crowd.
377
00:32:31,456 --> 00:32:32,823
Oh.
378
00:32:36,728 --> 00:32:40,764
A parting kindness, to bind us.
379
00:32:46,971 --> 00:32:54,044
I took it from her thigh
to preserve the scent.
380
00:32:54,112 --> 00:32:57,381
Before my men stained it with their own.
381
00:32:58,016 --> 00:33:00,617
Raaa! No!
382
00:33:00,685 --> 00:33:04,588
She was a savage amusement.
383
00:33:04,656 --> 00:33:07,724
And when the fight
finally left her eyes.
384
00:33:07,792 --> 00:33:11,662
I sold her to an unpleasant
syrian for half a coin.
385
00:33:18,469 --> 00:33:22,339
You see the thracian finally
learns his place before me.
386
00:33:25,076 --> 00:33:27,010
On his knees.
387
00:33:31,916 --> 00:33:33,717
Raaaa!
388
00:33:33,785 --> 00:33:36,720
Your visit with the thracian
was satisfying, then?
389
00:33:36,788 --> 00:33:38,922
The man is of no more concern to me.
390
00:33:38,990 --> 00:33:42,860
No none whatsoever! We've
prepared a feast in your honor!
391
00:33:42,927 --> 00:33:44,027
I leave for Rome.
392
00:33:44,095 --> 00:33:45,596
Rome? Now?
393
00:33:45,663 --> 00:33:48,298
Errr, something for your trip, then?
394
00:33:52,770 --> 00:33:56,139
You really shouldn't have
gone to the trouble, Lucretia.
395
00:33:56,207 --> 00:33:59,142
These common dishes leave
my stomach unsettled.
396
00:34:00,545 --> 00:34:03,113
Some wine perhaps,
while we wait for your husband?
397
00:34:03,181 --> 00:34:04,514
Sestian?
398
00:34:04,582 --> 00:34:07,684
No, but something of equal taste?
399
00:34:07,752 --> 00:34:09,186
Water, then.
400
00:34:12,323 --> 00:34:16,894
The heat and the dust.
Will it ever rain again?
401
00:34:16,961 --> 00:34:19,029
We can only pray.
402
00:34:19,097 --> 00:34:20,797
Can't place foot on street in Capua
403
00:34:20,865 --> 00:34:23,700
without hearing someone pleading
to the heavens for a sprinkle.
404
00:34:24,502 --> 00:34:27,871
And the gods yet ignore us.
405
00:34:27,939 --> 00:34:30,474
Perhaps we've done
something to offend them.
406
00:34:32,610 --> 00:34:35,679
I try to do a little something everyday.
407
00:34:37,015 --> 00:34:38,682
So you're the cause, Ilithyia.
408
00:34:38,750 --> 00:34:44,354
I'd stand a bit away. Jupiter
could hurl a bolt at any moment.
409
00:34:44,422 --> 00:34:46,690
He'd have to choose between targets.
410
00:34:48,459 --> 00:34:53,330
And I thought I was in the
presence of a proper roman woman.
411
00:34:53,398 --> 00:34:58,168
Proper is a word forged by men who
would seek to enslave us with it.
412
00:35:00,405 --> 00:35:01,405
Kerza!
413
00:35:30,868 --> 00:35:33,804
Have you ever been inside a ludus?
414
00:35:33,871 --> 00:35:39,343
No. I've always wanted to.
But father would never allow it.
415
00:35:39,410 --> 00:35:42,245
You obey his commands?
416
00:35:42,313 --> 00:35:45,515
Not all of them. Or my husband's.
417
00:35:45,583 --> 00:35:51,288
How do you live with the noise and the
smell, surrounded by these animals?
418
00:35:51,356 --> 00:35:54,891
Yes, they are wild and savage,
aren't they?
419
00:35:54,959 --> 00:35:59,563
Something out of a fever dream.
Isn't it a worry?
420
00:35:59,630 --> 00:36:03,200
I mean, what if they went insane
all at once, clamoring for blood?!
421
00:36:03,267 --> 00:36:05,769
This ludus has been in my
husband's family for generations.
422
00:36:05,837 --> 00:36:07,337
And yet it stands.
423
00:36:07,405 --> 00:36:11,942
What about your children?
Do you let them play with them?
424
00:36:12,010 --> 00:36:15,212
Um, I'm without children.
425
00:36:17,882 --> 00:36:21,385
Oh. Apologies. I just thought
a woman of your age...
426
00:36:21,452 --> 00:36:23,086
Um.
427
00:36:26,891 --> 00:36:29,626
Come. We leave for Rome.
428
00:36:29,694 --> 00:36:31,261
So soon?
429
00:36:31,329 --> 00:36:35,399
Well, can't we stay awhile?
I want to watch the gladiators.
430
00:36:35,466 --> 00:36:38,201
Another time. Come.
431
00:37:12,170 --> 00:37:13,637
Kerza!
432
00:37:16,674 --> 00:37:18,608
Pair with Spartacus.
433
00:37:18,676 --> 00:37:19,876
Yes, Doctore.
434
00:37:20,978 --> 00:37:23,780
Recruits! Attend!
435
00:37:23,848 --> 00:37:26,283
Show the thracian what we've
learned in his absence.
436
00:37:38,129 --> 00:37:40,363
Form one. Attack!
437
00:37:40,431 --> 00:37:42,065
Raaa!
438
00:37:49,907 --> 00:37:51,141
Ahhh!
439
00:37:53,945 --> 00:37:55,912
Form two. Attack!
440
00:37:55,980 --> 00:37:57,380
Yaaaa!
441
00:38:19,737 --> 00:38:20,804
Raaa!
442
00:38:22,173 --> 00:38:23,240
Uh!
443
00:38:24,308 --> 00:38:25,375
Spartacus!
444
00:38:28,379 --> 00:38:29,846
Spartacus!
445
00:39:05,016 --> 00:39:06,750
Uh!
446
00:39:20,965 --> 00:39:23,867
The gods haven't pissed
on me enough for one day?!
447
00:39:23,935 --> 00:39:28,038
Legatus fucking Glaber spurns
me like a common slave, but no!
448
00:39:28,105 --> 00:39:30,840
Let's add shit to the piss
let's pour it in his mouth!
449
00:39:30,908 --> 00:39:33,877
If word gets out that Batiatus
can't control his own men...
450
00:39:33,945 --> 00:39:35,478
I warned you of their quality.
451
00:39:35,546 --> 00:39:38,682
You warn me nothing! You counsel,
and make promises to the air!
452
00:39:38,749 --> 00:39:40,450
"My hands, your will."
453
00:39:42,653 --> 00:39:44,955
The Legatus, barely
beyond my fucking gates!
454
00:39:45,022 --> 00:39:46,223
The thracian is unpredictable.
455
00:39:46,290 --> 00:39:47,958
Then school him to our standards.
456
00:39:48,025 --> 00:39:51,361
Rod and lash fall unnoticed. He's an
animal, best unleashed in the mines.
457
00:39:51,429 --> 00:39:54,931
No. The rest to the gods,
they were all of little cost.
458
00:39:54,999 --> 00:40:01,104
Spartacus is more highly valued, his
worth well exceeding their entire sum.
459
00:40:01,172 --> 00:40:04,140
I will have return.
If not from the Legatus,
460
00:40:04,208 --> 00:40:05,709
then from the man himself.
461
00:40:05,776 --> 00:40:08,578
Even though he is unpredictable?
462
00:40:08,646 --> 00:40:13,083
He is but passionate,
and he stirs the same in others.
463
00:40:13,150 --> 00:40:16,987
A boon to the crowds, if we can but
divine the instrument of his taming.
464
00:40:19,290 --> 00:40:24,461
He struggled to retain this bit of
fabric, even as the guards beat him.
465
00:40:24,528 --> 00:40:27,264
It may bring you some service.
466
00:40:27,331 --> 00:40:31,067
I noted this in the hand of
the Legatus, upon his arrival.
467
00:40:40,745 --> 00:40:44,481
Bring him to my chamber.
I'll press to discovery.
468
00:40:57,461 --> 00:40:59,062
Why are you here?
469
00:40:59,130 --> 00:41:02,899
In this place. Under my hospitality.
Do you know why?
470
00:41:02,967 --> 00:41:06,303
Because I trusted in
the honor of a roman.
471
00:41:06,370 --> 00:41:10,874
You are here because of my grandfather.
472
00:41:10,941 --> 00:41:13,710
He built this ludus.
473
00:41:13,778 --> 00:41:16,579
He believed that no
man was without worth.
474
00:41:16,647 --> 00:41:20,650
That even the most vile among us
could rise to honor and glory.
475
00:41:20,718 --> 00:41:23,553
He instilled these beliefs in my father,
476
00:41:23,621 --> 00:41:26,289
who in turn passed them on to me.
477
00:41:26,357 --> 00:41:32,962
I am a lanista, like my forefathers.
A trainer of gladiators.
478
00:41:33,030 --> 00:41:35,699
I see things in men that
they themselves have lost.
479
00:41:35,766 --> 00:41:38,134
A small spark. An ember.
480
00:41:38,202 --> 00:41:42,238
I give it breath, tinder.
Until it ignites in the arena.
481
00:41:43,607 --> 00:41:45,742
I burn for no cause but my own.
482
00:41:45,810 --> 00:41:48,845
And what might that be? Money?
483
00:41:48,913 --> 00:41:50,947
You've cost me enough on that front.
484
00:41:51,015 --> 00:41:53,249
No, not so base a cause for this one.
485
00:41:53,317 --> 00:41:56,986
Position, then? Power? Love?
486
00:42:00,725 --> 00:42:03,193
You have a woman, thracian?
487
00:42:03,260 --> 00:42:05,195
I have a wife.
488
00:42:05,262 --> 00:42:06,529
And do you love her?
489
00:42:07,998 --> 00:42:09,966
Of course you do.
I can see it in the eye,
490
00:42:10,034 --> 00:42:11,401
tensing of the jaw.
491
00:42:11,469 --> 00:42:15,405
What might be the name
of this delicate flower?
492
00:42:15,473 --> 00:42:17,507
Sura.
493
00:42:17,575 --> 00:42:19,476
Where is she?
494
00:42:19,543 --> 00:42:21,978
He took her. When he came for me.
495
00:42:22,913 --> 00:42:25,382
Legatus Glaber? He has her?
496
00:42:25,449 --> 00:42:27,250
He sold her to a syrian.
497
00:42:27,318 --> 00:42:29,986
Well then how do you
know she still lives?
498
00:42:30,054 --> 00:42:33,690
How do you know the heart
beats beneath your chest?
499
00:42:33,758 --> 00:42:38,561
Most days, I don't.
I'm just a simple roman
500
00:42:38,629 --> 00:42:43,733
trying to make his way against the
whim of the gods, the politicians,
501
00:42:43,801 --> 00:42:46,536
the miscreants, though often you
can't tell one from another.
502
00:42:46,604 --> 00:42:51,207
But you, you are the most
dangerous of animals.
503
00:42:51,275 --> 00:42:53,643
The beast born of the heart.
504
00:42:53,711 --> 00:42:56,346
What would you do to hold your wife again?
505
00:42:56,414 --> 00:43:00,083
To feel the warmth of her skin,
to taste her lips?
506
00:43:00,151 --> 00:43:02,085
Would you kill?
507
00:43:02,153 --> 00:43:04,988
Whoever stood between us.
508
00:43:05,055 --> 00:43:08,525
How many men? A hundred? A thousand?
509
00:43:08,592 --> 00:43:10,059
I would kill them all.
510
00:43:10,127 --> 00:43:12,362
Then do it in the arena!
511
00:43:12,430 --> 00:43:15,832
Fight for me and the
honor of my forefathers!
512
00:43:15,900 --> 00:43:20,003
Prove yourself. Climb to the pinnacle,
gain your freedom
513
00:43:20,070 --> 00:43:22,806
and that of the woman you've lost.
514
00:43:22,873 --> 00:43:28,711
I did not lose her.
She was taken from me.
515
00:43:28,779 --> 00:43:33,216
A man must accept his fate.
Or be destroyed by it.
516
00:43:35,453 --> 00:43:40,457
Why would I place my fate in
the hands of another roman?
517
00:43:41,659 --> 00:43:43,259
Because of what they hold.
518
00:43:47,565 --> 00:43:49,432
Your wife's?
519
00:43:53,070 --> 00:43:56,940
Pass the final test, tonight.
With honor and servitude.
520
00:43:57,007 --> 00:44:01,544
Call me Dominus.
And I will help to reunite you.
521
00:44:13,591 --> 00:44:15,258
The choice is yours.
522
00:44:59,436 --> 00:45:00,803
Cease!
523
00:45:02,706 --> 00:45:06,509
Varro has stood to a draw!
The test is passed!
524
00:45:17,855 --> 00:45:22,091
Barca! Marcus! Positions!
525
00:45:27,031 --> 00:45:29,566
Barca! Barca!
526
00:45:41,345 --> 00:45:42,312
Begin!
527
00:45:42,379 --> 00:45:43,479
Raaaa!
528
00:45:56,660 --> 00:45:58,161
That's disappointing.
529
00:45:58,228 --> 00:46:00,530
Not every venture ends in climax.
530
00:46:00,598 --> 00:46:02,732
A fact known well to every woman.
531
00:46:15,980 --> 00:46:17,046
Crixus!
532
00:46:18,582 --> 00:46:21,651
Spartacus! Positions!
533
00:46:33,297 --> 00:46:35,632
Crixus! Crixus!
534
00:47:00,090 --> 00:47:03,526
One final lesson, before I
send you to the afterlife.
535
00:47:14,972 --> 00:47:16,039
Begin!
536
00:47:27,985 --> 00:47:29,152
Fuck.
537
00:47:29,219 --> 00:47:31,854
Expensive and worthless,
all in a measure.
538
00:47:33,524 --> 00:47:35,324
Fight! You thracian bitch!
539
00:47:45,536 --> 00:47:47,103
Tears!
540
00:47:50,641 --> 00:47:53,376
The rabbit is fixed to piss himself!
541
00:48:15,499 --> 00:48:17,166
Skin the rabbit!
542
00:48:19,837 --> 00:48:21,571
Ah! Oh!
543
00:48:31,849 --> 00:48:33,349
Ahh! Ahhh!
544
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:37,520
Finish him!
545
00:48:40,791 --> 00:48:42,358
Thracians.
546
00:48:52,469 --> 00:48:54,403
Ahhh!
547
00:49:12,189 --> 00:49:13,990
The lesson is well learned.
548
00:49:15,559 --> 00:49:16,793
Spartacus!
549
00:49:18,996 --> 00:49:20,763
Cease.
550
00:49:26,603 --> 00:49:29,572
You have passed the test.
551
00:49:40,217 --> 00:49:41,551
Dominus.
552
00:49:44,188 --> 00:49:50,092
Your life now promises
meaning. Swear it to me.
553
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:52,461
Recite the Sacramentum
Gladiatorum.
554
00:49:54,431 --> 00:50:00,736
I commit my flesh. My mind.
My will.
555
00:50:00,804 --> 00:50:07,143
To the glory of this ludus, and the
commands of my master, Batiatus.
556
00:50:09,613 --> 00:50:15,017
"I swear to be burned, chained,
beaten,
557
00:50:15,085 --> 00:50:17,353
or die by the sword.
558
00:50:17,421 --> 00:50:20,122
In pursuit of honor in the arena.
559
00:50:33,103 --> 00:50:35,338
Welcome to the brotherhood.