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Rome, AD 54. Knowing that he will soon be assassinated, the Roman Emperor Claudius begins a secret history of his family, planning for it to be found long after he is dead. He begins his tale seventy years earlier, in 24 BC, as the newly-cemented Emperor Augustus begins to favour his nephew and son-in-law Marcellus over his old friend and ally Agrippa. After Agrippa is insulted by Marcellus at a banquet honouring the Battle of Actium, he leaves Rome in protest. Augustus' wife Livia wants her son Tiberius to become Augustus' heir, so she secretly poisons Marcellus, who eventually dies. Augustus has Agrippa return to Rome. To seal their renewed friendship, he gives his daughter Julia, Marcellus' widow, to Agrippa to be his wife, infuriating Livia, who wanted Julia to marry Tiberius to cement his status as Augustus' heir.
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00:00The End
00:30THE END
00:59Iberius, Claudius, Drusus, Nero, Germanicus, this, that and the other, who was once, and not so long ago, better known to my friends and relatives as Claudius the Idiot, or that fool Claudius, or Claudius the Stammerer.
01:24I am now about to write this strange history of my life.
01:34Are you there?
01:35Yes, you're there. I can feel it. I can feel your presence. Yes.
01:43I knew you would come the moment I began to write. Yes. It was inevitable. It was prophesied by the Sibyl.
01:54Spies. Spies everywhere. Spying on me. In my bed, at my prayers, on the street.
02:16Even in the laboratory. Spies.
02:19I'll cheat them. Everyone.
02:22It was prophesied by the Sibyl. I went to Kumai many years ago to consult her.
02:32She was most famous. Her prophecies had achieved worldwide renown, and she did not consent to see everyone.
02:42Unexpectedly, she consented to see me. I was terrified.
02:51Oh, Sibyl, I said, I've come to question you about Rome's fate and mine.
03:00Hear me, claw, claw, Claudius, she answered, mocking my stammer.
03:05Apollo speaks to you through me. Listen closely.
03:12What groans beneath the punic curse, and strangles in the strings of purse, before she mends, must sicken worse.
03:24Ten years, fifty days, and three, claw, claw, Claudius, shall given be a gift that all desire but he.
03:34But when he's dumb, and no more here, nineteen hundred year or near, claw, claw, Claudius, shall speak clear.
03:54Yes, that's what it means. In nineteen hundred years from now, they'll hear me.
04:02Not before.
04:05No.
04:07A box.
04:09I need a box.
04:13I'll put it all in here.
04:15My story.
04:16My history of the family, yes.
04:19And the end of the Republic, yes.
04:21And when I've finished, I'll seal it up and bury it where no one will find it.
04:25No.
04:26No.
04:27No one.
04:29Not for nineteen hundred years or more.
04:32Then it will turn up.
04:34Suddenly, people will read it.
04:36They'll know the truth.
04:38My voice, as the Sybil said, as she prophesied.
04:42For them.
04:43Not for these fools in Rome, but for them.
04:47Out there, in remote posterity.
04:49Yes, for you.
04:53Yes, it will all be in here.
04:56Sealed.
04:58You will find it.
05:00I promise you.
05:01I, Claudius, am now about to begin this strange history of my life, of my family, of Livia,
05:22my grandmother, of Augustus Caesar, of Marcus Agrippa, yes, and his hatred for Marcellus.
05:30I, Claudius...
05:31I.
05:32I.
05:45I.
05:53I.
05:55I.
05:57I.
05:58I.
05:58I.
05:58I.
05:59I.
05:59I.
05:59I.
05:59I.
06:00I.
06:00Excellent! Excellent!
06:03Have us!
06:06See, they're well taken care of. They were splendid, really.
06:09Yes, Cedar.
06:10And see, they're properly fed.
06:11Don't give them the scraps and the leftovers.
06:13They'll eat better even than the kitchen staff, Cedar.
06:16Well, there's no need to go that far.
06:18Better than us would be quite sufficient.
06:22You know, Marcus, I like to eat sparingly.
06:26There's too much gluttony in Rome, especially at festivals.
06:29But this one day, I think, is very special.
06:32I'd like to make an exception.
06:34And, er, I've got a surprise for you.
06:37Two, as a matter of fact.
06:39Pallas!
06:43Yes, Caesar?
06:44Bring in the cake.
06:45But, Caesar, it's for the end of the week.
06:47I can't wait. I want the family to see it.
06:49Do you know what else I've got?
06:50Aristarchus of Athens is in Rome.
06:54Oh, Marcus.
06:56They say that he's the greatest orator of our time.
06:59And I've asked him to prepare a narration
07:01to mark the seventh anniversary of the Battle of Actium.
07:04Oh, no.
07:05What's the matter? Is he too boring for me?
07:07Well, we had one last year.
07:09That was last year.
07:10In any way, the speaker was very dull.
07:11This man, they say, he's wonderful.
07:14Seven years today is St. Anthony and all his hopes
07:17in the harbour of Actium.
07:19You see, how the young mock the battle scars of their elders.
07:24Battle scars?
07:25A lot of good men died in that battle.
07:27And a lot of good men got scarred.
07:29I don't think it's right to make light of it.
07:31Oh, he's just been provocative.
07:32Not really.
07:33I just think we exaggerate its significance, that's all.
07:35No, no, no.
07:36Now, let's not argue, Marcus.
07:38No, no. Just a minute.
07:39Let's hear what the young genius has to say.
07:42Well?
07:43Look!
07:44Here is the cake.
07:46Do we get money?
07:47Julia, for heaven's sake!
07:51There, Marcus, do you recognise it?
07:53Yes.
07:54It's my ship.
07:55Yes, it's the one that you've made your head for to.
07:56It's you, the fine ship.
07:58Ah.
07:59That must be you, Marcus.
08:00The candied cherry in the prowl.
08:04Now, Marcellus, please.
08:06Now, these things mean something to us.
08:08Oh, don't you think we're taking ourselves a little seriously tonight?
08:10Not seriously enough, it seems to me.
08:12Livia, isn't that a wonderful cake?
08:15Wonderful.
08:16What do you mean, wonderful?
08:17Don't you like it?
08:19Why don't you bring in the Greek?
08:20If you keep him waiting much longer, you'll need a shave.
08:23As a matter of fact, he's bearded.
08:27Thalas, bring in the Greek.
08:28Leave the cake.
08:29Take the cake.
08:32You know, Marcus, they say that he writes a sort of prose hymn.
08:35What can that mean?
08:37It's a form that I've never heard of.
08:39One of these new Greek inventions.
08:41They're always inventing something.
08:43Why are they so clever?
08:45If they're so clever, why are they a province of ours instead of vice versa?
08:49Ah, and it's Darkus.
08:53Welcome.
08:54Hail, Caesar.
08:55I hope we haven't kept you waiting too long.
08:58Come.
09:00We're ready now.
09:01Give us your piece.
09:12Give me your piece, Caesar, and I shall gladly give you mine.
09:16Yes, of course.
09:17I'm sorry.
09:18Thalas.
09:25Caesar calls for silence.
09:27What a voice.
09:29Perhaps we should change places?
09:31Only the Romans can afford ushers with a voice like that.
09:34Did you have a trend?
09:36I was an actor, sir.
09:37Oh, that explains it.
09:39Resting, are you?
09:41No, sir.
09:42I've given it up.
09:43Everyone's an actor in Rome.
09:44There just isn't enough work to go round.
09:46And what there is goes to friends and relatives.
09:49It's the same everywhere.
09:50The theatre isn't what it was.
09:52No.
09:53And I'll tell you something else.
09:55It never was what it was.
09:57We'd be glad, Thalas, if you'd discuss your personal problems in your own time.
10:09Today is a day to drink and dance.
10:13Let us rival the priests of Mars with feet to deck the couches of the gods.
10:24Seven summers passed.
10:26The wild queen, Cleopatra, dreaming her dreams of ruin on your lovely empire, sailed her hopes into the harbour that year.
10:37And there was noble Anthony, spat curses on the ships of Caesar, and cried, Sink, Rome, and all her minions.
10:48Egypt not for conquests.
10:50Ha!
10:51But worlds do not kill.
10:53And curses sink, no ships.
10:56Before the wind had changed, though she could catch her scented breath, mighty Agrippa.
11:01Marcus Vipsania Agrippa.
11:04Old friend and commander of the armies of Augustus.
11:08Emperor of Rome, a most remarkable man.
11:12But even more remarkable was Livia, his second wife.
11:15If Augustus ruled the world, Livia ruled Augustus.
11:20Octavia, Augustus' sister.
11:23Mother of Marcellus.
11:25And next to him, Julia, his wife, Augustus' only daughter.
11:33Augustus was now clearly preferring Marcellus over Agrippa.
11:39And Agrippa knew it.
11:43And Anthony, once proud Anthony, fearing to be last, chased her to the very gates of heaven.
11:54Romans, remember them.
11:58Their fateful deaths, grace, pure lies today with living legend.
12:05Your names and theirs in history will be forever intertwined.
12:21Wonderful.
12:23What a gift you Greeks have.
12:34Incidentally, the battle, you know, it wasn't like that.
12:38No?
12:39No, not at all.
12:40Oh.
12:41You described it poetically.
12:42I understand that.
12:43Use poetic license.
12:44I'm used to that.
12:45As a matter of fact, I write a little poetry myself.
12:47Could I show it to you something?
12:48I shouldn't have done it.
12:49It's nothing professional like, but it's not bad, though I say it myself.
13:00Oh.
13:01The palace has found a place for you.
13:02There.
13:03We'll talk some more later.
13:04Please.
13:05Was that beautiful?
13:07Doesn't know much about naval battles.
13:10Well, it wasn't that much of a battle, was it?
13:13I beg your pardon?
13:15Well, one wine-soaked lover and his Egyptian whore.
13:18I could have put up a better share myself and I was only a child.
13:21Now, now, now, now, Marcellus.
13:22Well, come, let's not fool ourselves just because we fool the public.
13:26You know a great deal about it, do you?
13:27Yes, I do.
13:28I've studied that battle and I'm not impressed.
13:30You talk about it as if it was some kind of famous victory when in fact the result was
13:34a foregone conclusion.
13:35Look, why don't we all watch this?
13:36No, just a minute.
13:37I'm getting a little tired of being taught the arts of war by kids who've only just learned
13:41how to piss in the pot.
13:42When you've actually done something, lad, instead of just studied it, come back and talk
13:46to me again.
13:47If you'll excuse me.
13:48Oh, Marcus, it's early.
13:50Seems late to me.
13:52Too late.
13:53But perhaps that's because I'm such an old man.
14:04Pallas!
14:07Don't get rid of them!
14:09Marcus!
14:13Marcus!
14:20My grandmother, Livia, her mind always turning, always scheming.
14:35And I, Claudius, you ask where am I?
14:41I am not yet born, but will be soon.
14:44But now I must continue with the story of the rivalry between Marcellus and Agrippa.
14:54Yes?
14:55Yes?
15:03Yes?
15:04Caesar is asking for you, lady.
15:06Yes, I'll come soon.
15:07He says at once.
15:09Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa is with him.
15:24You'd better come down.
15:25And wait outside.
15:26I don't understand you.
15:27You want to leave Rome, but you won't say why.
15:28I told you why.
15:29You don't need me here anymore.
15:30Let me be the judge of that.
15:31I can be more use in the Empire.
15:32Appoint me Governor of Syria, and I'll deal with that Parthian king.
15:33It's about time someone dealt with him.
15:34He wants to leave Rome.
15:35Why, Marcus?
15:36I told him why.
15:37He doesn't need me in Rome anymore.
15:38That's not the reason.
15:39You're not being straight with me.
15:40Not straight?
15:41Oh, no.
15:42Oh, no.
15:43Don't say that to me.
15:44If there's one man here, I can't stand you.
15:45I can't stand you.
15:46You want to leave Rome, but you won't say why.
15:48I told you why.
15:49You don't need me here anymore.
15:50Let me be the judge of that.
15:51I can be more use in the Empire.
15:52I can be more use in the Empire.
15:53There's no reason you're not being straight with me.
15:55Not straight?
15:57Oh, no.
15:58Oh, no.
15:59Don't say that to me.
16:00If there's one man being straight with you,
16:02that man is Marcus Phippsenius Agrippa.
16:07Is it Marcellus?
16:08Marcellus?
16:09Oh, what's he got to do with it?
16:11I don't know.
16:12I thought perhaps you objected to my appointing him, city magistrate.
16:15It's got nothing to do with Marcellus.
16:18Except, of course, he's such a capable young man.
16:20He's just another reason why you don't need me here.
16:22Look, Marcus, we're old friends.
16:25We've shared a lot of campaigns together.
16:28If Marcellus is upset...
16:29Oh, let me talk to him.
16:30He thinks I resent Marcellus.
16:31Have very fun to the boy.
16:33We all are.
16:34If his friends get a little high-handed,
16:36well, I was young once too and had friends.
16:39Oh, yes.
16:40The greatest friend a man ever had.
16:42Marcus.
16:43Admit it.
16:44Why shouldn't I?
16:45I'm not a man to hide my feelings.
16:46Well, you know I feel the same.
16:47Of course I do.
16:48I'd have gone long ago if I hadn't thought that.
16:50And that is why I can say to you now that I've got nothing against Marcellus.
16:56Nothing.
16:59He's a very gifted young man.
17:01If you've advanced him a little ahead of his years, well, that's only natural too.
17:05Well, I'm better relieved to hear it.
17:07I know there's been friction.
17:09Oh, I mean, not between you and him, but between his followers and yours.
17:14Followers?
17:15Who has followers?
17:16Oh, he may have followers.
17:18I don't know about that.
17:19Such things don't even come within my notice.
17:20But me?
17:21I have followers?
17:22Show me.
17:23Where are my followers?
17:24Lady, do you see any?
17:26No, no, no.
17:27Well, not followers, you know.
17:29But people, they like to make factions.
17:31And that can make bad feeling quicker than boiler's parents.
17:34There's no bad feeling.
17:36Well, you put my mind at rest.
17:38If you feel you have to leave Rome...
17:40I don't feel I have to leave.
17:42I just think that I can be more used to the East.
17:51Of course, if you feel you really need me in Rome...
17:54No, no, no.
17:55I'm sure you're right.
17:56You usually are.
17:57Your instincts are always very sound.
18:01When will you leave?
18:08In a few days.
18:09Then we'll have all Rome and Ostia to see you off.
18:14For the Senate!
18:15And the people of Rome, eh?
18:16For the Senate!
18:17And the people of Rome!
18:22Goodbye, old friend.
18:26Goodbye.
18:39Damn him!
18:40Who does he think he is?
18:42We know whom he thinks he is.
18:44Your successor.
18:45He's too old!
18:47I need to groom a younger man.
18:49We can't do without Marcus Agrippa.
18:53Give him four or five months, then call him back.
18:55No.
18:56Do it, my dear.
18:57Better to call him back when you don't need him than have to humble yourself when you do.
19:01No!
19:03I know what I'm doing!
19:07My son is waiting outside to pay his respects and take his leave.
19:10Will you see him?
19:12Yes, of course.
19:24Ah, Tiberius.
19:25You're off to join our troops in Germany.
19:27Yes, Caesar.
19:28Yes.
19:29Well, I'm sure you do well for us.
19:30And remember that we need good generals.
19:32The Empire won't hold together without.
19:34Now write to me.
19:35Tell me all that's going on.
19:37I'd like to have views from all sides.
19:39It helps me to make up my mind about things.
19:42Yes.
19:44And now I have things to do.
19:46Yes, yes, many things.
19:49Well, the best of luck go with you.
19:51And all the muses.
20:01I could have saved myself the trouble.
20:03Oh, you're so keen to save yourself trouble.
20:06Did that cost you so much a hail and farewell?
20:09He doesn't like me.
20:10Well, we can't all be lovable, though we can all try a little harder.
20:15Well, it's my nature and I can't change it now.
20:17And wouldn't if you could, I suspect.
20:18You've a mighty high opinion of yourself on the quiet, haven't you?
20:22I wonder you didn't transfer your hopes to my brother.
20:24I might have done that long ago.
20:27If he didn't share the same idiotic hopes your father had of a return of the Republic.
20:31Besides, I took the auspices when you were born and they were very favorable.
20:36Oh, not that old chicken story again.
20:39You may sneer all you like.
20:42But I marked the zodiac on the floor of the hen house and a chicken came down and rested on your birth sign.
20:49I took its egg and warmed it in my hands and it hatched.
20:53A young cock chick and it already had a fine comb on its head.
20:58You haven't much patience, have you?
21:02You want everything at once.
21:06Twenty years ago, Augustus ruled with Mark Antony, but I could see that wouldn't last.
21:11I could see that soon one man would be king.
21:16So I divorced your father and married Augustus.
21:19And waited.
21:21Now, where would I be now if I'd wanted everything at once, eh?
21:25And by the same token, where would you be?
21:28Well, where am I now?
21:29For all your patience and your prophetic chickens.
21:32You are my son and I am Augustus' wife.
21:35That's where you are.
21:36And in the long run, that's better than being anybody else.
21:39Even Marcellus or Marcus Agrippa.
21:45Now you may kiss me and take your leave.
21:47Remember my prophetic chickens and have patience, eh?
21:58Do well on the Rhine.
21:59Your brother is covering himself with glory in Illyricum.
22:02We mustn't fall behind.
22:03Well, have I ever?
22:05No.
22:07When it comes to the less imaginative arts, you are certainly to be relied upon.
22:11And now my grandmother's mind turned more and more towards the removal of Marcellus.
22:21Good day, Mother.
22:23Oh, you look a little peaked.
22:25Are you feeling well?
22:27Lady?
22:28I slept badly last night.
22:30There seems to be so much noise in the streets at night.
22:32Can't we do something about it?
22:34Well, the traffic must move sometime.
22:36Would you have it moving during the day and congest all the streets?
22:39There is too many people in Rome.
22:41They keep on coming in and coming from everywhere.
22:44Syria, Gaul, Germany.
22:46But they're the lifeblood of the city, Julia.
22:48They make Rome what it is.
22:49Noisy, garish, and uninhabitable.
22:52I should be glad to get away and it'll be even worse when the games begin.
22:55Look at that.
22:57Isn't it a beauty?
22:58Off your tree?
22:59Of course.
23:01You know you should eat more pears, Olivia. They're very good for the skin.
23:04Well, how can I eat them? You pick them all.
23:06Well, I can have some more sent up from the country.
23:09Marcellus, we must talk about these games of yours.
23:11Yes.
23:12Now, I want to do something new.
23:14Oh, that sounds familiar.
23:15Well, if I'm to celebrate my appointment of city magistrate, I want people to remember it.
23:20And what earth-quaking innovations are we to see? Giraffes? Riding elephants?
23:25I want to tent in all the theatres and hang them with tapestries.
23:28I want to turn the whole marketplace into a gigantic multi-coloured marquee. Cover it!
23:33That's all?
23:34No.
23:35I have an idea for a pitched battle between 50 Germans and 50 blacks from Morocco.
23:40Yes?
23:41And who's going to pay for all this?
23:43I am for part.
23:46And so are you.
23:47Yes.
23:48That's what I thought.
23:50Come on.
23:51Would you consider 20 Germans against 20 blacks from Morocco?
23:55He spoils him.
23:57It would be hard not to.
23:59He has such winning ways.
24:01Oh, yes.
24:02He has winning ways, all right.
24:04People are always falling over themselves to do things for them.
24:07I must go in.
24:08It's too hot.
24:10Come Antonia.
24:11I think you should lie down.
24:13Coming mother.
24:16I gather there was some opposition in the senate to Marcellus becoming a city magistrate.
24:20Oh, nothing to speak of.
24:22Some friends of Agrippa, that's all.
24:24Ha!
24:25They're always ready to remind your father there are no kings in Rome.
24:29I don't know why he bothers to put up with the farce of the senate at all.
24:33Well, your father observes the forms.
24:35It's very important.
24:36Romans like to believe they govern themselves.
24:39Oh, the older ones do perhaps.
24:41I don't think it matters to us.
24:44You should hear Marcellus' friends talk.
24:47He's very popular, isn't he?
24:49Yes, you two.
24:51Why do you ask?
24:52Well, there are no children yet.
24:56There's no issue between you and father.
24:59And you've been married for 20 years.
25:02True.
25:03Still, I'm very happy with your father.
25:07And I am with Marcellus.
25:09Well, I'm very pleased to hear it.
25:10There's no substitute for a happy marriage, you know.
25:12No.
25:15Mind you, they seem to be few and far between these days.
25:19Mm-hmm.
25:20I always thought Tiberius was very lucky with his Vipsania.
25:24Yes.
25:26Yes, they're very much in love.
25:29You know, when I first married your father, you were a little girl and Tiberius was a little boy and you used to play together.
25:37Do you remember all that?
25:38Yes, I remember.
25:39Yes, I remember.
25:40And then, when you grew up, you seemed so fond of one another.
25:45I once had hope to see him.
25:47Yes, I used to adore him.
25:52How foolish one is when one is young.
25:55I wish to await the arrival of Marcellus.
26:01Yes.
26:22My dear, you're not going to read letters and petitions during the performance, sir.
26:25I see no reason to sit here doing nothing while we wait for the games to begin.
26:28Oh, it looks so bash.
26:29These are urgent stoppers.
26:30My great uncle, Julius, used to do it.
26:32And the crowd never lied to Julius.
26:44Wait till you see what Marcellus has arranged.
26:46He's got a rhinoceros.
26:48Who's that?
26:49Who's an extraordinary beast.
26:50He's got a horn in his nose.
26:52So is Scipio's wife.
26:54Could have used her.
26:55Oh, Marcellus.
26:56We've been waiting for you.
26:57Julia, Octavia.
26:58Marcellus.
26:59Marcellus.
27:00Marcellus.
27:01Marcellus.
27:02Marcellus.
27:03Marcellus.
27:04Marcellus.
27:05Marcellus.
27:06Marcellus.
27:07Marcellus.
27:08Marcellus.
27:09Marcellus.
27:10Marcellus.
27:11Marcellus.
27:12Marcellus.
27:13Marcellus.
27:14Marcellus.
27:15Marcellus.
27:16Marcellus.
27:17Marcellus.
27:18Marcellus.
27:19Marcellus.
27:20Marcellus.
27:21Marcellus.
27:22Marcellus.
27:23I told you he was popular.
27:53Let the games begin!
28:23Are you all right?
28:27I have a headache.
28:28What a shame.
28:29The games are wonderful.
28:31Can't you come back?
28:33No.
28:34My service is a huge success.
28:36Yes.
28:37Yes, I could see that.
28:41Yes, well, I'll go back to the games.
28:49You're not worried about me leaving, are you?
28:52No.
28:53You'll have my service.
28:54He can do all my work.
28:55How long will you be gone?
28:58About four to five months.
29:00I haven't been to the East St. Robinses for years.
29:03It's time I did.
29:04Will you see Agrippa?
29:07No.
29:08Why should I?
29:09He never got any further than Lesbos.
29:11He sent his deputy to government Syria.
29:13He's got a nerve.
29:15Well, I can manage without him now.
29:17You can see that.
29:18And I'll let him stew.
29:20I don't need him.
29:25Are you sure you're all right?
29:30Well, I'll go back to the games.
29:33Yes?
29:34Yes?
29:35Yes?
29:36Yes?
29:37Yes?
29:38Yes?
29:39Are there any letters from the Emperor?
29:51No, lady.
29:52But one has arrived for my Lord Marcellus.
29:54Ah.
29:55Now when you take that to him, ask him would he be good enough to come and see me before
30:10dinner.
30:11There are some names on this citizen's role I want to discuss.
30:13He already has the letter.
30:14But it seems my Lord Marcellus is in bed and has been seeing no one today.
30:18Oh!
30:19What's the matter with him?
30:20Chill on the stomach that's all.
30:22It's a pity his wife and mother went away.
30:25Yes?
30:26Yes?
30:27Lady Olivia has called, Master.
30:29Ask her to come in.
30:32I can't stay in bed all day.
30:33I've got too much to do.
30:34If you get up now, you'll be in bed all tomorrow.
30:35I promise you.
30:36Wise.
30:37No, sir.
30:38Wise.
30:39Wise.
30:40No, sir.
30:41Wise.
30:42Marcellus.
30:43Oh, it's nothing, lady.
30:44It's a summer chill that's gone on the stomach.
30:46Yes?
30:47Yes?
30:48Lady Olivia has called, Master.
30:49Ask her to come in.
30:50I can't stay in bed all day.
30:51I've got too much to do.
30:52If you get up now, you'll be in bed all tomorrow.
30:53I promise you.
30:54Wise.
30:55No, sir.
30:56Wise.
30:57Marcellus.
30:58Oh, it's nothing, lady.
31:00It's a summer chill that's gone on the stomach.
31:02I've worked through worse than this.
31:04Have you eaten?
31:05He can't keep anything down.
31:07It's natural.
31:08Perfectly natural.
31:09Well, it's natural if the food doesn't agree with him.
31:11I nursed Augustus all last summer.
31:13Do you remember?
31:14And he ate everything I prepared for him.
31:16Everything.
31:17I'll be well tomorrow.
31:19These summer chills can be dangerous.
31:21Augustus was nearly carried off by one.
31:24I'm not so easily disposed of.
31:27Oh, I'd never forgive myself if anything happened to you.
31:30What can happen to me?
31:32I wouldn't think of it.
31:33Well, my mother and Julia would...
31:35Exactly.
31:36Your mother and Julia.
31:38And how, tell me, should I face them if anything did happen?
31:42Oh, there, there.
31:45No.
31:47I shall move my room next to yours,
31:49and I shall prepare all your food myself.
31:52You'll see what dainty little things can be served up to tempt a weak appetite.
31:56But it's a chill, nothing more.
31:58Musa assures me.
31:59I wouldn't pay too much attention to Musa if I were you.
32:01He thinks he cured Augustus with his potions,
32:03but it was my nursing that did it.
32:05And I shall nurse you.
32:07Oh, Lady Anne.
32:08No.
32:09No arguments.
32:10But why go to all the trouble?
32:11I insist.
32:15It's very good of you.
32:16No, no, my dear.
32:17Goodness has nothing to do with it.
32:20It's Musa, Lady.
32:33He's getting worse.
32:35Much worse.
32:37Yes.
32:39I'll come soon.
32:42We ought to inform his wife and his mother.
32:46They should be here.
32:48No.
32:49No.
32:50You exaggerate.
32:51Things have to get worse before they get better.
32:55But he keeps nothing down.
32:58Nothing.
32:59Yes.
33:00He's worrying, isn't he?
33:03He's bringing up green slime.
33:09I've never seen anything like it.
33:12Green, you say?
33:13Yes.
33:14Yes.
33:15Yes.
33:16Have you seen it before?
33:18No.
33:19No, I've never seen green before.
33:22Well, perhaps it's a good sign.
33:25Forgive me, Lady.
33:28Forgive me, Lady.
33:46You're thinner.
33:48But you look better.
33:49The life of the legions agrees with you.
33:51Have I ever complained about the life of the legions?
33:53Frankly, I'd soon be in camp on the Rhine as here.
33:59I've had to call you back.
34:01Augustus is still in Greece touring the provinces.
34:04And Marcellus...
34:06How is he?
34:07I think he may die.
34:10Has Augustus been told?
34:12Yes, of course.
34:13As soon as it began to look serious.
34:15When did he fall ill?
34:17About a month ago.
34:19Musa said it was just a chill on the stomach.
34:21But I could see it was more serious than that.
34:23So I decided I'd nurse him myself.
34:27Well, his wife and mother were away.
34:29I've been at his side day and night.
34:32I prepare all his food myself and I see that he eats it.
34:37Frankly, I wouldn't have thought you'd cared whether he lived or died.
34:40Oh, I care very much whether he lives or dies.
34:43Have Julia and his mother been told?
34:46Yes, of course.
34:47They're with him now.
34:48They returned at once.
34:49Julia is being hysterical, of course.
34:51And his mother never stops praying.
34:54Let's hope that her prayers are heard.
34:56Yes, indeed.
34:58And mine, too.
35:01Tell me...
35:03What do you think of Julia?
35:05Nothing.
35:06Why?
35:07Nobody could accuse you of being devious.
35:11She thinks very well of you.
35:13What's that supposed to mean?
35:14Nothing.
35:15She likes you.
35:16That's all.
35:17Always has.
35:18Mother,
35:19I'm a happily married man.
35:21Julia doesn't interest me.
35:23She wouldn't interest me if you hung her naked from the ceiling above my bed.
35:26She might even do that if I asked her.
35:29Aren't you forgetting something?
35:31She's still married to Marcellus and Marcellus is not dead yet.
35:34When I start to forget things you may light my funeral pyre and put me on it.
35:39Dead or alive.
35:41Don't ask me to divorce Vipsania.
35:43Because I won't do it.
35:44Oh, what a lover we have here.
35:46Did you bring back a pocket full of poems from the Rhine?
35:49You may scoff all you like.
35:50Vipsania is the only thing in the world that means anything to me.
35:52I always thought a boy's mother meant something.
35:55Well, you do mean something.
35:57But so does she.
35:59So don't ask me to push her aside.
36:01I may ask more than that before I finish.
36:04Anyway, where does all this get us?
36:07There's not any Marcellus.
36:09There's a gripper too.
36:10And Augustus prefers both of them to me.
36:12No! No!
36:14He gods!
36:16What's that?
36:18No!
36:20It sounds as though there is now only a gripper.
36:23He's dead!
36:24Julia!
36:25He's dead!
36:27Julia!
36:28Oh God!
36:29Julia!
36:30No!
36:31No!
36:32No!
36:33No!
36:34He's dead!
36:35Control ourselves!
36:36No!
36:37No!
36:38No!
36:39No!
36:40No!
36:41No!
36:42No!
36:43No!
36:44That's no way for a Roman woman to behave.
36:45But he's dead.
36:46He gave a great cry and then he rode over him.
36:48Then he fell off the bed and he's...
36:50He's dead!
36:51He's dead!
36:52Wait here.
36:53Tiberius, take care of Julia.
36:56This is a very grave we must send to Augustus at once.
37:03Tiberius!
37:04I say take care of Julia.
37:11Oh, no.
37:15I did everything I could.
37:18Everything.
37:20I did everything I could.
37:24Everything I did for Augustus, I did for him, but it made no difference.
37:28He's dead.
37:29You're sure he's dead?
37:33My son is dead.
37:35You can be sure.
37:38Poor Augustus.
37:40His heart will break.
37:42It must have been food poisoning.
37:44What do you mean, food poisoning?
37:46The summer's been so hot.
37:50And these things happen.
37:55Yes, yes, of course.
37:56Well, there has been a lot of it about.
38:00I thought it was a chill.
38:02But I was wrong.
38:04Wrong.
38:05It must have been something he had.
38:24There ought to be an inquest, I suppose.
38:27No, there's no need of that.
38:28We know what he died of.
38:31Do we?
38:32Food poisoning!
38:34Well, you said so yourself.
38:37Yes.
38:43But I couldn't swear to him.
38:45No.
38:46But I could.
38:55Tiberius, take Julia to her room and comfort her.
39:04Stay with her a while.
39:06I'll send word to your wife what keeps you.
39:22My dear Augustus,
39:24a most unfortunate
39:27and tragic thing has happened.
39:30Marcellus, your adopted son,
39:32has unaccountably died after a short illness.
39:36No one is certain of the cause
39:37except that an attack of food poisoning is suspected.
39:41I must say,
39:42that does seem to me the most likely explanation.
39:49Rome erupted into fury.
39:51The suspicious death of Marcellus
39:53led to renewed demands for a return of the Republic,
39:55the last thing my grandmother wanted.
39:58They're rampaging through the streets.
40:02They're breaking the structures.
40:03They're looting the shops.
40:04All the city watchmen are out there dealing with them.
40:06They're no use.
40:07Turn the guard out on them.
40:09If we draw blood, I won't answer for the consequences.
40:11Oh, you drooping lily.
40:13Do you want us all to be murdered in our beds?
40:15But go and talk to the men.
40:17Are you mad?
40:19No.
40:20And I'm not frightened of that rabble either.
40:24Out of my way.
40:25Out of my way.
40:34What do you want?
40:37The Republic!
40:39The Republic was all out of America!
40:43Do you want civil wars all over again?
40:46Too uncommon in the streets?
40:48Too uncommon in the streets?
40:49Too uncommon in the hands knocking on your doors?
40:51You are all crying for the moon!
40:55Go on back to your homes and...
40:57The Republic!
40:59You call yourself Romans!
41:00The Republic!
41:01The Republic!
41:03The Republic!
41:08The Republic!
41:09The Republic!
41:10The Republic!
41:12The Republic!
41:13The Republic!
41:14I wish...
41:17...just for once you would behave like a normal woman!
41:20To be a normal woman, you need normal men around you!
41:24Argh!
41:25We must get Agrippa back to Rome.
41:28A gripper back to Rome is the only one who speaks their language, if we can call it that.
41:33Whatever Augustus thinks,
41:35catch up this quarrel and get a gripper back at any price.
41:39I'm going to write him at once.
41:42Meanwhile, order the guards onto the streets!
41:50Marcus.
41:53Marcus!
41:56Oh, it's been too long.
41:59Not my day, Caesar.
42:01I wouldn't have had it, sir.
42:02Oh, Marcus, what silly things get in the way of friendship.
42:04How could we let them? How?
42:05You could have come to me sooner. You knew where I was.
42:07Oh, how could I come? Everyone knew how it was between us.
42:09I'd have come to you.
42:11One word. Just one word.
42:12A hint, that's all.
42:14Would I have stayed away if I'd been sure of my welcome?
42:16It's pride. Stupid pride.
42:22Did you have a good journey?
42:24The sea was rough, but I didn't really notice it.
42:26I was thinking of you and me and how it was in the old days when we were young together.
42:30Oh, let's not think of that. It's too painful to think of one's youth.
42:33We've come a long way together since then.
42:35Not always together.
42:36Marcus, there was never a time when you were out of my force.
42:39Forgive me, but it wasn't always obvious.
42:40No, no, no. Be just with me.
42:43There were times...
42:44Oh, I can remember them.
42:46When that young man...
42:47And I'm sorry he's dead.
42:49When that young man went out of his way to insult me.
42:52With never a word of reproof from you.
42:54From my old friend, not a word.
42:57Marcus.
42:58He was like a son to me.
43:00Now, you have children. You know what it's like.
43:04Oh, perhaps I was foolish. Perhaps I did indulge him.
43:07But it seemed like high spirits, that's all. A little horseplay.
43:11Haven't we all been guilty of it?
43:13Maybe.
43:16Yes, I'm sorry he's dead.
43:18I wouldn't have wished it.
43:19Though he was no friend to me.
43:21Yes.
43:21I need my old friend again.
43:29Now Marcellus is gone.
43:31You need a gripper.
43:32No, no, no, no. You must believe me.
43:35I'd already made up my mind to come and see you.
43:37Would I pass Lesbos without calling in?
43:40It's unthinkable.
43:42No.
43:43No, Marcus.
43:45I need you back in Rome.
43:49I don't know.
43:51I don't know if I'm up to it anymore.
43:58Things are bad there, sir, here.
44:00Oh, nothing much has been a little trouble.
44:02But that's not why I want you back.
44:04I want you back, Marcus, because that's where you belong.
44:07My old friend should be in Rome with me.
44:10I need that strong right arm again.
44:14What do you say?
44:21It's yours.
44:25Marcus.
44:27But, er...
44:29But?
44:32Let's seal this bond tighter than it's ever been before.
44:37Huh.
44:37What's closer than a family tie?
44:40To be related by blood and marriage is a public declaration of what we mean to each other.
44:45You're thinking of your children?
44:46No, no, no.
44:47They're all right.
44:47I'm thinking of myself.
44:50You probably know that I don't get on with my wife.
44:53No, I didn't know that.
44:54Oh, I don't.
44:54We haven't slept together for years.
44:56Of course, I'm speaking a little soon, I know, and one must observe the decencies, but...
45:00Julie's a young woman.
45:02She'll get married again soon.
45:05Why not to me?
45:07To you?
45:09Oh, why not?
45:12Don't tell me I'm not good enough for your family.
45:23Why not?
45:25It's a deal.
45:27You'll be my son-in-law.
45:28Have you thought of that?
45:29I've thought of nothing else since I got your letter.
45:33Why?
45:34Why did you agree to it?
45:36Because he wanted it.
45:37It was his price.
45:38His price?
45:39Well, what could I say?
45:41You could have said no.
45:42No, I could not have said no.
45:44I saw no reason to say no.
45:46I understood why he wanted it.
45:48So could anyone.
45:50And what would you have done?
45:51I could have handled him.
45:53How?
45:54I would have reminded him that he's a man of no background,
45:57and that to assume to enter the Julian family shows the want of modesty.
46:01And you would have lost him.
46:02I would not have lost him any very well.
46:04You would have lost him as big as wild as Farragh should have lost him.
46:06That is the most foolish expression.
46:08I wish you'd stop using it.
46:09Well, it's my expression.
46:09I'll use it whenever I'd like.
46:10And why are you so opposed to this marriage?
46:17There's no reason for you to be.
46:19It gives him more than he deserves.
46:22That's not the reason.
46:23There's some other reason.
46:23Now, what is it?
46:24There is no other reason!
46:28Except, except, you might have consulted Julia first.
46:33How are we now to ignore the wishes of our children
46:36and sell them on the marketplaces if they were slaves?
46:41Have you no feelings?
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