:12:00
- l am grateful.
- A galley will be put at your disposal.
:12:03
You will leave at once, on the first tide.
:12:06
That is all.
:12:09
Thank you, sire.
:12:14
Wait.
:12:22
For your sake, l interfered when
my wife wanted to give you to Caligula.
:12:27
For your sake, l brought your tribune
back from Palestine.
:12:31
For your sake, l now free you from him.
:12:36
But, sire, l have no wish to be free.
:12:40
Have you gone mad too?
:12:43
He had everything then.
:12:45
He could have had me too.
:12:48
l wanted him,
but l wasn't sure that l loved him.
:12:51
Now l am sure.
:12:55
l think it my duty
to forbid you to see him again.
:12:58
As a child, you were wise.
:13:00
Now you reason like a woman, foolishly.
:13:05
l can't help being a woman, sire,
but l try to reason as you taught me.
:13:10
You were a soldier, sire.
:13:12
When you won, you could expect
your legions to cheer you.
:13:15
But when you lost,
what would you have given
:13:18
to see the eagles raised in your honour,
to hear your name on every man's lips?
:13:23
l like Caligula no better than you do,
:13:26
but what a wife
you would make for an emperor.
:13:30
Very well, my dear.
Your tribune shall have another chance.
:13:35
Thank you, sire.
:13:51
When it comes,
:13:53
this is how it will start.
:13:56
Some obscure martyr
in some forgotten province.