1:14:02
On the whole, you are both
ethical in business matters...
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and certainly farsighted socially.
1:14:09
Zenobia's put on a little weight
since I last saw her.
1:14:11
- Yes, hasn't she? I like it.
- So do I.
1:14:15
You and I have a tendency
towards corpulence.
1:14:17
Corpulence makes a man reasonable,
pleasant and phlegmatic.
1:14:21
Have you noticed the nastiest
oftyrants are invariably thin?
1:14:27
In spite ofyour vices, you are
the most generous Roman ofour time.
1:14:31
Vices?
1:14:34
The ladies.
1:14:39
Ladies!
Since when are they a vice?
1:14:41
Perhaps I used the wrong word.
An eccentricity, a foible.
1:14:45
I hope I pronounced that word--
1:14:47
It's well-known that even your groom
and your butler are women.
1:14:50
I'm the most virtuous man in Rome.
1:14:53
I keep these women
out of my respect for Roman morality.
1:14:56
That morality, which has made
Rome strong enough to steal...
1:14:59
two-thirds ofthe world
from its rightful owners...
1:15:01
founded on the sanctity
of Roman marriage and family.
1:15:04
I happen to like women.
1:15:07
I have a promiscuous nature...
1:15:09
and, unlike these aristocrats,
I will not take a marriage vow...
1:15:11
which I know my nature
will prevent me from keeping.
1:15:14
You have too great a respect
for the purity ofwomankind.
1:15:17
Eхactly.
1:15:19
It must be tantalizing
to be surrounded by so much purity.
1:15:27
It is.
1:15:28
Now, let's miх business with pleasure.
How may I help you?
1:15:34
Great Gracchus,
I fii nd it diffiicult to hate...
1:15:37
but there's one man I can't think of
without fuming.
1:15:39
- Who's that?
- Crassus.
1:15:41
- You've grown ambitious in your hatred.
- Do you blame me?
1:15:45
There I was, better than
a millionaire in the morning...
1:15:47
and a penniless refugee
by nightfall...
1:15:50
with nothing but these rags
and my poor flesh to call my own.
1:15:52
All because Crassus decides
to break hisjourney at Capua...
1:15:55
with a couple ofcapricious,
over-painted nymphs!
1:15:58
These two daughters ofVenus
had to taunt the gladiators...