2:06:01
- My dear general.
- Welcome, Tigranes!
2:06:03
No, no. You needn't look
for litter bearers to emancipate.
2:06:07
I rode a horse.
2:06:08
Your gods Isis and Serapis
must've been good to us.
2:06:12
The balance ofthe 50 million sesterces
we owe you.
2:06:17
General...
2:06:19
I bear a heavy burden
ofevil tidings.
2:06:24
What is it?
2:06:28
Pompey and his army
has landed in Italy.
2:06:31
At the border of Rhegium
three days ago.
2:06:34
We get complete reports
on their movements.
2:06:36
But do you also know...
2:06:38
that a Roman fleet carrying
Lucullus and his army...
2:06:41
arrives tomorrow at Brundusium?
2:06:45
- Lucullus here?
- You have no ships.
2:06:52
I saw them in the harbour.
2:06:55
The Cilician fleet,
out ofstrategic necessity...
2:06:59
has been obliged to withdraw.
2:07:03
- Withdraw?
- There are no ships at all?
2:07:14
Cilician pirates can destroy
any Roman fleet that ever sailed.
2:07:18
Ifthey run away now,
it's not because they're afraid!
2:07:20
You better give me
a better reason.
2:07:22
I'm as desolated
as you are, General.
2:07:25
Stand up. Up!
2:07:28
On your toes.
2:07:33
- You'll cut the skin.
- Why did the Cilicians run away?
2:07:37
They were paid.
2:07:39
And who paid them?
2:07:41
Who?
2:07:43
Crassus.
2:07:51
Crassus won't fii ght us himself.
2:07:53
The reports say he won't take
the command ofan army.
2:07:56
Why would he bribe your pirates
to keep us from escaping?
2:07:59
I don't know. How can I answer
when there is no answer?