:17:00
They're unreasonable! The kind
laid down for a helpless enemy!
:17:04
You're not helpless... yet.
:17:06
I can't cede the territories. It would
cause a break between Rome and me.
:17:12
Why do you think
I asked for them?
:17:14
It would be playing
into Octavian's hands!
:17:17
It would not be wise!
:17:18
What is wise?
:17:20
To hand over Rome, Italy,
the world to Octavian?
:17:24
To grovel publicly
before his authority?
:17:27
Take his sister to wed and to bed.
:17:30
As if to beg forgiveness...
:17:32
...for having stayed so long
with your Egyptian harlot.
:17:41
What has angered you?
That I dealt with him how I could...
:17:44
...or that I married his sister?
:17:46
Jealousy or politics?
:17:48
Both! And damn you for not
understanding either.
:17:51
I wouldn't look to you
for instruction.
:17:53
Which is why you have come back
chained to Octavian like a slave.
:17:57
- Slave!
- And with such exquisite chains.
:18:01
So softly spoken, so virtuous.
:18:04
She sleeps, I hear, fully clothed.
:18:10
I'm back. That's all
that should concern you.
:18:13
Should it?
:18:14
How long before your master snaps his
finger and you run back to him, or her?
:18:22
I have only one master.
:18:25
My love for you.
:18:27
No.
:18:29
Your master must not be love.
:18:32
Never love.
:18:34
Give yourself to love and you
give yourself to forgetfulness...
:18:38
...of what you are and who you are
and what you want.
:18:42
And what you want
is worth so much more?
:18:46
I will not have love as my master.
:18:49
- Then you will not have love.
- Nor will I have Octavian.
:18:54
- Never fear.
- How confident you are.
:18:58
And has Octavian a master?