:38:01
I endured my master's advances
for 14 years.
:38:04
What's wrong with that?
The master gives the orders!
:38:07
I entertained the mistress, too.
:38:09
By the will of the gods I ended up
sharing the Emperor's inheritance.
:38:13
I built five ships and filled them with
lard, perfume, and slaves.
:38:17
That started my fortune:
:38:19
everything I touched turned to gold.
:38:22
I was a cockroach, now I'm a king.
That's life.
:38:25
Stichus, prepare my burial vestments
and ointment...
:38:29
and bring the wine for washing my bones.
:38:34
Life passes like a shadow..
:38:37
Sooner or later death
will come to us all.
:38:40
I just thought ofa poem.
:38:43
Listen...
:38:44
"On a stage a troupe performs a mime.
:38:48
An actor plays the father,
Another one plays the son,
:38:51
A third plays the rich man
But as soon as the show ends
:38:54
The pretend faces vanish,
The real ones return."
:38:58
How's that for poetry, eh, Poet?
:39:00
To tell you the truth...
:39:02
you stole them from Lucretius.
:39:04
-What do you mean, you vagabond?
-"The pretend faces vanish...
:39:08
the real ones return!"
:39:10
That's Lucretius, that's Lucretius!
:39:12
Enough! These verses are mine,
you beggar!
:39:15
I'm a poet, you're not.
You don't write verses, you steal them!
:39:18
Nonsense...throw him into the oven.
:39:21
You vagrant! I fed you...
:39:23
I lifted you out of the gutter.
:39:25
I am the poet here!
:39:27
Throw this ingrate into the oven!
:39:29
I'll put you to shame in
front of all those people.
:39:33
I don't want to see him anymore,
that dog...
:39:36
that venomous snake! He's bad luck!
:39:38
I'm a philosopher!
:39:40
Clown, thief! Let me go!