:59:00
chosen from among the people
to speak for the people.
:59:04
I doubt many of the people
eat so well as you do, Gracchus...
:59:08
or have such
splendid mistresses, Gaius.
:59:10
I think I understand my own people.
:59:13
Then perhaps Caesar will be so good
as to teach us...
:59:17
out of his own extensive experience.
:59:23
I call it love.
:59:25
I am their father.
:59:26
The people are my children.
:59:28
I shall hold them to my bosom
and embrace them tightly.
:59:30
Have you ever embraced someone
dying of plague, sire?
:59:40
No, but if you interrupt me again...
:59:43
I assure you that you shall.
:59:45
Senator,
my brother is very tired.
:59:48
Leave your list with me.
:59:50
Caesar shall do
all that Rome requires.
:59:53
My lady, as always...
:59:55
your lightest touch
commands obedience.
1:00:04
Who are they to lecture me?
1:00:07
Commodus, the senate has its uses.
1:00:10
What uses?
All they do is talk.
1:00:14
It should be just...
1:00:16
you and me...
1:00:17
and Rome.
1:00:18
Don't even think it.
1:00:19
There's always been a senate.
1:00:22
Rome has changed.
1:00:23
It takes an emperor
to rule an empire.
1:00:26
Of course,
but leave the people their...
1:00:28
Illusions?
1:00:31
Traditions.
1:00:33
My father's war
against the barbarians...
1:00:37
He said it himself: it achieved nothing.
But the people loved him.
1:00:40
The people always love victories.
1:00:42
Why?
1:00:44
They didn't see the battles.
1:00:46
What do they care about Germania?
1:00:49
They care about
the greatness of Rome.
1:00:51
The greatness of Rome.
1:00:55
Well, what is that?
1:00:59
It's an idea...