:07:01
There are many matters
that require your attention.
:07:07
GRACCHUS: To order, please. To order.
:07:10
For your guidance, Caesar, the Senate
has prepared a series of protocols...
:07:14
to begin addressing the many problems
in the city...
:07:17
beginning with basic sanitation
for the Greek Quarter...
:07:22
to combat the plague
which is already springing up there.
:07:25
GRACCHUS: So, if Caesar...
:07:29
Don't you see, Gracchus?
:07:32
That's the very problem, isn't it?
:07:35
COMMODUS: My father spent all his time
at study...
:07:39
at books of learning and philosophy.
:07:43
COMMODUS: He spent his twilight hours
reading scrolls from the Senate.
:07:48
And all the while, the people were forgotten.
:07:51
But the Senate is the people, sire...
:07:54
chosen from among the people
to speak for the people.
:07:58
I doubt many of the people
eat so well as you do, Gracchus.
:08:02
Or have such splendid mistresses, Gaius.
:08:04
I think I understand my own people.
:08:06
Then perhaps Caesar will be so good
as to teach us...
:08:10
out of his own extensive experience.
:08:13
[Senators chuckling heartily]
:08:16
I call it love.
:08:18
I am their father.
The people are my children.
:08:22
I shall hold them to my bosom
and embrace them tightly.
:08:24
Have you ever embraced
someone dying of plague, sire?
:08:33
No, but if you interrupt me again...
:08:37
I assure you that you shall.
:08:39
Senator, my brother is very tired.
:08:42
Leave your list with me.
Caesar shall do all that Rome requires.
:08:47
My lady, as always,
your lightest touch commands obedience.
:08:58
COMMODUS: Who are they to lecture me?