1:21:03
Am l really such a tyrant?
1:21:06
Cruel deeds not always
denote cruelty!
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- They should know you like l do.
- There are rumours
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that Diodorus and Terpnos
play the cithara better than me.
1:21:19
Tell me the truth,
do they really?
1:21:24
You have the sweet touch
of an artist,
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they are merely skilled.
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Let them live, then!
You've granted them a big favour.
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l am an artist
in everything l touch.
1:21:39
l know, they call me insane.
My vain search maddens me.
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l'm searching, searching!
1:21:47
This is why l had
my mother and wife killed.
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l hoped such sacrifice
would open a gate
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to something
unimaginably great and fearsome.
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But it was too small a sacrifice
to open empyrean gates.
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- What will you do?
- There are two Neros.
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The public figure and the artist,
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known to no one but you.
1:22:15
Oh, how heavy is the burden
of ultimate power and talent!
1:22:21
l pity you
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and so does Vinicius,
your ardent admirer.
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l was fond of him, but he serves
Mars, and not the Muses.
1:22:32
He's in love.
1:22:34
Let him leave, or he'll whither.
1:22:36
The Lygian hostage has been found.
1:22:41
He fell in love with her virtue.
1:22:44
He wants to marry,
sighs, pines away...
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She is a pretty girl...
though too narrow in the hips.
1:22:52
Do you love her, like he says?
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l do.
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Then go to Rome, marry,
and come back with a ring.