1:15:02
..tear down my statues.
1:15:07
Where were the guards
when these sacrileges were committed?
1:15:10
Sire, my men were under arms all night, but
we haven't enough to patrol the entire city.
1:15:14
Are you insinuating
that the entire city is against me?
1:15:18
- Sire, there's a shortage of grain...
- And l must take the blame for that, too?!
1:15:22
There's a shortage because
l've emptied my treasury for the guards.
1:15:26
They take my gold
and give me nothing in return.
1:15:31
These are my orders:
1:15:33
one more desecration of this sort,...
1:15:35
..one more unpunished
insult to your emperor...
1:15:39
..and every tenth man in the guards
is to be crucified at the city gates!
1:15:43
Post that at the guards' headquarters!
1:15:45
Sire, not the guards.
Your power depends on their goodwill.
1:15:49
- Don't publish such an order.
- l'm the emperor!
1:15:52
l can do what l please with whom l please!
1:15:56
The lady Messalina, sire.
1:15:59
Show her in.
1:16:03
You didn't tell me she was back in Rome,
or didn'tyou know it?
1:16:13
Stop there. Search her.
1:16:19
lt pleases you to question my loyalty, sire.
1:16:22
l've come to give you new proof of it.
1:16:25
lt must have been an irresistible impulse
to bring you from the seashore at this hour.
1:16:29
- l think you'll agree it's important.
- Speak up.
1:16:32
l have no secrets from your husband.
1:16:34
My news concerns the robe. The magic robe.
1:16:38
Yes, yes, l remember. Have you got it?
1:16:41
l know howto get it.
1:16:42
The man who owns it, the one who calls
himself the fisherman, is back in Rome.
1:16:47
Sometimes, Uncle, l think l made
a mistake not to marry her myself.
1:16:51
The workings of her mind appeal to me.
1:16:53
She leaves her warm bed in the cold dawn
to rush here full of zeal and loyalty.
1:16:59
Why, Messalina?