:34:03
And then you cried.
:34:06
Why did you cry, Caesar?
:34:10
That man recites beautifully.
:34:12
- Is he blind?
- Don't you hurt him.
:34:14
I won't. Not anyone
who speaks Catullus so well.
:34:18
Catullus doesn't approve of you.
Why haven't you had him killed?
:34:21
Because I approve of him.
:34:24
"My desire to please you,
Caesar, is very slight
:34:27
Nor do I greatly care to know
If you are black or white."
:34:30
Achillas is moving
his entire army to Alexandria.
:34:34
By tonight, he'll outnumber you
20-to-1, 30-to-1.
:34:38
He'll have the royal enclosure
entirely surrounded.
:34:42
Except to the sea.
:34:44
Do you plan to sail away,
great Caesar?
:34:47
Not for the time being.
:34:49
Achillas may attack tomorrow,
the next day...
:34:52
...whenever it suits him!
- Very probable.
:34:55
In your wildest dreams, Caesar,
how can you possibly hope to hold...
:34:59
...the gates of this enclosure
against such odds?
:35:02
And if you say once more,
"For the time being..."
:35:05
My officers say anything
from a week to indefinitely.
:35:09
What would you estimate?
:35:12
Before you're without water...
:35:14
...without food...
:35:16
...your troops slaughtered,
picked off from the rooftops...
:35:19
...poisoned in the brothels?
:35:21
A few days, Caesar.
At the most, a few days.
:35:26
I'm inclined to agree with you.
:35:29
Young man, do you know this
of Catullus?
:35:32
"Give me a thousand
And a thousand kisses
:35:35
When we have many more,
We'll scramble them
:35:37
And forget the score
:35:39
So evil envy will not know
How high the count
:35:42
And cast its evil eye."
:35:49
It couldn't have been
as pleasant in the throne room.
:35:55
"My desire to please you, Caesar,
Is very slight..."
:35:58
Be still!