:44:01
Yes, you do.
:44:05
I'll wager Caesar was never befuddled
by wine. Nothing befuddled him.
:44:10
The campaign against Parthia
won't be easy.
:44:12
- How many legions have we left?
- It's hard to tell.
:44:15
- So many desertions.
- Desertions?
:44:19
They haven't been paid in months.
:44:23
You remember when
we started into Greece?
:44:25
I lived with them, ate with them.
I was one of them.
:44:29
They seem distant to me now,
as if they were a memory.
:44:36
We must find the gold to pay them...
:44:39
...the wheat to feed them,
supplies, ships, armor.
:44:43
And where do you suggest
we look for all these?
:44:46
- I thought perhaps further to the east.
- Syria?
:44:50
- Perhaps more to the south.
- Ethiopia?
:44:53
To the north...
:44:54
- I forbid her mention!
- I didn't.
:44:56
I won't crawl to her!
Why hasn't she offered assistance?
:44:59
- She may not know.
- She knows everything.
:45:02
- Lf only in gratitude...
- Perhaps she'll express it in person.
:45:05
Then let her come.
Am I so much less than Caesar?
:45:08
Nor she less than queen of Egypt
who you promised...
:45:11
Strip them naked,
they're no longer queens.
:45:14
It is also difficult
to tell the rank of a naked general.
:45:18
And generals without armies
are naked, indeed.
:45:22
All right. I'll meet her halfway.
:45:25
I'll send you to her.
:45:27
- Order her to come.
- Lf I order, I need not journey.
:45:31
- Then summon her.
- Even worse.
:45:33
Then beg, entreat,
find the word you like...
:45:35
...pour perfume, whinny like a stallion.
But see that she comes to me.
:45:40
I understand your position, Rufio.
:45:43
Surely you must understand mine.
:45:45
I do not intend to join
that long list of queens...
:45:49
...who have quivered happily
at being summoned by Lord Antony.
:45:53
But surely I didn't say "summoned."
:45:55
You said "invite." He meant "summon."
:45:58
In any case, I am the queen of Egypt.