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I brought the sword.
Nothing more.
:28:06
Caesar, your life...
:28:08
Please.
Please don't call me that.
:28:12
Come. Please.
:28:15
Come sit.
:28:18
Let us talk together now...
:28:22
very simply... as men.
:28:26
Maximus, talk.
:28:35
Five thousand of my men are
out there in the freezing mud.
:28:39
Three thousand of them
are bloodied and cleaved.
:28:42
Two thousand will never
leave this place.
:28:44
I will not believe that they
fought and died for nothing.
:28:47
And what would you believe?
:28:50
They fought foryou and for Rome.
:28:54
And what is Rome?
:28:59
I've seen much
of the rest of the world.
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It is brutal and cruel and dark.
Rome is the light.
:29:06
Yet you have
never been there.
:29:09
You have not seen
what it has become.
:29:12
I am dying, Maximus.
:29:16
When a man sees his end...
:29:18
he wants to know there was
some purpose to his life.
:29:22
How will the world speak my name
in years to come?
:29:27
Will I be known
as the philosopher?
:29:30
The warrior?
:29:32
The tyrant?
:29:35
Or will I be the emperor who
gave Rome back her true self?
:29:42
There was once a dream
that was Rome.
:29:45
You could only whisper it.
:29:49
Anything more than a whisper
and it would vanish...
:29:52
it was so fragile.
:29:55
And I fear that it will not
survive the winter.