:17:25
Rich matrons pay well to be pleasure
by the bravest champions.
:17:28
I knew your brother
would send assassins.
:17:31
I didn't realize
he would send his best.
:17:35
Maximus, he doesn't know.
:17:38
My family was burnt and crucified
while they were still alive.
:17:41
- I knew nothing...
- Don't lie to me!
:17:50
I wept for them.
:17:52
As you wept for your father?
As you wept for your father?
:17:56
I have been living in a prison of fear
since that day.
:17:59
To be unable to mourn your father
for fear of your brother.
:18:04
To live in terror
every moment of every day...
:18:07
because your son
is heir to the throne.
:18:12
Oh, I have wept.
:18:14
My son...
:18:16
was innocent.
:18:18
So is mine.
:18:21
Must my son die, too,
before you'll trust me?
:18:26
What does it matter
if I trust you or not?
:18:30
The gods have spared you.
Don't you understand?
:18:33
Today I saw a slave become more powerful
than the emperor of Rome.
:18:36
The gods have spared me?
:18:38
I am at their mercy,
with the power only to amuse the mob.
:18:41
That is power.
:18:43
The mob is Rome, and while Commodus
controls them, he controls everything.
:18:48
Listen to me.
:18:50
My brother has enemies,
most of all in the senate.
:18:53
But while the people follow him...
:18:55
no one would dare stand up to him
until you.
:18:59
They oppose him,
yet they do nothing.