The Fall of the Roman Empire

a grain of wheat.</i> 540 01:00:25,945 --> 01:00:29,328 Of what use is your wisdom now? 541 01:00:29,684 --> 01:00:32,521 <i>No answer?</i> 542 01:00:35,823 --> 01:00:40,066 <i>Think of all you have read and pondered over the years.</i> 543 01:00:40,462 --> 01:00:42,469 <i>And the talk, Marcus Aurelius.</i> 544 01:00:42,763 --> 01:00:44,935 <i>The hours of talk with your friend,</i> 545 01:00:45,233 --> 01:00:46,411 <i>Timonides.</i> 546 01:00:46,666 --> 01:00:49,666 <i>Surely it must have prepared you for this moment.</i> 547 01:00:50,006 --> 01:00:51,816 <i>But it has failed you, hasn't it?</i> 548 01:00:52,107 --> 01:00:54,528 <i>You are not prepared.</i> 549 01:00:54,843 --> 01:00:57,679 Why? 550 01:00:58,981 --> 01:01:01,719 In all that talk did this this topic, death 551 01:01:02,049 --> 01:01:06,327 <i>slip your minds? Or did you know deep down</i> 552 01:01:07,056 --> 01:01:11,617 <i>that your wisdom would be helpless before this mystery</i> 553 01:01:12,029 --> 01:01:14,799 <i>of mysteries.</i> 554 01:01:16,198 --> 01:01:17,758 <i>But once you admit that,</i> 555 01:01:18,035 --> 01:01:18,896 <i>all other knowledge and skill only</i> 556 01:01:19,136 --> 01:01:21,721 <i>becomes trivial and meaningless.</i> 557 01:01:22,039 --> 01:01:24,428 <i>But then you would not have thought and read</i> 558 01:01:24,707 --> 01:01:27,424 <i>And talked and wondered.</i> 559 01:01:27,747 --> 01:01:31,162 So, perhaps it is just as well. 560 01:01:31,515 --> 01:01:33,838 <i>For if men do not think, read,</i> 561 01:01:34,152 --> 01:01:35,842 <i>talk to each other,</i> 562 01:01:36,119 --> 01:01:38,672 above all else, talk, 563 01:01:38,991 --> 01:01:43,748 they are no longer men. 564 01:01:59,577 --> 01:02:02,032 <i>He has come for me.</i> 565 01:02:02,350 --> 01:02:04,805 <i>The silent boatman to ferry me across</i> 566 01:02:05,118 --> 01:02:08,053 <i>the shadowed river.</i> 567 01:02:08,422 --> 01:02:13,179 I am not ready for you. 568 01:02:15,628 --> 01:02:17,733 <i>I've always been willing to bargain with my enemies.</i> 569 01:02:18,032 --> 01:02:19,342 <i>Can we not make a treaty?</i> 570 01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:22,404 <i>For your part I ask you to wait two years.</i> 571 01:02:22,737 --> 01:02:25,387 One year. 572 01:02:25,706 --> 01:02:29,022 I cannot do it in less than a year. 573 01:02:29,376 --> 01:02:33,140 <i>I do not seek pleasures, or friendship, or love.</i> 574 01:02:33,512 --> 01:02:35,487 I speak only of Rome. 575 01:02:35,782 --> 01:02:39,644 And when I say Rome, I mean the world. 576 01:02:40,021 --> 01:02:41,777 <i>The future.</i> 577 01:02:42,056 --> 01:02:44,642 <i>For my part, I am prepared to live on in pain.</i> 578 01:02:44,958 --> 01:02:49,202 A year. What is a year to you? 579 01:02:49,597 --> 01:02:52,433 <i>Coarse, vulgar, stupid thing.</i> 580 01:02:53,667 --> 01:02:55,871 <i>Yet it was I who said,</i> 581 01:02:56,169 --> 01:02:57,478 Is it not in the nature 582 01:02:57,739 --> 01:03:02,212 of the fig tree to give figs, as for the honey bee to give honey, 583 01:03:02,611 --> 01:03:08,012 and for the lion who fall upon the lamb? 584 01:03:08,484 --> 01:03:13,786 <i>So it is in the way of things that you should come for me.</i> 585 01:03:14,222 --> 01:03:16,229 <i>Forgive me, Boatman.</i> 586 01:03:16,526 --> 01:03:19,809 <i>I did not realize you were blind and deaf.</i> 587 01:03:20,162 --> 01:03:23,293 <i>Come for me when you will.</i> 588 01:03:23,632 --> 01:03:27,429 My hand shall lead us. 589 01:03:31,342 --> 01:03:33,862 <i>But I tell you this:</i> 590 01:03:34,179 --> 01:03:40,376 <i>There is a great truth we have not yet divined.</i> 591 01:03:46,892 --> 01:03:48,801 Oh, it is you Cleander. 592 01:03:49,093 --> 01:03:52,508 Is there something I can do, my lord Caesar? 593 01:03:52,864 --> 01:03:55,701 I'm in pain. 594 01:03:57,602 --> 01:04:04,760 The Greeks say there is nothing better than fruit to soften pain. 595 01:04:07,749 --> 01:04:11,546 Share this with me. 596 01:05:30,801 --> 01:05:33,518 I have been pledged to king Sohamus. 597 01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:35,149 But you are mine! 598 01:05:35,406 --> 01:05:39,018 My father gave his word. 599 01:05:39,378 --> 01:05:41,134 Come away with me. 600 01:05:41,411 --> 01:05:45,208 Where could we go? 601 01:05:45,651 --> 01:05:47,855 Anywhere where we could be alone. 602 01:05:48,153 --> 01:05:50,226 But there is no such a place. 603 01:05:50,521 --> 01:05:52,212 I'm Caesar's daughter. 604 01:05:52,492 --> 01:05:55,296 You're a woman... 605 01:05:55,863 --> 01:06:00,619 That is a much higher rank. 606 01:06:04,406 --> 01:06:06,097 I couldn't live that way. 607 01:06:06,372 --> 01:06:07,649 Nor could you. 608 01:06:07,907 --> 01:06:10,329 I could. 609 01:06:10,678 --> 01:06:15,784 If I had to choose between...