Spartacus

Spartacus: What is your name? Draba: You don't want to know mine. I don't want to know your name. Spartacus: Just a friendly question. Draba: Gladiators don't make friends. If we're ever matched in the arena together, I have to kill you.

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Dionysus: [watching two Roman nobles being forced by a slave on horseback to fight to the death] Ah-ha ha! Come on, fat boy! Yeah! Slaves: [as Spartacus enters the arena] Spartacus! Hey, Spartacus! Spartacus: Noble Romans, fight each other like animals. [gestures to the slaves on the balcony] Your new masters, betting to see who'll die first. [the slaves laugh] Drop your weapons. [the slaves start booing] Slaves: No! No! No! No! Crixus: I want to see their blood, right here where Draba died! [jumps down and draws his sword] When I fight matched pairs, they fight to the death! Spartacus: I made myself a promise, Crixus. I swore that if I ever get out of this place, I'd die before I saw two men fight to the death again. Draba made that promise too. He kept it, so will I. [turns to the nobles] Go on. Get up! [Spartacus turns to the slaves as the nobles scurry out of the arena] What are we, Crixus? What are we becoming, Romans? What's happening to us? Have we learned nothing? We hunt wine

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Spartacus: Stand up. On your feet. Stand up, the way a noble Roman should. Slave: That's Roman pride for you, Spartacus! [the slaves laugh] Spartacus: That's better. What's your name? Glabrus: Marcus, Glabrus. Spartacus: Glabrus. Glabrus: Commander of the Garrison of Rome! Spartacus: Commander? Crixus: He was commanding it on his belly when we found him, playing dead! [the slaves laugh] Spartacus: You disappoint me, Marcus Glabrus, playing dead. You afraid to die? It's easy to die. Haven't you seen enough gladiators in the arena to see how easy it is to die? Glabrus: Why...what are you going to do to me? Spartacus: I don't know. [turns to the slaves] What should we do with him? Dionysus: Let's have a matched pair, him and me! [the slaves laugh] Glabrus: I'll not fight like a gladiator! Spartacus: [showing Glabrus a Roman baton] You keep staring at this. You recognize this baton? Glabrus: Yes. Spartacus: You should! It was in your tent. [holds up the baton] The symbol of the Senate! All

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Crassus: Do you steal? Antoninus: No, master. Crassus: Do you lie? Antoninus: Not if I can avoid it. Crassus': Have you... ever dishonored the gods? Antoninus: No, master. Crassus': Do you refrain from these vices out of respect for moral virtues? Antoninus: Yes, master. Crassus: Do you eat oysters? Antoninus: When I have them, master. Crassus: Do you eat snails? Antoninus: No, master. Crassus: Do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral, and the eating of snails to be immoral? Antoninus: No, master. Crassus: Of course not. It is all a matter of taste, isn't it? Antoninus: Yes, master. Crassus: And taste is not the same as appetite, and therefore not a question of morals, hmm? Antoninus: It could be argued so, master. Crassus: My robe, Antoninus. My taste includes both snails and oysters. [approaches a balcony] Antoninus, look, across the river. There is something you must see. [looking toward Rome, as the garrison sets out] There, boy, is Rome. The might, the majesty, the terror

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