Spartacus Page #3

former wife

of Lucius Caius Marius...

whose recent execution

touched us all so deeply.

Honour to the Lady Helena...

daughter of the late

Septimus Optimus Glabrus...

whose fame shall live on forever

in the person of his son...

your brother,

Marcus Publius Glabrus...

hero of the Eastern Wars.

How very much he knows.

Allow me to bring you

up to date.

We're here to celebrate the marriage

of my brother to the Lady Claudia.

A mating of eagles,

Your Sanctity!

Fan His Magnitude.

He sweats.

My young friends desire

a private showing of two pairs.

Two pairs. Oh, yes.

I think I have something

that would please them.

- Two pairs to the death.

- To the death, Your Ladyship?

Surely you don't think we came

all the way to Capua for gymnastics?

But I beg Your Honours.

Here in Capua we train

the fiinest gladiators in all ltaly.

We can give you a display

of swordsmanship...

which is better than anything

you can see in Rome at any cost.

When they're sold, their new masters

may do with them as they wish...

but here, no, we never fiight them

to the death.

Crassus.

Today is an exception.

But the ill feeling it would spread

through the whole school.

And then the cost. The cost!

Name your price.

Arrange it.

Are you serious, sir?

Arrange it immediately.

Of course, we shall want

to choose them ourselves.

You do have a certain variety,

don't you?

Yes. Inexhaustible.

Spartacus, there's going to be

a fiight to the death.

- To the death?

- How do you know?

I heard Marcellus

tell one of his guards.

- Who fiights?

- I don't know.

To the death.

What if they matched

you and me?

They won't.

What if they did?

Would you fiight?

I'd have to. So would you.

Would you try to kill me?

Yes, I'd kill.

I'd try to save--

I'd try to stay alive

and so would you.

All gladiators

up to the training area.

Some visitors

want to admire you.

Form a line

right here in front of me.

Would Your Excellencies care

to make your selection now?

Claudia.

They're magnifiicent.

For you, Lady Helena...

may I suggest Praxus?

A veritable tiger.

I don't like him.

- I prefer that one.

- Which one?

David?

Crixus, yes.

Marcellus, Crixus

for the short sword.

Have you ever seen such a pair

of shoulders? Dionysius!

I admit he's small, but he's very

compact and extremely strong.

In fact, he looks--

He looks smaller here

than he does in the actual arena.

Optical.

- Give me that one.

- Galino.

Yes, yes. Galino.

You have a shrewd eye, Your Pulchritude,

if I may permit myself the--

Practically every man in this school

is an expert with a Thracian sword...

but the trident is something

very rare these days.

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