Sacramentum Gladiatorum

Spartacus: Blood and Sand

Season 1 Episode 2

& Batiatus: Have him taken to the baths. But first attend to all that fucking hair.

& Barca: This is the one? The Spartacus everyone’s been pissing about?
    Spartacus: Spartacus? My name is...
    Crixus: No one gives shit to who you were, thracian.
    Barca: I give no shit to who he is!

& Spartacus: What is this place?
    Barca: The afterlife, friend. Or least outside its rusted gates.

& Crixus: You’re now an honored guest of Batiatus, master of the greatest ludus in Capua.
    Spartacus: Ludus?
    Crixus: A school of training. Where men are forged into gods, blood their ambrosia, the arena, their mountaintop.
    Spartacus: Gladiators...
    Crixus: The truest of brotherhoods!

& Spartacus: What are you, then?
    Crixus: I’m a gaul, little man. The greatest of my kind. Crixus, the undefeated!

& Doctore: Spartacus!
    Spartacus: That... is not... my name.
    Doctore: Grrr! Your name, your life, is what we decide.

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& Varro: Shit-fucking slaves and criminals, the lot of them.
    Spartacus: Are we the better?
    Varro: You survived your own execution. Twice, if you mark the gaul over there not introducing your brains to the sand. You are of a difference, thracian. Above this unfortunate collection.
    Spartacus: And you?
    Varro: Varro. The worst of the lot.

& Batiatus: These men are all the straw afforded. Bake them into brick, or crumble them to the mines.
    Oenomaus: Your will. My hands.

& Marcus: You fought the gladiators there. What do you think of our chances?
    Spartacus: ..... You’re all going to die.

& Ilithyia: I thought I was in the presence of a proper roman woman...
    Lucretia: Proper is a word forged by men who would seek to enslave us with it.

& Ilithyia: How do you live with the noise and the smell, surrounded by these animals?
    Lucretia: Yes, they are wild and savage, aren’t they? Something out of a fever dream.
    Ilithyia: Isn’t it a worry? I mean, what if they went insane all at once, clamoring for blood?!

& Batiatus: The gods haven’t pissed on me enough for one day?! Legatus fucking Glaber spurns me like a common slave, but no! Let’s add shit to the piss let’s pour it in his mouth!

& Batiatus: A man must accept his fate. Or be destroyed by it.

& Lucretia: That’s disappointing.
    Batiatus: Not every venture ends in climax.
    Lucretia: A fact known well to every woman.

& Batiatus: Spartacus! Cease. You have passed the test.
    Spartacus: ..... Dominus.

& Batiatus: Welcome to the brotherhood.

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