Kill Them All

Spartacus: Blood and Sand

Season 1 Episode 13
(Season Finale)

& Batiatus: My heart to Legatus Glaber and his support. In the hopes that you will share it in the coming days, I present a gift of blood! Two legends of the arena, to face each other in the mission! No quarter given! No mercy shown! Behold, Crixus! The savage Gaul! And who shall attempt to tame him? There can be but one man. Spartacus! Slayer of the Shadow of Death!

& Rhaskos: You speak of dangerous things.
    Spartacus: We live in dangerous times.

& Lucretia: ...Then we must ensure Spartacus victorious. And Crixus fades from memory.

& Doctore: Dominus releases me from the bonds of servitude, to assume mantle as lanista.
    Crixus: It is a title well deserved.
    Doctore: Together we will restore honor to this ludus... And Naevia to your arms. Spartacus but stands in your way.
    Crixus: Then he shall fall.

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& Ilithyia: My hands are no longer my own and now you seize my fucking tongue?
    Lucretia: I would not have it flap about, absent direction.
    Ilithyia: How much longer must I suffer your indignities?
    Lucretia: While breath gives life to my command.
    Ilithyia: As you wish, then.

& Batiatus: It is a marvel. That something so slight could topple a legend.
    Ashur: All men fall. It is but time and method that differ.

& Batiatus: The noble House of Batiatus stands humbled... Humbled by the fortunes the gods have seen fit to shower upon us...
    Lucretia: I should use “blessings” instead. “Fortune” has but connotation of coin.
    Batiatus: Blessings, then.

& Spartacus: Join me, brother. And we shall see the House of Batiatus fall.

& Doctore: I have given my life to this ludus!
    Crixus: No, they stole it from you. From all of us.

& Doctore: Is this not enough? How many more must die?
    Spartacus: I would see but one.

& Spartacus: I know not all of you wished this. Yet it is done. It is done. Your lives are your own. Forge your own path... Or join with us, and together we shall see Rome tremble.

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Revelations

Spartacus: Blood and Sand

Season 1 Episode 12

& Batiatus: Did you not have eyes towards my ludus? My champions? My wife? You would steal glory from the House of Batiatus. Yet here you are. With nothing but blood and sand for your efforts.

& Spartacus: I’ve pressed for audience all week. Dominus forgets who his champion is.
    Doctore: It is you... who forgets title, master and slave.
    Spartacus: .... Apologies.

& Batiatus: Today we shall witness justice! The base criminal that has so wounded us shall be executed ad gladium! Enter Solonius! Enemy of the people!

& Spartacus: I will see the light fade from his eyes, or join her in the attempt.
    Mira: At expense of my life? The thracian does not know roman law! If one slave spills the blood of his master... All are put to death.
    Spartacus: Each to his own fate... And I to mine.

& Crixus: I draw closer to facing you again in the arena. And reclaiming stolen glories.
    Spartacus: There is no glory. Only blood. Spilled for the pleasure of the romans.
    Crixus: And how they shall roar, when I spill your blood upon the sands.
    Guardian: Spartacus! You are summoned.
    Spartacus: .... I fear you will never have the chance.

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& Glaber: Await me at your villa.
    Batiatus: When shall I expect you?
    Glaber: When I arrive.

& Naevia: Dominus has given me to another.
    Crixus: Who? Tell me his name!
    Naevia: What does it matter? We have lived in a dream. And now we must awaken.

& Glaber: Batiatus is little better than the beasts that bear his mark.
    Ilithyia: True, but they do provide a certain amusement.

& Batiatus: Lend name to my cause, and see their deafening cheers transformed into demands for Claudius Glaber, and his desired position of praetor.
    Ilithyia: They do favor Batiatus’ men like no others... Especially Spartacus.
    Glaber: The thracian... And what does it say that your finest gladiator was my worst soldier?
    Batiatus: That I am the greatest lanista in the Republic. For I have taken a wild beast, and forged him into a god.

& Batiatus: Which of my men would you have oppose him?
    Glaber: None. Formation.
    Batiatus: Spartacus wields practice swords. I fear he’s at a disadvantage.
    Glaber: I but give him chance to prove his legend.

& Glaber: Vesper! Linus!
    Batiatus: Legatus...
    Glaber: You opened this door, lanista. And we shall pass through it.

& We return to Rome, absent unworthy entanglements.
    Batiatus: Do not turn from me!
    Glaber: You forget your place, lanista!
    Batiatus: No. I secure it.

& Glaber: Can I believe this will make a difference?
    Batiatus: Open it and see.

& Doctore: Embrace the pain. It is the only way.

& Batiatus: I expect your meetings with Crixus to end.
    Lucretia: Quintus...
    Batiatus: Do not fucking speak. That you would think me a fool is insult enough. I have always known. And turned eye away only because it made you happy, and caused me no thought. Those days have ended. Set your attentions towards our child. And do not see them stray.

& Duro: What do you speak of?
    Spartacus: I speak of nothing.
    Duro: Nothing sounds much like escape.
    Agron: And how would “nothing” find way past Batiatus and all his fucking romans?
    Spartacus: There is but one path... We kill them all.

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Old Wounds

Spartacus: Blood and Sand

Season 1 Episode 11

& Doctore: Every night breaks. And we must all wake.

& Lucretia: It’s done, then?
    Batiatus: No. It’s only just begun.

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& Spartacus: I had no choice. A man must accept his fate...
    Sura: Or be destroyed by it.

& Batiatus: The gods truly favor the House of Batiatus! Spartacus risen from the dead! Spartacus! You are well?
    Spartacus: Yes, Dominus... I am myself again.

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Party Favors

Spartacus: Blood and Sand

Season 1 Episode 10

& Batiatus: When I put on the toga virilis, it was in this very room, surrounded by my father’s champions. Even then I knew that one day my own titans would eclipse them all. None more so than Spartacus, the bringer of rain. Ugh?..
    Spartacus: You honor me.
    Batiatus: You stand above all others. Continue on this path, and we will have the world... Grrrr!

& Varro: Aurelia tells me Sicilia is an island blessed by the gods. You must visit us there, when you gain freedom.
    Spartacus: I no longer concern myself with thoughts beyond these walls.
    Crixus: And nor should you. A true champion dreams only of the arena.

& Batiatus: It appears our champion has no head for games of strategy.
    Spartacus: Mm, battles maybe lost... And yet the war concludes in victory.

& Batiatus: How can you keep besting a man so far above your station?
    Spartacus: I sprung from my mother with sword in hand. The ways of battle are second nature, passed down from father to son.

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& Batiatus: Spartacus is the reason the magistrate graces our house, along with all the shits that follow.
    Lucretia: They come to see you. A man ascended to the heavens. And Spartacus is merely the beast that you ride upon.

& Numerius: The man is beaten.
    Spartacus: In body, perhaps. Yet confrontation is often not won by force, but by will.

& Numerius: The man is soundly defeated, yet treated as victor?
    Spartacus: A sign of respect, for his courage.

& Lucretia: Did you see the look upon his face? He’s the rictus of a man dying, a slice at a time.

I would have the fatal cut in a single stroke.
    Batiatus: Oh, I prefer as many strokes as possible, to maximize the pleasure.

& Lucretia: The magistrate’s response?
    Batiatus: To be answered in blood.

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Whore

Spartacus: Blood and Sand

Season 1 Episode 9

& Varro: I admitted I reacted poorly to the news of her being with child.
    Spartacus: And now she makes you wait. The way women punish us for being fools.

& Batiatus: Argh. The Champion of Capua arrives! A man who so terrifies Jupiter the clouds burst and the heavens weep!
    Spartacus: My glory is but a reflection of my Dominus.
    Batiatus: You flatter!
    Spartacus: I return in kind.

& Mira: You do not desire me?
    Spartacus: I desire only sleep. And the absence of dreams.

---

& Lucretia: Praise the gods for his return. May they guide him to many more victories.
    Batiatus: And our purse filled by such.
    Lucretia: Yes. Filled to bursting.

& Duro: This isn’t the arena!
    Crixus: The world is my arena, pup.

& Lucretia: You will always be mine, Crixus. Mine alone.

& Ilithyia: My mind is filled with baser thoughts. The vision of brutish hands being laid upon me... In a manner quite lacking in my husband’s touch. I should not speak of such things. I dishonor myself.
    Lucretia: Your desires should not shame you. You are a woman. Our needs are vast.

& Batiatus: The favor of both coin and title would speed our ambitions.
    Lucretia: To rise you would have me kneel?
    Batiatus: One day soon we will give Ilithyia a lesson in manners. But for now... necessity dictates we give her Crixus. Make the arrangements.

& Lucretia: This will be our little secret...

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Mark of the Brotherhood

Spartacus: Blood and Sand

Season 1 Episode 8

& Doctore: With respect Dominus, your coin far exceeds their value.
    Batiatus: Fuck value! None can be placed on seeing that cock eater’s pride ground beneath my heel. Solonius, consider the whores! Perhaps you will have better fortune fighting women in the arena!

& Doctore: What is beneath your feet? .....
    Duro: Sand?
    Agron: Fucking idiot.
    Doctore: Spartacus.
    Spartacus: Sacred ground, Doctore! Watered with tears of blood!
    Doctore: Your tears. Your blood. Your pathetic lives, forged into something of worth... Listen. Learn. And perhaps, live. As gladiators.

& Ilithyia: I find myself growing quite fond of this sordid business of gladiators.
    Lucretia: Perhaps you should consider purchasing one of your own...
    Ilithyia: A gladiator? I could never!.. Could I?
    Batiatus: Choose a recruit, and he is yours, for a nominal fee, of course.

& Varro: Seems only yesterday we were of a similar position.
    Spartacus: Much has changed.
    Varro: You became the fucking Champion of Capua. Your myth to echo for a thousand years. And I...
    Spartacus: Became a good friend.

& Spartacus: Crixus! Let them eat.
    Crixus: They must embrace pain and suffering to become gladiators! This is how it is done.
    Spartacus: Not by you... Let them eat.

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& Crixus: Spartacus... the kind and gentle one.
    Spartacus: Do not mistake me, Crixus. I give no shit about these men. But you are no longer the Champion of Capua. You do not take lead here. You follow.
    Crixus: ...... The man who follows is forever at your back. Something to consider, champion.

& Segovax: Much gratitude.
    Spartacus: Men should not die with empty stomachs.

& Batiatus: Crixus has no head for numbers. The sword is his only purpose.
    Lucretia: He’s part of the family, Quintus!
    Batiatus: He is a fucking slave! This house, this family, is a business, Lucretia. As much regret results from selling a gladiator like Crixus, when the time arrives, and it fucking will for them all, it’s a necessity that must be swallowed.

& Doctore: To step onto the sand as a gladiator is the highest position a slave can pray for. Prove yourselves. Earn the mark of the brotherhood.

& Spartacus: Defeat is delivered not only by the sword, but also the crowd. Fall from their grace, and you may never rise to former glories.

& Spartacus: A true gladiator is taught to embrace pain and suffering. To fight until life flees from his worthless body.

& Solonius: Are your ears receptive?
    Ashur: ... I cannot stop a free man from speech.

& Ashur: I am a villain. But I’m not your villain. Seek another slave.

& Segovax: Gratitude. For your aid in my training today. I would be eager to hear any advice, to further my cause.
    Spartacus: Your cause?
    Segovax: Victories in the arena, and freedom.
    Spartacus: Forsake any thoughts of freedom, and the life you once had beyond these walls. Accept your fate... Or be destroyed by specters of a past never to return.

& Lincinia: What of you, Spartacus? Are you a blessing to us?
    Spartacus: To some. To others... a curse.

& Ilithyia: Do you know who I am, slave?
    Segovax: Apologies. I do not.
    Ilithyia: I am your Domina. My coin pays for your training. Water. Food. The very air you breathe. Survive to receive the mark, and you will become my gladiator... My champion.
    Segovax: Domina.

& Spartacus: She lives, Varro. She lives. You may yet hold her in your arms. A thought a decent man would cherish.

& Ilithyia: Spartacus yet lives.
    Lucretia: Yet.

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Great and Unfortunate Things

Spartacus: Blood and Sand

Season 1 Episode 7

& Batiatus: There is nothing to be done to change what has passed. We must look towards the future. You are the Bringer of Rain. The Slayer of Death. Together we will etch the name Spartacus to the pillars of history.
    Spartacus: Spartacus... That is not what she called me. That is not my name.
    Batiatus: It is now.

& Varro: You act as if you have free will in the matter. You are a gladiator.
    Spartacus: I am a thracian.
    Varro: You are a slave! To cling to a life beyond these walls is to see your heart parted from your chest.

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& Spartacus: He did not deserve to live.
    Batiatus: I alone decides who live! Not you! Not a fucking slave!

& Spartacus: I will never see you from my side again. Without you, there is no reason for breath.
    Sura: There is always reason to live. ... The gods would set you on the proper path. All you have to do is close your eyes... And place yourself in their hands.

& Mercato: You do realize my grandfather won this battle?

& Lucretia: He fights like a man possessed.
    Batiatus: By the gods themselves.

& Spartacus: I... Am... Spartacus!!!

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Delicate Things

Spartacus: Blood and Sand

Season 1 Episode 6

& Batiatus: We have proved the name Batiatus will live long after we have gone to dust and bone. So stand proud before the bringer of rain! The slayer of the shadow of death! The new Champion of Capua! Spartacus!

& Spartacus: I defeated a man who could not be defeated. What more could they expect of me?
    Batiatus: Everything! Their appetite is a great beast. It must constantly be fed with new delights.

& Batiatus: We’ll start by changing your fighting style. Two swords, as Theokoles fought with. We’ll see the crowds pleasure double with their new hero twice as deadly! And new armor, worthy of a legend! Men will be made to feel smaller by it! Women will moisten at the very sight.

& Batiatus: Did you see the tears of gratitude in his eyes?
    Lucretia: Gratitude falls short of loyalty.

& Batiatus: Spartacus will be reunited with his wife. And in the act... I will bind him to us and this ludus... Until god comes to claim us all...

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& Varro: You move to escape beyond these walls, and that is surely what you’ll find.
    Spartacus: Has no one ever attempted such a thing?
    Varro: And lived? No. It is a thing born of the impossible.
    Spartacus: The same was said of defeating Theokoles.
    Varro: You have a plan, then?
    Spartacus: One begins to take shape...

& Lucretia: The man was yet loyal.
    Batiatus: He wished for his freedom.
    Lucretia: A betrayal in itself.

& Batiatus: My word is kept. They’re reunited.

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Shadow Games

Spartacus: Blood and Sand

Season 1 Episode 5

& Batiatus: Rain! By Jupiter’s cock, would you fucking rain!
    Lucretia: What are you doing?
    Batiatus: Praying.
    Lucretia: Blaspheming.
    Batiatus: The two are narrowly separated in these trying times.

& Batiatus: Set your purpose to the task of training Crixus and Spartacus for the match.
    Doctore: I fear no amount will save them from the shadow’s grasp.
    Batiatus: Then prepare them for a glorious death.

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& Pietros: Each time you step beyond these walls, I fear for you and what...
    Barca: Grab hold of your cock and be a man!

& Crixus: Just because you stand beside me with sword and shield, do not mistake yourself as a gladiator. I fight to honor these walls, you fight to leave them!
    Spartacus: You fight... Because you are a slave. Like me.
    Crixus: No. Not like you. I accept my place here. I embrace it. But you... You still dream of a life beyond the arena. Where that wife of yours we’ve all heard about is still nestled by your side. And that is all it is, Spartacus. A dream and one day soon you will awaken to the truth. You will never leave this place.

& Batiatus: You survived being dragged from your homeland by Legatus Glaber... You survived execution by four gladiators in the arena... You even survived the horror of the pits. Can you survive this?

& Spartacus: How will he to be defeated?
    Doctore: By accomplishing both at once. Press... And defend. Distract... And strike. Fight as one... Or die as two.

& Spartacus: Glory...
    Crixus: There is no greater thing, than standing victorious arena.
    Spartacus: Is there no purpose beyond the blood? No dream beyond the cheering crowd? Is there nothing else you fight for?

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The Thing in the Pit

Spartacus: Blood and Sand

Season 1 Episode 4

& Batiatus: Do you shoot magic coins out of your ass? If so, squat and produce!
    Spartacus: I shall fight in the arena, my winnings...
    Batiatus: No one wishes to see you fight! The crowd’s favor, like the wind, is fleeting. Their interest in you has blown out.

& Batiatus: If a beast cannot be tamed, it must be unleashed.

& Varro: Where do they take him?
    Crixus: To the underworld... where he belongs.

& Anubis: We have but a single rule! Only one survives! Mongrel on mongrel, till Charon arrives!

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& Lucretia: Is that what you want? Someone else’s hands upon me?
    Batiatus: I want everything!.. Yet can afford nothing.

& Doctore: Study the flaws of your opponent. Strike with your mind as well as your sword. Fail to use your wits in the arena... And risk tumbling after Spartacus into the pits.

& Barca: Rise, dog. More death awaits.

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Legends

Spartacus: Blood and Sand

Season 1 Episode 3

& Doctore: Attend! The Vulcanalia is announced!
    Spartacus: Vulcanalia?
    Varro: A festival to ward off wildfires.

& Spartacus: Crixus, then?
    Varro: Crixus certainly.
    Spartacus: And his opponent?
    Kerza: Against the Champion of Capua? What would it matter?

& Lucretia: Darling, you must spend coins to receive coins. My husband taught me that.
    Batiatus: A wise man.

& Spartacus: Barca? He stands but tall.
    Varro: He stands a legend. After Carthage suffered defeat by the romans, they forced hundreds of his people to fight against each other in the arena. Half a day passed, and only two remained... Barca. And the chief of his people, the noble Mago. Skill and the testament of years were his allies. Strength and youth Barca’s. Mago fell to his knees... And Barca became the Beast of Carthage.

& Varro: Mago was a warrior fierce renown. A chief upon a throne of blood. He was also Barca’s father, as the story tells...
    Spartacus: Is it true?
    Varro: In the world of the gladiator, a man’s fame and glory constructs its own truth.
    Spartacus: Fame and glory. I seek neither.

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& Crixus: It’s no easy task to sever a man’s head. You must find the right angle.

& Naevia: I do not favor the games.
    Crixus: Well that is an odd bent... for a slave... at a gladiator school.

& Doctore: Never lose focus! Not if Jupiter himself were to rip open the heavens and dangle his cock from the skies! A gladiator’s first distraction is his last. Not all contests end in death... Two fingers. A sign of surrender... And shame.

& Spartacus: The oath I swore to this place did not including begging. I need no lesson in submission.
    Doctore: You favor a different lesson? In obedience, perhaps? To the hole!

& Spartacus: There are many I would see dead in this place. You are not among them though.
    Varro: You may not have a choice.
    Spartacus: There is always a choice.

& Batiatus: This was merely a taste! Tomorrow they will settle this grudge in the arena! Crixus, the undefeated! Spartacus, the dog who defies death! A fight for the ages! Glory to Capua! Glory to Rome!

& Spartacus: I believe his reputation inflated. Tomorrow I shall prove it so.
    Kerza: Next he’ll boast he can defeat Theokoles himself.
    Spartacus: Perhaps. If I knew the man.
    Varro: Theokoles. The shadow of death.

& Batiatus: Spartacus fought well! Let him live to fight another day!

& Ilithyia: He lives? How disappointing.

& Spartacus: His reputation is well earned. My blade could find no weakness.
    Doctore: And yet... it was there. At least ten points where you could have seized advantage. You needed more training.
    Spartacus: I shall train harder then.
    Doctore: No. It is too late for such things.

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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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The Red Serpent

Spartacus: Blood and Sand

Season 1 Episode 1

& Glaber: Align yourselves with Rome! Pledge your service to the auxiliary and join us in our campaign!
    Spartacus: To what end? To what end?!
    Glaber: Victory.
    Spartacus: And how is it to be measured?

& Spartacus: If we are to align with Rome, the purpose must be clear... The getae dead. All of them.
    Glaber: ... Dead... All of them.

& Sura: Kill them all.
    Spartacus: For you.

& Ilithyia: Mithridates... Victory against him would have your name on every roman’s tongue.
    Glaber: Cotta leads the assault.
    Ilithyia: He steals your laurels!
    Glaber: He’s the consul. Theft is his privilege.

& Glaber: Return to Capua.
    Ilithyia: And my father? How will he measure the man he so blessed with his daughter?
    Glaber: A colossus, towering above the enemies of Rome.

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& Spartacus: Did the Legatus send his own men to scout the front?
    — How the fuck should I know? They blow their fucking horns, a roman dog barks and the gods shit on me. Welcome to the fucking auxiliary.

& Drenis: What of the Legatus?
    Spartacus: Leave him in the mud.

& Spartacus: I wish I had been a thousand men...

& Batiatus: In honor of senator Albinius and the people of Capua, I give you Barca! The Beast of Carthage! ... Yet his ferocity pales against the titan of the arena! The god of blood and sand! Crixus! The Undefeated Gaul!

& Lucretia: We’ve been invited to sit in the pulvinus.
    Solonius: The pulvinus? With the senator? A great honor. I’ll enjoy your company there.
    Batiatus: ..... I shall witness his heart on a day. Parted from his chest.
    Lucretia: And I shall grip the knife.

& Glaber: The sentence of death holds!
    Albinius: But to defy the wishes of the crowd, it’s not wise. Even for a senator.

& Albinius: What name does the man carry?
    Glaber: I never cared to ask.
    Batiatus: The way he fights... like the legend of the thracian king of old. Spartacus he was called.

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