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Anything you wanted,

you took.

It'll be easier

to take it this way.

Well.

Easier.

A strange word from Caesar.

Women soften all men.

He sounds

like a lover talking.

An Egyptian lover.

That woman's making

an Egyptian out of you.

You bring Egyptian ships

and men back with you.

You change the calendar

of Rome to Egypt's.

But you cannot make an Egyptian

queen a ruler over Romans.

Words.

Look at the Roman eagle with

half the world in his claws...

tamed by a woman.

I'm leaving for the Senate.

But, Caesar, you...

Are you coming, Antony?

No, I'll take no part in it.

Any man who wants to make a

fool of himself over a woman...

can do so,

as far as I'm concerned.

I don't know what the young man

means, but he means it violently.

And I agree with him.

Then you'd better follow him.

Caesar! Caesar!

Oh, Caesar.

Oh, you haven't gone.

Don't go! Oh, don't go.

Don't go.

Calpurnia.

I've had a dream,

a terrible vision.

I saw a flaming star falling, and

it was you, your body dripping blood.

I saw your toga torn by daggers, wet

with blood, your blood, my husband.

Oh, please, please don't

leave this house today.

It's an evil omen.

I know it. I know it.

Calpurnia, my dear...

the world's affairs cannot be

stopped because you've had a dream.

Casca the Senator.

Caesar. Caesar,

the Senate waits for you.

No, no, no. You shall not

go. I'll keep you here.

Calpurnia has seen a day

of evil for me in her dreams.

Perhaps...

Shall I return and tell the Senate, which

waits to offer you the world's crown...

that they must wait until

Calpurnia's dreams are pleasanter?

I'll come. Oh, no, no, Caesar. I beg you.

Not for myself but for you.

Oh, please, please, Caesar.

Evil is on every side.

I know it. I know it.

For what I have done,

Calpurnia, pardon.

For what I am about to do,

courage.

No. No!

The swan's feather.

Iras, be careful.

I'm trying to keep my hand

from shaking...

but, Majesty,

I'm so excited.

Majesty. Majesty.

Royal robes

for the Empress of the world.

Up the stairs.

Before the Queen.

And, Majesty, wait until you see

them. They're beautiful, marvelous.

Take the lid off.

Beautiful!

The Roman Senate

will get a thrill today.

Choose, Majesty.

It's not the Senate I'm worried

about but their fat wives.

Here.

Do you know anything

about senators, Charmion?

Well, we only got here

yesterday, Majesty.

Caesar! My sandals.

Hail, Caesar! Caesar comes!

I only stopped

for a last salute.

Oh, no, wait just a minute. There's

something I want to tell you.

Too late, my love. And

get dressed. Get dressed.

I'll be ready.

But the Senate is waiting.

Let them wait. I want a

moment all alone. But...

No, put your arms around me.

Hold me close to you.

I'm frightened of something.

Frightened?

What's the matter?

I love you so much.

And that frightens you?

Nothing must happen to you,

my Caesar.

Nothing will.

I'll send for you

the moment my speech is done.

You must be ready.

Emperor!

Empress!

He passes here.

Tullius. Decimus.

Solinus.

Casca. You, there.

Brutus, beside the column.

Listen!

He must be just arriving.

How long will the speech take?

He's sending for me right after.

You'll be ready.

And how you'll look.

Do you think you might wear this

dress when you get married, too?

What?

I was just thinking of the

great Caesar trying to unhook it.

Charmion.

Listen.

Listen to the cheers now.

Hail! Hail, Caesar!

Hail, Caesar!

Caesar, hail!

Caesar, I warned you.

The Ides of March.

The Ides of March are here.

But not gone.

Caesar!

Caesar comes!

Ah, Caesar.

A pardon, Caesar, for my

brother in exile. Denied.

You tyrant!

Stand back!

Take your hands off me!

Let me get out of here!

Get off me!

You! You, too, Brutus!

A great day for Rome.

Am I all right?

Marvelous.

Beautiful. The senators' eyes

will pop right out of their heads.

Caesar is dead!

What?

Caesar is dead!

Caesar is a traitor to Rome!

His speech is over. It must

be. I hear the shouting.

Apollodorus,

has the messenger come?

Not yet.

I never saw anything

so beautiful.

Let me show you.

How do you like this?

Gorgeous.

Or do you like this?

I am only a man.

How can I tell?

The Queen! The Queen!

Where's the Queen?

Stand!

Stand!

Stop! Stop!

Caesar has been murdered!

Royal Egypt,

Caesar is dead.

How was this? By whom?

I don't know, but I heard

them cry, "Brutus! Cassius!"

As I galloped through the

streets, I heard them shout:

"Caesar is a traitor to Rome!"

Where is he? Where is Caesar?

Dead, Majesty.

The body lies at the foot

of Pompey's statue.

No one will touch it.

I will.

Majesty, you cannot.

No, my Queen. No.

Majesty! Majesty!

They come this way.

They cry for Egypt's blood!

Man the small boat

at the foot of the garden.

Come, my Queen.

Come. We must go. We must

escape. They will kill you.

Think of Egypt.

"Think of Egypt"?

Always Egypt!

But Caesar is dead.

My Emperor.

That dream is gone.

Gone.

Yes, gone.

What do I care for empire now?

Caesar is dead.

My lover is dead.

He didn't love you.

You lie! You lie! You lie!

Majesty.

It wasn't in his arms

he wanted to hold Egypt.

It was in his treasury.

It's true.

You were blind.

He didn't love you.

You were blind.

Blind.

Antony.

Always Antony.

Sit down, Octavian.

Sit down.

That's all I do, sit.

Well, then sit down.

I won't sit down!

See, he can't even sit down.

Antony, Octavian.

Caesar dead only two weeks, and you

fill his house with your quarrels.

The Senate has decreed that you

both shall rule Rome together...

and that Antony shall avenge the

death of Caesar upon the traitors...

and shall punish Egypt.

But why Antony? I'll govern

with you if I have to.

But if there's any fighting

to be done, I'll do it alone.

Alone. You want to do

everything alone.

You took advantage of Caesar

lying on his funeral pyre...

to gain the public's support

for yourself.

You used my uncle's dead body

to win control...

holding up his bloodstained

toga like any playactor...

to make the crowd cheer you.

You, with your,

"Friends, Romans, countrymen."

That's enough!

Steady.

I accept the Senate's order.

Good.

And you, Octavian?

Oh, I suppose so.

And how do you

propose to punish Egypt?

I shall write a letter

to the Egyptian Queen...

demanding that she meet me in

the public square in Tarsus.

A letter? The great Marc Antony

fights with friendly notes.

Really, Octavian, you must...

No, it's all right.

Octavian's right, for once.

It will be a friendly note.

Well, but I don't understand.

Friendly?

I see.

She will think the meeting

a friendly discussion...

on Roman and Egyptian affairs.

Yes.

Instead, my legions will be with me in

Tarsus on our way to take Egypt by force.

From Tarsus, I shall send

Cleopatra to Rome in chains.

That's more like

the real Marc Antony.

We're approaching Tarsus.

Are we?

And no plans yet, Cleopatra.

If you fail, it means slavery

for Egypt and death for you.

If you had listened to me, at least

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