00:01:06,452 --> 00:01:09,(Men Laughing)

00:01:12,468 --> 00:01:14,(Dice Rattling]

00:01:15,475 --> 00:01:16,By Apis!

00:01:16,723 --> 00:01:18,Persian, thy gods are good to thee.

00:01:18,259 --> 00:01:20,Try yet again, O Captain.
Double or quits.

00:01:20,723 --> 00:01:22,No more. I'm not in the vein.

00:01:31,891 --> 00:01:34,Captain! A stranger approaches!

00:01:36,275 --> 00:01:38,Stand! Who goes there?

00:01:38,484 --> 00:01:40,The bearer of evil tidings.

00:01:40,467 --> 00:01:43,(Captain]
Pass him in!

00:01:54,004 --> 00:01:56,(Laughing]

00:02:01,235 --> 00:02:04,Who art thou that laughest
in the house of Cleopatra the queen...

00:02:04,275 --> 00:02:06,and in the teeth of Belzanor,
the captain of her guard?

00:02:06,772 --> 00:02:09,I ** Bel Affris, descended from the gods.

00:02:09,747 --> 00:02:12,- Hail, cousin.
- (Others) Hail, cousin!

00:02:12,531 --> 00:02:17,(Laughs) All the queen's guards
are descended from the gods... save myself.

00:02:17,427 --> 00:02:20,I ** a Persian descended from many kings.

00:02:20,947 --> 00:02:22,Hail, cousins.

00:02:22,931 --> 00:02:24,Hail, mortal.

00:02:24,275 --> 00:02:27,You have been in battle, Bel Affris,
and you are a soldier among soldiers.

00:02:28,083 --> 00:02:31,You will not let the queen's women
have the first of your tidings.

00:02:31,763 --> 00:02:33,I have no tidings...

00:02:34,707 --> 00:02:38,except that we shall all
have our throats cut presently...

00:02:38,356 --> 00:02:40,women, soldiers and all.

00:02:41,075 --> 00:02:42,I thought so.
Tell us what befell.

00:02:43,060 --> 00:02:45,- Aye! Tell us!
- Tell us! Tell us!

00:02:46,067 --> 00:02:49,Know then that I serve in the guard
of the temple of Ra here in Memphis.

00:02:50,003 --> 00:02:52,We went to Alexandria
to inquire of King Ptolemy...

00:02:52,179 --> 00:02:54,how we of Egypt should deal
with the Roman, Pompey...

00:02:54,515 --> 00:02:57,newly come to our shores after his defeat
by Caesar at Pharsalia.

00:02:57,267 --> 00:03:00,Caesar defeated Pompey?
Does Roman, then, fight Roman?

00:03:00,852 --> 00:03:03,Even as Egyptian fights Egyptian.

00:03:03,347 --> 00:03:06,What did you learn from the queen's brother,
Ptolemy the pretender?

00:03:07,091 --> 00:03:11,We learnt that Caesar is coming also
in hot pursuit of his foe...

00:03:11,283 --> 00:03:13,and that Ptolemy has slain Pompey.

00:03:13,684 --> 00:03:15,Nay, more.
We found that Caesar is already come.

00:03:15,860 --> 00:03:17,For we had not made half a day's journey
on our way back...

00:03:17,716 --> 00:03:20,when we came upon a city rabble
fiying from his legions.

00:03:20,660 --> 00:03:24,And ye the temple guard...
did you not withstand these legions?

00:03:24,500 --> 00:03:27,What men could, that we did.

00:03:27,124 --> 00:03:29,But this Caesar throws a legion at you
where you are weakest...

00:03:29,331 --> 00:03:31,as he throws a stone from a catapult.

00:03:31,251 --> 00:03:36,And that legion is as a man with one head,
a thousand arms... and no religion.

00:03:36,243 --> 00:03:38,- I have fought against them, and I know.
- (Soldiers Chortling)

00:03:38,771 --> 00:03:40,- Were you frightened, cousin?
- (Laughing)

00:03:40,820 --> 00:03:44,- No, cousin, but I was beaten.
- (Laughing)

00:03:44,435 --> 00:03:46,- Could you not die?
- There was no time.

00:03:47,091 --> 00:03:48,All was over in a moment.

00:03:48,723 --> 00:03:52,But now I ** come to warn you
that you must open your gates to Caesar...

00:03:52,467 --> 00:03:54,for his advance guard
is scarce an hour behind me...

00:03:54,612 --> 00:03:57,and there is not an Egyptian warrior
left standing between you and his legions.

00:03:57,171 --> 00:03:59,- Woe! Alas!
- Nail him to the door! Quick!

00:04:01,363 --> 00:04:04,Now this news will run through the palace
like fire through stubble.

00:04:04,851 --> 00:04:07,What shall we do
to save the women from the Romans?

00:04:07,155 --> 00:04:10,- Why not kill them?
- Because we should have to pay blood money.

00:04:10,195 --> 00:04:12,Better let the Romans kill them.
It's cheaper.

00:04:12,948 --> 00:04:15,- O subtle one. O serpent.
- But your queen.

00:04:15,795 --> 00:04:18,True. We must carry off Cleopatra.
I will take her on the crupper of my horse.

00:04:19,027 --> 00:04:21,- (Women Screaming)
- Fly! Fly!

00:04:21,811 --> 00:04:26,- What's the matter now?
- The sacred white cat has been stolen!

00:04:26,132 --> 00:04:28,(Screaming, Shouting)

00:04:30,035 --> 00:04:33,(Blowing Horn)

00:04:52,339 --> 00:04:54,(Hammer Ringing On Anvil)

00:05:01,556 --> 00:05:04,(Men Chattering)

00:06:04,147 --> 00:06:06,Hail, Sphinx.

00:06:06,163 --> 00:06:08,Salutation from Julius Caesar.

00:06:09,843 --> 00:06:13,I have wandered in many lands
seeking the lost region...

00:06:13,299 --> 00:06:16,from which my birth into this world
exiled me...

00:06:16,563 --> 00:06:19,and the company of creatures
such as I myself.

00:06:20,403 --> 00:06:24,I found fiocks and pastures,
men and cities...

00:06:24,403 --> 00:06:26,but no other Caesar...

00:06:26,483 --> 00:06:29,no air native to me,
no man kindred to me...

00:06:30,067 --> 00:06:34,none who can do my day's deed
or think my night's thought.

00:06:34,163 --> 00:06:36,In the little world yonder, Sphinx...

00:06:36,723 --> 00:06:40,my place is as high as yours
in this great desert.

00:06:40,147 --> 00:06:44,Only I wander, and you sit still.

00:06:44,403 --> 00:06:46,I conquer, and you endure.

00:06:46,995 --> 00:06:48,I work and wonder.

00:06:49,043 --> 00:06:50,You watch and wait.

00:06:51,955 --> 00:06:55,Sphinx, you and I...
strangers to the race of men...

00:06:55,700 --> 00:06:58,are no strangers to one another.

00:06:58,163 --> 00:07:02,Have I not been conscious of you
and of this place since I was born?

00:07:02,227 --> 00:07:04,Rome is a madman's dream.

00:07:05,811 --> 00:07:09,This is my reality.

00:07:10,195 --> 00:07:13,My way hither was the way of destiny...

00:07:13,267 --> 00:07:16,for I ** he of whose genius
you are the symbol-

00:07:16,275 --> 00:07:19,part brute, part woman...

00:07:20,563 --> 00:07:22,and part god.

00:07:22,675 --> 00:07:24,Nothing of man in me at all.

00:07:26,387 --> 00:07:28,Have I read your riddle, Sphinx?

00:07:28,403 --> 00:07:31,(Woman]
Old gentleman.

00:07:31,379 --> 00:07:33,Immortal gods.

00:07:33,683 --> 00:07:35,Old gentleman, don't run away.

00:07:36,980 --> 00:07:39,"Old gentleman, don't run away"?

00:07:39,891 --> 00:07:42,- This toJulius Caesar?
- Old gentleman.

00:07:47,155 --> 00:07:49,Sphinx, you presume on your centuries.

00:07:49,651 --> 00:07:53,I'm younger than you, though your voice
is but a girl's voice as yet.

00:07:53,747 --> 00:07:56,Climb up here, quickly,
or the Romans will come and eat you.

00:08:00,531 --> 00:08:02,A child at its breast.

00:08:02,771 --> 00:08:05,A divine child.

00:08:05,107 --> 00:08:06,Come up, quickly.

00:08:07,027 --> 00:08:09,You must get up at its side
and creep round.

00:08:13,331 --> 00:08:15,Who are you?

00:08:15,251 --> 00:08:17,Cleopatra, queen of Egypt.

00:08:19,251 --> 00:08:21,Queen of the Gypsies, you mean.

00:08:21,171 --> 00:08:24,You mustn't be disrespectful to me,
or the sphinx will let the Romans eat you.

00:08:24,883 --> 00:08:27,Come up. It's quite cozy here.

00:08:30,515 --> 00:08:32,What a dream.

00:08:32,499 --> 00:08:34,What a magnifiicent dream.

00:08:34,771 --> 00:08:37,Only let me not wake.
(Laughs)

00:08:37,171 --> 00:08:38,Take care.

00:08:40,275 --> 00:08:43,Ah. That's right. Now sit down.

00:08:45,075 --> 00:08:47,You may have the other paw.

00:08:47,763 --> 00:08:49,It is very powerful and will protect us...

00:08:50,003 --> 00:08:52,but it wouldn't take any notice of me
or keep me company.

00:08:52,851 --> 00:08:56,I'm glad you've come.
I was very lonely.

00:08:56,243 --> 00:08:58,Did you happen to see
a white cat anywhere?

00:08:58,323 --> 00:08:59,Have you lost one?

00:09:00,051 --> 00:09:02,Yes. The sacred white cat.
Isn't it dreadful?

00:09:02,867 --> 00:09:04,I brought him here
to sacrifice him to the sphinx.

00:09:04,915 --> 00:09:07,But when we g***t a little way from the city,
a black cat called him...

00:09:07,443 --> 00:09:09,and he jumped out of my arms
and ran away to it.

00:09:10,579 --> 00:09:13,Do you think that the black cat
can have been...

00:09:13,427 --> 00:09:16,my great-great-great-grandmother?

00:09:16,147 --> 00:09:19,Your great-great-great-grandmother?

00:09:19,571 --> 00:09:22,Well,...