Quo Vadis (1951)

Marina Berti: Eunice

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• Eunice : Don't give me away, my lord. Whip me, beat me, but don't send me from here. Don't send me from you, my lord.

• Petronius : Give her five lashes for impertinence.

  Eunice : You won't give me away, then, lord?

  Petronius : That depends on your future conduct.

  Eunice : Oh, yes. Yes, my good lord.

  Petronius : Ply the lash carefully, now. Don't damage her skin.

• Petronius : Is not love a madness?

  Eunice : Do not ask me, lord. I am among the mad.

  Petronius : You love someone?

  Eunice : It was once prophesied by an old woman that both pain and happiness would visit me.

  Petronius : That's a safe prophesy about any human.

  Eunice : She spoke a rhyme, in which she said my true fate was hidden.

  Petronius : Well?

  Eunice : Anon shall Venus rise, From out the violet Roman sea, And bear two lovers in her arms, Towards eternity

• Petronius : I sense a fresh preoccupation in Nero. For some time now, he has avoided me.

  Eunice : My lord is troubled?

  Petronius : A doubled guard and yesterday Tigellinus and a squadron of his butchers left for Rome. I feel a strange and heavy breeze.