Spartacus (1960)

Nina Foch: Helena Glabrus

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• Helena Glabrus : [after she has selected the best gladiators to fight to the death]  Our choosing has bored you?

  Batiatus : No, no. No, most exciting. I tingle.

• Batiatus : Marcus Licinius Crassus. Most noble radiance, first general of the Republic, father and defender of Rome, honour my house. Bless it with your presence. Wine! Sweetmeats! Can't you see that Their Honours are exhausted? Have the goodness to sit. Is anything wrong, Your Nobility?

  Marcus Licinius Crassus : No.

  Batiatus : Welcome to the Lady Claudia Maria, former wife of Lucius Caius Marius, whose recent execution touched us all so deeply. Honour to the Lady Helena, daughter of the late Septimus Optimus Glabrus, whose fame shall live on forever in the person of his son, your brother, Marcus Publius Glabrus, hero of the Eastern Wars.

  Helena Glabrus : How very much he knows. Allow me to bring you up to date. We're here to celebrate the marriage of my brother to the Lady Claudia.

  Batiatus : A mating of eagles, Your Sanctity! Fan His Magnitude. He sweats.

• Marcus Licinius Crassus : My young friends desire a private showing of two pairs.

  Batiatus : Two pairs? Oh yes. I think I have something that would - please them.

  Helena Glabrus : Two pairs to the death.

  Batiatus : To the death, Your Ladyship?

  Helena Glabrus : Well, surely you don't think we came all the way to Capua - for gymnastics?

• Helena Glabrus : Of course, we shall want to choose them ourselves. You do have a certain - variety, don't you?

  Batiatus : Yes, inexhaustible.

• Helena Glabrus : If both men are down and refuse to continue to fight your trainer will slit their throats like chickens. We want no tricks.

  Batiatus : Tricks, madam? At the school of Batiatus?

• Helena Glabrus : You will have to watch him, Claudia. Father almost disinherited him because of slave girls.

  Claudia Marius : The marriage contract absolutely forbids a harem - at least under the same roof.

• Claudia Marius : Oh, they're magnificent.

  Batiatus : For you, Lady Helena, may I suggest Praxus? A veritable tiger.

  Helena Glabrus : I don't like him. I prefer that one.