罗马帝国：鲜血的统治（2016）

他很容易受摆布
He is easily manipulated.
容易受到周围各种团体的摆布
He's easily manipulated by the various groups around him.
他没有行使身为皇帝的领导权
And rather than taking a leadership position as the Emperor,
而是让自己被领导
he allows himself to be led.
被抛在一旁
He allows himself to be put aside.
他让克林德这样的人掌握领导权
And he allows individuals like Cleanderto take up a leadership position.
再倒
More.
康茂德 时候不早了
Commodus, it's late.
坐在这里整晚喝酒对你不好
It's not good for you to sit here drinking all night...
我知道世事很难 但这不会…
I know it's been difficult, but this isn't going--
够了
Done! Just...
够了
Enough.
跟我上♥床♥睡吧
Just come to bed with me.
目的何在？
And what would be the purpose of that?
你就那一点职责
You have one job,
却还是让我失望
and you have failed me...
一次又一次
again and again.
告诉我 亲爱的妻子
Tell me, dear wife,
我的儿子呢？
where is my son?
玛西亚 麻烦你收拾我丈夫的烂摊子
Please Marcia, clean up my husband's mess.
克丽丝碧娜未生育任何孩子
Crispina didn't produce any children.
女人要做的不是保持性感
What a woman had to do was not be sexually attractive,
而是必须传宗接代
but she must be able to have children.
她必须生儿子
She must produce sons.
生孩子是她的首要任务
Provided she did that, that was her main task.
如果她没有生子 问题可能会变得很严重
If she didn't do that,then that was potentially quite serious.
随着康茂德越发不理朝政
As Commodus grows furtherdetached from his role as Emperor,
克林德开始巩固自己的权力
Cleander begins to consolidate his power.
要想理解康茂德皇帝的角色
One of the most important figures
克林德是关键人物之一
for understanding the role of the Emperor Commodus
克林德是深受康茂德信任的
Cleander was the second freedman
第二个自♥由♥民
that Commodus put enormous trust in.
康茂德对治理国事
And Commodus had checked out at this point
不怎么感兴趣
and was not interested in the serious business of governing.
因此克林德尤其要
So what happens is Cleander,
寻求更丰满的羽翼
in particular we're told, sought to enrich himself.
随着权力得到加强
With his power cemented,
克林德能够实施终极计划
Cleander can set in motion his ultimate plan.
他决心赢得罗马人♥民♥的支持
Determined to win favoramong the Roman people,
以及大肆敛财
and amass a fortune of his own,
克林德开始出♥售♥帝国的高阶职位
Cleander begins selling offhigh-ranking positions in the Empire...
从罗马元老院的席位开始
starting with seats in the Roman Senate.
有要事吗 狄奥？
Something the matter, Dio?
我从来没听过元老院如此安静
I have never heard the Senate so silent.
我不太喜欢这种安静
I wouldn't enjoy it too much.
毕竟这是背叛的声音 -或缺席的声音
It's the sound of betrayal, after all. -Or the absence of it.
少数和你我一样忠诚的人 这样说应该没错吧？
For these few who remain are as loyal as you and I, are they not?
也许吧
Perhaps,
可是智者知道 看事情不能只看表面
but wise men know things are not always as they appear.
你所言极是 克林德
You speak the truth, Cleander.
你的成就令人刮目相看
You know, it really is quite impressive, all you've accomplished,
你还能继续建功立业 我毫不怀疑
and there is much more to come, I have no doubt.
不过现在 元老院的事务 需要我们这些原有的智者
But for now, the business of the Senate awaits us old wise men.
你忘了 狄奥
You forget yourself, Dio.
并非所有成员都在这里
Not all of the Senate are here.
通过除去以前的成员
By removing the old guard,
向盟友出♥售♥席位
and selling seats to his allies,
克林德确保了元老院的忠诚
Cleander has securedthe Senate's loyalty...
同时打破了
and has disturbedthe balance of an institution
一个统治将近700年的机构的平衡
that has governed for nearly 700 years.
自从共和国建立以来
Since the founding of the republic,
元老院的席位一直为精英保留
seats of the Senatehave been reserved for the elite.
按照传统 进入元老院
Traditionally, to be in the Senate
意味着占据了罗马最顶层的社会地位
was to attain the very pinnacle of status within the Roman state.
元老院的名字源自拉丁文“老人”
It took its namefrom the Latin for "old man", senex.
它代表着城市的精华
It embodied the greatand the good of the city.
只有家族世代皆为元老的人 才有资格入选
Only those from Senate lineage are eligible for service.
要成为罗马元老
To be a Senator in Rome,
你的父亲必须是元老 很大程度上 这是世袭的
your father had to be a Senator. So it was largely hereditary.
卡西乌斯狄奥本来是元老 后来成为执政官
Cassius Dio, he was a Senatorand later a consul,
他的父亲曾是元老
and his father had been a Senator.
所以他来自罗马社会的贵族阶级
So he's very much from thearistocratic part of Roman society.
控制了元老院之后
With the Senate in his pocket,
克林德把眼光投向了罗马人♥民♥
Cleander now looks to the Roman people,
他相信要获得他们的支持 只有一个办法
and believes there's only one wayto guarantee their support.
克林德知道庶民 是帝国中一股不可忽视的力量
Cleander knows the massesare a powerful force in the Empire.
他可以通过威胁粮食供应
and he can solidify their dependence,
加强他们的信任 赢得他们的支持
and gain their favor, by threatening their food supply.
数世纪以来 帝国的生存依靠进口的粮食
For centuries, the survival of the Empirehas depended on imported grain.
罗马城的人口大约超过了一百万
The city of Rome was probably over one million people strong.
按照工业革命以前的标准 这是一座巨大的城市
It's an enormous city by preindustrial standards.
因此他们从北非 尤其是埃及
Because of that,they ship huge quantities of grain in
运输的粮食数量相当惊人
from North Africaand above all, from Egypt,
粮食被分发给每个罗马市民
and they give it to every Roman citizen.
发放的粮食
It probably accounts for something like
占家庭每年所需食物的四至五成
40 or 50 percent of the family food requirement in each year.
所以身为罗马市民 这是一项非常重要的福利
So it's a very significant perk of being a Roman citizen.
可是在罗马
But in Rome,
粮食不仅是填饱人♥民♥肚子的食物
grain does more than just feed the people.
掌权者利用规定份额和粮食短缺
As those in powerhave used rations and shortages...
维持对底层阶级的控制
to keep control of the lower classes.
罗马的发展无法匹配居民的粮食需求
Rome had vastly outgrown the capacity to feed those who lived in it.
于是野心勃勃的罗马政客逐渐认识到
So, ambitious Roman politicians had begun to recognize
向城中大量平民
that a way to entrench power
发放救济的面包
was to provide the mass of common citizens in the city
是巩固权力的一种方法
with a bread dole.
如果他们不向罗马人♥民♥提供面包
But if they did not supply breadto the Roman people,
他们自己将面临生存危机
then their own survival might well be at stake.
克林德决心赢得罗马人♥民♥的支持
Determined to gainthe favor of the Roman people,
于是想出了一个缜密的计划
Cleander devises a sophisticated plan.
他相信如果自己能控制粮食供给
He believes if he canmanipulate the grain supply,
就能在罗马制♥造♥一场食物危机
he can create a food crisis in Rome.
把这个给元老院
Take this to the Senate.
在克林德眼中
Cleander looks at his position
他的地位是谋求权力 赢得民心的一种手段
as a way for him to gain his own power and gain his own popularity.
当然有流言说克林德囤积粮食
The rumors being of course that Cleandertakes stores of food and keeps them,
故意在城中制♥造♥饥荒
and then purposely creates a famine within the city
趁机以英雄之姿挺身而出
so that he can come out as the hero,
赢得人♥民♥的支持
and popular among the people.
就在克林德继续谋求权力的时候
While Cleander continueshis campaign for power,
康茂德重现鲁莽冲动的一面
Commodus returns to his reckless ways.
玛西亚是罗马皇宫的一名奴隶
Marcia is a slave in the royal palace.
然而在吸引了皇帝的目光之后
But after catching the eye of the Emperor,
她摇身一变 成为他的私人女佣和情妇
she becomeshis personal servant and mistress,
在罗马被称为妾
known in Rome as a concubine.
在宫殿里
In the palace,
皇帝可以选择有魅力的奴隶
the Emperor has his choiceof attractive slaves...
仆人供皇帝随时取乐
servants available for pleasureday and night.
总而言之
To be sure, Emperors, by and large,
皇帝想和多少人上♥床♥都行
slept with as many people as they wanted, used as many people as they wanted.
只要对方不是公民的身份
Provided that they were notof citizen status.
罗马法律规定
There was a provisionin Roman law that
不仅是皇帝 任何罗马人都能纳妾
any Roman, not just an Emperor, could indeed have a concubine.
在罗马法律中 妾是一种地位
Concubinage was a status under Roman law,
然而康茂德对待玛西亚的方式 非常招摇
but it was less commonfor an Emperor to do it
对皇帝来说很少见
quite as openlyas Commodus took Marcia.
虽然玛西亚陪伴皇帝的时间越来越多
But while Marcia beginsspending more time with the Emperor,
她依然是皇宫的仆人
she's still a servant in the palace...
还有其丈夫埃克莱克图斯
alongside her husband, Eclectus.
我以为你今晚工作已经做完了
Hey, I thought you were done for the night.