(Crowd screaming at each other) (Gavel being pounded)
(Repetitive squeak of duck being swinging back and forth)
Messenger, you may enter, but this better not be more bad news
Uh, Em, Emp, Emperor, the senators cannot be quieted.
They refuse to approve two requests at once.
I just told you that I am done with bad news!
I will speak when I am ready, now get out of my sight.
(Door creaks open) The senators refuse to grant me two wishes
at once.
Should I request that my son Asverus rule after me, or should I make your Jewish city
of Tiberias into an official Roman colony?
Ahh, I see.
I will my appoint my son, who will make Tiberias a colony under his own reign.
(Birds chirping) On a more pressing note, how do you think
I should deal with those damn Roman elites?
They think their money makes them emperors or something.
Perfect, so I will simply kill them one at a time, and the pompous remainder will know
who's the boss.
(Coins being loaded into bags) You insolent slave!
Follow me immediately, and bring that wheat back.
Slave, you will never speak of this encounter to anyone!
Oh, you think you don't need my wealth?
I have plenty You may be a rich man, but one day your sons
will need this gold to pay tribute to my sons when we're both dead and gone.
What is he doing here?!
I told you no one was supposed to be here when I came to visit!
Don't worry, you can trust him I don't care who he is, I said no one.
Step onto my hands to get into bed It is not proper to degrade the emperor so
much.
If only I could assist you in the world to come...
Will I go into the world to come?
Yes.
Even a Roman Emperor has a place in our world to come when he treats the Jews as well as
you have.
Yes, my friend.