Tiberius and Caesar in “Separate Paths”

I have had my fill of you questioning every word that falls from my tongue!

Then break them with more fucking sense! We cannot turn from Rome!

We shall turn in whatever direction my father decides.

Then aid him in proper choice, not one you believe he seeks to hear.

I follow my own desires.

As you did when you forced yourself upon Kore? [Tiberius is speechless.] The night your father reclaimed Sinuessa? I warned you your deed would fall to discovery.

You'd fabricate lies now? To see me-?

The game is over, boy! The whore Kathara tells of how you came from Kore's tent, of finding her roughly used. She was made to promise never to reveal what her eyes laid upon, but I can be very, very persuasive.

You'd risk all on the tale of a woman who swallows cock for coin? [Caesar laughs.]

I have made more uncertain wages in years past - and yet here I stand.

Then why have you not yet told him?!

He has been pushed to brink of madness by imagined betrayal. I would not see him forced over precipice by truth of harsher realities!

What would you have of me?

What you have already been asked - you have your father's ear. Bring him to reason, breaking words as I command - [Caesar is interrupted when Tiberius smashes in his face with a jug of wine.]

I DO NOT TAKE COMMAND FROM YOU! [Caesar chokes Tiberius.]

You should have accepted offer, boy - your father nearly saw you to end in decimation, perhaps he shall see fate to completion when he hears what you have done! [Tiberius's men enter and attack Caesar.]

Seize him! [The men hold Caesar down on the table.] You shall never lay hands upon me again! Nor whisper lies against me!

You cannot take my life - and see my body from encampment - absent notice! I am Julius fucking Caesar!

[to men] Hold him against table. [to Caesar] You are of same cloth as Metellus, and must be taught severest lesson in who towers above you! [proceeds to rape him.] Speak of what you know to anyone, and I shall spin tale of mighty Caesar taken like a woman.