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And what is Rome, Maximus?

4 seconds sound clip from the Gladiator (2000) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:25:15 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Well, Maximus, talk.

- Five thousand of my men are out there in the freezing mud. Three thousand of them are bloodied and cleaved. Two thousand will never leave this place.

- I will not believe that they fought and died for nothing.

- And what would you believe?

- They fought for you and for Rome.

- And what is Rome, Maximus?

- I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark. Rome is the light.

- Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become.

- I am dying, Maximus.

- When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.

- How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant? Or will I be the Emperor who gave Rome back her true self?

[...]

Gladiator (2000) Sound Clip

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Famous quotes and memorable lines from the movie Gladiator (2000), featuring short audio clips in wav or mp3 format which can be used as ringtones.

Actors: Russell Crowe (Maximus Decimus Meridius), Joaquin Phoenix (Commodus), Richard Harris (Marcus Aurelius), Oliver Reed (Proximo), Connie Nielsen (Lucilla), Derek Jacobi (Senator Gracchus), Djimon Hounsou (Juba)

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