There's a joke among the soldiers here about Timonides. They say: Ask Timonides what day is it, and he will lecture you on the history of the calendar.
7 seconds sound clip from the The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:06:35.796 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- As you predicted. I congratulate you, Timonides.
- Well, in order to answer that question, one must consider three aspects of the situation.
- One, our emperor has been at the wars for 17 years, and lived under very difficult conditions.
- Two, no one could ever describe Marcus Aurelius as a robust man.
- You are well, my lord Caesar.
- It seems that every governor, every king in the whole empire is waiting in the valley below.
- Tell me of your last campaign in these barbarian forests.
- Two or three times, we thought we had Balimar, their leader, but each time he was able to get away.
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Actors: Alec Guinness (Marcus Aurelius), Christopher Plummer (Commodus), Sophia Loren (Lucilla), Stephen Boyd (Livius), James Mason (Timonides)
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