Macrinus The best revenge is to become unlike the one who did the injury. I have made myself unlike... your father; he spoke of dreams, I speak of truth. And the only truth in my Rome is the law of the strongest. I was owned by an emperor. Now I control an Empire. Where else but in Rome can a man do that? Macrinus I shall deliver them Caracalla's head and the people shall acclaim me. That, my friend, is politics. Lucilla This ring belonged to Maximus. I now give it to you. What is the dream of Rome, if its people are not free?