Acacius Defies the Emperors: 'Everything is forgotten in time.'
from Gladiator 2
Written by David Scarpa, Peter Craig
General Acacius stands bloodied but defiant before the twin Emperors Geta and Caracalla after his failed insurrection is revealed. He mocks the fleeting nature of their power and the inevitability of their downfall, even as the Emperors sentence him and Lucilla to a brutal public execution.
GETA: Your name and deeds will be forgotten, lost to history. You are damned to oblivion.
ACACIUS: You damn me? I don’t care. Everything is forgotten in time. Empires fall. So do Emperors.
CARACALLA: Why wait? I'll gut him right now --
GETA: Brother! Brother! His death must be public.
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