Simonides.
Now listen to me, all of you. You are all condemned men. We keep you alive to serve this ship. So row well, and live.
Persuade your people that their resistance to Rome is stupid. It is worse than stupid, futile!
Doctor: We cannot wait, Tribune.Messala: He will come.Doctor: We cannot wait any longer, Tribune!Messala: He will come! He will come. I have sent for him, and he will come!Doctor: If you wish us to keep you alive, we have to go to work now, Tribune. Do you understand?Messala: Cut the legs off me... Not yet. Not till I've seen him. I can't receive him with half a body!Messala: NO!Messala: I told you, Drusus; I told you! There he is.Messala: Triumph c... triumph complete, Judah. The race won, the enemy destroyed.Judah Ben-Hur: I see no enemy.Messala: What do you think you see? The smashed body of a wretched animal? There's enough of a man still left here for you to hate. Let me help you.Messala: You think they're dead, your mother and sister? Dead, and the race over? It isn't over, Judah. They're not dead.Judah Ben-Hur: Where are they?Judah Ben-Hur: Where are they? WHERE ARE THEY?Messala: Look... look for them... in the Valley... of the Lepers! If you can recognize them!Messala: It goes on. It goes on, Judah. The race... the race... is not... over!
