The showrunner, Steven S. DeKnight, crafted a unique linguistic register. It is not Latin; it is "Spartacus-English." It is Shakespearean iambic pentameter crushed by a barbarian’s fist. Phrases like "Jupiter’s cock!" or "I will rain shit upon you from on high" are not vulgarities; they are liturgical invocations.

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