The “dream of Rome,” yeah, whatever. The dream of Lucius and Ravi, though! Photo: Aidan Monaghan/Paramount Pictures Spoilers follow for Gladiator II , released in theaters on November 22. Gladiator II muffles Paul Mescal and his character, Lucius Verus, in a very heterosexual plot, with every element meant to amp up his obsessed-with-the-Roman-Empire trauma. His wife gets fridged in the opening minutes. His beautiful mother abandoned him as a child, remarried a hot military hero, and then