5 Minutes of Fluently Spoken Classical Latin

Full Latin Script for your personal study:

Lōrīca segmentāta legiōnāriī Rōmānī

Salvēte, nōbilēs meī, exoptātī revenītis ad canālem meum, hic Metatrōn vōs alloquor.

Hodiē dē Lōrīcā Segmentātā loquēmur.
Per nōmen ipsum incipiēmus. Lōrīca segmentāta. Num sīc vocātur ab antīquīs Rōmānīs?
Prōh dolor, quō pactō rēctē vocārētur hoc lōrīcae genus ā Rōmānīs nēminem scīre cōnstat. Hoc nōmen Lōrīca Segmentāta novātum est ā scholāribus hominibus saeculī sextī decimī.

Tamen, lōrīca segmentāta est ipsissimum genus lōrīcae quod repente in mentem venit quandōcumque cōgitēmus dē mīlitibus Rōmānīs, proptereā quod saepiusculē et ostenditur, nec rārō in modō quī contrā chronologiam rērum gestārum pugnat.
Hic autem est legiōnārius Imperiī Rōmānī quī prīmō ferē saeculō mīlitābat, Gāiō Jūliō Caesare Octāviānō Augustō rēgnante.

Hic vērō mīles Reī Pūblicae, mīlitāns in legiōne Jūliī Caesaris in Galliā.
Vidēlicet Reī Pūblicae legiōnārius lōrīcā segmentātā armātus parum historicus est.

Secundum historicōs, spatium trecentōrum annōrum adhibita est lōrīca segmentāta. Omnibus aliīs saeculīs, lōrīca hāmāta, quae est lōrīca ānellīs ferreīs īnstrūcta, ūsitātior est apud Rōmānōs. Oportet hancce esse imāginem quae ad mentem nostram redeat, neque istam.

Ēn vidēmus lōrīcam segmentātam in praeclārā Columnā Trajānī dēpictam, haec enim columna triumphālis, in Forō Trajānī Rōmae sita, monumentum ibi positum post victōriam ejusdem prīncipis Trajānī victōriam in Bellō Dācō.

Lōrīca quam hīc vidēmus vērō admomum speciōsa est, neque enim accūrātē vērī similem lōrīcam segmentātam repraesentat. Eandem difficlutātem percipimus in galeīs scūtīsque, quae nimis parva sunt, fortassis artis causā. Quamobrem nōn rēctē dēpicta sint suspicor esse propter magnitūdinem, ut exemplum dem, scūtum, quippe quod singula mīlitum operiat.

Crassitūdō lāminārum ferreārum prōrsus variāblis est in ipsā lōrīcā, a septem decimīs partibus mīllimetrōrum ad tria mīllimetra, spississimīs vērō lāminīs ūmerōrum quae pars nīmīrum fortissima est.
Lōrīcae lāminae sunt innexae fībulīs orīchalcī, ānsīs ferrēis lōrīsque scorteīs.

Mea versiō quam hīc vidētis cuprō pūrō ūtitur ad innexūs lāminārum corporis, atque orīchalcō ad ūmerōs et lāminās pectōris.

Pondus ūniversē ā septem ad novem chīliogrammata solet esse, lōrīcā certō mūtātā ad ipsum mīlitem. Lōrīcae fōrma sinit mīlitī magnam facultātem sē movendī.

Propter permulta inventa archaeologica jam compertum habēmus dīversīs fōrmīs praebitam esse lōricam hanc per Imperium Rōmānum, forsitan statibus ēvolūtiōnis hujus lōrīcae. Ita sunt fōrmae, ūna quae Kalkriese vocātur ā nōmine oppidī in Germāniā quō ejus frāgmenta inventa sunt, alia fōrma Corbridge typus A et B, in Britanniā inventa, fōrma Newstead, ex Caledoniā, tandem Alba Jūlia, in Rōmānīā inventa.

Fōrma Kalkriese vērisimiliter ipsa est quā ūtēbantur mīlitēs quī mortuī sunt in proeliō silvae Teutoburgēnsis, duoque genera habēmus, alterum veterius, alterum moderniusculum ac multiplexius.
Fierī quidem potest eam esse inter prīmās fōrmās prōtotypicās.
Fōrma Corbridge prō clausūrae mēchanicā ratiōne lōrōrum scorteōrum cum hāmīs metallicīs, probābiliter vīsa est firmior. Typus A lōra scortea servat ad colligendās lāminās pectorālēs ad reliquam lōrīcam, dum typus B ūtitur hāmīs metallicīs, ceu hīc in meā versiōne vērī similī potestis vidēre, quae est Corbridge typus B.
Ē quadrāgintā lāmīnīs cōnstat haec fōrma. Apparātūs collāris et ūmerōrum cōnstitērunt ē vīgintī quattuor lāminīs, et cingulō sēdecim lāminae.
Frāgmenta fōrmae Newstead quae in puteō prīncipiōrum aedificiī inventa sunt in oppidō Newstead in Caledoniā, iterum nōbīs mōnstrant pauxillō mūtātam fōrmam, jam numerō segmentātōrum minōre, ultimō quidem māximō.

Alba Jūlia est fōrma tarda, vērisimiliter secundō aut tertiō saeculō post Chrīstum. Et illa māximē differt ab aliīs — nempe tardior fōrma — quamquam imāginēs quās hīc vidēmus sunt recōnstrūctiōnēs hypetheticae.

Inter commoda hujus generis lōrīcae ūnum est ejus potestātem prōtegendī legiōnāriī ūmerōs perbene. Oportet
nōn meminisse scūtum Rōmānum, quod est satis magnum, prīmum praesidium est mīlitī, ac sī rēctē adhibēbitur, prōtēctiōnem optimam praebēbit ā sūrā ūsque ad clāviculam.

Bene, nōbilēs meī, spērō fore ut haec pellicula tibi placuerit, et sī ita, mementōte: pollice probandō favendum! Subscrībendumque esse meō canālī ad plūra Metatrōnis, et mementōte: Metatrōn suās ālās pānsit. Valēte.

bros announcing caesar's death on BBC Rome Live

This is so hot

😍🔥

Sounds Italian to me.

He speaks with the pronunciation restituta, not traditional. In Italy you learn Latin with the traditional pronunciation and we Italians are direct descendants of the Romans. 🙂

In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.
Amen.

man this is great

Just wrote my Großes Latinums exam as part of my uni program and it's insane how it actually paid off and I can follow and understand what you're saying without a problem.

Gratias plurimas tibi ago propter hanc pelliculam!

Vowel length could use work

It’s cool to hear the true classical, as opposed to ecclesiastical pronunciation.

every man who considers himself a part of european civilization must know how to read in latin

When this man walks into a room, he declares. "This is Rome now."

Escuchando, puedo comprender bastante de lo que dice y eso es maravilloso!!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉

Please use de Roman Eagle and the SQPR

I am a portuguese native speaker and never studied latin in my life, but understood like 30% or 40% of what you said, sometimes it sounded a lot like portuguese, but then you would start a sentence which sounded completely alien to me.

Desejo aprender Latim. É a língua sagrada da Igreja e melhora o nosso português. O Livro do Napoleão Mendes é o melhor.

My native language is Portuguese and despite only speaking Portuguese and English fluently, I always pay close attention and can get quite a bit of French, Spanish and Italian. It is nice to be able to listen and read the Classic Latin and be able to understand the pronunciation, the silent sound of some consonants like P and V at the beginning of a word and H overall. I will listen a few more times while I read the transcript to see if I’m able to learn and properly read out loud another Classic Latin text. With ChatGPT as a tool it’s easy to get texts in any modern or medieval language but you can’t get the proper pronunciation.

Bene

Wow bellissimo. Ma preferisco il latino ecclesiastico

Testosterone 📈📈📈📈📈📈

It sounds like Italian is the closest of the romance languages to Latin. It make sense since Rome is literally in Italy.

I speak Spanish i understand 60 % or 70%

It’s crazy how much more like Spanish than English Latin sounds like I know it’s a root language of both but it sounds more like Spanish to my ears than like English I can pick out a lot more similar words in Latin here that are nearly unchanged in modern Spanish than anything with English .

learn ancient Latin and you will have a good understanding of all Romance Languages

Finally a decent accent instead of that HIDEOUS pompous English accent while playing Roman characters...

This excellent presentation demonstrates that fluency in spoken Latin is possible and gives hope that the language could be revived.

I learned a bit latin in school and was able to understand a few things here and there. Like it! :)

I enjoy spoken and read Latin. However, this ridiculously staged parody shows alll the obesession of a modern sect for the horrid and "defunctus" Roman empire...

Muchas gracias por este vídeo. Orgulloso de ser hispano que habla una lengua derivada del latín / Gratias tibi valde pro hoc video. Superbum esse Hispanic qui linguam ex Latino desumptam loquitur

As a barbarian, I'm feeling primal fear just hearing him (doesn't matter what he is saying)

Latin is a beautiful language and I loved studying it in high school. Also, as a lawyer of thirty years I point out that in this field, all over the world there are many expressions and adages from Latin which are still used today and are so concise, effective and descriptive that it would take many extra words in English or French or other languages to express the same idea.

An artificial language.

A lot of segmentatums, or similar. Was it compulsory to use the word in each sentence?

Molto imperassis breve eh cortum.

I fell in love with you after listening to you 😘

salvete, omnes !

optime

He’s ai

This is NOT what my latin class at university sounds like 😂😂😂

Yo así quiero hablar no manches hablas genial el latín, impresionante, estoy estudiando de manera autodidacta y me gusta aunque es un tanto complejo, me quiero comprar un libro llamado lingua latina para facilitar mi adquisición de conocimiento, la pronunciación si diría que la tengo como tu quizás una que otra palabra si debo escuchar para imitar pero wow estoy sin palabras para definir lo que sentí al escucharte simplemente impactante.

Wow i speak spanish and can amost catch on to what he is saying.

All I understood was pugnant - fights

I'd love to learn Latin I love how it sounds, im not good at languages though takes me longer than some people.

...pellicula uobis placuerit...

Aquel que diga que el latin es lengua muerta, piensa que las raíces de los árboles están muertas.
He who states that latin is a dead language, thinks that trees ' roots are dead.

¡Pulchra lingue!