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Caesar's heroes: The true story of Pullo and Vorenus | Video in Latin

Achieve true reading fluency in Latin with the Legentibus app combining audio with synchronized text, for all levels, with e.g. beginner stories, "Familia Romana," Ritchie's "Fabulae faciles", Tacitus, and Cicero. 📲 https://link-to.app/legentibus ______________________________ This is the captivating tale of Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus, two centurions in the 11th Legion under Quintus Tullius Cicero, Cicero’s brother. Although made famous in modern times by the HBO series Rome, Caesar had already given them immortal fame in book 5 of De Bello Gallico. Julius Caesar paints a vivid picture in his "De Bello Gallico" of these rivals constantly vying for superiority. But when the Roman camp is suddenly attacked, they each get the opportunity to prove their true worth. Watch now to see who comes out on top. 📜 Julius Caesar | De Bello Gallico, book 5 chapter 44 🎞️ SUBTITLES Latin and English subtitles are available. Read/listen to the original text from De Bello Gallico about Pullo and Vorenus: https://youtu.be/XbN8gwIHu84 Learn more about Julius Caesar: https://latinitium.com/2000-years-of-latin-prose-caesar/ ______________________________ CHAPTERS 00:00:00 Intro: Epic Battle 00:00:05 A Roman Legion Endangered 00:00:12 Unexpected help 00:00:27 War in Gaul 00:00:41 The Nervii Strike 00:00:58 Q. Cicero, Cicero's overwhelmed brother 00:01:50 Two Centurions Contend 00:02:32 Pullo Boldly Attacks 00:03:47 Vorenus Rescues Pullo 00:04:14 Pullo and Vorenus Triumph 00:05:20 Caesar Undecided ______________________________ ABOUT US The best way to learn Latin is to read and listen as much as you can right from the beginning! LATINITIUM is a modern platform that continuously develops learning resources for Latin students, autodidacts, and teachers: 🌐 LATINITIUM: blog, texts, audio, dictionaries, tools…: https://latinitium.com/ 📲 Legentibus I Digital Latin Audio and Ebook Library: https://link-to.app/legentibus 📚 Discover Latin stories and novellas in our traditional store I Pugio Bruti, Ad Alpes, Fabulae Gallicae: https://store.latinitium.com/ 🎯 Learn Latin and support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/latinitium 📩 Sign-up for tips, news, and learning material: https://latinitium.com/email FOLLOW US: 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/latinitium 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/latinitium/ ⏩ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/latinitium

3138 views • Jan 31, 2023


Statua et Thesaurus | A story in Latin for beginners from Legentibus

This is a story in Latin for beginners that I wrote based on a medieval legend about Pope Sylvester II, also known as Gerbert of Aurillac. It is a story that in true Indiana Jones’ style bring us in the dead of night to the Martian Field – Campus Martius – in Rome in search of a strange statue – and hidden treasure. (Oh, and did I mention the golden robots?!) I hope you’ll enjoy it! The unique word count for this story is 145 with a total word count of 800 words. ⏱ Use TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Statua et Thesaurus – The statue and the treasure 0:10 Chapter I – Gerbert reads a book 1:00 Chapter II – Nightly search for the statue 2:39 Chapter III – Gerbert discovers strange markings on the statue 4:32 Chapter IV – Gerbert has an epiphany 5:47 Chapter V – Gerbert places a stake and utters magical words 7:16 Chapter VI – The king and the queen 9:29 Chapter VII – The theft 10:38 Chapter VIII – The golden chase The story is part of the subscription for the app Legentibus, where you will also find an interlinear translation in English available, along with more commentaries, source texts and resources. 📜 Written by Daniel Pettersson | Based on: William of Malmesbury and Alberic of Trois-Fontaine. The best way to learn Latin is to read and listen as much as you can right from the beginning. 📲 Legentibus I Digital Latin Audio and Ebook Library: https://link-to.app/legentibus LATINITIUM is a modern platform that continuously develops learning resources for Latin students, autodidacts, and teachers. 🌐 LATINITIUM: blog, texts, audio, dictionaries, tools…: https://latinitium.com/ 📚 Discover Latin stories and novellas in our traditional store I Pugio Bruti, Ad Alpes, Fabulae Gallicae: https://store.latinitium.com/ 🎯 Learn Latin and support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/latinitium 📩 Sign-up for tips, news, and learning material: https://latinitium.com/email FOLLOW US: 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/latinitium 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/latinitium/ ⏩ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/latinitium

5291 views • Jan 5, 2023


Should you use archaic language? | A lesson from the "Attic Nights" | Latin with English subtitles

Should you use rare and old words in speech? What is considered "old" in Latin? In this lesson, Daniel reads and explains a passage from Aulus Gellius. A young man is scolded by the philosopher Favorinus for using archaic language... Aulus Gellius was a Roman author and grammarian, educated in Athens. He is famous for his compilation of notes on grammar, philosophy, history and various other subjects. It preserved fragments of works that might otherwise be unknown today. Daniel Pettersson explains Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 1.10.pr.1 🪶 Other quotes, and mentions: Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina 7.28.3 Gaius Iulius Caesar, De analogia Download Legentibus: 📲 https://link-to.app/legentibus ⏱️ Use TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 0:36 Who is Aulus Gellius? 1:18 Lesson Beginning 3:26 Let's read and understand 3:45 What does "compellare" mean? 4:02 How old is the word "casce"? Varro explains the origins of "cascum" 5:23 Who is Favorinus? What makes the philosopher angry? 6:52 What does "expromenti" mean? 7:45 The way "man of the olden days" talked Curius, Fabricius, Coruncanius, Horatii. 9:41 What would a talk with Evander's mother look like? 10:51 You don't want others to understand you! 12:00 The power of silence. 13:00 The modesty, sobriety and temperance in the old days... "Live according to the manners of the past, but speak in the language of the present." 14:00 Remember the words of Gaius Caesar "On Analogy" 15:43 Conclusion 🎞️ SUBTITLES Latin and English subtitles. ______________________________ TRANSLATIONS used in this video: - Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, translated by J. C. Rolfe, available at: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Gellius/1*.html - Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina, translation by Roland G. Kent, available at: http://www.attalus.org/info/varro.html ______________________________ ABOUT US The best way to learn Latin is to read and listen as much as you can right from the beginning! LATINITIUM is a modern platform that continuously develops learning resources for Latin students, autodidacts, and teachers. 🌐 LATINITIUM: blog, texts, audio, dictionaries, tools…: https://latinitium.com/ 📲 Legentibus I Digital Latin Audio and Ebook Library: https://link-to.app/legentibus 📚 Discover Latin stories and novellas in our traditional store I Pugio Bruti, Ad Alpes, Fabulae Gallicae: https://store.latinitium.com/ 🎯 Learn Latin and support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/latinitium 📩 Sign-up for tips, news, and learning material: https://latinitium.com/email FOLLOW US: 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/latinitium 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/latinitium/ ⏩ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/latinitium

3735 views • Dec 22, 2022


Lesson in Latin | The true cause of Rome's might?

How did Rome become an empire? We learn it from Valerius Maximus, one of the most copied Latin prose authors during the Middle Ages. Maximus was a 1st-century Latin writer who left us "Nine books of memorable deeds and sayings", an interesting collection of historical anecdotes. The one we chose for this video is about the pious theft that made Rome great. 📑 Valerius Maximus I Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX, 7. 3 Find more literature, sources, stories, and Latin audio and reading learning material in Legentibus: 📲 https://link-to.app/legentibus ⏱️ Use TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Lesson Introduction 0:26 About Valerius Maximus 1:50 Pious Theft: Reading of the passage 3:33 Lesson Beginning 3:46 Who is Servius Tullius? A note about ablative absolute. 4:39 Where and to whom was the mighty cow born? A note about dative. 5:45 What is "vacca" and why is this one special? A note about genitive of quality. 7:33 Oracles and oracle interpreters 9:21 The true meaning of the cow's birth: Diana's temple, Aventine Hill and the sacrifice 10:13 The meaning of the sacrifice 11:16 The haste, the drive, and the cow's destiny! 12:09 How was the cow presented in the temple? A note about how to write as a Roman. 14:00 How Sabines became rulers of the world. Almost. A note about future participle. 15:54 The meaning of "antistes". How a Roman priest changed the course of history. 18:46 How to distinguish "furtum" (theft) from "pium furtum" (pious theft). 🎞️ SUBTITLES Latin and English subtitles are available. ______________________________ ABOUT US The best way to learn Latin is to read and listen as much as you can right from the beginning! LATINITIUM is a modern platform that continuously develops learning resources for Latin students, autodidacts, and teachers: 🌐 LATINITIUM: blog, texts, audio, dictionaries, tools…: https://latinitium.com/ 📲 Legentibus I Digital Latin Audio and Ebook Library: https://link-to.app/legentibus 📚 Discover Latin stories and novellas in our traditional store I Pugio Bruti, Ad Alpes, Fabulae Gallicae: https://store.latinitium.com/ 🎯 Learn Latin and support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/latinitium 📩 Sign-up for tips, news, and learning material: https://latinitium.com/email FOLLOW US: 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/latinitium 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/latinitium/ ⏩ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/latinitium

3932 views • Dec 7, 2022


Dangerous hospitality | Latin story based on Cicero

Who would have thought a short passage from Cicero could turn into a thrilling story about greed, murder, guilt and innocence...? We use literature to create compelling stories and teach Latin. 📽️ Daniel Pettersson explains: Cicero, De Inventione, 2.14 I Lesson in Latin In our Legentibus app 📲, the Cicero passage has served as the source for an original story in easy Latin called "Iter periculosum". 🔪"Iter periculosum" ("A dangerous journey") is one of the app's innumerable read-alongs, ranging from beginner stories in Latin, through textbooks and readers, all the way to Latin literature. Each text is with macrons. Audio versions are with adjustable speeds. The help comes with interlinear translation (ON/OFF), illustrations, commentary, source text with translation, and more. The path to reading fluency is safe.👇 Check the app for FREE for 3 days: 📲 https://link-to.app/legentibus ⏱️ Use TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 How safe can a journey be 0:22 I will tell you a horrible story (sorry) 0:45 "Itur ad mercatum" 2:37 "Auri sacra fames" 6:16 "Histrio versutus" 7:25 The moral of the story 7:48 What else can we learn from Cicero? 8:18 Like, share, subscribe, and support us! Thank you for watching! 🎞️ SUBTITLES Latin and English subtitles are available. For the English translation of used passages in the video, we've used a translation by C. D. Yonge ------------------------------------------ ✒️ Other LATIN QUOTES in the video: [LA] “Nescis quid serus vesper vehat." [EN] "You know not what the late evening may bring." -- Varro [LA] "Brevitas autem conficitur simplicibus verbis semel una quaque re dicenda." -- Cicero [EN] "Brevity is achieved by expressing each separate idea once, in simple terms." -- Cicero ----------------------------------------- The best way to learn Latin is to read and listen as much as you can right from the beginning. LATINITIUM is a modern platform that continuously develops learning resources for Latin students, autodidacts, and teachers: 📲 Legentibus I Digital Latin Audio and Ebook Library: https://link-to.app/legentibus 🌐 LATINITIUM: blog, texts, audio, dictionaries, tools…: https://latinitium.com/ 📚 Discover Latin stories and novellas in our traditional store I Pugio Bruti, Ad Alpes, Fabulae Gallicae: https://store.latinitium.com/ 🎯 Learn Latin and support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/latinitium 📩 Sign-up for tips, news, and learning material: https://latinitium.com/email FOLLOW US: 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/latinitium 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/latinitium/ ⏩ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/latinitium

2223 views • Nov 30, 2022


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