Aeneid Book 1.1-7: I Sing of Arms and the Man

[@bertaga41]

Splendid!If only I'd found a teacher like you fifty years ago.

[@mskawamata]

You're amazing. Maximas gratias tibi ago! My students will really benefit from these videos. It's a valuable resource.

[@latintutorial]

Thanks!

[@MrGyges]

I’ll keep going with you while I can. I’m 80 and, like Cato, decided late ( v late ) on to learn a little Latin. You’re a splendid teacher, so thank you

[@mathusq9614]

Been learning Latin little by little for nearly 1 year. I am so excited to have stumbled across this playlist tonight. This will keep things interesting for quite some time I think.

[@ThomasHolz-m3q]

Amazing! This by far exceeds what my children learned in school, where this story was presented in a rather dull and linguistics focussed way.

[@peterpiperthefirst9791]

A masterful introduction to the first few lines of the Aeneid. Thank you - any of your videos is enough to make me a subscriber.

[@PauloRogerioDePinho]

Thank you for explaining. It has so much meaning and is so hard to understand.

[@departlatin]

Opus tuum optimum mihi uidetur et utile. Gratias tibi ago. Vtinam discipuli mei in lingua Anglica explicationes tuas intellegere possint!

[@heartsthekitteh6239]

Post hos annos tres silentiae... cur usus esne litteras "u" at "v" via aliena ista?

[@JamesTrue]

So glad To find this channel. My own little Aeneid into Latin

[@sajateacher]

These videos are awesome, thanks a million. I hope to one day be able to translate some of the mathematician Leonard Euler's works from Latin into English.

[@resgestae7443]

Thankyou for this series! I'm a little bit behind on watching what you have uploaded because I'm trying to catch up with my own Latin study (the never ending struggle) but this is really great.

[@sopheyrac1204]

conderet as establish but also eSTABlish

[@AWSKAR]

Interesting observation

[@MaxLatham]

That is an awesome video LT.

[@latintutorial]

Thanks! There's more to come...

[@geezerdombroadcast]

Well done! I wish my brain was actually capable of processing the challenge. Perhaps in the next life.

[@jadyn6291]

I’m so confused, but in a way that makes me want to learn Latin. Great video!

[@latintutorial]

This video isn't for the novice, but Vergil's Aeneid is brilliant and well worth the effort it takes to learn Latin!

[@barrybaines6915]

Thank you for that excellent explanation.

[@violakelly4381]

I was suffering from my homework until I found your video 😻 thank you so much

[@ryancoster8917]

This will be a great series! I didn't know that so much was captured in the opening lines! Now that I understand it much better thanks to LT I can tell people about it and have a new sense of pride as these 7 lines are my e-mail signature! LT, I just went to the Ara Pacis this past weekend and it would be cool to see something on RES GESTAE or some sort of mini analysis on Augustus!

[@latintutorial]

I'd love to do history, but I haven't found the right muse for that, as they say. It's one thing to think, write, and talk, but another to figure out how to turn it into a video!

[@AcademiadePlaton]

Thank you very much for this. You're the greatest; this should be the way to teach latin. Please, upload a Ovidio's Poem. It's really a shame that there's not a Greek ancient teacher in youtube like you. By the way, I am a Biology student, do you mind telling a text where I can find some help to botanic a zoology nomenclature? Again, please keep going with your work :D

[@TeamMojamRo]

mancia10 look up Benjamin Johnson on KZbin. It's his real name and he did Ovid's Metamorphoses.

[@EvanC0912]

I wonder what is the convention for the capitalization in (modern) Latin texts? Lower case and upper case letters didn't exist in classical Latin era, did they?

[@AMGamers1]

Everything was written in what we would consider upper case back then :) City = Urbe = VRBE The girls food = cibum puellarum = CIBVM PVELLARVM

[@latintutorial]

That's correct. Most modern texts, like the Oxford Classical Texts for prose, follow standard English capitalization rules (beginning of the sentence, proper names). The Cambridge Latin Course only capitalizes proper names, but not the beginning of the sentence. This confuses my kids, especially when they move on to other texts with more standard pronunciation.

[@latintutorial]

That said, I just checked my OCTs for Ovid, and section/stanza beginnings are capitalized, but not the beginning of sentences (or word beginnings for that matter). My prose OCTs do have sentence beginnings capitalized.

[@curtpiazza1688]

Wow! You got a GREAT thing going!

[@DarryanDhanpat]

Greatest work of literature to which all other works should be compared, according to TS Eliot

[@waynedell7637]

Thank you for this! I’ve been trying to read the Aeneid on my own but even using Pharr as a resource, have had trouble sorting through it. For the last line and half - is it correct to think genus, partres and moenia are all accusative/DO of conderet?

[@markwalker8974]

Gorgeous presentation. Outstanding.

[@MagisterCraft]

Well done. Are your intentions to cover the whole book or follow the AP syllabus or some other curriculum?

[@latintutorial]

For now, to cover the AP syllabus in six big installments, hopefully by the end of the year, but more realistically by the end of the school year. I wouldn't mind doing more, and probably will start with the rest of Book 1.

[@el_mundo_ilustrado]

Thank you so much! This is very helpful!

[@Argentarius11]

Great job!!!! Well Done!!!!

[@AWSKAR]

I attend Mass in Latin as a Catholic. Do you think the different nuances in pronunciation between church Latin and Classical Latin can become confusing or are they rather minor differences? It seems to be a small thing but it seems like others make a big deal out of it online.

[@TeamMojamRo]

I used to watch you when you had the old channel!!!

[@lesilluminations1]

I'm hooked.

[@Sasseverk]

I can't wait until I'm good enough to read the aeneid

[@joseantoniobenlopez3240]

Enhorabuena por el vídeo.

[@basvandeven1837]

So I take it you'll be discussing more texts of classical writers (or at least: parts of them)?

[@latintutorial]

Yes, that's the natural extension of this channel. However, the first 80 lines of the Aeneid required a huge time investment. I'm not sure I'll be able to churn them out fast and furiously.

[@ChrisGBaker]

Thank you!!

[@augustosarmentodeoliveira3023]

great, great video! the conderet ambiguity is quite something.

[@arthuro.l.7923]

I've watched videos in which ''multum ille'' was pronounced somewhat like /mult‿ille/. Why is that? Ps: I love your channel!

[@grietlivens2938]

It's called an 'Elisium'. Latin literature was read-aloud that's why it was pronounced fluently. Just like in the French language we don't say 'le elephant' but fuse the last and the first vowel together into one. The Latin language does that too when a word ends with a vowel and the next starts with one. However, in this case, 'multum' and 'ille', multum doesn't end with a vowel but because it was fluent the last part of a word wasn't pronounced either. This only happens when a word ends with a vowel or '-um', '-em'. (and of course 'Multum' we just say 'multum' when it isnt followed by a word beginning with a vowel) I hope you understand :)

[@arthuro.l.7923]

@@grietlivens2938 thank you for clarifying! Where can I read more about it (latin pronunciation in general)?

[@sakthivel244]

you are amazing. gosh.

[@X37BEX]

Awwwwesome plz make more

[@bertaga41]

I remember when I did this at school I was always confused by the use of "cano". Was it sung or does it mean 2recited2 here?

[@latintutorial]

Yes, sing is the more standard word, and poetry was often accompanied by a musical instrument. But it would be wrong to think of them as songs like what Taylor Swift would produce where the music is just as if not more important than the poetry. It’s also wrong to think of them solely as something like what EE Cummings or Robert Frost would make.

[@Bob13Blues]

awesome! Thank you,

[@hpsmash77]

starting on the word "Troiae" and ending on "Romae" was really neat

[@latintutorial]

That Vergil guy seems to be talented…

[@jelmar35]

Awesome!

[@diogokryminice]

Great!

[@ddasic]

Are you sure the 'virum' in question is Odysseus? I was pretty confident Vergil was talking about Aeneas, so I'm kind of confused now.

[@lesilluminations1]

May as well give the Aeneid a try.

[@ianmayes8072]

Troy was not a city, it was the area in which the city of Illium was actually found.

[@IlleMagister]

Those syncopations are always my greatest weakness when reading Latin poetry.

[@Richard-1776]

Awesome

[@c.usonius]

Pius would perhaps be better translated as steadfast or stalwart.

[@latintutorial]

Well, not really. Pietas in the Aeneid reflects Aeneas' devotion to his family, the Trojans he's leading, and the gods themselves. So, perhaps "devoted" would be a good translation for pius.

[@c.usonius]

One, thank you for responding, and two, it can apparently be translated as "duty", "religiosity" or "religious behavior","loyalty", "devotion", or "filial piety". Rather broad meanings, but I always saw it was an emphasis on his duties the most, but really no English word could give full meaning that I can think of.

[@latintutorial]

Yeah, steadfast doesn't quite get the triangle structure of pietas in the Aeneid.

[@c.usonius]

Perhaps dutiful?

[@latintutorial]

Sure!

[@jeffreystevens8042]

Are you supposed to roll your tongue on arma and virumque? Sounds weird man.

[@latintutorial]

+Jeffrey Stevens Sorry, but yes. It sounds better the more you get used to it. The R is the canina littera, the dog letter, because it sounds like a dog's growl.

[@jeffreystevens8042]

Oh ok. Thanks dude.

[@youngzheng8408]

0/10 not enough Grumio

[@hokane2]

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