Seneca on time || Lucius Annaeus Seneca, epistulae ad Lucilium 1 || Easy Latin reading

[@SaturaLanx]

Salve! If you liked this easy Latin reading on Seneca's letter ad Lucilium, know that you can download the PDF text of this reading here: pages.saturalanx.eu/satura-la... In the PDF, you'll find this same version of the text and two more advanced versions. The third and last one is the original, unsimplified text by Seneca.

[@phersum]

Eccellente video! Vorrei sapere se questo pdf o altri siano ancora disponibili per il download e dove. Grazie, bravissima

[@SaturaLanx]

@@phersum grazie mille, Stefano! Questo è scaricabile dal link sotto il video, no? Mi sembra funzionare... In ogni caso, tra poco più di una settimana terrò un corso gratuito e approfondito proprio su questo testo, durante il quale darò questo ed altri pdf. Se vuoi partecipare ti aspetto qui: pages.saturalanx.eu/ttne-registration/

[@phersum]

@@SaturaLanx grazie per la veloce risposta. Riproverò, può darsi che il pc faccia scherzi, grazie ancora e complimenti

[@ryam4632]

Excellent, as always! Thank you very much.

[@keegandunn3815]

Mirabile visu! Nonnumquam volui aliquem facere pelliculas (vel acroamata) hoc in modo. Placet et iuvat audire magistram optimam viva voce loqui de textis magni momenti. Saepe velim legere Senecam et alios sed nimis difficiles nunnumquam mihi videntur. Sed nunc te docente textum eius verum appropinquare possum! Spero ut plus huiusmodi facias! Gratias!

[@SaturaLanx]

Gratias, o amice! Gaudeo quod tibi placuit haec schola ac effecit ut textus cominus inspiceres. Hoc est quod maxime mihi propono, ut litteras Latinas omnibus perspicuas faciam. Certe plura faciam huius generis. Valeatis tu, familia tua et infans nasciturus!

[@DaniCGlez]

Hi, Ειρήνη! Thank you a lot for these useful videos! I am a former student of Latin in High School currently teaching Latin and classic Greek to young students, helping them pass official exams with flying colours (I hope so!). I'm so proud of my High School teacher (Raúl), who taught me not only the 'rudimenta' of this wonderful language, but also inspired me to love and respect the timeless heritage of the Classic culture. This is what I'm precisely trying to inculcate into my students every day. Salve ex Hispania! Multas gratias tibi ago!

[@SaturaLanx]

Salve Daniel, gratias plurimas! I'm happy to read that you had such an amazing teacher, and I also owe much of my passion for Latin and teaching to one of my high school teachers. Vivant boni magistri bonaeque magistrae!

[@marcvsmcmlxxiii]

¡Maravilloso! Infinitas gracias por enseñar esta tan poderosa y universal lengua. Saludos desde Chile.

[@SaturaLanx]

Gratias plurimas! Te ex Italia saluto!

[@sebyperion]

Guau, entendí casi al 100%. En resumen, el tiempo es oro. Sos una genia, Irene, saludos desde Buenos Aires. 😃

[@SaturaLanx]

Euge, tibi congratulor!! Gratias plurimas, Sebastiane!

[@Ryan_Kaufman]

This is so good and helpful! perfect for where I am at in my Latin. Thank you!

[@antoniosilva9711]

Magna magistra!!!

[@esmeekalila5188]

Hello ! Thank you so much for your wonderful work ! I’m very partial to your podcasts, but this format is just excellent to learn Latin : the combination of hearing you speak, seeing your facial expressions and gestures, and having an actual text is marvelous. If you want to do more, I’ll be delighted to see them ! Love from Paris.

[@SaturaLanx]

Hi Esmée, thank you for your appreciation and feedback! I agree with you that this format is very useful and I know it's appreciated, I will try to do more of this kind - the problem is they require lots of time, and I don't have as much as I would like to have these days... but more will come in the future! Have you already downloaded this reading of Catullus? It's the same format: pages.saturalanx.eu/catullus-carme/

[@marnijay2486]

Thank you so much for your work! I am a beginner in Latin after years of wanting to learn, and I'm very interested in Stoic philosophy too. I love that you have simplified Seneca's text to make it comprehensible even for me! It is a pleasure to listen to you.

[@SaturaLanx]

Oh thanks, Marni! I am really glad that you were able to understand this text being a beginner! I don't know much of the "modern" Stoicism, but for what I could read in ancient texts, it is really interesting indeed - one cannot believe that things written so long ago are still so meaningful for us 21th century humans...

[@ordinarryalien]

@@SaturaLanx Meanwhile in ancient Rome, Marcus Aurelius: I wonder if the things written today will still be so meaningful for 21th century humans?..

[@juniusrabbinius211]

Bene explicavisti! Sescentes gratias tibi ago, magistra, quod nobis tempus tuum dans!

[@SaturaLanx]

Gratias tibi reddo, o Junii!

[@CedricAyres]

I'm not even going to dare writing in Latin, but I loved it! This is one of my favorite letters. Thank you!

[@SaturaLanx]

Thanks, Cedric! You should dare, instead. ;-) I love this letter too, Seneca is my favorite prose author.

[@matteoceporina6368]

At enim sunt quaedam in libris eius scite dicta, graviter quoque non nulla'. Etiam laminae interdum argentiolae cloacis inveniuntur; eane re cloacas purgandas redimemus?

[@paoloscanni5970]

Ti amo ❤

[@juanasanelli6831]

Gratia multa magistra

[@SaturaLanx]

Gratias tibi, discipule!

[@teresaa.1669]

Magnifice dissertavisti, Irene, facile faciendo quod difficile intellegendi est. Gratias plurimas. Ab hac ipsa hora, consilium illius Senecae sequar atque tempus carpam. Cum aetas provecta est, hoc Senecae consilium maximi momenti devenit. Ave atque vale.

[@SaturaLanx]

Gratias, Teresa! Vere memoriae figenda sunt haec Senecae verba...

[@breves]

Multas gratias Irene, gaudium ab pellicula sumo. Proba in tanta inaequalitate fortunae.

[@SaturaLanx]

Gratias tibi, Maxime! Utinam valeatis, quantum concedunt tempora...

[@micarlose]

Gratias plurimas Irene!!!!

[@SaturaLanx]

Libenter!!

[@ikpehai-u5g]

Are you going to do the same with his other letters. This was really helpful.

[@SaturaLanx]

Thanks, I'm happy you liked it! I'm not planning on doing the same with other letters systematically, but I'll certainly do it with other texts (and there are a lot in the course I sell).

[@sammystruecrime]

I took latin in highschool and i completely forgot it so thank you for reminding "ego"

[@SaturaLanx]

I'm so glad to read this! Thanks for letting me know.

[@Nextagcheesyparty]

Grazie!

optima lectio!

[@Slaweniskadela]

Multas gratias ago! :) Salve ex Croatia ! :)

[@SaturaLanx]

Tibi gratias reddo! Quam pulchra est terra in qua habitas...

[@irisweijers6898]

Gaudeo, multas gratias! Salve ex Batavia :)

[@carloscarvalhar9129]

That's a great class! But I think you should highlight the text you are reading, the phrase you are explaining, because sometimes I got lost and I dindt know if you were explaining or if you are reading.

[@SaturaLanx]

Thanks, Carlos! That's a good advice, I take note.

[@carloscarvalhar9129]

@@SaturaLanx great! If you add this, what is very good will be perfect.

[@haluskybibik]

Thank you for this video, it's a real pleasure to listen to it ! However I have a question about the verb "impendēre", should it not have been "impendĕre" ? I've looked up in different dictionaries and they all say that "impendeō, -ēre" means: ergersi, stare sopra, sovrastare pendendo; pesare, incombere, sovrastare, minacciare. Whereas "impendō , -ĕre" means pagare, sborsare, spendere; ... Which would make more sense in this context to me.

[@SaturaLanx]

Hi and thank you! You're right, it was my mistake... I was already aware of it and corrected it in another video lesson (which is not on KZbin, but part of a free course I offer from time to time), however I can't correct this video, unfortunately. Congratulations on spotting it anyway! ;-)

[@LukeRanieri]

Σοφῶς!

[@lindseyhullinger6957]

maxime mihi placet hoc genus peliculae! pulchrum est posse simul lectionem spectare et te lectionem explicantem auscultare. gratias maximas! spero te plus peliculas huius generis facturam esse!

[@SaturaLanx]

Gratias ingentes! Plures edere conabor, quamquam longum est talia parare (sed iucundum quoque!).

[@bruno-bnvm]

Gratias! iam non tempus perditus sum, volo nunc autem Senecam legere.

[@SaturaLanx]

Erit operae pretium!

[@DanielLovesPatois]

Nonne verba "post" et "ante" aliquantum conturbata sunt hoc in sermone? :)

[@SaturaLanx]

Sine dubio, Daniel! Iam non memini exactissima verba qua usa sum in sermone, sed memini me in primis contrurbatam fuisse ab usu quem Seneca fecit illorum verborum...

[@kaloan999]

I don't quite get the use of "alia" at the end of the first and second paragraph. Does he mean "other, unimportant things"?

[@SaturaLanx]

Yes, that's really vague in the text (which Seneca made on purpose, I guess), but I think it's as you wrote; and, maybe, it also refers to anything done without being fully aware of what we're doing.

[@humanioresIT]

optime , multum te diligo, veli scire utrum italica sis et ubi studuisti. Fortasse fuistine in Accademia Vivaria Nova?

[@SaturaLanx]

Salve, gratias tibi ago! Itala sum, et linguam Latinam didici primum in lyceo; Latine autem loqui didici in circulis Latinis et conventibus aestivis. Numquam in illa Accademia studui, sed tamen illos novi et rationes eorum docendi approbo.

[@sethdickfield2949]

14:35 Non intellego cur "scribis" sit. Nonne Seneca auctor est? Cur non est "fac ergo id quod scribo te facere"? Quid Lucilius scripsit? Scribitne Lucilius ad se ipsum?

[@SaturaLanx]

Lucilius videlicet respondebat epistulis a Seneca missis, ergo hic Seneca significat epistulam (vel epistulas) quam antea ei miserat Lucilius, et ad quam haec epistula est responsum. Satisne clarum?

[@sethdickfield2949]

@@SaturaLanx Ah, intellego! Gratias ago!

[@thepatriotess4279]

Why are you not reading the letter? I came here to hear you read the letter of Seneca’s you have on the screen. You finally read the first sentence at 3:18 then repeated same words you repeated in the first 3 minutes of video. I’m sure there is a good reason and I will feel silly after you explain....Thank you!

[@SaturaLanx]

Hi! This is not just a reading but an educational video, where I read through and explain a simplified version of Seneca's letter I adapted for beginners, inspired by the book "Familia Romana" by H. Orberg. In the video, I start with an introduction to contextualise the letter within the works by Seneca and his life, and during the video I read one sentence, then I explain it, then move on to the next one... which explains the repetitions. Hope this answers your question! (You find other lessons of this kind in my channel, where I read texts by Cicero and Pliny the Elder).

[@mtblp7459]

Optissimam pelliculam tuam esse censeo! Eas pellicula mihi valdissime placet atque spero in proximo tempore multae aliae pelliculae ut eadem pellicula futurae sunt

[@SaturaLanx]

Gratias! Iam aliae consimiles sunt de Plinio, et certe plura edam huius generis. :-)

[@robertodellaseta7233]

Gatias multas tibi ago! Tempus fugans trahit nos in locum horriferum in quem tristitia et fletus consumunt vitam nostrae prius quam mors in inferos paecipitet. Sed nos, ego maxime, medicamentum habemus ut colligemus tempus nostrum: te audire , Irene ! (ignosce me, Irene, qui Latinum pessimum scribo)

[@SaturaLanx]

Immo optime scribis!

[@pavelerokhin1512]

[@blackfang3000]

NVMCVID ALIQVIS PVER? Verumtamen pergens ad CATANIA Non enim omnes per viam novam population continuo mori in monte... Quot annos post Romam conditam nata sum ego non memini, illud potest esse XXIV annorum...