What's This? Nightmare Before Christmas in Latin! Quid Est? (lyrics: Stefano Vittori)

[@oolooo]

When the Pagan Roman gets introduced to Christmas .

[@ZephLodwick]

Nah, more like when the Christians get introduced to Saturnalia.

[@matheuspinho4987]

@@ZephLodwick most academics in religion studies recocgnize that Saturnalia has nothing to do wirh Christmas kzbin.info/www/bejne/a53WlKeXha-GrNE

[@ZephLodwick]

@@matheuspinho4987 Fascinating. I hadn't seen this video before, even though I love Andrew's work, because as the son of a Latin teacher and doctor is classical architecture, I knew enough about Saturnalia and how it was co-opted by the Christians. This video was very interesting. Thank you for teaching me something new!

[@stevied3400]

@@ZephLodwick Didn’t know that the ancient pagan Romans celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ.

[@fatalos6855]

@@stevied3400 Of course they didn't but they had a holiday around the same date

[@loris3ai665]

Rare footage of Caligula making his horse a senator

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Pffft 😂😂

[@D3NPC]

I was always scared about Jack being caught in this scene, but then I remembered that he's the spirit of Halloween and everything scary or something. Of course he knows how to hide!

[@D3NPC]

Because good horror is something you never see coming, ri boo (that's your cue to scream)

[@pedrosabino8751]

Rare footage of IVLIVS CAESAR when goes to Britannia.

[@Valagh]

AHAHAHAAHAHAH Epic win

[@ZephLodwick]

More like Aeneas when he first lands on the plains of Latium.

[@pedrosabino8751]

@@ZephLodwick too

[@spicycucumber8193]

it's like re-experiencing this song from scratch. The metric, the rhythm, the rhymes and *THE VOICE* make it perfect.

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Thank you!!! 🥰

[@marcoaureliodecimomeridio4377]

Doing this but with gladiator movie or Rome TV series would be more than unbelievable

[@grexwtf]

[x100 likes]

[@ScorpioMartianus]

I’m working on it! 😅

[@grexwtf]

@@ScorpioMartianus, if you'd ever have help with such an endeavour, or one similar to which, it would be a pleasure to give it in the form of voice-overs and such.

[@Anonie324]

@@ScorpioMartianus The thought of HBO Rome scenes dubbed in Latin of your caliber is almost too amazing to even risk contemplating.

[@VoicePassion]

If you dub Rome, I want to be Atia! She’s my parallel universe self. (Serious offer)

[@dantosinferne]

how the hell does this sound even more adorable in latin??

[@sekhmara8590]

Not sure why, but it absolutely does!

[@gabem.5242]

Almost every Italian High School student translating Tacitus's writings: *"QUIBUS SUNT? QUIBUS SUNT? Tacitus verba sunt! Quid est? Historiae Librum Quartum Est! BABAE! Surripesum sum, hoc translationem quasi inpossibilis est!"*

[@flannelsone1159]

What is the fourth book?

[@rinLund]

Oh my goodness. What a talent. Like most singing folks, I have only sung in church latin. What a treat this was to hear! I'm more and more impressed with you the more I watch your channels!

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Aw thanks so much for watching them! 👻🎃

[@inog8766]

The amount of effort put into this is amazing!

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Thank you so much! 🥰

[@Raphe9000]

Oh my, I'm so happy you did this.

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Raphe9000 thanks! 😃 💀 🎅 🎄 👻 I’m glad you liked it.

[@ScorpioMartianus]

See the songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas translated into Latin at this playlist of my videos: kzbin.info/aero/PLU1WuLg45SiwuGR1H6ZRhLvusm1iQN7ay Commentary by the Translator Stefano Vittori: The translation is written in pure iambs, as those which can be found in Catullus 4 and 29. Unlike normal iambs, pure iambs don't allow any type of substitution, neither rational (two shorts = one long) nor irrational (one short = one long). Hence, while a poem written in normal iambs allows a remarkable degree of freedom to the composer (in theory, thanks to both rational and irrational substitution, an iamb can become a tribrachys, a spondee, a dactyl, an anapaest, and a proceleusmatic - Terence's iambs are a good example thereof, to such degree that Horace was able to transform one of his senaries into a hexameter*), pure iambs are rigid sequences of short and long syllables, creating the effect of a wild and unstoppable rhythmic stream: nothing would have been more fitting to recreate in Latin the musical and verbal patterns of the original English version, so effective in rendering Jack's excitement at the sight of Christmas Town's miracles. The stichic structure of the original song, maintained in the translation, is very interesting: the strophe and the antistrophe is opened by alternations of verses of a single iamb and of three iambs, closed by a sequence of three verses each of three iambs, with some variation in their number between the strophes. These final verses are joined to one another via synaphy (ex.: I can't believe my eyes / I must be dreaming, wake-/-up, Jack, this isn't fair - age, eja, surge lec-/-tulō, quis ista dig-/-na crēdier putat?): this last, very clever, device chosen by the composer of the original English text creates the effect of a long, concitated sentence pronounced in a single breathe, effectively rendering the protagonist's amazement. The epode is written in iambic septenaries (ex.: they're busy building toys and absolutely no one's dead - joca inter illa tū, ratis Charontis, ēsurīs). However, although this is the basic structure, the actual number of iambs per strophe shows some variation according to the music. Jack's original language is a high standard contemporary colloquial English, here rendered with a somehow eclectic register, mixing archaic forms (the infinitives crēdier, fundier) and Hellenisms, both of the classic taste (melos, "tune", "melody") and the late Latinity (horōma, "vision"), but basically adherent to the normal high standard colloquial Latin of the I c. BC - I c. AD. In two points the stream of iambic is alterated: 'stropia fulgida adigant / tripudiumque sonitet', and 'nisi parum mihi liquet / mihi placet, mihi placet': here, the replacement of the first and the penultimate iamb with pyrrhichs imitates the singer's way to pronounce the corresponding stressed syllable in the original English Stefano Vittori *Exclūsit; revocat: redeam? Nōn sī mē obsecret! (Ter., Eun., 1, 1, 4) ~ Exclūsit; revocat: redeam? Nōn sī obsecret, ecce (Hor., Sat. 4, 264).

[@non.newtonianfluid]

I'm spanish speaker and and I can understand almost everything! is amazing, Thanks for doing this! This Spanish song is called "¿Que es?" They actually sound very similar. Will you make more songs in Latin version? You actually sing very well 😃😌😄

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Yes! This week!

[@jackthefrog80085]

I'm a Portuguese speaker and i feel the same

[@renm0]

I'm also a spanish speaker and I can't understand more than "qué es?" 😂😂😂

[@non.newtonianfluid]

@@renm0 Really? Maybe I read more than average. Old words were used but not so many. I can definitely see the root of almost every word.

[@juanme555]

@@renm0 The jilari guy probably watched the movie 20 times in Spanish from childhood to today and that's why he feels much more at home with the lyrics.

[@ArthurPPaiva]

His voice is exacly the same has Brazilian portuguese! And really sounds like a twisted portuguese for me, so i was *404 ERROR* during all the song hahahaha The song in portuguese: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZ6cdJuChdylr9k

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Haha thanks so much! I was imitating the original voice from the movie. It looks like it is close to Portuguese as well!

[@ZephLodwick]

Holy crap, he does. Portuguese sounds so cool; it's what you get when a Romantic language tries to be a Slavic language.

[@ArthurPPaiva]

@@ZephLodwick thank the provençal language and african languages who gived this sounds/ phonemes for us hahaha Before, portuguese was like this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZi2YqJjd9aohtE

[@coffeemachtspass]

I’m enchanted by the notion of all these Brazilian kids watching Jack discover snow; and they’ve never seen snow either. 😃

[@simonebiggi9180]

In questo raro documento d'epoca, un sacerdote di Saturno, tale Tale Titus Taphius, si domanda, visibilmente stupito, cosa sia questa nuova festività introdotta da Aureliano, questo... 'Natale'... 😜😂 Grande Scorpio Martianus! Grazie!

[@bolenco149]

OvO quid est?

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Nice jack emoticon! haha

[@bossopotato2462]

Lorelai144 I’m calling the police

[@donjuantuno7447]

Lorelai144 *noto tuberam tuam* 0w0 quid est? :3c (go easy on me, I'm a novatum over here xp)

[@elcatrinc1996]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. LATIN FURRIES NO

[@bolenco149]

@@elcatrinc1996 we do a little trolling

[@Leon-zu1wp]

I guess it really is the language of the dead.

[@angiekelley2416]

I need to show this to my Latin teacher.

[@joelucas7052]

I’m English/French bilingual and I feel like I actually “get” these songs better in Latin! It definitely brings me back to Parochial school

[@nimax97]

You make the language sound so alive! I really love it. And so do my 8 year old brothers!

[@amberberry_]

Me with four months study experience of Latin: Hmm, yes he mentioned a tree

[@pile333]

Even a singer you are!

[@ScorpioMartianus]

I try sometimes ☺️

[@qiqqo]

è già difficile in italiano, figuriamoci in latino... rinnovo i complimenti ScorpioMartianus

[@seeyouchump]

Rare footage of emperor Nero during the great fire of Rome (colorized)

[@dondeestalagoterasenora5812]

No puede ser, acabo de descubrir tu canal y es muy interesante escuchar canciones de películas Disney en Latin. Me agrada jaja 0:

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Gracias ☺️

[@virmaivonne]

Bellísimo. 💓💋 desde Bogotá- Colombia.

[@SantiagoG18]

I can't believe thiiiss, thank you very much :))

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Thanks for watching and sharing the video!

[@GutoKowalski70]

Luke, you are very talented! Keep up with the great work. Saudações do Brasil.

[@ughmazing8073]

Such talent. This is professional level. Amazing.

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Thanks!

[@HasufelyArod]

I don't know, but Luke's voice actually does sound perfect for a youthful character like Jack Skeleton. Besides, I'd say that his voice is pretty close to the original in English. I've heard this song in other languages, such as German, Italian, and Japanese, and I'd say Luke's voice does sound similar to these versions. I looked for the Finnish version but found nothing.

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Very kind!

[@jamesjasso6002]

Amo tu labor! Salve amicus

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Gracias!

[@suem6004]

You are incredible! So talented.

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Oh thank you, Sue! 🥰

[@suem6004]

ScorpioMartianus I speak the truth. Do not speak platitudes. Will buy your Latin learning via your shop. Look forward to one day responding in Latin.

[@hermescosmicstuff5962]

This song works well in Latin

[@Hassan-Karim]

Capolavoro 😃questa è la mia infanzia. Good job👍

[@sekhmara8590]

Always love singing along to this song, and wow, it's way more fun in Latin! Thanks so much!

[@Vekin03]

Wow, your covers are masterpieces! I... I wish I want to learn latin now!

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Thanks! Use my LLPSI playlist 😃

[@RJ-lk6qn]

I had a smile from beginning to end. A rock song would sound super 😃

[@juanbentancor5899]

You make me love this song with your version Luke. Perbelle!

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Grātiās!

[@Glassandcandy]

Would absolutely love one of these for “Always Look on the Bright Side of life” from the Life of Brian. And if you REALLY want to get specific you could even do it in Biblical Hebrew/Aramaic lol

[@robinavalyn9513]

OH MY GOSH!!! Quia amo!

[@ScorpioMartianus]

🥰 👻 🎅

[@Chrischi3TutorialLPs]

My germanic ancestors, who fought off the romans at the battle of Teutoburg Forest, looking down at me unironically enjoying this: (Y) Shame

[@grexwtf]

Bravo, Martin. Bravo.

[@ScorpioMartianus]

James Leborgne Martin? Who is Martin?

[@taylorlipinski4048]

Jack came, saw, and conquered

[@ScorpioMartianus]

👻

[@mrnul-gi3fo]

I am happy that my 4 years of latin in high school wasn't completely useless

[@graziabologna0300]

It's very beautiful this song!!!

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Grazie, Grazia! 🥰 👻

[@ZephLodwick]

Pictured: Aeneas when he first lands on the plains of Latium (colourised)

[@blomsterdemon8483]

Quedó hermoso ;-;💜💜💜

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Gracias 😃

[@sekhmara8590]

Had to revisit this, it's so much fun! Edit... also gave it share on twitter :) tis the season to spread some joy, and this totally counts!

[@cb8655]

Heaven’s Light and Hellfire from Hunchback of Notre Dame in Latin... that’d be perfect!

[@Rosx1000]

Por isso que eu gosto desse canal, essa versão ...Tim Burton é muito amor!!!

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Rosana Lima obrigado!!

[@Rosx1000]

@@ScorpioMartianus De nada. É muito interessante ver como a dublagem em latim se encaixa inclusive com a estética da animação. Fico imaginando como seria uma versão de Edward Scissorhands em latim, todavia, creio que as versões com animações ainda são as mais encantadoras 🤗.

[@ariasemusicaslegendadas7657]

Não foi tim burton que dirigiu esse filme ele só foi no estudio algumas vezes

[@NumHeut]

Great! :D 😍😍😍

[@ScorpioMartianus]

SalukiLove thanks!

[@Catpuff818]

The perfect cover doesn't exi-

[@cpozo3306]

Merry Saturnalia

[@RFxSukhoi]

I love it.

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Thank you!

[@zmaja]

Joy 😊

[@abookishfable8268]

WOW. Id love to hear u sing Hellfire from notredam.. Please Please!

[@vylbird8014]

As the song contains latin, it would be amusing to switch the languages around... Latin to English, English to Latin.

[@Chrischi3TutorialLPs]

Actually, thinking about it, at Camp Jupiter, they probably perform the entire thing as a musical on Halloween, or on Christmas, it's a movie for the Spooky and the Snowy Season.

[@schooltips5973]

Hahaha natale l'hai hai tradotto con "strēnio" sei un genio

[@amandacavalcanti5907]

Loved it! I am a portuguese speaker and I understood nearly nothing 😅

[@loum73]

Nero caught fiddling on camera.

[@ubaldocollu6491]

Meraviglioso

[@acerockman3520]

io saturnalia

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Ace Rockman iō!

[@seand.g423]

@@ScorpioMartianus you'll have to excuse him, Android still doesn't have/no longer has o-Macron as an option...

[@Tesana]

May I ask what 'strēniō' means literally? I couldn't find translations online.

[@ScorpioMartianus]

absolutely you may ask! It was invented by the translator. Strenia is the goddess of end-year Christmas gifts. Thus Strenio is like Sulmo, a city in Italy.

[@Tesana]

Aha! That makes sense. Grātiās tibi agō!

[@MicaelaQueirozCardoso]

Incrível! Adoro!

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Obrigado!

[@MicaelaQueirozCardoso]

@@ScorpioMartianus Luke help learn to talk Latin! Can I do it with you or with Lingo pie? Estou a apaixonar-me...hehe

[@peterbrown3004]

Gloriosi lemures

[@pasqualetortorella4559]

Semper gaudium quoddam.

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Connor KPT Est!

[@ZephLodwick]

Horror Ante Saturnalia

[@HasufelyArod]

Optime fecisti, Luci. Amo vocis sonum tuum.

[@albizabm]

Nella nostra Arena(Verona) costoro avrebbero detto "Ave Caesar salutant vos mortui",invece di "Ave, Caesar,morituri te salutant".😆 Ipsum bonus Vittori!

[@dawsiful]

Ma è simpaticissima 'sta cosa! 😃 Ma, Luke, sei tu il cantante? Sei fortissimo, veh!

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Sono io! Grazie

[@dawsiful]

@@ScorpioMartianus oh, uomo dal multiforme ingegno! Che gli dèi ti preservino a lungo per la nostra sete di sapere...e il nostro sollazzo 😉😊

[@aerobolt256]

1:26 "süāviter"? When did Latin get umlauts/diaeresises?

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Yes indeed! And this song it’s used to clarify that this is not /swa/ but /sua/ with two vowels

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Occasionally Roman poets will turn vowel u into a consonant like ten-vis for te-nu-is, and sil-u-a for sil-va - Vergil did both of these. These are variants current in the natural pronunciation of his day. The diaeresis helps us know that the first u is to be treated as a vowel, not a consonant, and thus su-a are two syllables instead of one (one syllable is normal)

[@nolder]

@@ScorpioMartianus In spanish we use it exclusively in "gue" and "gui" syllables when the u needs to be pronounced, like in "pingüino" (penguin) or "antigüedad" (antiquity). Otherwise it would be pronounced as in "guerra" (war) which "gue" would be pronounced something like "geh".Do you know if this rule comes from what you explained? Thanks for your videos by the way, they're amazing!

[@МАйкЛжец-п2л]

От Эколингвиста. 😼

[@jesusguzman410]

Jejeje, me estoy dando cuenta que la pronunciación eclesiástica es más fluida y estética que la clásica, pero tú logras usar una u otra según preferencia, eso es genial 👍👍👍. Yo acabo de ver las 5 declinaciones, pero es la 3° es la peor por su gran irregularidad; y aún me falta muchísimo. Por eso mismo, al escucharte me llena gusto a continuar. PD: Tienes buena voz 😎

[@thatdbzguyfr]

I'm a German speaker and this sounds like an Alien language to me

[@akumabakemono1447]

Hahaha I'm a spanish speaker and this sound really close to my mother tongue.

[@riccardodonnari]

where the singer is from ?

[@ScorpioMartianus]

I’m from the US 😊

[@Croopskate]

Optima ex omnibus pelliculis tuis!

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Grātiās tibi agō!

[@slitbodmodfidgetspinnerdab3317]

Could you do the same but with HBO's Rome Cicero scenes? *GRATĪ A LABORE OPERISQVE TVĪ SVMVS, O FRATER ANIMÆ LATIĪ*

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Grātiās! That is part of the master plan. I need the time and financial resources to make that happen haha

[@ZephLodwick]

Panem verum Romanum erga Romani veri.

[@kevinmiranda553]

Asombroso

[@kingdededelicious]

Tails theme - Sonic's Adventure? Excellent translation btw

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Thanks!

[@rhumakrasna3375]

Thanks ☺️☺️☺️

[@richardyao9012]

Vōx Iācōbī optima est.

[@OptimusPhillip]

What does "Strenio" mean? I get the impression that it's the translator's interpretation of what Christmas Town would be called in Latin, but I'm curious as to what the actual word means since it doesn't sound related to the Latin word for Christmas.

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Strēnia is the goddess of year-end gift giving. Strēniō is formed like other towns, for example Sulmō where Ovid was born.

[@OptimusPhillip]

@@ScorpioMartianus thank you, very fascinating.

[@sekhmara8590]

@@ScorpioMartianus Thank you for the explanation. Was wondering, and that's such a brilliant choice. "Strenio"

[@juancruzespinosa6526]

¡Dios! sufrí tratando de cantar esta traducción al latín, pero creo que lo hice mas o menos bien pese a estar engripado.

[@oolooo]

After being baptized in the new Faith of "Chrestus" , Iaqvelus discovers the joy of the Nativitas Christi

[@symmetryking8884]

ScorpioMartianus amamus!

[@ScorpioMartianus]

grātiās!

[@albertpuig6273]

Io, Natalis? Io, Saturnalia!

[@miningtips]

Ever heard Cat Stevens' "O Caritas"?

[@jamesjasso6002]

Eo Saturnalia!

[@ScorpioMartianus]

:D

[@lindenbergvital7910]

Why is Jack singing in Classical when he is supposed to sing in Ecclesiastical (because he is from Halloween Town)?

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Because he has embraced the spirit of Christmas! 🎅 haha. See the Jack’s Lament music video on this channel

[@HS-handle]

Very impressive. Bravo! A little observation: "quid" probably should sound a little more like "queed" rather than the English pronunciation

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Thanks! As for the pronunciation, actually not; the Roman grammarians attest to the alteration of the short i after qu and v in words like quis, quid, and vir.

[@HS-handle]

@@ScorpioMartianus then it's may be a little bit like the oh sound, according to some renowned English-speaking grammarians :) no traces in any of the modern Romance languages, but still very plausible

[@blizzard_the_seal9863]

owo? quid est?

[@lorenzobaldini2027]

One question: are you Italian?

[@randomone8348]

I wish I could see a video of you singing instead of the cartoon!

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Thanks! There are several on this channel! Look for my rendition of Yesterday and Fly Me To The Moon.

[@randomone8348]

@@ScorpioMartianus oh yeah there are! Awww why are you so charming!! I gotta stop watching your videos or I’ll fall in love. Great stuff though.

[@stellatorres7922]

in Latin, they don't capitalize anything unless it is a name.

[@Bastilhe]

what does io mean in latin?

[@LeoNarrator]

It's an exclamation like English 'yo' or 'hey'

[@kreon7404]

Tanto gaudio spectavi audivique hoc.

[@crepusculum-rq5ll]

Quod est perfectum

[@ScorpioMartianus]

Grātiās tibi!

[@stellatorres7922]

Quid est? means What is?

[@elcatrinc1996]

Can i go to the vatican and sing this ?

[@МитяБлюмкин]

maximas tibi gratias ago) valde mihi placet..sed pronuntiatum restitutum non exsequor... "с", "ae" et "V" magnae dignitatis non sunt. nullus romanus tuum carmen intellegit, quia accentus musicalis sermonis latini perditus est.

[@arnekgriswold9059]

I love it.