Nothing like a great trip from from Alexandria to Alexandria by way of Alexandria. That Macedonian had a habit of renaming places after himself to the extent we are making jokes about it millennia later.
It’s obviously cultural biases, but it gives an extremely haunting quality as a ballad from the PoV of a guy who just broke up. Probably because you associate Latin chants like this with a solemn, ecclesiastical setting.
the fact that you changed the lyrics ever so slightly just to make them rhyme in latin while still keeping the original meaning of the lyrics is astounding
Latin words can mean many English words, so he didn't have to change much. and as octo said, latin sentences can be organized in multiple different ways and still mean the same thing.
@@justacommenter9389 English is multiple languages in a trench coat, we have so much that we took from others. Mostly Germanic, Scandinavian and Latin words. Tis good.
If you've read any translated poetry, the translators usually go into how hard but also necessary that is. As Lattimore says in his introduction to his translation of the Illiad, the translator has to be a poet himself. Or as Tolkein says on his translation of Sir Gawain, shits hard yo.
@@Aureus_ Nero : So when Caesar sing he is a pop star and a conqueror, and when I sing suddenly I burned Roma to the ground ?! I didn't start the fire, it was always burning, since the world's been turning.
Shared this with a friend who has a Latin Professor for a Mother; I'm told this will be used in her classes and is already spreading through the school. Happy to play my very small part in spreading this masterpiece around!
I like to imagine this latin cover songs are from an AU in which Justinian reunified the roman empire (or at least part of it) and eventually the roman empire became something like modern china, being a large modern state.
The people working on this chose specific Latin words to make it fit so well! For example, other ways to say “everybody wants” in Latin are desiderant or volunt but they chose optant. Each of these words mean slightly different things, though each could be translated as want, so they made some difficult choices to narrow down a translation that both is accurate to the meaning and intent (IE captures the nuance of the original English) AND fits the meter/timing of the music. It’s incredible work
It's from HBO's Rome series! Sometime in season 1, when Caesar is marching on Rome (spoilers), there's a scene Caesar and Antony are leading a column of legionaries, with somber marching music. Antony remarks that Caesar is surprisingly calm for someone who's breaking the ultimate taboo and marching on Rome. Caesar replies "I'm glad I appear so." Then he says that line, and the musicians playing the marching music switch to a more triumphant tune. It's become something of a meme line because the idea of Caesar switching out the background music like he's swapping a Spotify playlist is kind of funny. (It's a great show, highly recommend to any Roman history nerds. The first season is one of the best self-contained seasons of television ever, imo.)
Long time Latin student here, I’m amazed not only at the lyrics being as clean as they are, but that you sung it without betraying the actual Latin pronunciations-sure they’re a little stylized but you didn’t swap in any English conventions (soft g or c) just to make it easier.
The original commenter is correct. Classical Latin pronunciation dictates all hard consonant sounds. The different types of Church Latin pronunciation have softer consonant sounds (e.g. g as in “gentle” and c as in “ciao”, depending on its placement in the word)
I love the idea of a time traveler humming this when he is kidnapped. Then while he is in a slave ship he sings it and a young man next to him takes the lryics to heart.
@@multiversalman4270 It means that this song: ( th-cam.com/video/SxMMcgp5hOA/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared ) was on the back of the original vinyl single of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World." And it is a pretty good tune on it's own merits.
@@multiversalman4270 a "45" refers to the vinyl record size. 45 is the rpm you need to set the player to, in order to replay that size. "Pharaohs" is the name of the track on that side, and also refers to the title of the absolute ruler of Ancient Egypt.
What's funny is that "Saluta" can mean a variety of different things: not only to "greet" (say hello) but also to say farewell or even "to keep safe". So the opening lines can be seen both as "[Welcome] to your [new] life", "Say farewell to your [old] life" and "Save your life [by not turning back]".
I like to imagine this latin cover songs are from an AU in which Justinian reunified the roman empire (or at least part of it) and eventually the roman empire became something like modern china, being a large modern state.
Okay so, while Nero was actually helping fight the fire, I badly need someone to bring this visual to life. Just watching Nero shredding on his lyre, belting out this song (with servants as his backing singers of course) while Rome burns below him, that is just too perfect an image. Especially if the Praetorian Guard are just standing there baffled.
While that's been proven to be a fabrication made after he was damnatio memoriae, it would be an awesome visual indeed. In reality Nero rushed to Rome as soon as he heard of the fire, and immediately began ordering his soldiers to help put it out.
I know he's probably not the madman he's made out to be (happens when you blame christians for the fire and they become the dominant european power for 1500 years). But maybe he helped the fire-fighting by boosting morale through one of his immaculate performances (I mean he won every acting award there is, in greece - they can't be all mistaken). Or his building projects after the fire did it for him. Should have gone for building the flavian theatre right away instead of the collossos and a new palace.
At the time i was into a lot more of the hard stuff like Venenum and Varia Cantatavit, but as i age i enjoy more mellow tunes like this. Truly the worst part about music from that time period was just how much the good stuff there was. Finding time to appreciate it all is quite taxing
Latin shares ancestral languages with other European languages, nothing more. It got hailed as a superior language in the past because of the Roman empire continuing Greek philosophic and scientific endeavours, making scholars feel that Greek and Latin (and 'pure' French) were superior somehow. That said, nothing wrong with learning for the sake of it!
@SirBolsónback go the Iceni uprising and kick the Romans out you mean. But keep the idea of having some kind of central administration because, oh boy was not having any of that the blunder of the millennium.
Hey man I'm extremely relieved that you made it through your intense passages. You're a deeply valued contributor to this open ended theatre of life and we all appreciate the extremely timely, insightful and unique artifacts you craft and are kind enough to share with the rest of us. And know it or not you actually can align miracles. Thank you.
Topic is on point for the Empire of Rome. Brilliant cover, I love the art. Your voice sounds great too. Love how the Latin is written to rhyme for a few verses.
Makes me think about the good old days… Sieging Alesia… Crossing the Rubicon… Sailing to Egypt… Back then there wasn’t a phone in sight, we were all just legionnaires living in the moment.
Je suis Francaise - I am a french Napoleonic soldier of the III Corps, serving under Marshal Murat, all in service for the Emperor and France herself, and it is amazing to learn about older times, and discovering how it is not so different with my time. There be no phones in my day either, but we did have much more than what you guys had, and yet you all still lived to the fullest. That I adore
Omnes optant mundum regere slaps SO hard. I can just vision it as someone's fullback tattoo. EDIT: I've gone back on your channel and while there certainly are BANGERS, I think this is your best work yet!
@@Tyme_Whyrlwynd Might I suggest you put the previous line (nihil niquam est aeternum) on the top with a slight arch, and omnes optant mundum regere on the bottom?
id say House of the Rising Sun is better. It's simpler but it's truer to the bardcore and the Old French lyrics is both harder to make due to the fewer people understanding it and is a less popular, more niche choice. The difference is like between progrock Genesis and commercial Genesis
I played this for a friend of mine, not knowing she had studied Latin. Instead of actually listening to the song and enjoying it for what it was she just complained the pronunciations were terrible. I don't know if that's true or not, I think this sounds fantastic.
This is a masterpiece. My best friend passed out las week, he loved Tears for Fears AND Roman History, he would love this so much. While listening to it, it makes me feel, somehow, closer to my dear friend, thank you!
I like to imagine this latin cover songs are from an AU in which Justinian reunified the roman empire (or at least part of it) and eventually the roman empire became something like modern china, being a large modern state.
It's great! This fits perfectly. Also I love that there's romans in the artwork because it's thematically fitting, it took me a little second to notice that.
Literally adding and downloading this, literally so damn well made. And it's immersive for me when i write my novel, so love it. Can't believe I've only discovered this channel
Ironic: Roland Orzabal, the guitarist and main songwriter, has Basque roots on his father's side. The Basques today are the last Iberian and Gallic native tribes to survive Latinization by the Roman Republic and later, Empire, because of the terrain where they lived. Rambling over: This cover is great!
Im from Spain, and the comments are right basques are not related to the celts, in fact the celts clashed with them before the romans arrived. Basques are preindoeuropeans
I used Latin for many years in my work as a medical transcriptionist. These days I work in a preschool. We play restful music during quiet-time. The kiddos somehow interpreted your Latin lyrics as "Everybody wants to Boogaloo." And decided to dance. Rock on babies! Who needs a nap. Latin is not yet a dead language.... if you can dance to it.
The funny thing is that at first it seems like a completely alien language and only after looking at English lyrics you start to recognise familiar roots like "omni", "reign", "vital" etc.
What happens when half your language is just loanwords from french, a romance language. You may notice a similar thing with slavs and greek. Mater, Episkop. Even names like the typical Dimitri, which is awfully familiar with Demeter. Or just the overlap with the letters themselves
I like to imagine this latin cover songs are from an AU in which Justinian reunified the roman empire (or at least part of it) and eventually the roman empire became something like modern china, being a large modern state.
Today I found out there's a whole weird anachronistic side of the music TH-cam earlier someones video combining the oldest sumerian hymn with glitchpop came on my feed... now this... i cant wait to see whats next
The first song I heard by you was "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" in classical Latin. That song actually helped me through a difficult time in my life. Now there's this song. You keep pushing out songs I didn't know I needed to hear until I did.
Cicero: "Please, my countrymen, let's discuss this in the Senate! Roman politics and sharing the political power is the only way for the Republic of Rome to survive!" Every single Roman politician with at least a legion in his command: "Okay, true. But, if only I could just defeat my rivals and make myself the undisputed ruler of Rome..."
Cicero was a corrupt slum lord. The senate served the entrenched oligarchy. Julius Caesar was a man supported by the common people and represented their interests to the dismay of people like cicero.
@@Goblinaaaaa I am not comparing Cicero to Caesar, rather I am just talking about the tragedy of Cicero in his last years. After Caesar's assassination, Cicero did whatever he could to restore Roman politics as they were before the Civil Wars. But it was too little, too late. Every single Roman general, both those that assassinated Caesar and those that swore to continue his legacy, everyone was acting on his own interest, even sometimes making alliances with ideological enemies just for convenience. I find tragic that after Caesar assassination Cicero was one of the few concerned with trying to preserve some division of power and stability. That was what I was talking about, not actually making a case about how good Cicero was. He was a good orator, but also an egocentric man (he build the biggest palace at the time in the entire city of Rome for him to live in it....) and he served his own self interest (well, you call him "corrupt", which is pretty... accurate. Now, who in the Roman Senate at that time could not be corrupt? Even Caesar was involved, to the neck. Or what was the First Triunvirate, if not a corrupt alliance by the three most powerful men in Rome at the time to take control over Rome's entire political life?). ´ Roman politics weren't about democracy, or about the will of the people. A patrician's vote was worth the same as thousands of homeless, and that says a lot. The true reason behind Roman politics, is that it was a system designed to avoid a single person to take all the political power of Rome and acting as a tyrant, ruling over Rome on his own benefit. With, for better or worse, was exactly what happened after the beginning of the Empire and until the fall of Rome.
@@Goblinaaaaa Caesar was a demagogue who used street violence and political intimidation to ride rough-shod over the laws of the republic, terrorise his opponents, and ultimately sieze control of the state. Like just about every other politician who has ever claimed to represent the interest of the common people, he only ever cared about them as far as they could be used to serve his own ambitions. He was a dictator and a military strongman, who once he took power took away the political rights of the people he claimed to represent by fixing all the elections, sometimes for years in advance. TLDR; I have never understood how people can be so wise to the corruption of the senate, but close their eyes to the corruption of people like Caesar.
Truly wish a person from the late Republic - like, during Caesar's lifetime - could hear this with full context of how and why it was produced. To see how Rome's legacy endured and shaped nations and culture for milennia to come, to get a glimpse through the lyrics and music what the people who came after were like. We're so lucky to get to look into the minds of people from the past and to hear their thoughts and feelings - sometimes I wish it wasn't a one-way street.
I remember singing this with my homie while we walked all the way through north africa from middle east to Iberia. Too bad I never avenged by family's death, but atleast I created a cool empire there.
I'm a 2224 years old. I still remember the day I bought my first record. At that day I need to walk barefoot through the forest, swim across the sea, fight the bears, attack the Greeks & so on just to exchange my mother's ring to a record.. Kids nowadays had it easy with the free Spotify.
Does this cover make anyone else wish they had a time machine so they could blast this song across the hills and fields of ancient Rome just to mess with them? No? Just me?
This is EPIC! I love the original song, and Latin is a cool language. The combo makes it even better! I hope to see more vids like this in the future. 🥰🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Caeser reminiscing all the victories in gaul, germania, Britannia, Egypt, Syria, and finally, over pompey magnus....... As he's being presented his head..... The thoughts turn to his memories of the once great man in front of him...
I don't know if I'm the only one, but that version of the song feels like it could be on a comedic scene of a asterisk and obelisk movie, it's just feeling like it could fit in one like a glove...
There are days the internet gives you exactly what you didn't know you needed.
So true! 😆
Yeah man
Hell yeah! 😤
Yes there are, my friend, Yes there are.
Neither did I know that I'm needing a cover of Personal Jesus sung in aramaic/hebrew 😭.
Imagine driving down to Alexandria on your chariot and bumping this absolute classic.
I'm having difficulty imagining it. Am I... driving it across the Mediterranean? I think I'll need four white horses for that.
@@MythraenWell you're probably driving through Syria or Judaea instead
Which one
@AchyParts You might be in Egypt already
Nothing like a great trip from from Alexandria to Alexandria by way of Alexandria.
That Macedonian had a habit of renaming places after himself to the extent we are making jokes about it millennia later.
"Which decade do you like the the most?"
"The 80's"
"Oh yeah, I love the 1980's too"
"No, I mean _the 80's"_
BC or AD? 😂
@@ifeyanishaminya BC, thanks
I bet this was the song Legionaries sang during their marches. \o/
1000th like
I’m so happy I became the 1000 liled
Synths and Latin have no business sounding this good together
You should check out Italo/Euro-disco.
Latin is probably the best language in the world for singing, alongside german.
It’s obviously cultural biases, but it gives an extremely haunting quality as a ballad from the PoV of a guy who just broke up. Probably because you associate Latin chants like this with a solemn, ecclesiastical setting.
@@JanetStarChild Modern Italian doesn't have to do much with Latin lol, might as well listen to romanian disco
@@rafaeltemplarioGerman, what are you smoking?
the fact that you changed the lyrics ever so slightly just to make them rhyme in latin while still keeping the original meaning of the lyrics is astounding
Latin is magical like that. It also turns out to help a lot when the order of words in a phrase doesnt compromise its meaning lol
Latin words can mean many English words, so he didn't have to change much. and as octo said, latin sentences can be organized in multiple different ways and still mean the same thing.
@@justacommenter9389 English is multiple languages in a trench coat, we have so much that we took from others. Mostly Germanic, Scandinavian and Latin words. Tis good.
@@JoeVO24 most languages are latin's kids
If you've read any translated poetry, the translators usually go into how hard but also necessary that is. As Lattimore says in his introduction to his translation of the Illiad, the translator has to be a poet himself. Or as Tolkein says on his translation of Sir Gawain, shits hard yo.
"I came, I saw, I sang."
- Caesar (probably)
VENI VIDI CECINI
@@Aureus_ Nero : So when Caesar sing he is a pop star and a conqueror, and when I sing suddenly I burned Roma to the ground ?! I didn't start the fire, it was always burning, since the world's been turning.
@ Yes!
@@Aureus_ if only cano cecini had also dropped the reduplicated syllable like the other two, maybe it could have been vēnī vīdī cēnī
veni, vidi, audivi
Proving once again my theory that good music is universal in any language
So true
Oh that's your theory huh
@@bigol9223 one of them
@@bigol9223 it's your mom's theory.
Cotton eyed Joe transcends language
The 80's B.C will always be the best decade!
The Social War and Sulla would like a word
Nah, nothing beats the 50s B.C. Caesar bands used to rock and roll like none before!
I would have loved it to match the number !
@@Keiron_-what about the 40s-20s BC with the big senate swing music?
@@Keiron_- you guys are still sleeping on the Great Atlantian Hymns? The 9520's BC were beautiful.
Shared this with a friend who has a Latin Professor for a Mother; I'm told this will be used in her classes and is already spreading through the school.
Happy to play my very small part in spreading this masterpiece around!
If you want, I have a Latin music page totally inspired by the 80s on SoundCloud called "Synthfusion"
@@DanceDepartament80s You should have called it Synthfusionem
@@infinitesimotel actually the name is "Dance Department 80s" nowadays :)
@@infinitesimotel my musical work is humble, but made with true passion for the 80s
@@DanceDepartament80s Sounds awesome mate! I was only having a bit of a pop at some Latin wordplay with your brand name given the context
This whole thing is great, but I especially love the chorus. That "omnes optant mundum regere" is so fucking satisfying to hear each time
It very much is.
The word "aeternum" sounds so beautiful too in my opinion
Goddamn, that just screams to be put a t-shirt.
@Momie_et_Masque yes, sounds great in the Latin Mass too!!
I like to imagine this latin cover songs are from an AU in which Justinian reunified the roman empire (or at least part of it) and eventually the roman empire became something like modern china, being a large modern state.
Augustus after hearing of Caesar’s death
We making it outta Greece with this one🎉🔥🔥
Also Augustus after hearing about Teutoberg.
Octavian*
hearing ? wasn't he there when it happend ? I think he would have been singing this tune in his head while stabbing his adoptive father.
Which Casear? You mean Gaius Iulius?
Me and the legionnaires bumping this while travelling to the other side of the rhine
We crossing the Rubicon with this one!
@@ferretyluvWe WILL be ensuring Pax Romana with this one amicus‼️🗣️
OH SHIT WATCH OUT THE GERMANS ARE COMING! TAKE YOUR AURISPODS OUT!
One thing I've learned, it never ends well to cross the Rhine. Let's just stay in Gaul.
@@ClanWiE La Gaulle est cozy cozy
The fact that the chorus metric fits perfectly the Latin words is just magic
The people working on this chose specific Latin words to make it fit so well! For example, other ways to say “everybody wants” in Latin are desiderant or volunt but they chose optant. Each of these words mean slightly different things, though each could be translated as want, so they made some difficult choices to narrow down a translation that both is accurate to the meaning and intent (IE captures the nuance of the original English) AND fits the meter/timing of the music. It’s incredible work
@@forrestwitthuhn2321yep there is real effort and understanding here, truly putting his degree to work!
A lot of european languages evolved from latin
Wow wow, you have to be careful with that word!
@@forrestwitthuhn2321 It's actually more accurate to use _regere_ to mean _rule_ than _impera_ which means _command_
"Gracchus, something more cheerful."
Gracchus and the band:
I cant beleive they got killed just for this :(
Where does the quote come from?
It's from HBO's Rome series! Sometime in season 1, when Caesar is marching on Rome (spoilers), there's a scene Caesar and Antony are leading a column of legionaries, with somber marching music.
Antony remarks that Caesar is surprisingly calm for someone who's breaking the ultimate taboo and marching on Rome. Caesar replies "I'm glad I appear so." Then he says that line, and the musicians playing the marching music switch to a more triumphant tune.
It's become something of a meme line because the idea of Caesar switching out the background music like he's swapping a Spotify playlist is kind of funny.
(It's a great show, highly recommend to any Roman history nerds. The first season is one of the best self-contained seasons of television ever, imo.)
Long time Latin student here, I’m amazed not only at the lyrics being as clean as they are, but that you sung it without betraying the actual Latin pronunciations-sure they’re a little stylized but you didn’t swap in any English conventions (soft g or c) just to make it easier.
Regere is mispronounced in this video. The "g" should sound like in the word "gentle".
Or in "regent", or "regency"...
@@RM6737 as far as i know not in classical pronunciation, which always has a hard G
The original commenter is correct. Classical Latin pronunciation dictates all hard consonant sounds. The different types of Church Latin pronunciation have softer consonant sounds (e.g. g as in “gentle” and c as in “ciao”, depending on its placement in the word)
I love the idea of a time traveler humming this when he is kidnapped. Then while he is in a slave ship he sings it and a young man next to him takes the lryics to heart.
AUTHOR-IN-PUBLISHING HERE,
WRITE A BOOK PLEASE
AUTHOR-WRITING-A-NOVEL Here!
I'd read that! :3
Following the example of the famous play "REVERSVS AD FVTVRVM II"?
@AirCicilia if that's a joke it's gone over my head sorry. If it's a real play I can't find it on Google.
@@FurlongStrongPersonalI think it’s Back to the Future in Latin lol.
Amusingly enough, the B-side to the 45 is "Pharaohs."
Really? That's wild
Walk Like An Egyptian 😄
what does this mean
@@multiversalman4270 It means that this song: ( th-cam.com/video/SxMMcgp5hOA/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared ) was on the back of the original vinyl single of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World." And it is a pretty good tune on it's own merits.
@@multiversalman4270 a "45" refers to the vinyl record size. 45 is the rpm you need to set the player to, in order to replay that size. "Pharaohs" is the name of the track on that side, and also refers to the title of the absolute ruler of Ancient Egypt.
album art so classic, it's marble
Painted colorfully!
It’s Statuario marble with gold veins dancing through the metamorphic stone
I've heard that people were dying to get this masterpiece.
@@cryalot378Jesus Christ the good sovereign God cherishes you my friend
It's marble-ous
❌ Pass me the aux
✅ Summon the auxiliary regiment!
❌ Pass me the aux.
✅ Da mihi auxiliarium.
What's funny is that "Saluta" can mean a variety of different things: not only to "greet" (say hello) but also to say farewell or even "to keep safe". So the opening lines can be seen both as "[Welcome] to your [new] life", "Say farewell to your [old] life" and "Save your life [by not turning back]".
OPTIME EST !
This deserves more likes 🎉
Thanks for sharing that input, I am still new to learning Latin.
OMNES OPTANT MUNDUM REGERE
Soon new sign in my office (current is "Yo morir, vos morir, todo morir" ("I die, you die, everyone die"), a meme in Argentina from COVID times).
Such cool motto
@@Danbatiolmao
The new motto of Skull and Bones.
@@Danbatio En la vida vi ese meme, no estaras flayeando?
The 80s AD were the Golden times of Rome!
For sure! Remember Davidus Bovius?
Yeah, Marcus Knopflerus was a great magus with his lute at the time...
Nero called it "the decade of excess." Pros and cons, there.
And Frederus Mercurius, Michaelus Jacksonius etc...
I like to imagine this latin cover songs are from an AU in which Justinian reunified the roman empire (or at least part of it) and eventually the roman empire became something like modern china, being a large modern state.
The song Nero played and sang with his lyre, while rome was burning
Okay so, while Nero was actually helping fight the fire, I badly need someone to bring this visual to life.
Just watching Nero shredding on his lyre, belting out this song (with servants as his backing singers of course) while Rome burns below him, that is just too perfect an image. Especially if the Praetorian Guard are just standing there baffled.
While that's been proven to be a fabrication made after he was damnatio memoriae, it would be an awesome visual indeed.
In reality Nero rushed to Rome as soon as he heard of the fire, and immediately began ordering his soldiers to help put it out.
I know he's probably not the madman he's made out to be (happens when you blame christians for the fire and they become the dominant european power for 1500 years).
But maybe he helped the fire-fighting by boosting morale through one of his immaculate performances (I mean he won every acting award there is, in greece - they can't be all mistaken).
Or his building projects after the fire did it for him. Should have gone for building the flavian theatre right away instead of the collossos and a new palace.
The Senate psyop still going strong
"What, you expect me to _get in the way_ of my soldiers?? They have their skills, and I have mine!"
This is the best music recommendation I've gotten in years. I'm truly in love.
Lacrimae ad timores is my favorite band, the 80 ADs were such a fun time
At the time i was into a lot more of the hard stuff like Venenum and Varia Cantatavit, but as i age i enjoy more mellow tunes like this. Truly the worst part about music from that time period was just how much the good stuff there was. Finding time to appreciate it all is quite taxing
The urge to learn Latin is growing.
@HEKVT you won't regret it. It's the mother language of Europe and the scholars and religious men language.
Latin shares ancestral languages with other European languages, nothing more. It got hailed as a superior language in the past because of the Roman empire continuing Greek philosophic and scientific endeavours, making scholars feel that Greek and Latin (and 'pure' French) were superior somehow. That said, nothing wrong with learning for the sake of it!
We've come a long way since "Romani ite domum"
Meh, for intelectual it is Ancient Greek.
Latin is used a lot in Medical and Chemistry
I'm learning it on duo and do recommend, you'll start to see where it influenced other languages and have a back door into all of them
"When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall - And when Rome falls - the World."
- Lord Byron
He wasn't wrong. We need to go back. I Miss it so much bro 😢
@BigWheel. My nation of Britain needs to return to Britannia as things are falling apart rn in 2024 like they were during 410.
@@BigWheel. you were born in 2006
@SirBolsónback go the Iceni uprising and kick the Romans out you mean. But keep the idea of having some kind of central administration because, oh boy was not having any of that the blunder of the millennium.
@@thesenamesaretaken A G R E E D !
Hey man I'm extremely relieved that you made it through your intense passages. You're a deeply valued contributor to this open ended theatre of life and we all appreciate the extremely timely, insightful and unique artifacts you craft and are kind enough to share with the rest of us. And know it or not you actually can align miracles. Thank you.
Couldn't have put it better!
This is art, we need more like this
That thumbnail looks awesome. I can’t get “OMNES OPTANT MUNDEM REGERE” out of my head.
Topic is on point for the Empire of Rome. Brilliant cover, I love the art. Your voice sounds great too. Love how the Latin is written to rhyme for a few verses.
Makes me think about the good old days… Sieging Alesia… Crossing the Rubicon… Sailing to Egypt… Back then there wasn’t a phone in sight, we were all just legionnaires living in the moment.
Everybody was just a chill guy
@@cobbyboi2646except Sparta
Crucifying dogs...
Je suis Francaise - I am a french Napoleonic soldier of the III Corps, serving under Marshal Murat, all in service for the Emperor and France herself, and it is amazing to learn about older times, and discovering how it is not so different with my time. There be no phones in my day either, but we did have much more than what you guys had, and yet you all still lived to the fullest. That I adore
@@urbainleverrier1 Glory to Murat and Long Live the Emperor 🇫🇷
Omnes optant mundum regere slaps SO hard.
I can just vision it as someone's fullback tattoo.
EDIT: I've gone back on your channel and while there certainly are BANGERS, I think this is your best work yet!
You're giving me ideas, I want it as a tattoo now. 😂
@@Tyme_Whyrlwynd Might I suggest you put the previous line (nihil niquam est aeternum) on the top with a slight arch, and omnes optant mundum regere on the bottom?
id say House of the Rising Sun is better. It's simpler but it's truer to the bardcore and the Old French lyrics is both harder to make due to the fewer people understanding it and is a less popular, more niche choice. The difference is like between progrock Genesis and commercial Genesis
Listened to this dozens of times, don't get tired of it!
this has no business being this good
I really like the idea of changing the language but keeping the instrumentals relatively unchanged; I'd love to see more of this!
The instrumentals are the same I believe
❌ New wave
✅ Nova unda
Cesar hittin secondary vocals on a song about ruling the world? It truly is perfect.
Imagine
This is the song Nero played while rome burned
It is a historical fact that Trajan was singing this while coming back from the Dacian wars.
Too bad he lost The Second War. 😢
I played this for a friend of mine, not knowing she had studied Latin.
Instead of actually listening to the song and enjoying it for what it was she just complained the pronunciations were terrible. I don't know if that's true or not, I think this sounds fantastic.
I have no idea if she was doing a fair assessment or if she was just being negative,
either way, the latin sounds incredible, this seems legit.
She probably studied medieval/church Latin. This is classical Latin. It's supposed to be different
This is classical, also the pronunciations reflect a stylized version for this song.
This is a masterpiece.
My best friend passed out las week, he loved Tears for Fears AND Roman History, he would love this so much.
While listening to it, it makes me feel, somehow, closer to my dear friend, thank you!
How long was he out?
I’m sorry for your loss brother
@@OnionLord9000Bro was hitting that Roman wine hard I guess.....
May the gods lead your friend to elysium
I hope he rests in peace.
The last thing Quintillicus Varus heard as his Legions were cut down.
Nah. That would have been more like Dies Irae.
Nah this is what played when Germanicus was putting in work
@@NoSyrupLeftlol I can imagine that scene
@@NoSyrupLeftWould fit well in the battle of Idistaviso
I like to imagine this latin cover songs are from an AU in which Justinian reunified the roman empire (or at least part of it) and eventually the roman empire became something like modern china, being a large modern state.
It's great!
This fits perfectly.
Also I love that there's romans in the artwork because it's thematically fitting, it took me a little second to notice that.
Not just any random Romans, they are August and Caesar.
@@ORREGOLAC And posed in the same way Tears for Fears was on their album cover. It's the best
Literally adding and downloading this, literally so damn well made. And it's immersive for me when i write my novel, so love it. Can't believe I've only discovered this channel
Author here
Commenting to double up on inspiration for another
Glad to see the Latin enthusiast community is still alive!
If you want, I have a Latin music page totally inspired by the 80s on SoundCloud called "Synthfusion"
Caesar does his own Gulf War.
I've honestly been waiting for this song to be BardCored. Awesome work.
Gallic War
Ironic: Roland Orzabal, the guitarist and main songwriter, has Basque roots on his father's side. The Basques today are the last Iberian and Gallic native tribes to survive Latinization by the Roman Republic and later, Empire, because of the terrain where they lived.
Rambling over: This cover is great!
That’s hella cool, thanks for sharing!
But i heard that Basque is not related to Gallic, Celts or any group in Iberia or Europe. They're their own group
@@ekamandalaputra5517 Yes, Basque is a language isolate. It's believed that it predates the arrival of Indo-Europeans people to Iberia.
Im from Spain, and the comments are right basques are not related to the celts, in fact the celts clashed with them before the romans arrived.
Basques are preindoeuropeans
Basque Native American Blood here
Damn, I want a whole album of 'Lacrimae Pro Timores'.
Wouldn’t “Lacrimae Timoribus” also work as a translation? I think it depends on what “Tears for Fears” really means in English
I used Latin for many years in my work as a medical transcriptionist. These days I work in a preschool. We play restful music during quiet-time. The kiddos somehow interpreted your Latin lyrics as "Everybody wants to Boogaloo." And decided to dance. Rock on babies! Who needs a nap. Latin is not yet a dead language.... if you can dance to it.
Tired, sore, and half-frozen from wind chill, I read your comment, and can just see the kiddos rockin out: I am warmed from within
No joke, I think I may have listened to this version way more times than the original. It's that good.
Arulius was probably blasting this weekly
Aurelius
Never knew i needed this in my life yet here we are.
2025 is shaping up to be an interesting year.
I recommend his old English cover of pumped up kicks
@mimisezlol didn't hit like this one though.
The funny thing is that at first it seems like a completely alien language and only after looking at English lyrics you start to recognise familiar roots like "omni", "reign", "vital" etc.
What happens when half your language is just loanwords from french, a romance language.
You may notice a similar thing with slavs and greek. Mater, Episkop. Even names like the typical Dimitri, which is awfully familiar with Demeter. Or just the overlap with the letters themselves
More similar to italian and spanish tbf
@@elseggs6504 that’s Europe for you.
@@Mynameisnotjoeand south America thanks to our good friend Columbus
I like to imagine this latin cover songs are from an AU in which Justinian reunified the roman empire (or at least part of it) and eventually the roman empire became something like modern china, being a large modern state.
That was perfect. The most niche corner on the Internet. Rock music in Latin. The empire lives on!
Today I found out there's a whole weird anachronistic side of the music TH-cam
earlier someones video combining the oldest sumerian hymn with glitchpop came on my feed... now this...
i cant wait to see whats next
The first song I heard by you was "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" in classical Latin. That song actually helped me through a difficult time in my life. Now there's this song. You keep pushing out songs I didn't know I needed to hear until I did.
Green day likes it up the butt
Another great cover! I like the "soft bardcore" idea, i agree the instrumentals of this song are awesome. Wishing you good health!
Cicero: "Please, my countrymen, let's discuss this in the Senate! Roman politics and sharing the political power is the only way for the Republic of Rome to survive!"
Every single Roman politician with at least a legion in his command: "Okay, true. But, if only I could just defeat my rivals and make myself the undisputed ruler of Rome..."
Cicero was a corrupt slum lord. The senate served the entrenched oligarchy. Julius Caesar was a man supported by the common people and represented their interests to the dismay of people like cicero.
@@Goblinaaaaa I am not comparing Cicero to Caesar, rather I am just talking about the tragedy of Cicero in his last years. After Caesar's assassination, Cicero did whatever he could to restore Roman politics as they were before the Civil Wars. But it was too little, too late. Every single Roman general, both those that assassinated Caesar and those that swore to continue his legacy, everyone was acting on his own interest, even sometimes making alliances with ideological enemies just for convenience. I find tragic that after Caesar assassination Cicero was one of the few concerned with trying to preserve some division of power and stability.
That was what I was talking about, not actually making a case about how good Cicero was. He was a good orator, but also an egocentric man (he build the biggest palace at the time in the entire city of Rome for him to live in it....) and he served his own self interest (well, you call him "corrupt", which is pretty... accurate. Now, who in the Roman Senate at that time could not be corrupt? Even Caesar was involved, to the neck. Or what was the First Triunvirate, if not a corrupt alliance by the three most powerful men in Rome at the time to take control over Rome's entire political life?). ´
Roman politics weren't about democracy, or about the will of the people. A patrician's vote was worth the same as thousands of homeless, and that says a lot. The true reason behind Roman politics, is that it was a system designed to avoid a single person to take all the political power of Rome and acting as a tyrant, ruling over Rome on his own benefit. With, for better or worse, was exactly what happened after the beginning of the Empire and until the fall of Rome.
@@Goblinaaaaa Caesar was a demagogue who used street violence and political intimidation to ride rough-shod over the laws of the republic, terrorise his opponents, and ultimately sieze control of the state. Like just about every other politician who has ever claimed to represent the interest of the common people, he only ever cared about them as far as they could be used to serve his own ambitions. He was a dictator and a military strongman, who once he took power took away the political rights of the people he claimed to represent by fixing all the elections, sometimes for years in advance.
TLDR; I have never understood how people can be so wise to the corruption of the senate, but close their eyes to the corruption of people like Caesar.
This sounds so much like Red's voice
@@alberum8442 All to maintain/restore the balance/division of power... to serve the entrenched oligarchy (to the detriment of the common people.)
WAKE UP! NEW BARDCORE COVER! 🗣️🗣️💥💥💥‼️
The cover we didnt know we needed
i just keep coming back to this no matter what
i really keep coming back here
im back again everytime this song comes up ill reply to my comment
and i am back a day later it showed up on my recommended so yeah
@@petertukavkin9940yo
damn been 3 days since i listened to this
Love the new format with modern music. I come here for the awesome Latin, and this one delivers perfectly!
That's f'ing brilliant.
Came for the title and stayed for the tune.
👍🏼
the thumbnail is just ✨️perfect✨️
who's the artist?
This is genuinely fantastic to listen to. Thank you for creating this.
Another track to add to the time travelling playlist. Julius is gonna love this one.
More of this needs to exist.
Also, _semper ubi sub ubi_
Woah didnt expect to see you here haha
@@illuminati955 Took 4 years of Latin! Though not Wheelock, I took Ecce Romani lol.
computer nerds and latin, guess we cannot escape destiny haha!
hi jeff, really enjoying your content
Nōlī fvtvere...
I learn more Latin every time you release a video like this it's so fun
The legendary man returns with another legendary cover.
Laudamus Miraculum Dispositor (I don't really know Latin, so forgive me for incorrect grammar)
Your grammar is totally fine, actually. I might only suggest "Laudemus" as a better fit semanticwise
@@dimzaytsev4052imperative instead of indicative?
Truly wish a person from the late Republic - like, during Caesar's lifetime - could hear this with full context of how and why it was produced. To see how Rome's legacy endured and shaped nations and culture for milennia to come, to get a glimpse through the lyrics and music what the people who came after were like. We're so lucky to get to look into the minds of people from the past and to hear their thoughts and feelings - sometimes I wish it wasn't a one-way street.
This sounds so beautiful in Latin. The pure vowels 😍
I really appreciate how much work you put into these, it's incredible
For whatever reason I can't stop listening to it! So good!
I need to know the context behind whoever thought, "We need this in Classical Latin."
In the description, the artist says "I wanted to do this song for a long time"
Why does it sound so good ?!
It's marvelous !
This song takes on such a deeper meaning when spoken through the langue of greatness.
YOOOOO, new drop from the emperor.
I remember singing this with my homie while we walked all the way through north africa from middle east to Iberia. Too bad I never avenged by family's death, but atleast I created a cool empire there.
what is this a reference to
Thank god Iberia isn't muslim
I'm a 2224 years old. I still remember the day I bought my first record. At that day I need to walk barefoot through the forest, swim across the sea, fight the bears, attack the Greeks & so on just to exchange my mother's ring to a record.. Kids nowadays had it easy with the free Spotify.
Good on you not messing with Tears for Fear's instrumentals! Indeed, you don't mess with perfection.
Does this cover make anyone else wish they had a time machine so they could blast this song across the hills and fields of ancient Rome just to mess with them?
No? Just me?
Me too
Man, I remember when you started this bardcore kick. You've really improved a lot with your singing. Keep it up!
This might be the best video I've come across on YT in the last 10 years, at least. Simply awesome.
this is history ladies and gent, history being made, that has been made!
I drink to that!
@@VaultBoy101bylucas Me 2!
We're busting outta the Colosseum with this one SPQR 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥
I really like the idea of keeping the original instruments in this one. Absolute peak.
Welcome back! Best wishes for your recovery. This is lovely work.
Always loved your covers and this is one of my favourite songs, so thank you! Please take care and get well soon.
Oh man, I wish I noticed this before I walked into work. Now I have to wait to listen!
Never knew the hollowness of my soul, until I heard this melody. -some roman listening to this absolute banger.
Wow this is almost on the same level as the original, my mind is blown...
Welcome back, I needed this today!
The vocals are magnificent, truly great.
You have created an ear worm to last a thousand years!
This is EPIC! I love the original song, and Latin is a cool language. The combo makes it even better! I hope to see more vids like this in the future. 🥰🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
This is absolutely incredible! I want to hear more 80’s hits in classical Latin now
Caeser reminiscing all the victories in gaul, germania, Britannia, Egypt, Syria, and finally, over pompey magnus.......
As he's being presented his head.....
The thoughts turn to his memories of the once great man in front of him...
I am a man and had not thought about the Roman Empire even once today. Great cover and a good save!
bro I swear i fell in love with the first notes of this. Keep Goin'!
I don't know if I'm the only one, but that version of the song feels like it could be on a comedic scene of a asterisk and obelisk movie, it's just feeling like it could fit in one like a glove...
Considering that there's a series coming out soon, I can see that
It's the most beautiful thing I've heard this year. Thank you, that's everything for me.
This is really great and that drawing is perfect. Think I've listened to this 10 times already