Monday, February 19, 2018

Latin Language Spoken Example 4 - Octavian

The people, producers and actors, who made this have my whole-hearted gratitude and admiration.  The young (18 years old he was then, as I recall) Octavian is just spectacular, and very much as he must in fact have been--I love the way he pronounces "etiam" and "servus."  In the comments I notice that this very plausible reconstruction of the phonetics of classical Latin hurts modern Italian ears (to whom, not unnaturally, it sounds "Germanic") and that others say it's Spanish-accented; even as, according to my my own best efforts at re-creating it, it probably sort-of was.

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