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The first thing we need in ARS....is posts, posts, posts! If there is anything you have seen about Roman art, if there is any question you have or anything you want to know, where to find certain pieces of art, how archaeology (digs, find registration, archive and research) goes about, where to study these fine pieces of art and where to get knowledge of the forerunners of and examples of Roman art, this is your place to be! The best thing of a group is sharing information and getting to it! So: post! As soon as this fine group starts being active again, we can move on fast to a nice art game or building up our art museum together!

So, folks, gather up at ARS ROMANA and show us your interest!

He does the first thing, because he needs his daily writing practice and he has to keep the hungry mob of panting ladies satisfied. That's why you don't see his entries at the Boards Messages Page. But he writes (almost) daily!!! You can read his deranged stuff

Vorenus, Pullo and Octavian are amongst the mounted officers grouped around the standard - A Heron with wings outstretched, representing Mark Antony. Strabo is a few meters back, atop a small mule, scrupulously averting his eyes from....

On Pullo et al...

Pullo: How far now? Quam longe demum?

Vorenus: Three hours at pace. Tres horas hac celeritate.

Pullo claps his hands gleefully.

Pullo: Ahai! Here I come girls! I'm going to drink all the wine and smoke all the smoke and f**k every whore in the city.

Hahae! Puellae, advenio! Omne vinum bibam, omnem herbam sugam et omnem lupam in Urbe futuam.

Vorenus: Show some dignity. You're under the standard. Dignitatem tuere. Sub signo es.

Pullo (gesturing toward Antony): Talk to him. Eas res ei dic.

Vorenus: He's not under the standard. Ille sub signo non est.

Pullo rolls his eyes at Octavian, who smiles back.

Pullo: Three hours away from a wife he hasn't seen in eight years. The man's terrified. Tres horas abest ab uxore VIII annos non visa. Mortis metus eum capit.

Vorenus: Talk of something else. De aliis rebus loquere.

Pullo: Terrified. What if she's lost her teeth? What if she's gotten skinny? What if she's been letting other men get between her legs and....

Mortis metus! Quid ad eam omnes dentes perditam? Quid si strigosa facta est? Quid si alios viros inter crures accepit et....

I have completed the full translation of episode 1, this means that I have copied the directions in English into a new document and put the Latin translations of the spoken texts in between. I have already moved on to working on episode 2 and as we speak, Lemniscus is working on episode 3. I tend to complete (among other assignments I have to work on) an average of 10 translated pages per day. This means that it takes me about 5 to 6 days to complete the translation of an episode. This includes the translation into various kinds of Latin: literal and colloquial (sermo quotidianus) Latin for people like Caesar, Pompey, Brutus, Cato, Cicero and people like them, vulgar Latin for people like Pullo, Vorenus, other plebians and commoners. Last but not least, there is what I tend to call "cross Latin" for those who are no Latin native speakers, such as Gauls, Greeks, Egyptians, foreign slaves and the like, who don not speak English as their true native tongue in the series either. Doing this is quite a challenge, but it's rather fun as well! I hope to hear more from the BBC or HBO soon...Do you?

Perhaps you might want to have a look at what I did to the introductory voice over text of Episode I ("The Stolen Eagle")? Here it is:

English:

Four hundred years after the last king was driven from the city, the Republic of Rome rules many nations, but it cannot rules itself. The city os constantly roiled by conflict between the common people and the nobility. Power is shared and order maintained by two soldiers -old friends- Gnaeus Pompey Magnus and Gaius Julius Caesar. Once, Pompey was acknowledged by all to be the greater man, but for the last eight years, while Pompey has kept the peace in Rome, Caesar has waged a war of conquest in Rome that has made him ever more rich and popular. The balance of power is shifting, and the nobilty have grown fearful. Though of noble blood himself, Caesar stands with the common people. A man like that -an aristocrat with soldiers, money, and the love of the people, might make himself king.

Latin:

Episodion X "Triumphus"

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English:

Caesar to the Senate: "Oppose me and Rome will not forgive you a second time."

Latin:

Caesar ad Senatum: "Si me obsistitis, Roma non iterum veniam vobis dabit."

English:

Brutus to Caesar: "You and I, where do we stand?"

Caesar to Brutus: "Where DO we stand?"

Latin:

Brutus ad Caesarem: "Inter me et te, ut valet nostra amicitia?"

Caesar ad Brutum: "Maxime, UT valet?"

English:

Brutus to Cicero: "Well, the Republic was old and infirm. Death can be merciful in such cases."

Cicero to Brutus: "You don't mean that. You don't believe that. You, of all people shouldn't make jokes about tyranny."

Latin:

Brutus ad Ciceronem: "Iam vero, Res Publica vetus et infirma fuit. (In) talibus rebus mors misericors esse potest."

Cicero ad Brutum: "Num id putas? Id non credere potes! Tibi omnium civium tyrannidem deludere non licet."