Life of Brian - ROMANES EUNT DOMUS

The scene of Monty Python's movie "Life Of Brian" where Brian is given a latin lesson. Great film, genius team!!!

Subtitle

CENTURION: What's this, then? 'Romanes Eunt Domus'? 'People called Romanes they go the house'?
BRIAN: It-- it says, 'Romans, go home'.
CENTURION: No, it doesn't. What's Latin for 'Roman'? Come on!
BRIAN: Aah!
CENTURION: Come on!
BRIAN: 'R-- Romanus'?
CENTURION: Goes like...?
BRIAN: 'Annus'?
CENTURION: Vocative plural of 'annus' is...?
BRIAN: Eh. 'Anni'?
CENTURION: 'Romani'. 'Eunt'? What is 'eunt'?
BRIAN: 'Go'. Let--
CENTURION: Conjugate the verb 'to go'.
BRIAN: Uh. 'Ire'. Uh, 'eo'. 'Is'. 'It'. 'Imus'. 'Itis'. 'Eunt'.
CENTURION: So 'eunt' is...?
BRIAN: Ah, huh, third person plural, uh, present indicative. Uh, 'they go'.
CENTURION: But 'Romans, go home' is an order, so you must use the...?
BRIAN: The... imperative!
CENTURION: Which is...?
BRIAN: Umm! Oh. Oh. Um, 'i'. 'I'!
CENTURION: How many Romans?
BRIAN: Ah! 'I'-- Plural. Plural. 'Ite'. 'Ite'.
CENTURION: 'Ite'.
BRIAN: Ah. Eh.
CENTURION: 'Domus'?
BRIAN: Eh.
CENTURION: Nominative?
BRIAN: Oh.
CENTURION: 'Go home'? This is motion towards. Isn't it, boy?
BRIAN: Ah. Ah, dative, sir! Ahh! No, not dative! Not the dative, sir! No! Ah! Oh, the... accusative! Accusative! Ah! 'Domum', sir! 'Ad domum'! Ah! Oooh! Ah!
CENTURION: Except that 'domus' takes the...?
BRIAN: The locative, sir!
CENTURION: Which is...?!
BRIAN: 'Domum'.
CENTURION: 'Domum'.
BRIAN: Aaah! Ah.
CENTURION: 'Um'. Understand?
BRIAN: Yes, sir.
CENTURION: Now, write it out a hundred times.
BRIAN: Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir.
CENTURION: Hail Caesar. If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.
BRIAN: Oh, thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar and everything, sir! Oh. Mmm!
Finished!
ROMAN SOLDIER STIG: Right. Now don't do it again.
[CENTURIONS chase BRIAN]
MAN: Hey! Bloody Romans.

Category:

Comedy

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• Monty
• Python
• Life
• Brian
• Latin
• romanes
• eunt
• domus
• romani
• ite
• domum
• grammar
• latin
• lesson
• fun
• movie

[adventchild1001]

like this if you found this in fallout

[TheR3dsH4d0w]

GRAMMAR POLICE!!!

[46milleja]

Blech latin :P i took that language and hated every minute of it

[RomaeTV]

A great way to teach the Imperative.

[willobi]

a new NCR mission agenst the legion for fallout new vegas called.

"ROMANS GO HOME"

[wordlife94]

@ghostdog7575 I know that. But he said domum was the locative, which it isn't

[ghostdog7575]

@wordlife94 when the verb expresses "movement" the place of destination is domum! You don't use locative here! Go back to your books!!!

[suprhavkdogi]

Thumbs up if you understand all of the lessons

[proxyoflove]

@reasonablenamehere Whoa, you're not kidding. Incomprehensible! I want some of those drugs.

[DarkBladeZD]

I know Latin. So this is that much more fucking funny.

[PEATANTICS]

@reasonablenamehere Fish eggs = roe which is a homonym of row as in row the boat or hoe the row hence roe man or row man sounds like ROMAN up shoot creek without a paddle. Eta is a brand of peanut butter, p and pea are also homonyms. leica is a brand of camera with a homonym of "Like a" DOH sounds like Dough as in Money or in Bread before being baked. Marge is Homers wife and is in Margerine which is made from seeds of flowers but not rose flowers usually Canola or Sunflower

[CRAZEDMETHOD]

This Scene became more funny after I learned Latin