The Consolation of Philosophy - Latin Language Learning

A short excerpt from George Sharpley's film about Boethius, who wrote the Consolation of Philosophy in the prison where he died. Characters speak the Latin of his lifetime (6th century AD), e.g. soft 'c's and 'g's. For more of this and other Latin films and learning resources see The LATIN QVARTER: http://www.lingua.co.uk/latin/index.php

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[Lucius133]

Abs te dissentio. licet mutabilis sit Fortuna, est (in hoc saltem spectaculo) admodum bellula.

[MaBu888]

Notice this: in this video, the language they speak is a combination: classical Latin and a vulgar language, especially, the guard saying, eggiannunc edo with Italic vowel length and ggia sound, unlike etiam nunc edo. From iam came gia'. Add to this, the English accent, arguebly a small amount.

[Lucius133]

It means "My life, not (my) desire". It's not grammatically correct; it should read "Mea vita, haud desiderium".

[yeolstrat]

Meus vita , haud desiderium

Is anyone able to tell me what this means? And if it is grammatically correct.

[Shastri Akella]

You are here and your mentor is Nakita.

[Littorio Romani]

Melius quam "krautenfresser".

[ballebanan]

My greatest interest is to know how the different varieties of vulgar Latin were spoken over the Roman Empire, but that's probably hard to say...

[magikalme]

Wow, great to find this here on You Tube. 'The Consolation of Philosophy" is one of my favorite books btw. :-)

[MaBu888]

But in ecclesiastical Latin, etiam nunc is not pronounced as eggiannunc, but as etsiam nunc. Eggiamnunc is a non-literary way of pronnouncing Latin, while Ecclesiastical Latin came from a form of Late Classical Latin. Just for the sace of technicality. Ita vero, quod mirabilius dicere multas giamque pronunziatziones!

[Samantha Mauney]

Yep. I also caught some heavy ecclesiastic pronunciation in there too.