Roman Legionary gives speech on Roman Triumph at Living Latin in New York City ⚔️ · Legionarius ·

Join me at Living Latin in New York City 2024! Use this link to get $50 off the $180 registration fee: www.paideiainstitute.org/llinyc_registration_payme… I don't get any money if you sign up, but I'm happy to be able to offer my audience such a huge discount to this one-of-a-kind event. Nōs vidēbimus illīc! See you there! ERRATA At 3:37, I said "Tiberim" but I think "Rubicōnem" would have made more sense, since that was what Julius Caesar's 13th Legion was so famous for doing. While I had practiced my talk beforehad and knew what I was going to say, I did not memorize it verbatim, so you're hearing me speak Latin fluently from my head as I would speak about these topics in English (and thus errors and gaffs can occur, as in any fluently spoken language). 13:25 For some reason I say "pilum" (with a short vowel) instead of "pīlum," apparently confusing the word with "pilus," meaning a hair. Many thanks to my friend Metatron, who inspired me to learn about the Lorica Segmentata. See this video of his on the Lorica Segmentata that I helped him translate into Latin: https://youtu.be/lJq_l6Ihs2c

"because they did not yet understand that they were conquered" is such a wonderfully Imperial-Roman way of putting things

Can we just appreciate for a second that the audience was laughing at the right times and demonstrating that their Latin fluency was enough to follow and understand a talk completely delivered in Latin:P?

Imagine this guy at the airport, getting through the security check and shouting to the security personnel "LEGIONARIVS SVM LEGIONIS XIII" ! That was an amazing video by the way! Have you ever been invited in a high school Latin class ?

The fact you make a joke in fluent latin in the 21 century and have people laughting without subtitles is amazing

Something about a Roman soldier giving a PowerPoint presentation tickles me.

Alternate timeline where the Roman Empire conquered the entire world and the Lorica Segmentata is a ceremonial uniform.

Edict from the Emperor: send us more documentaries Rūfus!

He is not pretending. He is in fact a warrior for empire.

I adore how amazingly geeky this is! Please don't ever stop doing this. Preserving history AND amazing cosplay, whats not to love?

You bring ancient Rome back to life! Thank you!

I started laughing when the audience member answered "tres" because all i could could think of was caesar's account of the gaelic wars and i couldnt stop smiling about it for the rest od the video

Absolutely brilliant public speaking skills

Love how your voice gets gentler once you become lucius again at the end hahah, its almost like you're posessed by rufus!

7:05 "Ego sum ille tertius a laeva" instantly broke me! haha 😂

So unique, so valuable, so creative and so fun. It's the closest thing to a time machine trip straight to the Roman Empire days. Thank you! ❤

That was an impressive mini lecture. Even though I don't speak latin, it was fascinating to listen and hear so many recognizable words compared how their distant permutations are used today.

Gotta love how you not only wrote and recited an entire speech in Latin, but managed to inject very natural-sounding humor into it for that extra bit of verisimilitude and humanity. Even though I needed the subtitles to understand the speech (because I know precious little Latin), I was enthralled. Very impressive!

As a Spanish speaker, when I watch this a second and third time, it's amazing how I begin to actually "hear" the words and have them make sense. After watching three to four times, I can "understand" about 50-70% of what's being said without reading the captions. Language and the organization of thought is a fascinating thing.

An extended tour through Romanian universities and highschools would be highly appreciated. Romanians love it when someone is making fun of their ancestors, the Dacians. I think professors would pay you to give speeches and to perform, as you performed here, in their university's Aula Magna.