Morgan Freeman reads the opening lines of the Aeneid in Latin (impression)
Channel: Ancient Literature Dude
Date: 2021-09-13

Morgan Freeman. Virgil. Arma virumque cano. The Latin language and the voice of Ancient Rome read by the voice of God. The beginning of one of the most epic poems of Latin literature and of the ancient world.


Arma virumque canō, Trōiae quī prīmus ab ōrīs
Ītaliam, fātō profugus, Lāvīniaque vēnit
lītora, multum ille et terrīs iactātus et altō
vī superum saevae memorem Iūnōnis ob īram;
multa quoque et bellō passūs, dum conderet urbem,               
inferretque deōs Latiō, genus unde Latīnum,
Albānīque patrēs, atque altae moenia Rōmae.

Mūsa, mihī causās memorā, quō nūmine laesō,
quidve dolēns, rēgīna deum tot volvere cāsūs
īnsīgnem pietāte virum, tot adīre labōrēs                                   
impulerit. Tantaene animīs caelestibus īrae? 

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