The Greek phrase, "καὶ σύ, τέκνον" translates to "you too, child", and is one of the most likely phrases said by Julius Caesar after or during his assassination. It was most likely directed at Marcus Junius Brutus, the son of Caesars favourite mistress. Brutus was also one of the main planners of the attack, and Caesar would of felt very betrayed at the assassination. Furthermore, Caesar often referred to Brutus as "son" or "child", making the quote a likely phrase that Caesar would have said. Hope this clears up any confusion!
I feel like Caesar, as a seasoned campaigner, probably swore a lot, and tried to fight back, until, he lost his energy and collapsed before looking around in disbelief, cursing his killers, and probably also himself, before dying. Also jokes on you, I didn't believe any of these myths! Good video though 10/10
This is the real deal on Latin. There were three Latins at the time: what we call Old Latin, Latina Prisca; Classical Latin, which is a purely literary language; Vulgar Latin. In Latin vulgus means crowd, so it’s the Latin of the ordinary people. Old Latin, the Latin of Terence, Plautus and Cato the Elder, was different in grammar, syntax and lexis from what came later. The date usually given for its disappearance is c.100BC, which happens to be when Caesar was born. In common Latin, there were different words (lexis). For example, the Classical Latin word for horse was equus (hence equestrian). VL said caballus (hence cavalier, etc.). The CL word for head was caput (hence capital) while VL said testa, literally pot Think of the word for head in French, Spanish, etc. By the second century AD, the language had changed. A man named Probus wrote a grammar book and its appendix, the Appendix Probi, lists all the things people say but in his opinion shouldn’t. For example people were saying mascel and femel, but he reminds the reader that the correct words are masculinus and feminina. You may notice that the two wrong words gave us male and female. He also says that people are forgetting to add the m at the ends of words in the accusative (direct object) case. He says, I know we don’t say it it anymore, but you must remember to add it in writing. Another loss he Notes is the final s in masculine nouns and also the n in consonant clusters. Constantine would have in his time actually have been pronounced Costatinu by many. The infamous Latin v, as in Life of Brian, was indeed a W in Classical Latin, but slowly became bv in VL, and eventually v as we have it today. All this was part of my doctoral research.
A piece of trivia regarding people used in gladiatorial battle. When they first started feeding Christians to the lions, more often than not the Christians won. So the organizers had to start breaking the Christians arms before entering the arena to give the lions a better chance lol
The Roman Empire did not last for 2000 years. It was founded in 27 BC. Just about 16 centuries. If you include the Roman Kingdom and the Roman Republic, you can also include the Papal States. Ancient Rome is about 8th century BC to 6th century AD. Then you can’t include Byzantium. While it was the Roman Empire, it ruled over Rome until the 8th century AD, after that Rome was ruled by the popes.
I remember watching a history/artifact show with my stepmother and they talked about gladiators. I always thought they were slaves and criminals put in the arena for various reasons. That show taught me that those slaves and gladiators are different. The real money from gladiators was people's attachment to them. Everyone had a favorite gladiator, them surviving more than a day made it easier when choosing who to bet on. They were also more fatty in appearance than muscular as they were fed a diet meant to give them more meat so that they could take hits and lose a lot of blood without easily dying. Basically stories where sold to the people, the more beloved a gladiator the more likely people where willing to bet high on them.
Thank you for telling me what I believe as I did not know what I believed about ancient Rome until now.. In reality all that you said are topics I never give a thought to. Places and events of 2 000-odd years ago are of precisely zero concern to me.
Julius Caesar’s last words were reputedly, “Καί σύ τέκνον?” (in Greek, not Latin) but in fact, the ancient sources tell us that after being stabbed multiple times and collapsing amid a pool of blood, with enormous effort, he gradually raised himself up and began breaking out into rap: 🎶🎵”Hello, I started this gangsta sh*#, and that’s the muthaf@*%#* thanks I get?!...”🎶🎵. - ADDENDUM (edit): Those famous last words were to be popularized more than two millennia later by the publication of that magnum opus by the great classical scholars, ICE CUBE feat. DR. DRE and MC REM.
I'd like to point out, Julius Caesar most likely spoke Greek than Latin as Greek became a language of the Roman elite by that time. Latin was the language of the masses for that time. So the last words of Julius Caesar would probably be in Greek and not Latin if there was any.
That is a myth that latin was for the masses steaming from people thinking there was two different latins between the classes First was classical, other was vulgar.
BC, not BCE. The Gregorian Calendar is the most accurate calendar ever devised. Saying BCE is an insult to the religion that invented it. Saying BCE is just saying that you hate Catholics.
The Gregorian calendar wasn’t what invented BC and AD. Those were invented as Latin versions of Greek words invented by Exiguus, a monk in Alexandria in the sixth century. It was popularised by Bede, the Northumbrian chronicler in one of the twenty books he wrote, On the Measurement of Time, in about 700AD. The calendar they both used is the Julian Calendar, invented by Julius Caesar.
insane how many of those i thought were true
Somehow, I suspect that the last word of Julius Caesar are not words that you would say in church
The Greek phrase, "καὶ σύ, τέκνον" translates to "you too, child", and is one of the most likely phrases said by Julius Caesar after or during his assassination. It was most likely directed at Marcus Junius Brutus, the son of Caesars favourite mistress. Brutus was also one of the main planners of the attack, and Caesar would of felt very betrayed at the assassination. Furthermore, Caesar often referred to Brutus as "son" or "child", making the quote a likely phrase that Caesar would have said. Hope this clears up any confusion!
"OMG! They killed Julius!
You B*s*ar*s!"
He said "Ha! You cannot harm a god with your feeble weapons. Take your hand off my toga."
Then they said "stab, stab, stab."
Thanks for clearing these up, I love how straight to the point you were, I can't wait for more videos, I can see you growing very fast!
dang, watched and enjoyed the video and was shocked to see that you have rather few followers for the quality of your content. really good video👍🏻
I truly enjoyed this video. Well done Sir.
I feel like Caesar, as a seasoned campaigner, probably swore a lot, and tried to fight back, until, he lost his energy and collapsed before looking around in disbelief, cursing his killers, and probably also himself, before dying. Also jokes on you, I didn't believe any of these myths! Good video though 10/10
This is the real deal on Latin. There were three Latins at the time: what we call Old Latin, Latina Prisca; Classical Latin, which is a purely literary language; Vulgar Latin. In Latin vulgus means crowd, so it’s the Latin of the ordinary people. Old Latin, the Latin of Terence, Plautus and Cato the Elder, was different in grammar, syntax and lexis from what came later. The date usually given for its disappearance is c.100BC, which happens to be when Caesar was born. In common Latin, there were different words (lexis). For example, the Classical Latin word for horse was equus (hence equestrian). VL said caballus (hence cavalier, etc.). The CL word for head was caput (hence capital) while VL said testa, literally pot Think of the word for head in French, Spanish, etc.
By the second century AD, the language had changed. A man named Probus wrote a grammar book and its appendix, the Appendix Probi, lists all the things people say but in his opinion shouldn’t. For example people were saying mascel and femel, but he reminds the reader that the correct words are masculinus and feminina. You may notice that the two wrong words gave us male and female. He also says that people are forgetting to add the m at the ends of words in the accusative (direct object) case. He says, I know we don’t say it it anymore, but you must remember to add it in writing. Another loss he Notes is the final s in masculine nouns and also the n in consonant clusters. Constantine would have in his time actually have been pronounced Costatinu by many.
The infamous Latin v, as in Life of Brian, was indeed a W in Classical Latin, but slowly became bv in VL, and eventually v as we have it today.
All this was part of my doctoral research.
Thanks for that.
Love the format. Your channel is going places.
Well, I actually knew all of these facts but it is a good thing to debunk common myths like that. 👍
Informative. I even learned something new! The "vomitorium ", I had read wasn't true ,but I didn't know about the entries. Thanks!!!!
A piece of trivia regarding people used in gladiatorial battle. When they first started feeding Christians to the lions, more often than not the Christians won. So the organizers had to start breaking the Christians arms before entering the arena to give the lions a better chance lol
The Roman Empire did not last for 2000 years. It was founded in 27 BC. Just about 16 centuries. If you include the Roman Kingdom and the Roman Republic, you can also include the Papal States. Ancient Rome is about 8th century BC to 6th century AD. Then you can’t include Byzantium. While it was the Roman Empire, it ruled over Rome until the 8th century AD, after that Rome was ruled by the popes.
I probably knew all that stuff. Certainly knew the bits I paid attention to
Some require common sense others seem believable and others Hollywood make us believe
Made* for the Hollywood one
I remember watching a history/artifact show with my stepmother and they talked about gladiators. I always thought they were slaves and criminals put in the arena for various reasons. That show taught me that those slaves and gladiators are different. The real money from gladiators was people's attachment to them. Everyone had a favorite gladiator, them surviving more than a day made it easier when choosing who to bet on. They were also more fatty in appearance than muscular as they were fed a diet meant to give them more meat so that they could take hits and lose a lot of blood without easily dying. Basically stories where sold to the people, the more beloved a gladiator the more likely people where willing to bet high on them.
Caesar did indeed speak Greek to Brutus, and what he said was ‘you too, my son?’, only in Greek.
Thank you for telling me what I believe as I did not know what I believed about ancient Rome until now.. In reality all that you said are topics I never give a thought to. Places and events of 2 000-odd years ago are of precisely zero concern to me.
Surely Ceasar's last words were: 'Infamy...! Tnfamy...! They've all got it in for me...! 🤪
Another myth: Cleopatra was Inuit. 👍🏿
The ruins are truly annoying! When the Aztecs saw them they concluded to their own remains...
Julius Caesar’s last words were reputedly, “Καί σύ τέκνον?” (in Greek, not Latin) but in fact, the ancient sources tell us that after being stabbed multiple times and collapsing amid a pool of blood, with enormous effort, he gradually raised himself up and began breaking out into rap: 🎶🎵”Hello, I started this gangsta sh*#, and that’s the muthaf@*%#* thanks I get?!...”🎶🎵. - ADDENDUM (edit): Those famous last words were to be popularized more than two millennia later by the publication of that magnum opus by the great classical scholars, ICE CUBE feat. DR. DRE and MC REM.
nice
I knew all of them, but thank you for the video nonetheless.
I knew all this beforehand, but I am an insufferable know-it-all.
I'd like to point out, Julius Caesar most likely spoke Greek than Latin as Greek became a language of the Roman elite by that time. Latin was the language of the masses for that time. So the last words of Julius Caesar would probably be in Greek and not Latin if there was any.
Thanks for pointing that out!
No, Roman patricians spoke latin
Latin was the official language of Roman administration , to think they spoke Greek when senators meet in Rome is nonsense.
Ignorant Greekoid trying to rewrite the history books again
That is a myth that latin was for the masses steaming from people thinking there was two different latins between the classes
First was classical, other was vulgar.
Painting the statues would have freaked me out , it would look like a Steven King novel. 🤡🤪🤡🤡🤡
2:37, actually only 27 stabbed him
BC, not BCE. The Gregorian Calendar is the most accurate calendar ever devised. Saying BCE is an insult to the religion that invented it. Saying BCE is just saying that you hate Catholics.
The Gregorian calendar wasn’t what invented BC and AD. Those were invented as Latin versions of Greek words invented by Exiguus, a monk in Alexandria in the sixth century. It was popularised by Bede, the Northumbrian chronicler in one of the twenty books he wrote, On the Measurement of Time, in about 700AD. The calendar they both used is the Julian Calendar, invented by Julius Caesar.
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BC not BCE. There you go fixed it for you.
Both are correct.
BC (Before Christ) goes with AD (Anno Domini)
BCE (Before Current Era) goes with CE (Current Era).... Dumbass
I find it pretty arrogant the way you capitalise "YOU" in your titles. As if nobody but you has any knowledge
nerd
no u
Imagine calling someone a nerd because they know more than you.
UNLESS U KNOW READ LATIN. TRANSLATE 2,000 YEAR DOMCUMENT