Schoolkids rapping in Latin

by Kris Wed Jun 15, 2011 3:51 am

Obviously no idea what it means, but looks like they had a lot of fun,,,

Exegi Rap

by Kris Mon Jun 27, 2011 2:11 pm

Kris wrote:Obviously no idea what it means, but looks like they had a lot of fun,,,

Exegi Rap

Horace (65 B.C.–8 B.C.)

EXEGI monumentum aere perennius
regalique situ pyramidum altius,
quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens
possit diruere aut innumerabilis

annorum series et fuga temporum: 5
non omnis moriar multaque pars mei
uitabit Libitinam; usque ego postera
crescam laude recens, dum Capitolium

scandet cum tacita uirgine pontifex;
dicar, qua uiolens obstrepit Aufidus 10
et qua pauper aquae Daunus agrestium
regnauit populorum, ex humili potens,

princeps Aeolium carmen ad Italos
deduxisse modos. sume superbiam
quaestam meritis et mihi Delphica 15
lauro cinge uolens, Melpomene, comam.
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exegi monumentum aere perennius
Odes III.30
by Horace (65-8 B.C.)

I have completed a monument
more lasting than bronze and far higher
than that royal pile of Pyramids,
which the gnawing rain and furious
north wind cannot destroy, nor the chain
of countless years and the flight of time.
My end won't be complete, and a great
part of me will evade the death-god:
I'll prosper on, fresh with future praise.
As long as the priest with the silent
virgin climbs the Capitoline hill,
high and low - where raging Aufidus
thunders, where Daunus rules over a
farming people poor of water - I
will be proclaimed to have been the first
to adapt Aeolic songs into
Italian measures. Melpomene,
accept the proud honor you have earned
and crown my head with Delphic laurel.

by Kris Mon Jun 27, 2011 2:24 pm

Can't follow more than the first paragraph of the rap, based on the latin text, but this horace seems to have been cool

(and I am now convinced this internet addiction has finally made me go off the deep end, considering I am digging up guys from 2000 years ago and listening to rap versions of their utterances)

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Schoolkids rapping in Latin

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