RockingClassics

We'll be posting popular songs rendered in Latin. Think you can guess the song? Stylistic suggestions and grammatical corrections welcome.

🚨 CFP! @Libertinopatren is organizing another online conference for the summer! If you tuned in for the #NakedSoul, you’ll know what an amazing conference this is! 🚨 #classicstwitter #teachancient

Very excited to be able to finally share a mostly-finalized schedule for the #OurVoices conference -- registration is still open, which is good because I imagine you'll want to sign up IMMEDIATELY after y'all get a look at these fantastic sessions! docs.google.com/document/d/18N…

MRECC is pleased to announce that our organization is officially sponsoring Our Voices, a conference for those who wish to address inequities in Latin pedagogy (and the study of the Ancient Mediterranean). When? Feb. 15 and 16 Where? Columbia University ourvoicesinclassics.com

Registration is open for the Our Voices! It’s a conference for teachers and students who want to make the study of Latin more equitable. If you can’t make it, please consider donating! #classicstwitter #teachancient #latinteach ourvoicesinclassics.com

Friends! Romans! Countryfolk! I'm incredibly excited to announce this conference that @GregoryStringer and @SkyeAShirley and I have been working on -- Our Voices: A Conference for Inclusive Classics Pedagogy. Registration is open, February 15-16 in NY! ourvoicesinclassics.com

@MrBoscovitch @apistone Congratulations to both of you, right on! I knew this one was not as broadly known, but it was too good to pass up using the "Last Remaining Light" for the last song. Plus it's a wonderful song, give it a listen when you have a chance!

Volve me in tuis agris glacialibus Frange ossa mea ut ea resanescentia observes Mersa me in tuis venis sitientibus Ubi observabo et opperiar et orabo imbrem Flecte sicut fumus et spira iterum Deorsum in fauces tuas, intra costas tuas, Per spinam tuam et omnem nervum #RoaminRomans

Just a reminder that we're 4 for 4 on guessing the song and artist so far! This is the last one for #RoaminRomans, so decipher it for a good cause!

@apistone There are probably other better examples one could dig up were one so inclined, but I try to make it one of my guiding principles not to drive myself crazy trying for perfect "classical" latinity 😅

@apistone Full points! The Lewis and Short entry s.v. 'phalanx' (see link below) has an (admittedly late) exemplum of genitive used for the numbers of a group noun, which I think is the most likely interpretation of 'murder of one' here? perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?do…

Somniavi me videre te ambulantem In collem niveum Umbrans hiemalem caelum Dum ibi stabas numerans cornices Unus dolori, duo gaudio, Tres puellis et quattuor pueris, Quinque argento, sex auro, Septem arcano numquam narrando #RoaminRomans

@apistone Ita vero! Et quid nomen carminis est?

@RockingClassics Counting Crows!!!

@ala_Camillae @BrittaAger Ita vero! And an excellent gif, full points all around!

Relinquebar fabricis meis Multi dies defluxerunt nihilo ostendu Et moenia proruebant In urbe amata nobis Canae nubes volvunt super colles Ferentes tenebras desuper At si clauditis oculos vestros, Sentitne paene sicut Nihil sane mutavit? #RoaminRomans

@cnoocy Maxime! Et translationem tuam amo!

@RockingClassics Carmen cui nomen "Adventus Oceanica" a Cartula Flava cantum

Memini visum in oculis tuis Cum intimavi tibi hoc esse valere Precabaris me non hac nocte, non hic, non nunc, Videmus sursum idem caelum nocturnum Adsimilamus solem non surrecturum Cohaerebimus unam aliam noctem Alicubi, quodam modo #RoaminRomans

@coon_chris A very reasonable question! It's a misspelling of "ostentu" because I was tired when composing that translation. The English is "with nothing to show", and I decided to render that using an ablative supine form.

Just a reminder that deciphering songs for the next few days is important! We're 1 for 2 so far, and another song is just about to drop!