Should you use archaic language? | A lesson from the "Attic Nights" | Latin with English subtitles

Should you use rare and old words in speech? What is considered "old" in Latin? In this lesson, Daniel reads and explains a passage from Aulus Gellius. A young man is scolded by the philosopher Favorinus for using archaic language...

Aulus Gellius was a Roman author and grammarian, educated in Athens. He is famous for his compilation of notes on grammar, philosophy, history and various other subjects. It preserved fragments of works that might otherwise be unknown today.

Daniel Pettersson explains Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 1.10.pr.1

🪶 Other quotes, and mentions:
Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina 7.28.3
Gaius Iulius Caesar, De analogia

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⏱️ Use TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Intro

0:36 Who is Aulus Gellius?

1:18 Lesson Beginning

3:26 Let's read and understand

3:45 What does "compellare" mean?

4:02 How old is the word "casce"?
Varro explains the origins of "cascum"

5:23 Who is Favorinus?
What makes the philosopher angry?

6:52 What does "expromenti" mean?

7:45 The way "man of the olden days" talked
Curius, Fabricius, Coruncanius, Horatii.

9:41 What would a talk with Evander's mother look like?

10:51 You don't want others to understand you!

12:00 The power of silence.

13:00 The modesty, sobriety and temperance in the old days...
"Live according to the manners of the past, but speak in the language of the present."

14:00 Remember the words of Gaius Caesar
"On Analogy"

15:43 Conclusion

🎞️ SUBTITLES
Latin and English subtitles.
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TRANSLATIONS used in this video:

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, translated by J. C. Rolfe, available at:
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/...

Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina, translation by Roland G. Kent, available at:
http://www.attalus.org/info/varro.html
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