Jack's Lament, in LATIN! Nightmare Before Christmas (lyrics: Stefano Vittori) Songs in Latin

This unique and fascinating performance of the beloved song from Danny Elfman and Tim Burton's 1993 "The Nightmare Before Christmas" incorporates both Ecclesiastical and Classical Pronunciations, utilized to convey Jack's sense of confidence mixed with confusion and doubt. The text has been rendered masterfully by Stefano Vittori in true Ancient Roman poetic meter, the very soul of Latin, so well as to surpass the power of even the original lyrics.

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The Nightmare Before Christmas in Latin! Incubus Ante Nātālem.
JACK'S LAMENT · QVESTVS T. TAPHII
lyrical translation by Stefano RVMAK Vittori 🐌
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Lyrics translated by Stefano Vittori:

QUESTUS T. TAPHIĪ

Quis enim reprobat
bona, quanta mea
operōsa Minerva creat?

Neque, nocte Hecataeā
nova cum nāvō,
eget ingenium studiō,

facileque nimis artī
lemurum est nostrae
vel adultō ēlicere metum:

puta gesticulō hāc,
ululātū illūc,
tremefacta caterva virum.

Annusque alius redit atque īdem,
tremitusque odiō magis et magis est,
ut hoc mī - quis id crēdat? -
sit eō gravius, quō iterum veniat.

Ā, nesciō quae vacuitās
per ossa jam glīscit mea.
Ā, nesciō quae cupiditās
domōst procul mī incognita.

Metuum quasi lār
Stygiumque jubar
fugo tē, fugis ut furiās.

Mē abigunt Alamannī
metuuntque Britannī;
clueō vel apud Galatās.

Calvamque meam
sine damnō adimam,
dum Hamlētī tibi cito rhēsin:

nōn homo, nōn animāns
ut strix ululāns
recitat ut ego recito poēsin.

Quisnam umquam hīc sentiat animō
Colocynthēī dominī trīstī
laurum īsse odiō? Vellem pateat!
Nam ipse abjiciam, modo dum liceat.

Ā, nesciō quae vacuitās
mōlītur in mē rēs novās.
Plaususque plausū trūditur
flētumque nōn medēbitur.
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