In which I recite part of the Bucolics.

[conuly]

I won't bother transcribing this, but if you're interested in a translation you can read the link.

Comments

[sailoreagle.livejournal.com]

You have a nice voice. :) (Though it's a bit weird for me to hear the Bucolics recited in an English(/American) accent. *L*)

[conuly]

What accent do you recite it in? I'm too lazy to check where you're from.

[sailoreagle.livejournal.com]

I'm in Italy :)

[conuly]

Ah. Was my accent primarily because I have an accent (I know I do), or do you also use a different type of pronunciation for Latin? I know there's more than one.

[sailoreagle.livejournal.com]

Primarily because you have an accent, I'd say. Though when I studied the Bucolics our teacher insisted we read them respecting the metric (so stressing some syllables instead of others), so that's probably a factor as well.

[conuly]

Oh god. I can never get my scansion right. But the meter has to do with long and short syllables, not with stress.

[sailoreagle.livejournal.com]

Right... though when reading out loud we actually stressed syllables to match the metric. (I dunno if that's the correct thing to do, the teacher told us to read like that and so we did. Heh.)

TItyre, TU patuLAE recuBANS sub TEGmine FAgi
SILvesTREM tenuI musAM mediTAris aVEna
etc

If I remember it correctly, which I probably don't. Been years since I last seriously studied Latin. Though our teacher was obsessed with metric and verb paradigms and declensions and so on, so a lot of it is still stuck in my brain. (Most irritatingly, some fragments of some poems by Catullus, metric and all - but not the whole thing. Aaaaargh!)

[deceptica]

I'll second both of those statements. *g*