latin march

LAT. Nos signa sequimur, quocumque nos ducunt.

ENG. We follow the standards, wherever they lead us.

Latin uses Romance vowels, but when written by a Roman, the u vowel looks like a v.

Latin words are expressive, especially when put to music. The rhythm and meter of the songs below English teachers call trochaic heptameter: accented syllable, then unaccented, accented, then unaccented, and repeat, seven times in all, ending, however, with an accented syllable.

Julius Caesar (100 B.C. - 44 B.C.) formed the 14th Legion in 57 B.C. The Roman Republic became the Roman Empire in 27 when Julius’s adopted son, Caesar Augustus (63 B.C. - A.D. 14), became emperor. How did he do it? Four years before, in 31, Augustus won a victory over Mark Antony and the Egyptian fleet at the Battle of Actium. Acclaimed a hero, he proceeded cleverly to stake his position.

Here is another march, same trochaic heptameter.

So there came to pass, not long after Augustus, the words that are part of the Roman Missal: Haec quotiescúmque facéritis in mei memóriam faciétis. As often as ye shall do these things, ye shall do them in memory of Me. The most sensational word on earth and in heaven has got to be quotiescúmque, as often as, Jacob (22) and I hath agreed.​

“It is generally agreed that Christians, having started with a few dozen adherents in A.D. 33, made up ten percent of the Empire by around 300, which is six million people, and that by 350 that figure was over 30 million, with Christians now a clear majority of the Empire.” Of course, this gentleman is referring to Catholics. I changed the date from 30 to 33 but nothing else.

https://kyleorton.co.uk/2021/06/11/how-many-christians-were-there-in-the-roman-empire/

My mother’s name was Barbara, but she was not barbarous! Etymology. From Latin Barbara, the name of Saint Barbara, feminine form of barbarus, from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “strange, foreign”). Doublet of Varvara (Russian).