https://peertube.libertus.duckdns.org/videos/watch/e5c87316-5503-420d-8d14-d3c67e898a63 Vocals & music by Farya Faraji. This is another approximation of what ancient Roman music could have sounded like based on the available data, once again using period poetry as the basis for the reconstruction. Roman poetry used the language's short vs long vowel distinction and subsequent stress rules to create poetry based not on rhymes, but on the prosody, creating a rap-like effect with different metres. Therefore, the poems already contain a blueprint of a melodic skeleton with natural indication of where pitch should rise and fall, and applying to this a melody using the attested Greco-Roman modes and their instruments, one can achieve a workable approximation based on the limited data we posess. For more information on Ancient Roman music with academic sources, I refer you to the Epic Talking playlist of video essays on the channel. The mode used here is one of the Greco-Roman chromatic modes, a genus with a distinctly jazz-like sound to our ears due to the close aggregation of direct semitones one after the other. The instruments used are frame drums and aulos. This is one of Catullus' famous poems. Catullus (c. 84–54 BC) was a Roman lyric poet whose short, intensely personal poems transformed Latin literature by shifting it away from public epic and political themes toward private emotion. Drawing on Greek lyric models, he introduced a new poetic voice centered on love, jealousy, friendship, grief, and invective, written with technical precision and emotional immediacy. His work—especially the poems addressed to Lesbia—set the foundation for later Latin poets such as Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, and permanently established lyric subjectivity as a central mode of Roman poetry. Lyrics in Latin: Pēdīcābō ego vōs et irrumābō Aurēlī pathice et cinaede Fūrī. quī mē ex versiculīs meīs putāstīs quod sunt molliculī parum pudīcum. nam castum esse decet pium poētam ipsum, versiculōs nihil necesse est quī tum dēnique habent salem ac lepōrem Sī sint molliculī ac parum pudīcī et quod prūriat incitāre possint nōn dīcō puerīs sed hīs pilōsīs quī dūrōs nequeunt movēre lumbōs Vōs quod mīlia multa bāsiōrum lēgistis male mē marem putātis. Pēdīcābō ego vōs et irrumābō English translation: I'll fuck you in the ass and down the throat, Anal Aurelius and facial Furius, For deeming me indecent and effete, A pansy author writing small soft verses. A goodly poet's life must needs be pious, But it's unnecessary in his verses. Lines lie unspiced, unwanton and unwitty Until they get indecent, with small, soft Ticklings enough to stoke the nether needs Not in young boys, but aged and bushy-backed Men with arthritis of the crotch. You read The thousand kisses from one woman packed In my tight lines, and call me girl? Take note: I'll fuck you up the ass and down the throat. Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:03:04 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.libertus.duckdns.org https://peertube.libertus.duckdns.org/client/assets/images/icons/icon-512x512.png https://peertube.libertus.duckdns.org/videos/watch/e5c87316-5503-420d-8d14-d3c67e898a63 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.libertus.duckdns.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.