It seems everyone has there own version of how to says the same thing and never having taking latin, I'm sure I am wrong allot with my pronunciations. So which is right? DOMITIAN, Doe-mi-shan, doo-mee-tee-an ANTONINUS PIUS. an-toe-ny-nus, an-tony-nus TITUS, Tie-tus, tie-twos Sestertias, ses-ter-chi-as, ses-ter-shas Constantius, con-stan-shus, con-stan-tee-us
Titus http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/titus Antoninus http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antoninus Do you mean Sesterce? http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sesterce
Those would be modern English and not Latin pronunciations. But I guess that is what he wanted. Christian
I am not quite that old either, and it won't be helpful in this context anyway, but when it comes to how "classic" Romans spoke, we can make pretty well educated guesses. http://la.raycui.com/alphabet.html So this Latin pronunciation is basically the attempt to reconstruct how they spoke in the days of, say, Caesar and Cicero, and not based on ancient audio tapes found by archeologists. Christian
