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OUR PRESIDENT
JOSEPH arm gesture ROBINETTE arm gesture BIDEN arm gesture
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LIBS OF HEXBEAR
BE AWARE OF WRECKERS arm gesture AND RESPOND PROMPTLY arm gesture WITH A VOCAL PIGPOOP BALLS
AND KEEP LIB COMMENTS arm gesture TO A MINIMUM
its good folks! im watching it rn
the main characters are plebs who forest gump through the end of the republican era. none of the characters beside Mark Antony are that good but thats not the point
the point is its a dirty but not gloomy depiction of lots of normal folk with fantastic sets and (nonmilitary) costuming. the religious rites are especially well done, and they have a proper triumph
I'm pretty sure this is based on Quintilian.
If the first finger touch the middle of the right-hand edge of the thumb-nail with its extremity, the other fingers being relaxed, we shall have a graceful gesture well suited to express approval or to accompany statements of facts, and to mark the distinction between our different points. 102 There is another gesture not unlike the preceding, in which the remaining three fingers are folded: it is much employed by the Greeks both for the left hand and the right, in rounding off their enthymemes,104 detail by detail. A gentle movement of the hand expresses promise or assent, a more violent movement suggests exhortation or sometimes praise. There is also that familiar gesture by which we drive home our words, consisting in the rapid opening and shutting of the hand: but this is a commander rather than an artistic gesture.
The gestures section starts around #65: penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/11C*.html
Article if you have JSTOR access: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3556289
If the first finger touch the middle of the right-hand edge of the thumb-nail with its extremity, the other fingers being relaxed, we shall have a graceful gesture well suited to express approval or to accompany statements of facts
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(also Quintillian was born about 80 years after this show takes place)
I meant that they probably used Quintilian as a source, not that the character was based on Quintilian.
some linguists think latin differed so much from later italian that "Veni Vidi Vici" was pronounced "Wenny Widdy Wiki" :biggus-dickus:
I know its a minor nitpick but I thought Caeser was pronounced like Kaiser because Latin doesn't have a soft c, am I missing something?
I was interested so I found this good video on the subject. You are right but it is not that straightforward.
Wow that was pretty interesting a lot more complicated than I expected, thanks for sharing! Languages are so neat, I wish I was better at them.
It's a dead language, just use Church Latin like a normal person.
