Augustus Caesar's voice is a bit...

[gunter]

It is funny Darius , each time he responds something like " Shhiiibiir " !!

 

[sarah_aus]

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[ShaqFu]

I felt Augustus seemed natural considering he's speaking a language that no one speaks as their first language and I believe only one person in the world speaks regularly.

Pity they couldn't hire the Pope (I assume that's the one person?) for Augustus' voice actor.

 

[Plotinus]

There are plenty of people who speak Latin regularly - just not as their first language. Augustus' speeches sound perfectly fluent to me and he has good classical pronunciation too (which the Pope wouldn't).

 

[r_rolo1]

Yup, AC voiceover is clearly from someone that speaks classic Latin with some frequency.

 

[Grapa]

Augustus Caesar was a whimp in real life too, physically. That's why everyone was surprised when this scrawny little nerd turned out to be a ruthless and highly intelligent leader.

 

[Louis XXIV]

Pity they couldn't hire the Pope (I assume that's the one person?) for Augustus' voice actor.

Actually, not the Pope. I think it's a Bishop in Latvia or something. All official church business is actually done in Italian and then translated. Besides, this would be ecclesiastical latin, not classical Latin. Augustus does a pretty good job with the latter.

 

[Depravo]

Augustus Caesar was a whimp in real life too, physically. That's why everyone was surprised when this scrawny little nerd turned out to be a ruthless and highly intelligent leader.

And then came Claudius. The only obvious meritocrat in the whole first century to last very long was Vespasian.

 

[Pnutmaster]

There are a couple professors throughout the world who can speak the lingua latina fluently. I don't know how they'd feel about Civ, or anything outside of Academia

 

[Plotinus]

You'd be surprised how many people are conversationally fluent in Latin. There are forums just like this, but in Latin, for example.

(Of course, they call them "fora".)

 

[LordByron]

Its quite difficult to build sentences in latin.

But consider that (still i wonder why >____>) is one of the most important subjects (maybe third after literature and math) studied in italian schools.

Or at least it was 10 years ago

And is quite similar to deutsh and some other languages if i remember well.

In fact i remember well when suddenly in the film The Passion, i was able to understand the dialogues :O at one point (some are in latin).

Thus said i like a lot caesar's voice.