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(Improved Version) Podcast: Trajan's Column · Latin from Zero: By Digital Monastery

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SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Latin from Zero, a weekly podcast from Digital Monastery.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's get started.
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SPEAKER_00: Reading line 1.
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SPEAKER_00: Senatus Populusque Romanus.
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SPEAKER_00: The Senate and People of Rome.
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SPEAKER_00: Reading line 1 again.
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SPEAKER_00: Senatus Populusque Romanus.
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SPEAKER_00: Reading line 2.
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SPEAKER_00: Imperatori Cesari,
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SPEAKER_00: Divi Nerve Figlio, Nerve Traiano, Augusto Germanico Dacico, Pontifici Maximo.
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SPEAKER_00: Imperatori Cesari, to Emperor Caesar.
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SPEAKER_00: Imperatori Cesari, Divi Nerve Figlio, Son of the Divine Nerva.
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SPEAKER_00: Divi Nerve Figlio, Nerve Traiano Augusto, Nerva Trajan Augustus.
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SPEAKER_00: Nerve Traiano Augusto.
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SPEAKER_00: Germanico Dacico.
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SPEAKER_00: Conqueror of the Germans and Dacians.
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SPEAKER_00: Germanico Dacico.
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SPEAKER_00: Pontifici Maximo.
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SPEAKER_00: Chief Priest.
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SPEAKER_00: Pontifici Maximo.
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SPEAKER_00: Reading line 2 again.
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SPEAKER_00: Imperatori Cesari Divi Nerve Figlio Nerve Traiano Augusto Germanico Dacico Pontifici
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SPEAKER_00: Maximo Reading Line 3 Tribunicia Potestate Septimum Decimum Imperatori Sextum
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SPEAKER_00: Consuli Sextum Patri Patrie Tribunicia Potestate Septimum Decimum Holding
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SPEAKER_00: Tribunician Power for the Seventeenth Time Tribunicia Potestate, Septimum Decimum.
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SPEAKER_00: Imperatori Sextum, Hailed as Emperor for the Sixth Time.
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SPEAKER_00: Imperatori Sextum.
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SPEAKER_00: Consuli Sextum, Consul for the Sixth Time.
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SPEAKER_00: Consuli Sextum.
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SPEAKER_00: Patri Patrie, Father of the Fatherland.
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SPEAKER_00: Patri Patrie, Reading Line 3 again.
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SPEAKER_00: Tribunicia potestate septimum decimum imperatori sextum consuli sextum patri patrie.
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SPEAKER_00: Reading line 4.
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SPEAKER_00: Ad declarandum quantae altitudinis mons et locus tantis operibus site gestus.
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SPEAKER_00: Ad declarandum.
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SPEAKER_00: To declare.
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SPEAKER_00: Ad declarandum.
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SPEAKER_00: Quantae altitudinis mons et locus.
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SPEAKER_00: The height of the mountain and the place.
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SPEAKER_00: Quantae altitudinis mons et locus.
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SPEAKER_00: Tanti soperibus cite gestus.
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SPEAKER_00: That has been removed by such great works.
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SPEAKER_00: Tanti soperibus cite gestus.
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SPEAKER_00: Reading line 4 again.
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SPEAKER_00: Ad declarandum quantae altitudinis mons et locus tantis soperibus cite gestus.
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