Aurelian, the Unconquered Sun

There is a period in the history of Rome that is incomprehensibly ignored by most historiography. Yet from this obscure and little-known period emerges one of the most luminous figures in the thousand-year epic of the Roman Empire: Aurelian. His legendary exploits are by far underestimated and too little studied. Thanks also to biased ancient sources, the events of this man are reduced to a sequence of victorious and bloody military campaigns. His human and social side, his attention to the weaker classes, his sense of justice, his intelligent clemency, but also his implacable rigour against profiteers and criminals, has always gone unnoticed. With this video we wanted to try to give the Emperor Aurelian his true face, through the words suggested to us by an ancient source. The Latin I recite in the video is a hypothesis of Middle-Late Latin, where the only major difference from the classical Restituta is the transformation of the intervocalic U and at the beginning of the word into V, and the mutati
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