Gladiator - End Titles - Is it Latin?

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Salvete, amici!

There’s one question I’ve had about the movie Gladiator which has been plaguing my mind for years: what the heck are those lyrics that are sung during the end titles of the movie? The music is beautiful and inspiring, and I still listen to that specific track at least once a week — but for the life of me, I can’t make out one bloody word of what’s being sung. And that’s scary for a guy who knows six languages fluently, most of them Romance. Does anyone have any ideas? Is it a dialect of vulgar Latin common to Hispania during the Empire? (appropriate for Maximus the Spaniard) or even a northern African tongue?

Iuva me, amabo te. :frowning:

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Having listened to it again a few times myself, I think it must be some sort of North African language. Especially since it follows the black guy saying “now we are free”.

Listening to it carefully, it seems to have remarkably few stops… Or maybe that’s just the way it’s sung.

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I tend to agree with you. Still, if one were to listen to a particularly fast and drawly Southern ballad, one might think the same of English.