Hymn of the Legion - Epic Roman Music

NEW ROMAN SONG—Song of Hadrian’s Wall: Music and vocals by Farya Faraji. Just me having fun and making up a Roman-themed military march. I tried to keep the sound of the piece somewhat close to that of Ancient Roman music--I used brass instruments since they were copiously used by the Roman army, and there is also a Greco-Roman lyre and aulos in the piece, so the instrumentation is somewhat accurate, but not the arrangement itself and the harmonic contour used. I pieced the lyrics together from different proverbs from all over the place and recontextualised them to fit the theme of a legion under Caesar’s command. “Aut Caesar aut nihil,“ for example, is not attributed to Caesar himself and is usually attributed to Cesare Borgia in the Renaissance, and the usual meaning of the phrase is “I will be Caesar or nothing,“ but in this context, I imagine it as being a cry of loyalty from Caesar’s men, since the phrase literally means “either Caes