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To: DMaA who wrote (26372)1/26/2004 2:00:06 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (3) of 793883
 
I looked back at her with equal amazement and asked, do you mean the Romans didn't speak Latin? This wasn't her subject so she said she'd look into it but I never got satisfactory closure to the problem.


All educated Romans of the 1st century spoke Greek. The common people back in Italy might have spoken only Latin; but the eastern half of the empire spoke Greek as its common language.
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