That’s true. I learned that on a trip to Rome. I was on a walking tour of Palatine Hill. The tour guide said Caesar would not have said E tu, Brute. Because that is Latin and educated, upper class people spoke Greek back then. I didn’t know that until 2006. But if you know Latin, Spanish, and Italian like I do, and you hear some Greek, you can figure out what they are saying very often. But you have to listen VERY carefully and really concentrate.
Absolute malarkey.
The language of the Romans was Latin!
*The commentary and debate in the Roman Senate was in Latin and transcribed as such; from Cicero, Catiline, among hundreds.
*War Dispatches to Rome from its Generals were written in Latin and later anthologized in Latin, such as Caesar’s Gallic Wars; all 500 pages.
*The literature of Virgil, Suetonius, Seneca, Juvenal; among hundreds, was expressed in Latin.
It was likely April 1, when that guide was leading the tour.