[Bosco]

Dead in the sense that it's not spoken. Written, obviously.

From my Latin class: "Latin is a dead language. It killed the Romans, and now it is killing me."

I'll stand on my brother's assertion: we don't have an audio recording of a genuine Latin speaker. The audio recording assumption in my post was implied.

Any pronunciation can be correct within grammatical reason. Scipio could have a hard 'C' or a soft 'C'. Take your pick, no one can prove it otherwise.

It's somewhat ironic that we don't know what the language of one of the most powerful empires on earth (Rome) sounds like, but we do know the language of one of its most influential subjects (a Jewish carpenter) sounds like - Hebrew and Aramaic.

All the best.

[fieldmarshaldj]

3-Scipio ?

[Joe Marine 76]

“Latin is a dead language...”

“Latin, Latin dead as can be... Matter of fact it’s killing me.”

By the way, I got the second season of HBO’s “Rome” for Christmas!

[JSteff]

“From my Latin class: “Latin is a dead language.”

My daughter had 7 years of Latin and loved it. Of course she got out of college, went in to the Navy as an officer, took the LSAT tests and passed them on the first try.

She said that Latin made the test easier for her.